Assembling [together with] Second Assembling. A Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts.

The first two issues of Assembling, a legendary avant-garde magazine of "the unpublished and the unpublishable", each one of only 1,000 copies. Contributors were invited to submit up to four pages of whatever they wanted to include in an attempt to give a truly open forum to avant-garde writing. These two issues include work by, among many others, Vito Acconci, Hannah Weiner, Dan Graham, Tom Ahern, Arakawa, Lee Baxandall, Regina Cohen, and Richard Meltzer. They were asked to submit 1,000 copies of any work. Submissions included original writing, word art, illustrations, folded and stapled clippings, a few original pen and paint contributions and, most notably, Edward Ruscha's smudge of chocolate in Second Assembling, a gesture to his 1970 contribution to the Venice Biennale, "Chocolate Room". Thirteen issues of Assembling were published between 1970 and 1982. 2 vols, quarto. Original white wrappers printed in black and blue, Assembling wire-stitched as issued. Loosely inserted into Assembling is single-sheet typed letter inviting the recipient, Tjeerd Deelstra, to contribute to Seventh Assembling. Edges a little creased and rubbed, wrappers of Assembling slightly toned with a few faint marks, Second Assembling bumped at spine ends; letter creased where folded thrice, trivial chips and toning: in very good condition.…