Assembling (1). New York, Gnilbmessa Inc., 1970. With Ed Ruscha's original chocolate work

The first iteration of this legendary assembling periodical, 'A Collection of Otherwise Unpublishable Manuscripts'. Staple bound, 28 x 215 cm, 160 pp. Collaborative magazine compiled by Richard Kostelanetz and Henry Korn. 42 artists submitted 1000 copies of up to four pages of 'anything they wanted to include, printed at their own expense on any paper by any means'.

With original contributions by Ed Ruscha (the word chocolate printed in black on one sheet, and a chocolate smear on the next sheet), Hannah Weiner, Dan Graham (Ecological Rock), Vito Acconci, Bernadette Mayer, Robert Lax, Arakawa, Madeline Gins, Richard Meltzer, Alan Sondheim et al. Tiny scratch on front cover, else a near mint copy of this scarce artists’ publication.