Artist's Books & Ephemera: Collection of Philip von Zweck, Chicago, IL, USA

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This list includes all of the artist’s books, mail art, artist’s analog audio recordings and related ephemera in the collection of Philip von Zweck as of October 2007.

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Author / Title / Publisher / Year / Notes

Ali, Laylah - no title [MoMA booklet] / Museum of Modern Art / booklet made for exhibition at MoMA, no text just images
Anderson, Harry - Objects as seen, collected and relocated by Harry Anderson / Collection Center 1977
Anderson, Simon - Silent PM / self published 1993 / edition of 50
Anhedonia, Annie (Minoy) - That witch does not kill you, Only Leaves you Laughing 1993 / mail art in envelope
Art Metropole - Catalog 1999 / Catalog
Baechler, Donald - Wasted Time & Money / Ajax 1989
Baechler, Donald - A Life Without Pocket Change / Ajax 1990
Bennet, John M. - Paraliza / Luna Bisonte Prods 1975 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Eggs of Ka / Luna Bisonte Prods 1977 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Meat Receiving / Luna Bisonte Prods 1977 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Contents / Luna Bisonte Prods 1978 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Time Release / Luna Bisonte Prods 1978 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - [loose sheet] / Luna Bisonte Prods 1980 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - [loose sheet, lime green] 1985 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Cup of Spit 1985 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Closet the Skirting / Luna Bisonte Prods 1987 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Mantric Lease / Luna Bisonte Prods 1990 / postcard, in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Teet V. 25, no II / Wetting the Bed Press 1990 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Tempid / Luna Bisonte Prods 1990 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Utter Utter / Luna Bisonte Prods 1990 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - [Mar 3, 1991] 1991 single sheet / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Fenestration / Luna Bisonte Prods 1991 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Leap Luna Bisonte Prods 1991 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - [16 X 11] 1992 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - [1992] 1992 / single sheet, in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Leg / Luna Bisonte Prods 1992 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - (File folder) John M. Bennet 1993 / file folder compiled by John M Bennet sent to Karen Indeck, contains many publications and prints and note from Bennet to Indeck
Bennet, John M. - Networker Issue / Artistamp Museum of Artpool 1992/93 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Resume circa 1993 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Collect U.S. Commemoratives / Luna Bisonte Prods no date / collection of objects in envelope, in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Utter Mert / Luna Bisonte Prods / single sheet in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. - Word of the Voicekkea Voice / the Institute for Better Living Through Creative Theology
Bennet, John M. & Bruce Andrews - Joint Words / Luna Bisonte Prods 1979 / cards in envelope, in Bennet Folder
Bennet, John M. & Robin Crozier - Fake Fried Egg / Luna Bisonte Prods 1992 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. & Robin Crozier - Prix Dor / Luna Bisonte Prods 1993 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. & Susan Smith - Outliers of Extinction / Luna Bisonte Prods 1992 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. & Susan Smith Nash - Toxin / Luna Bisonte Prods 1992 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. & Susan Smith Nash - Burn Scorpionic / Luna Bisonte Prods 1993 / in Bennet folder
