San Francisco: Vesuvio Cafe, [1964]. 4 5/8 x 5 3/4" photographic print in black and white. One of a series of holiday cards which Vesuvio issued in the 1950's and 1960's. The card is illustrated with a photograph of a man at a bar alongside a row of mannequins, and... More
New York: [1954. 4 x 8 1/4", offset printed on recto; cream card stock. The original handbill for two performances by David Tudor in 1954 at Carnegie Hall. The first night notes that there will be performances of pieces by Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and John Cage. Though not mentioned... More
![[altered postcard]. Albert M. Fine, attr.](/pictures/thumb/20510.jpg?v=1533760649)
New York: [Albert M. Fine], n.d. First edition. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2", Found picture postcard depicting Palm Beach, Florida, with U.S. and Canadian stamps; altered by artist with excision, staples, pink spray paint, rubber-stamped arrows, writing. Staples across excision replace a bridge in the postcard image. Address label reads... More
[San Francisco]: Zephyrus Image, [1970]. First edition. 6 1/2 x 12 1/2", linocut in green on newsprint. The rare first state of the broadside, originally distributed by posting them on telephone poles around Berkeley. One of the greatest posters of the 70's, deriving a strange power from Myer's masterful linocut... More
Cleveland: Black Rabbit Press, 1977. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed from typescript on various colors and sizes of paper stock. Illustrated with two foldout sheets reproducing collages, each offset printed, and a silkscreen print. Side-stapled and tape-bound at spine in red covers, illustrated with a silkscreen in black. First and... More
San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, nd. 5 3/4 x 11 1/2 broadside, letterpress printed in Linotype Aldus with ornamental rule on recycled paper. A powerful poem by the African American poet. This is the variant on gray paper. Fine. [Johnston p. 182]. More
![Snack-Time Ranch-Raised Gourmet Earwigs [Unfolded]. Zephyrus Image.](/pictures/thumb/20850.jpg?v=1533748623)
Healdsburg: Zephyrus Image, nd [c. 1978]. 6 x 6 1/2" sheet of wood veneer, letterpress and linocut. An unfolded, unassembled copy. Some minor toning else fine. According to Johnston, the final work of the press, which prints a fold-out schema to cut and create a "snack-pack" box of earwigs -... More
![Pages [Run of 16 Issues]. Robert Sheppard, ed.](/pictures/thumb/26564.jpg?v=1533501331)
Sussex, UK: Pages, 1987-. 8vo, each issue 8 pp, printed by xerox from typescript and holograph. Unbound, folded sheets. Illustrated with the occasional drawing or collage. A substantial run of this innovative little magazine, which, instead of assigning a single number to each issue, instead tracked the progress of the periodical... More
Vancouver, BC: Bed, nd [1975]. 4to, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stapled at upper left hand corner into illustrated card covers. Debut issue of this scarce 1970's little magazine out of Vancouver, B.C., that was edited by poets close to Jack Spicer, and which is very much in... More
Vancouver, BC: Bed, nd [1975-]. 4to, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and stapled at upper left hand corner into illustrated card covers. Second issue of this scarce 1970's little magazine out of Vancouver, B.C., that was edited by poets close to Jack Spicer, and which is very much in... More
Calais, Vermont: Z Press, 1998. First edition. 8vo, hand-stitched in dove grey Fabriano Ingres French fold wraps with title pastedown to front panel; interior printed on German Ingres by Peter Kruty Editions. One of 226 copies, the entire edition. The title poem by Lauterbach, here accompanied by a beautifully printed... More
New York: Wallspace Gallery, 2007. First edition. Paperback. 8vo stapled in wraps, 28 pp. Artist's Book limited to 500 copies. The photographer's first book features full page black and white reproductions of photographs of signs placed in vacant landscapes, taken from 2002 - 2006. Fine. More
