Zephyrus Image (43 results)

Condition: Very good . First Edition. First printing, review copy, of this collection of verse by Blazek, with handsome cover art designed by Michael Myers of the Zephyrus Image press. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound printed wraps. Very good plus. Review copy with slip laid in. Light soiling to covers. Interior bright, clean throughou…

6 5/8 x 8 3/4" broadside, printed on white paper stock. One of the earliest broadsides of the press, here with the spelling "Zephyrous" at foot of image. Illustrated with a potent montage of a fist among guns, molotov cocktails, and dynamite based on a linocut my Michael Myers. This is the fourth issue of the broadside, a a late…

First edition. Approximately 3 3/4 x 9, printed in black on white crack-n-peel. Roughly cut, as issued, some minor toning and light creasing; very good. An inventive multiple as bumper sticker made by the press during the Geary Boulevard years in San Francisco. The text is printed in reverse. The sticker is intended to be placed…

6 1/2 x 4 1/2 ", broadside on red crack and peel paper with backing still intact. Peter Howard, in the Serendipity Books catalog of the Holbrook Teter archive (no. 43), suggests that this was directed at the Republican culture of fear, and that "one can readily imagine a slap of the hand at the bulkhead upon entering or leaving…

5 1/2 x 7" broadside, linocut and zinc block print on fluorescent crack-n-peel sticker backing. Illustrated with a found zinc block print of a photograph of S. I. Hayakawa and Mickey Mouse, who is here identified in the caption as Ed Davis, who was the chief of police in Los Angeles during the race riots of the 60's. One of two…

These are two leaves from this final book of the press: the title leaf and the Dinner Menu. Measurements are 7 x 10 & 7/8 inches. Fine condition. The book was comprised of 4 leaves, and was issued in a plastic wood-grain binder like you would get in a greasy spoon; we offer here just the two leaves, an incomplete copy. Text is c…

First edition. 8 x 11" broadside, letterpress and linocut on newsprint. One of the earliest broadsides from the press, illustrated with a distinctive linocut of before and after pictures of an arm and track marks. One of the most striking and ephemeral productions of the press, the image was also utilized in a 1972 issue of Open…

A poster measuring 13 x 17.5 inches, printed in black & green, on white stock. Imprint is: Zephyrus Image S.F. The border, printed in green, has stylized cannabis leaves at the corners. Some chipping to the upper right margin, with a bit of loss, basically fine otherwise. Johnston: Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography, pg. 186, descri…

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…

Condition: Very Good. [Zephyrus Image]. Do It To Hawaii Larry. Healdsburg, Cali.: [Zephyrus Image], [ca. 1976]. First edition. 4 x 15" bumper sticker. Printed in purple on orange crack-and-peel bumper sticker. Part of a succesful propaganda campaign led by ZI against developer Larry Wilson, who was attempting to develop Healdsbu…

6 x 6 1/2" sheet of wood veneer, letterpress and linocut. An unfolded, unassembled copy. Some minor toning else fine. According to Johnston, the final work of the press, which prints a fold-out schema to cut and create a "snack-pack" box of earwigs - perhaps a satire of the then ascendant haute cuisine movement. The Zephyrus Ima…

First edition. 8" square broadside, linocut on white paper. Pictographic sequence predicting the environmental degradation of the region of Warm Springs and the Russian River. Designed to be folded into a "cootie catcher," a children's game used to predict the future [Johnston, p. 218]. This copy unfolded and unassembled. Near f…

First edition. [28 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers with ribbon place marker bound-in. One of the most provocative works by Holbrook Teter and Michael Meyers, a flip book that transforms the Christian cross into a Nazi swastika. The title page reads in full, "The Holy Bible / containing / The Same Old Thing / transla…

First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with light sunning along the spine. "Written, illustrated, and printed by Michael Myers." One of 60 numbered copies on Nideggen paper. Printed with the assistance of Walter S. Hamady. Poems, fully-illustrated with Myers' instantly recognizable l…

First edition. 8 1/2 x 11" letterpress broadside. Typographic anthropomorphization rendering type as a tennis match. A response to a call to work made by British poet Tom Raworth and heeded by Holsbrook Teter. "By the Oaf of the Tennis Court," probably adds a slight jab at John Ashbery [Johnston pp. 217-218]. Single faint crease…

Condition: Near Fine. [San Francisco]: [Zephyrus Image / Hermes Free Press], [ca. 1974]. Original linocut flyer (14.5x38.5cm) printed on white stock. Previous vertical fold, else Fine. Iconic Impeach Nixon rebus ("Im + [peach] N+[ick] + [sun]") issued by the activist/artist collective Zephyrus Image run by Michael Myers and Holb…