ASPEN: The Magazine in a Box
Complete ten-issue run of this elaborately produced and hugely influential artists' magazine, one of the defining publications of the 1960s.
Complete ten-issue run of this elaborately produced and hugely influential artists' magazine, one of the defining publications of the 1960s.
Signed first edition of Spiegelman's self-published mini-comic, produced around the time of the artist's move to San Francisco and immersion in the underground comics scene.
First printing of the Artists' Workshop Press edition of 1966, from the original Fug Press edition of 1965.
Complete eleven-issue run of this arguably the greatest publication to emerge from the mid-century experimental music scene.
Complete set of Ed Sanders's short-lived "Quote of the Week" from his notorious press, featuring three brief selections from Harry Fainlight, John Ashbery, and Kenneth Koch.
Signed limited handbound edition of this illustrated book by frequent New York School collaborators Rivers and Koch, the product of friendly poetic competition between Koch and Frank O'Hara.
Signed limited edition handmade pop-up book by the painter, street artist, and creator of Grosse Victime magazine, one of just five copies produced.
First edition of this sequel of sorts to DHARMA BUMS, in which Kerouac weaves Buddhist themes through memoir — in beautiful condition.
First edition of arguably Baldessari's most desirable artist's book, and one of the best of the 1970s.
First edition of Hejinian's second book (the first was suppressed by the poet and is all but unattainable) and the first title from her Tuumba Press, one of the first and arguably most important outlets for the movement that would soon be known as L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E.
Original flyer from a series of dates that would help define the legendary and infamous band.
First UK edition of Kerouac's classic Beat novel, published the year after the U.S. edition, in the striking Bernard Blatch dust jacket.
Scarce catalogue of the 1969 exhibition of Arte Povera and Conceptual Art, less known but as innovative and groundbreaking as the same year's more-mythologized "When Attitudes Become Form," and similarly an expression of its own curator's personality and vision.
Rare catalogue of the third Havana Biennial, a rich and energetic exhibition with a global reach, curated by the staff of the Centro Wifredo Lam under Cuba's Ministry of Culture, opening a week before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
First edition catalogue of this major international exhibition, conceived as a anti-colonialist corrective to the contemporary art-world ethnocentrism typified by MoMA's much-criticized 1985 "Primitivism" show.
Rare signed portfolio documenting Hsieh's third extended performance piece, a full year in New York City spent outside shelter of any kind (save for 15 hours inside a police station courtesy of the NYPD), issued in conjunction with an installation at Franklin Furnace.
Uncommon catalogue of Szeemann's innovative and controversial 1969 exhibition, an international survey of Postminimalist and Arte Povera work which played a major role in redefining the role of the modern curator.
Unique miniature erotic artist's book, hand-painted and collaged onto a France Poste mailing label booklet.
Signed first edition of these black and white photographs of 30 selected records and album covers from Ruscha's collection, photographed by his friend and fellow artist Jerry McMillan.
Signed first edition of Ruscha and Weiner's photo-novel, starring Shelley Chamberlain, Suzanne Chandler, and Susan Haller in a captivatingly oblique visual drama.
Signed second edition of Ruscha's second artist's book, an enigmatic series of controlled burns in the human landscape.
Scarce final issue (the fourteenth) of Sander's legendary and infamous mimeo, printed "At a Secret Location on the Lower East Side" — from the library of poet and publisher Kenward Elmslie.
First printing of this psychology book written with the aim of finding and removing the "cause" of homosexuality and gender-nonconformity, owned by a doctor who espoused less harmful practices.
Inscribed first edition of Barrett Watten's rare first book (one of just 75 copies) that helped launch L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry.
Scarce exhibition catalogue from the groundbreaking first show of Darger's previously unknown works.