Literature from Pictograph Books

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

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: Le Melog, 1978 6 inches x 8 1/4 inches. Good, light fading to exterior only. A special edition of the French surrealist periodical LE MELOG focusing on Lôdie Serrano. From an edition of 400.

Washington, D.C.: Will Inman, 1969 8 1/2 x 11 inches. pp [4], 5-31, "back page." Staplebound. Good- (chips from front as pictured, top staple a bit loose at rear). Will Inman's anthology of submitted poetry from around the country. A mailing address is published for each poet.