Valencia, CA: Feminist Art Program. California Institute of the Arts, 1975. Profusely illustrated in b/w. 136 pp. Paper covers decorated with photographs of all 18 artists in the book. 21.6 x 14.2 cm. The second half of the book contains letters from 71 artists, including Eleanor Antin, Lynda Benglis, Joan..... More
[New York]: Caterpillar Press, ©1967. Stiff, brown pasteboard covers with wire spiral binding. 58 pp. 21.5 x 15.2 cm. *Designed by Eleanor Antin to look like a small notebook and printed in black on graph paper printed in light blue. Issued as Caterpillar VI. Near fine. I see, belatedly, that..... More
Los Angeles: Astro Artz/Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, ©1981. Artist's book. Decorated paper covers.. 25.3 x 18.1 cm. [155] pp. 61 plates & illustrations. Describes and illustrates dozens of performances. Also includes interviews, conversations, and autobiographical material. This copy signed and with pig stamp. Some wear and a crease on..... More
Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983. The uncommon, dark-red cloth edition. 26 x 18 cm. 87 pp. 31 illustrations on 16 plates (under the title "Recollections of my life with Diaghilev") + 29 illustrations in the text. Very fine. More
Ottawa: Department of the Secretary of State 1971 Original title: Bulletin No. 146, Illustrated flora of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago (original printed 1964 corrected by the artist.). Artist's book. Profusely illustrated in black and white. [ix] + 218 + [5] pp. Dark red buckram printed in bright gilt. The original..... More
Los Angeles: Newspace, 1996. Artist's book. 13 b/w plates. [49] pp. 28 x 21.5 cm. Loosely bound with black plastic comb. Artist-created domestic objects. Also includes Isabel Heimerdinger, Susan Hornbeak, Laurel Katz, Garret Keith, Marcos Luytens, Kristen Morse, Timothy Nolan, Bill Scanga, and Ron Schafer. Biographies in back pp. OCLC..... More
Long Beach [California] Museum of Art, 1970. 600 copies. 13 plates & Illustrations (4 color). [24] pp. 24 cm square. Fischinger was a self-taught practioner of experimental films who worked on inventive episodes for Fritz Lang, Disney ("Fantasia"), MGM, and others, but surpassed all that work with his own brilliant..... More
Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1927. 33 b/w pls. & ills. 68 + [30] pp. 26.8 x 19.4 cm. Off-white, paper covers tanned at edges. Spine corners bumped with tape repair 3+ cm; inside of cover and half-title lightly foxed. Curt Valentin's elegant blindstamp on half-title. I do not know if this was..... More
Rio de Janeiro: Museu de Arte Moderna…, 1971. Densely composed b/w photos by Aldo Simoncini of the artist's surroundings and the tools and processes of her art. Some pp. at the back show her striking work. About 9 pp. at the end contain biographical data and a brief essay in..... More
Madison, Wisconsin: Madison Art Center, 1980. 41 pls. & ills. (21 color). 48 pp. Tan paper covers with brown printing. 22.7 x 25.9 cm (oversquare). INSCRIBED to Bea Mayer. Laid in: three cards depicting Bohrod's work; one unmailed postcard with a personal message from Bohrod; two others (one mailed and..... More
[Los Angeles: the artist?], 1996. Artist's book. Profusely illlustrated in monochrome + 1 color illlustration. 25 pp. White paper covers printed in green. Letter size, 27.9 x 21.6 cm. Gold sticker on cover: "Para ninos y adultos. For kids and adults." The projects include mapping a "Storm drain maze" to..... More
New York: Sidney Janis, 1961. Color halftone frontispiece, photograph of Albers, and 14 b/w illustrations. 16 pp. Off-white paper covers. 24 x 21.6 cm. Catalogue design by Norman Ives, who was deeply involved in many of Albers' great, later publications with serigraphed plates. The catalogue lists 33 works from "Homage..... More
![Item #00061 Vainö Aaltonen 1915–1925: tutkielma [a study]. Resumé in French; With letter from...](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/00061.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1661582645)
Porvoo, Finland: Werner Södertström , 1925. Frontis. portrait + 32 hors-texte pls. 77 pp. (resumé, pp. 69-77). Brown boards with white leather spine; leather label printed in gilt on spine; original sepia photo mounted on front cover (edges of photo chipped, and emulsion somewhat bleached by adhesive). This copy bears..... More
