Bruxelles, 1957. Original lithograph covers in black and red by Karel Appel. The first of 3 issues published between 1957 and 1960. 35 Cobra and other artists and writers, including Alechinsky, Baj, Corneille, Messagier, Scanavino, two D'Haeses, two Pomodoros, Dylan Thomas, and Dotremont. Profusely illustrated in black and white. 24..... More
New York: Ron Feldman Fine Arts, 1979. Only 14 copies published. Silkscreen poster in black on tan paper with dark red lettering. 126.5 x 96 cm. / 49-3/4 x 37-3/4 inches (nearly 4 times life size, or 16 times if measured by area). The exhibition "From Berlin: News from the..... More
Roma: [the artist?], ca. 1960. The covers are an original, signed color aquatint approx. 13 x 19 inches, This is copy no. 4 of what appear to be 200 copies. Warmly inscribed 9.60 to Joshua Taylor. 4 abstract compositions reproduced in black and white. [12] interior pp. Duchamp's poem is..... 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
![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&auto=webp&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
Paris: Emile Nourry, 1930. 186/750 copies. 80 delightful original wood engravings after Daumier. 81 plates + 72 pp. Original paper covers.. 28.5 x 19 cm. Catalogue raisonné of 883 wood engravings (pp. 39-69). Very fine. Riggs, p. 209. LC 55-51499. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
Saint Louis: Laryngoscope Press, 1918. No. 79 of 300 copies. Very complicated pagination, but approximately 52 plates containing 926 examples of watermarks + approximately 184 pp. Dark red cloth with gilt titling on the cover. 24.4 x 15.8 cm. There are various reprints of the original 1883 edition, but this..... 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
[Milano?]: Alice Editions, 1974. No. 327 of 1750 copies. Original lithograph frontispiece by Max Ernst + 24 color plates. [68] pp. Dustjacket over stiff, black card covers. 28 x 35 cm (oversquare). OCLC states the place of publication variously as Milan, Paris, New York, and Woodbury, NY. The book was..... More
San Francisco: The Porpoise Bookshop, 1957. 10 original woodcuts in black or colors. 150 copies printed by Henry Evans. 10 leaves with deckel edge at bottom, 32 x 24.2 cm loose as issued in brown paper portfolio 32.6 x 25.5 cm. with title in olive green. Henry Evans also was..... More
Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. One of 150 copies SIGNED by Sam Francis and Michael Taylor (total edition 1150 copies). Original lithograph cover by Sam Francis over boards. [141] pp. 24 x 12.5 cm. Mylar dustjacket printed in red with title on spine and copy on flaps. Calligraphy by Walasse..... More
New York: Weyhe Gallery, 1951. Poster. 40.6 x 22.8 cm, folded in 4 to 10.2 x 22.8 cm (oversquare). The verso is an original woodcut printed to the full size of the paper that shows a woman gathering nuts or berries in her skirt. The lower third of the image..... More
![Item #10101 [Untitled, signed artwork.]. Carlos Garcia](https://mcgilvery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10101.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1545184904)
Genève: Ecart, [197-?]. Copy 030 of 278. This evocative "publication" consists of one leaf (pp.109-110) from a pocket French dictionary with a heart die-cut from its center. The entries encompass "cambronne" through "canné." A heart-shaped center from the same book is attached above the opening with a straight pin, but..... More
New York: Walker, in association with the Department of Printing and Graphic Art, Harvard College Library, 1971. Frontispiece & 32 illustrations on 31 plates. + 46 pp. (including 12 figures). Full leather. 29 x 20 cm. PLUS a double suite of the 6 original etchings (12 total) loose in blue..... More
Cambridge,MA: [the artist?]. 1967. Dist. by George Wittenborn. 60 geometric plates, the last six with transparencies that produce optical effects. 89 pp. White boards. About 17 cm square. Inscribed on flyleaf: "Demonstration Sat. for B. Karpel. Albert B. Gregory Jr. [?]." Interesting studies in optical art. Staining at spine and..... More
The plate was created with drypoint and sandpaper and then printed with blended colored inks. Image: 17.5 x 29.8 cm / 6.9 x 11.7 in. Paper: 26.8 x 35.5 cm / 10.5 x 14 in. Signed in light pencil just below the image on the right, with a written number..... More
Santa Fe, New Mexico: Radius Books, 2009. Original, abstract drawing in black and red marker on otherwise nearly blank title page. Signed "EM's 09". The full-size pages are virtually all plates, nearly all in color. 242 pp. White cloth with titling in black on the spine. The heavy, clear jacket..... More
[London: the artist?[ 1997/98]. For Damien Hirst's Notting Hill Gate restaurant in London, he designed wallpaper based on the Merck Company's pharmaceutical products. Those first versions, in bronze and silver, which were used to decorate the restaurant, used the actual trade names. Merck objected to this appropriation of their trademarks..... More
London: Morland Press, 1st of March 1924. No. 18 of 50 copies signed (inside the front cover) by artist and author and containing as frontispiece an ORIGINAL LINOCUT in tan and black, "The Shrine." Hors-texte frontispiece + 27 mounted plates (1 in blue-green ink with black backing, and 1 in..... More
New York: Rizzoli, with Art & Peace, Inc., 1997. 72 color plates printed one side with captions on facing pages. 189 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering, in dustjacket. 28.5 x 29 cm. This is not a conventional limited edition issued by the publisher, but rather a copy of the..... More
Munich: R. Piper, 1913. One of 300 copies with the artist's monogram incorporated into the design of the woodblocks. "Zwei Frauen in Mondschaft" is no. 100 in Kurt Roethel's catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky's prints. The image is 8.8 x 11.8 cm (3.5 x 4.625 in., oversquare). The van Gelder Zonen..... More
Uplands Konstförening. Konsthallen 9-23 November 1958. [Stockholm: 1958]. 20.5 x 14.5 cm. [13] pages. Illustrated with an original frontispiece linoleum cut, a tipped-in color plate and monochrome reproductions of 9 works on 2 plates. Original paper covers., the front being printed and the rear pictorial. Light soiling and wear; two-inch..... More
Berlin: Vormals Euphorion Verlag, 1977. No. 19 of 100 copies with original signed lithograph by the Expressionist master of a goat on thick rice paper with deckle edges (total book edition, 600). 141 plates. About 300 pp. Dark-red cloth with gilt titling in pasteboard slipcase. 28.5 x 22.3 cm. The..... 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
