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
A likely complete run in 13 issues of the Argentinian literary journal, most issues approx. 12-18 pp., edited by poet and author Nelly Borroni MacDonald, the issues containing a mix of prose and poetry from a range of writers, including Sonia Leonhardt, Lermo Balbi, Arturo Lomello, Edgardo Pesante, Nelly Borroni..... More
A fascinating and unique World War I German Red Cross hospital train photograph album, with an accordion-folded sheet the length of 10 pages, containing the title page, 8-leaf colored blueprint of the layout of the train, and 1-page description of the layout, followed by 11 original photographs, 9 of which..... More
Turn-of-the-century German Jugendstil tabletop game using elements of shuffleboard or billiards, the contents comprising two hinged pieces of wood which are connected to form the play area, a wooden cue with curved piece of wood for pushing at one end, and two sets of color-coded wooden disks with felt bottoms..... More
Berlin: self-published, 1971-1972. Tabloid format, unstapled as issued, each issue ca. 43 × 31 cm. [8] to [14] pp. per issue. Fully illustrated throughout. Some light toning and staining; two issues with date inscribed in ink; else about very good. Rare complete run of one of the most elusive illustrated..... More
A complete run of 33 issues in 29 fascicules of the Flemish-Dutch avant-garde journal published by the "Society for the Promotion of Avant-Garde Art" and founded by Flemish poets Gust Gils and Paul Snoek, no. 12 with the original "DADA" supplemental pamphlet in a layout imitating DADA publications, intended as..... More
A sizable sequential run of 55 issues in 51 fascicules (three double issues, and lacking Year I nos. 19 and 24, and Year II no. 5), approx. 24-32 pp. each, of the journal aimed at Italian youth, under the editorial direction of Carlo Scorza and Achille Starace, featuring stories and..... More
A complete run of the 1900 edition of the Catalan humor and literary journal bound in a single volume, each issue approx. 8 pp. and containing brief works of prose and poetry, together with the complete texts of the nine short comedic plays which appeared in serial format over the..... More
A significant group of approximately 113 unique flyers (including a few variants) from the mid-1980s punk scene in the California Bay Area, all collected by a single person, photomechanicaly produced on various colors of paper stock. Various sizes, most 11" x 8.5". Overall very good condition, minor edgewear, a few..... More
A complete and very scarce set of three items related to the Situationist title Les Luttes de Classes, including: the 8-pp. premiere issue published by a group of ex-Situationists after their split from Guy Debord, including Herbert Holl, Édith Frey, Jean Garnault, and Théo Frey, with an introductory mission statement..... More
A collection of 58 non-consecutive issues of the newsletter put out by the Safety Department of the Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier Co. (M.W.A.K.) for its workers, together with a single bonus unnumbered newsletter, edited by Pete Shrauger, most issues approx. 6-12 pp. and printed on various colors of paper, with information including notices..... 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
1969. Unpaginated (circa 120 pp.) catalogue, with text in English and German, for a film festival organized by Kurt Kren, featuring the work of filmmakers such as Marc Adrian, Stan Brakhage, W & B Hein, Hans Peter Kochenrath, Kurt Kren, Malcolm LeGrice, Gregory J. Markopoulous, Otto Muehl, Hans Helmut Klaus..... 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
A complete run in 7 issues, each issue approx. 8 pages, of the anarchist Italian journal, containing alternative history stories which allude to real-life events, provocative stories, and essays on topics such as eroticism, homosexuality, and Dadaism. Illustrated profusely throughout. Some minor scattered toning, edgewear, minor chipping, marginal dampstaining to..... More
Leningrad: Gublit, ca. 1925-1928? Various formats. Three small posters, printed to rectos in blue and red. About very good; small nicks and tears to edges. In protective mylar sleeve. Contains the following slogans: "Kazhdoe novoe sel’sko-khoziaistvennoe tovarishchestvo – zalog uluchsheniia krest'ianskogo khoziaistva (Every new agricultural cooperative plays its part in..... More
A complete run in 189 issues (lacking only 2 issues: Vol. I, No. 8 and Vol. II, No. 37) of the international Trotskyist political journal before its name changed to Intercontinental Press, under the editorial direction of Joseph Hansen, Pierre Frank, Livia Maitan, and George Novack, published under the auspices..... More
Leningrad, 1945. 14 leaves of typescript to rectos measuring 29.5 × 20 cm; several pages with hand-written additions in dark blue ink. Very good; light rust to first and final leaf from old paper clip; tiny tear to lower left corner of title leaf. An unrecorded early typescript variant of..... More
[Germany, 1968]. Original silk-screened poster, printed in black and red, measuring 84 × 59 cm. Very good or better. A remarkably drastic anti-war poster, issued as a fake poster for the fourth Documenta in Kassel, held in 1968. The fourth installment of the famous contemporary art fair – considered the..... More
1968. Unpaginated (circa 42 pp.) volume discussing contemporary German artists, including 24 original graphics (most color, most signed, please see note), including etchings, silk screened images, collages, and works incorporating other media. Square 4to. Wrpps. Cologne (Wolfgang Hake Verlag) 1968. One of an edition of 200 copies; one of 100..... More
16 pp. booklet containing jokes, rhymes, and sarcastic comments on various members of the Futurist movement invlucing Depero, Vasari, Soffici, and Prampolini, with subscription form for "Del teatro teatrale" in multiple languages inserted to center and embellished with a woodcut. A few scattered cartoon-style text illustrations by up and coming..... More
![Bludnost jedné představy [The deviousness of one idea]. Bohuslav Brouk, designer Karel...](/pictures/thumb/P5043_1.jpeg?v=1580327087)
Prague: self-published, 1941. Small octavo. Original illustrated card wrappers; 20, [1] pp. Some underlining in blue ink in text. Striking photo-illustrated design by Karel Černý. A fine copy. Bohuslav Brouk (1912–1978) was a Czech psychoanalyst, philosopher, art theoretician, and writer. He was one of the first promoters of Freud’s work..... More
12 vols., altogether over 7000 pp. catalogue, by J. van den Gheyn, Fréderic Lyna, Emile Wagemans, et al., of the collection of over 8500 illuminated and otherwise rare or unusual mss. in the Royal library, each item described, many with extensive annotations and cross-references. 4to. Orig. wrpps., some vols. sl..... More
![Pryntsypy iliustruvannia dytiachoi knyzhky [The principles of illustrating children's books]....](/pictures/thumb/51471_1.jpeg?v=1631043551)
Kyiv: Vydavnytstvo "Kul'tura", 1929. Octavo (18.7 × 14 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 66, [2] pp. and twelve leaves of plates. About very good; partially uncut and unopened; light soil to edge of front wrapper; text beginning to separate between pp. 32 and 33; private inventory number to rear wrapper. Interesting..... More
Detailed early 19th century hand-colored engraved map of Paris and its environs, covering the area from La Ferté-Alais in the south to Blincourt in the north, and from Gressey in the west to Coulommiers in the east, with four small inset maps of St. Germain en Laye, St. Cloud, Versailles..... More