Joinville le Pont: Société B.G.B., 1979. First edition. 8vo,saddle-stapled wraps. Photographically illustrated artists' book featuring a series of four captioned photographs, each separated by a sheet of glassine. The artist's second book. Very good with a light bump to lower tip and some moderate toning. More
Netherlands: Marion van Wijk & Dalstar Veenman Publishers, 1997. First edition. 4to, 216 pp, xeroxed in b/w and tape bound with black cloth tape into color covers, with color reproductions of maps inside covers. Artists' book with extensive documentation of van Wijk and Koos Dalstra's investigations into the circumstances of..... More
Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1982. First edition. 8vo, 422 pp, bound in brown buckram with the title stamped in black at the spine. Illustrated with b/w and color plates. Of a total edition of 740 copies, this is one of 240 numbered copies with a signed and dated photograph housed..... More
London: Nigel Greenwood, 1972. First edition. 8vo, 47 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 800 copies. The increasingly scarce book, published in conjunction with the 1972 show at Nigel Greenwood, that forever changed the way that the art world (and the market) treated books by artists. A...... More
Köln: Walther König, 2002. First edition. 4to, 207 pp, wraps. Profusely illustrated in both color and b/w. A mammoth and indepth bibliography of the artists' books of Hanne Darboven, Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Hanne Darboven. Bucher 1966-2002" at the Westfälischen Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster in..... More
np: E. D. A., 1994. First edition. 8vo, 98 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. A prose novel. Rare; OCLC locates only the Bibliotheque National copy. Fine. More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1990. First edition. Folio, 17 x 17 1/2", fold-out sheets printed in color on a Mita DC-1656 electrostatic copier from the original stencils. The special, limited edition, one of only 40 copies bound in spray-painted linen over boards, with an original image spray-painted by the artist. With..... More
[Cullompton, Devon, England]: Beau Geste Press, 1972. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated, mimeographed on rectos only in two colors. Artists' book by Ehrenberg and published under his own Beau Geste imprint, illustrated with playful line drawing diagrams. Near fine with some minor toning to extremities. More
Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, unadorned by any further text. One of a series of books by the artist published by Sperone in the early 1970's, and now rare..... More
Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, here all of unmade beds An early installment in the series of deadpan artists' books sometimes referred to as his 'Bilderhefte" series, in which..... More
Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1973. First edition. 32mo, saddle-stapled card wraps, with title rubberstamped to cover. Artist's book featuring a title page followed by 4 photographs, here all of toy animals posed on ornamented rugs, unadorned by any further text. One of a series of books by the artist published..... More
San Francisco: NFS Press, 1977. First edition. 4to, 56 pp, wraps. Photographically illustrated in b/w. The first edition of one of the key gay artists' books of the modern era, as well as a groundbreaking use of photography in an artist's book. The text was printed on the acetates, and..... More
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1973. First edition. 8vo, unpaginated. Offset printed and bound in thick illustrated French wraps. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the artist, this copy is an artist's proof, and is signed in pencil by Iannone on the colophon. A touch of rubbing to extremities of..... More
New York: Dumb Fucker / Heroin Addict, 1982. First edition. 8vo, [52] pp [inc. covers], stab-stapled wraps illustrated after a photograph by Kern; original xerox in black and white. Fine. Fifth issue of Kern's elusive downtown zine - in addition to numerous photographs by Kern, this issue is notable for..... 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 a mimeograph stencil print by levy bound in inside front cover. One of a limited edition of 110 copies. The first and only edition of..... 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 detourneed magazine excerpt from Intellectual Life. Minor creasing else fine. More
Brussels: galerie MTL, 1971. First edition. 16mo, unpaginated, printed wrappers. Text in English. Artist's book published in conjunction with the 1971 exhibition at Galerie MTL. Fine. 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
Paris: Gallimard, 1975. 12mo, 226 pp, trade paperback. A strange and beautiful work of time travel, written by the noted sociologist, historian of the Paris Commune, and "prospectiviste" Decouflé. Written in 1975, the book envisages what the year 2000 would be like, 25 years in the past. The vision of..... More
[San Francisco]: [Dave Haselwood], [1966]. 22 (of 24) cards, each 2" square, illustrated with a hallucinogram by Bruce Conner, with four words by McClure on the verso of each, housed in the original printed envelope, which is addressed to McClure's friend, the artist and musician Dan Lauffer, and franked in..... More
Kobenhaven: I Kommission Hos Forlaget Zac, 1980. First edition. 4to, 126 pp. [printed on rectos only], stab-stapled and tape bound at the spine as issued. Text in Danish. Rare artist book from the Danish Fluxus artist. Very good with some light foxing to covers and title page. More
Paris: Kickshaws, 1982. First edition. Square 8vo, bound in french fold wraps with illustrated glassine dust jacket. One of a limited edition of 485 copies. An English translation by John Crombie of un conte à votre façon, illustrated by Sheila Bourne. A gorgeous edition of Queneau's foray into the choose-your-own-adventure..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1965. First edition. 8vo, 70 pp, bound in purple cloth. Printed dust jacket. Inscribed by Raine at the title page. Fine in a very good jacket price clipped at lower tip of front flap, with some minor foxing and discoloration. More
Hamburg: [Quer-Verlag], 1968. First edition. Oblong 16mo. Mimeographed on white paper, with red card section dividers. Stapled into red wraps, which are tipped into aluminium boards with red tape. Illustrated title pastedown to front panel. Perhaps the first book ever to be designed as a weapon. Kampfreime is a collection..... More