Proverbs of Spain [People's Pocket Series No. 120]
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, [1920]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs' 120b. Very good with fading to wraps, and rubbing to extremities, and usual internal toning. More
Girard, Kansas: Appeal Publishing Company, [1920]. 32mo, saddle-stapled wraps. Gibbs' 120b. Very good with fading to wraps, and rubbing to extremities, and usual internal toning. More
np: 1959. 3 9/16 x 3 5/8" silver gelatin print on Kodak Velox paper. A snapshot of a woman reading on a bed, a newspaper discarded at her feet, beneath a window drawn with a floral curtain. Very good. More
Np: nd. Original artwork, approximately 5 1/2 x 3 1/4", a woven paper sculpture of a cross, with several small engravings pasted on, including a small engraving of Jesus with blood applied in red paint, a goblet of blood, and a small skull and crossbones, with a small ribbon attached..... More
np: nd. 5 x 7" vintage silver print, without attribution or stamp to verso. A photograph featuring an intense looking youth in jeans and jacket smoking in front of graffiti on a wall which reads, "Serve the people." A superb image. Photographer unknown. Some minor soiling and creasing, with a...... More
np: Anonymous Art Project, nd [c. late aughts]. 4to, commercially printed magazine that has been extensively altered, with pasted in items, drawings, even a hand-made pop-up element, with a cd housed into a plastic sleeve tipped into the middle. One of a limited edition of 150 numbered copies. Housed in..... More
np: c. 1850. Approximately 14 1/2 x 18 1/2", A mid-19th century example of an English language spiritual labryinth, or Geistlicher Irrgarten. Trevor Carl Brandt, in his thesis Perplexion and Pleasure: The Geistlicher Irrgarten Broadsides in the German-American Printshop, Home, and Mind, dates this example of the genre to c...... More
[Prague]: Druk H. Mercy, [1910]. 8vo,107 pp, stab-stapled and glue bound into violet printed wraps. Front and back panels of wraps detached but present, with the paper covering the spine mostly perished. Marginal annotations in pencil throughout. The second edition of this privately published and circulated utopian proposal to create..... More
San Francisco: Anstendig Institute, c. early 1980's. 4to, each issue photo-mechanically reproduced and stapled once at the upper left hand corner, some illustrated by r. D. Henggeler. A collection of zines issued by the Anstendig Institute, many of them illustrated by Ron Henggeler. The Institute, which still continues today, is..... More
France: Association Théatre Accidental, 1983. 4to, 20 pp. including covers, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with drawings, comics and photographs. One of 500 copies. Text in French. Superb French avant-garde music fanzine with lots of great graphic art and comics, which was related to the Antenne accidentelle show on Radio-Tele Chatenay. This..... More
France: Association Théatre Accidental, 1983. 4to, 24 pp. including covers, saddle-stapled wraps. Offset printed with a full page drawing in orange paint to back cover, with a rubberstamp. Illustrated with drawings, comics and photographs. One of 500 copies. Text in French. Superb French avant-garde music fanzine with lots of great..... More
np: nd. 8vo, 7 pp, unbound, unfolded sheets. Printed in sepia on yellow paper stock. Situationist manifesto in Portuguese, with much of the text using detourned comic images. Beautifully printed and designed, with no date or imprint noted. Fine. More
`Spotswood, NJ: Writer's Block, 1989. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. With address label to back cover from being mailed to a fellow zine editor, with some oversized postal frank marks and offsetting to back and front covers, but very good. Fifth issue of this great zine, with texts on The Raincoast, Black..... More
Köln: Onnasch Galerie, 1971. First edition. Square 8vo, [16] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Profusely illustrated in black and white. The catalog for the 1971 exhibition at Galerie Onnasch in Cologne, including texts by Lawrence Alloway (in English) and G. Bussman (in German). Superb catalog. Some faint toning to wraps else fine..... More
Wuppertal, Germany: Kunst- und Museumsverein, 1967. 4to, [8] pp., with blue folded poster laid into integral flap at rear. Illustrated with three reproductions. Text in German. With a text by Yoshiaki Tono. Rubbed at the spine, with some toning and light soiling to wraps, and a 1/2" split at head..... More
Düsseldorf: Galerie Schmela, 1966. Exhibition announcement, single sheet of coated card stock folded once. Illustrated with two reproductions. Text in German, signed "D.H.". The exhibition announcement for this early exhibition by Arakawa in Düsseldorf. Very good with some light toning and minor trace soiling. More
Mexico City: nd. Single sheet folded once [folded size 5 1/2 x 7 1/2"]. Illustrated with a drawing with the printed signature of Arbio. A printed menu for the Bohemian cafe in Mexico City, illustrated with a drawing by Arbio, and including a quote from Martin Fierro. Two additional fold..... 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
Mexico: c. 1940's. Roughly cut, approximately 8 1/2 x 26”, printed in red and green on thin orange paper. An early Lucha Libre poster which includes by Kid Vanegas, aka Arsacio Vanegas. Vanegas was the wrestler who taught Che Guevara, Fidel Castro and the soldiers of the Granma Yacht expedition..... More
Toronto: Art Metropole, nd. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps; offset printed on newsprint with two color cover. The tenth catalogue from the legendary Art Metropole - an exceedingly valuable reference on conceptual art publications of the time given the in depth, passionate and opiniated reviews of the publications listed for sale. Good..... More
np: 1873. Graphite and colored pencil drawing in an irregularly cut sheet of paper, approximately 8 x 5". Signed and dated in 1873 at lower margin, though the signature is not legible to our eyes - G.B. Harrison, perhaps?Terrifying. Very good. More
London: Arts & Community Centre Notting Hill, 1968. ALS, with a trifold brochure [8 x 10 1/2"] and a Poetry Workshop poster [8 x 13"] folded for mailing, all housed in the original mailing envelope addressed to Tjeerd Deelstra postmarked September 5, 1968. Rare ephemera from the early days of..... More
Albuquerque & Santa Fe, NM: Asociación Flor de Mayo, 1970. Tabloid format, printed on newsprint with spot color to covers and inside centerfold. The eighth issue of the underground newspaper out of New Mexico devoted to the occult, ecology, and related concerns. A fascinating issue, printing Ecology Actions's Unanimous Declaration..... More
Atlanta: Atlanta Walden Two Committee, 1966. First edition. 4to, 14 pp. including covers, mimeographed from typescript and holograph and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. With holograph correction in ink to cover, adjusting the number from the printed "3" to "4," likely as issued. A very..... More
San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, nd. Paperback. 5 x 8" sheet of blue paper, folded once, with bird device to front panel. Some faint handling creases else fine. An advertising leaflet offering the services of the press, suggesting that they can produce a wide variety of material, from stationary to reproduction..... More
[Ottawa]: One Cent, [2006]. Oblong 8vo, [8] pp. including covers, side-stapled in rubberstamped covers. The back cover includes a text on the history of this work, which was originally edited and designed by bpNichol for Ganglia Press, but never materialized. It is here published by jwcurry under his one cent..... More