New York: Grove Press, 1959. First American edition. A translation into English of the monograph first published as Sur Marcel Duchamp, by the Trianon Press in a minuscule edition. Complete with all six tipped-in plates. A spectacularly designed book. Very good, with some minor dust soiling to edges of text..... More
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np: nd. 8 1/2 x 8”, ink on paper. Undated. Signed by Duncan within the image. Provenance: from the collection of the artist Ernesto Edwards, a longtime friend of Jess and Robert Duncan, who has a section devoted to his work in An Opening of the Field (pp. 188-193). A...... More
New York: Judson Church, 1976. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on recto only, with one of Dupuy's "food stamps" affixex. The flyer for this first performance of Dupuy's celebrated performance at Judson Church, with one of Dupuy's food stamps - which were used as a ticket to event..... More
New York: Art Militia of the Lesbian Nation, [1996]. 8 ½ x 11”. Printed on recto only on beige paper. This flyer, rising out of Queer Nation, and put together by artists Carrie Moyer and Sue Schaffner, was handed out and pasted up around New York City in 1996. A one-sheet..... More
np: nd [c. early 1900's]. Two promotional posters, 8 1/2 x 11" and 9 x 12", and ten photographs, vintage silver gelatin prints of various dimension, five of which are matted. Ansel & Dorian were an early 20th century head and hand balancing acrobatic Vaudeville act, whose claim to fame..... More
Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, unadorned by any further text. One of a series of books by the artist published by Sperone in the early 1970's, and now rare..... More
Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, here all of unmade beds An early installment in the series of deadpan artists' books sometimes referred to as his 'Bilderhefte" series, in which..... More
Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, here all of toy animals posed on ornamented rugs, unadorned by any further text. One of a series of books by the artist published..... More
Halifax: Anna Leonoewens Gallery, Nova Scotia School of Art and Design, 1974. 8vo, 7 leaves stapled once at the upper left hand corner onto a chipboard backing. Photographically illustrated. Artist's book published in conjunction with the 1974 exhibition at NSCAD's Anna Leonoewens Gallery, documenting works from 1969-1973. Ferguson, who arrived..... More
Koeln and New York: Verlag Gebr. Koenig, 1970. First edition. Oblong 4to, upaginated. Spiral bound in card covers. Text in German and English. First edition of one of the most radical works of art and pedagogy of the 1970's, which exemplified the best aspects of the Fluxus tendency. The book..... More
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New York: [Albert M. Fine], n.d. First edition. 3 1/2 x 5 1/2", Found picture postcard depicting Palm Beach, Florida, with U.S. and Canadian stamps; altered by artist with excision, staples, pink spray paint, rubber-stamped arrows, writing. Staples across excision replace a bridge in the postcard image. Address label reads..... More
San Francisco: NFS Press, 1977. First edition. 4to, 56 pp, wraps. Photographically illustrated in b/w. The first edition of one of the key gay artists' books of the modern era, as well as a groundbreaking use of photography in an artist's book. The text was printed on the acetates, and..... More
Np: 1971. 3 1/2 x 5" snapshot, signed by the artist at verso and titled in his hand, along with the note "2 Polaroid Photos 1 Black 1 White tucked into a stapled $1 bill." Photo rather creased, with some staining. 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1975. 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: 1967. 2 x 3" card, with the word "Fluxmaster" printed on it, mounted in a plastic holder. With poster for the event [17 x 22", offset lithograph on white paper]. Original Fluxmaster card created by George Maciunas for the artist Dan Laufer, made for his participation in the..... More
New York: View, 1942. First edition. Folio, [10] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Early, early issue of the periodical, before it graduated to a smaller format. A remarkable issue including Henry Miller, Leonora Carrington, Parker Tyler, Kurt Seligmann, Lionel Able et al. Some light creasing to extremities, else a clean and bright..... More
New York: View, 1942. First edition. Folio, [10] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Early, early issue of the periodical, before it graduated to a smaller format. A remarkable issue including Joseph Cornell's text "Enchanted Wanderer: Excerpt from a Journey Album for Hedy Lamarr, a cover illustration by Pavel Tchelitchew, Pierre Mabille's essay..... More
Kingston, NY: McPherson & Company / Documentext, 1983. Oblong 8vo. 89 pp. Wraps. One of 750 copies in wraps. Indispensable bibliography of one of the most important post-war presses. Wraps rather foxed, also affecting edges of the text block and first leaf, a bit grubby but otherwise clean within. More
Berlin: Buchverlag der Arbeiter-Kunst-Ausstellung, 1921. First edition. 8vo, 232 pp, bound in illustrated boards backed in black cloth illustrated by Käthe Kollwitz. Profusely illustrated in black and white. Edges of text block died red. Text in German. Inscribed by the editor, Ernst Friedrich, at the first blank and dated 1923..... 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
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1975. 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
Milano: Galleria Toselli, 1973. Singled sheet folded once, to 6 1/2 x 5 1/2". Photographically illustrated. The announcement for the 1973 exhibition in Milan. Fine. More
Paris: Yvon Lambert, 1973. 5 x 7" card, photographically illustrated at recto. The announcement for the 1973 exhibition at Yvon Lambert. Small ink notation to upper left hand corner, a couple of minor handling creases. Very good. More
New York: nd [c. early 1980's]. 4 3/4 x 5 3/8" postcard. Recto illustrated with a drawing and photomontage by Carl George. The invitation to this series of performances at ABC No Rio, including Samoa (co-founder of The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black), Donald Miller (of Borbetomagus), Brian Doherty (of..... More