PIL at the Greek Theater, Berkeley Concert Flyer (1980)
An original concert flyer for Public Image, Ltd. (featuring Johnny Lydon, Keith Levene and Wobble) at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on May 10, 1980.
Condition: Fine.
Item #1154
New Arrivals
Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French Painting
Richard Aldrich's first solo museum exhibit, curated by Laura Fried, Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Aldrich's work was accompanied and juxtaposed by four paintings in the 19th Century French tradition from the St. Louis Art Museum, including Vuillard and Bonnard. With images of the work in the exhibit along with descriptive short texts by Aldrich, as well as installion views. Includes contributions by Domonic Molon and Forrest Nash. Out of print.
Condition: New in shrinkwrap.
Item #1501
Richard Aldrich and the 19th Century French Painting
Richard Aldrich's first solo museum exhibit, curated by Laura Fried, Associate Curator at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Aldrich's work was accompanied and juxtaposed by four paintings in the 19th Century French tradition from the St. Louis Art Museum, including Vuillard and Bonnard. With images of the work in the exhibit along with descriptive short texts by Aldrich, as well as installion views. Includes contributions by Domonic Molon and Forrest Nash. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good+, light toning around edges of covers; very faint scuffing to covers; otherwise.....
Item #1500
The Morning Star Scrapbook: First Edition!; In the Pursuit of Happiness
A scrapbook of images, drawing, stories and news clippings documenting life and the legal battles at Lou Gottlieb's Morning Star Ranch commune, which he established in 1966 in rural Sonoma County, California near the towns of Occidental and Sebastopol. The commune was also called The Digger Farm for its association with the SF guerrilla theater/activist group The Diggers. It played a central role in the California counterculture and hippie movement. Ramon Sender was said to be the first resident to move into Gottlieb's commune. Sender co-produced the Trips Festival with.....
Item #1499
Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics: Volumes I-IV
The first four volumes of "Nexus: Architecture and Mathematics" a series of books exploring the relationship between the two topics derived from lectures and presentations at the Nexus conferences occurring in Florence, Mantua, and Ferrara, Italy and Óbidos, Portugal in 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002. The Nexus Conferences continue with one scheduled in Torino for 2023. Topics and architects covered in the books are wide ranging, including geometry and Baroque architecture, Pompeii, the American Prairie house, musical proportions in relation to architectural ones, Rome's Pantheon, geometric ideas from African art.....
Item #1498
Doktor Bey's Book of the Dead; Embracing a Complete Thanatopsis
With the full subtitle/description being: "Embracing a Complete Thanatopsis with Chapters Relating to Burial and Etiquette containing Monuments, Mausoleums, The Nameless Dead, Grave Errors to be Avoided, Letters of Condolence, Queen Victoria, Accessories and Amusements, Together with Funeral Parlor Games, Not Nearly Twenty Thousand Illustrations, The Whole Forming A Complete Guide to English Death, with Text & Collages by Derek Pell". One of 26 copies from the "special mummified edition" limited to 26 copies, lettered A-Z (this copy being "D"), and signed by the author ("festeringly yours"). Doktor Bey is.....
Item #1497
Bob's World: The Life and Boys of AMG's Bob Mizer
Bob Mizer made photos and films for over 40 years for his company Athletic Model Guild, publishing "Physique Pictorial," America's first and most explicity gay, men's physique magazine. In the 1970s and '80s Mizer's sprawling compound in Los Angeles became home to dozen's of young models who lived nude around his pool. This oversize monograph focuses on the full-color second half of his career. With a one-hour DVD of Mizer's films included. Out of print.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #1496
Underground Sounds; Second Edition
The second revised edition of Ron Moore's "Underground Sounds," self-published in 1998. A guide and discography of "obscure and desirable U.S. and Canadian LPs with the emphasis on local and lesser known major releases. Genres include garage, psych, prog, heavy rock, xian rock and edge folk. Most releases fall in the 1966-1979 period." Moore went on to co-author "The Acid Archives: A Guide to Underground Sounds, 1965-1982" released in 2006. No copies found online.
Condition: Good+, some wear and rubbing to covers, lower right corner crease to cover with a......
Item #1495
Elsa's Housebook: A Woman's Photojournal
Dorfman's photos of her friends, largely at her house at 19 Flagg Street in Cambridge, MA near Harvard Square. Having worked at Grove Press in New York, she circled in the orbit of poets and counterculture figures such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Robert and Bobbie Creeley, and others. Her stories and text accompany the black and white photographs. Scarce.
