Our handcrafted single-origin walnut drawing ink made by Monograph Bookwerks co-founder John Brodie. Each year walnuts are harvested from a single black walnut Portland Heritage Tree (designated by the city of Portland for its size or age, a Heritage Tree must be at least 80 years old). The ink is made from the walnut husk, which is green when it falls from the tree and turns dark brown over time. The husks are slow-cooked (with other secret ingredients) to create the amber-brown ink. Intended as a drawing ink to be.....
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No. 393 in a special limited numbered edition of 1,000 copies of Hans Bellmer's surrealist/erotic drawings, published in 1967 by Grove Press.

Condition: Very Good, lacking dust jacket; bumps to covers at lower corners not affecting interior pages; paperboard slipcase in rough shape with chips/bumps and separation along edges.
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The August 2006 special issue of Architecture and Urbanism (A+U) on Herzog & de Meuron projects from 2002-2006. With completed works and projects examined in detail, including the Walker Art Center, the de Young Museum, Prada Aoyama Epicenter, the Astor Place Hotel (in collaboration with Rem Koolhaas), various international projects and more. Printed in full color.Text in English and Japanese. Out of print/scarce.

Condition: Near Fine, previous owner's architecture firm stamp to fourth page; reader's crease to spine.
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Beloved Bay-Area poet Bill Berkson's copy of Lucy Lippard's "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972" with his notes and comments in the margins. A key anthology and timeline of the conceptual and earth art movements, and a nice association copy. Berkson died in San Francisco in 2016.

Condition: Very Good-, heavy wear, chips and areas of loss to dust jacket with fading to spine of DJ; light fading to red cloth boards; small amount of fraying to cloth at base of spine; as noted.....
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The first printing (2015) of this full-length work to explore the English camping and hiking organization, Kibbo Kift (1920-1932). Founded after the First World War as a reaction to militarism in scouting, the group developed into an all-ages organization for men and women. Underpinned by a complex, distinctive philosophy, Kibbo Kift's practices were wide-ranging, extending across health and handicraft, pacifism and propaganda, myth and magic, education and economics. The group embraced a mystical and modernist art and design aesthetic, evident in their decorated tents, campaign banners, illuminated manuscripts, protest graphics.....
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Christopher Alexander's influential, beloved and innovative text in the rare first printing.

Condition: Very Good, light soiling and spotting to dust jacket; micro-foxing to top text block.
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The rare first printing for Museum trustees of the exhibition catalog for the important Machine Art exhibit of 1934, which took place at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. With section headings such as "Industrial Units," "Household and Office Equipment," and "Kitchenware," the exhibit of these objects was somewhat shocking to audiences in an art museum environment. The exhibit was one of the earliest museum presentations of industrial design as a serious area of artistic activity. Curator Philip Johnson also employed a groundbreaking presentation for the exhibition. He took.....
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Catalog No. 50 from the pioneering bookseller Steven Leiber, referencing Dan Graham's Schema (1966). Leiber was a Bay Area bookseller who championed artists' ephemera as works in themselves, and whose catalogs became collectible for cleverly paying homage to historic contemporary artist publications. Artists ephemera, movements, and publications listed in the catalog (with prices) include items by Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Aspen Magazine, Matthew Barney, Marcel Broodthaers, Chris Burden, Ulises Carrion, Don Celender, Dada, Fluxus, Marcel Duchamp, Roni Horn, Donald Judd, Ray Johnson, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Richard.....
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A giant Barbara Kruger silkscreen, the ""Special Election '84 Issue"" of Aqui! Magazine. The magazine was a single folded oversized artwork mailed in an envelope, and ran for about 12 issues from 1984-1985. Editions were produced by various artists. This issue an edition of 350 copies. Includes the original oversize cardboard mailing envelope and invoice. A rare, oversize original Kruger limited edition silkscreen almost 6 feet tall.

Condition: Very Good-, folded as issued; pinholes with tear-outs in four corners (see detail photos); 2"" x 1"" areas with residue of tape.....
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A professionally printed silkscreen or serigraph by Clementine Hunter, pencil signed with her distinctive backwards overlapping "CH". Clementine Hunter (1887-1988) was a self-taught folk painter from the Cane River region of Louisiana. Her brightly colored paintings depicted Black Southern life including weddings, funerals, baptisms, farming and domestic labor. Mat framed with "38/60 D.C." penciled at lower left of print (and also on the mat) and with "© 1976 Dorothy Cohen" in pencil on the back of the print. An obituary in The Natchitoches Times for Dorothy Cohen (1914-2004) of Cane.....
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The rare first book of Roni Horn's ten-volume "To Place" series, which explores her artistic relationship to Iceland. All drawings were produced during a two-month stay in the lighthouse at Dyrhólaey, Iceland in the Spring of 1982. Drawings are reproduced at actual size and are watercolor and/or graphite. Beautifully printed in the Netherlands in an edition of 1,150 from Peter Blum Editions.

Condition: Very Good, light foxing to endpapers (see last detail photo); tiny areas of rubbing to cover corners; now in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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Taschen's 5-volume out-of-print box set collection of mini-books covering Tom of Finland's drawings for early published comics or booklets including the Kake, Jack, and Beach Boys series, plus some previously unpublished material. Text in English, German and French. Out of print. Must be 18 or older to purchase.

Condition: Very Good+, tiny amount of edgewear to booklets; slight delamination occurring on spine edge of some booklets (as is common); some bumps and nicks to paper slipcase.
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From Carlquist's "Natural Man" series capturing the male nude in the natural environment, with many of the photographs taken in the unusual garden at his Hope Ranch home, as well as near Joshua Tree, Big Sur, and the Sierra. Most of Carlquist's models were uncircumcised. Photos in black and white. Signed and numbered edition: No. 350 of 2,000 copies. Signed by Carlquist in bold sharpie on the title page. Carlquist was a educator, botanist, and Guggenheim Fellow, and taught at Claremont Graduate School, Pomona College and UC Santa Barbara. He.....
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