Los Angeles: The Dumb Ox, 1976. First edition. 4to, tabloid format. Early issue of the artists' periodical, including an interview with John Baldessari, essay by Robert Rauschenberg entitled "Shutting Down Aperture", Lew Thomas, David Singer et al. Near fine with a touch of toning and rubbing along top edge fold..... More
Berlin: Rainer Verlag, 1980. First edition. 16mo, 62 [1] pp, bound in french card wraps. Illustrated with a tipped-in photographic frontispiece of Iannone by James Phineas Upham. Text in German and English. One of a limited edition of 700 copies. A fantastic erotic text presented as "A Declaration to the..... More
[Buffalo]: [Attica Defense Committee], [1972]. 4to, thirteen 8 1/2 x 11" broadsides, some offset printed and illustrated and others mimeographed from typescript, housed in a stapled folder. A collection of artwork, poems and texts by prisoner's in Attica, issued by the Attica Defense Committee to raise funds for the prisoners..... More
[Finsterwolde]: [Galerie Waalkens and Instituut voor Creatief Werk], 1968. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, bound in photographically illustrated French wraps. Illustrated with full bleed b/w photographs of the installation by Kees Hemswerk. Text in Dutch with English translation. Artists' book documenting the 1968 installation by the Institute for Creative Work at..... More
London: James Press, 1931. First edition. 8vo, viii, 139 pp, bound in red boards backed in vellum, with title stamped in gilt at spine. T.e.g., deckled fore edge. Inscribed by James at the first blank in the year of publication; "To dearest Zosia from Edward October 1931." A substantial collection of..... More
Halifax: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1971. 4to, single A4 sheet folded once. Opens to show a double page reproduction of a still from the title work, a film loop. Addressed and mailed to the artist Athena Tacha. The announcement for the 1971 exhibition at NSCAD. Folded twice..... More
![The Dios Kuroi [The Dioskuroi]. Jess, Collins](/pictures/thumb/25269.jpg?v=1594506847)
np: nd. 8vo, [8] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated in b/w. Signed by Jess inside front cover. The first separate edition of this series of collages which was originally printed in a 1963 issue of the Northwest Review. Some faint handling creases, else fine. More
New York: [1984]. 4 5/16 x 6", printed in think raised black ink on fluorescent pink card stock. The announcement for this 1984 exhibtion at the nightclub Kamikaze. We can find little documentation for this exhibition, despite the broad cross section of artists' included - Alan Vega of Suicide, Jeff..... More
New York: Allan Kaprow, 1968. 15 x 21" poster, offset printed and photographically illustrated. Addressed and postmarked to fellow artist Dan Lauffer, with Kaprow's Long Island address as return. The poster prospectus for the 1968 happening, urging interested participants to attend a preliminary meeting at the Firehouse Gallery at Nassau..... More
New York: Allan Kaprow, 1968. 17 x 22" poster, offset printed and photographically illustrated. Addressed and postmarked to fellow artist Dan Lauffer, with Kaprow's Long Island address as return. The poster prospectus for the 1968 happening, urging interested participants to attend a preliminary meeting at the Sawyer Auditorium at Colbu..... More
New York: The Artist, 1968. 16 7/8 x 22" poster, offset printed on recto only. Photographically illustrated. The poster prospectus for three happenings, 'One Rock Pile, One Time', 'Another Rock Pile, Another Time,' and 'At Night, After." The prospectus solicits participation in the happenings, and instructions those wishing to participate..... More
New Paltz: Allan Kaprow, 1968. 16 x 21" poster, offset printed. Illustrated with a photograph by Peter Moore. Addressed to the artist and musician Dan Lauffer at verso, with franking, and Allan Kaprow's rubberstamped Long Island address. The poster proposal for this 1968 Happening in New Paltz, with a text..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1990. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. With subscription form laid in. Early issue of the artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or group to create and design the issue, in..... More
New York: Kitty Genovese Womens Project, 1977. First edition. 4to, tabloid format, printed in two colors on newsprint. With apprehension rubberstamp to front cover, as issued. Published for International Womens Day, 1977, this publication consists of a lineghtyl list of men indicted for rape and sex offender crimes in Dallas..... More
![The Book of Bean With Walk-In Pages [Poster]. Alison Knowles](/pictures/thumb/28363.jpg?v=1637359982)
Rhinebeck, NY: Factotum Art at Open Studio, [1981]. 12 x 15 1/2" poster, offset lithograph in two colors. The beautiful poster for the Book of Bean, designed by Knowles, and printed for Factotum-Art at Open Studio in Rhinebeck, New York. The poster also prints George Quasha's poem Transvironment. Machine-folded twice..... More
np: 1961. 18 3/4 x 13 1/2", ink and wash on both sides of a sheet of sketch paper. Unsigned and undated. Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Bobbie Louise Hawkins, former wife of Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different..... More
np: 1961. 18 3/4 x 13 1/2", ink and wash on both sides of a sheet of sketch paper. Unsigned and undated. Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Bobbie Louise Hawkins, former wife of Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different..... More
np: 1961. 13 x 20", ink on paper. Signed and dated by the artist. Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different times with the Tachisme, Art Informel, and Nuagisme movements. He was also the first..... More
np: 1957. Provenance: acquired by Peter Howard of Serendipity Books from Robert Creeley. The immensely talented Laubies was a visual artist associated at different times with the Tachisme, Art Informel, and Nuagisme movements. He was also the first translator of Ezra Pound into French, and it was Ezra Pound who..... More
Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1974. 4to, single sheet folded twicxe to make a six pager. 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..... More
Paris: Galerie des Quatre Saisons, 1960. 11 x 17 1/2", offset printed on recto only on thin rose paper. Illustrated with a photograph of a guillotine in use. The poster announcement for this early Happening organized by Lebel and Jouffroy, incorporating the work of Victor Brauner, Wilfredro Lam, Jorge Camacho..... More
London: Cabinet Gallery, [2001]. Exhibition / Performance invitation for the 2001 show at Club 414 organized by Cabinet Gallery, consisting of a Gucci advertisment torn directly from an issue of I-D, with the event info supplied on a sticker affixed to the torn advertisement. donAteller was the project featuring Mark..... More
New York: Kulchur, 1963. First edition. 8vo, perfect bound in wraps. This issue of Kulchur guest edited by Joseph LeSuer. It features a cover by Larry Rivers, and work by Arnold Weinstein, Frank O'Hara, Michael Smith, Kenward Elmslie, Diane DiPrima, Ruth Krauss, Douglas Woolf, Barbara Guest, Morton Feldman, Bill Berkson..... More
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1964. First edition. 8vo, letterpress printed in on various colors of paper stock, and side-stapled into letterpress printed white card wraps. Illustrated with prints by Katherine Wasil, Cuz, and Kent Taylor. With a foldout sheet bound in, spirit-duplicated from typescript, giving thanks and noting Asphodel Bookshop and..... More
Paris: Carnets de Rhinocéros Jr., 2007. First edition. Square 12mo, 48 pp, bound in flexible boards. Text in French. One of a limited edition of 450 copies, of which 50 were colored, this being one of the uncolored copies. Fine. More