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
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
np: nd. A small archive, incluing typescripts, relating to the occultists Jacob Bonggren and Laura McCormick. Jacob (or Jakob) Bonggren was a Swedish-American poet, Theosophist and occultist, who moved from Sweden to the Chicago area in 1882. In the Chicago area he became an editor for Svenska Amerikanaren and an..... 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
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1961. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Debut issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, illustrated with three works by René Magritte, and work by Rachel Baes, as well as contributions from Greorges Roux, Louis Scutenaire, Marcel Béalu, Paul..... More
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1963. 12mo, [12] pp, saddle-stapled in illustrated card wraps. Illustrated with 3 drawings by Magritte. Provenace: from the collection of the art collector and book dealer John Hunov, with his tiny rubberstamp inside front cover. Sixth issue of the Belgian Surrealist periodical, this..... More
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1962. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Superb issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, notable for including a double-paged reproduction in color of the painting 'La Cascade,' with a text about the work by Marcel Lecomte, a reproduction..... More
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1962. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Single issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, illustrated with a frontispiece by René Magritte, and work by Maurice Rapin, André Bosmans, Lopuis Scutenaire, Jacques Wergifosse. Tips lightly creased else fine. More
![Item #30109 Rhétorique Nos. 1, 3, 5, 6, 10 [of 13 published] [need 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13....](/images/noimage.png)
Tilleur-les-Liège, Belgium: Editions de la revue Rhétorique, 1961. First edition. 12mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Text in French. Debut issue of the Belgian avant-garde and Surrealist little magazine, illustrated with three works by René Magritte, and work by Rachel Baes, as well as contributions from Greorges Roux, Louis Scutenaire, Marcel Béalu, Paul..... 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..... More
![Item #30202 Collage by Joe Brainard (Detail) [Photograph]. Joe Brainard, Lorenz Gude Ted Berrigan](/pictures/thumb/30202.jpg?v=1672512242)
np: c. 1960's. 6 1/2 x 9 1/4" photograph, silver gelatin print. Holograph text at verso in Ted Berrigan's hand, reading "Collage by Joe Brainard (detail). Photo by L. Gude. Return to Coll. Ted Berrigan." The photograph also bears some reprodution notes in ink in another hand, including the phrase..... 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
Knokke-Duinbergen: Galerie Jos Jamar, 1989. First edition. 4to, 127 pp, profusely illustrated (some in color). Text in Dutch, English, French, and German. Copy no. 843 of an unspecified edition. Essential, beautifully produced reference issued in conjunction with the 1989 exhibition. Very good with some light toning to wraps. 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
![Item #30683 Merce Cunningham John Cage [Handbill]. John Cage, Merce Cunningham](/pictures/thumb/30683.jpg?v=1679527803)
Portland, Ore. Reed College, 1949. 8vo, single sheet of card stock folded once. Mimeographed from typescript, the beautiful typographical design by Barbara Walker and Virginia Ragsdale. The handbill for this early performance by Cage and Cunningham at Reed College. It is tempting to think who may have been..... 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: Red Tape, 198. Folio, saddle-stapled in photographically illustrated wraps. Sixth issue of one of the best downtown periodicals of the 1980's, "the manual to the darker side of the era." (Stosuy p. 458). David Wojnarowicz is thanked in the foreward, and this issue includes unbelievable work by him..... More
Groningen: The Artist, 1977. First edition. One of a limited edition of 100 copies signed by Hans Straver. 4to, 22 pages, comb-bound in silkscreened card covers. Illustrated with 5 internal silkscreens and the cover print. A gorgeous, unusual artists' book featuring a translation of the first chapter of Sanguinetti's Véridique..... 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