Small unpaginated booklet published anonymously by Julien Blaine and signed "J" to front cover, taking the form of an artist's book containing ideograms offset printed in three colors, using the red, white, and blue of the French flag to depict a visual reaction to the events of May 1968 in..... More
Schneemann's famous artist's book, containing drawings, charts, text, and mimeographed clippings, including a sexual parameters survey, an essay "Notes from first viewing a film by Dusan Makavejev", a dialogue "CAMERA - seeing through", letters to Clayton Eshleman, a "recipe" titled "Americana I Ching Apple Pie", comics, rehearsal notes, and other..... More
Unpaginated (approximately 20 leaves) mimeographed artist's book described in another publication by the BGP as "strange doodles and spaghetti visions", containing abstract and avant-garde doodles, sketches, and diagrams, some with brief lines of text integrated into the images. Oblong 8vo. Tape-bound wrpps., some spotting to tape, slight browning to covers..... More
Unpaginated (30 pp.) booklet containing 30 mimeographed pages with contributions including an introductory essay by Mike Weaver, several reviews by Mike Gibbs of books by Anselm Hollo, Charles Olson, John Cale, Terry Riley, David Curtis, and Richard Koselanetz, a poem by Jerome Rothenberg, an essay by Carolee Schneemann "Notes from..... More
Collection of approximately 33 works of art, concrete and visual poetry, photography, typography, and design from a number of noted modern and conceptual artists, mostly printed items, including a signed photograph by Carlfriedrich Claus and a numbered and signed work by Peter Mayer, and additional booklets, typed sheets, small slips..... More
Warsaw, 1988. Original print inside a mass-produced communist postcard dedicated to the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, measuring 14.5 × 10.5 cm. Very good. An invitation postcard advertising a mass performance event of The Orange Alternative which took place in Warsaw’s Old Town on November 6th, 1988. Staged during an anniversary celebration..... More
Moscow: "Iz glubin", 1990. Octavo ( × cm). Original embossed green buckram boards; 164, [2] pp. Bound Chinese style with accordeon-like folded leaves. Numerous illustrations, including xeroxed collages of wrappers and book covers. Very good. First edition of this directory of underground periodicals, compiled by the prolific samizdat bibliographer Aleksandr..... More
Warsaw: Akademia Ruchu, 1989. Quarto (29.6 × 20.6 cm). Original pictorial wrappers, perfect-bound; 190 pp. Signed and inscribed by Zbigniew Libera to title. Very good. Important anthology of the Łódź-based "Kultura Zrzuty" (roughly equivalent to "Pitch-in culture" or "Culture of sharing"), an artistic phenomenon of the 1980s that gathered representatives..... More
A complete run of 13 issues (two double issues) in 11 fascicules of the radical Italian art, architecture, and design journal, with some texts in German, English and French, many issues approx. 100-130 pp., each issue focused on a specific topic or area of research, with an editorial staff including..... More
Small cardboard box containing an introductory booklet folded accordion-style and printed recto only, and a group of 329 printed cards and 4 blank cards, the printed cards mostly each bearing a single word to each side of the card, some printed instead with an image (one example being a clip..... More
Kaunas: self-published, 1933. Small quartos (26 × 19.3 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial wrappers; 79, [1] pp. (ca. 20 pp. per issue). Each issue with numerous illustrations. Very good issues; the first two with light foxing and dust-soiling to wrappers; the last two fine, uncut and unopened copies. The complete final..... More
Paris: self-published, January 1954-August 1957. Tabloid newsprint, measuring 45 x 32 cm; [4] pp. per issue. Old vertical and horizontal fold; else very good. A scarce complete run in 11 issues of the scientific and literary periodical, issued by René Pradel as a place to record his revolutionary scientific hypotheses..... More
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[Warsaw: Niezalezna agencja fotograficzna, 1970. In original printed folder measuring 21 × 13 cm with a single leaf of text mimeographed to recto. Very good. A set of fifteen photographs documenting “the largest and most violent working-class uprising in the history of state-socialist regimes” which took place in Poland in..... More
