Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1960s-1970s. A collection of the following from the 1960s and 1970s: Prospectus for Edgar Taylor Dorsey. Baja California Woodcuts. 1969. Folder. 19.5 x22.1 cm., with two illustrations from the book. Shallow wrinkling and creasing, and a light date stamp (Dec 4 1969) on front. Folded vertically..... More
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[Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Architects Foundation], 1979. 5 illustrations. [4] + 23 pp. Bound in decorated paper covers with slip binder. About 21.5 cm square. "Two on Two at the Octagon is a celebration of the careers of four distinctive contributors to our urban life. Two are architects: Chloethiel..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1967. 8 separate plates of lithographs (4 in color) + text folder of 4 pp. Decorated portfolio. 23.6 x 17.1 cm. Price list/order form laid in. "Booster" is about 6 x 3 feet and includes a life-size portrait of the artist in the form of a...... More
New York: Robert Lax, 1960. Pax was issued intermittently in 18 issues between 1956 and 1962, with three later ones in 1985. This one is a wonderful satire by Ad Reinhardt, who is paired up with other artists and reconfigures or comments on their statements on art. Samples: Gottlieb and..... More
La Paz, Bolivia: Ediciones "INBO", 1989. 293 plates and illustrations (236) in color. 317 pp. Black cloth with dustjacket. 30 x 23.7 cm. A massive and beautifully illustrated critical history of Bolivian painting of the twentieth century. Endmatter includes a bibliography, an 8-page chronology, and 38 pp. of artists' biographies..... More
[L.A.? The artist? 1970?] Artist's book, INSCRIBED. 600 copies. 24 photographs juxtapose sterile hotel rooms in Los Angeles with messier indoor and oudoor scenes, e.g., a hilltop path overhung by a tree marked X, an action painting of Heinz ketchup on a white tablecloth, a deposit of 2 or 3..... More
Tokyo-to Bijutsukan, 1984. Profusely illustrated (including 32 color plates). 205 pp. Stiff brick-colored paper covers. 24 x 22 cm. Saito was one of the pioneers of abstract painting in Japan and joined the Avant-Garde Western Painting Research Institute in 1933. This retrospective includes 98 works between 1978 and 1984. The..... More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 2019. 25 copies signed by the publisher. 20 illustrations (8 in color). [43] pp. Stiff, decorated paper covers, with dustjackete of handmade paper. 21.6 x 13.8 cm. 2 copies: 16/30, dark-green paper with gilt decoration; 17/30, dark-blue with gilt decoration. Please specify the copy preferred. Roman Jakobson..... More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, in association with Michael Neal, Cayeux-sur-Mer, France, 2018. No. 23 of 25 copies signed by the publisher. 21 illustrations. 41 + [21] pp. Stiff, decorated paper covers. 21.6 x 13.4 cm. "These poems were written as a response to lines by Artaud contained in his Cahiers de..... More
New Paltz, NY: Documentext, 1979. Profusely illustrated. 281 + [7] pp. Cloth with dustjacket. 21.4 x 25.3 cm (oversquare). First edition of 2000 copies in cloth. Edited by Bruce McPherson. Boldly inscribed on blank preceding the title page: "For Aldis & Maria— Dear friends, with admiration love & thanks. Carolee..... More
New York: United Features Syndicate, 1963-1969. 280 Page proofs of daily Peanuts strips. Large bound volume, printed 6 to a page on one side of tabloid newsprint—a total of 1680 strips from Schulz’s classic period. The collection starts November 4–9, 1963, and ends September 15–20, 1969. There are gaps of..... More
![57 collages: Kurt Schwitters. Oct 22–Nov 17 1956 [poster]. Kurt. Sidney Janis Gallery Schwitters](/pictures/thumb/28570.jpg?v=1616993102)
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1956. Poster. About 56.5 x 37.8 cm unfolded (folded in 8 it is about 15 x 19.5 cm). The title and exhibition information are stencilled in seven lines of bright red-silkscreen on newsprint over an inverted reproduction of the "Situations Wanted" ads from page W27..... More
