Collection: Art & Illustration

Bloomfield Hills, MI: Lightworks, 2000. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 11 x 8-1/2 in. 96pp. Heavily illustrated throughout in black-and-white. With audio CD in plastic sleeve mounted to p. 69. Light wear at heel of spine. Short closed snag to fore-edge of rear cover. Else as... More

First edition of this memoir of the surrealist artist Roland Penrose (1900-1984), published on the occasion of the exhibition, Ronald Penrose and Lee Miller, at the Dean Gallery, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (19 May - 9 September 2001). With a... More

Claremont, Australia: Platypus Press, 1994. No. 146 of 200 copies signed by Goodman and Leach-Jones on limitation page at rear. Small octavo, 8-3/8 x 5-3/8 in. viii, 82pp. Gray cloth; title plate mounted on front board; red sewn-in bookmark; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued.... More

Complete run in four volumes of this journal collecting writings and art, both historical and contemporary, by members of the international Surrealist movement. Published by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, co-founders of the Chicago Surrealist Group (est. 1966) and publishers beginning in 1967 of Black Swan... More

Hardcover issue of this monograph covering the work of the Korean-American video artist and Fluxus member Nam June Paik, published in conjunction with an exhibition of his work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, April 30-June 27, 1982. With a foreword by Tom Armstrong,... More

A portfolio of sixteen charming full-color reproductions of graphite-and-colored-pencil sketches by the French-born artist Alice Thévin (1862-1937), who from 1909 until her death lived in Boston (and abroad) with her partner, the arts patron Fanny Peabody Mason, founder of the long running Peabody Mason concert... More

Inscribed first paperback printing of this graphic novel by the American cartoonist and recipient of both Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships. NY: Pantheon Books, 1999. First paperback edition. Signed, dated, and inscribed with a doodle by Katchor on front free endpaper recto. Perfect-bound in printed matte... More

A self-published artist's book of vibrant silk-screen prints, issued in an edition of just 20 copies. Ten images of everyday objects containing numbers, arranged sequentially from one to ten, with each image composed of a unique two-, three- or four-color combination. A lovely production, whose... More

Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1981. An inscribed monographic artist's book documenting the early career of the influential American performance artist. The first half presents performance pieces from 1964 to 1980, each one illustrated with a single black-and-white image on the recto. The second half consists... More

An artist's book, profusely illustrated in black-and-white, presenting the "documentation, notes, and shooting script" for Seemayer's film of the same name, which was screened once in 1981 and then not again until its restoration in 2013, and which captured the principal figures of the incipient... More

NY: The Drawing Center, 2013. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 9 x 6 in., 127pp. Very near fine, with a bump to the textblock fore-edge affecting about ten leaves. Handsomely illustrated throughout with full color plates of Dickinson and Walser's handwritten manuscripts, drawing an interesting parallel... More

NY: Zone Books, 2000. First edition. Octavo (9.25 x 6.25 in.), 485 pp., black cloth boards, in dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine jacket. Collects writings by Hans Sedlmayr, Otto Pacht, Walter Benjamin, and other thinkers associated with the Vienna School. More

Bailly, Jean-Christophe; Piotr Kowalski. Piotr Kowalski. Paris: Fernand Hazan, 1988. First edition of 2,000 copies. Quarto; 129pp., unpaginated "Biographie" and "Bibliographie" sections at rear; decorative papered boards with glassine jacket printed in red. Four-page "Errata et Addenda" tipped onto rear pastedown. Text in French. Though... More

Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1971. 4to. 135pp. First edition. Grey/green cloth with yellow titles. Spine ends and top edge of boards very lightly discolored, former owner's name inked on front free end paper, else near fine. Unclipped "$8.95" jacket shows rubbing and wear at... More

Milan: BE-MA Editrice, 1988. 12mo. Signature-bound in softcover wraps. 142pp. Light soiling to front cover, light sunning to front and spine, else a strong very good. A collection of prints exploring Islamic symbolism. Illustrated throughout in full color. More