Assembling: A Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts.
Richard Kostelanetz & Henry Korn (Compiled by)
Brooklyn: Gnilbmessa inc. 1970.
Staple-bound softcover.
160 pages.
Near fine,
but for faint toning to edges of covers.
Unobtrusive minor edgewear
back top right & two tiny sections
of soiling to back cover.
An exceptional copy of this scarce artists’ publication.
The first iteration of this legendary assembling periodical.
42 artists submitted 1,000 copies
of up to 4 pages of self-printed
material, to be collated
in the publication.
With contributions by Ed Ruscha: a chocolate stain
that seems to have been applied a bit messily as well as Hannah Weiner, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci, Bernadette Mayer, Robert Lax, Arakawa, Madeline Gins, Richard Meltzer, Alan Sondheim, etc.
