![Street Works [Streetworks]. Vito Acconci, eds Bernadette Mayer](/pictures/thumb/27267.jpg?v=1643395624)
New York: 0 to 9, 1969. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed and offset-printed leaves on various colors and thicknesses of card stock, one of which folds out. Side-stapled. The legendary document for this series of streetworks, published as a supplement to the sixth number of 0 to 9. With contributions from Arakawa..... More
Hannover, Germany: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1989. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, illustrated wraps. Illustrated with 67 color plates and a photographic frontispiece portrait of Basquiat by Schlomoff.. With texts by Keith Haring, Carl Haenlein, and Carsten Ahrens. All Text in German. The catalog for the 1989 German exhibition, Basquiat's second at the museum..... More
New York: [1973]. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed in blue on white paper stock. Illustrated with a drawing by Mike Andre. Original poster for this performance by Ginsberg along with the all female proto-punk band Flaming Youth at the Barnard Gym. Deborah Frost of the group lived with Ginsberg..... More
Chicago: Renewal, 1967. 4to, 24 pp. including wraps. Single issue of the magazine, which was published from 1961-1970. This is a remarkable issue, including an early and very unusual appearance by Fluxus artist Geoff Hendricks, entitled "Sky / Why?", a 3 pp. text on his billboard experiments printing several text..... More
New York: Folklore Center, 1966. 4to, to sheets mimeographed from typescript and hand-lettering, on rectos only, and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. With a single date correction in ink, as issued. Leaflet advertising a reading by Tuli upstairs at the Folklore Center, yet also a significant manifesto..... More
New York: Generator, 1991. 4 1/4 x 5 3/4" postcard, original xerox on white card stock with "Gen Ken" rubberstamp. Addressed and mailed to a fellow East Village artist. The postcard invitation to this sound art event at Generator on the occasion of an exhibition of work by Alvin Lucier..... More
New York: 1964. 5 3/4 x 8 3/4" handbill, printed on pink paper stock. Illustrated with a small photograph of Mamie Smith. The handbill for this January 27, 1964 memorial tribute concert for Mamie Smith organized by the great Victoria Spivey. Performers listed include Buddy Tate's Band, Jimmy Rushing, Lucille..... More
[Santa Barbara]: University Art Museum, University of California, [1984]. First edition. 4to, 16 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Printed in black on chartreuse green paper. McCormick's survey of artists known and unknown in the East Village, from David Wojnarowicz to Greer Lankton to Marilyn Minter to Judy Rifka, et al. a key..... More
![The Hobo News and The Bowery News, The Voice of Society's Basement. [Collection of 23 Issues]....](/pictures/thumb/29975.jpg?v=1643738042)
New York: Hobo News, 1945-46. First edition. Tabloid format, offset printed on newsprint. Twenty-one issues of the Hobo News, including Vol. 5, No. 32, and Vol. 6, Nos. 13-20, 22-24, 31-33, 35-37, and 40-42, with numbers 68 and 72 of the Bowery News. A Little Fun to Match the Sorrow..... More
New York: Village Corner Tavern, c. 1960's. 2 x 3 1/2" card, printed on red card stock. An original business card from tavern, which was for many years the unofficial post office for a good portion of Village bohemia. The owner, Jim Smith, used to rent out 64 mail lock..... More
New York: School for Democracy, 1942. 8vo, 22 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A course catalog for the School for Democracy, founded by Selsam and others at 13 Astor Place and associated with the CPUSA. The faculty and lecturers listed for the four month periodi are staggering, including Gwendolyn Bennett, Langston Hughes..... More
New York: Film-maker's Cinematheque, [1965]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from drawing and typescript. The flyer for this one day screening of films by the Film-makers' Cinematheque at the Astor Place Playhouse, notable for including a rare showing of Jack Smith's early film Blonde Cobra, made in collaboration with..... More
New York: 1837. Approximately 5 x 7", holograph on printed letterhead torn from a ledger, ragged at the edges with a small piece missing at lower margin leading the loss of a couple of words. On January 21, 1837, Mr. Henry Rankin, of 2 Washington Square, dropped nearly a century on..... More
![Doomsday. The Last Party of All Time [invite]. The Tunnel](/pictures/thumb/29932.jpg?v=1642716918)
New York: The Tunnel, 1987. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" flyer, printed in red and black on white coated card paperstock. Flyer for a happening at The Tunnel timed to coincide with the end of the world, advertising an open bar, free biscuits, and canned food. Some minor handling creases..... More
![The City of the Midnight Sun... [Manuscript]. Abdu Wadud, Cyril Kalfin Robert Smith](/pictures/thumb/26509.jpg?v=1611619142)
[New York]: c. 1962. 4to, twenty leaves clipbound into a green card folder, typewritten on rectos only, with holograph corrections and additions in pencil, as well as brief holograph passages to the verso of several leaves. Cover, and verso of final leaf illustrated with drawings in ink, graphite, and colored..... More
New York: Film-makers' Cinematheque, [1965]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from typescript. A remarkable program for a legendary weekend of screenings at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque. The friday screenings focused on new work, including what was likely the premier of Andy Warhol's film Space - an unusual film in his..... More