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

50 mimeographed pages total containing the stapled minutes of five meetings held by the Surrealists in Paris, the minutes taken variously by Yves Battistini, Édouard Jaguer, Lucien Justet, and Christian Dotremont, together with some single-page typed letters from the same time period. 4to., with original printed cover titled “Comptes rendus..... More

Mostly West Berlin and Frankfurt am Main,: ca. 1936–1960. Please inquire for a complete list of contents with detailed descriptions. A collection of internal and propagandistic publications issued by a “revolutionary anti-communist” group of Russian émigrés called the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS). Founded in exile in Serbia in..... 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 complete series of four 20 pp. albums, the first three with a single page explanatory introduction followed by pages featuring colorful graphic images, the first album featuring simple everyday objects such as an ax, an iron, a teapot, sewing notions, a coffee mill, and a shaving set, the second..... More

A complete set in nine portfolio-type fascicules of the impressive assembled group of 231 species of hepatica, or liverworts, on 231 leaves, some contained within mounted paper envelopes, each dried specimen numbered and accompanied by a mounted and printed label containing the Latin name and classification of each species, where..... More

The famous avant-garde picture book, unpaginated (14 leaves printed recto and verso), with 12 full-page Constructivist illustrations each comprising a whimsical image made up of colorful triangles of various sizes, each image with a facing page of text containing a short poem or verse. Some slight soiling throughout, stitching a...... More

[Frankfurt a. M.]: Posev, 1946. Octavo (22 × 16 cm). Original pictorial wrappers on light blue stock; 176 pp. Cover, one full-page and forty-two smaller illustrations by N. Niko. Small handwritten annotation to spine; else very good. Russian translation of selections from Kipling’s famous children’s book, published for children in..... 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

4 pp. preface followed by 64 full-color plates showing 422 various Art Nouveau ornamental compositions and motifs, featuring botanical, geometric, figural, landscape, and animal styles of imagery, ranging from small accent and border images to full-page images which include advertisements for things such as jewelry, clothing, and confections. Some slight..... More

1966. Fontana. Unpag. (39 leaves, some printed on verso and recto, some on verso only) homage to Lucio Fontana, including a facsimile of the original "White Manifesto" published in Spanish in Buenos Aires in 1946, translations of the manifesto into Italian, German, French, and English, an homage by Alain Jouffroy..... More

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1922. Quarto (28 × 22.5 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 107 pp., [30] leaves of plates, one folded; numerous illustrations throughout. With professional repair to spine; internally very good, save for stamp of a Berlin Russian book store. First monograph, containing a catalog of engravings for 1886-1921, on..... More

Moscow: Izdatel' i knigoprodavets Klavdii Kuz'mich Shamov, 1888. Octavo (25 × 17 cm). Quarter-calf over four raised bands; gilt title to spine; pebbled cloth boards; 996 pp. Frontis portrait. Boards and spine rubbed and sun-tanned; a few small nicks to leather; occasional light foxing, else internally very good. Denis Fonvizin..... More