First Edition. A handmade artists' book interpretation of Amelia Vento Pichardo de Tápanes' 1933 collection of poems by the late, great Cuban book artist Rolando Estévez, published in an edition of 36 copies. The text is color photocopies of individual pages from an original copy of De mi jardín interior.....

A French election poster from ca. 1951 with a connection to the Surrealists from three printed emblems reading "Bulletin NOIR Les Surealistes." Your cataloger's knowledge of French and French politics after the Second World War is not sufficient to offer an analysis of the poster. One suspects it (mostly) means.....

First Edition. An artist's book from the author of Geek Love, illustrated exuberantly with original color prints by Mare Blocker. The book was published in an edition of just 125 copies in conjunction with the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The late Katherine Dunn is best known for.....

First British edition. The British edition of Yoko Ono's conceptual art book, first published in 1964 in Japan, which mostly consists of instructions for performances or individual actions ("Carry a bag of peas. Leave a pea wherever you go"). Many of the pieces cannot (yet) be performed: "Prescribe pills for.....

First Edition. This classic book of Sixties rock posters has become a sort of checklist for collectors and dealers, who cite "AOR" items in their descriptions. This is the full-size original version and one of the "special limited presentation edition," which has a more psychedelic design stamped on the front.....

The numbered edition (100 copies) of Sandow Birk's Divine Comedy, complete in three volumes, with more than 100 signed lithographs bound in, as issued. The artist translated the text with Marcus Sanders and illustrated it after Gustave Doré's well-known 19th century take on Dante's epic literary masterpiece, divided into the.....

First Edition. A portfolio of four covers from Thanksgiving issues of The New Yorker plus a reproduction of an online-only comic published as ACME Novelty Library no. 18-1/2. The New Yorker cover prints measure 15 by 20 inches, printed in full color on heavy, quality paper. The online comic print.....

The first major retrospective and biography of the author-artist best-known for Where the Wild Things Are. With 261 illustrations including 94 full-color plates and what is billed as an "original Sendak pop-up" (but which is really a pull-the-flap illustration). Mounted to p. 81 is a tiny strip book (four leaves).....

First Edition. A monograph of geometrical works, most printed in two colors, as well as text-based abstractions, based on the poems of Sappho. Levi-Montalcini (1909–2000) was a noted Italian artist who began exhibiting her work in the 1930s; in the 1950s, she explored Concretism, to which the works in this.....

First Edition. A collection of reproductions of Wong's Human Instamatic drawings of people and places in and around Eureka, California. Mostly printed offset in black; a few have an overprinting in red for his chop. One reproduces Wong's "Human Instamatic" blindstamp. Wong lived in Old Town, Eureka, at the time.....

First Edition. "There has been no better nor more beautiful book on herbs in modern times." —Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin. This book, beautifully illustrated with original woodblock prints, includes descriptions by Muenscher and Rice of 250 common and exotic plants and hints on how to recognize, grow, harvest, and prepare.....

The poster for a notable exhibition of French Surrealists in Czechoslovakia held during the Prague Spring, a brief window of time in 1969 when the political grip of the Soviet Union loosened in Czechoslovakia. Recent scholarship has placed this exhibit in the context of the global Surrealist movement. Krzysztof Fijalkowsk.....

A poster for the most notorious art show in history, the Entartete Kunst Ausstellung (Degenerate Art Exhibition) organized by Joseph Goebbels in 1937 as a public denunciation of modern art by the Nazis. After an opening exhibition in Munich, the show toured Germany. This poster is for the Chemnitz showing.....