Paris: J.-B. Baillière et Fils, 1869. First edition. 8vo, viii, 184 pp, printed wrappers. With 8 pp. publisher's catalog laid in at rear. Inscribed by the author at the title page, with a faint, almost imperceptible rubberstamp beneath the signature. Text in French. A rare inscribed copy of the first..... 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
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967. First edition. 13 x 16" poster, offset printed. The poster for this exhibition and event at SFMOMA devoted to avant-garde materials from the Berner collection, which encompassing such tendencies as Neo-dada, Concretism, Letterism, Spatialism, the mediocres, Fluxus, de-coll/age, etc. Some faint smudging..... More
New York: Lorenz and Ellen Gude, 1966. First edition. Foolscap format, 31 pp., mimeographed from typescript and stap-stapled into an offset printed card cover illustrated by Joe Brainard. The 13th and final regular issue of the seminal little mag of the second generation of the New York School. This issue..... More
np: published by the artist, 1978. First edition. 8vo, [52] pp, bound in marbled paper over boards backed in black cloth tape. Profusely illustrated with photographs, diagrams and other reproductions, one leaf printed on glassine. Signed by the artist at the title page. Text in English and Dutch. A beautifully..... 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=1596674564)
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
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
![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
![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
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, 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
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: 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: 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1972. 4to, single folded sheet. Association copy, addressed to fellow artist Athena Tacha. 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1971. 4to, single sheet folded once to make four pages. Photographically illustrated. Addressed and mailed to fellow artist Athena Tacha. 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..... More
New York: John Weber Gallery, 1975. 17 x 22" sheet, folded three times. Offset printed on white coated paper stock. The poster announcement for this series of works performed by Sue Bailey, Joanne CAring, Peter Frank, Susan Heinemann, and Mark Levine, based upon choreography by Daniel Buren using 5 colors..... More
[Los Angeles]: [1970]. 3 1/4 x 5 1/2" postcard, printed on recto of a preprinted 5 cent USPS postcard. Association copy, addressed and postmarked to the artist Athena Tacha. Postcard documenting Buren's infamous 50 Bus Benches site specific work in Los Angeles, the spaces on the back of the benches where..... 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
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: 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 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