Paris: Loewe, 2021. First edition. One of a Limited edition of 500 copies. Large 4to, approximately 200 pp, bound in illustrated boards and housed in a spectacular dust jacket consisting of an oversized color poster printed on canvas and wrapped around the book. With forewards by Ron Padgett and Jonathan..... More
[Santa Barbara]: University Art Museum, University of California, [1984]. First edition. 4to, 16 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Printed in black on chartreuse green paper. McCormick's survey of artists known and unknown in the East Village, from David Wojnarowicz to Greer Lankton to Marilyn Minter to Judy Rifka, et al. a key..... More
np: National Gang Intelligence Center, 2012. First edition. 4to, 26 pp, saddle-stapled, photographically illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated with photographs of tattoos, most in color. A photographic dossier ide ntifying photographs of tattoos of gang members, organized by the National Gang Intelligence Center. It documents photographs from the Crips..... More
Paris: Jazz Hot, 1979. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Text all in French. This issue of the longrunning French jazz magazine has Sun Ra on the cover, and within an article on the Sun Ra discography from 1971-78, the second installment of a Sun Ra discography in the magazine. Also..... More
np: Folk-Lore, 937. First separate edition. 8vo, pp. 115-182, printed wraps. Profusely illustated with drawings. An offprint from Folk-Lore, and the first separate edition of this fascinating work addressing labyrinth ritual and threshhold South Indian and Malekulan tattoo designs. This was Layard's second work in the series, following his lecture..... More
London: Tom Vague, 1988. 4to, 98 pp, illustrated wraps. Is Stoke Newington really like a bad night in Saigon? Did the Baader-Meinhof Gang copy the Sex Pistols? Very good with some light toning to wraps and a couple faint indents to back cover. More
London: Vague, 1993. 4to, illustrated wraps. English Psychogeography, Stewart Home returning from the Art Strike, etc. Fine. More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1999. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Text in English. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1991. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1992. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1992. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1992. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in color. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, in this..... More
Roswell & Denver: DBA & JCA Editions, 1983. First edition. 4to, clip bound in printed covers and glassine. Copy no. 62, of course, inscribed and initialled for Dick (Higgins). A great assocation. Near fine with some wear to the glassine and a touch of fading to cover. More
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1980. First edition. Tabloid format, 20 pp. including covers. Special issue focusing on homemade instruments, of the longrunning artists' periodical devoted to avant-garde music, which was associated with, and later published above, the famous Ear Inn on Spring Street. Chippewa music, review of Julius Eastman..... More
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1980. First edition. Tabloid format, 16 pp. including covers. Single issue of the longrunning artists' periodical devoted to avant-garde music, which was associated with, and later published above, the famous Ear Inn on Spring Street. This issue is a special issue devoted to sound environments..... More
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1977. First edition. Tabloid format, [12] pp. including covers. Early issue of the longrunning artists' periodical devoted to avant-garde music, which was associated with, and later published above, the famous Ear Inn on Spring Street. This issue includes a cover drawing by Ilene Astrahan, and..... More
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1977. First edition. Tabloid format, [8] pp. including covers. Early issue of the longrunning artists' periodical devoted to avant-garde music, which was associated with, and later published above, the famous Ear Inn on Spring Street. This issue includes contributions from Bill Hellerman, Dick Higgins, Philip..... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1983. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once. The October, 1983 issue of the newsletter, which was published parallel to other productions of the press, and included important essays on conceptual art at that time, along with reviews, details on other SEP publications, and gossip..... More
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Illustrated. Likely the first edition of the work, in Gibbs' LBB 1 binding. Finger was an Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer whose remarkable body of work is still too little known. He was a prolific contributor..... More
Ludlow, Shropshire: L. H. Heywood, nd. 8vo, 24 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. The debut catalog for the bookselling concern. Of special interest is the portion of the catalog devoted to Transport and railways, but also including works on bibliography. modern literature, and miscellaneous. 235 items, briefly described. Near fine with some..... More
Surrey, England: McLeish & Sons, 1940. 8vo, 29 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A bookseller catalog from the longrunning firm, consisting of two parts. The first is devoted to Early Plays and Books Relating to the Drama in England, and the second part is devoted to Early Novels, Tales, and Romances. 468..... More
New York: Kulchur, 1961. First edition. 8vo, illustrated wraps. Association copy, inscribed by Charles Olson to his friend and fellow Gloucester poet Gerrit Lansing; "For Gerrit personally. Charles." The Olson poem Bridge-Work printed in this issue is printed "with acknowledgements to Gerrit Lansing," indicating Lansing's help with the poem. The..... More
London: Institute for Contemporary Arts, 1967. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Single issue of the longrunning house periodical of the Institute of Contemporary arts, edited by the great Jasia Reichardt. This issue includes a letter from George Brecht on Morton Feldman, "Dirty Words are Heavier" by Daniel Spoerri, David Medalla, Milan Knizak..... More
London: Institute for Contemporary Arts, 1968. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. Single issue of the longrunning house periodical of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. An impressive issue that includes poetry by Anselm Hollo and Chieko Shiomi (Spatial Poem No. 2), reproductions of works by Kurt Schwitters, Jiri Kolar, Dom Sylvester Houedard, a...... More
Bern: Lisbet Kornfeld, 1976. First edition. 8vo, 64 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Eighth issue of the artists' periodical, with a cover by Christian Boltanski, and material on or by Maurizio Nannucci, Bernd Mattheus, Hervé Fischer, Michele Zaza, and Tony Morgan. Some very faint traces of soiling to back cover; near..... More