New York: Sonnabend Gallery, 1981. 4 1/4 x 6" postcard, illustrated on recto with the work "Shape Deriverd from Subject (Snake): IUsed as a framing device to produce new photographs." Near fine with a couple faint creases to tips. More
Amsterdam: Stedelijk, 1974. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, saddle-stapled wraps. Artists' book published on the occasion of Barry's 1974 exhibition at the Stedelijk, and issued as Stedelijk Museum Catalog 565, featuring text works. Some minor toning, else fine. More
New York: 1980. Three foolscap leaves, each reproduced by photocopy, printed on white paper from typescript, drawing and holograph, and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The map handout for the legendary exhibition, which changed the art world in incalculable ways at the dawn of the 1980's. Each..... 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
![Sonsbeek 71. Sonsbeek Buiten de Perken. 2 Volumes [Complete]. Geert van Beijeren, ed](/pictures/thumb/27226.jpg?v=1555548212)
Arnhem: Park Sonsbeek, 1971. 4to, 231 + 96 pp, bound in stiff illustrated card wraps. Profusely illustrated in b/w. Text in English. With index. The 2 catalog set for the 1971 series of exhibitions, which significantly expanded the scope of the series by expanding the array of mediums, including site..... More
San Francisco: Hansen Fuller Gallery, 1973. 8 3/8 x 10" poster/postcard, illustrated at recto with a photograph by Elliot Schwartz. The announcement for the 1973 exhibition in San Francisco, which featured both paintings and videotapes. Scarce early ephemera. Some minor creasing, and foxing and discoloration to both recto and verso..... More
[San Francisco]: [1969]. 17 x 22", offset printed in color on recto, and in b/w on verso. No imprint or authorship information; date and authorship attributions from OCLC. The verso is taken up with a striking psychedelic drawing in color; the verso prints a long single poem, along with an..... 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
London: The Poets' and Painters' Press, 1968. Folio, 31 pp, printed in color on various thick card paper stocks, folded and laid into illustrated wraps by Jutta Werner. The second issue of this striking periodical edited by Joseph Berke, one of the founders of the Antiuniversity in Shoreditch, London -..... More
London: The Galley Press, 1962. First edition. 8vo, 204 pp, bound in yellow cloth titled in gilt. Housed in the original dust jacket illustrated by the author. The scarce first edition of this roman a clef describing postwar life in the St. Ives artist commune after the war, a period..... 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
![Mieux Vivre: Revue Mensuelle. No. 1 (1936) - No. 9 (1939) [Complete in 37 numbers]. George...](/pictures/thumb/26963.jpg?v=1546976809)
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
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
![Theory of Painting: 2nd Version [Exhibition Announcement]. Mel Bochner](/pictures/thumb/28120.jpg?v=1569429482)
Milan: Galleria Toselli, 1970. 8 1/2 x 6 3/8" card, offset printed. The announcement for the artist's 1970 exhibition at Galleria Toselli, illustrated at recto with Bochner's drawn proposal for the show. Fine. 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: Public Illumination, 1983-84. First edition. 32mo. Saddle-stapled wraps. Five whole issues of the pseudonymous downtown artists' periodical, housed in a rigid plastic clamshell box with printed label affixed to cover. Contents fne; plastic box very good with moderate scuffing. More
New York: Angel Hair Press, 1970. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled in photographically illustrated wraps. One of a limited edition of 700 copies. The first publication of the first installation of Brainard's most enduring work, published in three parts by Angel Hair. Wraps rather foxed, light creasing along spine, with some..... 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, 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
New York: Boke Press, 1964. First edition. Foolscap, mechanically duplicated on rectos only; stab-stapled. The second and last issue 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 Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Edwin..... 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