Surfing the Gnarl, Plus..
Oakland: PM Press, 2012. Paperback. 120p., 5x7.5 inches, pictorial wraps, New. PM Press Outspoken Authors Series, No. 7. Short stories from the S.F. author, plus interview and Bibliography. More
Cat.No: 165707
avant-garde
Le Livre du Caillou. Avec trente illustrations de l'auteur - Preface et postface de Franco Renzulli
Digne les Bains: Paul Keruel - Editions de Haute-Provence, 1993. Paperback. 124p., whimsical b&w artwork, most "plates" show a facet (one or another) of a common stone. Softbound with presswork on very good paperstock, has all the ingredients of a dynamite artist's book excepting visual interest (that may be a...... More
Cat.No: 289778
Looky Loo. At the Sculpture Center, April 1-29, 1995
New York: Sculpture Center, 1995. Staplebound. 10 pages, illustrations, wraps. Very Good. Catalog of an exhibition curated by “art activist” Kenny Schachter. Essay by Geoffrey Young. Artists include Ross Knight, Nina Bovasso, Jonathan Horowitz, Devon Dikeou, John Lekay, and Kenny Schachter. More
Cat.No: 293450
Bookworks. September 19 - October 30, 1987.
Riverside, CA: Riverside Art Museum, 1987. Staplebound. [12]p., illustrations, wraps. Very Good. Printed works by Schwimmer which borrow heavily (“appropriate”) from illustrations in out-of-print books. From the introductory essay by Judith A. Hoffberg: “Using text from old handbooks, the artist brings her own voice into the work, testing its authenticity..... More
Cat.No: 294494
Zone Magazine, 1989, 1st issue and 2nd summer issue,
Tempe, AZ: Zone Magazine, 1989. Magazine. Two issues, 57p both issues, 11x17 magazine in glossy wraps, shelf and edge worn, first issue has lower right corner wraps bumped and creased, else in very good condition. Published out of Temp, Az, this avant-garde magazine was the project of Robert Sentinery and..... More
Cat.No: 262353
City Lights Publishers, Fall and Winter 1999
San Francisco: City Lights, 1999. 16p., good presswork with vignettes of cover illustrations, a publisher's menu for the year. Oblong 6x8.5 inch stapled pamphlet with the editor's business card stapled to upper corner, lower corner has suffered a bump and the spinefold is a little crimped. Clean unmarked copy with..... More
Cat.No: 241379
Eternal terminological return, 1987-1989.
[Place of publication not identified]: [publisher not identified], not before 1989. Staplebound. [72] pages, wraps (side stapled). Very Good. Xeroxed book of stream-of-consciousness poetry and prose on various topics, with headings such as “Disorders of the real,” “I want to be a woman,” and “While reading a book.” Many are..... More
Cat.No: 293473
Ping-pong: journal of the Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, California; volume 1, no. 2, 1996
Big Sur: Magnus Torén, 1996. Paperback. viii, 86p., 5.5x7.5 inches, illustrated with glossy b&w photos, small rough tear at head of spine, otherwise very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 168408
The Zigzag Way
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. Paperback. xi, 189p., paperback, 7x10 inches, very good. Special focus on Avant-Garde Poetry from China. Featuring work by Ng Suk Yin, Mo Fei, Enchi Fumiko, and more. Mānoa 10:1. More
Cat.No: 286321
Constructed situations; a new history of the Situationist International
London: Pluto Press, 2014. Paperback. xiii, 173p., price sticker on back wrap, else in very good condition. Includes a chapter on the Watts Revolt. More
Cat.No: 298692
Bike boys, drag queens, and superstars; avant-garde, mass culture, and gay identities in the 1960s underground cinema
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996. Hardcover. xviii, 353p., introduction, conclusions, notes, filmography, bibliography, index, illustrated with in-text b&w film stills, good first edition in worn and stained lavender cloth boards. Kenneth Anger, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, The Factory etc. The American Underground cinema of the Sixties. More
Cat.No: 102003
Heredity Study I & II.
