np: nd [c. 1963-64]. np: nd [c. 1963-64]. Carbon from typescript, denoted with a "b' in red ink at upper margin of first leaf, with numerous changes, deletions, additions, and other changes throughout in red ink in Higgins' hand. Provenance; from the archive of the artist and musician Dan Lauffer..... More
np: [1963]. 8 1.2 x 11" flyer, mimeographed from typescript. Attribution printed below title in ballpoint pen. A remarkable work by Dick Higgins for an unknown, early Fluxus performance. The work detourns the form of the employment questionnaire , one of the cruellest and most controlling of bureaucratic forms. "This mimeographed..... More
New York: Privately Published, 1963. 4to, 6 pp, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner into a mimeographed cover sheet with Dick Higgins' 423 Broadway address. One of Higgins' rarest works, a diminuitive book of poems written in the summer of 1963..... More
New York: Richard C. Higgins, nd [c. 1960's]. 4to, 9 leaves mimeographed on rectos only from typescript and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. A remarkable collection of happenings, performance texts, musical proposals and poems that were, according to the colophon, were "All of 'em written at New..... More
Milwaukee: Woodlawn Pattern Book Center and the Mikwaukee Institute of Art & DEsign, 1990. 8 1/2 x 14", machine-folded into thirds. The poster for this series of exhibitions and events in Milwaukee by the dream team of Dick Higgins and Bern Porter; Porter's exhibition "(retro) SPECT (ive left)" at Woodlawn..... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1983. First edition. 4to, single sheet folded once. The October, 1983 issue of the newsletter, which was published parallel to other productions of the press, and included important essays on conceptual art at that time, along with reviews, details on other SEP publications, and gossip..... More
![Eating Friends [Postcard]. Jenny Holzer, Peter Nadin](/pictures/thumb/28890.jpg?v=1598745654)
New York: Artists Space, 1982. 4 x 6" postcard, printed on both recto and verso. The announcement for the 1982 exhibition at Artists Space. Near fine with some light traces of soiling. More
Los Angeles: The Dumb Ox, 1977. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Fifth issue of the artists' periodical, a notable issue including Hal Fischer and his work "Signifiers for a Male Respones," and work by joel Caplan, Lartin Lesinski, M. Huirsch, Davaid Watanabe, Donna Lee Phillips and many others. Very good..... More
Los Angeles: The Dumb Ox, 1977. First edition. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Fourth issue of the artists' periodical, which includes an interview with Ed Ruscha, an essay on artists' books by Joan Hugo, and work by Suzanne Lacy, Lew Thomas, Kim Jones, Jaroslav Kozlowski, Bruce Fier, Lucio Pozzi, Ken Friedman, and..... More
Los Angeles: The Dumb Ox, 1977. First edition. 4to, tabloid format. early issue of the artists' periodical, this issue with a cover by Joseph Beuys, along with an essay on his work by Theron Kelly, Kenneth Schorr, Vicky Brown, Steve3n Chayt, James Hugunin on Numaudo, etc. Fine. More
Los Angeles: The Dumb Ox, 1976. First edition. 4to, tabloid format. debut issue of the artists' periodical, including articles on conceptual photography, "Art, Education & Zen," "But is it Photography,", a lengthy review of the Fox, etc. Near fine with a touch of toning and rubbing along top edge fold..... More
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
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
![Henry's B'Day Party [Handmade Party Invitation]. M. Henry Jones](/pictures/thumb/29218.jpg?v=1616105791)
New York: c. early 1980's. 3 x 5" card, with rubbertstamping and drawings. A beautiful little handmade invitation card to a birthday party celebration for the legendary East Village filmmaker, extensively rubberstamped, with a drawing of an arrow piercing a heart on recto. The verso has the address and date..... 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
![Fama & Fortune Bulletin 1-34 [Complete]. Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger Kim Gordon,...](/pictures/thumb/28828.jpg?v=1603844522)
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1990-2011. 8vo, each issue saddle-stapled in card wraps. Profusely illustrated. Most texts in German or English. A complete run of the artists' periodical published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or group to create and design the issue..... More
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1965. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, offset printed on various colors of paper stock. Illustrated in color and black and white, including a five panel foldout photographically printed with reproductions of nude figures on blue glassine. Foreward by Pierre Restany. Catalog designed by Wim Crouwel. The beautifully produced..... More
![The Book of Bean With Walk-In Pages [Poster]. Alison Knowles](/pictures/thumb/28363.jpg?v=1596065766)
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