[Prague]: Druk H. Mercy, [1910]. 8vo,107 pp, stab-stapled and glue bound into violet printed wraps. Front and back panels of wraps detached but present, with the paper covering the spine mostly perished. Marginal annotations in pencil throughout. The second edition of this privately published and circulated utopian proposal to create an... More
Np: nd. A collection of 37 sheets made to print two very early books by Joe Brainard, the Baby Book - published by his own Boke Press - and Power Plant Poems, a collaboration between Elmslie and Brainard which was published by C Press. Both of these books were printed... More
La Coruña: Ediciones de Castro, 1975. First edition. 8vo, 145 [1] pp. [index], bound in printed French wraps. Text in Spanish. The first and only edition of this obscure and beautiful work on geometric theory, written by the Galician poet Rafael Dieste. The book plays a pivotal in Roberto Bolano's... More
np: c. 1930's-40's. Approximately 143 photographs, most mounted onto black paper- a few with captions - along with 15 other items of ephemera, including announcements for exhibitions, news articles, three items of correspondence and restricted army orders, all housed in four manila folders. A number of the photographs have fallen... More
London: Art for All, 1973. Single sheet folded once [to 5 x 8"]. Signed by both artists. With a two column ink drawing. A card from the artists' Pink Elephant series, which were mailed out as a sculptural mail art project. This example without the original envelope, but with a.... More
![The Skin Flint 1-3 [Complete]. Sab Grey, ed.](/pictures/thumb/24996_a.jpg?v=1492138186)
Washington DC: Skin Flint, 1982. 8 1/2 x 11", each issue xeroxed on rectos only. 8 + 10 + 5 pp. [incl. covers]. Stab-stapled. All three issues of this rare DC fanzine edited by Sab Grey, the singer for Iron Cross - one of the first Oi! bands in North... More
London: Plebs League, nd [c. 1920's]. First edition. Small 8vo, 14 pp, saddle-stapled illustrated wraps. First edition of this pamphlet issued by the Marxist, socialist group on the necessity for a labor-based education, and the necessity of greater participation by workers in the existing educational system - a central theme... More
Amsterdam: Barbara Huges, 1968. Second edition. 4to, 34 pp., mimeographed on rectos only and bound with cloth tape into textured card covers printed in color. Second expanded edition. With folded sheet laid in, entitled "het huiswerk voor iedereen". A self-published treatise on trepanation by a member of Provo who had experienced... More
New York: Castellane Gallery, 1965. 21 1/8 x 16 1/2 poster, offset printed. Folded three times for mailing, addressed in Kusama's hand to the recipient and postmarked on Halloween of 1965, with Kusama's address rubberstamped. The original poster mailer for the exhibition, illustrated with a full bleed photograph of a.... More
![ukanhavyrfuckincitibak [wrapper title] D. A. LEVY: A TRIBUTE TO THE MAN AN ANTHOLOGY OF HIS POETRY. d. a. levy.](/pictures/thumb/23670.jpeg?v=1446239617)
Cleveland: Ghost Press, 1968. First edition. Thick 4to., stab-stapled and tape bound into wraps (cover illustrated with a photograph of levy by rjs). Mimeographed, with six silkscreens by rjs tipped on. One of 1000 copies. With a postcard ALS concerning levy's suicide laid in. A mammoth collection of levy's work... More
New York: Sonnabend Gallery, 1972. 5 1/2 x 6 7/8" postcard, photographically illustrated, with exhibition information printed at verso. With the original press release [8 1/2 x 11", offset printed on recton only]. The postcard and exhibition for this posthumous, but important exhibition by Manzoni, curated by Germano Celant -... More
Roma: Gallerie La Tartaruga, 1961. 13 1/4 x 12" poster, offset lithograph in two colors on green card stock. Original poster for this 1961 joint exhibition at Plinio De Martiis' Galleria La Tartaruga. An important exhibition for Manzoni in which for the first time he began his Sculture viventi, or... More
