![Polemic Vol. 4, No. 1 [With a TLS from Roy Lichtenstein Regarding His Woodblock Print Dust Jacket]. Roy Lichtenstein.](/images/noimage.png)
Polemic Society of Western Reserve University, 1959. First edition. 8vo, 135 pp, side-stapled in unprinted covers. In the original dust jacket, an original unsigned abstract woodblock print by Roy Lichtenstein. With an ALS from the artist regarding the print. A very early, abstract print by Lichtenstein, predating his later banal... More
Tokyo: Privately Published, 1962. First edition. 8vo, [54] pp, strinbound in printed wraps. Illustrated with a frontispiece by William Paden. Eshleman's excellent first book. Near fine with a touch of fading at spine and some minor rubbing. More
Paris: A. Maloine & Fils, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 206 pp, printed wraps. Illustrated with 50 drawings, photographs, and figures, including some full page plates. Text in French. The first edition of this continuation of the influential criminologists anthropometric studies of the prisoners at La Maison Centrale de Nîmes, one... More
[Philadelphia]: nd [c. 1980's]. 22 1/2 x 25", ink on heavyweight paper, edged in black gaffer's tape, as hung. Unsigned and undated. A large scale flash poster,completely handdrawn, by the influential tattoo artist Crazy Philadelphia Eddie, aka Eddie Funk, which hung in his Philadelphia tattoo parlor. Eddie began his career... More
New York: Implosions, Inc., 1967. 10 x 13" sheet, offset lithograph in color, with backing intact and die-cut hole punched at upper margin, for hanging. One of a series of sticker sheets created by Watts and Maciunas as part of their ambitious Implosions, Inc. company, formed to sell novelty items... More
Lyon: Bosc frères : M. et L. Riou, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 229 [2] pp, printed wraps. Text in French. This expansive work on tattoos grew out of De Tromelin's doctoral thesis, in which he studied 788 subjects and 4,142 tattoos, making classifcations between ethnic, professional, and allegorical tattoos. The... More
New York: Theo Publications, 1963. First edition. 8vo, [32] pp., mimeographed and saddle-stapled into printed wraps. Association copy, inscribed in the year following publication inside the front cover to Joan Jonas by George Montgomery, a contributor to this issue. Montgomery is also thanked by the editors for making the issue... More
Copenhagen: I. Cohens Bogtrykkeri, 1891. 8vo,16 pp, with double-paged two color lithograph at rear. Saddle-stapled in wraps. The first edition of this brief but important early essay on the relationship to prostitution and tattoos, notable for the beautiful double-paged lithograph plate at rear which reproduces drawings of 18 tattoos observed... More
Kinnelon, NJ: John Crawford, 1982-83. 39 single sheet comics, each offset printed on recto only, 4 zines or multi-sheet gatherings, each offset printed on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner, 3 of which have individual titles (Rock Critic Goes to Hell, Hollywood's Hardest Man, and... More
[Healdsburg]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 13 1/4 x 9 3/4' broadside, linocut on crack and peel sticker paper. This oversized bumper sticker was the Zephyrus Image's contribution to the water wars. The inspiration for the sticker was the Digger's proposal (as outlined in Planet Drum) to divide California into bioregions, and... More
![Lettuce Pray [Unfolded]. Zephyrus Image.](/pictures/thumb/20894.JPG?v=1547505321)
Healdsburg: Zephyrus Image, 1977. First edition. folded paper airplane and broadside, letterpress and linocut in three colors. This copy unfolded and uncut. A broadside made by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers on the occasion of an artists' book show at the Berkeley Art Center in 1977; the two handed the... More
![Christus Regnet [Prayer for Rain]. Zephyrus Image.](/pictures/thumb/20837.jpg?v=1547505320)
[Healdsburg, CA]: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2", black text overlayed onto a zinc print photographic image of the Pope & Co on brown card stock. Insignia print at verso reads "Christus Regnet." According to Johnston, Teter's only explanation for the piece was "Christ Reigns", probably a play... More
San Francisco: [Zephyrus Image], nd [c. 1973-76]. First edition. Approximately 3 3/4 x 9, printed in black on white crack-n-peel. Roughly cut, as issued, some minor toning and light creasing; very good. An inventive multiple as bumper sticker made by the press during the Geary Boulevard years in San Francisco... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1925. First edition. 4to, 40 pp. + 24 photographic plates, reproducing 94 photographs. Printed wraps. 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... More
Berkeley: Oannes, 1963. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, printed wraps. Illustrated with drawings by Jess, and lithographed by Mike Kummer. One of a limited edition of 500 copies of this beautiful book. In addition, this copy is signed by Jess following the script, and dated in the year of publication. Scarce... More
Highlands, NC: Jargon, 1959. First edition. 4to, wraps. Association copy, inscribed by Williams to his friend and collaborator R. B. Kitaj: "For R. B. K. (the Last Copy in the British Empire) from J. W. London June 1963" Published as Jargon 30. A fantastic inscription. Very good, with some offsetting... More
Highlands, NC: Jargon, 1959. First edition. 4to, wraps. Signed by Jonathan Williams at the title page. Published as Jargon 30. Very good with a small chip to head of back panel and some light wear to extremities of outer dust wrapper. More
New York: Japan Society and The Museum of Modern Art, 1986. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, saddle-stapled illustrated wraps (by Yoji Kuri). Illustrated with black and white stills. Text in English. The exhibition catalog for this series of films, shown at the two venues. Includes a foreward by David Owens, as... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1965. First edition. 12mo, [12] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with photographs of artists, all save that of Ray Johnson by Peter Moore. The preface to this catalog is an early, and key work written by Dick Higgins on the physical issues of printing and issuing... More
San Diego, Atticus Books, 1981. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Bookseller's catalog offering 360 publications by or relating to Burroughs, including a short text by the man himself "The Future of the Novel," a revised version of the talk that the man gave at the International Writers' Conference in Edinburgh in 1962... More
New York: 1984. 5 1.4 x 7 3/4" postcard, offset printed in red on yellow paper. The invite card to this private party at Danceteria celebrating the infamous Art Damaged issue of Redtape, including an art exhibition which included work by David Wojnarowicz, Holly Anderson, Jane Bauman, Edward Brezinski, R.... More
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" postcard, illustrated with a soccer theme....well, well. Very good with a light horizontal crease and some minor crasing and smudging. More
New York: La Mama, 1982. Narrow 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. The program for this production by the Polish artist at La Mama, including a cast listing and a text by Kantor. Some faint creasing else fine. More
San Francisco: 1979. Four 8 1/2 x 11" sheets, each offset printed on yellow stock, stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The cover flyer is for the 2nd Annual Tattoo Ball, and is illustrated with a photogaph of Lyle Tuttle and George over a background of drawings by... More
Paris: La Roulotte, 1950. First edition. Small 4to, 56 [64] pp, bound in printed boards and photographically illustrated dust jacket. One of the rare 50 numbered copies of the edition original, preceding the trade issue. In addition, this is an important association copy, inscribed by Delarue to Alain Campagne, a.... More