La Jolla, CA: A Carrefour Book published by Laurence McGilvery, 1987. A small edition. 391 pp. (the ms. is paginated 1-365, with some irregularities). Black library buckram. 27.8 x 21 cm (letter size). Index. ISBN 0-910938-91-1. In as-new condition. Fraenkel spent much of the latter 1920s and the 1930s in..... More
![It is: a magazine for abstract art [title varies]. Complete set: nos. 1-6. Sebastian. Pavia...](/pictures/thumb/74791.jpg?v=1620421390)
New York: Second Half Publishing Co., Spring 1958–Spring 1960 & Autumn 1965. Profusely illustrated (part color). Original paper covers. Approximately 29 x 24 cm. One of the relatively few publications of any kind with direct contributions from Abstract Expressionist and New York School artists, including Guston, both de Koonings, Reinhardt..... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1968. Black-and-white paper covers.. 148 pp. 15.8 x 12.3 cm. As new. **True first edition, printed in letterpress by Villiers Press, London, England, with a sewn binding and Villiers' notice inside the rear cover. 5000 copies published in May 1968. The stated "First American Edition" is..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, [1963]. 300 copies boldly signed by Ginsberg and La Vigne. Ginsberg's lovely poem about blackberries, apricots, plumbing, watering the flowers, and "an angel thoughtful of my stomach, and my dry and lovelorn tongue." Beautifully printed in letterpress on laid Hamilton Andorra paper 50.8 x 33 cm..... More
![Please stop! [manifesto]. Mathias Goeritz](/pictures/thumb/100740.jpg?v=1605680163)
[New York? the artist? 1960]. Manifesto. Single sheet of light-weight paper printed one side.21.5 cm square. According to the abstract of a paper by Jennifer Josten written for PART: the Journal of the CUNY PhD Program in Art History, 2008: "On the evening of March 17, 1960, 250 invited guests..... More
[Pasadena, California: the artist: 1977]. Signed by the artist. 20 plates printed on both sides of 10 leaves of stiff, coated paper, and divided horizontally into 4 proportioned segments that can be combined in the manner of a split-page children's book (created since the 18th century, when they were known..... More
![Das Werk "Ecce Homo" erschien in fünf Ausgaben [prospectus]. George Grosz](/pictures/thumb/13102.jpg?v=1616997712)
Berlin: Malik-Verlag, 1923. A single sheet printed one side in black and folded once. 35 x 25 cm. Describes the various original editions of this much-reprinted work: Ausgabe A, B I, B II, C, and D. Light soil and foxing; some wrinkling along the left edge, and a piece about..... More
![Westdeutscher Kuenstlerbund, E.V. [the second annual]. Hagen. Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum](/pictures/thumb/44701.jpg?v=1616993103)
Hagen: Das Museum, 1949. 48 b/w plates. 68 pp. Paper covers with letterpress monogram in black and orange. 17.7 x 13.5 cm (page size). The first such exhibition was in late 1947. 213 works exhibited by 90 artists, including: Marga Groove, Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, Otto Pankok, Käthe Schmitz-Imhoff, Georg Meistermann, Elisabeth..... More
Oceanside, California: Oceanside Museum of Art, 2014. 75 illustrations (mostly color). 63 pp. Decorated paper covers. 21.7 x 28 cm. Dave Hampton's text chronicles the development of avant-garde art in San Diego (and, yes, there was such a thing), through the work of four then-young artists. "Spitting In The Wind"..... More
NY: Films International of New York, 1947. “7 dreams sold by Joe, the dream salesman.” 7 remarkable Surrealist films, especially Max Ernst's “Desire,” with the sailors drowning in storm-tossed seas under the sleeping woman's bed. 29 illustrations. 24 pp. (half of them cropped to 12 cm wide). Green covers with..... More
San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, 1977. Inscribed 9/77 to David and Eleanor Antin. Many monochrome illustrations on 12 leaves (variously, single, double, and triple size; a total of 46 pages), all loose in printed tan paper folder. 22.9 x 20.4 cm (page size). The Harrisons' environmental art is justly..... 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
