Apr 10, 2025 - Sale 2699

Sale 2699 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

COOKIE MUELLER (1949-1989)


Archive of 17 books, magazines and ephemera items, including 4 items Inscribed and Signed, "Cookie" or "Cookie Mueller."
Books: Mueller. How to Get Rid of Pimples. "Val: / I hope this makes / you laugh. / Cookie Mueller," with lip imprint below signature, on inside front cover. 77 pages. 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound, front cover starting at lower edge. (New York: Top Stories, 1984) * Mueller. Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls. "To Max / & / Anita, / Merry Xmas / Love, / Cookie Mueller," with lip imprint above signature, on front free endpaper. 79 pages. 16mo, wrappers, perfect bound; dust jacket, moderate wear. Madras: Hanuman Books, 1988 * Mueller. Garden of Ashes. 116 pages. 16mo, wrappers, perfect bound; dust jacket, moderate wear. Madras: Hanuman Books, 1990 * Mueller. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black. 151 pages, 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound. (New York): Semiotext(e), (1990) * Mueller. Ask Dr. Mueller. 294 pages, 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound. First edition. New York: Serpent's Tail, (1997) * Mueller and Glenn O'Brien. Drugs. 71 pages. 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound. First edition. [Los Angeles]: The Kingsboro Press, 1985 * Mueller. "It Happened in the Haight," in Pandemonium II. 136 pages, 4to, wrappers, perfect bound. First edition. Cambridge, MA: Living Color Productions, 1987 * Mueller. "Baltimore 1964" and "Provincetown, Massachusetts 1970" in Ferro-Botanica. 134 pages, square 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound. (Hoboken: Steel Garden Press, 1982) * "Art and About" in Details. May 1984 issue. 87 pages, 4to, wrappers, stapled binding; moderate toning to all edges. (New York: Details Publishing Corp., 1984) * Nan Goldin. Cookie Mueller. 18 unnumbered leaves. Oblong 4to, wrappers, stapled binding. New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1991 * Nan Goldin and Guido Costa. Ten Years After. 141 pages, square 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound. First edition. Zürich: Scalo, (1998) * Mallory Curley. A Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia. 536 pages, 4to, wrappers, perfect bound. [United States?]: Randy Press, (2010) * Chloé Griffin. Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller. 335 pages, 8vo, wrappers, perfect bound; several pages marked with removable labels. First edition. (Berlin): b_books, (2014).

Ephemera: Mueller. Two Autograph Letters Signed, "Cookie ['om' in Devanagari]," to poet Ira Cohen, each on a postcard, mentioning a performance of Alice in Wonderland, anticipating trouble with the Communist Party winning the election on May 12, or mentioning that she is performing in a play and helping with costumes, remarking on mutual friends Ian, Louis, Ava, Gil, and Andy. Each 1 page, oblong 12mo. Kathmandu, [8 May 1986]; 4 March 1987 * Group of 6 printed invitations to various events related to Cookie Mueller, including publication celebrations for Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black and How to Get Rid of Pimples. 8vo or smaller. 1980s * Simon. Requiem Shark No. 16, discussing Simon's encounter with the works of Mueller. 14 pages, square 16mo, wrappers, stapled binding. Knoxville, 2 June 1990.