Vile No. 7. Stamp Art

San Francisco, Banana Productions, 1979. Black card wrappers, metal clasp bound, 24 x 17.2 cm, approx. 300 rubber stamped pp. With collaged rubber stamp and title label on front cover, and sticker on back cover. Seventh issue of Vile magazine, edited by Bill Gaglione, comprising a special limited edition of rubber stamp art, published in an edition of 300 copies. This issue is extra rare, as most copies went to the contributors, and only a small part ended up in trade. Moderate creasing and rubbing to the overlapping cover edges and corners, generally a very well preserved copy.

Contains approx. 300 original hand stamped pages, sent in by 180 artists listed. Among the contributors are Jeremy Adler, Vittore Baroni, Julien Blaine, Paulo Bruscky, Ulises Carrion (famous Boxers stamp), Henry Bzdok, Buster Cleveland, Dadaland, Ken Friedman, Gyorgyo Galantai, Klaus Groh, John Held Jr, Geoffrey Hendricks, Robert Jacks, Leavenworth Jackson, Opal Nations, Pawel Petasz, Skooter, Pat Tavenner, Jiri Valoch, G.E. Marx Vigo, Horacio Zabala, David Zack. Includes an artists index and a 5 page listing of rubber stamp shows, publications and events held from 1970 to 1979.