Cleveland: Free Lance Press, 1970. First edition. 8vo, 90 pp, saddle-stapled orange card wraps. A remarkable dramatic work based upon the short story by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón, originally written at the suggestion of, and for the composer Hale Smith in 1957. Near fine with a touch of fading to..... More
Various: nd [c. early 1900's]. Fourteen cabinet photographs mounted on card, one sheet of stationary with a two color photographically illustrated header, and one real photo postcard. The Brown Brothers were an acrobat and equilibrist duo active in the early part of the century. One of the brothers was one-legged..... More
New York: American Theatre for Poets, 1960. First edition. 4to, seven sheets mimeographed from typescript on rectos only and stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The scarce script for this early play by DiPrima. Single ink notation within, with some overall soiling and creasing, but very good. More
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, 1924. 32mo, saddle-stapled in pale green wraps printed in black. Illustrated. Likely the first edition of the work, in Gibbs' LBB 1 binding. Finger was an Arkansan wanderer, folklorist, musicologist, and adventurer whose remarkable body of work is still too little known. He was a prolific contributor to..... More
New York: 1967. 2 x 3" card, with the word "Fluxmaster" printed on it, mounted in a plastic holder. With poster for the event [17 x 22", offset lithograph on white paper]. Original Fluxmaster card created by George Maciunas for the artist Dan Laufer, made for his participation in the..... More
np: nd [c. early 20th century]. 3 1/4 x 5" postcard, offset printed in white card stock. Verso blank. Postcard featuring the tattooed sideshow performer, active in the late 19th and early 20th century in Germany. Note the tattooed spats on those elegant ankles. More
San Francisco: Theatre Rhinoceros, 1984. 8 1/2 x 11" flyer, photo-mechanically reproduced on white paper stock. Original flyer for the first performance of this early and important collaboratively written play in the basement studio at Theatre Rhinoceros. The play, directed by Leland Moss, was instrumental in raising awareness of the..... More
Rome: Lerici Editore, 1968. First edition. 8vo, unpagintated, typographically designed wrappers. Text in Italian. First edition of this groundbreaking artists' book documenting happoenings which occured in the La Tartaruga gallery in Rome in May, 1968. A gorgeously designed book profusely illustrated with photographs in Black and white and sepia, many..... More
New York: 1965. 89 1/2 x 11 flyer, offset printed in black on white card stock. With press release, 8 1/2 x 11", mimeographed from typescript. The Birth of the Theatre of the Ridiculous! This was the first appearances of both of these plays, which Ronald Tavel had originally written..... More
np: [1973]. A cache of 10 items produced in conjunction with the Electric Element, a multi-media performance which was performed at the Theatre Royal Stratford in 1973 by the avant-garde theatrical performance troupe, which included the legendary musican and cybernetic artist Bruce Lacey, who appeared in Jasia Reichardt's Cybernetic Serendipity..... More
London: Architectural Association, 1978. First edition. 11 1/2 x 16 1/2" flyer, offset printed on white paper stock. The flyer for this ambitious celebration at the Architectural Association in London, notable for including Throbbing Gristle. There are at least 2 posters we've seen made for this event (and probably more..... More