La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. SIGNED by Diane di Prima. Black library buckram. xviii + [2] + 578 pp. + 6 supplementary sheets in 4 issues. 27.2 x 20.7 cm. PLUS supplement: cover, errata sheet & 130 pp. First-class, oversewn library binding. ISBN 0-910938-29-6. LC No. 72-79790. **From the..... More
La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. One of a very few copies signed on the half-title by Diane di Prima. Dark blue library buckram. xviii + [2] + 578 pp. + 6 supplementary sheets in 4 issues. 27.2 x 20.7 cm. First-class, oversewn library binding. As new. ISBN 0-910938-29-6. LC..... More
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, April 1968. Color cover and IV color plates lithographed by Fernand Mourlot after gouaches + 24 monochrome plates. 44 pp. with descriptions of 28 works. 28.9 x 23 cm. Small nick at top of spine; otherwise, a clean copy with 5 bright lithographs. A shadow..... More
Paris: Berggruen & Cie, 1967. "Trapeze artist with bird" (Mourlot 477a), original lithograph cover by Marc Chagall in 9 colors (also see our number 05471). 2 mounted color plates & 2 full-page plates in red or blue + 250 small catalogue illustrations of etchings and lithographs. [68] pp. 21 x...... More
Wichita, Kansas: Wichita State University, Department of Art Education, College of Fine Arts, 1979. 11 photographs. Unpaginated; [28] pp. Black paper covers. 28 x 21.7 cm. Laid in: an 8-line poem typed (not a carbon copy or printed) on the verso of a piece of UCSD letterhead (where Kaprow was..... More
![Item #69001.5 Artforum, volume V [5], number 1, September 1966. Surrealism issue, with cover...](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/69001.5.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659769922)
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1966. The justifiably famous Surrealism issue of Artforum magazine with its great cover by Ed Ruscha. It sold out three weeks after publication. Articles by the following writers: Max Kozloff, Lucy R. Lippard, Ronald Hunt, Robert Rosenblum, Toby Mussman, Roger Shattuck, William Rubin, Whitney Halstead, Kurt von..... More
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1961. First edition. xii + 275 pp. Black cloth printed in white and metallic bronze, with dustjacket in archival sleeve. 23.4 cm square. The musical and other writings of a 20th-century master. Endpapers somewhat stained by jacket and by a later price sticker. Jacket damaged..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1958. Frontispiece. 198 pp. + 1 p. ad. Yellow cloth with red titling; worn dustjacket. 18.3 x 12.1 cm. Previous owners' names neatly in ink on front flyleaf. This brilliant piece is by one of the founders of the French experimental writing group ULIPO. The preface, by..... More
No place [San Francisco?]: the artist, 1994. Signed. 18/100. Rubberstamp art. A single leaf of thin, wove paper, with the title/text rubberstamped in black, gray, and red. Signed and dated in pencil. 27.9 x 10.6 cm. Lightly foxed and tanned at top and bottom; some signs of handling. **Free domestic..... More
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1967. Ed Ruscha's characteristically witty wedding announcement shows him asleep in a large, rumpled bed with two coeds. The full-page photo by Jerry McMillan is on p. 7 of this issue. The contents include: Gothic parallels, by Sidney Tillim; Olitski and shape, by Michael Fried; Manet at..... More
New York, May-June 1966. This is one of two such copies, both inscribed to "Fred"; please read on. They probably came to me decades ago as duplicates from the UCLA Art Library. Although the catalogue indicates that the exhibition was in New York, the possible connections to UCLA suggest that..... More
New York, May-June 1966. This is one of two such copies, both inscribed to "Fred"; please read on. They probably came to me decades ago as duplicates from the UCLA Art Library. Although the catalogue indicates that the exhibition was in New York, the possible connections to UCLA suggest that..... More
