Surrealism
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Situationist International Review Of the American Section Of the S I
by Robert, Bruce Elwell, Jonathan Horelick, Tony Verlaan Chasse
Surrealism Books & Ephemera
![At the Jacobins' Club [postcard]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/729/239/1519239729.0.b.jpg)
At the Jacobins' Club [postcard]
by Rosemont, Penelope
Chicago: Black Swan Press, 1992. Postcard. 6x4 inch postcard of Penelope Rosemont's artwork; very light penciling on back by owner detailing that it was a gift to him from Franklin Rosemont.
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A$30.99
Marbels From Cockaroch Morseleum
by Aronovici, Isser
no place: Peter Birnbaum, 1968. Spiral_bound. [29p] 8.5x11 inches, text in faux handwritten script, three glossy plates, very good limited edition of 500 copies stated in black comb spiral-bound covers with silkscreened Octopus & cockroach cover illustration in pink and gold. NO!art poet and artist from NYC.
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A$69.72
Revealed to Me
by Alm, Helen
Valencia CA: artist / School of Design, California Institute of the Arts, 1974. Spiral_bound. 10p. artist's book, cardstock leaves printed recto only, b&w collaged images under metallic silver wraps comb-bound, 12x11 inches; the black plastic comb is in good shape, the cover card-leaves are edgeworn with a little silver flaked away and on back wrap an adhesion scar measuring 1.5x.5 inches. Internally the first card-weight leaf is quite toned, the rest are slightly toned. Inscribed and signed "To Nancy";...
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MAGRITTE: THE TRUE ART OF PAINTING
by Harry Torczyner
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 9 x 12 in. Blue cloth boards. Lavish color plates. Condition is FINE ; covers like new, binding tight, text spotless. DJ is VERY GOOD ; extremely clean, delaminating at edges, toned at edges and flaps. Art. Stax.
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A$23.24
The Irish Rebellion: Here & Now
by The Surrealist Movement in the United States
Mountain View, CA: SRAFprint Co-op, 1972. Pamphlet. Single 8.5x11 inch sheet, folded twice for mailing, sticker shadow, pen notation, and postage stamp on rear, several small shadows from tape used to hold shut for mailing on both sides. On the situation in Northern Ireland.
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A$54.23
El crimen perfecto. Traduccion de Joaquin Jorda
by Baudrillard, Jean
Barcelona: Editorial Anagrama, 2000. Paperback. 203p., index, later printing of this translation, softbound in 8x5 inch glossy decorated wraps, quite sound, clean and unmarked, a very good copy.
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A$27.89
Kurt Seligmann: His Graphic Work
by Seligmann, Kurt
New York: Helen Serger, La Boetie, 1973. Pamphlet. [36]p., stapled wraps, 8x8 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn else very good condition. Price list laid in. Swiss immigrant Surrealist artist.
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A$38.74
Max Ernst
by Ernst, Max
npl: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1961. Paperback. 71p., wraps, 8.5x9 inches, profusely illus., wraps lightly worn else very good exhibition catalog. Second edition.
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A$23.24
Gergedan - Buyuk Kufur Kitabi. Oyku. Resimler Bahadir Baruter
by Sogut, Mine
Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Yayinlari, 2019. Paperback. 114p., illustrated with seven doublespread color reproductions of weird artwork all involving a albino rhinoceros. Some of these paintings are frightening, all are expert. The language is Turkish, untranslated. Softbound in 8x5 inch color pictorial wraps with damage; the terminal leaf has been torn out, perhaps with loss to publisher's menu. Back cover bears an electronic theft-protection sticker. Worst, is that the bottom margins of more than half of all...
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New Masses, Volume 62 Number 2, January 7, 1947
by North, Joseph, editor
New York: Weekly Masses Co., Inc, 1947. Magazine. 31p., stapled wraps, 8.5x11.5 inches, paper browned, pen notation and 1.5 inch closed tear on front wrap, pp9-13 stained, else good condition. Contributors include Paul Eluard, Louis Harap, Isidor Schneider, and A.B. Magil.
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A$27.89
From the Molecular to the Galactic: The Art of Max Ernst and Alfonso Ossorio
by Matilsky, Barbara; Dallow, Jessica; Thomas, Colleen
Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000. Staplebound. 32p., staplebound exhibition catalog, 7x10 inches, very good. Illustrated profusely with Ernst and Ossorio's works.
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A$61.98
Driving my scoot through the asteroid field, coming down over Venus "hallo Baba
by Jetsun, Sunny
n.pl: Self-published by the author, 2007. Pamphlet. 103p., 5x7 inch wraps; illus., pictorial wrappers slightly toned along spine and back wrap, slight edgewear, mild soil to rear wrap, in good condition. The author also wrote as "Ciel Rose" and "Sunny Revareva.
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A$26.34
Fight or Flight: The Art of Moira Hahn
by Hahn, Moira
Riverside: Riverside Art Museum, 2007. Pamphlet. 8-panel folded exhibition brochure, 6x10.5 inches, very good. Illustrated with a colorful four-panel Ukiyo-e inspired scene. No copies found in the OCLC as of July 2022. Hahn studied drawing and painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art as an undergraduate before receiving an MFA from CSU, Fullerton. She worked in animation and has taught studio art at various schools in Southern California.
