Large Collection of Late 19th and Early 20th Century Black Americana Sheet Music
Various cities including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Boston: various publishers, primarily circa 1890's to 1920s. Various sized quartos (most measuring approximately 31 x 23.5 cm or 35 x 26.5 cm). Original publisher's colorful wrappers; most circa 4-8 pp. Wrappers worn, many with detached covers, some with tape repairs or ink stamps, some toning to leaves, overall about good. A large collection of 160 pieces of English-language minstrel sheet music songs (including several title duplicates with different cover... Read More
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Bibliothèque Portative du Voyageur, Selected Titles
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 boxes, portable books have a long and distinguished history, traveling libraries date back to at least the early 17th century, and miniature bibles were carried by medieval itinerant preachers.... Read More
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La Société Sans Classes a Trouvé Ses Artistes. Vive l'Internationale Situationniste!
Single page flyer, printed recto and verso, presenting the text of the "Adresse de l'Internationale Situationniste" directed towards the Assemblée Générale de l'Association Internationale des Critiques d'Art, held on April 14, 1958 at the Exposition Universelle in Brussels, speaking out against art critics and co-signed by members of the Internationale Situationniste representing the nations and areas of Algeria (Abdelhafid Khatib), Germany (Hans Platschek), Belgium (Walter Korun), France (Guy Debord), Italy (Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio), and Scandinavia (Asger Jorn). Some slight browning,... Read More
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Kraftfahr-Lehrabteilung Plön
Fischer. Collection of plans and photographs documenting the construction of the Naval Academy in Plön that was completed in 1937 and designed by the architect Rheinhold Fischer, consisting of two large-scale site plans (measuring 28 1/2" x 26 3/4" and 37 1/2" x 29 1/2"), 3 overheard views of the U-Boat school (measuring 11 1/2" x 8 3/4"), and 23 photographs (measuring between 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" and 5" x 7", all but 1 mounted, 2 color) showing... Read More
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Revolutionary Workers' League
57 pp. mimeographed booklet, not illustrated. Quarto (11 x 8 1/2 inches). Original stapled self-wrappers. Some light soiling and age-toning along edges, a few small tears to back cover which is loose and around one of the staples at front, old staples removed and replaced, internally clean, overall very good. Chicago: Revolutionary Workers League U.S.A., 1939. The Revolutionary Workers League, or RWL, was a radical leftist group founded in the United States in 1935, which was active through 1946.... Read More
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Primera Exposición de Pintura Perceptista. Expone Raúl Lozza
Invitation/announcement for the first exhibition of the Perceptivist movement, held at the Van Riel Gallery in Buenos Aires on November 15, 1949, with talks by Raúl Lozza on Perceptivism and Abrahán Haber on "Abstraction and Perception". 15 x 12 cm. Single sheet, loose as issued. Some slight browning and creasing, two stamps from the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica y Arte Escenico, overall good condition. Buenos Aires (Galería de Arte Van Riel) (1949). Raúl Lozza was an Argentinian painter and... Read More
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Off the Wall. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Summer 1991) through vol. 2, no. 9 (n.d., 1995?) (all published)
(Various subtitles include: "The Newsletter Journal for Event Posters and the Arts of Happenings"; "The Newsletter/Journal About Events Posters & The Arts of Happenings"; "The Newsjournal about Posters, Poetry, Ideas & The Arts of Happenings"; "The Foremost Journal of Rock Art/Posters/Poetry/Ideas & Happenings"; and "The Rock Art Journal".) Nine issues, circa 8-24 pp. each. Tabloid, folded to quarto size (22 3/4 x 17 3/8 inches, folded to 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 inches). Original colorful self-wrappers. Creasing along... Read More
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Le Livre et ses Amis. Revue Mensuelle de l'Art du Livre
18 parts (all published), illustrated throughout, with papers by Julien Maigret, André Warnod, Raymond Escholier, André Blum, Robert Brun, et al., coverage of book sales and new publications. 4to. Original covers with wood-engraved illustrations by Clément Serveau. Paris 1945-1947. Limited edition.
