Search Results: Titles starting with V from Tomberg Rare Books

Madison, WI: RPM Print Co-op, [c. 1970s]. Offset lithograph poster in red. 11 X 17 1 2” Unbacked. Poster states that “Chavez is on the executive board of the U.F.W., director of Michigan Boycott, and brother of Cesar Chavez./ Boycott Grapes and Lettuce! Boycott Sentry! Boycott Memorial Union-Union South/Boycott Guild Liquor! Collector J. Welsey Miller’s stamp in on verso and his signature in blue pen.

(Silver Spring, MD): Barry Alpert, 1972. First edition. 59 pp. 4to, original printed wrappers. Side-stapled. Very good with light soil and rusting to staples. Some mild staining. Vort followed the same pattern in its plain, large-format issues, creating a little critical universe for each of two authors. [Clay and Phillips 245]. The editorial note on the last page states that Vort will feature two writers who have had an impact on each other. Alpert quotes Ezra Pound when he urged, “Zone the barstuds,” [sic] in 1931 but points out that Pounds’ principles for a science of groups does not apply to a time when, as Harold Rosenberg notes, “Avant-gardes and ideologies are dead, and the only force for the new in art is the individual in his erratic communion with other individuals.” Therefore, Alpert states that he will avoid meaningless groupings (Black Mountain, New American, New York) and focus on individuals that interest him who have not had much critical attention. As to the… Read More