Waldport, Oregon: The Illiterati, 1945. First edition. Small 4to. Offset printed in several colors and saddle-stapled wraps. The fourth installment of The Illiterati, one of the greatest little magazines of the twentieth century, published from the conscientous objector's camp at Waldport, Oregon. The magazine would have an incalculable and still... More
Portland, Ore: 2012. First edition. Paperback. One of 500 copies. POEM is the first book form Portland artist Fredrik Averin. It is a beautiful work of concrete poetry which explores duration, narration, book design, and the relationship of the reader to the printed (and unprinted) page. In spirit it recalls... More
Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1969. First edition. 8vo, 7 pp, saddle-stapled in dayglo wraps. With marker deletions to copyright page and the rubberstamp of the publisher's address, as issued. An essay on the situation of avant-garde art, Fluxus, concrete poetry, sound art and other disciplines at the onset of the... 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
np: nd [c. 1969]. 8 1/4 x 11 5/8" sheet, mimeographed from typescript on white paper with "firn" watermark. One of the artist's "Open Letters," or "Lettres Ouvertes," the fictive, conceptual, and oftentimes bureacratic broadsides which constitute the Section Littéraire. Light crease to right margin, paper toned as usual. Near fine. More
![Mon cher Immendorf [Open Letter]. Marcel Broodthaers.](/pictures/thumb/26549.jpg?v=1532810011)
Antwerp: Museum Voor Moderne Kunsten, Département des Aigles, 1969. 8 1/4 x 11 3/4" , mimeographed from typescript on white paper (watermarked "firn"). One of the artist's "Open Letters," or "Lettres Ouvertes," the fictive, conceptual, and oftentimes bureacratic broadsides which constitute the Section Littéraire. Paper toned, as usual, but a.... More
Portland, Ore. Mississippi Records, 2014. 4to, eight vinyl records housed in four volumes, each gatefold sleeves bound in cloth, with title pastedowns to each volume; three of the four volumes with printed booklets. One of only about 100 copies (of 2000 printed) housed in a sturdy, handmade plywood sleeve. Finally... More
Los Angeles: 1980. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on recto only. Illustrated by Shawn Kerri. Association copy, with a c. 1981-82 handwritten letter on verso from Bob Moore of Noise fanzine to another fanzine editor, with the Noise rubberstamp to verso. The flyer for the legendary, very last... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1932. First edition thus. 8vo, 285 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Translated from the American by M. Lemierre. First French edition, this copy marked as a press copy (S.P., or Service de Presse). The first French edition of Jack Black's masterpiece, a proto-beat novel and massive influence on underground... More
Düsseldorf: 1969. 8 1/4 x 11 5/8" flyer, mimeographed from typescript on watermarked "fIRN" paper. Leaflet announcing this Arbeitsabend (working night) at A 37 90 89, the groundbreaking alternative arts space which began during the moon landing, and lasted only six months, but radically influenced the critique of museums and... More
New York: Kensington, 1977. First edition. Omar the Beggar, aka Alan Abel, was the founder of Omar's School for Beggars. The book was republished in a limited edition in 2010 of 500 copies by Kunstverein Publishing, an edition which itself has become scarce. Despite its status as an underground classic... More
![[Funeral announcement for Paul Eluard, addressed and mailed to Lucien Scheler]. Paul Eluard, Le Comité National des Ecrivains.](/pictures/thumb/26497.jpg?v=1532387705)
Paris: Le Comité National des Ecrivains, 1952. Bifolium, 10 5/8 x 16 6/16", printed on rectos only with a black funeral border, and folded once (inner panels blank). Folded once, as mailed, and housed in the original mailing envelope, bordered in black, and addressed to Lucien Scheler, with stamp and... More
London: Thames & Hudson, 1953. First edition. 8vo, 350 pp, bound in blue cloth stamped in gilt. Illustrated with photographs, printed by photogravure, by the author and reproductions of vever drawings within the text. With a foreward by Joseph Campbell, and published under his editorship in the Myth and Man... More