New York: [1973]. 8 1/2 x 11", offset printed in blue on white paper stock. Illustrated with a drawing by Mike Andre. Original poster for this performance by Ginsberg along with the all female proto-punk band Flaming Youth at the Barnard Gym. Deborah Frost of the group lived with Ginsberg... More
Italy: Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga in collaborazione col Centro Programmazione Spetacoli dell'ARCI, 1979. 25 x 37" poster, offset lithograph in two colors. Original, rare poster for this 1979 poetry conference in Italy, which included Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky, Julian Beck, Judith Malina, and Fabrizio Rinaldi. The event was organized... More
![Allen Ginsberg Reads Kaddish [Inscribed to Robert Lowell]. Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell.](/pictures/thumb/26307.jpg?v=1532195587)
Atlantic Records, 1966. 12 LP in photographically illustrated gatefold sleeve, a portrait of Ginsberg by Richard Avedon. Catalog no. Atlanatic 4001. Association copy, inscribed and signed by Ginsberg: "For Robert Lowell, on the occasion of a visit to his house in company with my father Louis Ginsberg on December 22... More
San Francisco: Girl With Arms Akimbo, [1990]. 24 x 35 1/2" poster, cyanotype process on white paper. One of an extremely limited number of copies of the poster printed with a cyanotype process. The normal edition of the poster was printed using a photocopy process in black and white. The... More
Buenos Aires: Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, 1966. 4to, [58] pp, bound in pink wraps printed in black and gray, and printed tan dust jacket. Profusely illustrated with b/wphotographs. Text in Spanish. The catalog for the 1966 exhibition at the Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, which was a rapid Latin-American response to the legendary... More
![Like the Stars. . . [Napkin Ring]. J. W. van Goethe, Zephyrus Image.](/pictures/thumb/20897.jpg?v=1490301519)
San Francisco: [Zephyrus Image], nd. 1 7/8 x 9 3/8" die cut broadside as napkin ring, letterpress printed in Oldstyle italic, with a sharp point at left margin, designed to be folded into a circle with the point inserted into a die-cut hole at right margin which is set within... More
Np: La Balance, 1989. First edition. Oblong 4to, unpaginated. Five unbound, folded sheets housed in an orange card folder with title pastedown to front panel. Illustrated with a color engraving by Henri Goetz, as well as a reprodution of a 1947 photograph of the Surrealist Group, including Kober, Goetz, Breton... More
The Hague, Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1972. First edition. Folio, 72 pp, saddle-stapled in illustrated wraps. A key work of the sexual liberation movement in the 1970's, as well as one of the more innovatively designed uses of photography in a fictional narrative work of the period. Interior paper lightly toned... More
np: [1982]. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, original xerox print on orange paper with sticker backing still intact. An unusual flyer for these two invasions of D. C. Hardcore bands into Boston and NYC, designed as a full sized sticker, with sticker backing still intact - a very unusual format... More
Broadbeach, Australia: Dirty Deeds, 2001-. 4to, saddle-stapled wraps. Profusely illustrated in color. The first seven issues of the graffiti zine, issued yearly. Each hefty issue is almost completely made of dense color photographs documenting graffiti all over Australia, including a lot of train work. OCLC locates holdings at only one... More
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 2013. First edition. 4to, 340 pp, bound in photographically illustrated boards. Profusely illustrated with b/w photographs, many full page. Text in Danish. First edition of this impressive monograph on the tattoos of the soliders of Livgard, including firsthand accounts and explanations of tattoos by over 60 service members... More
San Francisco: Alan Wolfsy Fine Arts, 1995. 4to, 415 pp, cloth in dust jacket. Text in English and German. B/w illustrations. Fine in a fine dust jacket. More
![ION No. 1. Centre de creation. Numéro spécial sur le cinema [Complete]. Marc-Gilbert Guillaumin, ed.](/pictures/thumb/25820.jpg?v=1511307719)
Paris: 1952. 8vo, 286 [2] pp, printed wraps illustrated at rear panel and spine with a metagraphy by Gabriel Pomerand. The first and last issue of one of this foundational Lettriste periodical, a substantial statement which fundamentally changed the medium of film as art in ways that are still being... More
Np: Momo's Press, nd. First edition. 5 1/4 x 11 1/4" broadside, letterpress on brown card stock. A broadside issued by Momo's Press, and printed by Zephyrus Image. [Johnston p. 236]. Fine. More
New York: The Artist, 1982. 18 x 24”, offset lithograph on glazed paper. An early and significant poster work by Haring, made to celebrate the anti-nuclear movement. Haring created and published the poster himself, and distributed it at the June 12, 1982 demonstrations, passing out 20,000 of them in Central... More
![Invitation to the Third Party of Life [Silkscreened Shorts]. Keith Haring.](/pictures/thumb/26265.jpg?v=1526169882)
New York: 1986. Pair of white athletic shorts, size medium, silkscreened in four colors. The invitation to the third installment of Haring's Party of Life, which took place on May 12, 1986 at the Palladium nightclub. Perhaps his most infamous party invite, and the hardest to track down. Fine. More
San Francisco: Hermes Free Press, nd. 5 3/4 x 11 1/2 broadside, letterpress printed in Linotype Aldus with ornamental rule on recycled paper. A powerful poem by the African American poet. This is the variant on gray paper. Fine. [Johnston p. 182]. More
[Boston]: Computer Dance, 1966. 4to, 4t, single sheet folded once to make a 4 pp. booklet. Offset printed in blue on beige paper. Original questionnaire booklet for the first incarnation of the Computer Dance, the experiment linked to the development of Matching Hypothesis by Elaine Walster (aka Elaine Hatfield). The... More
Various places, various dates. A stack including two unpublished typescripts submitted by Heliczer to the International Times, and 11 posters advertising performances, happenings or film screenings by Heliczer and others, a generous selection of the scarce ephemera that Heliczer used in conjunction with his strange and beautiful career. A complete... More
New York: Black Thumb Press, 1966. 8vo, 7 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Second printing of the manifesto, but first in this format. Fine. More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1992. First edition. 4to, various booklets, postcards and plates housed in a cardboard box with a string tile and photographically illustrated title page pasted down to cover. Signed by Herms on the illustrated pastedown on front cover. The beautifully designed catalog for the... More
Somerville, MA: Abyss Publications, 1969. First edition. 8vo, 7 pp, saddle-stapled in dayglo wraps. With marker deletions to copyright page and the rubberstamp of the publisher's address, as issued. An essay on the situation of avant-garde art, Fluxus, concrete poetry, sound art and other disciplines at the onset of the... More
New York: Something Else Press, 1965. First edition. 12mo, [12] pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Illustrated with photographs of artists, all save that of Ray Johnson by Peter Moore. The preface to this catalog is an early, and key work written by Dick Higgins on the physical issues of printing and issuing... More
Bolinas: Smithereens Press, 1987. First edition. 4to, stab-stapled in illustrated card covers. One of 250 copies. Association copy, inscribed to the late fellow poet Stephen Rodefer at the title page and dated in the year following publication: "To Steve Rodefer, blowing in Boulder, in old friendship. Anselm." A great association... More
![Fathers Often Use Too Much Force [Bumper Sticker]. Jenny Holzer.](/pictures/thumb/26499.jpg?v=1530032500)
[Santa Fe]: Intercultural Media Forum, nd [c. 1986?]. 3 x 15" sticker, printed in black on white paper with backing intact. A poster printing one of the phrases from Holzer's series Truisms series, originally made from 1977-79. The Intercultural Media Forum was a project based at the College of Santa... More