Sex Symbolism [Little Blue Book No. 655]
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green wraps. Published as Volume X of the Rational Sex Series. Near fine with light toning and a small chip to heel. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in light green wraps. Published as Volume X of the Rational Sex Series. Near fine with light toning and a small chip to heel. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1925. 32mo, saddle-stapled in wraps. Gibbs 904, first recorded printing, in the second wrapper state. Published as Volume X of the Rational Sex Series. Very good with fading to wraps and toning. More
Bogotá and Paris: Edición el Chapuzón / Librairie Plantureaux, 2008. First edition. 12mo, 48 pp, bound in flexible photographically illustrated boards. Amazing, small photobook documenting the protests of May, 2008 in Bogotá, by the Colombian photographer, edited by Bruno Monguzzi and Serge Plantureaux, and issued in a uniform design with..... More
Budapest: Népköztársaság Útja, 1977. First edition. Narrow 4to, 3 panel leporello foldout housed within a three panel, photographically illustrated folder. With manifesto broadside Senzitivita 1974-1975-1976 printed in Slovak, French, German, and English laid in. The folder and materials self-published by the three artists with the assistance of Dóra Maurer, on..... More
Bratislava: 1973. 8vo, three booklets housed in a three panel printed folder. Photographically Illustrated. All texts in Slovak with translations in English, French, and German. Two booklets are photographically illustrated with works by the trio, with a third booklet printing a text by Valoch. "In the year 1973 a three-member..... More
Remscheid, Germany: VICE-Versand, 1968-1981. Three wooden boxes, a stone, and a pink ceramic pig, each in varying dimensions, with affixed labels, each initialled by the artist. A rare complete set of Filliou's most infamous, linguistically canny series of multiples, issued in numbers over a 13 year period. Each of the..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled wraps [1 staple]. Gibbs 516, second noted variation, in the sixth wrapper variation, with the superb illustrated cover printed in green on cream. A collection of adventures stories by the English-born paripetetic bisexual, former sailor, and disciple of Walt Whitman. Staple a little rusted..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Illustrated. Likely the first edition of the work, in Gibbs' LBB 1 binding. Finger was an Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer whose remarkable body of work is still too little known. He was a prolific contributor..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1923. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs 301, in the LBB (1) binding. Finger, the Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer, was one of the most interesting writers of the Little Blue Book Series, and this is one of his most charming works- a collection of sea..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1922. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs 188c, first noted variation [no errata statement] in the second wrapper variation [LBB(1). Near fine with light toning and some fading to wraps. More
Glassingale, Dunblaine: Morningstar Publications, [1995]. First edition. 4 1/8 x 5 7/8" artists' postcard, offset printed in color on coated stock, and reproducing a drawing by Hincks of everyone's favorite motorcycle jump. Near fine with a faint touch of foxing. More
Np: 1971. 3 1/2 x 5" snapshot, signed by the artist at verso and titled in his hand, along with the note "2 Polaroid Photos 1 Black 1 White tucked into a stapled $1 bill." Photo rather creased, with some staining. More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1975. 4to, single sheet folded once to make four pages. Single issue of the 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 all..... More
np: 1982. 4to, 4 sheets photo-mechanically reproduced from collage and typescript on rectos only, and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. One of 100 copies produced. Early 1980's art zine, with references to the Surrealists and surprise, pressing vinyl records, and Dr. Grover Twean on Sleep and Dreaming..... More
Np: The Artist, 1974-1978. Six typescripts, folded and housed in an envelope hand-addressed to Michael Erlhoff, the editor of Zeitschrift magazine, sent from Flynt's Canal Street P.O. Box and postmarked November 14, 1978. Provenance available upon request. A collection of 6 early texts by Flynt, all printed on rectos only..... More
np: [Ford Motor Company], c. 1924. 4to, single sheet folded into a four pager [folded size 8 1/2 x 11"]. Illustrated with two full page pictorial color plates (likely pochoir). a remarkable visual document from the Ford Motor Company's "Her Personal Car" campaign, aimed at appealing to new freedoms afforded..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1990. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. With subscription form laid in. Scarce early 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..... More
Warrington, PA: Die, Evan Dando, Die Magazine, [1994]. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. With a prospectus for the zine laid in. One of about 200 copies printed. . A rare first printing, mailed to a fellow fanzine editor, of one of the 90's zines that brought mainstream attention to the..... More
Gera: Paul Schaerf, nd [c. early 1900's]. 3 11/16 x 5 11/16" postcard, printed by offset lithograph. Divided back. Addressed with message and franked ; date illegible. Postcard for the tattooed woman Annie Frank, and printed and published by Paul Schaerf, who issued postcards for a number of circus and..... More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1926. 32mo, stapled wraps. Gibbs 998, first noted state of contents, first noted wrapper state. A book on investing on Wall Street published just three years before the crash by, Frederick, a pioneer in business and market research and a founder of the Better Business Bureau, who..... More
Paradise, CA: Vonu Life, 1973. First edition. 4to, 122 pp. [printed 4 pp. to one sheet], offset printed on newsprint. Original edition of the Vonu life handbook, one of the most comprehensive and radical dropout handbooks of the 1970's. Includes sections on food, shelter, money, communication, education & childcade, etc...... More
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978. First edition. 12mo, 109 [3] pp, wraps. Lacking the printed band announcing the Robert Walser prize, as usually found. The Austrian writer's first book, the size of which does little to foreshadow the length and textual intricacies of her latter, mammoth works, though the..... More
np: Compass Line, 1967. First edition. 12mo, 160 pp, illustrated wraps. Beat exploitation novel set in New York City, the protagonist a college student who wanders the streets and a series of clubs, including a gay club named "The Harlequin" and a club called "The Inverted Donkey." "Free Lust...They lived..... More
New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1923. First edition. 8vo, x, 113 pp, publisher's original cloth-backed boards with title pastedown to front panel. Lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Frost in the year following publication; "For Marguerita Goodwin from her friend Robert Frost" with ownership signature of Marguerita (Parkinson?) above..... More