Berlin & New York: Galerie Rene Block & Ronald Feldman Gallery, 1979. First edition. 12mo, 141 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Provenance: illustrated ex libris bookplate of John Humov tipped inside front cover. Artists' book documenting Beuys' 1979 work upon the closing of the René Block Gallery, in which the artist..... More
London: Cabinet Gallery, 1994. 6 x 8 1/4" sheet, original xerox on on pink paper. With the illustrated postcard invitation to the exhibition I've Got Demons in My Stomach!, both of which are housed in a brown envelope with the exhibition name rubberstamped in red. Addressed and postmarked to Simon..... More
![Item #29867 Now We Are Valuable [Flyer]. Bodily Funktions](/pictures/thumb/29867.jpg?v=1638464283)
[Austin, TX]: c. [1980]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, photo-mechanically reproduced. A flyer 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 show, but were purely conceptual - though..... More
![Item #29868 We Were Made in a Blender [Flyer]. Bodily Funktions](/pictures/thumb/29868.jpg?v=1638464284)
[Austin, TX]: c. [1980]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, photo-mechanically reproduced. A flyer 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 show, but were purely conceptual - though..... More
Köln and New York: Verlag Gebr. König, 1969. First edition. 8vo, offset printed in various colors from the original rubberstamped works on grid paper and bound in illustrated yellow boards. Texts in both German and English. A lively artist book exploring perception, time, and serial imagery, all based upon a...... More
Rotterdam, Netherlands: Grafische Werkplaats de Lantaren, 1977. First edition. 4to, 103 pp, printed on newsprint and bound in illustrated wraps along upper edge. Text largely in Dutch, with some English contributions. Artists' book created in conjunction with the 1977 experimental intermedia festival Ongelukkige Liefde [aka Unhappy Life] festival in Holland..... More
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
New York: Alex Rosenberg Gallery, 1980. First edition. 22 x 34" sheet, offset printed on recto only, and folded into a two panel brochure. Illustrated in black and white. The beautifully designed catalog for the prescient 1980 exhibition on personal narratives by artists. With contributions from Joe Brainard, Colette, John..... More
New York: Lorenz Gude, 1964. First edition. Foolscap, complete with all 55 leaves mimeographed from drawings on rectos only and side-stapled. [Terminal leaf is blank, and present, as issued]. First, and much scarcer issue of the two issues of Brainard's artist periodical devoted to storyless or abstract comics. Illustrated throughout..... More
Paris: Le Terrain Vague, c. 1961. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, offset litho in two colors. An unused sheet of stationary for the Surrealist periodical, edited by Breton. Brilliantly designed - the verso is printed with Breton's name and the address of Le Terrain Vague printed in reverse, so that..... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1974. 4to, single sheet of translucent glassine 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..... More
New York: Grove Press, 19637. 8vo, 217 pp, bound in orange cloth. Housed in the pictorial dust jacket designed by Kuhlman and Associates. Maynard & Miles A6b. A square, tight copy which shows some faint page toning, else fine, in an unclipped, fine dust jacket. Handsome copy. 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
London: Cabinet Gallery, 1996. 11 1/2 x 17" poster, folded twice and housed in the original see through plastic mailing bag addressed and stamped to Simon Ford. Poster fine. Plastic mailing bag with light wear, else fine. More
Amsterdam: Other Books & So, 1978. Two unbound, folded sheets, with a small wax envelope affixed to cover holding a strip of film, from the Ulises Carrión film "A Book" as well as a the "Cheek to Cheek" print to cover. Third issue, with contributions from Maurizio Nannucci, John Liggins..... More
![Item #30038 Accent Grave, Accent Circonflexe, Accent Aigu [Three Original Works]. Ulises...](/pictures/thumb/30038.jpg?v=1654815041)
np: The Artist, nd [c. 1979]. A series of three works, each a 6 1/4 x 4 1/16" leaf cut from a copy of Gustave Aimard's Les Nuites Mexicaines, drawn on ink, and each mounted on an 8 1/4 x 11 3/4" sheet of card stock. Each titled in the..... More
Amsterdam: In-Out Press, 1973. First edition. 8vo, 30 pp [double leaves], side-stapled in appropriated and rubberstamped covers and backed in black cloth tape. Mimeographed from typescript, with rubberstamping to each page. First edition, one of 100 numbered copies. Among the artist's earliest, and rarest artist books, published while he was..... More
New York: 1984. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, photo-mechanically reproduced and spray painted. Artwork attributed to "Howe" - likely Pat Howe, then art director of the magazine. A flyer for this benefit concert and art exhibition at Danceteria for the 'White Lies" issue of Redtape magazine, with Mr. Bubble and..... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1977. 4to, single sheet folded twice to make six panels. 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1977. 4to, single sheet folded once to make four pages. Single issue of the longrunning 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
Baltimore: Please Forward Press, 1979. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once. Printed on recto only. Early work by Cheek, a typographically experimental, psychogeographical work. Creased and toned at extremities, with a couple spots of soiling. Worn, but scarce in any condition. More
New York: New Wilderness Foundation, 1986. First edition. Tabloid format, 36 pp. including covers. Special 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. Cover photo of Jason Hwang by Sugimoto, material on Greer..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1976. First English language edition. 8vo, 40 pp, printed wraps. With a compliments slip from the press laid in. First English language edition of this experimental novel, which had first appeared in French under the OU imprint in 1966. A simple yet gorgeous book, typographically adventurous and..... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1979. 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
New York: Elizabeth Weiner Gallery, 1980. 4 1/8 x 6" postcard, photographically illustrated. Addressed and mailed at verso, with address label, stamp, and postal frank. Near fine with minor creasing to extremities. More