London: Studio Vista, 1969. First UK edition. Sm. 4to. Self-wrps., 240pp. Profusely illustrated throughout, including photographs of works by, among others, Walter de Maria, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Beuys, Eva Hesse, Michael Heizer, Lawrence Weiner, Bruce Nauman, Jannis Kounellis, Luciano Fabro, Jan Dibbets, Joseph Kosuth, Barry Flanagan, Robert Barry, Keith Sonnier, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Serra, Carl Andre, Gilberto Zorio, Hans Haacke, Stephan Kaltenbach, Ger Van Elk, Giovanni Anselmo, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Dennis Oppenheim, and Alighiero e Boetti. Pages slightly age-toned; faint reading creases to spine; o/w a tight, Very Good plus copy of..... More about Art Povera. Conceptual, Actual or Impossible Art?

4to. Newsprint. Unpaginated (68pp.). Ed. Edit de Ak, Walter Robinson and Joshua Cohn. Colour front cover by Vito Acconci. Photo-illustrated throughout. Video issue, guest edited by Anna Canepa, with contributions from Douglas Huebler; Richard Landry; Nam June Paik; Willoughby Sharp; Alan Suicide; Hannah Wilke; Les Levine; John Baldessari; Eleanor Antin; Allan Kaprow; Richard Serra; and others. Paper slightly age-toned, o/w Near Fine. More about ART-RITE #7 (NY: Art-Rite Publishing Co., Winter/Spring, 1975-76

4to. Newsprint. Unpaginated (24pp.). This issue guest edited by Image Bank (Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov). Its “mondo artie correspondance collage” [sic] features contributions from Ray Johnson; General Idea; Eric Metcalfe; COUM Transmissions; John Jack Baylin; Albrecht D; Les Levine; Robert Cumming; Gilbert & George; G.A. Cavellini; John Giorno; Andy Warhol; and others. Paper slightly age-toned, o/w Near Fine. More about ART-RITE #18 (NY: Art-Rite Publishing Co., 1978

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, School of Fine Arts, January 31-February 19, 1960. Plastic comb-bound printed card wrappers. 16mo. Illustrated. Sixteen different colour paper sheets of different sizes, most printed recto and verso, arranged directory-style with cascading calendar of events. The entry for February 3 lists piano accompaniment by John Cage and David Tudor for a Merce Cunningham and Company dance concert. The programme featured works by Morton Feldman and Christian Wolff, composers Cage had first met ten years earlier, both of whom became close associates and fellow members of the New York School. Other festival..... More about America and the Arts. Programme brochure for the fourth Fine Arts Festival 1960

SF: December 1966. 4to. Stapled wrps., 16pp. Front cover illustration of the Canyon’s logo, ‘Exothematic Man’. The catalogue lists 45 experimental filmmakers, some listed as pairs, and their films, several with multiple listings, providing details of each film and the rental prices. The filmmakers listed include Bruce Baillie; Larry Jordan; George & Mike Kuchar; Ronald Nameth; Loren Rehbock; Gerd Stern; Ben Van Meter; and Jud Yalkut (lists his films ‘Turn Turn Turn’ and ‘Difraction Film’, the former described by him as “A kinetic alchemy of the light and electronic works of Nicholas Schoffer, Julio Le Parc..... More about CANYON CINEMA COOPERATIVE. Catalogue Number One

NY: Cinema 16, 1959. 8vo. Stapled wrps., 20pp. + 8pp. supplement. Illustrated. “With the appearance of this catalog listing 52 new and 47 previously released titles, there now exists a central source in America for the poetic, independent and experimental cinema” (from the Introduction). The catalogue prints an alphabetical listing of films by Kenneth Anger, Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage, James Broughton, Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Sidney Peterson, Peter Weiss, and James and John Whitney, among others, with each title accompanied by synopses or quotes, details and rental prices. Inspired by Maya Deren’s..... More about CINEMA 16. A Catalog of the Experimental Cinema + Supplement no. 1 (Summer 1959

SF: Superior Viaduct (2016), reissue (originally released in 1973 on Caroline Records). LP record (SV048). Insert prints notes by Jim O’Rourke and Branden W. Joseph (illustrated with a passport photograph of Conrad). Two small r/h corner losses to sleeve, and tiny bump to lower corner, o/w Very Good plus; vinyl Near Mint. More about Outside the Dream Syndicate

