A bookshop and small press in Langlois, Oregon. Open all night at https://teapawt.net/t.co/i7z3O5aqcW. Member ABAA, ILAB.
Langlois, OR
Joined April 2010
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DL is glad to announce the publication of Nate Orton's The Passenger, now available at the DL website and better motel rooms. Risograph printed in blue and gold by Kate Davis from the original drawings, which were made in parking lots and rearranged with packing tape.
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Unicorn tattoo. From Salvador Ottolenghi and Ugo Rossi's rare 1894 pamphlet on the tattoos of convicts in Siena.
A handmade book of pressed seaweed and snapshots documenting the family tree of a family of Azorean immigrants to California around the turn of the last century. I love the way it joins natural and family history.
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Map to get to Disarmament City, the occupation campsite set up in Central Park as part of the June 1982 anti-nuclear protests in New York City.
#radicalcartography
Throughly enjoying cataloguing these three unique, handmade fanzines made by 2 brothers in Huntington Park, California in 1962, documenting their obsessions with comics, book hunting and stamp collecting.
Program for a 1949 performance by John Cage & Merce Cunninham at Reed College in Portland, Oregon (my alma mater).
Tempting to wonder who might have been in the audience, as Lew Welch, Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen all were attending Reed at the time. #reedcollege
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Yayoi Kusama.
From the rare 1977 limited edition book Shigashu Nana 7, a collaboration with the poet Masataka Sekoh and artist Masatoshi Tamaki. #yayoikusama
An archival mystery, part 1.
Years ago in rural Pennsylvania we found an album of about 100 photographs that seem to document a circle of artists & writers in Greenwich Village and other locations, most of which seem to be from the 1930's.
The Cut Up Cut-Up.
A battered copy of first edition of Minutes to Go, signed by both Burroughs and Gysin, in which the text REACTIVE AGENT TAPE CUT BY LEE THE AGENT IN INTERZONE has been cut-up in blue ball point ink.
#williamsburroughs
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When Tehching Hsieh published his own wanted poster.
From the Illegal America catalog, curated by Jeannette Ingberman and Papo Colo, and published by Exit Art.
New York, 1982.
"Their political maneuvering has falsified art history."
From Museum Politics, a text by Yayoi Kusama attacking Geldzahler, Hoving, & the 'New York Painting & Sculpture 1940-70' show at the @metmuseum. Published in the rare 3rd issue of Corpus.
New York, 1970.
My dreams of conquering earth are...ended...
Postcard from the Situationist International to Tjeerd Deelstra, sent from the Rue St. Denis post office in Paris on September 27, 1962.
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A first edition of Yves Klein's 1955 book Les Fondements du Judo, warmly inscribed to the occultist Jean Haab in the year following publication.
#yvesklein #occult #judo
Division Leap is glad to announce the publication of Black Mirror, a zine about a collection of anonymous paintings found before the pandemic. Available now divisionleap.com.
A broadside which prints the account of a visionary dream, in which the anonymous narrator is led by an angel up a ladder atop the State House in Philadelphia to see the streets full of black wagons, and the graves of all the churches open. Printed by Saur in Germantown, 1768.
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This copy of the rare broadside is accompanied by a manuscript translation by the folk artist and fraktur specialist Isaac Clarence Kulp, Jr, with a note in which he states his belief that this was a prophecy of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. #pandemic #philadelphia
Tales of the Wild and Wonderful. First edition of this collection of gothic tales written by gender nonconforming writer Walter Sholto Douglas, born Mary Diana Dods. Douglas was a close friend of Mary Shelley, who helped him get a passport in the Douglas name.
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Portable testing laboratory made by the Dutch radical ecological artists' group Insektensekte and used in a 1971 performance at the opening of a Daniel Spoerri exhibition at the Stedelijk.
From our upcoming catalog devoted to the history of environmental movements.
For more on the Insektensekte, there is a very good overview of the group as part of the @Stedelijk Magic Center exhibition page.
stedelijk.nl/en/digdeeper/in…
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