Bennet, John M. (presumed) - [loose sheet, stamps] / in Bennet folder
Big City Orchestra - Myth Makers / Nihilistic / Cassette
Boltanski, Christian - OST / Gina Kehayoff 1998
Breakwell, Ian - Free Range / Victoria and Albert Museum 1992
Brecht, George - Chance- Imagery / Great Bear Pamphlets 1966
Bronson, AA & Matthias Merrmann - Little Cockroach Press 2000
Brus, Nitsch, Roth, Ruhm & Weiner - Munchner Concert Mai 1974 / HJ Mayer / 3 lps in box
Buzzsaw and the Shavings - The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus / Shrimper 1998 / Cassette with note
Buzzsaw and the Shavings - Plato's Tavern / Unread Records 2000 / Cassette in handmade packaging
Buzzsaw and the Shavings - The Bravo Finger / Unread Records 2001 / Cassette
Capala - Theory: 140 Statements / Kontexts 1979
Chopin, Henri - Typewriter poems / Edition Hundertmark 1982
Christopher & CJ Mitchell, Karen - no title
Cluett, Seth - self published 2002 / handmade paper with watercolor ? 1/3
Cook, Alex V. - Stills 1993 / Cassette in handmade packaging
Cook, Alex V. - Napkin with sweat from my brow, created on Dec 30, 1999- the last workday of the 20th century and the milenium 1999 / Microsoft napkin in paper cd sleeve with text and sweat
Cook, Alex V. - Self-Guided Walking Tour / self published 1999 / objects in tin
Cook, Alex V.A - Year of Fortune / self published 2001 / fortune cookie fortnes in plastic bottle with label, inscribed "for Philip, Happy New Year"
Cook, Alex V. - Drain Sculpture Activity Kit / self published 2001 printout of instructions
Cook, Alex V. - by Alex V. Cook / self published no date / "This card is void" card in zip top bag with sticker
Cook, Alex V. - Key Found at the Bottom if a Jar if Change no date / Key in tin with sticker
Cook, Alex V. - Two allen wrenches found in different parking lots on the same day / self published no date / in metal tin with label
Cook, Alex V. - You Are Beautiful / self published no date / envelope, sealed, with text- inscribed "for Philip Von Zweck" on reverse
Cook, Greg - Special Ted Superstar / Greg Cook 1995
Cook, Greg - Penelope Turtle's Stories for Slow Readers / Oatmeal Press 1996
Cook, Greg - Pink the Hippo Story; What I did when I lost my Job / Greg Cook 1996
Cook, Greg - China Guy / Greg Cook 1999
Corner, Philip - Popular Entertainments / Great Bear Pamphlets 1967
Corner, Philip - The Identical Lunch / Nova Broadcast Press 1973
de Ridder, Willem - NYX Global / NYX Global 1990's / Padded envelope from de Ridder containing NYX Global booklet and DAT of NYX radio programs
de Ridder, Willem and Crawl Unit - Voice & Sound / Povertech 7" vinyl
Deda, Marya - Punch Buggy / Punch Buggy 1996? Zine
Design by Troubles - a book about breaking up / Little Cockroach Press
Destroy All Monsters - Grow Live Monsters / Time Stereo 1996 Cassette in box with booklets and objects
Dick, William Brisbane - Dick's 100 Amusements / Joyous Harper 1967 / some markings
Dunn, Lloyd - The Irregular, a Recombinant Xeroessay / Xerox Sutra 1985
Elggren & Thomas Liljenberg, Leif - Experiment with Dreams / Firework Editions 1996
Elggren, Leif - Genealogy / Firework Editions 2005 with inscription
Fern, Kim - Women's Her-story / self published 1995
Fiat Lux - number 3 / Fiat Lux 1995? / Zine
Fin-de-Siecle - mailorder catalog Vol 2 / Fin-de-Diecle 1995 Zine catalog
Fischer, Marc - The Ancient Order and the Mysterious Missives in Chicago / Brett Bloom and N55 1999
Fischer, Marc & Nance Khlem - STASH / Lawton Gallery 2006
Fletcher, Harrell - The American War / The J & L Library 2006
Flores, Carolyn - self published 2004? / paper hearts in envelope
free103point9 - Tune (In) Free103point9 2003 / instructions from event
Friedman, Ed - The Telephone Book / Power Mad Press 1979
Froley, Diana - Babysitter number 2 / Babysitter 1996
Frost, Corey - Simultaneous Brazil / Conundrum Press 2002
Gleason, Dan - Thank you debilitating Loneliness! / self published
Gleason, Dan - The Gospel according to Dan Gleason / self published
