Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
Collection of 73 flyers documenting assorted performances from the influential Texas hardcore punk band, Big Boys, the performances taking place mainly within Texas but also with some flyer examples from out-of-state shows in California and Washington D.C., for concerts where the Big Boys headlined, played with, or opened for other..... More
Unpaginated (16 pp.) trade catalogue displaying examples of geometric and Art Deco-style inlaid wood banding, one section with secondary title page "Bandes Mosaïque: Art Moderne", the catalogue with 15 chromolithographed pages, chromolithography by H. Bouquet, Paris, each page with numerous examples of inlay in a variety of materials including wood..... More
A complete run of four issues in three fascicules of the short-lived series distributed by the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches de l'Environnement (C.E.R.E.), to complement the series Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes Architecturales and highlight environmental issues, including population, urbanization, public transportation, and decentralization. Illustrated throughout from photographs, drawings, diagrams..... More
A collection of approx. 65 pamphlets, mostly religious in nature though peppered with some secular tracts, most published in the United States in the first half of the 19th century but with a few before and after, including a wealth of sermons relating to the nature and practice of religion..... More
A complete run in seven fascicules of the Argentinian cultural and political journal, edited by Luis Aznar and Guillermo Korn, born out of the socialist branch of the Reforma Universitaria, each issue with a specific focus topic and subtitle, celebrating the Reformation as a political-cultural and socialist movement, each issue..... More
Slovenia and Croatia: various, 1942-1945. Octavos (ca. 15.5 × 11.3 to 21.5 × 17.2 cm). Original staple-stitched printed and mimeographed self-wrappers and wrappers; varying pagination, typically no more than 32 pp. Overall about very good; a few items with wear to wrappers or toning. Group of seventeen clandestine publications by..... More
The first five of six total issues printed of the small-press poetry journal and review from the important 1970s Bay Area poetry scene, edited by J. Rutherford Williams, issues ranging from 93-163 pp., with written and artistic contributions from Clifford Burke, Beverly Dahlen, Eugene Ruggles, David Meltzer, David Gitin, Hale..... More
19th century lotto and checkers game comprised of: a folding lithographed gameboard with checkerboard center and printed rules in two flanking columns of text; 24 individual bingo-style lotto boards in four colored sets of six boards each, the blank spaces having been hand-colored; 19 black painted wooden checker-style discs and..... More
Group of contact sheets and 35 mm film negatives totaling 264 unique black-and-white images, together with 25 modern 8x10" photographic prints from the negatives, from the August 26, 1971 Women's March for Equality held in New York City, including images of feminist leaders and founders of the National Women's Political..... More
A complete run in 2 issues (12 and 8 pp., respectively) of the short-lived Lettrist journal conceived of by a group of young students consisting of Thierry Paul-Lévy, Paulette Liétard, Patrick Brault, Guy Chastel, and Jean-Charles Depaule, and published with the help of the Lettrists, directed by Jacques Spacagna with..... More
![Provokatie [Provocation], nos. 1–17. Includes the original edition of Provokatie no. 3,...](/pictures/thumb/50148_001.jpg?v=1580326939)
Amsterdam: Provo, 1965-1966. Various sizes and formats, mostly 33.8 × 21.5 cm, some smaller. Xeroxed text and image, as well as mimeographed typescript. Very good. Complete series of these mimeographed and xerox-copied Provo tracts, distributed individually as well as part of the journal Provo (folded and inserted). The third issue..... More
A complete run in 24 issues bound in one volume of the short-lived Argentinian literary and cultural journal, issues approx. 8-16 pp., edited by Julio Fingerit, containing prose and poetry together with articles of cultural interest on topics such as architecture, romanticism, the modern novel, art, woodcuts, folklore, James Joyce..... More
