Fischer's imaginative cover for this corporate publication is a multiple consisting of a sealed vinyl sandwich with internal spaces in the shapes of fingers and semi-circles. The resulting, partly continuous void contains pink sand that shifts into different shapes when the periodical is tilted or shaken. Supplementary material is laid..... More

Zürich [later Lugano, Switzerland]: James Fitzsimmons, 1956-1984. An unbroken run of 72 very early issues (80 numbers + 3 duplicates) of this superb periodical, partially bound somewhat irregularly in three half-leather and red cloth volumes plus separate copies in the original covers, See below for details. Approx. 35 x 25..... More

New York: View Editions, 1946. Geometric cover design by John Tunnard. Illustrations by Tchelitchew, Chagall, Oscar Dominguez, and Charles Rain. 22 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.8 x 23.5 cm. Text includes "A sleepy tune," and "Some notes on Shakespeare," by Edith Sitwell; "The circular ruins," by Jorge Luis Borges; "My..... More

New York: Longview Foundation, 1963-1964. The first of two issues. Illustrated and with literary contributions. Cover by Larry Rivers. 98 pp. Stiff card covers. 24 x 21.7 cm. Contributions by Kenneth Koch, Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Burke, Saul Steinberg, Marshall McLuhan, Willem de Kooning, Saul Bellow, and others. There are at..... More

San Francisco 1962-1964; Los Angeles, 1964-1967; New York, 1967-present. 253 fine, original issues in decorated paper covers, as issued. When the first issue of Artforum arrived in the summer of 1962, it seemed hopelessly parochial, with its nearly exclusive emphasis on California exhibitions. Even that issue, however, featured an article..... More

Topanga, California: 1981. Cover: “Torn sky woods,” by Ken Ruth. Interview of Rachel Rosenthal, by Claudia Chapline. Many b/w ills. 26 pp. Decorated card covers. 27.6 x 21.5 cm. Also articles by Joan Burleigh, Myra Taylor, Elenore Welles, and Dan Giesler. Covers browned. Thc scan of the cover is brighter..... More

Paris: Association internationale pour l'étude de Dada et du Surréalisme, 1966-1970. Nos. 1-4 (all published). Some plates and illustrations. Decorated paper covers. About 18.5 x 13.5 cm. Contributors include Michel Sanouillet, Michel Seuphor, Roger Shattuck, Arturo Schwarz, Marcel Janco, Georges Ribemont0-Dessaignes, Henryk Berlewi, Tristan Tzara, and many others. **No. 1..... More

London, 1966. Dick Gregory, Alexander Trocchi, Paul Butterfield, and Takis are featured in this early issue of an influential underground newspaper. In original, unbound state. Illustrated. 12 pp. About 42 x 31 cm (16-3/4 x 12-1/2 inches).14.5). Slight, unavoidable browning of newsprint and minute tears at leading edge. More

Toronto: Society for Art Publication, 1967. Periodical with 7-inch Flexidisc and tabloid insert ("Artscan"). Profusely illustrated (color centerfold). 22 pp. Contents: "Technology and environment,": by Marshall McLuhan;"The sensory dynamics of new technology," by Arnold Rockman; "Severini's abstract rhythm of Madame S.," by Joshua C. Taylor; "Velvet Underground in Hamilton," by..... More

Illustrations by Matt Morgan, C.A. Vanderhoof, D. McCarthy, H. Pruett Share, "Zim," and others. Size ranges from about 43.5 x 29.5 to 42 x 30 cm. 32 to 102 pp. Many advertisements. 1889: marginal tears and spine fold mostly split; 1890: bound with metal fasteners; 1892: marginal tears in front..... More

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

Artspace: Albuquerque, NM, 1990. Cover by Ed Ruscha, with article by Dave Hickey, "Ed Ruscha: the song of the giant egress" (pp. 28-31). Profusely illustrated. 68 pp. 27.6 x 21.4 cm. Other articles on Paul Schimmel, Linda Ridgway, Connie Hatch, Elliott Norquist, Michael McMillen, Hans Burkhardt, Constance De Jong, Judie..... More