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
np: KLF Publications, 1988. First edition. 4to, 78 pp, publisher's printed wraps. The true first edition of The Manual, not to be confused with the later edition in a different format by Ellipsis. Both editions are scarce, but the first edition is rarely seen in the marketplace. The manual for..... More
[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, c. 1950's. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes issued by the Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950's, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Some faint..... More
[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, c. 1950's. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes issued by the Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950's, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Some faint..... More
[London]: Gaberbocchus Press, c. 1950's. Three panel greeting card, folding down to 3 7/8 x 4 1/2". Illustrated with two drawings by Franciszka Themerson. One of a series of greeting cards on bibliophilic themes issued by the Gaberbocchus Press in the 1950's, illustrated with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Some faint..... More
London: Themerson Estate, 1998. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, printed wraps. A collection of music themed drawings, mostly made around 1955. Some of the drawings were published as greeting cards by the Gaberbocchus Press, which Franciszka founded with her partner Stefan Themerson, and some were intended to be collected in a...... More
Poland: Gaberbocchus w Polsce & Korporacja Ha!Art, 2007. First edition. 8vo, [30] pp, illustrated wraps. Text in Polish and English. A book of Themerson's inimitable drawings, published as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth. A faint touch of soiling to the wraps else fine. More
Amsterdam: Gaberbocchus Press / Turret Press / De Harmonie, 1988. 8vo, unpaginated, illustrated wraps. A reprint of the book originally published by Themerson's own Gaberbocchus Press in 1954. Themerson's superb illustrations to quotes by an eclectic group of writers, from Bertrand Russell to Gaston Bachelard to Kierkegaard to Wittgenstein. Near..... More
London: George Harrap, 1947. First edition. Small 4to, unpaginated, bound in illustrated boards backed in green cloth. Lacking the rare dust jacket. Profusely illustrated throughout, in color, by Franciszka Themerson. First edition of one of Themerson's best known works, illustrating 'Who Killed Cock Robin?,' 'The Gingerbread Man,' 'Three Little Pigs'..... More
![Item #29023 Identified Objects Plus C., Mac's Cosmic Golf Cart [poster]. Reese and Joan Thornton](/pictures/thumb/29023.jpg?v=1636649882)
San Francisco: U.F.O. Gallery, [1965]. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, offsety printed in deep purple on thin card stock. The poster announcement for this 1965 exhibition at the UFO Gallery, perhaps the most mysterious of the early hippie galleries in San Francisco, which held several happenings, and which appeared on..... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1978. 4to, single sheet folded once to make four pages. Single issue of the remarkable periodical issued from the influential gallery run by Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Geert van Beijeren. Over the course of almost 20 years the gallery issued 156 of these bulletins, in almost..... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art [And the the Manfacture of Tear Gas], 1969. 4to, 62 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated. The catalog for the 1969 exhibition, featuring works by Carl Andre, Michael Asher, Lynda Benglis, William Bollinger John Duff, Rafael Ferrer, Robert Fiore, Philip Glass, Eva Hesse..... More
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1984. First edition. Tabloid format, 36 pp. Special technology issue of artists' periodical devoted to avant-garde music, which was associated with, and later published above, the famous Ear Inn on Spring Street. Contributors include Bernard Heidsieck, Rosemary Birardi, David Evan Jones, Richard Teitelbaum, Fred Ciccone..... More
![Item #30673 Galerie Gerd Rosen. Plastik u. Bildhauer Zeichnungen [Poster]. Hans Uhlmann, Galerie...](/pictures/thumb/30673.jpg?v=1678240266)
Berlin: Galerie Gerd Rosen, c. 1947-48. 11 3/4 x 16 1/2", poster lithographed in two colors. A rare poster from the Galerie's earliest and most important period, when the gallery was still operating from its original location on Kurfürstendamm. It is difficult to understate the importance of the gallery, which..... More