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A$38.74
The poetical alphabet. Introduction by Stephen Schwartz
by Blood, Benjamin Paul
Cambridge, MA: Published by Radical America under the direction of the Surrealist Group, 1972. Pamphlet. 22p., wraps, first edition, 6.5x8.5 inches, very good condition. Surrealist research & development, monograph series no. 3.
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A$30.99
![[Two portraits of artist Gordon Onslow Ford in front of one of his paintings]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/580/956/1567956580.0.b.jpg)
[Two portraits of artist Gordon Onslow Ford in front of one of his paintings]
by Piaskowski, Nata
San Francisco: Nata Piaskowski, 1983. Photograph. Two 8x10 inch b&w photographs, very good condition with "photograph by Nata Piaskowski" and Piaskowski's address stamped on the reverse of both photos. Onslow Ford was born in England and later moved to Paris, where he became one of the youngest members of the Surrealist group. He moved to San Francisco in 1947. Nata Piaskowski was a Polish-born, San Francisco-based photographer who studied at the California School of Fine Arts under Minor White.
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A$619.76
Surrealism; a celebration. Exhibition of Surrealist Art, November 7-23, 1974
Philadelphia: Pennsylvania State University, 1974. Pamphlet. [24p.],8x8 inch wraps; b&w photos., in very good condition.
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A$18.59
Modern Painters: A Quarterly Journal of the Fine Arts. Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 1989
by Fuller, Peter, editor
London: Fine Arts Journals Ltd, 1989. Paperback. 129p., wraps, 8.25x11.75 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn and soiled, spine chipped, else very good condition. Articles on Joan Miro, Paul Cézanne, and more, plus exhibition and book reviews, Ralph Steadman on cartooning, and more.
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A$18.59
Surrealisme 2
Paris: Editions Savelli, 1977. Paperback. 79p., wraps, 5.25x9 inches, illus., wraps lightly worn, small stain on front wrap else very good condition. Text in French.
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A$61.98
Etrangé Faeces / Strange Faeces #16: special French to English translations issue
by Nations, Opal L. & Tony Montague, editors, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, Jean Arp, Paul Eluard, George Bataille, Antonin Artaud, Jacques Prevert, et al, translations by Paul Mariah, Jack Hirschman, Keith Abbott, Paul
Penfield: Strange Faeces, 1974. Magazine. 120p., 5.5x8.5 inches poetry, art, fiction, very good literary journal booklet in stapled white pictorial wraps. Special issue of French erotic and Surrealist writings from the past 100 years translated into English.
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A$116.21
Art? Alternatives ; Volume 2, Issue 6, August
by Sundance, Roy, Jean-Chris Miller, editors
New York City: Outlaw Biker Enterprises, 1994. Magazine. 65p. + [3p.], pictorial magazine, 8x10.75 inches; slightly propped open where the Charles Gatewood article is on page 57, else in very good condition. Article on Charles Gatewood featuring his photographs of the counter-cultural world.
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A$23.24
Sam Dunn is dead; futurist novel
by Corra, Bruno; John Walker, intro., trans.,; Rosa Rosà, illus
London: Atlas Press, 2015. Paperback. 92p., wraps; illus., in very good condition.
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A$23.24
Urban legends
by von Heidrick-Barnes, Ishmael, poetry, drawings by Tatiana Tavoukjian Ferahian
Lefkosia/Necosia, Cyprus: Moufflon Publishing, 2016. Paperback. 48p., 11.75x8.25 inches landscape format, signed by the poet, poetry in English, surreal, erotic drawings involving skeletons and giant squid, very good first edition paperback in tan and black pictorial wraps.
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A$69.72
Reliures - chez Claude Guerin du 6 au 30 octobre 1982
by Gonet, Jean de; preface by Jean Toulet
Paris: chez Glaude Guerin, 1982. Paperback. 47p., avant--garde book design, books shown closed, front-cover-only, a number of these in color exhibit photography, fullpage. Presswork on light grey stock (introductory material) with glossy bright-white stock for main elements. Softbound in 8.5x6 inch glossy cardstock wraps; foxing lightly blotches the white blanks, there is a neat ink ownership on a grey blank, else item is as new: perfectly sound and clean.
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A$69.72
Islam Bomb: poems
by Denner, Richard, collage by Luis Garcia
Sebastopol: Self-published by the author as dPress, 1998. Pamphlet. [28p] 5.5x8.25 inches,cut-up poetry, playful typography, puns, yoga and zen, very good chapbook in sewn decorative wraps. Self-publisher Denner was a Berkeley Street Poet and bookseller at Moe's.
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A$23.24
![Putevi: mesečne sveske za umetnost i filozofiju [Paths: a monthly periodical for art and philosophy]. Series I, nos. 1-2 (1922) and Series II, nos. 1, 2, and 3/4/5 (1923-1924) (all published)](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/339/641/1559641339.0.b.jpg)
Putevi: mesečne sveske za umetnost i filozofiju [Paths: a monthly periodical for art and philosophy]. Series I, nos. 1-2 (1922) and Series II, nos. 1, 2, and 3/4/5 (1923-1924) (all published)
Belgrade: Marsias, 1922-1924. Series I: quartos (28 × 23.5 cm), Series II: octavo (23.5 × 16 and 22.5 × 15.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; Series I 32 pp. per issue, Series II 128 pp. continuously paginated. Very minor general soiling and toning; text block of one issue neatly detached from wrappers; pages uncut and unopened; overall very good, in protective mylar. A complete run, in altogether five variously paginated issues, of the first major avant-garde periodical to appear in the new kingdom...
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