n.p.:n.p., [1938]. Abstract shapes printed in dark blue against a light blue background. Issued in the French art magazine XXe Siecle No. 4, Christmas 1938, but here offered separately. A lovely copy carefully removed from the magazine and left in its original state with the edges untrimmed leaving the publisher's... More about Original untitled engraving
LA: Love Press, 1979. Limited to 1000 copies. Herms did a drawing a day for a year, based on Sabian symbols received by clairvoyant, Elsie Wheeler in the 1930's. Each drawing is photographically reproduced on quarto stock with Dane Rudyhar's psychological interpretation of the symbol that inspired it printed at... More about The Sabian Exercise
SF: Privately published by Todd Hido, 2005. A huge, original print of one of the photos from Hido's book Between the Two. One of only 10 numbered copies signed on the verso by Hido dated 2005. An evocative image showing a car on a rural, deserted road on a foggy... More about Original chromogenic print on aluminum Untitled #3737
SF: Privately published by Todd Hido, 2005. A huge, original print of one of the photos from Hido's book Between the Two. One of only 10 numbered copies signed by Hido and dated 2005 on a printed label affixed to the verso. The photo, shot through a rain-flecked windshield, shows... More about Original chromogenic print on aluminum Untitled #4078
n.p.:n.p., [1970]. Kitsilano: Privately published, ca. 1970. 4to. Suggests The Psychedelic Shop, Phase 4 Coffee House, Horizon Book Store, and several other places as shopping destinations for arts, crafts, and hip accouterments. Illustrated with a circular psychedelic drawing divided into 8 sections---one for each of the stores listed. Very near fine. More about Handbill welcoming visitors of Kitsilano, Vancouver, Canada to visit the hip merchants located on...
n.p.: Pot Head Experimental Films,1967. Printed in day-glo orange, pink, and purple featuring an illustration of a shade-wearing hippie couple and a scantily-clad hippie gal. "UP-TIGHT SQUARES Join the HIPPIES and their HIP CHICKS they've scored for ACID, POT, & GRASS! THIS IS WHERE IT'S AT...IT'S A SEX FREAK OUT."..... More about One sheet day-glo poster advertising two hippie exploitation films offered as a double-bill,...
NY: Sotheby's, 2007. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by Bono. Catalog for this charity auction for AIDS relief in Africa featuring works by Ed Ruscha, Richard Prince, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Christo, Jasper Johns, et al. Signed on the cover by Damien Hirst and U2 frontman Bono both of whom were instrumental... More about Red Auction
NY: Center for Constitutional Rights, [ca. 1970]. Softbound. First edition. Prepared for the appeal of the 159 contempt convictions against the Chicago Eight and their lawyers stemming from their famous conspiracy trial. Includes court transcripts, a chronology of events, and a detailed history of the trial. Some tonng and soiling... More about Chicago Conspiracy Contempt Briefs: Brief on Behalf of David Dellinger et al Appellants, Brief on...
n.p.:n.p., [1968]. Prints a long text about the "International Youth Festival" to be held in Chicago for the 1968 Democratic convention. "...there will be music playing and people swaying, dancing in the streets...agents of the Pothead's Benevolent Association have planted hundreds of pot seeds...free people, free pot, free music, free..... More about Handbill issued by the Yippies proclaiming: ''PEOPLE GET READY.''
