15 x 10,5cm, 2pp typographic announcement card for a group show of works from the 1960s by Vito Acconci, Christo, Mark di Suvero, Dan Graham, Robert Grosvenor, Peter Hutchinson, Allan Kaprow, Richard Long, and Dennis Oppenheim. Verso gallery details. VG+.

20 x 21cm, unpaginated (c.72pp) plus boards. Monograph on Christo's early "Packages" works with texts in English, French and Italian by David Bourdon, Otto Hahn, and Pierre Restany alongside many b/w and colour images of works including the early storefront installations. VG+. Scarce.

10.5 x 15cm, 1pp. Announcement card for a major exhibition of happenings and performances. Artists include Vito Acconci, Christo, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Peter Hutschison, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta, Dennis Oppenheim. Front of leaflet is an image of an Acconci performance. VG.

21 x 30cm, 16pp stapled offset b/w programme for the 1980 show. The programme notes a huge number of participants exhibiting art at the New York's Passenger Ship Terminal including Eric Andersen, Ay-o, John Cage, Christo, Philip Corner, Yoko Ono, Ben Patterson, Knud Petersen, Otto Piene, Klaus Groh, Geoffrey Hendricks, Ray Johnson, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Richard Kostelanetz, Takehisa Kosugi, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Ben Vautier and details of a "Group Hologram Show" and a "Group Audio Show" which included David Tudor, John Giorno, Takehisa Kosugi, Yoshi Wada and others.

Also there was "Six Sure Cycles of Poetry Performances" which included Jackson Mac Low and Opal L. Nations, and "Two Continuous 12 =-Hour Video Tape Shows" which included works by Jeff Byrd, Nancy Holt, Nam June Paik with Charlotte Moorman (Guadalcanal Requiem), Shigeko Kubota, and Les Levine.

These are just a percentage of the huge number of artists who were involved in the Festival and one has to be impressed by Moorman's organisation of such an event. VG+.

Six separate numbers - a complete run (although Vostell did later add an exhibition catalogue and designate it as De/collage 7 despite it being somewhat different in content to these copies) of this assmblage/artist's journal that predated vTRE and other Fluxus related artist publications.

The collection here consists of:

Decoll/age 1

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): June 1962

26 x 22cm, 32pp double fold out pages plus card covers with folds. The first number of the series with original contributions by Arthur Köpcke, George Maciunas, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Volf Vostell and others. Slight wear to the right hand side of the folded wrappers else VG+. 

Decoll/age 2

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): November 1962

30 x 21cm, 42pp plus paper wrappers. Internal pages are mimeographed and stapled. Edited by Dick Higgins - the whole consisting of his "The Broadway Opera" translated into German. The front cover is a b/w photograph of the poet/artist outside a German cinema. With original publisher's wrap-around band - which is torn but complete and with original scotch tape closure still there but the glue has lost its adhesion. Very rare number from the series especially with the band.

Inserted: subscription leaflet for Decoll/age 1 and 2.

Decoll/age 3

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): December 1962

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (108pp plus 12pp) and wrappers. Internal pages include a transparent sheet and several folders, stapled, blank cover, printed jacket. Contributions by C. Caspari, Christo, Jed Curtis, Henry Flint, Dick Higgins, Gyogy Ligetti, Nam June Paik, Jan Voss, Vostell, F. Mon, Pera, F. Crowbridge, JP Wilhelm. The internal sheets include various types of printing: offset, mimeograph, screen printing. Illustrated throughout. VG+ although some wear/minor emerging tears along spine of the wrappers. 

Decoll/age 4

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): January 1964

27 x 21.8cm, unpaginated (132pp) and wrappers. A "Special Happenings" number with contributions by  Georges Brecht, Stanley Brouwn (including his USE THIS BROUWN stamped paper bag stuck to the third blank page - a rare edition), Allan Kaprow, Higgins, Paik, Jean Jacques Lebel, Tomas Schmit, Claes Oldenburg, Al Hansen and others. Most pages are double folded.  Very scarce.

