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(ALECHINSKY, PIERRE) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Saura, Antonio & Jean Fremon. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1981. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. This is a monographic edition of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Pierre Alechinsky's 1981 exhibition of paintings and works on paper. An internally most handsome example whose covers show some very minor spotting. Inventory Number: 001476

(ANP QUARTERLY) (JOHANSON, CHRIS) (TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed, Brendan Fowler & Aaron Rose, Editors. Costa Mesa, CA: RVCA, 2005. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. 48pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published as part of Costa Mesa-based surf and skate clothing company RVCA's "Artist Network Program", ANP Quarterly was a wonderfully irreverent, informative labor of love on the part of editorial troika Ed Templeton, Aaron Rose and Brendan Fowler. This third issue from 2005 contains an in-depth interview with cover icons Chris Johanson and Jo Jackson as well as features on or by Megawords Magazine, Little Cakes, Dog & Pony Store, Proyectos Monclova, skate designer Sean Cliver, Matt Leines, Azita Youseffi, Steve Powers on Coney Island's "Dreamland Artist Club", Niki de St. Phalle, Printed Matter, Reading Frenzy, Arcana: Books on the Arts, Dave Schubert, and more. A brand new, most handsome example of this graphically striking cultural journal that was distributed hors commerce on an irregular basis in a rather haphazard fashion and not offered commercially for sale. Inventory Number: 021522

(APERTURE) (SOMMER, FREDERICK). White, Minor, Editor. Rochester, NY: Aperture Inc., 1962. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -.. 42pp, 30 duotone illustrations + rear cover. Designed by Frederick Sommer. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This fortieth installment of Aperture from 1962 is designed and edited by, and devoted entirely to the writings and images of Frederick Sommer. The very first monograph on his work, it contains a portfolio of twenty-nine beautifully reproduced full page photographs by the venerable late American proponent of the Surrealist image. An internally bright, most handsome example of this surprisingly uncommon item (cited on pages 162-163 of "The Book of 101 Books") showing some faint spotting to the glossy white surface of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019948

(APERTURE). White, Minor, Editor. Rochester, NY: Aperture Inc., 1959. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -.. 40pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is the twenty-seventh installment of Minor White's venerable photography journal "Aperture". The cover images are by Brett Weston and Nicholas Dean, the portfolios by Alfred Monner and Ruth Bernhard, with additional plates by Aaron Siskind and Imogen Cunningham. A most presentable copy showing a slight dent to the crown of the spine along with some light wear and soiling to the covers. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020432

(APERTURE). White, Minor, Editor. Rochester, NY: Aperture Inc., 1959. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Near Fine.. 40pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is the twenty-seventh installment of Minor White's venerable photography journal "Aperture". The cover images are by Brett Weston and Nicholas Dean, the portfolios by Alfred Monner and Ruth Bernhard, with additional plates by Aaron Siskind and Imogen Cunningham. A bright, most handsome copy showing just a bit of light wear and soiling to the rear cover. Inventory Number: 020431

(APERTURE). White, Minor, Editor. Rochester, NY: Aperture Inc., 1965. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Good +.. 40pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is the forty-seventh installment of Minor White's venerable photography journal "Aperture". The cover images are by Marie Cosindas and Paul Caponigro, with portfolios by John Brook and Edmund Teske (twenty images), and interior plates by Minor White, Charles Harbutt, and Joan Miro. A most presentable copy showing just a bit of overall light wear and age-toning along the spine of the wrappers along with a diagonal soft crease through a portion of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020086

