New York: 1982. 4 1/4 x 6" postcard, printed on both recto and verso. A postcard invitation for two sets by the band on March 14, 1982 at The Underground, as part of the Porous Nights at the Underground series. The invitation was good for complimentary admission for 2. The... 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
New York: Sonnabend Gallery, [1976]. 4 x 8" postcard, offset printed on coated card stock. The beautifully designed invitation to this important 1976 exhibition at Sonnabend, in which Acconci famously extended a long, low table out the third floor window, so that below it looked like a diving board or... More
New York: Poetry Project at St. Mark's, 1968. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed. The flyer for this early reading by Acconci and Schjeldahl at the Poetry Project. The design is unattributed, but is fantastic, featuring all the pertinent information running out from a vertical abecedary at the left... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1975. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once. Bas Jan Ader's final work, published as an Art & Project Bulletin as he departed on his final known voyage. The inner panels are photographically illustrated. The rear panel reproduces the sheet music for "A Life on the... 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
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: The New Museum, 1981. 8vo, oblong saddle-stitched wraps, 52 pp. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in English. The catalog for the 1981 exhibition at the New Museum, providing an invaluable reference to several downtown alternative arts spaces: Gain Ground, Apple, 98 Greene Street, 112 Greene Street Workshop, 10... 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
New York: Sonnabend Gallery, 1980. 4 1/4 x 5 5/8" postcard, photographically illustrated at recto. The exhibition announcement postcard for the 1980 exhibition, illustrated with the work "Detail - Fugitive Essay (With Wasp". A couple very faint smudges to verso, else fine. 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1974. 4to, single sheet folded once to make four pages. Single issue of the remarkable periodical issued from the influential gallery run by Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Geert van Beijeren. Over the course of almost 20 years the gallery issued 156 of these bulletins, in almost... 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
Los Angeles: Timothea Stewart Gallery, 1977. Tabloid format, single sheet folded once to make 4 pp, printed in black on thick brown paper. The catalog for the posthumous 1977 exhibition at Timothea Stewart Gallery. It includes a great essay on Berman by his longtime friend and fellow artist George Herms... 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
Amsterdam: Feministische Uitgeverij Sara, 1982. First edition. 4to, 234 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. A beautifully designed monograph, the first devoted to the work of the great Hungarian-Dutch photographer. It includes work from all stages of her career at that point, including work shot while underground during the German occupation of the... More
Villefranche: 1936-39. 12mo, first three years each bound marbled green paper over bouards, backed in crushed green morocco raised in five bands at the spine, with gilt titles, and original pictorial wraps preserved, the final nine issues each in the original saddle-stapled illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated photographs strikingly printed by... 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1973. 4to, single folded sheet. Folded into thirds for mailing. Typewritten address. Single issue of the remarkable periodical issued from the influential gallery run by Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Geert van Beijeren. Over the course of almost 20 years the gallery issued 156 of these bulletins... More
Knokke-Zoute: Ronny Van de Velde, 2012. First edition. 4to, 104 pp, bound in black boards with photographically illustrated pastedown in color to front panel. Text in English, French, and Dutch. The beautifully produced bibliography issued in conjunction with the 2012 exhibition, an essential reference. Some faint rubbing to boards, else fine. More
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