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 scarce modern architecture periodical from Japan with black and white photos of modern architecture, interiors and furniture, plus detailed diagrams and floor plans. No copies found online, and only two found in OCLC (British Library and MIT). This issue a special issue on store and retail design, including storefronts and signage. Text in Japanese.

Condition: Good, scuffing and soiling to covers; lifting to paper along spine; crease to front cover; Japanese character in pen or pencil on front cover.
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Four pages of xeroxed Ray Johnson correspondence art, stapled and tri-folded, as received by the recipient.

Condition: Very Good, toning to paper, lower right corner crease to first page, and additional soft crease vertically along left side.
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A poster for a Holly Woodlawn performance at the Continental Sauna, the gay bathhouse in the basement of New York’s Ansonia Hotel on West 56th Street, where Bette Midler gave some early performances. The Warhol superstar appeared in Warhol’s films Trash and Women in Revolt, and was the “Holly” in Lou Reed’s song Walk on the Wild Side.

Condition: Very Good, lower left corner crease, some edgewear to black border; edges of poster unevenly cut and possibly trimmed from a larger size.
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A collage of correspondence art and images from the Canadian art collective Image Bank (and friends), including Mr. Peanut, Ray Johnson, General Idea, Genesis P-Orridge, Andy Warhol, Les Levine and John Giorno, plus photos of Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris (who organized this issue) by Jimmy De Sana.

Condition: Very Good, toning to newsprint; residue from previous price sticker visible on front cover.
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An early catalog from the much-loved bookstore and distributor, Printed Matter, still supporting artists and books today. With an alphabetical listing of hundreds of new artists’ books in stock, with prices, including books by Don Celender, Stanley Brouwn, Louise Lawler, Geoffrey Hendricks, Dick Higgins, Jenny Holzer, Lucy Lippard, N.E. Thing Co., plus LPs by Robert Ashley, Keith Sonnier, Lawrence Weiner, and many, many more. Order form in back.

Condition: Fine.
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A mimeographed printing of Eldridge Cleaver’s Affidavit #1, sprinkled with Black Panther Party insignia and images of Cleaver. Likely not officially issued by the Party, but a privately printed and distributed leaflet.

Condition: Good, overall toning with edgewear and dogears.
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The exhibiton catalog for Martial Raysse's May 31-June 24, 1967 exhibit at the Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. Part of the Nouveaux Realistes group, Raysse was born in France and is also known for his early involvement in America's pop art scene. With a text by Otto Hahn.

Condition: Good, some toning and light foxing to covers; light 1" moisture stain in lower left corner at spine, faintly visible on interior pages.
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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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The oversize poster for a 1985/1986 Susan Rothenberg exhibit at the Portland Center for Visual Art. PCVA was an artist-run center for contemporary in Portland, founded in 1971 and operating until 1987, that brought many national yet still emerging artists of the period to the west coast, including Richard Serra, Lynda Benglis, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Meredith Monk, Dan Flavin, Robert Smithson, Bruce Nauman and others. The work appearing on the poster is "Mondrian," 1983, oil on canvas. The poster was printed by Universal Limited Art Editions of West Islip.....
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The oversize poster for the Woza Afrika Festival of South Africa Theater at Lincoln Center, New York from September 10-October 5, 1986. Printed by Universal Limited Art Editions in West Islip, New York.

Condition: Fine.
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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 Case Study House No. 24 by A. Quincy.....
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A collection of 30 issues spanning the years 1944 to 1967 of the influential west coast architecture magazine known for its “Case Study Houses” Program. In 1945 the magazine 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.....
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