Tacoma, WA: Springtide Press, 2024. Limited Edition. Original Wraps. Meaning “a tiny bit” or “a small amount,” “sukoshi” was borrowed by U.S. servicemen stationed in Japan, and shortened to “skosh.” A little wisdom—inspired by Japanese proverbs called “kotowaza”—reminds us to notice and value the smallest things. Sukoshi features images found.....
Price: $400.00
Chicago, IL: Superior Marking Equipment Co. (SMECo), c.1930s. Featuring rubber stamps with Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Smitty, and Winnie Winkle. Example of printing and comic illustration techniques. Moderate wear to box, obviously use, else bright and clean. Color cardboard box with rubber stamps, metal ink pad box, and loose newsprint.....
Price: $75.00
London: Andre Deutsch, 1959. First UK edition. Hardcover. Voodoo in Haiti traces the development of this complex religion (in Haiti and the Americas) from its sources in the brilliant civilizations of ancient Africa. This book presents a straightforward account of the gods or loas and their function, the symbols and.....
Price: $150.00
![Item #13984 Fifteen Maine Grasses [Artist Proof Copy]. Rebecca Goodale](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13984.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790274420)
Portland, ME: Rebecca Goodale, 2005. Limited Edition. Wraps. Rebecca Goodale: "Fifteen Maine Grasses is in a compound binding, both codices and accordion with mixed media prints. Boards are covered in Japanese grass paper with a braided raffia tie for closure. This is remarkably tactile and its binding speaks to the.....
Price: $250.00
![Item #13983 [Spirit / Angel Photography] "Her Guardian Angel" stereograph photograph....](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13983.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790621083)
Meadville, Pennsylvania: Keystone View Company, 1898. Later Printing. Alongside the carte-de-visite craze, another fad developed in the late 1850s and 1860s: the stereograph. Two nearly identical views were made from slightly different positions or by two side-by-side lenses of a single camera; glued to a single mount and viewed in.....
Price: $40.00
[Berlin]: MiniBuch, nd [circa 2026]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Entire book, binding and textblock, holds a zigzag form with 4 ridges and 3 valleys at the front board [5 ridges and 4 valleys at the rear]. "Zickzackbilder bestehen aus zwei getrennten Bildern, die akkordeonartig (wie ein Leporello) gefaltet werden. Je nach.....
Price: $225.00
West Burke, VT: Janus Press, [2003]. Unique [Unknown]. Sewn Binding. Claire Van Vliet is a printmaker and typographer who founded Janus Press in San Diego, California in 1955. She received a MacArthur Genius Grant in 1989 and is known for her innovative use of pigmented pulp to create images in.....
Price: $350.00
c.1950-1960s. Collection of mostly Democratic political advertising pinback buttons representing progressive and liberal images of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Pat Schroeder for President 1988, Schroeder was the first female U.S. Representative elected from Colorado and ran for president in 1988; Mondale/Ferraro; Clinton/Gore; Shirley Chisholm for President, who in 1968.....
Price: $200.00
San Francisco, CA: Stephen Schwartz, 1969-1970. First Edition. Original Wraps. Antinarcissus: Surrealist Conquest was a notable avant-garde surrealist periodical edited and published by Stephen Schwartz in San Francisco in 1969. The publication functioned as an international intersection of classic European surrealist philosophy and the radical political, countercultural energies of the.....
Price: $150.00
![Item #13974 Close to the Knives // Easy [Play Poster]. David Wojnarowicz, John Roman Baker,...](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13974.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790882449)
Brighton, UK: Aids Positive Underground // Sussex Aids Centre, 1993. Limited Edition. Poster. David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. Wojnarowicz channeled a vast accumulation of raw images, sounds, memories and lived experiences into a powerful voice that was an undeniable presence in the New York City.....
Price: $200.00
![Item #13973 A Living Testament of the Blood Fairies // Part II [Exhibition Poster]. David...](https://luxmentis.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13973.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1790882410)
New York: Printed Matter, 1997. Limited Edition. Poster. David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992) was born in Red Bank, New Jersey. Wojnarowicz channeled a vast accumulation of raw images, sounds, memories and lived experiences into a powerful voice that was an undeniable presence in the New York City art scene of the 1970s.....
