AMERICA

Cahiers France-Amérique Latine.

Nos. 1-5 (all publ.). Paris, juillet 1945-1947. Original pictorial wrappers; folio. Excellent condition (except for tiny closed-tear on wrapper of no.1 and back-cover loose). No. 5 with litho by F. Leger.

EUR 800.00

Elaborately produced periodical on glossy paper, directed by Pierre Seghers, dealing with art, letters, music, theatre, fashion and various other topics related to France and North and South America. Each issue devoted to a theme: 1: Les Lettres; 2: Les Arts; 3: Villes et Maisons; 4: La Terre, Les Hommes; 5: 'Jazz 47'. Contribs. include Louis Aragon, Le Corbusier, Louis Jouvet, Georges Duhamel, Pablo Neruda, S. Reyes, Paul Eluard, Christian Zervos, Georges Pillement, etc.; illustrations and hors-texte plates by Man Ray (photogr.), Raoul Dufy, Jean Dubuffet, Henri Matisse, Cicero Diaz, Bellmer, etc. No. 5, entirely devoted to jazz (by Hot Club de France), with photographs of famous musicians (Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Howard McGhee), contributions by Sartre, Cocteau, Robert Goffin and Boris Vian a.o. and ills. by Fernand Léger, Charles Delaunay (wrapper-design), Magritte.

CHANGE

Nos. 1 & 2 (all publ.) Fall/Winter 1965- Spring/Summer 1966. Artists' Workshop Press: Detroit. Photographically ilustrated stapled wraps. First number in excellent condition, second number with some flaws to condition (see detail below)

EUR 1,500.00

A very early John Sinclair publication, with a poem ("Songs of Praise for John Coltrane's"), essays, reviews, etc. by John Sinclair on Jazz. Very scarce -- Includes the petition calling for the passing of an appropriation for $5 million for a National Humanities Foundation, with some of it going for jazz musicians. Condition of No. 2: front cover browned, worn, spotted and detached, back cover (if there was one) missing, contents used and browned, last few pp edge chipped and edge torn; last pp (77/78) detached.(lightly waterstained).

CLIMAX

A creative review in the jazz spirit.

Sessions (Nos.) 1 and 2 (probably all publ.) New Orleans: The Climax Jazz, Art & Pleasure Society of Lower Bourbon Street (1955 & 1956). 42 + 88 pp. Two numbers. Large 8-vo and 8vo; Original pictorial wrappers (first issue slightly bumped at overlaying edges, but still very good). Added to No.1: illustrated leaflet "Eyes on Mexico" by the Climax Jazz, Art and Pleasure Society.

EUR 400.00

Cass, R., Barbara Clayton, Del Weniger, editors. Fiction, poetry and documentation of the New Orleans jazz scene. Contributors include Lawrence Lipton, Jacques Prevert, Judson Crews, Mason Jordan Mason, Gil Orlovitz, Curtis Zahn, Kenneth L. Beaudoin, and many reviews of live and recorded jazz. The second number features Eight New Orleans Jazz photographs by Ralston Crawford. Very rare.

DOWN BEAT

50 Years With Armstrong

Vol. 17, No. 14. Chigaco: Down Beat, July 14, 1950. Tabloid format periodical, printed on cheap paper, 19pp. Folded into magazine wrappers. Light wear at folds, some chipping to delicate edges. Signed by Armstrong and his band.

EUR 700.00

Special issue of this Jazz magazine celebrating the 50th birthday of Louis Armstrong, who is pictured on the cover. Includes numerous features about and tributes to Armstrong, as well as an Armstrong discography. The front cover has been signed by Armstrong in green ink, as well as by the members of his current band: Earl "Fatha" Hines, Jack Teagarden, Arvell Shaw, Barney Bigard, Sleepy Grider, Cozy Cole and singer Velma Middleton. Additionally, one of Armstrong's chief rivals at the time, trumpeter Henry "Red" Allen, has also signed inside.

JAZZ NEWS

Revue mensuelle. Blue Star Revue (later: Nouvelles du Jazz).