(ARTFORUM). Coplans, John &Max Kozloff, Editors. New York: Artforum, 1976. First Edition. Square 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good.. 82pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover Image of Nadar. This September 1976 issue (Volume XV, Number 1) of the noted periodical "Artforum" is a special thematic number devoted to photography. It features the articles "Nadar and the Republic of Mind" - Max Kozloff, "How Others Live: Some Recent Photography Books" - Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr., "The Anti-Photographers" - Nancy Foote, "The Directorial Mode: Notes Toward a Definition" - A.D. Coleman, and "Marey and Chronophotography" - Aaron Scharf, as well as a slew of informative period reviews and ads. A handsome copy showing some light wear and handling to the wrappers along with a bit of dog-earing to the rear of the textblock at the upper foredge corner. ISSN 0004-3532 Inventory Number: 022430

(ARTFORUM). Sandback, Amy Baker, Editor. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1984. First Edition. Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Good +. 342pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath. Beginning with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from its June 1962 inaugural issue, this is an amazing compendium of articles and reviews culled from the first twenty-one years of the noted art periodical "Artforum" featuring contributions by the stellar likes of Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, j. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition whose dust jacket shows some overall light wear, handling and scuffing. 0-8357-1536-1 Inventory Number: 014028

(ARTIGAS, LLORENS) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Artigas, Llorens and Pierre Courthion. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1969. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 22pp, 9 color and 11 b&w illustrations + covers. Text in French. This is a monographic edition of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Llorens Artigas' 1969 exhibition of ceramic vessels. A handsome example showing just a hint of light foxing at the rear. Inventory Number: 012268

(ASPEN MAGAZINE). MacLise, Angus & Hetty, Editors. New York: Roaring Fork Press, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Portfolio. Periodical. Good +.. np (twelve printed components laid into a printed paper portfolio. Edited by original Velvet Underground drummer and LaMonte Young cohort Angus MacLise and his wife Hetty, this ninth installment of "Aspen" magazine is titled "Dream Warrior". It includes contributions by or about Don Snyder, Ira Cohen and Bill Devore, Aymon De Sales, Dale Wilbourn, Benno Friedman, Diane Rochlin and Vali, Nikki Grand, Paolo Lionni, Harvey Cohen, John Cale, Gerard Malanga, P. Zimmer, Marian Zazeela, LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, Spontaneous Sound, The Joyous Lake, and Lionel Ziprin. An internally bright, complete example in thirteen sections of this uncommon item (cited on page 262 of Giorgio Maffei's "Records by Artists 1958-1990") whose decorative cardstock portfolio shows wear and creasing along the extremities along with notable sunning to the once vivid orange ink of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023495

(ASSEMBLAGE). Hays, K. Michael, Beatriz Colomina, Mary Macleod, Linda Pollak, Mark Rakatansky & Alicia Kennedy, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Journal. Very Good.. 115pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This sixth issue of MIT Press' influential (now sadly defunct) quarterly journal of architectural and design theory "Assemblage" includes contributions on or by Richard Sieburth, Allan Sekula, Kristin Ross. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Georges Teyssot, and Rodolfo Machado. A handsome example. ISSN 0889-3012 Inventory Number: 024627

(AVALANCHE). Sharp, Willoughby, Publisher. Liza Bear, Editor. New York: Avalanche, 1973. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Art Periodical. Good +.. 70pp + advertisements, profusely illustrated in b&w. Cover image - Robert Smithson by Nancy Holt. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the eighth installment of New York's premier Conceptual Art periodical of the seventies, "Avalanche" - published shortly after the tragic and untimely death of Robert Smithson. In addition to the "Rumbles" news section and advertisements for virtually every gallery on the planet showing Minimal and/or Conceptual work at the time, it contains transcribed interviews with Nancy Holt and contractor Sid Feck about the construction of Smithson's "Amarillo Ramp"; Marcel Idea, Dr. Brute, Lady Brute and Mr. Peanut on Vancouver's "Image Bank", Tina Girouard, and Chris Burden, and contributions by Gilbert & George, Trisha Brown, Richard Serra, and Robert Morris. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing some light wear, creasing and soiling along with some mild dampstining to the rear cover at the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025246

