New York: Unmuzzled Ox, 1984. First edition. Cloth. Folios. Four consecutive issues of Michael Andre's Unmuzzled Ox Magazine sold here together in a Special Publisher's Clothbound format. Printed on inexpensive newsprint type paper and measuring 11 1/4 x 16 1/2" tall. These four issues all contain extensions of Cantos of... More
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Small quarto. 198 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Excellent monograph on Rietveld. Prior ownership name of P. F. Norton to front endpaper else a fine hardbound copy in very good dustwrapper with a small chip to top of spine area. Uncommon and beautiful volume. More
London: John Murray, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. London architecture book heavily illustrated with photographs. The book attempts to depict the principal changes which have taken place, with some suggestions for the further improvement of the Metropolis. Scattered foxing, else a very good clothbound copy in bright near fine... More
Tokyo: Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Tall paperbound quarto. 83 pp. Text in Japanese and English by Takashi Nibuya, Takahiko Okada, Eiko Ikui and others. Some toning to cover edges else a near fine copy in glossy bound white wrappers printed in silver around the edges... More
Los Angeles: Molly Barnes Gallery, 1968. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small single stiff sheet of paper, folded once to form a narrow booklet. An announcement flyer from the Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles for a Dec 4 1968 - Jan 4 1969 exhibition of conceptual artist Eleanor Antin. The... More
Boston: Photographic Resource Center Boston University, 1985. First edition. Paperback. Folio. Collaboration between these two video artists on the subject of Northern Ireland. A very good copy in tall stapled illustrated wrappers. Only three cc found in world institutions. More
France: Edition Dana, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Collaboration between Rouge's text in French reproduced via seriography and Hundrich's abstract color lithographs. With a letter-press German translation. Accordion - bound in sturdy handmade paper cover, with printed front in thick paper printed wrapper. An edition of only 33 Numbered and SIGNED... More
London: Knife Edge Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Folio. The first book to be published by this press. Composed of original screenprinted images by Bruce Mc Lean and with text by Mel Gooding. Printed under the direction of Michael Schonke at the Druckwerkstatt in Berlin. Limited to 140... More
Lille: Editions Alain Buyse, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Artist Book. Tall quarto. Collaboration between Messing who provides the text, letterpress-printed in 2 colors and 2 directions, opposite the enigmatic rubbings in a colored medium (Goache) by Duchene, each accompanied by a mysterious string of typed numbers, each initialed by the... More
London: Tetrad Press, 1970. First edition. Loose Sheets. Large single sheet of quality paper, folded once to form a booklet. Text and silkscreen image by Tyson. A near fine example. This is one of the 50 special copies numbered and SIGNED by the artist. When closed, it measures 9 7/8 x 11 3/4" tall. More
New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 269 pp. Edited by Paul Vangelisti. Superb selection dating back to the author's days of the early 60's when he still referred to himself as LeRoi Jones. A fine hardbound copy in lightly used dustwrapper. Uncommon in the hardbound edition with... More
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this collection of photographs of beat artists and writers. A near fine clothbound copy with photo inset to front cover in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. Boards splayed open very slightly. Although not stated, this is one of only 40... More
San Francisco: City Lights, 1959. First edition. Loose Sheets. Small 8vo. Single sheet, folded several times to form an elongated booklet when opened. A close to fine copy in printed wrappers. Early City Lights beat publication which has become quite dear, especially in condition. The author's first publication. More
Paris: Damascene Morgand Et Charles Fatout, 1882. First edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Text in French. Deluxe edition of 25 copies of this massive catalogue raisonne of Jean-Michel Moreau Le Jeune. Printed on Whatman paper. 750 pp. Comprises Volume VI from Les Gravures Francaises du XVIIIe Siecle. About very good condition... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #35 of only 50 hardcover copies SIGNED by Bowles. Near fine with some offsetting to front board. Protected in fine clear acetate wrapper. One of the early hardcover limiteds from Black Sparrow. Quite uncommon. Extra spine label laid in... More
Ann Arbor: OtherWind Press, Inc., 1987. First edition. Loose Sheets. Collection of twenty-two broadsides by Michigan writers. The first in a series edited by Pat Smith and Keith Taylor. The broasides vary in size with the largest being nearly 9 x 12" tall. All in fine condition. Each broadside is... More
Ulm: Hochschule fur Gestaltung, 1963. First edition. Paperback. 4to. September 1963, Double issue 8 and 9 (of 21 published in 14 volumes). Celebrated magazine arm of the influential German school of design which was founded by Inge Aicher-Scholl, Otl Aiker and Max Bill. Somewhat musty, but in clean very good... More
New York: Kulchur Foundation, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. 128 pp. A sharp very good plus copy in boards (illustrated by Edward Ruscha). In fine aclear acetate wrapper. Edition size unknown, but the Kulchur Foundation often would publish a tiny number of hardcover editions of their publications (think Bean... More
New York: Henry Holt, 1928. First Expanded Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 213 pp. First expanded edition of this book which includes poems from "A Boy's Will", North of Boston", Mountain Interval" and "New Hampshire". A clean very good copy in very tattered dustwrapper. Wrapper has a very large triangular piece missing... More
Reykjavik: Kaputeikning: Kolbeinn Arnason, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Oblong 8vo. Scarce first book by the Icelandic novelist and poet. A fine copy in bound wrappers. One of 300 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. No copies found in world institutions. More
London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1972. First UK edition. Paperback. Small trade paperbound book. The first British edition of Heaney's third major poetry collection. Published in this format only (no British hardbound edition) with French flaps. Some small smudges to covers and general reading wear. A very good example of... More
London: HJohn Richmond, 1913. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. A very good copy in gold bound wrappers. A parody written by Sassoon under this pen name. Bookplate to inside front cover. More
Amsterdam: Invisible Language Society, 1992. First edition. Paperback. Tall narrow comb bound wrappers. Published as Transactions of the Invisible Language Society No. 1. 33 pp. A collection of related essays on Radio or sound art. Fine condition. This copy INSCRIBED by Levy to a fellow writer and dated in year... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. 791 pp. The collected novels and stories of Carson McCullers. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper " for ___ and ___ with all love, Carson". A good-only copy with some faint pink underlining to several lines of text and... More