New York: Dutton, Dec. 1931 (11th printing). Satirical bookplate drawn by hand on the flyleaf by an unidentified artist. It depicts the University of Pennsylvania historian and Euglish literature professor Theodore Hornberger as a wretch at his desk working madly at writing. He was born in 1906. A wall calendar..... More
Oxford: Counterpoint Publications, [1944-1945]. Complete set. Volume 1 is undated, but OCLC assigns a date of 1944. Vivid cover by Gerald Wilde. Many illustrations, including two plates in color. Unpaginated [60 pp.] 28.4 x 22.1 cm. Includes contributions by George Barker, Paul Nash, Lawrence Durrell, Walter de la Mare, Roy..... More
Russia: the artist, 1939. One of a group of 26 Soviet-era etchings and lithographs (plus some duplicates). Off-white paper with dark sepia ink. Image: 23 x 35 cm; paper: 37.7 x 48.5 cm. Very light mark in upper margin. The collection includes work by Vladimir Bogatkin, V. Chernitsyn, Yevgeniya Evenbakh..... More
New York: Artforum, 1982. Flexidisc by Laurie Anderson, "Let X = X," with cut-and-fold cover bound in. Profusely illustrated (part color). 106 pp. 26.7 x 26.5. cm. The centerfold by Andy Warhol is "Forged image," a three-panel painting of a dollar sign in varying color combinations, plus a photo of..... More
New York: Artforum, 1982. Flexidisc by Laurie Anderson, "Let X = X," with cut-and-fold cover bound in. Profusely illustrated (part color). 106 pp. 26.7 x 26.5. cm. The centerfold by Andy Warhol is "Forged image," a three-panel painting of a dollar sign in varying color combinations, plus a photo of..... More
New York: Artforum, 1982. Flexidisc by Laurie Anderson, "Let X = X," with cut-and-fold cover bound in. Profusely illustrated (part color). 106 pp. 26.7 x 26.5. cm. The centerfold by Andy Warhol is "Forged image," a three-panel painting of a dollar sign in varying color combinations, plus a photo of..... More
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art [LAICA], 1979. 54 illustrations. 68 pp. White card covers with red title. 21.2 x 21.7 cm.2000 copies. Essays by Richard Armstrong, Peter Frank, and Ivor Darreg. Exhibitors are: Bob Bates, Alec Bernstein, Michael Brewster, Jim Burton, Emmet Chapman, Ivor Darreg, Paul De Marinis, John..... More
San Francisco: the artist, 1980. Framed black-and-white photograph, apparently of a sculpture made of sand that resembles both a very full pair of lips and two pairs of conjoined buttocks. The mat opening is 18 x 24 cm; the black metal frame is 38 x 42.5 cm, with glass. A...... More
[Moscow?]: the artist, no date. Mikhail Tarkhanov invented a medium of his own using colored starch to create vivid abstract compositions. He studied at Vkhutemas, the "Russian Bauhaus" that thrived in Moscow between 1920 and 1930. 43 x 31 cm on lightweight paper. This is one of six varied works..... More
[Athens? Ministry of Culture, Department of Fine Arts, 1986]. 12 color plates on very stiff coated stock, loose as issued in folder of stiff uncoated stock, with printed text on pp. 1, 3, and 4; p. 3 boldly signed by the brilliant actress Melina Mercouri, Minister of Culture. PLUS a...... More
![Faculty ‘68 [Vija Celmins, Tony DeLap, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, Richard Smith]. Irvine....](/pictures/thumb/58421.jpg?v=1545185116)
Irvine: University of California, Schoolof Fine Arts, 1968. 1000 copies. 8 plates (2 color). 26 pp. Paper covers in purple & orange. 23.6 cm square. Introduction by Clayton Garrison. Texts by Fidel A. Danieli (Vija Celmins, Tony DeLap), John Coplans (Robert Irwin); Jane Livingston (Craig Kauffman), and Barbara Rose (Richard..... More
Ambert d'Auvergne, France: Richard de Bas Moulin de Papier, 1979. Broadside 32.4 x about 25.2 cm. Printed on handmade paper that incorporates small leaves, blossoms, and seeds. Left edge deckle. Only one record in OCLC, at Western Michigan University, which describes a box of 18 items, all samples from the..... More
Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984. Postcard, unmailed. Card stock, coated one side, with illustration. 14.6 x 10.2 cm. Produced as part of the exhibition "Automobile and Culture," July 21–January 6, 1985, at theTemporary/Contemporary site of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Gerald Silk wrote a catalogue to..... More
