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...
NY: Dial Records, ca. 1948. 8vo. Single sheet folded to make four pages. Second edition. The front cover features the Wallace Berman illustration used on the cover of "Be-Bop Jazz," a set of 78 rpm records issued by Dial in 1948. A terrific illustration by Berman and his first published... More about Be-Bop Jazz: A Catalog
NY: Fuck You Press, 1965. 4to. "THE WORLD PREMIER OF THE FUGS! an unbelievable group of singers featuring Tuli Kupferberg on farto-phone, Brillo Box, finger symbols, & various percussion instruments; Ed Sanders on organ, sex-organ, & harmonica...dirty folk spews, rock & roll, poetry, Amphetamine operas and other freak beams..." The... More about Handbill announcing two momentous events in the history of the Lower East Side counterculture of...
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 nebula swirling in outer... More about Untitled lithograph utilizing Berman's signature motif of hands holding transistor radios with...
[LA: Fellows of Contemporary Art, 1978]. 4to. Softbound. First edition. Foreword by Hal Glicksman. Essays by Robert Duncan and David Meltzer. Profusely illustrated throughout. Issued to coincide with an important exhibition---Berman's first major retrospective. Thin abrasion to bottom of front cover, barely perceptible yellowing to top edge of first few... More about Wallace Berman: Retrospective
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...
[Mt. Kisco, NY: Tyler Graphics, 1989]. Large 4to. Softbound. First edition. Essay by Judith Goldman. Profusely illustrated throughout. Published on the occasion of a traveling exhibition. As new. More about Welcome to the Water Planet and House of Fire 1988-1989
France: Marval, 1992. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Terrific photographs Pam took on his travels through Asia in the '60s and '70s. (Bilingual French/English text.) Very fine. More about Going East: Two Decades of Asian Photography
[Geneva]: Skira, [1967]. Large 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout including many tipped-in plates. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket with minor wear and a couple of 1-inch tears to top of spine. More about Treasures of Spain: From Altamira to the Catholic Kings
Tokyo: Kodansha, [1967]. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine. More about The Arts of Japan: Late Medieval to Modern Vol. 2
NY: Skira/Rizzoli, [1976]. Folio. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout with tipped-in color plates. One corner bumped, else fine in dust jacket with the original wrap-around band. More about Dutch Painting
NY: Privately published, 1989. The front of the card features the classic photograph of a bare-chested Smith holding a curved dagger, beneath which is printed: "Jack Smith / November 14, 1932---September 18, 1989 / Legendary Filmmaker, Theatrical Genius / and Exotic Art Consultant." The back of the card states: "Exotic... More about Announcement card for Jack Smith's memorial service
NY: Abrams [ca. 1971]. 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine. More about 17th and 18th Century Art: Baroque Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
NY: Abrams, [1977]. Thick 4to. Hardbound in cloth-covered boards with an illustrated plate affixed to the front cover, issued in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine in dust jacket with a small, hairline scratch (that doesn't break the surface) to front panel. More about The Art of India
NY: Abrams, [1969]. Thick 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine. More about History of Italian Renaissance Art
Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, [1968]. Small 4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition in English. Profusely illustrated throughout. Fine in dust jacket with barely perceptible yellowing to spine. Housed in publisher's cardstock slipcase (title written in ink on bottom edge of slipcase). More about German Art in the 20th Century