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The 1957 edition of this scarce title. Conversations with 35 American painters, sculptors, and architects by Selden Rodman, including Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Morris Graves, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Ben Shahn, among others.
Condition: Very Good, sunning to dust jacket spine and rubbing along jacket spine folds; age toning to interior pages.
Item #931
The catalog for this exhibition, featuring works from 1938-1970. Text is in English and French.
Condition: Good, edges of covers are rubbed, rear cover is heavily scuffed and one corner is creased at tip.
Item #339
A book based on Swiss artists Fischli & Weiss' art project for the Ringier AG Annual Report 2007, edited by Kunsthalle Zurich Director and Ringier Collection Curator Beatrix Ruf. "The encyclopedic element in all Fischli & Weiss pieces is just as evident in this Annual Report which is best described as an encyclopedia, obtained from hundreds of magazines, of the temptations and yearnings that mark contemporary life. The artists clearly consider print ads the most powerful embodiment of the economic principle and show their fascination with the never-ending flood of.....
Item #256
The scarce exhibition catalog for Ruscha's "Early Paintings" show at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York in October/November of 1988. Includes texts by Dennis Hopper and Jeffrey Deitch, and produced with a silver-metallic cover.
Condition: Near Fine, tiny bumps to top and bottom of front cover spine corners; faint scuffing to back cover, otherwise very nice; in a custom-made protective mylar cover.
Item #706
In October of 2004, Tom Sachs and Van Neistat toured the Alps by motorcycle and made this publication documenting their journey with hand-drawn maps and appendices listing various information, including a calendar, crashes, expenses, dinner seating and exhibition charts, travel restrictions, and their meals, ranked. Signed in an edition of only 25 copies, this #6 of 25. Color copied onto heavy paper stock. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #1113
The rare October, 1965 mimeographed second printing of the Fugs’ Songbook, from the counterculture NYC band founded in 1964 by poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Good, previous moisture staining to lower left corner, visible on interior pages and front and back covers; the number "2" with a dash is written next to four songs in blue felt pen on the Table of Contents.
Item #1104
The beautifully-produced, out-of-print catalog for Dutch artists Maurice Scheltens and Liesbeth Abbenes 2012 exhibit "Unfolded," which took place at the Museum Jan Cunen in Oss, The Netherlands. The duo take exquisite photographs of often ordinary objects, experimenting with converting spatial dimensions into flat surfaces and exploring photography’s potential for illusion. The catalog is produced as an exhibition in book form, with the pages following the viewer's path as they would have experienced the museum exhibit. With a text by Frank van der Stok. In an edition of 1,000 with subtle.....
Item #1049
Swiss photographer Hans-Ulrich Schlumpf's photographs of outsider artist Armand Schulthess's vast and labyrinthine "Garden of Knowledge," shot between 1963 and 1972. Includes amazing images from pages of Schlulthess's self-made books. Text in German.
Condition: Fine, Like New.
Item #117
The March 1976 (Volume 4, Number 3) issue of EAR Magazine, which started in 1973 in the Bay Area. In the mid-1970s a New York version of EAR was also published. This issue includes a score by and interview with Marta Ptaszynska, Bob Davis on Dreamsound, an article "Ephemeral Forms: Mother Musing's Flight Patterns" by Ron Pellegrino, a score by Douglas Leedy celebrating Rossini's birthday, and "the new deteriorated calendar"
Condition: Very Good, toning to newsprint; folded as issued.
Item #928
The 1970 first printing of this "documented source book on the supersonic transport planes now being developed and the sonic booms they would produce". A polemic against the Concorde and supersonic transport detailing the harms to animals, people and the environment. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Very Good+, minor age toning to paper.
Item #828
A signed and numbered edition of only 50 copies - this copy No. 22. Photos by Simonetti shot during the A7 reunion at the Knitting Factory in NY on December 6, 2008. A7 was a club in New York City from 1981 to 1984, and was the unofficial headquarters of the New York hardcore scene. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Fine.
Item #385
Signed by Smith on title page: "November 5, 2010 Josh Smith". One of an edition of 1,000 and published by Smiths' own 38th Street Publishers, which appears to no longer release publications. In a custom-made protective mylar dust jacket.
Condition: Near Fine, light edgewear to covers.
Item #325
An artists' book from the artist and writer Buzz Spector. Double Readings was an installation at Chicago's Randolph Street Gallery in 1987. A stairway was constructed of approx. 4,500 books and eight bookcases holding every book in Spector's personal library were exhibited. This book/cataog includes installation photographs of the exhibit along with other vintage images of people with accompanying phrases, one per page, cryptically alluding to books, reading, writing and art. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Near Fine, light scuffing along edges and spine fold.....
Item #1091
Typographica, founded and edited by Herbert Spencer, was published in two series, each containing 16 issues - the "old series" (from 1949-1959) and the "new series" (from 1960-1967). The issues in both series were numbered 1-16 (for a total of 32 issues). This is issue No. 11 is from the "old series," and appeared in 1955. Included are features on Swissair's branding, H.N. Werkman (with a tipped-in color plate of his work), an essay on international publishing, an essay "Tower of Babel" by Alan Dodson, a small section on books, plus.....
Item #438
Paul Thek and Edwin Klein's much-emulated and iconic artists' book published in conjunction with Thek's 1969 exhibitions that took place in Amsterdam at the Stedelijk Museum, and in Stockholm at the Moderna Museet. In the smartly-executed book, photographed from above, layered objects, ephemera and photographs move across the pages amidst a background of newspaper pages. A scarce and influential artists' book of the 20th Century. In a custom-made, protective mylar dust jacket. Due to size and value, must be shipped via priority mail (media mail not available). Shipping rate will.....
Item #854
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on six Philadelphia architects: Robert Geddes, Aldo.....
Item #215
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on Habitat 67, prefabricated and suspended space.....
Item #208
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on fountains, a weekend house near Paris.....
Item #219
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine was revolutionary at the time and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
Item #1081
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on houses by Wilhelm Stigler and Enrico.....
Item #221
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E......
Item #214
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue features articles on artist and architect Max Bill, a......
Item #218
The influential West Coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program in which in 1945 it proposed to “begin immediately the study, planning, actual design and construction of eight houses, each to fulfill the specifications of a special living problem in the Southern California area.” The houses became icons of the Mid-Century modernist movement. The cover design and focus of the magazine at the time was revolutionary and a direct challenge to the prominence of the East Coast as the center of architecture in the U.S. This issue.....
Item #226
One of an edition of 2,000. In English, French and German. With texts by Ariana Reines, Matthew Stadler, Cedar Sigo, Karl Holmqvist, Thomas Boutoux, Carissa Rodriguez, Eileen Myles and David Lewis. Out of print.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #336
The first issue of this Bay Area counterculture publication, with features and full-page photo spreads on the Cockettes, a conversation with Allen Ginsberg, writings on counterculture politics and sex, plus comics by S. Clay Wilson, classifieds and more.
Condition: Good-, chips, tears and nicks to brittle newsprint along edges and spine fold; toning to newsprint.
Item #1102
