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A Popular Western Story

Here's a short shaggy dog story about Ed Ruscha's painting Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, the artist's book Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and a 10¢ rootin' tootin pulp periodical.

image from A Popular Western Story
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Homage to Marilyn Monroe
  • exhibition catalogue
  • pictorial wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • staple bound
  • black-and-white
  • 21.4 x 27.7 cm.
  • 24 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Homage to Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe, Ferrill Amacker, Arman, Richard Avedon, Peter Blake, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Gandy Brodie, Marcel Cavalla, John Chamberlain, Chryssa, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dali, Rosalyn Drexler, Willem de Kooning, Oyvind Fahlstrom, James Gill, Philippe Halsman, Richard Hamilton, Robert Indiana, Allen Jones, William Kennedy, Richard Lindner, Marisol, Reuben Nakian, Arnold Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Peter Phillips, Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Mimmo Rotella, George Segal, Richard Smith, Bert Stern, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann

Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show of the work of leading artists in homage to Marilyn Monroe for the benefit of The Association for Mentally Ill Children in Manhattan, Inc., held at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, December 6 - December 30, 1967. ... [details]

$400.00
Condition:  Good. Text block has separated from the bottom staple but remains connected to top staple. Moderate rubbing and scratching across covers and cover edges. Fingerprint marking to printed gold first and last pages. Contents otherwise clean and unmarked.
[Object # 39880]
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 18 x 14 cm
  • [48] pp.
  • edition size 3000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Twentysix Gasoline Stations

[Third Edition]

Edward Ruscha

Edward Ruscha's first artist's book - and by far his best known title. Features black-and-white photographs of gasoline stations in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas captioned in all caps text with the name of the gas station pictured and it's location. [details]

$2,000.00
Condition:  Very Good. 5 mm. area of light staining to recto and 1 cm. and 3 mm. areas of light soiling to verso. 4 cm. area of faint markings from erased pencil notations on title page. Light rubbing of page edges and light sloping of pages. Otherwise Fine clean and unmarked.
[Object # 25483]
Michelangelo Pistoletto
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • black-and-white
  • 21.7 x 14.8 cm. (closed)
  • [4] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Michelangelo Pistoletto

Single fold announcement published in conjunction with exhibition opening May 26, 1967. Interior features reproduction of work by Michelangelo Pistoletto. (Illustrated) [details]

$125.00
Condition:  Fine. Clean and unmarked as issued.
[Object # 23479]
Flower Power Day : Bring Yr Things / Do Your Thing / Blow Their Minds / Not Their Bodies / DIS Armed Forces Day
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • duotone
  • 27.7 x 21.5 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Flower Power Day : Bring Yr Things / Do Your Thing / Blow Their Minds / Not Their Bodies / DIS Armed Forces Day

[Yellow Paper]

NY WINSPRUNG

Flyer promoting a march in favor of disarming the armed forces on Flower Power Day held on May 20, [1967]. Flyer design credited to NY WINSPRUNG. [details]

New York, NY: Abbie Hoffman,
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$175.00
Condition:  Fair. Folded in four, mild handling marks and edge wear, missing .5 x 1 cm. bottom right corner, inked notations on verso.
[Object # 26369]
Flower Power Day : Bring Yr Things / Do Your Thing / Blow Their Minds / Not Their Bodies / DIS Armed Forces Day
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • duotone
  • 27.7 x 21.5 cm.
  • [1] pp.
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Flower Power Day : Bring Yr Things / Do Your Thing / Blow Their Minds / Not Their Bodies / DIS Armed Forces Day

[Orange Paper]

NY WINSPRUNG

Flyer promoting a march in favor of disarming the armed forces on Flower Power Day held on May 20, [1967]. Flyer design credited to NY WINSPRUNG. [details]

New York, NY: Abbie Hoffman,
Permalink
$175.00
Condition:  Good. Folded in four, mild handling marks, pencil notations on verso.
[Object # 26368]
E.A.T. News
  • periodical
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • accordion
  • black-and-white
  • 27.9 x 21.6 cm.
  • 4 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

E.A.T. News

[Experiments in Art and Technology News] / Vol. 1, No. 4 (December 20, 1967)

Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), Julie Martin

Newsletter published by Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T). Edited by Julie Martin. This slim issue addresses the question of "what's in it for the engineers?" [details]

$200.00
Condition:  Very Good. Minimal rubbing of covers and light edge wear. Contents clean and unmarked.
[Object # 25577]
One
  • multiple
  • offset-printed
  • 7.5 x 9.3 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size 1200
  • unsigned and unnumbered

One

Dan Graham

Multiple Dan Graham consisting of a modified child's toy with sliding tiles. While in the standard toy, the tiles are typically composed of sequential numerical elements, in Graham's variation all the tiles are labeled "ONE. ... [details]

out of stock
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One
  • multiple
  • offset-printed
  • 7.5 x 9.3 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size 500
  • unsigned and unnumbered

One

Dan Graham

Multiple Dan Graham consisting of a modified child's toy with sliding tiles. While in the standard toy, the tiles are typically composed of sequential numerical elements, in Graham's variation all the tiles are labeled "ONE. ... [details]

out of stock
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Women are long on hair and short on etc... but MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • loose card[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 16 x 11 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Women are long on hair and short on etc... but MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE

Daniel Spoerri, Vera Spoerri, Roland Topor, Robert Filliou

Single card from the "Monsters are Inoffensive" postcard set with photograph by Vera Spoerri. Published by "FLUXUS, DIVISION OF IMPLOSIONS, INC." [details]

$150.00
Condition:  Fine. Unmailed copy, clean and unmarked as issued.
[Object # 26336]
TORPOR'S mustache is running but MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE
  • ephemera
  • offset-printed
  • loose card[s]
  • black-and-white
  • 16 x 11 cm.
  • [2] pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered

TORPOR'S mustache is running but MONSTERS ARE INOFFENSIVE

Daniel Spoerri, Vera Spoerri, Roland Topor, Robert Filliou

Single card from the "Monsters are Inoffensive" postcard set with photograph by Vera Spoerri. Published by "FLUXUS, DIVISION OF IMPLOSIONS, INC." [details]

$150.00
Condition:  Fine. Unmailed copy, clean and unmarked as issued.
[Object # 26329]
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