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), 1978. La Jolla, CA: Laurence McGilvery 2019. Reprint from the original newsprint (with permission). [48] pp. No illustrations. 27.6 x 21.8 cm. Off-white cover. Texts by Mike Crane, Joan Hugo, and Judith A. Hoffberg. A bibliography and list of sources precedes 25 3-column..... More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), 1978. [48] pp. on newsprint. No illustrations. 27.6 x 21.8 cm. Self-covers. Texts by Mike Crane, Joan Hugo, and Judith A. Hoffberg. A bibliography and list of sources precedes 25 3-column pages of American and international artists and organizations--probably 200 or more, and..... More
![Form: internationale revue. 1:1957 [first issue]. Ernst Jupp, Sandberg, Curt Schweicher, Willem...](/pictures/thumb/72701.jpg?v=1545185152)
Köln-Ehrenfeld: Verlag an den Westdeutschen Verlag, 1957. The firat issue of the legendary, short-lived, mid-century periodical on industrial design, architecture, fine art, theater, film, and dance. Designed by Willem Sandberg, the equally legendary typographer and director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 50 pp..... More
![Klee [announcement]. Paul. Selz Klee, J. B., Peter. Novalis. Neumann](/pictures/thumb/17521.jpg?v=1616538305)
New York: New Art Circle J. B. Neumann, 1952. A single sheet of cream-colored, laid paper, printed one side in black and red, and folded in quarters to make a 4-page oversquare folder of about 9 x 18 cm. The text consists of a paragraph by Novalis, translated by Peter..... More
The artist, undated. Vladimir Kovenatsky was a talented artist who died too young. This collection consists of 9 ink drawings on good paper 42 x 29.8 cm, all initialled on the verso in red crayon; 1 ink wash drawing on lightly textured paper 31.5 x 41.2 cm, unsigned; 9 large..... More
![Anadolu Mirasinda Türk Evleri [Turkish houses in Anatolian heritage]. Onder. Guner Kucukerman,...](/pictures/thumb/63201.jpg?v=1561329694)
Istanbul : T.C. Kültür Bakanligi, Yayimlar Dairesi Basakanligi, 1995. Profusely illustrated in color, with some black-and-white plans and elevations. 249 + [2] pp. Brown cloth with dustjacket. 30 x 22.5 cm. ISBN 975-17-1562-8. Text entirely in Turkish. At least two hundred plates show in rich detail the graceful and harmonious..... More
Paris: Robert et Lydie Dutrou, 2000. Original cover by Alechinsky (silkscreen?) + 6 plates (2 in color). [31] pp. Stiff paper covers. 35.4 x 27.5 cm. eight 4-page signatures loose in paper covers, as issued. Poems face the plates. Top edge of front cover slightly rough on open end; otherwise..... More
Paris: Collége de Pataphysique, 1957. I never would have imagined our old friend Legman as a likely disciple of Pataphysics, but here is the evidence, with provenance from an unimpeachable source: his widow, Judith Evans Legman, the daughter of Henry and Patricia Evans, two other old friends of even longer..... More
New York: Artforum 1971. Profusely illustrated (some color). 94 pp. Decorated paper covers. 27 x 26.6 cm. Includes articles on Joyce Wieland, Paul Sharits, Man Ray, Moholy-Nagy, George Landow, and Warhol by Hollis Frampton, Robert Smithson, Michael Snow, Richard Serra, Joan Jonas, Barbara Rose, Max Kozloff, Stephen Koch, and others..... More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1985. 3 sheets of newsprint printed both sides in both directions, approx. 54 x 86 cm / 21-1/4 x 30 in. The nested sheets are folded in 8ths to make a roughly letter-sized publication of 48 pp. or a large tabloid of 24. The..... More
LAICA, June 30-August 14, 1984. Part of the Olympics Arts Festival. Primarily illustrations. 90 pp. Light blue and magenta paper covers. 29.2 x 21 cm. The work encompasses photography, installation, environmental art, conceptual art, painting, silkscreen, and performance. Includes biographical data. Fine copies. More
Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1982. MacAdams' piece is a lively, insider's account of Naropa Kerouac Conference that celebrated the 25th anniversary of the publication of On the Road. This Beat Generation event took place at the University of Colorado in Boulder. The article includes photos and comments of Lawrence Ferlinghetti..... More
![Proof sheet of Maciunas designs for Fluxus labels.] Poster. George . Fluxus Maciunas, 19311978](/pictures/thumb/40613.jpg?v=1603570742)
New York: Fluxus, [probably 1969]. Poster. Proof sheet of 23 to 25 Fluxus labels, flat, unfolded & uncut. White paper printed in black on one side. 44.5 x 57.1 / 17.5 x 22.5 in. Some designs identified here with Fluxus Codex page references: Brecht, Games & puzzles, pp. 197ff (1964);..... More