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Small Archive of Provo Ephemera
Small collection of 8 documents related to the short-lived Dutch counterculture movement, with topics covered including the Witte Scholenplan (White Schools Plan), a photography exhibition, protests, homosexuality, imperialism, the R.T.R. (Revolutionair Terroristische Raad), and animal activism, one with illustrations by Willem van Malsen. Five with illustrations from drawings, cartoons, and photographs, three only typed text. Some minor creasing and toning. 4to. Loose as issued. Various cities, circa 1966. Provo was a Dutch counterculture movement active in the 1960s, focused... Read More
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Identités. Journal Littéraire. No. 1 (June 1962) through No. 13/14 (Winter/Spring 1966) (all published)
A complete run of 14 issues in 11 fascicules of the French literary journal, each issue 4-8 pp., under the editorial direction of Marcel Alocco with assistance from Jean-Pierre Charles for several issues, each issue featuring prose and poetry from a variety of contributors including Jean-Pierre Charles, Frédérique Laghet, Richard Laszlo, Jean-François Maure, Daniel Karm, Albert Carlin, Marcel Alocco, Régine Lauro, Jacques Belmans, Daniel Reynaud, Jean Pastureau, Serge Bec, and others. Not illustrated. Some minor scattered soiling, toning, small... Read More
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Comunità. Rivista Mensile del Movimento Comunità. Year I, No. 5 (September 1946) through Year XX, No. 139/140 (November/December 1966)
Altogether 147 issues, comprised of 7 early issues (Year I, Nos. 5 and 6, and Year II, Nos. 2, 3, 8, 21, and 23) and a large sequential run of 140 issues (Year III, No. 1 through Year XX, No. 139/140, lacking nos. 66 through 69) of the long-running Italian social, political, and cultural journal affiliated with the Movimento Comunità, an Italian socialist and liberal-democratic political party, under the editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti, Giorgio Soavi, and Renzo Zorzi,... Read More
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Progettare Inpiù. Interventi e Analisi dell'Ambiente e del Sistema Culturale. Anno I, No. 1 (Ottobre/Novembre 1973) through Anno II, No. 10 (n.d., 1975)
Milan: Jabik & Colophon Editori, 1973-1975. Quarto (28 x 21 cm). Original black-and-white photomontage wrappers; various paginations ranging from 40 to 174 pp. Some light soiling to covers, minor wear, overall very good. A complete run of 10 issues in 8 fascicules of the historic Italian magazine published under the editorial direction of radical Italian architect and designer Ugo La Pietra. In the 1970s, La Pietra focused his attention and his work on urban zones, in a quest to... Read More
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Dialectical Adventures Into the Unknown
38-pp. volume from a little-known British underground anarchist group, containing comics, photomontage and collage, and opinion pieces on the political climate of the time. Octavo (10 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches). Original black and white printed and side-stapled wrappers; small stain to front cover, overall excellent condition. London (Spontaneous Combustion) 1974. (Simon Ford, The Realization and Suppression of the Situationist International: An Annotated Bibliography, 1972-1992, 234). This single stand-alone volume was composed and compiled by several British nihilist and... Read More
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NEON. No. 1 (n.d., 1956) through No. 4 (1959) (all published). Together with: two supplements, Neon - Supplement to Now (1958) and Neon Obit (1960)
Six total fascicules, four issues (15, 25, 44, and 66 pp.) and two supplemental booklets (16 and 12 pp.), first two issues mimeographed. Various sizes, octavo and quarto. All original wrappers, three side-stapled, two stapled, one bound. Some light chipping and edgewear to wrappers of first two issues, no. 2 with cover coming loose from staples, some scattered toning, Supplement to Now with some water-staining and dust-staining, overall very good. New York: Neon, 1956-1960. "Supplement to Now" with hand-written... Read More
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Antique Italian "Tombola" Game
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 hand-numbered and with hand-colored empty spaces. Some light age-appropriate wear and soiling, minor abrasions to board surface and corners, overall very good. Board measures approx. 13-1/2 by 13-1/2 inches,... Read More
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L'Echo du Var et de l'Aveyron réunis: Quotidien d'art et de poésie ne paraissant pas le dimanche
Montclar and Tourves, France: Brenta/Gutt, 1997-2002. 14.6 x 10.5 cm. Original printed wrappers; most issues consisting of a single sheet folded into 8 pp. Overall very fine condition. A presumably complete collection (complete according to our sources) of 372 fascicules of the irregularly published journal founded by Belgian painter, illustrator, and filmmaker Gilles Brenta together with writer and editor Tom Gutt and Brenta's wife and cofounder of his film production company Les Trois Petits Cochons, Christine Wendelen. ... Read More
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Arte Astratta in Italia
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, Le Corbusier, Max Bill, Gillo Dorfles, Josef Albers, Fernand Leger, and Wassily Kandinsky, with reproductions of works by a number of participating artists. 60 x 46.6 cm. Some very... Read More
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Maandblad voor Beeldende Kunsten. Vols. I-XXVI (all published)
A complete run of all 26 annual vols., with articles by a large roster of noted scholars on Western and Eastern art of all periods, profusely illustrated throughout the text and on plates (some in color). 4to. Uniformly bound in 3/4 vellum and boards. Amsterdam (De Bussy) 1924-1950 (a volume for 1945 was not published). Chamberlin 2273. Arntzen Q 228. The periodical includes, in volumes 6-21, the Bulletin of the Vereenigung van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst.
