New York: View Editions, 1946. First Edition. 8vo, unpag.; original smooth white boards with a photo of Breton's face. Duchamp's cover design features the Statue of Liberty rendered in ben-day dots with a cutout oval revealing Breton's face in place of the face of the statue. More
N.P. White Rabbit Press, (1968). First Edition. 8vo, unpag. chapbook in printed wrappers, stapled. One of 1000 copies in the edition, illustrated throughout with collages by Jess. This copy has been inscribed by Jess to the poet Jerome Rothenberg and his wife: "For Jerry & Diane, (remembering their visit at..... More
Ashland, Massachusetts/Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press, (1959). First Edition. 4to, unpag.; original burlap covers lettered in cut velvet-textured fabric. One of 210 numbered copies (#200) signed at the colophon in rear by Corman and Ohno. The images were produced by collotype from original ink wash drawings and the text handset in..... More
Stuttgart: [Deutscher Werkbund], 1927. Adhesive label, 4 x 1-1/4 in. (10 x 3.3 cm) printed in blue and orange with perforated edging and gum adhesive on reverse. Original promotional label designed by Willi Baumeister for the historic Werkbund exhibition opening the Weissenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart, his hometown. Weissenhof was a...... More
New York: Société Anonyme, n.d. (ca. 1926). Color offset card, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. Color reproduction of an abstracted seascape by Dreier published by her Société Anonyme, Inc. Museum of Modern Art. Dreier founded the Société Anonyme in 1920 along with Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray in order to promote..... More
New York: Société Anonyme, n.d. (ca. 1920). Gelatin silver print on cardstock, 4-3/4 x 3-5/8 in. unprinted on reverse. Rare real photo postcard showing one of Katherine S. Dreier's painted abstractions, likely photographed by Man Ray. The card dates from the earliest period of Dreier's Société Anonyme when it was..... More
New York: Cafe Au Go Go, (1965). Printed handbill, 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 in. The Greenwich Village club Cafe Au Go Go was known as a locus of the folk revival and the rock scene of the 1960s -- and the site of Lenny Bruce's infamous sets that landed him in..... More
New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1939-1941. Three booklets, various sizes. Three illustrated exhibition pamphlets prepared by Hilla Rebay for "Art of Tomorrow" exhibitions that marked the beginnings of the Guggenheim Museum. The early exhibitions, dedicated to "non-objective painting," prominently featured the work of Rudolf Bauer. Now virtually forgotten, Bauer..... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921. First Edition. Folio, 114pp; parchment-backed boards. Early monograph on the eminent painter of the Ashcan School, published for subscribers in alimited edition of 990 hand-numbered copies. Uncommon, especially in dust jacket. More
New York: The Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 1970. First Edition. Folio, unpag. newsprint pages, stapled at top. A delicate and somewhat cumbersome document illustrated throughout with photographs of previous Happenings undertaken by Kaprow. A landmark of conceptual art -- Kaprow's Happenings were fundamentally ephemeral demarcations of..... More
Paris: L'Union des Artistes Russes, 1923. Double-sided handbill, 5-1/8 x 19-1/2 in (13 x 50 cm) printed in black on green paper. Scarce handbill for this benefit event with woodblock designs by Larionov on both sides. Signed by Larionov in ink on the front beneath the larger of his designs;..... More
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(Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions des Massons), 1974. First Edition. Square 4to, unpag.; printed wrappers as issued. Systematic artists' book presenting a total of 190 combinations of arcs and lines. More
Milwaukee: Membrane Press, 1984. First Edition. Small 4to, unpag. in printed wrappers, perfect bound. Includes "postface" text by both Rothenberg and Cohen. A fascinating collaboration joining the spiritual world with the computer world. Rothenberg's renderings of the Yaqui songs which call on otherworldly forces are joined with Cohen's computer-generated art..... More
New York: Kulchur Foundation, (1974). First Edition. Small 4to, 128pp perfect bound in printed pictorial wrappers. Cover design by Edward Ruscha with the title spelled out in plastic-sheathed diner toothpicks. More
New York: Société Anonyme, n.d. (ca. 1920). Gelatin silver print on cardstock, 3-1/2 x 5-3/8 in. with printed rules and printer logo on reverse. Rare real photo postcard showing an untitled abstraction by Schwitters, likeley photographed by Man Ray. The card dates from the earliest period of Katherine Dreier's Société..... More
Hannover: H. Bahlsen Keks-Fabrik A.G., n.d. (ca. 1930). Three printed postcards, 5-3/4 x 4-1/8, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2 in. After pioneering avant-garde collage art and abstraction in the early years of the twentieth century, Schwitters founded a graphic design firm called Merzwerbe which did designs for the Bahlsen company, manufacturer of..... More
Paris: C. Joubert, ca. 1895. 8 folio leaves. Toulouse-Lautrec produced a series of fourteen original covers to illustrate song with music by Desiré Dihau and lyrics by Jean Richepin. The pictures soon proved more popular than the songs and the publisher began to sell them separately without the sheet music..... More
New York: Hawk's Well Press, 1966. Small 8vo, original printed wrappers. The third number of the short-lived little magazine edited by Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin with the famous cover designed by Andy Warhol comprised of a sheet of perforated stickers with "Bomb Hanoi" arrayed in yellow circles. The second..... More
New York: Heiner Friedrich, (1970). Second Edition. Oblong 4to, with all inserts and paste-ins. Faithful reprint of the historic 1963 edition in an ever-so-slightly larger size than the earlier one. More