[NY: Fuck You Press,1964]. 4to. "Attention poets, historians, flame brains, spaceouts, & madmen Herbert Huncke Reads! from his absolute work." This was a very early reading for Huncke preceding publication of his first book. Le Metro was an important, though short-lived, mid-sixties showcase for the N.Y.C. avant-garde. A 1964 reading..... More about Mimeo handbill announcing a reading by Herbert Huncke at Le Metro Cafe
London: Privately published, 1983. Gold-edged, stiff white card printed in black. In addition to celebrating Mick's birthday, guests were also invited to participate in the launch of "Jagger" by Carey Schofield. This is Steve Abrams' personal invitation with his name handwritten in the corner. A superb association since Abrams was... More about Invitation to Mick Jagger's 40th birthday party at Burke's Club in London, 1983
n.p.: Privately produced, ca. 1965. Folio. Softbound. 32 pages. Lovingly created elaborate scrapbook from a devoted fan. Filled with tons of magazine photos and clippings documenting the Stones in the mid-sixties. A terrific zeitgeist item, and a great source for early Stones material not available elsewhere. Covers detatched and partially... More about Fan's early Rolling Stones scrapbook
NY: Exposition Press, [1973]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. "In the cold, beautiful Arizona desert, Tripper and her Tribe got zonked on peyote---In an instant the universe became manifest, exploding into galaxies of light and color, from a forgotten and unknowable origin, completely obliterating the past. It was the... More about Tripper
NY: Willard Gallery, 1967. Illustrated with a photograph of Johnson's works. Creased where folded twice as issued, else near fine (19" x 15"). More about Poster announcing Ray Johnson's 1967 exhibition at the Willard Gallery in NYC
Tokyo: Fiction, Inc., 1996. Hardbound in photo-illustrated boards and clear yellow acetate dust jacket. First edition. Photographs of edgy, pierced, gun-wielding, tattooed nudes from the NYC art and music scene. Published by a gallery as a way to get around the Japanese censors. Rubbing to edges of boards (as usual)... More about XXGirls
[NY: Beelzebub Books, 1959]. Second printing of this softcore men's magazine flagrantly exploiting the then current beatnik phenomena. Published as Beelzebub Books No. 1. "An uncensored, unexpurgated expose of the 'BEAT GENERATION'." Sensational articles on the Beat phenomenon such as "Shook-up Shebas and Be-Bop Babes" and "Beat Broads Curiously Cavort."... More about Beatnik
NY: Village Vanguard, 1957. The card, mimeographed from typescript, reads (in part): "The voice of the 'Beat Generation' ---Jack Kerouac---will step off the road momentarily for a stop at the Village Vanguard beginning Thurs. Dec. 19th for his first nightclub appearance ever. Author of 'On the Road' which has been... More about Mimeo postcard announcing Kerouac's first and only nightclub performace, a 1957 reading at the...
n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1972. 4to. Broadside. First separate printing of this piece that originally appeared in The Last Supplement to the Whole Earth Catalog. Prints four b&w photos of Kesey wearing a helmet and sunglasses while rubbing cornstarch on his privates. Printed below is a statement by Kesey explaining..... More about ''I've Used Cornstarch on My Balls for Years!''
[NY]: Viking, [1992]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Kesey in silver marker. Very fine. More about Sailor Song
Burlington, VT: Neo-American Church, 1975. Tabloid. The correct first edition of Klep's detailed, and very entertaining account of life at Leary's Millbrook enclave during its heyday. Features a large front cover map of the Millbrook estate. This precedes book publication by two years. Kleps, a former associate of Leary, founded... More about Millbrook: The True Story of the Early Years of the Pyschedelic Revolution
NY: Printed Matter bookstore at Dia, 1990. The front of the card features photos of two different bags. Mailing label, else very near fine (4.25" x 6"). More about Advertising card from Printed Matter bookstore at Dia promoting book bags designed by Kruger
Glasgow: Tramway, 2005. The front features a color double-exposure photograph of a woman covering her face with her hands. Fine (8.25" x 5.75"). More about Announcement card for Kruger's "Twelve" exhibition at the Tramway in Glasgow, 2005
NY: Franklin Furnace, 1979. The front of the card features a b&w photograph by Kruger of a car seat with seatbelts and a banana on the floor. A very early card---Kruger's fifth exhibition. Addressed for mailing. Fine (4" x 6"). Rare. More about Announcement card for Kruger's 1979 "Photograph/Paragraph" exhibition at the Franklin...
NY: Institute for Art and Urban Resources, [1980]. The front of the card features a photo of two faces and the word "Nature." A very early show for Kruger---her sixth exhibition. Addressed for mailing. Fine (3.5" 8.25"). Rare. More about Announcement card for Kruger's 1980 "Nature" show at P.S. 1 in Long Island City, NY
Chicago: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, 1984. The front features text in white and black printed against a red and black background. Hairline scratch that doesn't break the surface, else fine (4" x 6"). More about Announcement card for Kruger's 1984 show at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago