We Dream We Are Awake
New York: A Sleight-Of-Hand Book, 1987. First edition. Paperback. 12mo. Scarce artist book in side stapled wrappers. No copies to be found anywhere including in any institution. Very good condition. More
Artist Books
Silk Commemorative Issue 1957
New York: American Fabrics Magazine, 1957. First edition. Paperback. Folio. 14.25 x 11" wide. Brilliant color covers by Salvador Dali. A magazine devoted to the American silk industry with fabulous illustrations, advertisements, silk samples and articles on the history and use of silk throughout the world. Although not attributed, a.... More
The Dreigroschenfilm (Suite of 25 soft ground etchings)
New York: Touchstone Publishers Ltd, 1967. First edition. Loose Sheets. Double elephant folio in cloth-covered clamshell box. Contains a suite of twenty-five soft ground etchings by Jack Levine inspires by the Bertolt Brecht and G. W. Pabst "Dreigroschen Film" of 1930. One of 100 portfolios, each hand-numbered and signed by... More
I Hear Her Cry
Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2015. First edition. Cloth. Wide clothbound 8vo. A handsome artist book with "anagrammatic poem-clues for The Oaks, Wellesley". Photography by Stewart Clements and with an essay by Jeremy Millar. A fine copy. Issued without dustwrapper in an edition of 400 copies. Already uncommon. More
Air Letters
No Place: Tarasque Press, 1968. First Edition. Paperback. First edition of this slim and fragile artist book with drawings by Robert Frame. Near fine in stiff cardboard covers with some mild staining to rear cover. More
Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla Takes Off
New York, Toronto, Frankfurt: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. Unpaginated artist book collaboration between Brecht and Filliou. A very good clothbound copy in very good unclipped dustwrapper. Some toning at spine of book and wrapper. A solid collectible copy of a book that is difficult to describe... More
The green, the red, the yellow, the black, and the white (Signed Limited Edition; Also INSCRIBED to Fellow Fluxus Artists)
Bruxelles Hambourg: Editions Lebeer Hossmann, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Artist book collaboration between fluxus artists George Brecht and Alison Knowles. Called a "bean-book" in the collophon which states that this book is based on illustrations from the "Sprach-Brockhaus - Deutsches Worterbuch fur jedermann" Verlag Eberhard Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1947. Some of... More
a Bean Concordance Volume I (Inscribed)
Barrytown: Printed Editions, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Softbound quarto. An unpaginated artist book by this well-known fluxus artist. Minor scuff to rear cover, else a fine copy in brown printed wrappers. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Knowles in year of publication to a friend and fellow artist. More
The Eclectic Abecedarium
New York: Adama Books, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine first edition in glossy decorated boards. No dustwrapper, as issued. Former owner stamp to inside front board. This copy SIGNED by Gorey on the title page and uncommon thus. Signed by Author. More
City With All the Angles, a Radio Play (Inscribed Association Copy)
West Glover: Unpublished Editions, 1974. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound 8vo. An unpaginated radio play by Higgins with black and white photos. Illustrations by Bern Porter. A very good copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Published by Higgins under his imprint. This copy has been INSCRIBED by Higgins to fellow fluxus poet... More
Critical Dreams
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this beautifully designed artist/poetry book. A fine copy issued without dustwrapper. SIGNED by Jess who also provides the artwork. One of 120 copies. Signed by Author. More
And His Sandal Shoon Shine (With Inscribed Card to Mr. Laughlin)
New York: Privately Printed, 1967. First edition. Paperback. 8vo. 34 pp. A fine copy of this rare volume of experimental writing. Likely the author's first book. A very good clean copy in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. Only three copies located in WorldCat. Laid into this copy is a small card INSCRIBED... More
Paint The Rock
No Place: Troll Thread, 2011. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound volume. An artist book by Kotecha. Fine condition in bound glossy white wrappers printed in black. No place of publication indicated. One copy at Buffalo. More
The Silencing (Inscribed)
Santa Monica: Perceval Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Fine hardbound first edition. 107 pp. Text in Russian and English. Includes numerous photographs of murder sites within the former Soviet Union. INSCRIBED by Lambert and dated in 2015. More
Years Of Indiscretion Poems John Ashbery Etchings Tom Levine Foreword Patti Smith (Signed By All Three)
New York: Privately Printed, 2011. First edition. Cloth. Clothbound quarto in slipcase and outer clamshell box. 43 leaves. 31 cm. A truly beautiful example of livres d'artistes with 23 poems by Ashbery, 10 etchings by Tom Levine, a foreword by Patti Smith and a photograph by Vincent Dente. Handmade binding... More
Eight Drawing - Asymetries 1961 (Signed)
Verona: F. Conz, 1985. First edition. Loose Sheets. Elephant folio. Artist book by the fluxus poet and artist Jackson Mac Low consisting of 8 serigraphs, each consisting of one leaf each in white folder. Text entirely hand-written. Red ink-stamp of F. Conz on the title page verso. Per the colophon... More
The Shapes and Spacing of the Letters; Verbo-Visual Non-Fiction
Hollywood: Highmoonnoon, 2004. First edition. Paperback. Wide paperbound quarto. 106 pp plus a fold-out at rear of volume. A collection of illustrated essays by Kasper. Fine condition. More
Derives (Signed); Poemes / Lavis
France: Self Published, 1971. First edition. Paperback. Attractive artist book containing poems in French by Martinez and illustrations by Suter. [1971] SIGNED by both contributors. Loose sheets laid into a decorated sleeve. Laid into this copy is a postcard illustrated by Suter. Very good clean condition. Scarce title. More
Excerpts From The Anonymous Diary Of A New York Youth
Venice, CA: Taylor Mead, 1962. Second edition. Paperback. Volume I of Mead's autobiography put to verse. Second printing. A very good copy in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. Photos of the author by Leanora Miller. More
Excerpts From The Anonymous Diary Of A New York Youth
No Place: Taylor Mead, 1961. First edition. Paperback. Correct first printing of the first volume of Taylor Mead's confessional diary. 43 pp. Small ink price to front endpaper else a particularly bright very good copy. Cover photographs by Leanora Miller. Although the reprint edition shows up occasionally, this correct first... More
Mess Kit
San Francisco: Nova Broadcast Press, 1970. First edition. Paperback. Wide paper quarto. Portfolio containing four folded Cut-Up collage posters of varying sizes. The four items are entitled: Silent Weapons, Industry In Art, Play Money Not Negotiable and a fourth which is unnamed other than Triquarterly - Spring 1970 Supplement #3... More
Memoria Incandescente (la violenta blancura del horror)
Chile: Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, 2013. First edition. Paperback. Tall trade paperbound book with wide French flaps. Introduction by Carlo Miranda. Text in Spanish. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings. Fine copy. More
My Story (Signed by Author and Artist)
Providence: Ziggurat Press, 2007. First edition. Cloth. Handsome clothbound fine press edition. A fable told by Ortiz with woodcuts by Feldman. One of only fifty copies printed (this one is unnumbered). Fine condition. The pages open up accordian style. Although not called for this copy has been SIGNED by author... More