Four mimeographed sheets detailing a scenario with accompanying notes and diagrams for a happening in the basement of 26 Kingly Street in London. Oblong octavo (8 x 12 7/8 inches). Light green stapled paper wrappers. Spotting to wrappers, rust around staples, wrappers separated but all appears complete, sheets folded, "Sharkey?"..... More
Bremen: self-published, 1973. A4 (30.5 × 21.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers; offset-printed and xeroxed text, photographs, and drawings on loosely inserted sheets; 10 pp. Very good. Single issue of this uncommonly seen German underground journal, inspired by the “Agit 883” periodical published in Berlin from 1969 to 1972. It was..... More
Approximately 841 issues total bound in 32 volumes of the Seville edition of the long-running conservative Catholic and monarchist Spanish journal, covering the period of the Spanish Civil War, being the majority of years XXXII through XXXV of the journal's publication, with 5 volumes for 1936, 12 each for 1937..... More
A complete collection of 58 issues in 53 fascicules (5 double-issues) of the second series of the underground and counterculture French comics journal, together with eight supplemental volumes. Quarto and small folio (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches up to 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). Original brightly illustrated side-stapled..... More
A complete run in 18 issues of the prestigious Soviet architecture journal, issues approximately 60-80 pp., profusely illustrated throughout. Quartos (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches). Years 1934-1936 bound in two cloth volumes, one original wrapper bound in at start and end of volume, three issues from 1937 loose in..... More
A complete run in 3 issues, 62-118 pp. each, of the short-lived French experimental journal, illustrated. Small quarto (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches). Original illustrated wrappers with artist-designed covers done in stencil and airbrush, ink, and gouache. Some extremely light soiling to the covers, overall excellent. Paris: Aller Simple..... More
A complete run in 4 issues (112, 125, and 119 pp., 4th issue unpaginated) of the landmark experimental and concrete poetry journal. Octavo (approx. 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 inches, no. 4 slightly smaller). Original printed wrappers, nos. 1 through 3 with red and black arrow design, no. 4 with..... More
Antique Italian bingo-type game set, likely late 19th or early 20th century, comprised of cardboard game board with 90 gold-numbered spaces on red ground with embossed gold paper frame, 90 hand-numbered wooden game tokens, and 15 sets of 87 total individual cards, housed in 8 colored cardstock sleeves, the cards..... More
A slim unpaginated (16 pp.) booklet on the Southern Sudanese guerrilla organization, with 2 color folding maps laid in. Octavo (9 1/8 x 6 3/8 inches). Original side-stapled pictorial wrappers. Light toning throughout, a couple of small red ink notations, overall very good. London/South Sudan: South Sudan Resistance Movement, 1971..... More
Single sheet tract from the Mouvement du 22 Mars French student movement. Quarto (12 1/8 x 8 3/16 inches). Loose as issued. Foxing and toning throughout, overall very good. Paris: Imprimerie Ch. Bernard, [1968]. This single sheet constitutes the first tract from the Mouvement du 22 Mars. It calls for..... More
A complete run in 50 issues of the New Zealand arts and culture journal. Octavo (9 1/2 x 7 1/4 inches). Original wrappers, some of the later issues with decorative borders or illustrated covers. Some edgewear, scattered paper losses to spines, scattered toning and foxing, overall very good. Wellington: Harry..... More
Double-sided poster/catalog from the first major exhibition of abstract art in Italy, held in Rome at the Galleria Roma from March through April 1948, containing a sort of manifesto about abstract art, a statement on the exhibition from Ettore Sottsass Jr., additional texts from Piet Mondrian, George Morris, G. Formaggio..... More
A complete set of the first series of the annual, ed. by Wilhelm Wanscher, each of the 8 volumes containing 200 to 300 pp. of annotated articles (in English, French or German) on Danish art and architecture, ancient, Italian, and Oriental art that relates to Danish collections, and some general..... More
A complete run in eight issues of the late 1980s science fiction and fantasy digest zine, not illustrated, issues range from 38 to 76 pp. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 1/4 inches). Original side-stapled color cardstock wrappers with vivid black and white illustrations to front covers. Some light rust to..... More
24 pp. of text and 12 fine steel-engraved colored plates, many with tissue paper backing to allow light to pass through. Quarto (12 x 9 1/2 inches). Original green publisher's cloth with gilt lettering, plates loose as issued. Minor stains to boards, spine professionally rebacked, some light toning, scattered staining..... More
A complete collection in 109 issues of the short-lived art and literature journal, each issue 6-8 pp., with scattered illustrations. Year 1 large folio (17 7/8 x 13 3/4 inches), Year 2 small folio (14 3/4 x 10 inches). Red cloth with gilt-stamped leather title labels to spines. Light soiling..... More
Calendar consisting of six color screenprints by some of the most important Pop artists, one print for each two-month spread, the prints done on light cardboard, each with transparent protective film sheet, screenprints typographically noted to versos with artist names. Folio (15 1/2 x 20 3/4 inches), sheet sizes of..... More
24 pp. booklet on the ornamental ironwork at the Hotel Sir Francis Drake in San Francisco, designed by the architectural and engineering firm of Weeks & Day, plus a laid-in four-page pamphlet with facsimiles of three letters sent to Michel & Pfeffer Iron Works, the firm who executed the ironwork..... More
A collection of sixteen early 19th century French traveling books, the publisher, J.B. Fournier Père et Fils, produced a number of uniformly bound titles in miniature format under the heading of Bibliothèque Portative du Voyageur, and the customer would make their selections which would then be housed in purpose built..... More
Altogether 6 issues, 30, 32, 33, 33, 33, 33 pp., of the Dutch cultural and literary journal with a political edge, including artistic contributions from noted artists, illustrators, photographers, and cartoonists, such as Willem (Bernard Holtrop), Oscar de Wit, Taetske Hellinga, and Ed van der Elsken among others, with articles..... More
The only issue published of the poster-style newspaper regarding the establishment of the Black Gate art space in New York. Broadside/poster (sheet size 22 x 17 inches, folded to 11 x 8 1/2 inches). Very light fold marks, overall excellent condition. New York: Black Gate, 1967. This poster was published..... More
16 total issues in 15 fascicules (of 23 total published) of the small press poetry magazine edited by poets David Ball and George Tysh. Quarto. Original stapled illustrated wrappers. One issue with some minor water stains, no. 14 with back cover detached but present, very light handling wear, overall very..... More
Promotional folding parlor game from the famous British chocolate company. Folds to 8 3/8 x 3 5/8 inches, opens to 8 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches. Printed and illustrated self-wrappers, loose as issued. Small split along central fold, very light toning, overall very good. Bournville [Birmingham]: Cadbury, n.d. (circa 1910-1925)..... More
Paper portfolio printed with title and list of artists, housing five original lithographs printed in colors. Folio (16 5/8 x 13 1/4 inches). Beige canvas tie-bound portfolio with publisher's flaps, paper portfolio housed inside. Considerable wear to canvas portfolio, canvas loss to back cover, light toning to paper portfolio, lithographs..... More
The only issue of the magazine published by the Manlio Sonvico Fascist student group, (8), 58, (8) pp. Large quarto (13 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). Original illustrated wrappers with bright and eye-catching Futurist cover design by renowned designer and graphic artist Franco Grignani (1908-1999). Some minor scattered foxing, light..... More