Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1963. 12mo, [12] pp, saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Illustrated with 3 drawings by Magritte. Provenace: from the collection of the art collector and book dealer John Hunov, with his tiny rubberstamp inside front cover. Sixth issue of the Belgian Surrealist periodical, this..... More
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1962. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Superb issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, notable for including a double-paged reproduction in color of the painting 'La Cascade,' with a text about the work by Marcel Lecomte, a reproduction..... More
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1962. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Single issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, illustrated with a frontispiece by René Magritte, and work by Maurice Rapin, André Bosmans, Lopuis Scutenaire, Jacques Wergifosse. Tips lightly creased else fine. More
Moers: Editions Aragon Verlag Willi Klauke, 1985. Second printing. 8vo, 130 pp, illustrated wraps. Illustrated with tables, diagrams, and a single photograph. Text in German. Early Hacker guide oriented towards beginners, the dedicated to Jerry Rubin, which begins by printing Cheshire Catalyst's Hacker Hymn (which first appeared in T.A.P.). Includes..... More
Suffolk: Scorpion Press, 1961. First edition. Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock, who also provide a brief foreward. The first English language edition of these 7 poems, which were taken from Messinkauf. Superb translations... Near fine with fading to the extremities of the wraps and some faint toning within. More
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, c. 1961. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, offset litho in two colors. An unused sheet of stationary for the Surrealist periodical, edited by Breton. Brilliantly designed - the verso is printed with Breton's name and the address of Le Terrain Vague printed in reverse, so that..... More
np: Ladd-Frith, 1990. First edition. 8" clear flexi single sided record, with illustrated card backing sheet, both housed in the original mailing envelope, with a brief note to prior owner. Catalog No. LF-058. A nm, unplayed copy, still attached to backing sheet with two spots of glue. Hand-addressed envelope very..... More
Kent, OH: Zephyrus Image, 1974. First edition. 7 x 12" broadside, letterpress in two colors; poem set in 10 pt. Linotype Aldus within a red linocut border by Michael Myers. Produced as part of the Kent State portfolio, some of the broadsides were also distributed singly. Johnston p. 199. Fine..... More
Various: nd [c. early 1900's]. Fourteen cabinet photographs mounted on card, one sheet of stationary with a two color photographically illustrated header, and one real photo postcard. The Brown Brothers were an acrobat and equilibrist duo active in the early part of the century. One of the brothers was one-legged..... More
London: Gaga Bureau, [1969]. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and side-stapled into a pink mimeographed cover sheet printed iwth a concrete poem, to which is attached a folded half-sheet of computer tractor feed paper printed with a concrete poem. Illustrated with a photo-mechanically produced sheet of images. First issue of this..... More
Lisboa: F. Silva, [1893]. 8vo, 24 pp, bound in printed wrappers. Text in Portuguese. Illustrated with several small engravings in the text. The second of a number of almanachs connected with the Witch of Arruda, published from around 1892 until 1909. This issue includes texts on a variety of topics..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1961. First edition. 8vo, 45 pp, bound in pale green boards titled in black at the spine. A collection of poems followed by prose commentary. Very good, with a very slight roll and hint of fading to boards at spine, in a very good dust jacket which..... More
London: Gaberbocchus, 1959. First edition. 12mo, 124 pp, bound in green boards titled in gilt at the spine; photographically illustrated dust jacket. Buchanan's memoir of his Ulster childhood, dedicated to Forrest Reid, 'who read an early draft'. Another beautiful book from Stefan and Francizka Themerson's Gaberbocchus Press. A touch of..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1965. First edition. 8vo, 149 pp, bound in beige cloth decorated and titled in gilt at the spine. Printed dust jacket, typographically designed in red and black. The second installment of Buchanan's autobiography, describing his work for a Belfast newspaper during the troubles and reminiscences of Fleet..... More
London: John Lane, [1922]. 8vo, xi, 96, [4] pp, bound in illustrated green cloth. No dust jacket. Here published c. 1924 as volume XXIV in the Handbooks of Practical Gardening Series. Complete and collated with all 8 photographic plates in addition to the frontispiece. A handsome edition of this classic..... More
Willamantic, CT: De-Evolutionary Times, 1981. 4to, [25] pp, photo-mechanically reproduced. Side-stapled. A remarkable early 80's connection between the poetry and post-punk zine scenes, this little known post punk fanzine edited by the poets George Butterick, and Ed Kaplan. A fascinating zine, dense and text heavy with no illustrations other than..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1992. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. 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 design the issue..... More
Paris: Chez Janet, 1816. First edition. 18mo, (2), 152 pp, title page with engraved, hand-colored rose, six plates bearing 36 engraved flowers, all hand-colored, and two plates featuring engravings of cards, all with original tissue guards present. Bound in blue waxed boards. A.e.g. First edition of this remarkable early 19th century..... More
![Item #30683 Merce Cunningham John Cage [Handbill]. John Cage, Merce Cunningham](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30683.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1679527803)
Portland, Ore. Reed College, 1949. 8vo, single sheet of card stock folded once. Mimeographed from typescript, the beautiful typographical design by Barbara Walker and Virginia Ragsdale. The handbill for this early performance by Cage and Cunningham at Reed College, well in advance of their Black Mountain years. It is tempting..... More
Santiago, Dominican Republic: Hypermodern, 1968. 4to, 24 pp, side-stapled. Fourth issue of this far ranging and eccentric little magazine published from the Dominican Republic by a young Allan B. Calhamer, who later would find infamy as the inventor of the game Diplomacy. Just under the covers of this issue alone..... More
Bordeaux: Université de Bordeaux, Faculté Mixte de Médecine et de Pharmacie, nd [c. 1960's?]. 4to, 131 pp, printed on rectos only. Publisher's printed wraps. No illustrations. The results of a large scale study of 293 tattooed subjects at the notorious Charcot psychiatric hospital, and submitted as part of the author's..... More
![Item #26747 An Exposure of Mediums' Tricks and Rackets [Little Blue Book No. 1746]. C. Samuel...](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26747.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1666904163)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Light toning, else fine. More
![Item #30418 How to Read Finger Prints [Little Blue Book No. 1754]. C. Samuel Campbell](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30418.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1670349123)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps [2 staples]. Gibbs 1754, first noted variation, in the first noted wrapper variation - LBB (c) with the author's name in caps. A forensic essay, illustrated with drawings and diagrams of finger prints. A scarcer title in the series. Wraps faded..... More
![Item #30400 Scientific Crime Detection [Little Blue Book No. 1748]. C. Samuel Campbell](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30400.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1669942324)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in yellow wraps printed in black. Gibbs 1748, first noted variation, in the third noted wrapper variation with large union slug to back cover. A study of forensics, and a scarcer title in the series. Fine. More
![Item #30443 True Prison Escapes [Little Blue Book No. 1746]. C. Samuel Campbell](https://divisionleap.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/30443.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1670367002)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled wraps (1 staple) printed in black. Gibbs 1740, noted variation 3, in the cream wrappers. Many helpful hints within. Fine. More