(AVALANCHE). Sharp, Willoughby, Publisher. Liza Bear, Editor. New York: Avalanche, 1973. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good -.. 70pp + advertisements, profusely illustrated in b&w. Cover image - Robert Smithson by Nancy Holt. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the eighth installment of New York's premier Conceptual Art periodical of the seventies, "Avalanche" - published shortly after the tragic and untimely death of Robert Smithson. In addition to the "Rumbles" news section and advertisements for virtually every gallery on the planet showing Minimal and/or Conceptual work at the time, it contains transcribed interviews with Nancy Holt and contractor Sid Feck about the construction of Smithson's "Amarillo Ramp"; Marcel Idea, Dr. Brute, Lady Brute and Mr. Peanut on Vancouver's "Image Bank", Tina Girouard, and Chris Burden, and contributions by Gilbert & George, Trisha Brown, Richard Serra, and Robert Morris. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing some light wear and soiling as well as some fraying along the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024944

(BALAZS, BELA) (OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Lisa Pasquariello, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 114pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue that is heavily focused on the late Hungarian film theoretician Bela Balazs include: An Exchange on Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War - Retort, Terres Inconnues: Cartographies of a Landscape to Be Invented - Anthony Vidler, The Lessons of Guy Debord - Vincent Kaufmann, Guy Debord, or The Revolutionary Without a Halo - Tom McDonough, Selected Translations - Malcolm Turvey, Radio Drama - Bela Balazs, Wireless Chaos - Bela Balazs, Compulsive Cameramen - Bela Balazs, Chaplin, or The American Simpleton - Bela Balazs, Film Criticism! - Bela Balazs, On the Train at Night - Bela Balazs, On Foot - Bela Balazs, Space, Time, and "Rites de Passage": Bela Balazs' Paths to Film - Hanno Loewy, Balazs: Realist or Modernist? - Malcolm Turvey, Diary of a Buren Spectator - Silvia Kolbowski, Letters and Responses - Liam Gillick, and Letters and Responses - Claire Bishop Responds. A most handsome copy. 0-262-75265-4 Inventory Number: 018168

(BALDEWEG, JUAN NAVARRO) (EL CROQUIS). Curtis, William, Ignasi De Sola-Morales & Jose Quetglas. Richard C. Levene & Fernando Marquez Cecilia, Editors. Barcelona, SPAIN: El Croquis Editorial, 1992. First Edition. Small Folio. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Architecture Monograph. Fine.. 228pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. This fifty-fourth installment of the elegant Spanish quarterly journal "El Croquis" is a monograph devoted to the work of Spanish architect Juan Navarro Baldeweg conceived between 1982 and 1992. A pristine copy. ISSN 0212-5683 Inventory Number: 015075

(BARNEY: THE MODERN STONE AGE MAGAZINE). Skelley, Jack, Editor. Venice, CA: Fred & Barney Press, 1981. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Literary Journal. Near Fine.. 57pp, 8 b&w illustrations + monochrome cover. Designed by Jack Skelley and Michael Jacomella. This first installment (of four total) of Jack Skelley's Venice-based eighties literary anthology "Barney: The Modern Stone-Age Magazine" features contributions by Skelley, Bob Flanagan, Tim Dlugos, Michael Lally, Donald Britton, Dennis Cooper, David Trinidad, Peter Schjeldahl, Elaine Equi, Jerome Sala, Rick Lawndale, Kenward Elmslie, Robert Peters Ron Koertge, Amy Gerstler, Bernard Welt, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Michael Silverblatt and Benjamin Weissman, Eric Fisher, Wayne Bertoia, Marc Jacobs, and Michael Jacomella. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 025264

(BAZAINE, JEAN) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Bazaine, Jean & Marcel Arland. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1953. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. np (8pp), 2 color and 4 b&w illustrations. Text in French. This is a monographic edition of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Jean Bazaine's 1953 exhibition of paintings. It contains two color lithographs (the front cover, and one massive four page spread), and four additional illustrations. A most presentable example showing a bit of wear and a single closed tear along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023559

