New York: Act Up, 1991. 8 1/2 x 11" sheet, bearing six stickers, each printed in color. With backing intact. A sticker sheet issued for the Day of Desperation - the remarkable, coordinated set of protests which took place during Desert Storm, and which was the largest protest to that..... More
New York: 1985-1997. New York, 1985-1997. A collection of 50 exhibition and event announcements, benefit auction invitations, and other ephemera documenting AIDS advocacy from the mid-1980’s to the mid 1990’s. The collection is a record, not only of events, but also of organizations involved in the struggle, the tactics employed..... More
Amsterdam: 1943. Amsterdam: dated 1941 [actually, 1943]. ALS on lined prison stationary, marked 'S.G.S. 8105-1942’. 29 lines, written in pencil. Addressed to “Eep” [Marius Roland Holst], and signed “Tiky.” One line blacked out, likely by a censor. With an accompanying letter by Willem Sandberg to Roland Holst about the damage..... More
Los Angeles: Mermaid Tavern, 1973. 8 3/4 x 10", offset lithograph. Photographically illustrated with a self-portrait of Berman. The poster for Wallace Berman's one day exhibition at the Mermaid Tavern, perhaps the rarest printed item designed by Berman, for one of his most enigmatic shows. The poster is illustrated with..... More
Düsseldorf: Organisation für Direkte Demokratie, c. 1971. A substantial collection of eleven pamphlets and six posters and leaflets issued by the group. One of the pamphlets is signed on the cover. Text largely in German, with some English. 1. "Satzung und Politisches Programm." 8vo, 14 pp, offset printed in blue..... 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
Metuchen, NJ: George Brecht, 1963. First edition. 9 3/4 x 12 3/4" sheet, offset lithograph on newsprint. The antecedent issue of what would become the central periodical of the Fluxus movement, published irregulary until 1979. This first issue was conceived of as a one off newspaper to be published in..... More
Bruxelles: George Houyoux, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 22 pp, printed wraps. Published in an edition of 213 numbered copies, and 12 copies which came with an original drawing as the frontispiece by Serge Vandercam. This copy is unnumbered and out of series, as often found. Though a frontispiece was announced..... More
New York: C Press, 1967. 4to, unpaginated, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and side-stapled into card covers, the front cover illustrated by Alex Katz. One of a limited edition of 200 copies. Published as both a standalone book, and also as the penultimate issue of Ted Berrigan's poetry magazine..... More
England - Latin America: Beau Geste Press, 1973. First edition. 16mo, [58] pp, perfect bound in wraps. Printed in two colors on kraft paper. Artist's book featuring text in two languages above horizontal lines printed in purple, a beautifully realized book. Wraps lightly creased, with some rubbing along the spine..... More
![Untitled Sequence of 9 Variable Shutter Speed Photographs [Exhibition Announcement]. Jan Dibbets](/pictures/thumb/28103.jpg?v=1570114335)
New York: Bykert Gallery, 1971. 6 1/2 x 6 5/8" card, silver gelatin print on recto of 9 variable shutter speed photographs of the gallery sign, with exhibition information printed at recto. A photographic print as exhibition announcement featured a series of 9 photographs of the same subject, the Gykert..... 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
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
![Flux-Harpsichord [Poster]. Fluxus](/pictures/thumb/28114.jpg?v=1568759642)
New York: [1975]. 8 1/2 x 11" poster, offset printed in black on green paper stock. The poseter for this remarkable event at 80 Wooster Street, with "New Realizations & Pieces by" George Brecht, Dick Higgins, Ichiyanagai, Joe Jones, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Nam June Paik, Larry Miller, Tomas Schmit..... More
New York: Archangel Press, 1948. First edition. 7 leaves, offset printed on thick card stock and housed in a printed envelope. Cards very good with overall toning and some creasing to extremities; Envelope toned and beat to hell, perished and in pieces. To the best of our knowledge the first..... More
New York: Visual AIDS, 1993. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, offset printed on recto only. A broadside by Giorno published by Visual Aids on the occasion of the 1993 installment of the Day Without Art. Fine. More
![Untitled [Health Care is a Right / Los Servicios de Salud Son Un Derecho]. Felix Gonzalez-Torres](/pictures/thumb/28259.jpg?v=1572976130)
New York: Visual Aids, 1990. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2" postcard, offset printed. Addressed and mailed at verso. The postcard announcing the artist's 1990 work, which was displayed on ten billboards around the boroughs of NYC as part of the Visual AIDS: Billboards project, in conjunction with the first Day..... More
New York: Gran Fury, [1989]. 4 x 8 1/2" postcard, offset printed. Illustrated on recto after a photograph by Aldo Hernandez. Addressed and mailed to the artist Richard Serra. The postcard that was the first of two parts of the group's Public Information project, perhaps their most visible action during the..... More
![Architecture Principe 1-9 [Complete]. Claude Parent, eds Paul Virilio](/pictures/thumb/28682.jpg?v=1583268484)
Paris: Groupe Architecture Principe, 1966. First edition. 4to, unpaginated, each issue saddle-stapled in wraps. Profusely illustrated with photographs, drawings and plans. A rare complete run of one of the most important and influential artists' periodicals of the 1960's (a tenth issue appeared in the 1996 reprint of the periodical, but..... More
![Salamander 1-3 [Complete]. Ingemar Gustafson, Ilmar Laaban C O. Hultén, eds, Göran...](/pictures/thumb/28450.jpg?v=1576611304)
Malmö: Salamander / Galerie Colibri, 1955-56. 8vo, each issue saddle-stapled in wraps lithographed in color. Profusely illustrated, with additioanl color lithographs and black and white reproductions within. Text in Swedish. All issues published of this important and beautifully produced avant-garde periodical of the 1950's, whose amphibian theme, as Gwen Allen suggests..... More
