Recent Arrivals from Pictograph Books

Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada 1982–84. Mercury Series, Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies, Papers No. 43-45. Staplebound. Volume 1: Aerophones. pp. [1], ii-xi, [2], 2-161, [3]. 61 plates, 103 figures. Good: fading and rubberstamps to cover, edgewear. Covers everything from shakuhachis to shofars. Volume 2: Idiophones and Membranophones. pp. [1], ii-xii, [1], 2-121, [3]. 51… Read more about this item

Franklin Furnace, New York, 1989 Description: First edition. 8 1/2 x 11 inches (22 x 28 cm). Offset printed. pp. [1], 2-68, [index on inside back cover]. 113 black-and-white illustrations. Good cond.: ext. wear incl. some laminate bubbling/edgewear; letter has tiny tears on right side. Comments: Catalog from a defining exhibit at the legendary alternative arts space. Unlike many later… Read more about this item

New York: Chickfactor/Enchanté, 2001 8 1/2 x 11 inches. First edition. Offset printed. pp. [3], 6-9, 8-55, 54-57, 60-63 (some sets of pages are double numbered but all are there). Good+ cond. (some wear to page edges, two slight corner bumps; one little stain inside). More than 60,000 words on bands like Magnetic Fields, Delgados, Sam & John, Montgolfier Brothers,… Read more about this item

Columbia, S.C.: Columbia Museums of Art and Science, 1981 First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 Inches (22 cm x 14 cm). Softcover. Offset printed in black and white. pp. [3], 1-40, [1]. 19 halftones. Good+: light exterior wear including some foxing. Organized for an MA project, the "Worth Keeping" exhibition profiled the artists Walter Streetmyer, L. C. Carson, Dan… Read more about this item

New York: Craig F. Starr Associates, 2007 10 x 8 1/2 inches. Trifold brochure on glossy paper. Vg, wee bit of fading to interior and light edgewear only. Document from a later show of the Ruscha drawings that were made with gunpowder.

San Francisco, Calif.: San Francisco Dancers' Workshop. 1979. 2nd printing revised, re-designed. Good+ condition. Some rubbing/scratching/bending/marking to exterior, one corner bumped. Spiral bound pp. [4], 3-55, [4]. Created and developed by Anna Halprin and the San Francisco Dancers' Workshop. Specifically covers Halprin's Movement Ritual I, which is primarily performed while lying down. Includes related readings.

Paris: L'Archibras [1967—1969]. 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. Fine cond. The surrealist periodical L'ARCHIBRAS existed for seven issues after the death of Breton in the late 60s and "remained faithful to a resolute, lucid sense of political engagement." (SURREALISM, Jacqueline Chénieux-Gendron, 1990)

Allston, Mass.: Inner X, 1985 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 22 x 28 cm. Very good condition. OTHER SOUND, associated with the INNERSLEEVE SHOP in Boston, presents an interesting amalgam of the local and international (primarily English) contemporaneous scenes. Bands covered are PSYCHIC TV, NURSE WITH WOUND, HUMAN FLESH, SLEEP CHAMBER, HUNTING LODGE, HOLY COW and others. High points include… Read more about this item

Helsinki: World Peace Council, 1977 6 1/2 x 9 inches (17 x 73 cm). Good cond. (light scratch and other ext. wear including wee bit of foxing; an interior page has a tear and a couple have foxing). Publication issued by the Information Centre of the World Peace Council in reaction to the US government's decision in July 1977 to… Read more about this item

St. Paul, MN: Little Brown Mushroom, 2011 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. pp. [4], 5-60, [4]. Good+. Extremely light exterior fading, two light scratches to rear. Alec Soth's photo stories, with staged and found photography. Includes story by Jindrich Styrsk.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Library, 1968 3 x 4 1/2 inches. Good+ (light ext. wear and some smudging only). pp. [79]. Reprints a document that was also of small format. In early-nineteenth-century Mexico, Catholic friars used an original pictorial language to more effectively proselytize. This tiny volume is a catechism written in that language.

Paris, 1962 First edition. 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches (18 x 27 cm). Offset printed. pp.: [TOC], 1-16, 16 pages b&w illus., 33-48, 16 pages b&w illus., 65-96, subscription card, inner back cover has ad and list of older issues. Text in French. Exterior wear, owner's label on inner front cover, foxing to inner back cover and interior. A… Read more about this item

New York: Ex Libris, 1982 7 x 10 inches. Fair cond. Exterior wear incl. moisture marks to front. Foxing to inside rear cover. Includes 698 lots.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009 2008 (this pb. ed. 2009). 6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Offset printed. pp. [4], v-xlvii, 1-216, 40 black-and-white fully illustrated pages; 4 color fully illustrated pages, 217-676. Signed on half title "George Lewis 6.4.14 Detroit MI." Light exterior wear to back only. A well-illustrated history of the quintessential free music collective… Read more about this item

[San Francisco]: Fether's Point Cinema [1967?1972], 1967 14 x 20 inches (36 x 51 cm). One pushpin hole at top, a few foxed marks, some creasing (a bit at top, also 1/3 of the way up from bottom, and elsewhere); light edgewear; rear has two tape marks. Overall good. Fether's Point was a storefront cinema showing underground, imported and historical… Read more about this item

Hunter, Joseph. Detroit: Global Sound Publications. 1996. Signed ("Best Wishes for Nancy.") Good+ condition: rubbing, edgewear, smudging. pp. [9], 1-135, a-i, [1], [6 (index)]. Autobiographical novel by an original Funk Brother and the band leader at Motown Records until 1964. Extremely scarce, only one copy in OCLC (Univ. of South Carolina).

Alfredo Jaar, 2012 First edition. 7 x 7 Inches (18 x 18 cm). Offset printed. pp. [4], 5-14. Limited edition of 1000 copies. John Cage juvenilia: features ".the earliest of John Cage's extended writings.presented in 1927 at the Hollywood Bowl, where Cage, representing Los Angeles High School, won the Southern California Oratorical Contest. He was 15 years old." Published for… Read more about this item

Baltimore, Md.: Festival of Disappearing Arts, 1979. Flyer is 8 1/2 x 11 and poster is 11 x 17. Both are printed front and back. Only cond. issue is fading to the poster where it was folded in the center. Documents from a 1979 festival featuring cross-disciplinary artists and sponsored by the Merzaum Collective and the Washington Project for the… Read more about this item

Cologne: Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, 1994 6 x 8 1/4 inches. pp. [2], 2-3, [12]. Vg. condition, light ext. wear only. Small booklet released by Armin Hundertmark in an edition of 500. Includes an introductory text by Patterson and pictures of several of Jones's music machines.

Mainz, Germany: Happening Club, 1969 Description: 6 inches x 8 1/2 inches. Pink construction-like paper. Holes punched and very light fading to left side. Includes a blurb from the renowned jazz critic Joachim Berendt. Comments: Rare show flyer from one of the earliest significant Krautrock groups, XHOL-CARAVAN. The flyer is from a relatively local show for them in Mainz (they… Read more about this item