Goat Island - It's an earthquake in my heart 2001
Green Lantern - The Archive Vol 2 No 3 / Green Lantern 2006
Green Lantern - The Archive Vol 2, No 4 / Green Lantern 2007
Grennan, Simon & Chris Sperandio - Art School Superstars / Fantagraphics 1998 / with odd heavy plastic cover
Grennan, Simon & Chris Sperandio - The Invisible City / Fantagraphics 1999 / with odd heavy plastic cover
Gutman, Walter - The Gutman Letters / Something Else 1969
Haacke, Hans - The Chocolate Master / Art Metropole 1982
Hafler Trio, The - Plucking Feathers from a Bald Frog / Psychick Release Production 1991
Hannum, Terrance - The Future Belongs to Ghosts Issue 7 2006
Hansen, Al - A Primer of Happenings & Time/Space Art / Something Else 1965 / Hardcover, no dust jacket
Hardesty, Joe - "From the desk of Joseph Hardesty" mail art 2007 / mail art
Hendricks, Geoffrey - Between Two Points / Edizioni Pari & Dispari 1975
Hendricks, Geoffrey - La Capra Edizioni / Morra & Printed Editions 1979
Higgins, Dick - A book about love & war & death / Something Else 1972
Higgins, Dick - The Ladder to the Moon / Unpublished Editions 1973 / 2 Copies
Higgins, Dick - Some recent snowflakes / Printed Editions 1979
Higgins, Dick - A Dick Higgins Sampler / The Last Great Bear Pamphlets 2000
Johnson & Blake Edwards, Sherman - Naked Passion Jogs with the Disco Espionage Gang / CIP 1997
Jupiter-Larson, G.X. - Final / self published 1988
Jupiter-Larson, G.X. - 34 Essays ND 1991
Kelly [Reycamp], - I Love My Vibrator / self published 1994 / artist's proof, artist’s lastname does not appear in comic
Knowles, Alison - by Alison Knowles / Great Bear Pamphlets 1965
Knowles, Alison - Journal of the Identical Lunch / Nova Broadcast Press 1971
Knowles, Alison - Natural Assemblages and the True Crow / Printed Editions 1980
Koh, Germaine - Freezer / Little Cockroach Press 2000
Kostelanetz, Richard - Constructs Two / Membrane Press 1978
Learning Group - [Collecting Systems] / WhiteWalls
Lebofsky, Eric - Things to do in an Ice Age 2005 / number 2/ 50
Little City - The New Little Little City
Luna Bisonte Prods - Catalog No 18 / Luna Bisonte Prods 1993 in Bennet folder
Marclay, Christian - Record Without A Cover / Recycled Records 1985 / one Sided LP
McGaffey, Brennan - USG&T / Lampo 2004 / envelope, still sealed
McGee, Hal - HALzine issue 2 HalTapes 1997 / hometaper zine
Miller, Dutes & Stan Shellabarger - [Silhouettes 1] / House of Cream 2007
Miller, Dutes & Stan Shellabarger - [Silhouettes 2] / House of Cream 2007
Minoy - Busy Signals / Minoyhaus 1986 / Cassette, missing cover
Minoy - Easier done than Said / Minoy Cassetteworks 1991 / Cassette
Minoy - packet 1992 mail art, contains summer 1992 issue of Blammoroots
Minoy - Cock Fighters of Guam Rule!!! 1993 / mail art in envelope
Minoy - Madness and Civilization 1993 / Cassette
Mirra, Helen - Names & Poems / WhiteWalls 1999 / 261/500
Mirra, Helen - Along Below / self published 10 inch record
Monk Mink Pink Punk (Josh Ronson) - #10 Mail Art-- Know the dangers Monk Mink Pink Punk 2006
Montano, Linda - The Wisdom of Mataji & Bapuji / Little Cockroach Press 2000
Nips, Nick L - Driver Training / Luna Bisonte Prods 1976 / in Bennet folder
Nomy - I'm so fucking beautiful #2 1/2 / self published mid 90's
Nudd, Paul - Kluster Crust / Soggy Donkey 2007 / 42/100
Nudd, Paul - Swamp Jam / self published 2007 / 2 copies; A.P. & 73/83
Nudd, Paul - untitled / self published 2007 / handout of copies of collaborative drawings made with Patrick Welch from lecture at VONZWECK
Nudd, Paul - untitled book covers / self published 2007 / handout of illustrattions of book covers from lecture at VONZWECK
Ono, Yoko - Grapefruit / Simon and Schuster 1971 / fourth touchstone printing
Owen, Thompson - Pocket Guide to Theory / The Cherry Corporation 1994
Pain Clinic & Regicide Bureau - Blue House, Pink House / self published no date / Cassette Pain Clinic = Alex V Cook
Pain Clinic & Regicide Bureau - Sing a song of Sutures / self published no date (1992?) / Cassette, 2 copies