Condition: Good, edgewear and chips to cover edges, some scuffing to covers, and two small spots of rubbing/scuffing to front cover; small dent at middle bottom text block.....
Item #1493
Sonic Transports: New Frontiers in Our Music
Through interviews and essays, an examination of the innovative music of Glenn Branca, Fred Firth, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and The Residents. With 8 pages of black and white photographs, otherwise essays and text. With a seven-page discography, plus index, at back. Out of print.
Condition: Very Good, light toning/sunning to covers; now in a custom-made mylar dust jacket.
Item #1492
James Joyce Poster Print (1970)
A rare, oversize poster print of the great writer James Joyce featuring the famous photo by Berenice Abbott, that she took in her Paris studio in 1928. With a copyright of "1970 Michael Howden" and "Distributed by Shakespeare, Berkeley" in the lower left corner. The "Shakespeare, Berkeley" apparently refers to the bookstore Shakespeare & Co., located on Telegraph Avenue (across from Moe's Books) in Berkeley, CA from 1964 to 2015. It is unclear why the poster has a copyright for Michael Howden (or who he was - if anyone knows.....
Item #1490
The 400 Blows: Original American Press Kit & Ad Mats (1959)
The original America press kit for Francois Truffaut's directorial debut and masterpiece "The 400 Blows." Issued by the Ben Adler Advertising Service in 1959, the year of the film's release. Featuring dot-screen artwork for reproducing, press quotes for the film, advertising mats (ad mats) of various sizes on glossy stock that were for theaters to use when placing ads in newspapers to promote their screenings of the film. With a form to order other materials such as lobby posters, 8 x 10" film stills, and window/lobby cards. A rare item.....
Item #1489
Antique Japanese Store Ledger (circa 1890)
An antique Japanese store ledger, almost 15 inches long, apparently used to keep accounts for customers with text struck with a line and 0 to indicate that the account has been paid. It has not been professionally translated but the top half (above the strike line) appears to include numbers with text below including words such as "rice" and "vinegar". With hand-painted, bold sumi ink lettering on the covers, one side apparently being the shop name. Uncut pages throughout, with handwriting on both sides of pages, completely full, with no.....
Item #1488
Japan Tourist Library: Complete Set of 40 Volumes (1934-1942)
The complete run of 40 volumes of the charming booklets on the history, culture, art and customs of Japan issued serially by the Board of Tourist Industry/Japan Government Railways from 1934-1942. Researched and written by experts in their various fields. Various editions and printings (first, second, third, etc.) were released during those years, and this set comprises a mix of those printings. Quite nicely printed in single colors of sepia or green inks, or black and white, plus a sprinkling of color images throughout. Most volumes include a color frontispiece.....
Item #1487
Two Japanese Diaries Filled with Touching Original Drawings and Text (Circa 1940)
A set of two journals filled with lovely, delicate, touching and sometimes whimsical original watercolors and drawings, circa 1940. Presumed to be a young Japanese woman's diary/journal, or perhaps "natsuyasumi no shukudai" the "summer vacation homework" assigned to Japanese students during the summer break, often in the form of keeping a diary or other writing projects. There are seven full-page watercolor drawings (6" x 8 7/8"), and 28 other pages feature a combination of watercolors or drawings partnered with neatly lettered kanji text in pencil. The remaining pages are text.....
Item #1486
Set of 3 Delicate Japanese Fairy Tale Original Ink Drawings (Circa 1920s)
A set of three wonderful Japanese original ink drawings on delicate rice paper. Somewhat mysterious in intent, perhaps from a story or studies for a fairy tale. The red Kanji characters in the lower left appear to be page numbers. One of a fisherman with his catch and a traditional fish basket nearby. Another of a cat leading a giant carrot on a string (?!). The third, a figure banging a drum amid giant vegetation. The words on the figure's clothing appear to be colors (green, red, yellow), perhaps instructions.....
Item #1485
Henry Moore: The Graphic Work, 1931-1972 (Inscribed with Drawing); L'oeuvre Gravé, Das Graphische Werk
A catalogue raisonné of the graphic and printed works of Henry Moore, inscribed with a drawing by the British sculptor. Covering the years 1931-1972, this is volume one of at least four volumes documenting Moore's graphic works, with the other volumes covering the period from 1973-1984. Inscribed to "Julie" on the half-title page with the inscription stating that it was signed in Much Hadam, England on October 22, 1979, where the artist's studio was located. With a drawing in pen by the Moore under the inscription (see photos). The artist's.....