Nos. 1-11 (all publ.). Paris, Noël 1948 - juin 1950. 8vo; original pictorial wrappers, kept in cloth-over-boards dark blue sliding box with title on the spine. In every issue the subscrription form and supplement-leafklet present.

EUR 1,000.00

French Jazz magazine, directed by Eddie Barclay till no. 8, after that by Boris Vian (who had been contributor till then, with varying alias-names). In no. 8 we find the following note by Barclay at the bottom of each page: "Le Directeur Général de Jazz-News décline toute responsabilité en ce qui concerne la teneur du présent numéro". Boris Vian stayed on as director till the end of publication. Features all great names in Jazz: Erroll Garner, Don Byas, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Sydney Bechett, Sarah Vaughan,Claude Abadie, Franck Bauer, Eddy Bernard, Andy Blackshick [Boris Vian], Rudy Blesh, François Bouleau, S. Culape [Boris Vian], Michel Delaroche [Boris Vian], Hubert Fol, Patrick Lebail, Gédéon Molle [Boris Vian], Carlos de Radzitzky, Hubert Rostaing, Remy Roussel, Raphaël Schecroun, Frank Ténot, Boris Vian, Michel de Villers, etc.

JOURN'HAL (Grande Halle de la Villette

Numbers 0, 1 & 2 (complete set, all published). Paris, Publications de la Grande Halle, janvier-juillet 1985, 37,8x26,1cm, 16p., 24p., 16p., in sheets

EUR 600.00

Directed by Gilles de Bure, published at the occasion of the transformation of the "Grande Halle de la Villette" into a cultural center (initiative of Jacques Lang) combining Jazz, Pop, and Contemporary Art next to each other. With the collaboration of Philippe Boggio, François Caviglioli, Bernard Chapuis, Pascal Dolémieux, Elizabeth Philipp, Yves Streith, Philippe Trétiak, Judith Vincent, Gad Weil, SIAP, Jean Charles Rosier, Eve Arnold, Magnum, Richard Kalvar, Sam Cambio, Robert Doisneau, Antoine Blondin, Jean Paul Kaufman, Goudeneiche, Olivier Boissière, Jean Didier Wolfromm, Marc Guillaumot, François Weyergans, Liberatore, Jean Pierre Leloir, Pierre Le tan, Marguerite Duras, Hans Silvester, Paul Azarides, Guy le Querrec, Blaise Ndjehoja, Henri Cartier Bresson, Alain Wais, Dominique Frétard, Marie Dominique Lelièvre, James Cliffson, Robert Giraud.

KULCHUR

Nos. 1-20 (all publ.). New York, 1960-Winter 1965/66. Unbd., in original pictorial wrappers. Lacking No. 17.

EUR 2,200.00

Ed. by Marc Schleifer, later by Lita Hornick & Le Roi Jones and Frank O'Hara. Very important Beat-generation periodical, commenting also on art, jazz, cinema, theater etc.; With photographs and illustrations in the text. Contributors include Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Paul Bowles, Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, Gary Snyder, Nicholas Calas, Michael McClure a.o.; covers with work by Arthur Freed, Franz Kline, Larry Rivers, Kenneth Eisler, Joe Brainard, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol (+ a picture portfolio from his film "The Kiss" in no13 and Disaster series in no 17), Al Held, Robert Indiana. No. 4 a photograph of William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac in Paris ca.1955. Ills. Bruce Connor, Andy Warthol, Larry Rivers, Franz KleinRauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Leroy McLucas, Stephen Solosy a.o. - Announcement Flyer Single sheet measuring 5 1/4 x 7 1/2" high. Flyer advertises a new magazine entitled KULCHUR A New Quarterly featuring criticism and articles by Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs et al plus poetry by Di Prima, Robert Nichols and Allen Ginsberg and drawings by Basil KIng. Undated, but from circa 1960. Fine condition. No. 13 (Andy Warhol from the movie Kiss) Ills. Bruce Connor, Anday Warthol, Larry Rivers, Franz Klein

YARDBIRD

Magazine (Zeitschrift für Jazz und Anderes. Hrsg. Galerie Seide)

YARDBIRD. Nos. 1-6. Hannover 1959-1961 (all under this title). In the original wrappers. Continued as: DER EGOIST. Nos. 7-17 (all publ.), Frankfurt, n.d. (1965?)-1970. In the original stiff wrappers. Continued as: DER NEUE EGOIST. Nos. 1-2 (all publ.). Frankfurt/Hannover, (n.d.,1975-1976). In gold-coloured orig. wrappers. All issues are complete with thir belonging graphic or art supplements. The whole set in good condition for this fragile publication. All ca. 32,5 x 23,5 cm.

