Torino: Sperone, 1970. First edition. 12mo, [94] pp, bound in white boards backed with white cloth tape. Housed in a typographically designed dust jacket. First edition of this artist's book presenting text works from the artist's Sixth Investigation, and published by Sperone here under the editorship of Pierluigi Piero and..... More
np: The Artist, 1965. Altered (sawn) book, with shape of a telephone neatly sawn through the volume. Inscribed by the artist at the title page; "From Series Jigsaw Books (skoob) 1965. JL." Provenance: from the collection of Tjeerd Deelstra, who acquired the volume directly from the artist in London in..... More
London: Lisson Publications, 1970. 8vo, unpaginated. Illustrated. Saddle-stapled wraps. Artists' book produced in conjunction with Latham's 1970 exhibition at the Lisson Gallery [THE LISSON GALLERY DOES NOT EXIST FOR 100 YEARS]. A superb documentation showing not only material and photographs related to the SKOOB Towers work, but also a range..... More
Cleveland: Renegade Press, 1966. First edition. 4to, mimeographed from typescript on rectos only, and side-stapled, with an original painting print by Mara to cover, and "under the sheets i touch me," a mimeograph stencil as print by levy tipped onto the verso of the second sheet. One of a limited..... More
[London]: [Christopher Logue], nd. 4to, single folded sheet, offset printed. Artists' book by Logue, consisting of an appropriated magazine excerpt from Intellectual Life, concluding with a poem by Logue. Near fine with some moderate creasing. More
Los Angeles: Manifest Music, c. late 1970's. 8vo, [16] pp, saddle-stapled into a reflective photogram cover, with rubberstamped phrase inside back cover. Interior photo-mechanically reproduced. Catalog of cassettes by John Duncan issued under the Manifest imprint, with gorgeous wrappers; Rubberstamped inside the back cover is the phrase "THIS PHOTOGRAM COVER..... More
Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1961. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated. Illustrated with b/w photographs. With the original printed wraparound band flattened and laid in. The scarce first edition of this artists' book printed from maquettes designed by Marker himself, which combines the spoken portion of several of his early films, matched..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 2004. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, in this case Claudia &..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1990. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. With subscription form laid in. Scarce debut issue of the artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue..... More
Geneva: Ecart Publications, 1976. First edition. 4to, [105] pp, side-stapled and tape bound in wraps. One of a limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Artists' book documenting Genesis P-Orridge's mail art action and the ensuing legal action against him, and illustrated with numerous reproductions of legal documents set besides mail..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1993. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Single issue of the artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, making it a hybrid of a...... More
Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1973. First edition thus. 8vo, 146, [10] pp, bound in printed wraps. Text largely in French. Transcribed typographically from the original manuscript, with full page reproductions of it throughout, and a coda of ten reproductions following the text. Foreward by Philippe Sollers. The first regularly published edition..... More
np: Stuart Pound, nd [c. 1960's]. 4to, mimeographed from typescript and side-stapled in pink illustrated covers. Illustrated within with several black and white pop art illustrations and a gorgeous sheet of some kind of color negative print tipped in. Unusual and beatiful artists' book of poetry and images which we..... More
New York: Printed Matter, 1978. 17 x 22" poster, offset printed on beige paper stock. Addressed and mailed to a west coast bookseller, with the date written in ink unobtrusively in one corner. One of the earlier PM mailers, beautifully illustrated with a small photograph of the Lispenard Street storefront..... More
New York: Printed Matter, c. 1981. Small oblong wraps, [16] pp, saddle-stapled. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Association copy, addressed and mailed to the artist Philip Corner. Early PM catalog, and one of the best designed, in landscape format, with each offering illustrated and described at some length, including..... More
Berlin: Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, 1980. First edition. Oblong 4to, [108] pp, tapebound into photographically illustrated wraps. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Text in German. With texts by Janos Frecot, Julie Schauer, Walter Aue, and Ulrich Bischoff. Artist's book published in conjunction with the 1980 exhibition at NBK, which documents the bricks..... More
Eckernförde: Nemo, 1987. First edition. 4to, unpaginated; printed wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 signed and numbered copies. A monumental artist's book, consisting of a five panel leporello foldout of thick card stock which features blindstamped images of Manhattan buildings isolated down to the geometric form of the letter..... More
France: Kaugummi, 2010. First edition. One of limited edition of 500 copies. 8vo, [16] pp. including covers, saddle-stapled wraps. This issue of the French art zine is devoted completely to drawings, published in conjunction with the Kaugummi exhibition held at L'amicale Gallery in Brussels that year. It includes contributions from..... More
New York: The Artist, nd [c. 1990's]. 4 x 6" postcard, with xerox print tipped onto recto. Beautiful announcement this happening by Max Schumann, featuring the sale of artwork priced from 10 cents to $100! Max is of the beloved director of Printed Matter. Very good with some light toning and..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1997. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Single issue of the artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, making it a hybrid of a...... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 2003. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Fama & ortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and design the issue, in this case Haim Steinbach. Fine..... More
Amsterdam: Real Free Press, 1966. First edition. Oblong 8vo, [14], 39, [3] pp, side-stapled and backed in black cloth tape as issued. Text largely in Dutch with some English. First edition of this artist book by Stoop, one of the very first underground comix to published in Europe. The anarchist..... More
Wien: Pakesch & Schlebrügge, 1999. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled card wraps. Illustrated in black and white. Text in English. Fama & Fortune was an artists' periodical / artists' book series published in Wien by Peter Pakesch and Johannes Von Schlebrügge. Each issue invites an artist or artists to create and..... More
London: Editions Poetry London Limited, 1950. First edition. 12mo, 12 pp, bound in illustrated boards. A remarkable children's story about Peddy Bottom, who "knew that he was Peddy Bottom, but men all thought that there was something doggy about him, while dogs all thought that there was something human about..... More
La Plata: Diagonal Cero, 1970. First edition. Square 8vo, 17 unbound plates (one of which folds) housed in a die-cut folding slipcase. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Vigo to fellow artist Ulises Carrión and dated in 1978. Artists' book by Vigo in the form of a textual and visual essay..... More