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, 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
![Implosion [cover title]. Bas Jan Ader: Filme, Fotografien, Projektionen, Videos und Zeichnungen aus den Jahren 1967-1975. Bas Jan Ader.](/pictures/thumb/24453.jpg?v=1535906320)
Köln: Walther König, 2000. First edition. 4to, 79 [1] pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated in color. Text in German. With an essay by Frances Starck, in English. First and only edition of this catalog produced to accompany the traveling exhibition, an outstanding survey of Ader's work and a beautifully... 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
Amsterdam: 1943. Amsterdam: dated 1941 [actually, 1943]. ALS on lined prison stationary, marked 'S.G.S. 8105-1942’. 29 lines, written in pencil. Addressed to “Eep” [Marius Roland Holst], and signed “Tiky.” One line blacked out, likely by a censor. With an accompanying letter by Willem Sandberg to Roland Holst about the damage... 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
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
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
[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
Manchester, UK: Factory Records, 1988. First edition. Oblong 12mo. [31] leaves.Offset printed on thick card stock and bound with thick plastic screws. Catalog number: FAC 235. A flipbook consisting of drawings of William Wegman's Weimaraner Fay by the great Robert Breer, issued as a christmas gift and mailed to friends... 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
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
![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
Düsseldorf: Organisation für Direkte Demokratie, c. 1971. A substantial collection of eleven pamphlets and six posters and leaflets issued by the group. One of the pamphlets is signed on the cover. Text largely in German, with some English. 1. "Satzung und Politisches Programm." 8vo, 14 pp, offset printed in blue... More