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: ABC No Rio, [1983]. 11 x 17", offsep printed. Illustrated with a drawing by Rebecca Howland. Addressed and postmarked [September 12, 1983] to Martha Wilson. A poster advertising ABC No Rio's installation Fountain Cafe, the sculpture garden installed in the back of the building. The poster was designed... More
New York: ABC No Rio, 1980. 8 1/4 x 12 1/4", offset printed. The poster for the 1980 exhibition at ABC No Rio, curated by Christy Rupp, director of City Wildlife Projects, which followed the first incarnation of the exhibition the year prior at Fashion Moda. Folded three times, else fine. More
Netherlands: Marion van Wijk & Dalstar Veenman Publishers, 1997. First edition. 4to, 216 pp, xeroxed in b/w and tape bound with black cloth tape into color covers, with color reproductions of maps inside covers. Artists' book with extensive documentation of van Wijk and Koos Dalstra's investigations into the circumstances of... More
New York: 1982. A gathering of 50 items collected by an attendee at the anti-nuclear demonstration in New York City, which remains the largest political demonstration in the history of the United States. On that date approximately 1 million people gathered in the city and converged upon Central Park. The... More
![Demasquez Les Physiciens. Videz Les Laboratoires [with Papillon]. Anti-Nuclear Proliferation, Surrealism.](/pictures/thumb/26195.jpg?v=1527552481)
Paris: Comite de Lutte Anti-Nucleaire, 1958. Square 8vo, single sheet folded once. With papillon [3 1/8 x 5 1/4", offset printed on cream gummer paper] laid in. A powerful manifesto by the Surrealist Group against nuclear science and proliferation at the close of the 1950's. The text was written by... More
New York: Limelight, [1986]. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, offset printed in color on coated paper. Folded once. The invitation flyer for this Tuesday, October 7th show by the avant / No Wave project offering free admission for the recipient and a guest- undated, but likely from 1986. Members pictured... More
np: nd [c. 1991-93]. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, xeroxed in black on yellow paper. The text is unattributed, but is taken from the 1986 English translation of Wolfgang Fritz Haug's Critique of Commodity Aesthetics [1986]. A couple faint indents, else near fine. 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
Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1982. First edition. 8vo, 422 pp, bound in brown buckram with the title stamped in black at the spine. Illustrated with b/w and color plates. Of a total edition of 740 copies, this is one of 240 numbered copies with a signed and dated photograph housed... More
Bruxelles: Le Groupe Surréaliste-revolutionnaire en Belgique, 1947. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2", printed in red on beige paper. Important manifesto by the group announcing the landmark conference, and distancing themselves from Breton, which was probably penned by Dotremont. As well as marking the split from the Breton Surrealists, this document... More
![Frontaal 1-7 [Complete]. Jaap Berg, Remko Kassia Nic van Bruggen, eds, Hugo van Dun, Anton.](/pictures/thumb/26428.jpg?v=1530036851)
Antwerpen: Frontaal, 1957-59. First three issues 8vo, and subsequent issues each a narrow 4to, all in saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with black and white reproductions and drawings, several of which are linocuts. 7 numbers in six (the last issue is a double number). The final three volumes with an accompanying booklet... More
Los Angeles: Mermaid Tavern, 1973. 8 3/4 x 10", offset lithograph. Photographically illustrated with a self-portrait of Berman. The poster for Wallace Berman's one day exhibition at the Mermaid Tavern, perhaps the rarest printed item designed by Berman, for one of his most enigmatic shows. The poster is illustrated with... More
San Francisco: Batman Gallery, 1961. 15 x 20", lithograph in two colors on beige paper. The striking poster designed by Wallace Berman, for an exhibition by George Berms at Batman Gallery in San Francisco. This was the first poster to be designed by Berman, and features a photograph by him... More
Santa Monica: Rose Gallery, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. 4to., 151 [1] pp. Bound in pictorial boards; no dust jacket as issued. A generous selection of Wallace Berman's photographs, including images of Henry Miller, Dennis Hopper, Warhol and the filming of Tarzan and Jane, Cameron, Semina Gallery, etc. Recommended. A fine... More
New York: [1964]. 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from stencil drawing and holograph. Poster designed by Joe Brainard. The poster for this very early reading at the famed downtown poetry venue Le Metro. According to the Poetry Project website, Ted Berrigan, in his diaries, notes that this was the first... More
[Austin, TX]: c. [1980]. Two 8 1/2 x 11" flyers, original photocopy from cut-up collage on rectos only. Two flyers issued for the nonexistent "poster band", probably made by John Slate - i. e. Control Rat X, who also edited the great zine Xiphoid Process. Bodily Funktions never played a.... More
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1964. First edition. Foolscap, mechanically duplicated on rectos only; stab-stapled. First, and much scarcer issue of the two issues of Brainard's artist periodical devoted to storyless or abstract comics. Illustrated throughout by Brainard with texts by many important poets of the New York School, including Bill... More
Np: nd. 11 1/2 x 17", printed in silver ink with a purple tint on textured cream paper paper. Folded once, with a horizontal crease, and toning to margins and fold line; small 1/2" diameter circular stain to upper margin, affecting image. Worn, but about very good. An untitled poster... More
Metuchen, NJ: Yam Festival Press, 1962. 6 x 29" sheet, offset lithograph on pink paper, folded three times to make five panels. Single hole punch to top margin, as issued. An Ur-Document of American Fluxus. Brech and Watts created the Newspaper, which was meant to advertise their own work and... 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
Bruxelles: 1947. Single sheet folded once to make a 4 pp. booklet. printed by letterpress. A manifesto originating from the Belgian Revolutionary Surrealist group, attacking the perceived slowness of the larger Surrealist movement to engage with political identity in the postwar period. It is notable for being signed by a.... 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
New York: Redtape, 1982. First edition. 4to, offset printed in black and white with two color cover, saddle-stapled. The debut issue of one of the most essential magazines to come out of the Downtown Writing scene, the "the manual to the darker side of the era." (Stosuy p. 458). This... More