NY: Universe Books, 1971. First US edition. Tall narrow 8vo. Green paper-covered boards. 168pp., including 64pp. of illustrations. A wide-ranging survey of film experimentation, one of the first to be published in Britain, beginning with the European avant-garde in the first part of the twentieth century and continuing to the New American cinema films of Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Ron Rice, Andy Warhol and others in the 1960s (Curtis, who ran the Arts Lab cinema, began his research with visits to America in 1969 and the book’s main focus is on the American contribution). The final section looks..... More about Experimental Cinema: a fifty-year evolution

Ed. Jonas Mekas. Cover photograph depicts the sleeping man (John Giorno) in Andy Warhol’s nameless eight hour sleep movie (1963). Contents include Jack Smith (“The Memoirs of Maria Montez” and “Belated Appreciation of V.S.”); Robert Kelly; Gregory Markopoulos on “Scorpio Rising”; a Kenneth Anger filmography; Anaïs Nin; Hans Richter; Stan and Jane Brakhage; Ken Kelman; four poems by ruth weiss. Photo-illustrations include stills from Anger films, plus a Chester Kessler portrait of him; Robert Frank shooting “O.K. End Here”; Adolfas and Jonas Mekas shooting “Hallelujah The Hills”. Small printed green sticker to upper wrapper, o/w Very Good plus. More about FILM CULTURE #31 (NY: Winter 1963-64

Ed. Jonas Mekas. Design and production by George Maciunas. Contents include interviews with Peter Kubelka and Shirley Clarke (by Jonas Mekas and Gretchen Berg respectively); Carl Belz on “Three Films by Bruce Conner”; “Len Lye Speaks at the Film-Makers’ Cinematheque”; “San Francisco’s Hipster Cinema” (Bruce Baillie, Kenneth Anger, Bruce Conner, Ben Van Meter et al); Gregory Markopoulos; and an interview with Soviet filmmaker Leo Kuleshov (who taught at the Moscow Film School, the world’s first, founded in 1919). Very Good plus. More about FILM CULTURE #44 (NY: Spring 1967

NY: The Guerrilla Art Action Group, November 16, 1974. 2pp., stapled + 1pp. single sheet. Original xeroxes, printed rectos only. Two original GAAG documents concerning Jean Toche’s legally-enforced obligation to undergo psychiatric examination. The Open Letter, signed (in the copy) by Jon Hendricks, Virginia Toche, Joanne Stamerra and Jean Toche, is addressed to Dr. John Spiegel, President of the American Psychiatric Association. In it, they ask a series of rhetorical questions - for example, “Where you at? The inheritors of nazi medical experimentation?” - and accuse the Association’s members of being “agents for the suppression of..... More about GUERRILLA ART ACTION GROUP (GAAG). Press Release and Open Letter

Cover feature on “The Other Culture” by Barry Farrell, an extensive 13pp. article on the “worldwide underground Happenings” in New York, London, Paris and Tokyo, including a section on the Destruction in Art Symposium and a DIAS group photograph by Tom Picton. Other photographs feature Ivor Davies enacting his ‘Anatomic Explosions’ near the Notting Hill Free School playground and Ralph Ortiz and Paul Pierrot destroying a piano, both actions part of DIAS; Jean-Jacques Lebel; Kato (director of the Zero Dimension Group); Werner Schreib; William Burroughs (a still from “Chappaqua”); Alexander Trocchi; and Ed Sanders. Old mailing..... More about HAPPENINGS. LIFE Magazine Volume 62, #7 (Chicago/NY: February 17, 1967

Los Angeles: High Performance, Fall 1983. Double LP record (HP002-5). Gatefold sleeve, with liner notes by Linda Frye Burnham, the magazine’s founding editor. The contributors are Jo Harvey Allen; Terry Allen; Jacki Apple; Bob & Bob; Linda Burnham; Carole Caroompas; Philip-Dimitri Galas; Bill Gordh; Bill Harding; Citizen Kafka; The Kipper Kids; Jill Kroesen; Paul McCarthy; Michael Peppe; Bill Talen; Johanna Went; and Martha Wilson. Very Good plus in Very Good plus sleeve (lacks 4pp. insert). The only number of this quarterly performance art magazine to be issued as a recording. More about HIGH PERFORMANCE #23: The Record (Artists Doing Songs

