DIE VOLLKOMMENE GASTGEBERIN IST FUR MICH DIE 'DAME MIT DER PEITSCHE" [Cover Title - "For me the perfect host is the "lady with a whip"]
An extraordinary and unique handmade artist's book, elaborately assembled by an anonymous artist.
An extraordinary and unique handmade artist's book, elaborately assembled by an anonymous artist.
Lovely, varied work of concrete poetry and visual art comprising pages of various sizes, colors, and printing methods (mimeo, silkscreen) bound in, including a two-page original glued collage and handwritten poem by Bissett.
Collection of photographs of death scenes in and around the English county of Cheshire, used for investigative purposes.
Early publication by the influential language poet, perhaps the best known author from that movement.
First edition of this selection of images from a photo archive procured by Piller, consisting of about 20,000 aerial photographs of homes taken between 1979 and 1983 by a company whose intention was to sell the images to the homeowners.
Gatewood's photographs, accompanied by Burroughs' text. Uncommon when signed by both.
An outstanding example of (presumably) amateur political protest art, depicting the House Un-American Activities Committee as a rabid King Kong on the verge of seizing the helpless damsel Civil Liberties.
A rich series of collages and assemblages with thoroughly referential pop-art sensibilities.
Freshly-discovered 8mm color film footage of World War II service — quite possibly the only entirely amateur WWII color footage by an American soldier extant — shot by Montana-native Charles W. Hash of the 41st Infantry Division.
A striking suite of advertising signage from an airbrush t-shirt artist named Dick Green (signed "Dick Green" and "Birdie" on verso of one).
First edition of this noted "anthology of the Prison Writings of Conscientious Objectors to World War II" (front flap), inscribed by one of its contributors, legendary activist and pacifist James Peck.
Well-assembled pre-war photo album compiled by an American Lutheran missionary to Japan, whose face appears consistently in the majority of the photographs.
Striking collection of photographs showing many carefree, recreational moments of wartime: soldiers sitting around at the barracks, reading and smoking; and many photos of Vietnamese acquaintances across the album, such as women lounging at the base library.
A evocative collection of photographs taken and compiled by Robert H. Tucker (while he was a student at MIT) of his high school career at Poughkeepsie's Arlington High School, where he graduated with the class of 1950.
Printed by Holbrook Teter, Michael Myers' iconic FORD marked the beginning of their collaboration and was the first item issued from Zephyrus Image.
Album of storage tanks, agitators, and other liquid-related metal machinery photos compiled by the manufacturer, which — judging by the locations of most of its clients — was located somewhere in the Midwestern United States.
Holograph poem, later collected in the United Artists edition of THE SONNETS.
Undated, though the program notes mention Warhol's 25-hour "****" as having been recently released (it first screened in December 1967) and dates one quoted article as being from March 1968, which would place this event in early-mid 1968.
Advertising portfolio for the introduction of the pull-tab aluminum can, the packaging features a churchkey motif with the tagline "Who needs it? Nobody needs it!"
A skilled and moving portrait of a Native American family, probably Mojave, captioned with a typically racist title along the top edge.
Carefully assembled and curated French wedding album likely dating from the mid 1920s, including portraits of the bride and groom, the wedding party, family and guests, with two shots of the reception.
Original photograph album composed with great care, containing forty photos of British train engines mounted one to a page and captioned in a neat hand.
A first-year membership card for The Roxy in London's Covent Garden, epicenter of the UK's burgeoning punk movement.
Elegant and carefully-assembled photo album of bathers in and around an unidentified lakeside German resort, likely in the years following WWI.
Archive a student who received his BS, MA and PhD at Peabody, as well as that of his wife, who also graduated from Peabody with a BS.