Parker Owens, Ashley - Global Mail Issue 4 / Global Mail 1993 / mail art listings
Patterson, Simon - Rex Reason / Book Works 1994
Pawbone Kisser (Minoy) - packet of color copies 1993 / mail art in envelope
Petroff, Alexis - Photographs, Collages and Paintings / Temporary Services 2005
Phillips, Tom - Words and Music / HJ Mayer 1975 / LP
Picard, Caroline - Dead Man / Green Lantern 2006
Picard, Caroline - The Saint of Chicago / Green Lantern 2006 / packet of dirt from behind Green Lantern, number 10/15
Porter, Bern - Waste Maker / Abyss 1972
Porter, Bern - Run-On / Maine Coast 1975
Porter, Bern - Aspects of Modern Poetry / live radio by Audio Muzixa Qet 1990 / Cassette
Porter, Bern - Found Sounds / Audio Muzixa Qet 1990 / Cassette
Porter, Bern - My, my dear me / Xeroxial Editions 1990
Porter, Bern - Williamson Street Blues / Audio Muzixa Qet 1990 / Cassette
Porter, Bern - Sounds that Arouse me / Tilbury House 1993
Porter, Bern - Catalog / self published 1999 / in hand addressed envelope
Porter, Bern - Where to go/What to do/ When in New York/ Week of June 17, 1972 / self published?
Printed Matter - Catalog 1997
Roden, Steve - I Speak through a hole in my head / New Plastic Media 2000 / special edition with drawing
Ronni - I'm not a feminist but… / Ronni no date / two 8 1/2 X 11 pages stapled
Rosenberg, Marilyn - Unit of Measure / self published 1977 / book in envelope
Roth, Ruhm & Wiener - 3. Berliner Dicterworkshop / HJ Mayer 1973 / LP
Roth, Ruhm & Wiener - November Symphony / Edition HJ Mayer double lp gatefold and 7" Vinyl in oversized packaging, Signed
Rothfus, Rebecca - not quite seven inches / self published 1998 / 119/200
Rothfus, Rebecca - still not seven inches / self published 1998 / 82/250
Scanlan, Joe - DIY / Imschoot 2002
Snow, Michael - Cover to Cover / Nova Scotia Series
Sonic Youth - Letter from NYC / Little Cockroach Press 2000
Spear, Duston - Delivered / Sara Tecchia Roma 2007
Spector, Buzz - Double Readings / The Press of Events 1987
Stratman, Deborah - Power Exchange
Subspace - Subspace International Zine Show - Subspace 1993 / catalog from Zine show at Subspace in Iowa City
Subway Sissy Distrobution - Catalog #3 no date probably mid 90's / Zine catalog
Syers, Rob - Your dicks to short to fuck with god / Skin Graft 1994
Syers, Rob - Detention Comix #1 / Detention Comix #1 1998
Tape-beatles, The - A subtle boyance of Pulse / Plagiarism 1989 / Cassette
Tape-beatles, The - Retrofuturism # 13 / Drawing Legion 1990
Tegeder, Dannielle - The Index for the Invisable / Body Builder and Sportsman 2007
Temporary Services - Public Projects / Temporary Services 2002
Temporary Services - Framing the Artists / Temporary Services 2005
Temporary Services - Product Placements / Temporary Services 2005 / 2 Copies
Temporary Services - Public Phenomena / Temporary Services 2005
Temporary Services - Motherfuckers / Temporary Services 2006
Temporary Services - The first 71 booklets / Temporary Services 2006
Temporary Services - Three Bibliographies / Temporary Services 2006
Temporary Services - Do-It-Yourself Interview / Temporary Services 2007
Temporary Services & Angelo - Prisoners’ Inventions / WhiteWalls 2003
Temporary Services & Angelo - Prisoners’ Inventions / Temporary Services 2005
Temporary Services & Columbia College Students - 11 People 16 Spaces / How to Guerilla Art / Temporary Services 2006
The, Robert - [no title] / self published no date [before 2002] / hardback book cut into the shape of a handgun
Uphues, Christopher - Lil' Goddess / self published no date / in envelope with e-mail address hand written on it
VA: - Worm 1993? / Zine Edited by Peter Redgrave
VA: - Typewriter Poems / Something Else 1972 edited by Peter Finch
VA: - Antologia Polipoetica / STI 1982 Cassette with book
VA: - Smile #3, Snarl snarl 1988
VA: - Blammoroots #22 Heidi Ferguson 1992 / in package from Minoy
VA: - Netshaker Vol 2 Issue 1 / Netshaker 1993 / mail art zine
VA: - Punk in my vitamins Volume 2 / Punk in my Vitamins 1993 / Zine, comic, brown stain/ageing?