Tabloid newspaper format, folded centrally, as issued. 28pp. (incl. cover). Ed. Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, John Wilcock and Andy Warhol. Cover photograph of Raquel Welch in “Myra Breckinridge” + interview with the film’s director Michael Sarne by Susan Pile (the latter a member of the Factory crowd who had first seen the Exploding Plastic Inevitable three years before). Other contents of this debut issue include an interview with George Cukor (by Aubrey Tarbax) + Factory member Donald Lyons on Cukor’s latest film, “Justine”; an interview by Amy Sullivan with Mark Frechette and Daria Halprin (stars of..... More about INTER/VIEW Vol. 1, #1 (NY: Poetry on Film, Inc., 1969

Mexico: Organizacion Editorial Novaro, S.A., 1970. First edition. Sm. quarto. Wrps., 80pp. Text in Spanish. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. Author’s presentation copy, SIGNED and inscribed on the front endpaper: “Para Martin, el hombre que abrio ima puerta y descubrio ‘El Topo’!” (“For Martin, the man who opened the door and discovered ‘The Mole’!”). Jodorowsky also remarks on the coincidental similarity between the names ‘Topp’ and ‘Topo’. The identity of the recipient, however, is unclear, since no reference can be found to a Martin Topp, though Marty Topp, the director of “Paradise Now” [1970], a film..... More about El Topo, Fábula Pánica con Imágenes

NY: Something Else Press, 1965. First edition. Oblong 8vo. Illustrated boards. Unpaginated (50pp.). A compendium of Ray Johnson’s mail art, including writings and images sent to Dick Higgins over a period of years. Printed in several different colour inks, featuring an eclectic mix of typefaces, with composition, setting and layout by Higgins. Near Fine in dw. (tiny, unobtrusive tear at crown of spine). More about The Paper Snake

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1965. First edition. Qtr. cloth. 288pp. 34pp. introduction by Michael Kirby. The first book on the subject, a well-illustrated anthology including scripts and productions by Jim Dine, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Whitman, and Red Grooms, each of whom provides a preliminary statement about their work. Near Fine in dw. (minor wear to extremities). More about Happenings. An Illustrated Anthology

Ed. Mario Amaya. Special ‘Turned On’ issue, devoted to Light and Kinetic art. Contents include 4pp. on Group ZERO (Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Gunther Uecker); Mel Bochner on Dan Flavin (4pp); Takis (2pp.) + Indica Gallery ad.; an overview of kinetic art by Frank Popper; and “The Big Turn-On” (2pp.) by Christopher Finch - the psychedelic experience, Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine, w. references to LSD, Buddhism and Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Front cover slightly rubbed, o/w Very Good plus. More about ART AND ARTISTS Vol. 1, #9 (London: December 1966

Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1980. Oblong 4to. Wrps., 120pp. Exhibition catalogue. Dual-language Swedish/English texts. Illustrated with 100 full-page b/w stills from films by Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Bruce Baillie, Robert Breer, James Broughton, Bruce Conner, Tony Conrad, Joseph Cornell, Larry Jordan, Robert Nelson, Pat O’Neill, Larry Gottheim, Barry Gerson, Peter Kubelka, Marie Menken, Hollis Frampton, Ernie Gehr, Ken Jacobs, Morgan Fisher, George Landow, Jonas Mekas, Jerome Hill, Paul Sharitz, Harry Smith, Michael Snow, Andrew Noren, Warren Sonbert, and Yvonne Rainer, plus filmographies. Near Fine in clear glassine dw. More about “The Pleasure Dome”, American Experimental Film 1939-1979

ART AND ARTISTS #5 (London: August 1966) - Auto-Destructive issue. 4to. Stapled wrps., 78pp. The issue originated around February 1966 from discussions held between its editor, Mario Amaya, and Gustav Metzger. It was conceived separately from the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS), held at the Africa Centre in Covent Garden, London, between September 9-11, 1966, but promoted the event and includes contributions from several of the artists who participated in it, among them Wolf Vostell, Yoko Ono, Enrico Baj, Al Hansen, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Ralph Ortiz, and Metzger himself (it includes photographs of his first acid-nylon technique painting..... More about ART AND ARTISTS #5 (London: August 1966) - Auto-Destructive issue