Price: $150.00
Berlin: Tantillusus Libri, 2023. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text in German. Presented as a box of two decks of playing cards, Vol. 1 shows a red Ace of Hearts at the front and a red 5 of hearts at the rear board. Vol. 2, in black, has the Ace of Spades.....
Price: $245.00
Berlin: Tantillusus Libri, nd. Limited Edition. Hardcover. An adorable...and tiny...edition of this famed German poem. Text in German. August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben was a German poet associated with the Young Germany movement. He is best known for writing "Das Lied der Deutschen", whose third stanza is now the national.....
Price: $35.00
Berlin: Tantillusus Libri, nd [circa 2025]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A simple and elegant binding reveals a photographic bibliography of Herrmann's work...and a working fan. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full red leather binding, black string loop at spine, fan structure. Narrow 32mo. np. Numbered limited edition.
Price: $95.00
Berlin: Tantillusus Libri, nd [circa 2025]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "Rat Krespel" is an 1818 short story (Künstlernovelle) written by the German Romantic author E. T. A. Hoffmann. Rat Krespel (Councilor Krespel) is a brilliant, eccentric jurist, diplomat, and master violin maker who behaves in bizarre, erratic ways. His daughter, Antonia.....
Price: $145.00
Berlin: Tantillusus Libri, nd [circa 2025]. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A whimisical collection of *many* flamingos from the ever creative mind of Angela Herrmann, design, content, and binding. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Full blue leather binding, inlaid pink flamingo at front and inlaid "F" at spine, printed decorative endpages. 32mo. np.....
Price: $95.00
New York: Fashion Moda, 1978-1982. First Edition. "Founded in 1978 by Stefan Eins, Fashion Moda became an important voice in the art world up until the mid-1980's. Defining itself as a 'concept,' Fashion Moda crossed postmodern boundaries and endeavored to redefine the function of art. Featuring such artists as Keith.....
Price: $1,500.00
Minneapolis, MN: Angel Bomb, 2025. Limited Edition. Hardcover. "The story explores moral compromise, the erosion of democratic norms, and the impossible position of those trying to maintain their humanity while surrounded by organized brutality."--Artist statement. Bright and unmarred. Red cloth. 6x9” hardbound with Japanese book cloth, foil stamped. Hand-bound at.....
Price: $1,200.00
Intercoastal Cavicle Press, 1996. First Edition. Original Wraps. Self-published short stories. Light staining, else near fine. Two brown craft paper wrapped pamphlets with cut out window on front wrappers. 8vo. np. Illus.
Price: $50.00
Boston, MA: James Loring, [1840]. Fourth US, improved from the London Edition. Hardcover. The Thorough-base Primer by John Freckleton Burrowes is a classic 19th-century instructional manual designed to teach students the rudiments of harmony and thorough-bass (continuous bass) notation. Light shelf/edgewear, foxing throughout, else tight, bright and unmarred, open tear.....
Price: $50.00
New York: Punk Publications, 1978-1979. First Edition. Original Wraps. First printing of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventieth issue of this seminal publication capturing, better than any other, the pulse of the then-emerging punk movement. Starring Joey Ramone & Debbie Harry, with Andy Warhol & many other characters from the New.....
Price: $350.00
Chicago, IL: Life M, 1936. First Edition. Cover is Vol. 1, Issue 1's iconic Margaret Bourke-White inage of Fort Peck in Montana. Life created at least two promotional versions of the first issue...one relatively common 'half-size' and this miniature. We've only seen one prior copy of this item and there.....
Price: $245.00
McGraw-Hill, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Four examples of what we believe is a set of 36 books (with subsets, represented here is Ocean Life, Woodland, and Backyard). A nice starter set. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ show minimal shelf/edge wear, else bright and unmarred. Color printed glossy paper boards, colored.....
Price: $45.00
Boston, MA: Charles J. Hendee and Jenks and Palmer, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Peter Parley's Method of Teaching Arithmetic to Children is an 1833 educational book written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich under the pseudonym "Peter Parley." Moderate shelf/edge wear, spine chipping, even toning/rubbing, foxing throughout, else tight, bright and unmarred.....
Price: $150.00
New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2005. Limited Edition. Stiff Boards. Visionaire, the fashion and art publication, explores the exciting world of taste. After 42 SCENT, Visionaire again teamed up with IFF to push the boundaries with 47 TASTE. Jenny Holzer suggested metal and jet fuel as the flavor of adrenaline, though.....
Price: $200.00