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
Brighton: Brighton Poetry Festival, 1967. First edition. One of a limited edition of 100 copies. Four panel paper sculpture silkscreened on thick card stock in three colors. Text in Portuguese and English. A concise but vast work of concrete poetry, which upon opening takes the form of a cube, with..... 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=1655418128)
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 poetic multiples, issued in numbers over a 13 year period. Each of..... More
New York: Jack Green, 1964-65. New York: Jack Green, c. 1964. Foolscap, each issue mimeographed from typescript on cheap paper and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. With 2 unnumbered supplements on Wilhelm Reich. Nos. 1-5 with smaller contents sheet at upper staple. Unpaginated with the exception of..... 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
[New York]: [Jenny Holzer], [1982]. Artists' book, 12 unbound sheets, each 10 x 10", printed by offset lithograph. Housed in the original ziploc plastic bag. A selection of 12 posters from the Inflammatory Essays series, which Holzer had been posting in the streets of NYC beginning in 1979. In 1982..... 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
[New York]: [Fluxus Editions], 1961. 51 cards, each approximately 2 1/2 x 1 1/2”, offset printed on rectos only, with the exception of a single card which is printed on both recto and verso. With text sheet, 4 9/16 x 8 11/16”, printing the instruction for the performance of the..... 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
![Item #28769 What Every Girl Should Known [Appeal Pocket Series No. 14]. Margaret Sanger](/pictures/thumb/28769.jpg?v=1656710181)
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, [1920]. 32mo, saddle-stapled in blue wraps. Gibbs' 14b, in the APS binding. A very early printing of one of the most important, early salvos in the Haldeman-Julius project, a widely distributed edition of Sanger's influential sex ed column that began to appear in 1912 in..... 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
![Item #30172 [Exhibition Announcement for Flowers]. Andy Warhol](/pictures/thumb/30172.jpg?v=1654640402)
Paris: Ileana Sonnabend, [1965]. Exhibition announcement, 5 3/4 x 5 3/4", printed by offset lithograph in blue and black. The announcement for Warhol's infamous Flowers show, and second exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery. John Ashbery, writing about the exhibition and Warhol's visit to Paris with accomplices in tow, said it..... More