Zephyrus Image (42 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 throughout. Good and sound. 57pp. …

Broadside. Condition: Good. No jacket. Broadside naming birds often observed at Deer Creek in Sonoma County, printed on the occasion of a Sierra Club Visit on February 25, 1978. Includes Zephyrus Image logo on back. Water stain on lower left corner, covering some text but not affecting legibility. As is. …

Second edition, stated. Stapled printed wrappers with cover design by Michael Myers. Fore-edge a bit creased, some minor surface soiling. Johnston, p. 176.

Condition: Good. No jacket. cat A. One half of the original print. Originally with two images of the label. Stain on back. This image looks to have been carefully cut out.

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 later reissue of the first state in a smaller format and not by linocut, corresponding with Johnston's entry iv on p. 184 of the Zephyrus Image bibliography. Fine.…

5 1/2 x 8 1/2", black text overlayed onto a zinc print photographic image of the Pope & Co on brown card stock. Insignia print at verso reads "Christus Regnet." According to Johnston, Teter's only explanation for the piece was "Christ Reigns", a play on the homonyms reign and rain. One of a number of printed works concerned with water in California, partially influenced by the post-Digger legacy of the idea of Bioregions. A talismanic object for the new drought years. [Johnston p. 217]. Fine.…

First edition. 24mo. [4 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. "Energy Hustler Ro-Non-So-Te" rails against the "oil people.".

Trade Paperback. 2-3/4 by 4 inches. 8 pages. An election year screed decrying oil company influence in politics. A Hermes Free Press (Zephyrus Image) imprint. Very good in wrappers.

Condition: Fine. First printing. c. 1970's. 8 1/2 x 11", Letterpress printed on beige paper. Reproduces a map of how to get to the Zephyrus Image. Johnston's state a. Llater states were xeroxed, the map is quite scarce in this original letterpress edition. Fine.

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 on a front bumper, so that the text can be read only in a rear view mirror. The target was Ed Davis, the chief of the L. A. police department who presided over the city's race riots in the sixties. [Johnston p. 197] Some creasing, but still very good.…

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 a plane, leaving this image." Fine.…

First edition. Broadside, letterpress and linocut in three colors with lines indicated in order to fold into a paper airplane. An unfolded and not yet assembled copy. Fine. A broadside made by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers of the ZI in order to crash an early artists' book show at the Berkeley Art Center in 1977; the two handed the broadside out at the event, saying they had just made it "on a wing and a prayer." The text was supplied by Robert Rusk and is from a book of short stories by Malcolm Lowry. One of several ephemeron the group made in order to distribute at specific events, this one perhaps meant to gently provoke some of the seriousness surrounding the canonization of artists' books at the time. See Johnston p. 125 and 212.…

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 items from the Zephyrus Image aimed at Davis, the other being the Sivad Cuff bumper sticker. The sticker exists in two differeint states, trimmed to the badge line and as a sheet with margins, this being the latter. See Johnston p. 197. A little roughly cut with some minor wear. Very good.…

First edition. [8] pp. Stapled wrappers. Bottom corner toned on rear leaves. An early attempt by environmental activist Keith Lampe (later aka Ponderosa Pine) to disrupt the Republican convention in San Diego in August 1972. Johnston, pp. 27, 176.

Condition: Very good. No jacket. cat A. A broadsides made by Holbrook Teter and Michael Myers of the ZI in order to crash an early artists' book show at the Berkeley Art Center in 1977.

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 Hand, the magazine published by David Bromige's Cal State Sonoma Class. [Johnston p. 185, 227] Paper toned, as usual, with chipping and nicks to margins and a chunk missing from the upper left hand corner.…

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, describing a copy printed on brown cover stock (possibly hemp paper). This copy on white stock could be a proof, or just a variant.…

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 was later repurposed for another broadside reading "Detonate Sutro Tower." [Johnson 184]. Broadside, 8.75" by 6.5" approx. Near fine. Bottom-right corner shows hint of foxing and trivial touch of wear. Else clean, sharp.…

Condition: Very good. Cat A. Chronicle Opinion Poll, Watergate Era, 1974. Fro insertion in newsstand copies.

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 Image exits with the same sense of humor that was behind so many of their productions. OCLC locates only two holdings. Johnston p. 217.…

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 fine with some minor handling creases.…

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 composed of puns relating to printing and printers, written by Teter, Myers, and Ed Dorn. Johnston: Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography, pg. 155 - 156, 210. …

Condition: Good. Printer's Proof. 14 x 33 cm. Printed black ink on beige wove paper, Very Good with faint crease and marginal wear to one edge. Myer's drawing of nudes to spell out Alice Hinton's name was inspired by Hinton's protesting nude bathing on the Russian River.

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 / translated by wagging tongues / being the version set forth A.D. 1977 by / Anita Bryant, Dale Evans, / & John Briggs, Gadfly.".…

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 linoleum block prints. I believe this to be his second book, preceded by the 1968 EAST BAY MOON-beams. Myers would sooon move West, connect with Holbrook Teter, and create Zephyrus Image. See Johnston pp 17-18.…

Condition: Very good. cat A. Large logo design of a zeppelin and a water bird, forming a rebus for the press/.

Condition: Very good. cat A. 8"x12".

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 else fine. …

Condition: Good. Broadside. 11" x 17". Printed black ink on beige wove paper, Very Good with faint staining, some creasing. Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography: Reproduced on p. 234, item f, letter f.

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 Holbrook Teter. The rebus also made a popular bumpersticker. Activist Eileen Callahan described handing out the rebus all over the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, "I gave one to Hubert Humphrey, and, to his credit, he stopped and read it. After a few seconds, his face registered what could only be called 'extreme mirth" (Zephyrus Image, p. 54). Reference: Alastair Johnson, "Zephyrus Image" (2003), p. 54.…