One of Swiss artist Warja Honegger-Lavater’s charming “folded stories” - this one Lucky Jack, adapted from a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. Richly lithograph-printed and accordion-folded, with a small string loop attached to one end for wall-hanging. Honegger-Lavater told her stories in a pictorial language of form and color, and always included a key of symbols for reading the story.

Condition: Very Good, edgewear and scuffing to covers; toning to interior pages.
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A 1965 catalog for this Pop Art exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Center, with an essay by Tracy Atkinson, Director. lncludes an exhibition checklist of 86 works, at least 14 of those by unknown artists or vernacular works, comparing them with pop's sensibilities. With works by William Copley, Tom Wesselman, Billy Al Bengston, Dorothy Grebenak, Stuart Davis, Robert Indiana, Richard Lidner, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Man Ray and many, many more. Ilustrated in black and white.

Condition: Very Good, reader’s creasing and rubbing along spine edges; light edge and corner.....
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A rare poster from the Viennese architecture collective, Haus-Rucker-Co, who explored radical interpretations of architectural space and meaning through pneumatic structures, prosthetics, and staged events or happenings. They were players, if lesser-known, in the utopian architecture movement of the 1960s, along with groups such as Superstudio, Archizoom and Ant Farm. This mirrored poster, with two different images, announces “a presentation of urbanlandscaping concepts” at the 4th Environmental Design Conference held in 1973 at the College of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Condition: Very Good, light spotting and wrinkling to poster; folded.....
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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.
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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.
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Act Up's poster for the 10th Anniversary “Crash the Market” action to demand AIDS treatment for all, including a reduction in the price of medication. Also promotes an activist conference occurring over the preceding weekend.

Condition: Fine.
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From John Dowd and John Jack Baylin, this issue of the cult magazine Fanzini explores masculinity and athleticism in America through images of male sports and American pop culture, such as surfer dudes, field & track, and the Olympics.

Condition: Very Good, reader’s creases and rubbing along spine edges; light edge and corner wear.
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Highlighting individual titles for the holidays, each book in this catalog gets a photo and description, including Ed Ruscha’s Crackers ($8), Sol LeWitt’s Autobiography ($16.95), John Baldessari’s Close-Cropped Tales ($6.50), plus books by Kathy Acker, Jenny Holzer, Michael Snow, General Idea and others.

Condition: Good, wrinkling and soft creasing to covers; bleeding of ink on front cover over the word "Printed"; toning along spine; address label to recipient on back cover; lower staple not present at spine.
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The catalog for “An International Exhibition of Recent Artists’ Books and Ephemera,” a traveling exhibit at Artists’ Space NY, Herron School of Art (Indianapolis) and New Orleans Contemporary Art Center (all 1978), co-curated by Judith A. Hoffberg and Joan Hugo. Includes a brief definition and history of mail art by Mike Crane in the form of a list/chronology; a select bibliography of artists’ books and catalogs; a supplier list for artists’ books; plus a check list of artists, organizations and titles including Art-Rite, Agnes Denes, Don Celender, Vito Acconci, Marcia.....
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An artist multiple and Happy New Year greeting by the Italian visual/concrete poet Ugo Carrega produced in conjunction with Galleria Schwarz of Milan. The work consists of a clear, square piece of plexiglass with the words "nothing" and "ness" printed on opposite sides, and with a small, circular slice of wood or tree branch between them glued to one side. Also printed small on each side is the phrase "is a ness the nest ce pas". Signed and dated 1970, the inside of the box is printed in Italian and.....
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Writings and essays by the critic, poet, historian and curator Robert Morgan. Out of print. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Very Good, sunning/fading to covers along edges and spine.
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Originally published in France in 1933, "The Radiant City" is a major doctrine by Le Corbusier in his early search for the ideal city and humankind's inhabitation of a utopian built environment. It is subtitled "Elements of a Doctrine of Urbanism To Be Used as The Basis of Our Machine-Age Civilization". Illustrated in black and white with hundreds of images, photos, drawing and schematics.

Condition: Good, top right corner bump visible on most pages; scuffing and light soiling to dust jacket with some chips and small tears, especially along spine.....
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An oversize poster for a Carlo Scarpa exhibition at the Querini Stampalia Foundation in Venice from June 30-October 14, 1984 and sponsored by the City of Venice Department of Culture. Scarpa was commissioned in the early 1960s to restore parts of the Stampalia Foundation's historic 1868 building including interior, exterior and garden elements. The dates at the top of the poster refer to the year of birth (1906) and death (1978) of Scarpa. Carlo Scarpa was an Italian architect influenced by Venetian and Japanese architecture and known for a combintation.....
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