Amsterdam: In-Out Press, 1973. First edition. 8vo, 30 pp [double leaves], side-stapled in appropriated and rubberstamped covers and backed in black cloth tape. Mimeographed from typescript, with rubberstamping to each page. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies. Among the artist's earliest, and rarest artist books, published while he was..... More
London: Macmillan, 1894. 8vo, 321, [2] + 5 pp, bound in green cloth titled in gilt. No dust jacket. A reprint, in Macmillan's Colonial Library Series. Ex Libris Roger Casement, with his signature to fep: 'Roger Casement Cape Town June 30 1900'. Beneath this, the book is inscribed by Casement..... More
Various Places: nd [c. 1900's-40's]. A substantial archive of materials relating to the early 20th century comedy team Clark and McCullough, documenting their remarkable trajectory across several popular 20th century theatrical forms- from Circus, to Vaudeville to Burlesque to popular film. The two had been high school friends n Springfield..... More
London: Hurst, Robinson & Co., 1825. First edition. 8vo, x, [ii], 356 pp, lacking the half title. Bound in half red morocco, gilt and blind-tooled spine by Philip Dusel. First edition of this anonymously published collection of Gothic tales written by a gender non-conforming author who was aided by Mary..... More
![Item #30165 Optimistic Boxes 1-5 [Complete]. Robert Filliou](/pictures/thumb/30165.jpg?v=1663697706)
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
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1986. First`edition. Oblong 4to, 83 pp, printed wraps. text in Dutch and English translation. With a preface by Wim Beeren. First edition of this landmark catalog issued in conjunction with Haring's first solo museum exhibition, this copy signed and dated in the year of publication with drawings..... More
Paris: l'Internationale Situationniste, [1962]. 4 7/8 x 6" postcard, printed in black on white card stock, and illustrated with an appropriated comic taken from Superman. Typewritten address of Mr. J. Dellstra [aka Tjeerd Deelstra] at verso. Postmarked and sent from the Rue St. Denis post office in Paris on September..... More
Stuttgart: J. H. M. Dietz, 1904. First edition. 4to, 19 leaves housed in a printed folder, with cloth ties. Jentzsch was born into a family of carpenters, and originally studied ceramic painting. While studying with Hildenbrandt and Ferdinand Pauwelsat the Dresden Academy he began to show as a painter, with..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1949. First edition. Small 8vo, 112 pp, bound in grey cloth with rounded corners. No dust jacket, perhaps as issued. First and only edition of Anna Kavan's rarest book, written with her psychiatrist and close friend K.T. Bluth, printed in Lübeck in a fugitive edition shortly after..... More
![Item #30111 Mitmedien [With Rare Kodak M1 Reading Machine, Original Collage, and ALS]. Ferdinand...](/pictures/thumb/30111.jpg?v=1669233711)
Germany. With a signed postcard [APS] from Kriwet to Klaus Peter Dencker. A cache of items sent from Ferdinand Kriwet to his fellow artist, writer, and TV producer Klaus Peter Dencker, aka KPD. The postcard reads "Ahoj KPD, hier eine kleine Kodak Publikation.(Bräuchte man 1 Lesegerät.ein solches hatte Kodak für..... More
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1899. First edition. Folio, 31 pp. + 19 plates printed on thick card stock. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth titled in black. Of the plates, 4 reproduce photographs, the others reproduce drawings and diagrams. One plate is a foldout of three panels. Text..... More
London: James Elliott & Co., 1894. Large 4tos, xvi, 394 pp. vii, 396 + [4] pp. ads. Each volume in the publisher's original red pebbled cloth titled and decorated in gilt. From the library of NASA scientist Ralph Donaldson, with a few scattered pencil annotations and several slips of scrap..... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1925. First edition. 4to, 40 pp. + 24 photographic plates, reproducing 94 photographs. One of the most important early scholarly tattoo works, remarkable for the superb 94 photographs of tattooed subjects which make up the latter half of the work, which number as one of the most..... More
[Madrid]: Privately Printed, [1918]. 12mo, 110 pp, bound in purple cloth embossed with a snakeskin pattern, and titled in gilt at the spine. With a foreword by Valle Inclán. Illegible signature and date to title page. The impossibly rare first edition of this series of prose poems by the Chilean..... More
La Plata: Diagonal Cero, 1970. First edition. Square 8vo, 17 unbound plates (one of which folds) housed in a die-cut folding slipcase. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Vigo to fellow artist Ulises Carrión and dated in 1978. Artists' book by Vigo in the form of a textual and visual essay..... More