EUR 1,500.00

Promotional publication of the Avant-Garde Galerie Seide. Published almost single-handedly by the Gallerist Seide himself, causing several anomalies in the numbering and pagination. We can offer a full set ,printed and produced under Seides supervision, mimeographed and printed in offset, at first in Hannover. After his move to Frankfurt the journal was produced in a larger, more commercial edition. The last issue published by Melzer Verlag, but immediately there after publication was discontinued. The first series (Yardbird) with orig. artwork on the covers and supplements (Zinklithografien) by Igael Tumarkin, Carl Buchheister, Günter Drehbusch, Helmut Scholz (loose in no. 4, signed), Raimund Girke (2 of 3 in no 5.) Arnulf Rainer (in no. 6, signed), Hermann Goepfert, Robert Michel. Thomas Bayrle, etc. Articles on contemporary art and artists, also on Jazz (Peter Kasten). The successor "Der Egoist" later "Neue Egoist" was printed in offset, and bound in white stiff card wrappers with an illustration - No. 7. 1965. 44 pp, in typographic wrappers. incl.several illustrated pages. With signed lithography (56/200) by Raimund Girke. Contribs. By Werner Schreib, HJ Precht, Peter Iden, J.A.Thwaites, etc. - No. 8. n.d. (1966). 32 + XX pages, in illustrated stiff wrappers. With graphic supplement by Ygael Tumarkin also monograph 8 on Tumarkin - No. 9 , 1966. 22 + XX pages. With graphic supplement by Hermann Goepfert (by Produktionsgruppe X Nummer 23/500 der I. Auflage, signed and with stamp on verso). - No. 10. n.d. (1967). 50 page in illustrated stiff wrappers. With montage by Robert Michel & Ella Bergmann. Egozentrisches Manifest by Timm Ulrichs. - - No. 11. März 1967. 3.Jahrgang Heft 1. With a serigraphy by Jef Verheyen - No. 12. September 1967. 3.Jahrgang Heft 2. Hommage à Albert Schulze Vellinghausen. With orig.serigraphy by Raimund Girke - No.13. Nov. 1967. Hommage à Lucio Fontana. Hrsg. Adam Seide. 7 pages in stiff boards. "Weiße Manifest" von L. Fontana with portrait; Contributions by Heinz Mack, Herman Goepfert, Wieland Schmied, Kurt Leonhard, Otto Piene, - No. 14. 1968 (1.Quartal, 4.Jahrgang, should be 9 th year). 46 pages in illustrated card wrappers. With Graphic supplement by Christian Megert. Devoted to art in Switzerland. Contribs.: J.A.Thwaites,Tuli Kupferberg, Peter Handke.Willoughby Sharp, etc. - No. 15.1968 (2.Quartal 1968). 50 pages in illustrated card wrappers. With Lithography by Herman de Vries. Issue devoted to Art in The Netherlands, contr.many important dutch authors in translation, Provo documentation, etc - No. 16. (1.Heft 10.Jahrgang). 30 pages in illustrated card wrappers. Mostly dedicated to Thomas Bayrle. With Lithography by Bayrle. - No. 17. (Heft 1/1970,11.Jahgang). 64 pages in illustrated card wrappers. Mostly dedicated to Werner Schreib complete with the lithograph loosely laid in. The first commercially published issue (by Melzer Verlag), at the same time the last till continuation as - Neue Egoist No. 1 with signed lithograph by Leiv Warren Donnan - Neue Egoist No. 2 with signed lithograph by Thomas Bayrle.