New York: Independent Curators, Inc., 1990. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound quarto in cardboard sleeve. 72 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Donna Stein and featuring artist books by Richard Tuttle, Roberto Clemente, Dennis Oppenheim and Alex Katz just to name a.... More about Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967 - 1988
No Place: Tatlin Books, 1991. First edition. Paperback. Tall narrow wrappers. A fine press book made with a variety of papers and types. The book includes quotes from various famous writers including Emerson, Schoenberg and more. Fine condition in sewn decorated thick paper wrappers. One copy located in institutional hands... More about Tatlinbooks
St. Louis: University of Missouri, 1984. First edition. Paperback. Thick paperbound quarto. Unpaginated. Introduction by Hamady. A useful bibliographic checklist of books and pamphlets published by Hamady and the Perishable Press. A near fine copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. Terrific reference work. More about Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited
New York: Art Spiegelman (Raw), 1983. First edition. Paperback. Small booklet. Measures 6 x 8 3/4" tall. Comprising Chapter Five of Spiegelman's now -classic tale set in Naxi Germany and told in cartoon format. This booklet was originally sold as part of an issue of RAW Magazine, but sold here... More about MAUS, A Survivor's Tale; Mouse Holes, Chapter Five
No Place: Art Spiegelman (Raw), 1982. First edition. Paperback. Small booklet. Measures 6 x 8 3/4" tall. Comprising Chapter Three of Spiegelman's now -classic tale set in Naxi Germany and told in cartoon format. This booklet was originally sold as part of an issue of RAW Magazine, but sold here... More about MAUS, A Survivor's Tale; Prisoner of War, Chapter Three
No Place: Art Spiegelman (Raw), 1981. First edition. Paperback. Small booklet. Measures 5 1/4 x 7" tall. Comprising Chapter Two of Spiegelman's now -classic tale set in Naxi Germany and told in cartoon format. This booklet was originally sold as part of an issue of RAW Magazine, but sold here... More about MAUS, A Survivor's Tale; The Honeymoon Chapter Two
No Place: Art Spiegelman (Raw), 1983. First edition. Paperback. Small booklet. Measures 6 x 8 3/4" tall. Comprising Chapter Four of Spiegelman's now -classic tale set in Naxi Germany and told in cartoon format. This booklet was originally sold as part of an issue of RAW Magazine, but sold here... More about MAUS, A Survivor's Tale; The Noose Tightens, Chapter Four
Cleveland: Broken Mimeo Press, 1969. First edition. Paperback. Oblong stapled wrappers. A "hand-assembled" artist book consisting entirely of irregularly cut pieces of blue paper glued on to blue sheets of paper of the same color. Each copy is different from the rest. One of only 200 copies created by these... More about Dialogue In Pale Blue
London: Coracle Production, 1989. First edition. Paperback. 12mo. Simple pale green stapled wrappers with French flaps printed in black. Includes two pages summarizing publications of the press followed by seven pages each with only a single line of text. One page folded purposefully by the publisher. Very good condition. A.... More about A New Seed Cataogue
Calais: Z Press, 1987. First edition. Paperback. Wide paperbound quarto. 165 pp. Per the text on the rear cover "26 Bars is an alphabet work of drinking establishments situated in a fantasy USA. Collaboration between Dennis as illustrator and Elmslie as writer. A very good plus copy in thick bound... More about 26 Bars: A Collaboration (Signed Lettered Edition
No Place: Privately Printed, No Date. First edition. Paperback. Unusual artist publication by poet Di Plama. A 6 x 9" printed manila clasped folder. Contents include an original color photograph, sevveral cards stamped "Confidential" and a small stamped envelope containing even small er cards with similar stamp. We have not... More about Original Confidential
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 about We Dream We Are Awake
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 about Silk Commemorative Issue 1957
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 about The Dreigroschenfilm (Suite of 25 soft ground etchings
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 about I Hear Her Cry
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 about Air Letters
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 about Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla Takes Off
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 about The green, the red, the yellow, the black, and the white (Signed Limited Edition; Also 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 about a Bean Concordance Volume I (Inscribed
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 about The Eclectic Abecedarium
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 about City With All the Angles, a Radio Play (Inscribed Association Copy
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 about And His Sandal Shoon Shine (With Inscribed Card to Mr. Laughlin
No Place: Troll Thread, 2012. First edition. Paperback. Trade paperbound volume. Unpaginated. An artist book by Kotecha. Near Fine condition in bound glossy white wrappers printed in black. No place of publication indicated. Only two copies held in librarian hands. More about Outfits
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 about Paint The Rock
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 about The Silencing (Inscribed