IWC: Inicjatywa walki czynnej [Active fighting initiative]. Ca. 1985. Original envelope measuring 15.75 × 11 cm, with original prints to recto and verso in black and green. Very good. A Solidarity-issued envelope with a laconic design symbolizing the friendship between Polish and Afghani anti-communist opposition, likely printed in 1985. The..... More
Hamburg: M. Kimmelstiel & Co., [circa 1910]. Small octavo (17.5 × 10.5 cm). Original maroon cloth; with illustration mounted to front cover; [2], [40] leaves, with 39 original inkblot drawings (one page left blank). Some rubbing along spine; else very good. A curious volume that combines evocative necromancy and the..... More
Kiev-Kharkiv: "LIteratura i iskusstvo", 1934. Octavo (17.8 × 13 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 167, [1] pp. Illustrated from photographs throughout. Lacking the pictorial dust-jacket. Wrappers somewhat worn and creased; lightly toned; still about very good. First edition. An eye-witness account of travels to the arctic circle on the Soviet icebreaker..... More
Paris, December 8, 1930. Single folded leaf with Stein's decorative letterhead, measuring 20.3 × 13.6 cm, inscribed recto and verso, once folded and with the original stamped envelope featuring the seal and Stein's calling card. Very good. Autograph letter signed to Marcelle Ferry, posted on December 8, 1930 when Stein..... More
[Paris, 1942]. Quarto (26.8 × 20.7 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 15 pp. Very good. Second "Liste Otto", one of three volumes published under this unofficial title during the German occupation of Paris and the Vichy Regime. The pamphlet was issued on July8, 1942 and listed 1170 prohibited titles, including..... More
Tashkent: Izdatel'stvo sredne-aziatskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta, 1928-1929. Octavos (25 × 16.5 cm). Original staple-stitched printed wrappers; 35, 97, and 119 pp. respectively. Illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs. Very good; stamp of the Société asiatique in Paris; some toning and chipping; third volume with tape along spine and rear wrapper. Rare..... More
Kharkiv: Narodnyi komisariiat lehkoi promyslovosty USRR, 1932. Oblong quarto (22 × 29.5 cm). Original string-bound embossed cloth over boards, with constructivist design; 104 unnumbered leaves of illustrations. In Ukrainian and Russian. Very good. A richly-illustrated promotional album for the achievements of the first five-year plan in Ukraine, a period of..... More
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Kyiv: VUFKU, 1928. Octavo (22 × 18 cm). Original illustrated wrappers; 61, [2] pp. Illustrations. Stamp and markings in ink to title. Light wear to wrapper edges, else very good. First Ukrainian translation of E.A. Dupont’s classic text, originally published in German in 1926. Starting out as a journalist and..... More
![Konstruktsii maloetazhnykh domov v SShA [The construction of low-rise homes in the USA]. Opyt...](/pictures/thumb/51576_1.jpeg?v=1637007472)
Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe Arkhitekturnoe Izdatel'stvo Akademii Arkhitektury, 1944. Octavo (21.5 × 16.8 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; 86, [2] pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs, diagrams, and drawn plans. Very good. Scarce work on single- and low-rise housing buildings in the United States, illustrated with a wealth of architectural diagrams, photographs, and floor..... More
Moscow [Odessa]: Knigoizdatel'stvo "Buria", [1918]. Small octavo (16 × 12 cm). Original printed wrappers; 63 pp. About very good; light overall wear and dust-soiling, minor chipping to spine. A curious bibliographical mystery, this edition appears to be one of the very first full publications of Pushkin's scandalously sacrilegious poem, written..... More
Czechoslovakia, ca. 1987?. String-bound booklet comprising 62 works on papers of varying stock, housed in Soennecken plastic sleeves. Bound with twine and decorative strands of woven yarn. Various media, including xeroxed sheets (usually partially colored or annotated by hand), hand-drawn illustrations, thirty-four mounted original photographic prints (both black-and-white and color)..... More
A complete run in twelve issues of the avant-garde journal, edited by Guy Schraenen, conceived of as a 12-part project leading up to the "Antwerp International Mail-Art Festival" held in October 1981, with contributions by many of the most important European practitioners of the movement, including dramatic and quirky juxtapositions..... More