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (CATERPILLAR). Eshleman, Clayton. Sherman Oaks, CA: Clayton Eshleman, 1971. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Literary Journal. Near Fine.. 128pp, 12 b&w illustrations. Cover Design by Wallace Berman. This seventeenth installment of Clayton Eshleman's literary magazine "Caterpillar" features textual contributions by Philip Lamantia, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, David Bromige, Daphne Marlatt, Tenney Nathanson, Jerome Rothenberg, Laurence Weisberg, Thomas Meyer, Hugh Seidman, Brian McInerney, George Stanley, Diane Wakoski, Kenneth Irby, Eshleman, and Gary Snyder; and most notably a front cover artwork by Wallace Berman. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing a bit of mild soiling and age-toning to the rear cover. Inventory Number: 025337

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). Berman, Wallace & George Herms. Venice, CA: Love Press (George Herms), 1992. First Edition Thus 1/300. Small 4to. Loose Booklets in a Box. Artists' Books. As New./No Jackets - As Issued.. np, nine individual facsimile reproductions of "Semina" magazine plus a loose colophon laid into a box. Truly a labor of Love, this meticulous facsimile recreation of Wallace Berman's legendary - and legendarily scarce - handmade literary and art anthology from the late '50s through early '60s took four years to bring to fruition. Its stellar list of Beat-inflected contributors include Berman first and foremost, along with John Altoon, Antonin Arthaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, John Weiners, and many others. This edition has been painstakingly printed and assembled in the manner of the originals utilizing handset letterpress on scraps of colored paper, photos, pastedowns, etc. The project was edited and overseen by Berman's close friend and fellow assemblage artist George Herms at his Love Press. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1992 extraordinary facsimile reprint authorized by the artist's Estate limited to three hundred copies NUMBERED (109/300) AND SIGNED by George Herms on the colophon, laid into the publisher's printed chipboard box, as issued. Inventory Number: 025655

(BEUYS, JOSEPH). de Vree, Paul & Sarenco, Editors. Brescia, ITALY: Lotta Poetica, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. np (24pp), 23 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. Text in Italian. Cover Designed by Joseph Beuys, This forty-sixth installment of Paul de Vree's prescient seventies art and literature periodical "Lotta Poetica" (Poetry War) is a special monographic issue devoted to Joseph Beuys. It features a cover and title page designed by the artist that is accompanied by Caroline Tisdall's photographic documentation of the 1974 piece "Three Pots Action in the Poor House". A bright, most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Joseph Beuys" in pencil on the front cover. Inventory Number: 019826

(BILLINGHAM, RICHARD) (POINT D'IRONIE). Obrist, Hans-Ulrich & Carrie Pitto, Editors. Paris: agnès b., 2000. First Edition. Folio. Pictorial Tabloid Wrappers. Artist's Periodical. Fine.. Two 17 x 24" sheets printed color offset recto and verso, neatly folded in half vertically to make 8pp, profusely illustrated in color. This sixteenth installment of "point d'ironie" - agnès b.'s Hans-Ulrich Obrist-edited tabloid format hybrid periodical - is a project devoted to Richard Billingham's iconic "Ray's A Laugh" series. According to the artist: "These photos are taken from the TV screen of video footage I shot and later played back. They are of my father, Ray, and Tony, a friend of mine on the estate. Ray always has to have his drink before he goes to bed and Tony his smoke - otherwise they cannot sleep". A most handsome example of this uncommon, fragile item that was issued hors commerce - never commercially for sale - showing only some minor handling marks to its lightweight paper stock. Inventory Number: 022992

(BLACK NYLONS AND HIGH HEELS: THE MAGAZINE FOR ARTISTS AND PHOTOGRAPHERS). Black Nylons and High Heels Staff. NP (New York). ND.: Dawson Publishing Co.. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Erotic Photography Periodical. Fine.. np (36pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. True to its title, this eleventh installment of "Black Nylons and High Heels: The Magazine for Artists and Photographers" is a cavalcade of Elmer Batters-like black and white semi-nude fetish photographs of anonymous fifties-era women posing for the camera wearing nothing but stockings, garters, and heels. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024420