London: Open Head Press, 1980. First edition. Sm. folio. 128pp. Introduction by George Plimpton. Foreword by Ed van der Elsken, some of whose photographs of the artist are also featured. Full-page colour plates throughout. “This book of drawings and paintings represents a life’s work - the ‘spirit walkabout’ of an Australian artist called Vali Myers. Each work has taken anything up to a year to complete, in some instances even longer. Using a fine English pen nib set onto a goosefeather, carefully diluted Chinese ink, gold leaf and watercolour onto hand-made paper, Vali works by night in her..... More about Drawings 1949-79

An attractively designed handbill, printed in red and black on cream coloured stock. 28x21.8cm. Fine. Lists composers Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Jackson MacLow, Reginald Daniels, Larry Poons, La Monte Young and Ray Johnson. Programme mimeographed in black on white paper stock (28x21.8cm.). Very small tear to upper left corner and minor handling wear, o/w Near Fine. Founded in 1959 by Dick Higgins and Al Hansen, the Audio-Visual Group was intended as a continuation of the experimental composition classes taught by John Cage at the New School for Social Research, New York, between 1957 and 1959..... More about An original handbill, accompanied by the programme handout, announcing a performance of ‘New...

London: Studio Vista, 1974. First edition. Tall narrow 8vo. Blue paper covered boards. 154pp. Illustrated throughout with photographs and musical scores. Nyman’s classic book in which he begins with Cage’s definitions of experimental music from the early-mid 1950s and develops the term to describe the work of other American composers (Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, Meredith Monk, Malcolm Goldstein, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, among others), as well as composers such as Gavin Bryars, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Cornelius Cardew, John Tilbury, Frederic Rzewski and Keith Rowe. He also distinguishes experimental music from..... More about Experimental Music: Cage and beyond

A one-night concert/exhibition of Paik’s work, and his first one-person exhibition in the United States. Printed offset on both sides (the verso prints a technical text by Paik, with a circuit diagram, along with various press quotes). 41.5x19.7cm. Illustrated with a photograph by Peter Moore of Paik’s Robot K-456, which featured in the event (it also included live performances by Carol Bergé and Mieko Shiomo). ‘Cellorina’ Charlotte Moorman performed ‘Pop Sonata’ for the second time, a piece which involved her removing her jewellery and clothes “before she lay down on the floor to finish the piece..... More about Broadside flyer announcing “Nam June Paik - Electronic TV + Color TV Experiments + 3 Robots + 2...

The first and only issue of this film magazine, published to coincide with the University Arts Festival and intended to be “a critical introduction to what is at least experimental, perhaps also avant garde, in film at present.” Ed. Simon Field and Peter Sainsbury. 4to. Pictorial silver wrappers, stapled. 58pp. Blue, yellow and white paper stocks. Front cover features Don Levy’s “Herostratus” (1967), and inside front cover reproduces the original poster for Kenneth Anger’s “Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome”. Includes contributions from Stephen Dwoskin, P. Adams-Sitney, Alan Lovell, and others, and Raymond Durgnat interviewed..... More about PLATINUM (Colchester: University of Essex, 1968

Ed. Ulrich Hillebrand and CM von Hausswolff. Illustrated wrps., perfect bound, 96pp. + insert print by Leif Elggren. Illustrated. Includes contributions from Genesis P-Orridge (“Thee Throttle” and “Muzak - A Concept in Human Engineering”); John Giorno; William Burroughs; Brion Gysin; Udo Breger; Terry Wilson; Ben Hecht; David Darby (conversations with Paul Bowles); and others. Near Fine. More about RADIUM 226.05 Magazine No. 1 (Gothenburg: Spring 1986

NY: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts and The Charing Hill Company, 1982. Double LP record (regular issue, with 12-panel folded poster and a 4pp. insert with track titles and photographs of most of the contributing artists). Gatefold sleeve designed by Juanita Gordon. The album features 21 “original sound works” by artists represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, among them: Jud Fine; Eleanor Antin; Chris Burden; Joseph Beuys; R. Buckminster Fuller; Komar & Melamid; SITE; Piotr Kowalski & William Burroughs; Hannah Wilke; Terry Fox; and Les Levine. Produced by Jeff Gordon at Greene Street Recording Studio, NYC. Discs..... More about REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE (THE ART RECORD

