Los Angeles: Rough Weather Press, 1988. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Rohwedder was a magazine started in 1986 by a group of poets and writers in Los Angeles. The periodical ran to 8 numbers, including a zero number. The name, which could be translated into English as Rough Weather, was a reflection..... More
Heidelberg: Dr. Alfred Hüthig Verlag, 1950. First edition. 8vo, 156 pp, bound in pale blue cloth titled in gilt. Illustrated dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. Text in German. First edition of an essential study on the history of tattooing, branding and body painting, based upon Schönfeld's..... More
New York: The Artist, nd [c. 1990's]. 4 x 6" postcard, with xerox print tipped onto recto. Beautiful announcement this happening by Max Schumann, featuring the sale of artwork priced from 10 cents to $100! Max is of the beloved director of Printed Matter. Very good with some light toning..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1962. First edition. 4to, 56 pp, wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Designed by Anna Lovell. Introduction by Jasia Reichardt. Very good, with some moderate toning to wraps and some minor spotting to front cover. More
Copenhagen: J.J. Thorsen, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 19 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. The catalog for this exhibition of work at the Kunstbygningen by Jörgen Nash, Jacqueline de Jong, Gordon Fazarkeley, Ansger Elde, Hardy Strid, Jörgen Thorsten, and Peter Zimmer - all individuals who had broken with the Situationist International to form..... More
Np: The Cactus Foundation, 1988. 8vo, various materials in a printed card folder. The proposal for the performance artist's 1988 action, in which he ran for office in the 1988 presidential election. Includes the proposal, photocopied press material, a resume, and a foldout poster, which is still sealed with the..... More
[New York]: Seth Siegelaub, 1969. 4to, 26 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in three languages. The catalog for the 1969 exhibition, which featured work from 11 different artists or groups in 11 different locales. The artists and locations were Carl Andre (The Hague), Robert Barry (Baltimore), Daniel Buren (Paris), Jan Dibbets..... More
[Paris]: Carnets de Rhinoceros Jr, 2007. 12mo [5 3/4 x 5 1/4", a little book] 48 pp, bound in photographically illustrated stiff wraps. No dust jacket as issued. Text in French. The now very scarce first edition of the first book on the photographer's work to appear outside of Russia..... More
Stuttgart: 1971. 8 1/2 x 11" exhibition announcement, printed on color, folded twice, and housed in an envelope addressed and postmarked to Art Forum. Original announcement for Staeck's important inflation themed show held in the Kunstgebäude am Schlossplatz of the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Mar. 6-7, 1971. Near fine. More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1997. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Single issue of the artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, making it a hybrid of a...... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 2003. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Fama & ortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, in this case Haim Steinbach. Fine..... More
Oatman, AZ: Padma Press, 1985. First edition. 4to, 40 leaves comb-bound into an unprinted glassine cover. A mail art assemblage project exploring the theme of fashion from numerous perspectives, designed in the format of a fashion lookbook. Icludes pageworks, rubberstamp art, numerous found and tipped-in materials, hand-coloring, color xerox, etc...... More
Lund, Sweden and Belleair, FL: Edition Sellem / The Vanitas Press, 1983. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, bound in the publisher's faux black leather boards embossed in silver. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Hardy Strid with a small collage on paper on the page following Laumer's introduction. Profusely illustrated..... More
Lund, Sweden and Belleair, FL: Edition Sellem / The Vanitas Press, 1983. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, bound in the publisher's faux black leather boards embossed in silver. No dust jacket as issued. This copy signed by Hardy Strid with a small collage on paper on the page following Laumer's introduction..... More
Rotterdam: Enkel, 1979. First edition. 4to, saddles-stapled wraps. Text in Dutch. Copy rubberstamped no. 172 on back cover, from an unstated limitation. First issue, of only three published, of this art periodical from Rotterdam. With contributions from Ulrich Huisraad, K. Gubbels, Vincent Haman, John Studulski, and photographs by Jan van..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1999. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Text in English. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and..... More
[Paris]: [1951]. 4 x 5 1/4" papillon, unused, with gumming still present at verso. Printed in brown. Surrealist papillon stating "Get killed for a better life" with the name Stulpnagel interspersed with the names MacArthur, Staline, and Charles De Gaulle - the name Stulpnagel perhaps a reference to either Otto..... More
Paris: Centre d'Informations Surrealistes, c. 1952. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, offset printed in two colors on watermarked paper. An unused sheet of stationary for the Surrealist periodical edited by Jean Schuster. The design is unattributed, but includes an illustration of a Rorschach test - like design, and is printed..... More
Paris: Le Mouvement Surrealiste, 1956. First edition. 8 1/2 x 11”, printed on recto only on handmade, speckled brown paper. Surrealist tract protesting the recent election of 52 members of the Poujadiste movement, accusing them of fascism, and drawing attention to the war in Algeria and the fate of Algerians..... More
Paris: 1963. First edition. 8 5/8 x 11", offset printed in black on yellow paper. Text in French and Spanish. A manifesto prompted by an exchange of undesirables between France and Spain, with an attack on Malraux. With the printed signatures of Philippe Audoin, Jean-Louis Bedouin, Robert Benayoun, Vincent Bounoure..... More
[San Francisco]: Hermes Free Press, [c. 1972]. First edition. 4 3/4 x 13 1/4" bumper sticker, linocut print in turquoise on newsprint (Johnston state c). A rebus calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. One of the most striking examples of several items the press produced during the Watergate era..... More
[San Francisco]: Hermes Free Press, [c. 1972]. First edition. 4 1/2 x 13" bumper sticker, linocut print in orange on yellow paper (Johnston state b). A rebus calling for the impeachment of Richard Nixon. One of the most striking examples of several items the press produced during the Watergate era..... More
np: c. 1970. Oblong 4to, cordbound album with illustrated glazed textile cover affixed, bearing 32 leaves, half of which are blank. The other half have are full of tipped in drawings, textile samples - some of which are reproduced from drawings in the album, and one photograph. The file album..... More
np: [1973]. A cache of 10 items produced in conjunction with the Electric Element, a multi-media performance which was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford in 1973 by the avant-garde theatrical performance troupe, which included the legendary musican and cybernetic artist Bruce Lacey, who appeared in Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity..... More
