![Item #06471 Art attack: the midnight politics of a guerilla artist [heavily "revised" edition]....](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/06471.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1619652904)
New York: HarperCollins, 1992. This copy of Conal's ferocious political satire on the Reagan administration and associated characters has been heavily "revised" by an unsympathetic hand. The covers are over-painted with silver, black and green paint. Conal's name is covered and replaced with "Vanitas." I have just noticed that the..... More
New York: Charles Cowles, 1972-1973. This bound volume contains all the year's exceptional issues. Some highlights: September 1972 (11:1) Rosenquist, Matisse, Lissitzky. October (11:2) Oldenburg, Smithson, Larry Bell. November (11:3) di Suvero, photography, Smithson, Pollock Hesse, Man Ray. December (11:4) Bochner, Schlemmer, performance, Man Ray. January 1973 (11:5) film issue..... More
San Francisco: Artforum, 1963. Cover in red of a ceramic piece by Ken Price. Profusely illustrated (no other color this early). 59 + [8] pp. 27 x 26.6 cm. This very scarce, early issue of Artforum includes features on Peter Voulkos, Ed Kienholz, and Cornelia Runyon, plus an overview of..... More
Roma: Collezione dell'Obeliscok Carlo Bestetti, Edizioni de;Arte, 1948. 8 splendid mounted color halftone plates and 8 monochrome drawings by Salvador Dali; 6 other monochrome illustrations and decorations; 6 monochrome advertisements by Dali, Jean Cocteau, Leonor Fini, and others for luxury goods. 36 unnumbered pages. Paper covers decorated with a typically..... More
New York: Art-Rite Publishing Co., 1973-1978. Newsprint with self covers. All issues roughly letter size. Normal condition is browned at the edges with some signs of handling. No. 21, the virtually unobtainable final issue, is a facsimile. The original consisted only of a cover, with no contents. Judy Rifka decorated..... More
Canada: the Artist, 2009. 25 b/w photos. 48 pp. 17.8 x 14 cm. One of many brilliant (and less so) homages, parodies, knockoffs, and copies of Ed's signature subjects and styles. See Various small books: referencing various small books by Ed Ruscha (MIT Press, 2013), which describes 84 examples, 1981-2011..... More
Brooklyn: Copycat Publishers, 2011. 60 b/w photos of records and their covers. Stiff, dark-red covers; [72] pp. (8 blank); 17.7 x 14 cm.. One of many brilliant (and less so) homages, parodies, knockoffs, and copies of Ed's signature subjects and styles. See Various small books: referencing various small books by..... More
Québec: The Artist; printed in Canada, 2009. 1000 copies. 36 b/w photos. Stiff, white paper covers printed in black. [48] pp. 17.8 x 14 cm. One of many brilliant (and less so) homages, parodies, knockoffs, and copies of Ed's signature subjects and styles. See Various small books: referencing various small..... More
London: Scolar Mansell/Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1972. A superb facsimile of Donne's original, written on both sides of a piece of lightweight laid paper 21.4 x 15.7 cm. Under magnification of 5x or more you may be able to see the gilt edges at the sides and bottom of the sheet..... More
Pasadena Art Museum, 1963. 2000 copies. Astonishingly, this was Duchamp's first retrospective exhibition. It (and the much rarer poster accompanying the exhibition) also was one of the two most important publications of the Pasadena Art Museum during its heyday, when it transformed the Southern California art scene and gave it..... More
Amherst, MA: Northampton Museum of Modern Art [fictional?], 1978. 4-page letter-size folder displaying 46 rubber stamps for use in rubber-stamp art, mail art, and the like. The images include a twin-hulled WWII P-38, a flying fish, a carrot, a mask of Tutankhamen, a portrait of Karl Marx, a cowboy on..... More
Santa Monica, California: Astro Artz, 1990. Profusely illustrated in black & white. 88 pp. Decorated paper cover by Adrian Piper (in color). 28 x 21.7 cm. Contents: "Black and blue: toward an African aesthetic," by E. Ethelbert Miller; "A second heart: racism, identity and the blues aesthetic," by Wanda Coleman;..... 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
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
Tijuana, Mexico: El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, 2021. 1000 copies. First edition. Produced in conjunction with an exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMOCA). It was underwritten by MassMOCA; El Colegio de la Frontera, in Tijuana; The Athenaeum, in La Jolla; and the Stamps Gallery at the..... 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
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
[Wiesbaden, Germany? Manufacturer unknown, circa 1990?]. A stamped aluminum license plate 11.4 x 47.2 cm (oversquare). Jerome and Diane Rothenberg bought this in Wiesbaden, Germany, around 1990, thinking it a multiple, but I have found no trace of another like it. Wiesbaden, where George Maciunas was living in the early..... More
New York, October 1942. Series 2, no. 3, October 1942: Vertigo issue. Orange covers with red drawing by Hanani Meller. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 32 pp. Paper covers. 26.3 x 18.4 cm. Drawings by Kurt Seligmann, Pavel Tchelitchew, and André Masson. Texts by Roger Caillois, Parker Tyler, Nicolas..... More
New York: View Editions, 1946. Cover design of sculpture by Isamu Noguchi in black and yellow on white. Illustrations by van Gogh, Morris Hirschfeld, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Isamu Noguchi, Yves Tanguy, and others. 50 pp. Decorated paper covers. 30.5 x 23 cm. Articles by the authors listed above, plus..... 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
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
![Item #74784 It is: a magazine for abstract art [title varies]. Complete set: nos. 1-6. Sebastian....](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/74784-3.1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1633411683)
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 [printer], [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..... More