A complete run in 6 unpaginated issues of the journal put out by the eponymous socialist Danish artist's and musician's collective, forming a sort of catalogue of the group's activities through comics, photos of happenings and concerts, reproductions of posters, songs, and other works. 8vo. Original saddle-stapled cardstock wrpps., each..... More
A complete run in 11 issues of the conceptual art journal, comprised mainly of photographs of artwork, containing contributions from a large number of important international artists including H.P. Adamski, Hans-Peter Feldman, Giulio Paolini, Klaus Richter, Robert Cumming, Martin Disler, Pieter Holstein, Alex Silber, Gerhard Theewen, David Askevold, Robert Barry..... More
Unpag. volume containing reproductions of early 19th-century photographs of landmarks and sites from around Chile, approximately 166 images total, views include buildings, monuments, cities, natural landscapes, harbors, and celebrations throughout the country, with a focus on Santiago, each photograph captioned below the image, specific sites within Santiago depicted include the..... More
![Turnir poetov [Tournament of poets; first edition]. Aleksei Kruchenykh, Igor' Terent'ev,...](/pictures/thumb/50994_1.jpeg?v=1603979643)
Moscow: Izdanie Gruppy Lefovtsev, 1929. Oblong octavo (17 × 21.5 cm). [18] leaves of hectographed holograph text to rectos. Lacking front wrapper; occasional light stains and small tears; some professional restoration. Copy number 9 from an edition of 150 copies. With Igor Terent’ev’s portrait of Aleksei Kruchenykh on page 6..... More
Unpaginated photobook dedicated "allen noch lebenden Widerstandskämpfern des Dritten Reiches", comprised of approximately 29 black-and-white images from the funeral of three members of the RAF, each accompanied by a short explanatory text on the opposite page, with some pages of just text taken from contemporary newspaper reports, the images depicting..... More
1957. 4 vols.: Venetian School. 2 vols., XIV, 206 pp. text, 46 pp. topographical index, 1336 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color); and Florentine School. 2 vols., XIV, 222 pp. text, 39 pp. topographical index, 1480 illustrations on plates (2 plates in color). Small 4to. Cloth. London/New York (Phaidon)..... More
158-pp. volume with preface by Leon Bourgeois describing the social misery of women, with texts from a variety of contributors, including Paul Adam, Léonce Benedite, Eugene Brieux, Léon Frapié, Camille Lemonnier, Pierre Louÿs, Paul Margueritte, Victor Margueritte, Jean Richepin, and Gabriel Séailles, and original prints from Charles Cottet, André Devambez..... More
![Iskusstvo kommuny [Art of the commune], nos. 7, 8, 9, 11, 14 (January 19–March 9, 1919). Osip...](/pictures/thumb/50376_001.jpg?v=1633715166)
Petrograd: Izdanie Otdela Izobrazitel’nykh Iskusstv Komissariata Narodnogo Prosveshcheniia, 1919. Folios (64 × 45 cm). Original folded newsprint, printed to rectos and versos; 4–6 pp. Striking suprematist lettering in header. Leaves toned and somewhat brittle, as usual; old creases and nicks to folds, corners, and margins. Still good or better. Five..... More
X, 240 pp. scholarly work concerning portraits of emperors on Roman currency, including bibliography, illustrated with images of hundreds of coins on 32 plates. 4to. Red cloth with embossed text on front board. Berlin (Gebr. Mann) 1940. (Archäologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches: Das Römische Herrscherbild, III. Abteilungen, Band. 2). This..... More
Unpaginated (ca. 105 pp.) collection of documents originally issued as Oberbaum Blätter, an irregular weekly series of left-radical underground press broadsides and handbills, including contributions by Rudi Dutschke, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Peter Handke, Peter O. Chotjewitz, the members of Kommune 1, and others, executed throughout with an experimental graphic style..... More
Amsterdam: self-published, 1968-1969. Quartos (ca. 28 × 21 cm). Side-stapled printed and pictorial wrappers, some by Rik Lina; ca. 16 pp. per issue. The first issue included in xeroxed copy (but with a contemporary address label); one issue with detached rear wrapper; else overall about very good. Complete run of..... More
Moscow; Leningrad: OGIZ–IZOGIZ, 1931. Octavo (18 × 12.5 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 78, [2] pp. With eleven full-page reproductions. Light soil and foxing to wrappers; still very good or better. Showcasing anti-imperialist posters by Soviet and European artists, this catalog was published for the first exhibition organized by the short-lived..... More