Rome, Italy: Athena Tacha, 1972. Staplebound. 2 volumes ([12], [12] pages), illustrations, staplebound wraps. Edition of 500. Printed by Tip. Tavolacci. Ex-library, with stamps, old shelf marks, and presentation bookplates (both works were gifts of the author) from the Cleveland Museum of Art, with deaccessioning stamps. Artist’s book in two..... More
Cat.No: 293441
William Carlos Williams and the American Scene 1920-1940
New York / Berkeley: Whitney Museum / University of California Press, 1978. Paperback. 168p., plentiful b&w illustrations, with a brief color-repro section, well-integrated with text, large softbound in 11x8.5 inch daffodil-yellow wraps, back cover has suffered a sharp vertical crease, otherwise quite sound, clean, unmarked. More
Cat.No: 284726
Visions and Blueprints: Avant-garde culture and radical politics in early twentieth-century Europe
New York & Manchester: Manchester University Press & St. Martin's Press, 1988. Paperback. xii, 328p., introduction, b&w reproductions and photos, index, lightly-used trade paperback first edition in pictorial wraps, minor soiling to edges. More
Cat.No: 222614
Érotique du soi singulier
Paris: Belin, 2000. Paperback. 496p., softbound in 8.5x5 inch white wraps, slight handling soil to the fore edge, otherwise clean and sound, this copy inscribed and signed by Verstraten with contact information. L'extreme contemporain. More
Cat.No: 295146
Wendelhammer. “Cahier blanc.”
Edition Clandestin. Paperback. 47 pages, illustrations, wraps. Good. Top corner of rear cover creased. Fictitious catalog of the cabinet of curiosities of Hermann Wendelhammer, a fake persona who is supposed to be an archaeologist, issued by a (also fictitious) German pataphysical society. The elaborate hoax includes a biography, chronology, a...... More
Cat.No: 293464
Der Greif - "Guest-Room: Katrin Weber". February 12 until February 25.
Munich: the collective. 2015. Portfolio. 35 of the 37 plates called for (photographs, at least 35, hard to count cardstock) enclosed in a panelled dust jacket / folder, folder is dirty with dust and handling, the plates immaculate, most in color, the issue limited to 600cc. Avant-garde without being snootily..... More
Cat.No: 288738
In the Trade of Alive Letters Mis-sent
Boston: Brave Men Press Coin Library, 2011. Pamphlet. [6]p. plus nice titlepage and snarky colophon, provided with cinnamon flimsies for endsheets, a very pretty letterpress item in fine shape. The luxurious presswork is in fine unblemished condition; the only odd note is the staple-fastening of its excellence, this sort of..... More
Cat.No: 253875
The Hungarian avant garde; the eight and the activists. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Institute for Cultural Relations
[London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980. Paperback. 127p., wraps a tad worn, slight tear on tail of spine, name of artists neatly penciled under the photographs, else good. More
Cat.No: 296290
My Life in Flux - and Vice Versa
London: Thames and Hudson, 1992. Hardcover. 496p., cloth-covered boards, 7x9.5 inches, profusely illus., very good condition in an unclipped, edgeworn dj with sticker scars on both the front and rear panels. Autobiography by the poet and writer who was a part of the Fluxus movement. More
Cat.No: 288572
Untinears & Antennae for Maurice Ravel
St. Paul: Truck Press, 1977. Paperback. v, 58p., 7.5x5.5 inches landscape format, foreword, poems, notes, very good first edition trade paperback in green pictorial wraps. Distributed by Serendipity Books. North Carolina poet. More
Cat.No: 214593
Flue #1. September 1980.
New York: Franklin Furnace, 1980. Newsletter. [12]p., illustrations. Nested leaves of newsprint. Folded once in half, with some edge toning, but otherwise Very Good. First issue of the arts magazine. Front page includes an announcement of an exhibition curated by Clive Phillpot, Charles Henri Ford, Barbara Moore, Jon Hendricks, and..... More
Cat.No: 294482
Paintings and Projects.
Sacramento, CA: Crocker Art Museum, 1981. Pamphlet. 16p., illustrations, wraps. Inscribed on title page: “For Judith, and also thank you for the Booklook, Witt, 1985.” Also included is an early photocopy of a deposition attesting to Witt and Tsuya Takebayashi throwing a bamboo baton overboard from a ferry crossing the..... More
Cat.No: 294509
Wreckless Abandon.
Miami: Our House West of Wynwood, 2008. Paperback. [64]p., illustrations, wraps. Exhibition of two decades of art by Korean-American artist, filmmaker, and graphic designer Rostarr (Roman Kimin Yang), including many of his calligraphic, maze-like works. Essays: Introduction by Al Moran, “Rostarr: Man in the Maze” by Alexandra Chung and “Organic..... More
Cat.No: 294492
Jinshi Zhu, Fangzhen: daadgalerie, 12. Mai - 17. Juni 1990
Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, 1990. Paperback. [29p.], paperback, 10.25x8.5 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with b&w and color photographs of Zhu's paintings and installations. Zhu was born in 1954 in Beijing and worked in a factory during the Cultural Revolution before joining the Stars (Xingxing), a Chinese avant-garde group..... More
Cat.No: 287927