Zurich: Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, 1993. The cover features a color reproduction of an early untitled work by Basquiat. Fine (ca. 6" x 8.5" folded). A scarce invite. More about Folding invitation for Basquiat's 1993 show at the Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich
Venice: L.A. Louver Gallery, 1979. In addition to works by Berman the exhibition featured graphics by Sol Lewitt, Cy Twombly, Robert Motherwell, James Rosenquist, Chis Burden, and others. Features text on one side and a photo of a sculpture on the other. Sunning to one edge, else fine. More about Announcement card for Wallace Berman's "Art is Love is God" show at the L.A. Louver...
n.p.: Privately published, 1979. Single 16mo sheet folded to make four pages. Front and back covers reproduce Berman verifaxes of hands holding transistor radios, inside features the poster for his Ferus Gallery show and another work by Berman with a small photo of him. Faint touch of sunning to top... More about Folding announcement for the Wallace Berman Retrospective exhibition that appeared at U.C....
Larkspur, CA: Privately printed and hand-assembled by Wallace Berman, 1961. Limited to 200 copies. Folder with an altered photographic still of actress Susan Hayward on the cover. Laid into a pocket inside the folder are 18 inserts of various sizes printing photographs, texts, and drawings. This issue is devoted entirely... More about Semina, No. 7, 1961
[Tucson]: Nazraeli Press, [2007]. 4to. Bound in three-quarter leather and linen-covered boards. First edition. One of 250 copies numbered and signed by Kenna. As new in publisher's slipcase and partial shrinkwrap. More about Mont St. Michel
[Hollywood: Living Color Productions/Jack Stevenson, 1982]. The "Special Family Issue" of this periodical from the publisher who issued Pandemonium. Features an interview with John Waters, five poems by Charles Bukowski, a photo essay on "The Future That Never Came," and more. Very near fine. More about The Living Color, March-April 1982
[SF]: Straight Arrow, [1972]. Softbound. First edition. A classic of the genre. Some toning to the white spine lettering, else near fine. More about The Queens' Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon
[NY: The Scholarship Committee, 1985]. Softbound. First edition. Slight sunning to spine and white covers, else about fine and unread. More about Homolexis: A Historical and Cultural Lexicon of Homosexuality
n.p.: Privately published, 1978. Pamphet. First edition. This copy from the archive of Reinhold Aman, editor of Maledicta, and scholar on sex and hate speech. Some material from Aman laid in. Brown stain to corner of back cover that bleeds through to the last page, else fine. Scarce in the... More about Dictionary of Polish Obscenities
Chicago: Loop Center YWCA, 1973. Softbound. First edition. Ownership signature of Reinhold Aman, editor of Maledicta, and scholar on sex and hate speech. Some material from Aman laid in. Some sunning to spine and edges of covers, else near fine. More about An Intelligent Woman's Guide to Dirty Words: Volume One of The Feminist English Dictionary
[Cambridge: Living Color Productions/Jack Stevenson, 1986]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Review copy with a TLS from the publisher to Reinhold Aman, editor of Maledicta, laid in along with a handbill to raise legal funds for the publisher who was undergoing efforts by John Martin to suppress... More about Pandemonium
SF: Privately published by the Diggers/Free City Collective, 1967. Legal-size sheets, bound with a metal clip, as issued. First edition. A collection of 12 broadsides (several printed on both sides) featuring psychedelic art, poetry, hippie philosophy, news from the street, and where to find free food and lodging. Printed by... More about Free City News, No. 1
NY: Chemical Bank, 1960. Frederick Fried was the Art Director/window designer for the famous luxury department store Bonwit Teller, whose flagship store was in the heart of NYC at Fifth Ave. and 56th St. Andy worked as his assistant before he became famous and even afterward. The check has Andy... More about Check from Frederick Fried made out to Andy Warhol, 1960
Newport, RI: The Samaritans, 1981. Square 8vo. Stapled pamphlet with a dangling tassle on a string. The front cover prints a nice collage by Mahler Ryder utilizing images of Andy Warhol's face. The back cover reproduces one of Warhol's "Dance Diagrams" and Warhol has boldly signed above his illustration. The... More about Program book for a party and benefit auction billed as "an evening with Andy Warhol and...
Paris: Galerie Daniel Templon, 1987. Text printed in black on slick white stock. Fine (4.25" x 6"). Scarce. More about Invitation card for Basquiat's 1987 show at the Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris
NY: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987. The other side prints an announcement for a show by Simon Linke. Printed in white, gray, and brown on slick stock. Fine (ca. 8.5" x 6"). More about Invitation card for Basquiat's 1987 "Drawings" show at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery in NYC
NY: Bruno Bischofberger/Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, 1984. Nicely printed in green and black on textured beige stock. An early show for Basquiat. Fine (5" x 7"). More about Invitation card for Basquiat's 1984 show at the Boone/Bischofberger/Werner Gallery in NYC
NY: Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, 1988. Invite for Basquiat's final exhibition featuring a b&w cover photo of Basquiat holding a copy of Kerouac's The Subterraneans. Fine (three small spots to back cover, a minor blemish from the printing process). A nicely designed announcement measuring 9" x 6" folded. More about Folding invitation for Basquiat's 1988 show at the Vrej Baghoomian Gallery in NYC
NY: Izzy Young, 1961. Single sheet folded to make four pages. The cover features a photo of a young Dylan wearing a corduroy cap and playing harmonica. Prints biographical info, including some "embellishments" supplied by Dylan such as how he started "playing Carnivals at the age of fourteen." Includes extensive... More about Program for Bob Dylan's historic "First New York Concert" at Carnegie Chapter Hall,...
[Barcelona]: Ediciones Poligrafa, [1966]. Square 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Barely perceptible touch of yellowing to dust jacket, else fine with the original wrap-around band and housed in publisher's cardboard box. (Text in English, French, Spanish, and German.). More about Picasso en Cataluna
[NY: Leon Amiel, 1980]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. A special issue of the XX Siecle Review. Profusely illustrated throughout including two original lithographs by Lindner. Supplemenray texts by Werner Spies and others. Touch of yellowing to top edge of front and back blank pages, else very fine. More about Homage to Richard Lindner
NY: Museum of Modern Art, [1993]. Thick 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout, many in color. Published on the occasion of an exhibition. Very fine. More about Joan Miro
n.p.: Privately published, ca. 1967. Issued by the hippies in the Haight-Ashbury during the "Summer of Love." Handed out to straight people and tourists to provide them with "safe passage " through the hippie populated streets of the Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere. "Housewives...students...parents...athletes...doctors...squares...Indian chiefs...policemen...Have you heard of all those wild rumors..... More about ''Safe Conduct Pass'' to Hippie-Land
LA: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. An offset lithograph photographed from Berman's original Verifax collage. Limited to 50 copies. Originally issued as part of a set of lithos titled Radio/Aether Series 1966/1974, but here offered separately. On this print the images within the four hand-held radios are: a woman sitting in a.... More about Untitled lithograph utilizing Berman's signature motif of hands holding transistor radios with...
[Kathmandu, Nepal: Bardo Matrix, 1977]. Small 4to. Pamphlet, stitch bound. First edition. Of 250 numbered copies signed by Valenza. The colophon page is also signed by an unidentified person involved with the publication. Illustrated with charming woodblock prints. Printed on lovely handmade rice paper. Color photo of the author in... More about Lost Contact