VA: - Skin Graft Issue 2 / Iconografix 1993 / Mark Fischer, Rob Syers, Paul Nitschie, Jeff Bentley
VA: - Day 17 Issue 1 / self published 1994 / edited by Courtney Sears, cover is handwritten note
VA: - College Biker #1 / Concrete Owl 1995 / Zine published by Marlon Magus
VA: - Toys / Errant Bodies 1998 / Ed by Brandon Labelle
VA: - Scrap of Paper Number 9 / Side-Show News & Co 2003 / Zine about/by the Haters and G.X. Jupiter-Larson
VA: - Blammoroots / Heidi Ferguson 1993? / contains Minoy, Alex Cook, etc, in padded envelop, cancelled stamps from Minoy to Heidi Ferguson
VA: - The Future of S.G. Products / SG Research ? 1995? / Comic/ Zine published by the Scissor Girls, features Zeek Sheck, Elliot Dicks, Fletcher the Letcher, etc
VA: - Smile # 6, Snicker / schiz-flux? late 80's
VA: - Smile #4, Smirk / schiz-flux? late 80's
VA: - Sit your ass down. / self published late 90's / Callie Janoff, Dan Janoff, Portia Hein and Anthony Munoz- inscribed "For Philip [heart] XO"
VA: - Bumpidee Times 3 / Bumpidee 1995 / Zine by Tobi Vail
VA: - Oatmeal Journal #1 / Oatmeal Journal 1995 Jason Bell & Mike McCarty, Kari Percival, Rob Syers, Gergory Cook, Cade Roster
VA: - Oatmeal Journal #2 / Oatmeal Press 1995
VA: - Oatmeal Journal #3 / Oatmeal Press 1995
VA: - autoReverse issue #2 / autoReverse 1996 / cassette culture magazine
VA: - Oatmeal Journal #4 / Oatmeal Press 1996
VA: - Smile # 5, Smut / schizographic Becummings
VA: - Tellus #5 & 6 / Tellus 1984? / Cassette featuring: Richard Prince, Michael Smith, Rhys Chatham, etc
VA: - You Are Here Wormworks 1992 / Edited by Peter Redgrave
Vautier, Ben - I am for a pluri-ethnical art world / Emily Harvey Gallery 1991
Vertonen - Complementary Texts / CIP 1999
Von Hausswolf, Carl Michael - Red Empty (Chicago 2003) / WhiteWalls
Wang, Dan S - Downtime at the Experimental Station / Temporary Services 2004 / 2 Copies
Wanzel, John - D+/- d workbook / stopgostop 2001
Weiss, David - Up and down town / Edition Stahli 1975
Wiener & Roth - Selten gehorte Musik / HJ Mayer 1977 / LP
Williams, Emmett - A Valentine for Noel / Editions Hansjorg Mayer 1973
Wolf, Mike - Virgin Migrations / self published 2006