Lisboa: Livraria Central de Gomes de Carvalho, 1904. First edition. 8vo, 302 pp, index + errata bound in at rear. Illustrated in b/w. Rebound, likely at an early date, in light blue cloth, with the original pictorial wraps - illustrated by José Leite - preserved. The first edition of the... More
![Verifax Printer, Type 1 [with] Paper. Reproductive Technologies.](/pictures/thumb/24979.jpg?v=1492036278)
Rochester, NY: Kodak Company, c. 1950's-60's. Kodak’s Verifax machine was a duplicating machine that used a wet colloidal diffusion transfer technique to make reproduction. The machine utilized special chemical paper, and was marketed to offices, being a cheaper technology than the photostat. However, the multiple step process, the expense of... More
![Truly Needy 1-10 [Complete, with Poster]. Barbara Ann Rice, ed.](/pictures/thumb/24988_a.jpg?v=1492041856)
Washington DC: Truly Needy, 1982-85. 8 1/2 x 11”. First two issues xeroxed from typescript, cut-up collage, drawings and holograph on both recto and verso and Stab-stapled. Issues 3-6 offset printed and stab-stapled. Subsequent issues saddle-stapled. With a flyer for a 1984 benefit show for the zine (8 1/2 x.... More
![Slash [Complete]. Steven Samiof, Claude Bessy Melanie Nissen, , eds Philomena.](/pictures/thumb/25045.jpg?v=1492040238)
Los Angeles: Slash, 1977-1980. Tabloid format, offset printed on newsprint with color covers. Includes all consecutive numbered issues from Vol. 1, No. 1 – Vol. 3, No. 5, as well as the rare unnumbered first year anniversary issue, and the posthumous final issue included as an insert in the September 1981... More
![No Exit: Fanzine for the Other Wave. [Complete]. eds Selan, Tony Steel, , Jane Who James Stark.](/pictures/thumb/24998_a.jpg?v=1492041140)
San Francisco: No Exit, 1977. 8 1/2 x 11", each issue offset printed on rectos only from cut-up collage, typescript, holograph, and photographs, and stapled once at the upper left hand corner (with original staple missing to no. 1). Second issue with original 80 cents price sticker from Aquarius Records... More
Zurich, Vienna, Prague: Buchergilde Gutenberg, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 254 pp, bound in full slate blue cloth with red blind-stamped titles. Printed dust jacket. The first edition of the third book in the Mahogany series, and the first book published by the Buchergilde Gutenberg following the seizure of the Berlin... More
Berlin: Bauwelt-Verlag, 1932. First edition. The Berlin Sommerschau of 1932 was a large scale architectural exposition in Berlin which sought to present designs for small, affordable, and adaptable housing units and kleingartens, which could be extended according to the wishes and means of the inhabitants. The exposition grew directly out... More
![Austin Vanguard No. 1 [All Published]. Nick West.](/pictures/thumb/23130.jpg?v=1437165341)
Austin: Austin Vanguard, [1977]. 4to, tabloid format, single sheet of newsprint folded once; offset printed in two colors. The first and only issue of one of the first, if not the first, punk fanzine published in the state of Texas. No attribution is given, but the zine is believed to... More
New York: James A. Carr & Robert A. Wilson, 1964. First edition. 8vo, 72pp, printed on watermarked paper and bound in leatherette stamped in gilt at the spine; yellow silk bookmark sewn in. In the original unprinted glassine wrapper. One of 12 presentation copies, with a holograph poem bound in... More
![Now What? #0 [Complete]. Sarah Woodell, ed.](/pictures/thumb/24990.jpg?v=1492040902)
Washington DC: Now What? 1981. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed in b/w. Stab-stapled. With a couple of internal additions and deletions in blue marker, which appear to be editorial and perhaps as issued. First and only issue of this unparalleled and early fanzine from the DC scene, distinguished for... More