Item #1484
The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1948-1993
The out-of-print catalogue raisonné for the prints of Roy Lichtenstein, covering the years 1948-1993.
Condition: Fine, in fine dust jacket.
Item #1483
Set of 10 Speedball Lettering Charts (1941 & 1957)
A set of ten poster-sized Speedball Lettering Charts (Nos. 1-10) published in 1941 (Nos. 1-6) and 1957 (Nos. 7-10). Culled from the series of lessons that originally appeared in the 1930s/'40s Speedball textbook "Modern Lettering and Poster Design." The Hunt Pen Company was the manufacturer of Speedball pens, inks, linoleum cutters and Boston pencil sharpeners. The how-to lettering textbooks were an early and essential resource for designers and sign painters. The famous Speedball lettering textbooks were published throughout the 20th Century, and as of 1999 was in its 23rd edition.....
Item #1481
Art Deco Exhibition Poster: Minneapolis (1971)
The oversize exhibition poster for the show "The World of Art Deco" at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts from July 8-September 5, 1971. Designed is light greens, blues, coral and yellow by the shooting star British team of Bentley/Farrell/Burnett. They were a short-lived (1968-1971) but important British design company that were clearly influenced by Milton Glaser and Seymour Chwast's Push Pin Studios. Mike Dempsey in Eye Magazine (2017) writes: "BFB were graphic design meteorites, burning brightly for a short time. But they left behind a remarkable, head-turning body of work.....
Item #1480
A Stunning Collection of 128 Ex Libris Bookplates from Zurich and Vienna (1914-1921)
A large collection (128 examples) of fine Ex Libris bookplate etchings on paper from a printer who worked in Zurich and Vienna in the early 1900s, dating from approximately 1914-1921. The printer is unknown, although the bookplates themselves reveal the owner's names and sometimes the artists commissioned to produce them. Most bookplates are untrimmed and printed on larger-sized paper up to 7" x 9". Of the 128, 36 plates are in mats having been exhibited at the Shoen Library at Marylhurst University in Oregon. Images and symbols employed are varied.....
Item #1479
Swedish Centennial Pictorial Map (1948)
This 1948 Sweden Centennial pictorial map is almost 6 feet tall! Celebrating 100 years of the Scandinavian nation and delightfully illustrated, the map highlights regional names and cities, geological features, resources and commercial industries, various recreational activities, along with images of ships, sailboats, farming, mining, skiers, hikers, hunters, wildlife, and more. Published by the Swedish Institute and Swedish Tourist Traffic Association. With the credits running along the bottom: "Design: O. Laurelius. Printed in Sweden by Ivar Haeggstroms Boktryckeri AB. Stockholm 1948". Professionally cleaned, restored and linen-backed on canvas.
Condition: Very.....
Item #1478
Teatro Greco di Siracusa Poster (1954)
A charming 1954 oversize event poster for the Teatro Greco di Siracusa (the Greek Theatre of Syracuse, Italy), promoting productions of Prometeo Incatenato (Prometheus Bound) and Antigone presented by the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (National Institute of Ancient Drama). With a who's who list of Italian actors, directors and composers involved, including Vittorio Gassman, Luigi Squarzina, Goffredo Petrassi, Gennaro Perrotta, Mario Chiari, Guido Salvini and Fiorenzo Carpi. The Teatro Greco di Siracusa, a classic example of traditional Greek amphitheater architecture, overlooks the city of Syracuse in southeastern Sicily. It.....
Item #1477
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
The 1905 first Dodge Publishing Co. edition of The Rubáiyát with a wonderful deco cover and stylized color deco introduction page. This edition with sepia-toned photogravure illustrations by Adelaide Leeson (1875-1931), printed on delicate tissue pages. Leeson was a California artist and photographer (born in Coos Bay, Oregon) and was one of the first to use photography to illustrate literary works. She also hand-worked her negatives to achieve the images she wanted, being a pioneer of this technique. Leeson enlisted then well-known California literary figures, including Charles Keeler, Joaquin Miller.....
Item #1475
Mount Hood Over Lost Lake Antique Photo Print (Circa 1900)
An oversize antique photo print in sepia of Mt. Hood with Lost Lake in the foreground. With a copyright for Slocom & Canfield Co., a book and stationery store of Hood River, Oregon, burned into the image in the lower right corner. "Mount Hood Over Lost Lake" is written in large script in pen on the back of the photo. "For Jack" crossed out is written in pencil on the back. A rare, relatively large-sized photo print of Mt. Hood.
Condition: Very Good+, some chips along edges; a 2" diagonal.....
Item #1474