(BLIND SPOT PHOTOGRAPHY). Caputo, Kim Zorn, Michael A. Capotosto & Vik Muniz, Editors. New York: Blind Spot Photography, Inc., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover Image by Alberto Caputo. This seventh installment of the stylish quarterly photography magazine "Blind Spot" features contributions and/or portfolios by Roy Arden, Uta Barth, Peter Bartlett, Ross Bleckner, Bill Burke, Andrew Bush, Alberto Caputo, Robert Flynt, Nan Goldin, Stuart Klipper, Per Maning, David Mosconi, Roger Newton, Lorna Simpson, Tom Wood, Kim Zorn Caputo, A.M. Homes, Gregory Crewdson, Ross Bleckner, and Eward Robinson. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon issue. Inventory Number: 008454

(BLIND SPOT PHOTOGRAPHY). Caputo, Kim Zorn & Vik Muniz, Editors. New York: Blind Spot Photography, Inc., 1995. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover image by Masao Yamamoto. This fifth installment of the stylish quarterly photography magazine "Blind Spot" features contributions and/or portfolios by Christopher H. Bailey, Tina Barney, Cindy Bernard, Catherine Chalmers, Peter Garfield, David Goldes, Jan Groover, Kinuyo Hagiwara, Ed Kashi, Mike Kelley, John Milisenda, Richard Misrach, Abelardo Morell, Gary Schneider, Larry Sultan, Philip Taaffe, Brian Wood, Masao Yamamoto, Kim Zorn Caputo, Jim Lewis, and Adam Fuss. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon issue. Inventory Number: 007610

(BRANQUINHO, VERONIQUE) (A MAGAZINE). Branquinho, Veronique, Guest Editor. Debo Kaat, Editor. Antwerp, BELGIUM: A Magazine & The Flanders Fashion Institute, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Fashion Periodical. As New.. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Paul Boudens. "A Magazine is a biannual publication, exploring the creative sphere of a selected designer in each issue. We invite a guest curator - an international fashion designer, group or house - to develop innovative, personalized content that expresses their aesthetic and cultural values. Each issue celebrates this designer's ethos: their people, their passion, their stories, emotions, fascinations, spontaneity and authenticity". This sixth installment from 2008 of the luxe Belgian fashion periodical was guest-curated by "Pin Cushion Queen " Veronique Branquinho, and contains contributions on or by Tim Burton, Alex Salinas, Michael Borremans, Oscar Van Den Boogaard, Luc Tuymans, David Lynch, Manon De Boer, Marc Meulemans, Serge Leblon, and many, many more. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 90-77745-02-5 Inventory Number: 025756

(BRAQUE, GEORGES) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Braque, Georges & Pierre Reverdy. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1951. Second Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 17 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a monographic edition of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) is a tribute to the renowned Georges Braque. It contains color lithographs after Georges Braque, Jean Bazaine, Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miro. A bright, most handsome example of the second edition of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 022335

(BRAQUE, GEORGES) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Braque, Georges, Rene Char, Jacques Kober, Henri Maldiney, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Grenier, Georges Limbour & Jacques Dupin. Paris. 1947, 1950, 1952, 1954 & 1956.: Maeght Editeur. First Edition Thus. Folio. Wrappers Bound in Cloth. Artist Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. np + np + np + np + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a compilation of five issues of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Georges Braque. Bound by Maeght in brown cloth-over-boards with debossed white lettering in 1956, it collects the complete contents of DLM numbers 4 (Juin 1947): "Braque", 25-26 (Janvier 1950): "G. Braque", 48-49 (Juin-Julliet 1952): "G. Braque", 71-72 (Decembre 1954-Janvier 1955): "G. Braque: Theogoni d'Hesiode", and 85-86 (Avril-Mai 1956): "Braque". An otherwise bright, most handsome example whose contents are complete and intact first printings with the wrappers bound in that contain in total twelve original color lithographs showing some sunning to the cloth primarily along the spine. In addition, the top inch of its spine has broken off and is not present. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024991

