holbrook teter (8 Ergebnisse)

Early work from the legendary California press. Alastair Johnson writes in ZEPHYRUS IMAGE: A Bibliography that this early work was "probably the second from the press." This particular state is a "reissue" of the first state, but which was "probably left over from the first issue," as the text header is still intact (the linocut was later repurposed for another broadside reading "Detonate Sutro Tower." [Johnson 184]. Broadside, 8.75" by 6.5" approx. Near fine. Bottom-right corner shows hint of foxing and trivial touch of wear. Else clean, sharp.

Zustand: Good. Folio. 8 pp., Unbound Wraps, Good with staining and edge wear, faint creasing. Illustrated. Magazine published from Dick's Bar in San Francisco's Casto/Mission neighborhood. Scarce example of SF underground publishing. A mixture of short stories and comic strips about bars and eating.

First edition. Folio. [10 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. A unique endangered plant or animal assigned to each U.S. Senator, to whom a copy was mailed. See Johnston P. 175. "The Junior Senator from Michigan, the Honorable Robert P. Griffin, totem protector for the LIGHTNING BUG." Early activism by the Zephyrus Image crew.

Zustand: Good. Broadside. 11" x 17" Oblong. Letterpress On Laid Paper With Deckled Edges, Decorative Blue Octopus Illustration (Myers' linocut Variant B), Text Printed in Black Ink. Watermark: T H Saunders. Zephrus Image: A Bibliography by Alastair Johnston, p. 198 (reproduced). Very Good. First Edition.

Zustand: Good. Broadside. 11" x 17" Oblong. Letterpress On Laid Paper With Deckled Edges, Decorative Red-Orange Octopus Illustration (Myers' linocut, Zephrus Image Variant A), Text Printed in Black Ink. Zephrus Image: A Bibliography by Alastair Johnston, p. 198 (reproduced). Very Good. First Edition.

Zustand: Very good. First Edition. First state of this scarce broadside printed by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers's Zephyrus Press, which famously graced telephone poles around Berkeley. An early work from Zephyrus Image. OCLC locates at most three holdings. An iconic work by this influential West Coast artists' press. 12" x 6" approximately. Broadside. Linocut in green on newsprint. Single fold at bottom edge not effecting image. Moderately toned, as common. Mild wear.

Original flipbook. 11.25 x 10.2 cm., titlepage, 12ll. of illustrations printed in black on rectos, colophon, stab stapled into the original stiff brown paper boards, titles in gilt, red faux ribbon bookmark, on Kraft or hemp paper. Healdsburg, Hermes Free Press [Zephyrus Image], Copyright 1977. Lower board with a faint water stain, contents fine and unflipped. In Johnston p-208 (illustrated) who collates for blue Tweedweave wrappers only. Commercially one of the scarcest and most sought after of Zephyrus Image ephemera. Provenance: from Holbrook Teter's archive with the old Maggs pencil stock number in back. The cover title is Dade County Bible , referring to '.Anita Bryant ? the former Miss America and spokesperson for Florida's frozen juice industry [who was] also the vocal leader of an infamous anti-gay campaign in Dade County, Florida' (p-128 Stephen Vincent in Johnstone). The flipbook starts with a small black cross that, when flipped, trans- forms into a swastika. Teter used a form of situationist style street theatre to distribute them in the Haight, vending them from an ice-cream or cigarette girl's tray in the Castro, bastion of gay civil rights, even selling two to Harvey Milk for 50¢ apiece (p-130 ibid). 134642.

Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Printed by Holbrook Teter, Michael Myers' iconic FORD marked the beginning of their collaboration and was the first item issued from Zephyrus Image. Alastair Johnston, in his ZEPHRYUS IMAGE: A Bibliography, describes how Myers arrived at Teter's print shop with "a linoleum block depicting a Hippie Jesus in front of car radiators brandishing a crucifix wrench. Teter knew at once he wanted to work with Myers. They printed broadsides with the block [.] and Teter drove Myers back to Berkeley where they pasted them on the walls of the City dump [.] This appraoch would signal the future for Zephyrus Image" (21). Scarce; OCLC locates just three holdings (Yale, University of Chicago, and SUNY Buffalo). A auspcious debut to this influencial West Coast artists' press. [Johnson 184]. Broadside. 13" x 7.25" approx. Linocut printed in blue ink on newsprint. Moderately toned, as common. Mild wear. Very good overall.