Decoll/age 5

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): February 1966

Happenings / Stücke / Partituren

28 x 23 x 4cm (approx) outer card portfolio. The most important of the  series with many object multiples and print editions included in the publication. This consists of 22 multiple-elements including the first ever object multiple by Joseph Beuys: "Zwei Fraulen mit lenchtendem Brot" consisting of a block of painted chocolate fixed on a strip of printed paper and tipped on scroll. Other works are by René Block, Claus Bremer, Henning Christiansen, Hans Joachim Dietrich, Ludwig Gosewitz, Dick Higgins, Bernhard Höke, Allan Kaprow, Franz Mon, Benjamin Patterson, Eckart Rahn, Gerhard Rühm, Vagelis Tsakiridis, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, ZAJ Group (which is signed). The Vostell work is a sealed sheet of printed paper with yellow dust/sand inside the sealed plastic and is complete and undamaged here. VG+ overall although the portfolio card folder is a little damaged as the internal uneven sheets have put pressure on the outer card. This is a scarce item to find in good condition and the Beuys contribution is particularly prized. 

Decoll/age 6

Koln: Decoll/age (Vostell): July 1967

29 x 21.7cm, unpaginated (174pp), plus card wrappers (reproducing the front page of Le Figaro from September 6, 1954). Texts in German and English. Contributions by Higgins, Maciunas, Vostell, Gustav Metzger, Milan Knizak, Vautier, Hansen, Kaprow, Paik, Franz Mon, Daniel Spoerri, Charlotte Moorman, Jean-Jacques Lebel, and Alison Knowles. Also laid into the pages is the original multiple of Diter Rot "das Blaue Geheul" a hand written card. 

There are very few complete runs of this journal available online and this is the cheapest we know of.

205 x 26cm, 233pp plus original card covers. , Exhibition catalogue of post-World War II multiples and works in editions, including prints, posters, sculpture, artists' books, etc., by European and American artists.

There were 509 works exhibited in this huge and important show.

Foreword and introduction by Gert von der Osten; essays by Erhard Kästner, Horst Keller, Karl Gerstner, Willi Bongard, Othmar Metzger and Hein Stanke and biographical notes on the artists. Text in German.

Included are von Agam, Albers, Alechinsky, Antes, Appel, Arp, Baumeister, Bellmer, Beuys, Braque, Chagall, , Christo, Dine, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Ernst, Esteve, Faßbender, Francis, Fruhtrunk, Geiger, Giacometti, Grieshaber, Hamilton, Hartung, Hockney, Johns, Jones, Jorn, Leger, Lichtenstein, Matta, Matisse, Miro, Nay, Nevelson, Newman, Oldenburg, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Rot, Soto, Soulages, Stella, Tapies, Tinguely, Warhol and Wols.

A VG example. 

10. 5 x 15cm, 4pp full colour image on paper. The rest of the card is blank. Probably a promotional item for Christo and Jean-Claude's monumental Valley Curtain project. VG+.

London, Mathews Miller Dunbar, 1972.

16 x 12cm, 72pp with 34 b/w reproductions of polaroid portraits each of Hamilton  taken by Francis Bacon, Larry Bell, Bob Benson, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Christo, Bill Copley, Robert Creeley, Jim Dine, Rita Donagh, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert and George, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, Jasper Johns, William Katz, R.B. Kitaj, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, N.E. Thing Co., Ltd., Claes Oldenburg, Brigid Polk, Man Ray, Jim Rosenquist, Dieter Roth, Joe Tilson, Jean Tinguely, Wolf Vostel, Andy Warhol, Emmett Williams, and La Monte Young. Hard covers with printed typographical dustjacket. VG+. Now scarce.

56 x 43cm, 4pp. Tabloid format. Text and pictorial contributions from Brecht, Christo, Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Jackson Mac Low, Nam June Paik, Benjamin Patterson, Mieko Shiomi, Daniel Spoerri, Tinguely, Ben Vautier, et. al. + found texts and images, as well as adverts for Fluxus events and products. Primarily designed under the direction of George Maciunas. Formerly folded (as usual) and some browning along folds and some edge damage but otherwise VG. Silverman No. 459. Now rare.

The work followed an exhibition of  Hyde's photographs of artists' hands in the windows of Tiffany's (New York). This is one of only 150 examples numbered and signed by Filliou on the colophon. VG+.

This exhibition is usually regarded as the first conceptual art/minimalist show in Japan.

The catalogue for this show is onsite elsewhere for at least 2,000 dollars.