(BROODTHAERS, MARCEL) (OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Debossed Buckram. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 212pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a bibliography. The forty-second installment of "October" from Fall 1987 was a special monographic issue devoted to Marcel Broodthaers that quickly sold out. Given the issue's importance, MIT chose to reprint it the following year as a trade publication minus the extraneous editorial content and advertisements. The contents of this version are Untitled Poem, Azure, Questions of Painting, Selections from Pense-Bete, Investigating Dreamland, Gare au defi: Pop Art, Jim Dine, and the Influence of Rene Magritte, To be bien pensant...or not to be. To be blind, An Interview by the Film Journal Trepied, Ten Thousand Francs Reward, and A Portfolio of Photographs - all by Marcel Broodthaers; Look! Books in Plaster! - Dieter Schwarz; Open Letters, Industrial Poems - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; The Exhibition at the MTL Gallery in Brussels - Anne Rorimer; The Figures - Dirk Snauwaert; Section des Figures: The Eagle from the Oligocene to the Present - Rainer Borgemeister; Eagle/Pipe/Urinal - Michael Oppitz; Recourse to the Letter - Birgit Pelzer; "Pauvre Belgique: An Asterisk in History" - Yves Gevaert; DÉCOR: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers - Marcel Broodthaers; and Bibliography - Marie-Pascale Gildemyn. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon hardbound edition of this important document perfect for the Broodthaers completeist issued without a dust jacket. 0-262-02281-8 Inventory Number: 020748

(BROWN, TREVOR) (GOTHIC & LOLITA BIBLE). Gothic & Lolita Staff, Editors. Tokyo: Index Communications, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Fashion Periodical. Very Good -.. 126pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. This twenty-fourth installment of "Gothic & Lolita Bible" from Tokyo is as usual a cornucopia of the latest fashions for the Harajuku babydoll set along with Goth guys and gals the world over. In addition to spotlighting frocks from Vivienne Westwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garcons, Junya Watanabe, Black Peace Now, Baby the Stars Shine Bright, and many other specialty labels, it features a cover by, and article on the Japanese erotica and fetish-inflected visual stylings of Trevor Brown along with a set of thirteen glossy, adhesive-backed stickers the artist created exclusively for this issue. A most presentable example with the Trevor Brown stickers and Elements dress pattern complete and bound in, as issued, showing a bit of light overall wear and handling. 4-7573-3362-5 Inventory Number: 023613

(BRUS, GUNTER) (VIEW). Brus, Gunter & Margarete Roeder. Oakland, CA: Point Publications (The Crown Point Press), 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 20pp, 15 b&w illustrations. With a chronology. This installment of Kathan Brown's Crown Point Press journal "View" contains the edited transcription of an interview conducted by Margarete Roeder with Gunter Brus issued in conjunction with their publication of the renowned Viennese Actionist's print portfolio "Grosse Erdangst". A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 014718

(CHIPPERFIELD, DAVID) (EL CROQUIS). Chipperfield, David, Adam Caruso & Peter St. John. Richard C. Levene & Fernando Marquez Cecilia, Editors. Barcelona, SPAIN: El Croquis Editorial, 1997. First Edition. Small Folio. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Architecture Monograph. Near Fine.. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. This eighty-seventh installment of the elegant Spanish quarterly journal "El Croquis" is a monograph devoted to the work of English architect David Chipperfield that focuses on twenty-three projects conceived between 1991 and 1997. A most handsome copy of the softbound first edition from 1997. ISSN 0212-5683 Inventory Number: 019478