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Psychedelic Review. Vol. 1, No. 1 (June 1963) through No. 11 (Winter 1970/1971) (all published)
A complete collection in 11 issues of the controversial journal on psychedelic substances. Various sizes, octavo and quarto. Original wrappers, some printed, some illustrated, two side-stapled. Issue no. 1 with some light soiling and a small tear to top edge of back cover, other issues with extremely minor scattered handling wear, overall excellent. Cambridge/New Hyde Park/New York City/San Francisco: Psychedelic Review, 1963-1971. Sold together with: The Harvard Review, Vol. I No. 4 (Summer 1963), containing an essay by Timothy... Read More
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Lo Noy de la Mare. Year 1, No., 1 (June 1866) through Year 2, No. 33 (January 1867) (all published)
A complete run of all 33 issues of the rare satirical Catalan serial, bound in one volume, each issue circa 4 pp., the highlight of each issue being the full-page (sometimes double-page) caricatures and cartoons depicting the political climate and social mores of the time, also including epigrams, poems, and dialogues in addition to full-length articles. All issues show evidence of being folded in half, a few issues sl. browned, a few worms holes here and there. 4to. Self-wrpps.... Read More
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Jury Report on Prohibition" Historical Postal Covers
[np, circa 1930]. Twelve postal envelopes measuring 9.2 x 16.5 cm each. Loose as issued. Very light occasional dust-staining, very good condition. This collection of twelve unused satirical postal covers comprise a complete series titled "Jury Report on Prohibition". Each envelope contains a caricature of a juror (eleven men and one woman) accompanied by their job title and a made-up satirical quotation, depicting a panel of supposed jurors for a trial regarding the violation of prohibition laws. All of... Read More
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Der Hafen von Dortmund: Denkschrift zur Feier der Hafeneinweihung am 11. August 1899
83 pp. text discussing the construction of the harbor, bridges, and other structures and buildings associated with the harbor, text illustrations, 7 excellent engraved photographic plates showing views of the harbor, 4 color maps (2 fold-out, 1 double page). Large 4to. Cloth, lightly rubbed. Dortmund n.d. (circa 1899).
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Seven Illustrated Catalogs and Brochures for Japanese Safes
Various cities: various publishers, circa 1924. Various sizes, mostly octavo 18 to 24 cm high, some fold out to larger sheets. Original printed wrappers and self-wrappers; pagination ranges from single sheets to a 14-pp. catalog. Some light handling wear, chipping, minor soiling, overall very good. An assortment of seven 1920's catalogs and brochures from Japanese safe manufacturers, including the Goto Safe Company, the Okura Safe Company, and the Tokyo Safe Company. The items range from a single sheet with... Read More
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Demain: Pages et Documents. Paraissant le 15 de Chaque Mois. Nos. 1 (January 1916) through 11/ 12 (November/ December 1916)
The complete first year of the journal (in 11 issues, most approx. 64 pp.), published under the editorial direction of Henri Guilbeaux, presenting essays, letters, documents, and other writings pertaining to social, political and cultural issues of the time, with entries by numerous noted cultural figures including Romain Rolland, Ethel Sidgwick, Gustave Dupin, P. J. Jouve, Ramsay Macdonald, Jacques Mesnil, Jeanne Bertrand, Marcel Martinet, Rabindranath Tagore, A. Lunatcharsky, et al., with two woodcuts by Frans Masereel. 8vo. Orig. wrpps.... Read More
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Urbanistica. Rivista dell'Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica. Year XVIII, No. 1 (July/August 1949) through No. 59/60 (October 1972)
A sequential run of 60 issues in 49 fascicules of the long-running Italian journal founded originally in 1932 by the Piemontese division of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica, under the initial editorial direction of Adriano Olivetti and later Giovanni Astengo, with the aim of promoting and spreading urban studies and documenting urbanism in Italy and abroad, covering economic, social, and political topics, with two issues devoted to the proceedings of the 1954 Congresso Nazionale di Urbanistica and one double-issue... Read More
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