A two-color typography specimen poster of the Square-Serif font family, developed around 1803, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. Also displayed in the margins are multiple samples of other fonts in the Square-Serif style including Arme Latine, Moliere, Poilu Ancien, Stymie, Gold Rush and Eqyptian Condensed. The poster is printed on Eastern's Manifest Bond paper, which is an "outstanding mill-brand paper in the economy-group" which will "insure cleaner, sharper impressions with a minimum of waste, stoppages and other troubles that...
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A full-color, double-sided pamphlet in French, with wonderful Russia graphics, that unfolds into a 17" x 22" poster showcasing the U.S.S.R.'s accomplishments in culture, science and industry. Produced for the U.S.S.R. section at the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition 1958 (also known as Expo 58 or the Brussels World's Fair), the brochure's text has a propagandist tone with statements such as "the Soviet Union has a population of engineers almost three times larger than in the USA" and "..let's go back to the comparisons. Having caught up with Europe and.....
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A study of the great artists' books of the 20th Century, with particular attention to Italy's place within the international artist book movement. Richly printed color illustrations. Includes an illustrated bibliography with thumbnails of books on books categorized by genre. Text in English and Italian. Out of print.

Condition: Very Good; corner bump/crease of 1.25" to the top corner of back cover, faintly visible as a tiny corner bump to the last 40 pages.
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An artist book from the London-born, New York-based artist presenting his altered washcloth assemblages. Printed as black-and-white photocopies on green, blue, grey and pink colored paper corresponding to the color of the work itself. Out of print.

Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
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The Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek uses modern printing process such as lithography to manipulate and alter existing imagery and text such as advertisements and printed matter, exploring repetition, order, redaction and other themes. With essays by Camiel van Winkel and Wouter Davidts. This monograph, which is more of an artists' book than traditional artist survey, is from his 2008 exhibition at Culturgest in Lisbon. Out of print.

Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
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The exhibition poster for Jack Youngerman at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, from Nov. 27-Dec. 16, 1961. The exhibition was his third show with the gallery and his fourth solo exhibition. Youngerman was included in MoMA's important "Sixteen Americans" exhibit in 1959, along with Rauschenberg's Combines and Jasper Johns' flags and targets. Poster printed in France by the famous Mourlot print shop of Paris.

Condition: Good, folded as issued; staple holes and pinholes in 4 corners; 4 pinholes at center top; a .75" inch closed tear at upper left;...
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Smartly-designed group exhibition flyer for The Arena of Love exhibit, Dwan Gallery Los Angeles, with artists’ names extending from Hershey’s kisses paper plumes, including Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, CPLY, John Chamberlain and Roy Lichtenstein, among others.

Condition: Very Good+, very faint soft creases/bumps to corners.
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A corrected version of a survey by Douglas Keislar of microtonal keyboard design that originally appeared in 1987 in "Computer Music Journal," although with several errors. This reprint is an updated version that corrects the errors including "a layout problem where an entire paragraph migrated to the wrong section of the article." Written when Keislar was a doctorate student at Stanford, he received a PhD in 1991 and in 1997 became, and remains, the Editor of MIT's Computer Music Journal. Published by the Center for Computer Research in Music and...
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The concrete poem "Interchange" by San Francisco poet Jack Hirschman, in tribute to John Cage. Printed loose leaf on heavy card stock in black and white, and presented in a clamshell box. Design and typography by John Brandi and Harold Schwarm. Published in an edition of 300 by The Zora Gallery, Los Angeles, in 1964. Hirschman moved to San Francisco in 1973 and has had a long association with the city and its poetry ever since. He was named Poet Laureate of the city in 2006, and in 2007 established...
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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.
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The first four issues of P.FO.: New Music, an obscure journal of experimental music scores compiled by Daniel Wolf, with a young Jonathan Segel co-editing the double Issue 3/4. Wolf is a composer and writer, and was the editor of Xenharmonikon, the "Informal Journal of Experimental Music," from 1985-1989. Segel is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who has performed with Camper Van Beethoven, Sparklehorse, Eugene Chadbourne and Dieselhed, as well as his own group Hieronymus Firebrain. The first issue was published near the end of Wolf's time studying at UC Santa...
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The Winter 2005 issue of "1/1: The Journal of the Just Intonation Network". A total of 47 issues of the journal were published between 1985-2007. Originally published as a quarterly, that schedule proved too difficult to maintain and the publication soon became more irregular in its publication schedule. The word "Quarterly" was removed from its name around 1991. The journals remain the largest single body of information about Just Intonation in the English Language. This issue features the articles "A Few Observations with Respect to the Canon's Tuning for Soliloquy"...
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The complete set of four exhibition postcards for the Dwan Gallery's highly-influential "Language Shows," beginning with 1967's "Language to be Looked at and/or Things to be Read" curated by Robert Smithson and Sol LeWitt. The Dwan Gallery was among the first to produce exhibits focusing on language, and the 1967 group show brought together works by Duchamp, Smithson, LeWitt, On Kawara, Jasper Johns, Carl Andre, Picabia and Ad Reinhardt, among others. In the book "Words to Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art" Liz Kotz writes: "The four exhibitions helped...
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