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1982. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Near Fine.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This seventh installment of noted film visual effects magazine "Cinefex" is devoted entirely to pioneer of stop-motion animation Willis O' Brien, and his cinematic creations "The Lost World", "King Kong", "Mighty Joe Young", and more. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon early issue. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 025769

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1983. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Fine.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This twelfth installment of noted cinema visual effects magazine "Cinefex" features a lengthy discussion of the making of Ray Bradbury and Jack Clayton's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" with effects supervisor Lee Dyer. The article "Stop-Frame Fever, Post-Animation Blues" has David Allen, Randall William Cook and Steven Archer talking about their recent projects involving stop-motion animation. The third and final contribution focuses on Dream Quest with principals Scott Squires, Rocco Gioffre, Hoyt Yeatman, Robert Hollister, Tom Hollister, and Frederick Iguchi recounting their evolution as a company, and recent work on "E.T.". "Escape From New York", "One From the Heart", and "Blue Thunder" A most handsome example. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 005141

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1981. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Fine.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This fifth installment of noted cinema visual effects magazine "Cinefex" devotes than half of its editorial content to stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen. It features an interview focusing on the span of Harryhausen's entire career, as well as a lengthy article on the making of "Clash of the Titans". In addition, there are features on Roy Arbogast, and the effects of "Caveman". A most handsome example of this uncommon early issue. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 005137

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1993. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Good +.. 110pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This fifty-sixth installment of noted film visual effects magazine "Cinefex" features a cover story on the production details of Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas" along with detailed articles on the making of John McTiernan's "The Last Action Hero" and Fred Dekker's "Robocop 3". A most presentable example showing some wear and creasing to the covers and first preliminary. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 003612

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1991. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Good +.. 59pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This forty-seventy installment of noted film visual effects magazine "Cinefex" is titled "A Once And Future War", and is entirely devoted to the production of James Cameron's "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", the landmark, Academy Award-winning film in which digital special effects finally came of age. A most presentable example showing some wear and creasing to the covers whose title page shows a tape-repaired closed tear. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 003454

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1983. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Very Good.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This eleventh installment of noted cinema visual effects magazine "Cinefex" features a lengthy discussion of the making of Steven Spielberg's "E.T. - The Extraterrestrial" wth contributors Carlo Rambaldi, Mitch Suskin, Robert Short, Caprice Roth, Craig Reardon and Dennis Muren. The rest of this contains an article on visual effects director Robert Swarthe and his work on such films as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Star Trek", and "One From the Heart". A handsome example showing some light rubbing to the covers. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 003270

(CINEFEX). Shay, Don, Editor & Publisher. Riverside, CA: Cinefex / Don Shay, 1981. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Film Journal. Very Good.. 71pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This fifth installment of noted cinema visual effects magazine "Cinefex" devotes than half of its editorial content to stop-motion animation pioneer Ray Harryhausen. It features an interview focusing on the span of Harryhausen's entire career, as well as a lengthy article on the making of "Clash of the Titans". In addition, there are features on Roy Arbogast, and the effects of "Caveman". A handsome example showing a small crease to the front cover. ISSN: 0198-1056 Inventory Number: 003264

(DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, THE). Graf, John F., Editor. Green Bay, WI: The Daguerreian Society, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -.. 12pp, 6 b&w illustrations. This is the July 1993 issue of "The Daguerreian Society Newsletter" - the slender bi-monthly compendium of news, reviews, and research queries devoted to the important early photographic process popularized by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. A handsome copy showing some minor wear and soiling to the covers. Inventory Number: 012760

(DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER, THE). Graf, John F., Editor. Green Bay, WI: The Daguerreian Society, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -.. 12pp, 17 b&w illustrations. This is the July 1993 issue of "The Daguerreian Society Newsletter" - the slender bi-monthly compendium of news, reviews, and research queries devoted to the important early photographic process popularized by Frenchman Louis Daguerre. A handsome copy showing some minor wear and creasing to the covers. Inventory Number: 012759