Abracadabra #3

Abracadabra was an international magazine of poetry and arts that ran for 5 issues from 1977 to 1981. Editor-in-chief of the short-lived magazine was Marcello Angioni (1939), a Sardinian who had moved to Luxembourg and from there published Abracadabra with co-editors poet, artist and Swiss-Italian architect Franco Beltrametti (1937-1995) and Dutch photographer Harry Hoogstraten (1941). The magazine brought together a choice of American and European poets and artists, combining English and Italian poems and texts…

€ 15.00

Finis (Collected Tailpieces)

Tailpieces are decorative elements used in printing to mark the end of a text or chapter. In the elegant hand made edition Finis Sea Urchin compiles 30 tailpieces that were done in the 19th and 20th centuries by various artists, ranging from Thomas Bewick to Alfred Kubin and George Grosz. The tailpieces have been printed single…

Stroker #19

Stroker was a magazine of literature and arts that ran from 1974 to 1994. It was published from New York – and later from Nagano, Japan – by American artist and author Irving Stettner (1922-2004). Stettner, a friend of Henry Miller’s, lived many years as an ex-pat in France, Morocco, Japan and other countries. Apart from Henry Miller, who contributed to Stroker during the last two-and-a-half years of his life, leading authors such as…

August Stramm – Early Spring

August Stramm (1874-1915) was born in Münster and educated in Aachen, Germany. After he had graduated from grammar school, Stramm held various positions in the German Postdienst and regularly travelled between Germany and the USA after having been promoted to a position in the Seepostdienst in 1897. Stramm married journalist Else Krafft in 1902 and moved to Berlin three years later. In the German capital…

Ed van der Elsken – Bagara

Ed van der Elsken (1925-1990) was born in Amsterdam, where he was trained as a stonecutter and sculptor until 1944. Inspired by the photojournalistic Picture Post and Weegee’s Naked City he shifted his interest from sculpting to photography in the late 1940s. When he tried his luck Paris in 1950, he took up a job…

€ 75.00