Stuttgart/London/Reykjavik: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1974. An enlarged version of the book published by the Copley Foundation, Chicago, 1965, consisting of 40 sheets of varied paper stock in different sizes and colours, mostly printed on both sides, folded or collaged, printed offset and letterpress, contained in a printed card box (23x17cm.). Edition of 1000 copies (of which 100 were signed and numbered by the artist). “Diter Rot’s unique talents suggested, when the idea of devoting a Copley monograph to his work was first discussed, that the Rot book could be art, in his terms, rather than a critical evaluation..... More about Gesammelte Werke Band 12 (Collected Works Volume 12

London: Anthony d'Offay, 1998. First edition. 4to. Grey cloth. 48pp. SIGNED by Ruscha on the title page. Includes an illustrated biography/exhibition history, and a list of books, films and catalogues + 8 colour and 4 b/w full page plates, and 45 additional colour and b/w illustrations. Essays by Neville Wakefield and Dave Hickey. Fine in dw. More about New Paintings and a Retrospective of Works on Paper

NY: Mark Batty Publisher, 2009. First edition. Large quarto. Illustrated boards. 318pp. Inspired by John Cage’s book, “Notations” (published by Something Else Press in 1969), Sauer’s anthology of visual and graphic scores includes work by established composers of new music (among them, Robert Ashley, Cathy Berberian, Earle Brown, John Cage, Philip Corner, Barry Guy, Joan La Barbara, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros, Karlheinz Stockhausen and James Tenney), as well as new and emerging composers, most of whom participated in the project by providing her with accompanying written statements elucidating their creative processes. Sauer, a musicologist, curator and..... More about Notations 21

Cullumpton, Devon: Beau Geste Press, March 1972. The “low-cost edition”, an abridged mimeograph facsimile of the signed and numbered edition of 60 copies published by the same press two months earlier. Tall 4to. Illustrated. Wrps., stapled along top edge. Unpaginated (46pp.). Schneemann’s groundbreaking exploration of bodily autonomy, sexuality and creativity, bringing together an eclectic range of texts, including her notes from the first viewing of “W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism” by the Serbian filmmaker Dušan Makavejev (7pp.); a conversation with a woman friend (‘K’) about her experiences of orgasm (4pp.); facsimile copies of letters to underground papers Ink..... More about Parts of a Body House Book

Ed. Jonas Mekas. Includes “Red Orchids” (5pp.) by Jack Smith. Also: front cover still of Beverly Grant in “A Lavender Filter Throughout” (A Concatenation of Jack Smiths) by Andy Warhol; Harry Fainlight; Storm De Hirsch; an interview with Bruce Conner; Gregory Markopoulos; the first printing of “Lens” by Frank Kuenstler; Stars of “New American Cinema” photo-section featuring Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Naomi Levine, George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, Beverly Grant, Jack Smith, Mario Montez, Barbara Rubin, Stan Vanderbeek, and others. Wrappers slightly rubbed, o/w Very Good plus. More about FILM CULTURE #33 (NY: Summer 1964

Original colour Cibachrome photograph (1968; printed later). Titled and SIGNED on the verso by Ira Cohen. 29.5x21.3cm. Years after taking the photograph Cohen told his close associate, Ira Landgarten (also a photographer, who printed many of Cohen’s photographs, possibly including this one), that the original title of this portrait of Jack Smith (whose film, “Flaming Creatures”, had earlier inspired Cohen’s own work) was “ ‘Norebo’ (‘Oberon spelled backwards), ‘Prince of the Venusian Munchkins’, because he wanted to play the role of Oberon in Midsummer Night’s Dream.” The large fly Cohen refers to in the title was..... More about Jack Smith as Norebo w/fly

80 words. Folded twice for mailing, accompanied by the hand-addressed envelope with Smith’s return address in New York. The upper half of the letter is illustrated with one of Smith’s numerous collages, variations of which were used for his business cards and self-promotion. The letter responds to an offer made by James to arrange for Smith to give a talk at the Los Angeles-based Foundation for Art Resources, though his request that he “emerge from the visit with $7,000” probably explains why it never happened. He also suggests renting a theatre “for a long run of my project”..... More about Typed Letter Signed to film historian David E. James, dated July 24, 1982