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artists' books
VITO ACCONCI: A RETROSPECTIVE: 1969-1980
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Publisher's black wraps. SIGNED by Acconti at front free endpaper. Minor wear to edges and spine. Interior bright and fresh. Near fine. 48pp. Catalog for the first US retrospective of Acconci's work, with a brief introduction by museum director John.....
EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD THERE IS TO KNOW IS KNOWN BY SOMEBODY, BUT NOT BY THE SAME KNOWER
[Munich]: Ottenhausen Verlag, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. 24mo. White paper slipcase housing four saddle-stapled booklets. Light wear and smudging to slipcase; minor wear to booklets. Edition of 300. Very good plus overall. Four numbered booklets by conceptual artist Roberta Allen, variously containing handwritten lists, drawings, and black and white photographs.....
[Untitled Original Manuscript Illustrated Artist's Book]
[ca. 1970?]. Hardcover. Small 4to. Hand-bound in red morocco, with raised cords and decorative gilt stamping to spine. Moderate edgewear and rubbing. Top edge gilt. Black and gold patterned endpapers. Bookplate taped to ffep; brown geometric design with designer [?] initials ACW at lower right and "Ex Libris AJ". Slight.....
DIE VOLLKOMMENE GASTGEBERIN IST FUR MICH DIE 'DAME MIT DER PEITSCHE" [Cover Title - "For me the perfect host is the "lady with a whip"]
np: [ca. late 1960s]. Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Boards. Likely commercial scrapbook, but possibly ad-hoc. Containing [66]pp. plus covers and one fold-out, all mounted both recto and verso with color collages consisting mainly of magazine models, with occassional textual elements (in German, many typed). Spine appears persished. But otherwise sound and.....
A LOOK INTO THE BLUE TIDE PART 2
(New York): (Something Else Press), 1967. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Stapled orange self-wrappers. A bit of fading at edges. Mild shelf-wear. Very good plus. [16]pp. From the Great Bear Pamphlet series. One of 1000 unnumbered copies. "[E]xcerpted from Roth's Die blaue Flut" (Frank p. 75).
A SENTENCE OF THIRTEEN PARTS (WITH TWELVE ALTERNATE VERBS) ENDINGS IN FABLE
Hamburg: Anatol AV und Filmproduktion, 1977. First Edition. Wraps. Series of four nested accordian-fold series that extend into a crucifom. House in black printed folded portfolio; 4" x 5.25" (folded), 46" x 60" (unfolded) approx. Mild rubbing to portfolio. Some moderate wear overall and imperfectly folded, as common. Else sound.....
WILL BARNET: 27 Master Prints
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1979). First Edition. Hardcover. Large folio. Original green full linen in original rice-paper covered slipcase, with gilt titles to both. Minor wear and bumping to case. Book fine. Near fine overall. SIGNED in pencil by Barnet to title page. The uncommon deluxe edition of this.....
THE CREMASTER CYCLE
Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2003. First edition. Paperback. Large 8vo. Near fine in stiff pictorial wraps with French folds. Minor rubbing to edges. Else bright, clean, and tight. 1 of 1000 unnumbered copies. 75pp. SIGNED by Matthew Barney. Uncommon catalog from Barney's 2003 Oslo exhibition of his.....
DRAWING RESTRAINT VOL. II.
(Tokyo): Uplink, 2005. First edition. Wraps. 8vo. Flexible plastic wraps. 161pp. With full-color illustrations. Fine. SIGNED by Barney to title page. Artist-book exhibition catalog for Barney's traveling show of 2005-06.
ATLAS
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First American edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's pictorial boards. Spine lightly darkened; bottom and top lightly dented. Top front corner chipped, others dinged. Interior bright, clean, good and sound. A very good copy. Unpaginated. The first American edition of the first book by this.....
MINDERNES VIRKSOMHED
Copenhagen: (Illums bog-afdeling) / (Nordlundes Bogtrykkeri), [1935]. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Tan illustrated wraps, with faint soil and dampstaining. Moderate edgewear and scuffing, with some small tears to spine ends. This copy numbered 177. [24pp.] Very good. Artist's book by the Danish surrealist, a student of Klee and Kandinsky.....
ART WORK / NO COMMERCIAL VALUE
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1972. First Edition. 4to. Three-ring binder with printed cov- er label. One of 1000 numbered copies, this #600. Offset in color and B&W. [141] pp. Near fine with some rubbing, shelf- wear to binder. Mildly toned internally. Else clean and sound. Assemblage anthology (a la Kostelanetz's.....
SLINGS AND ARROWS
n.p. n.p., (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Book-sculpture with collage elements mounted to covers over original cloth binding. Interior leaves modified and collaged. SIGNED and dated on front cover. Spine cocked; moderate scuffing to edges. Handmade and modified artist's book, opening to reveal two diorama-like three-dimensional scuptural scenes, using.....
GHOSTING ALONG
Greenville, NC: Cordial Quartos, Ltd., 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Oblong 8vo. Grey stapled wraps. Minor edgewear. Edition of 20; two signed leaves bound in (an apparent printer's error); both SIGNED and numbered 13 and 14 respectively (sorry copy 14). Very good plus. Handmade photocopied photobook of black and white images.....
SO WHO OWNS THE DEATH TV?
n.p. Beach Books, 1967. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original stapled printed white wraps. Faint toning, rubbing. One corner with shallow bumping. Very good plus overall. [16]pp. Correct first edition of this pamphlet published by Mary Beach. Includes Burroughs' "A boy as quoted in The Desparate Years." Pelieu's "Objective Galactic Time.....
SO WHO OWNS THE DEATH TV?
n.p. Beach Books, 1967. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original stapled printed black wraps. Near fine. [16]pp. Correct first edition of this pamphlet published by Mary Beach, the decidedly rarer "black paper issue," estimated to be 200 copies. Includes Burroughs' "A boy as quoted in The Desparate Years." Pelieu's "Objective Galactic.....
SUPPORT HER
n.p. Visual Press, n.d. First Edition. Wraps. Square 24mo. Black saddle-stapled wraps in red printed jacket. Mild edgewear. SIGNED and numbered 29 of 30 signed and numbered copies. Very good plus. Artist's book repurposing vintage women's lingerie advertisements. Burruss (per the jacket biography) previously designed books and folios for Thomas.....
I-VI
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Grey cloth. Silver gilt to front, spine. In original illus- trated dust jacket. Unclipped. Deluxe, limited edition, SIGNED by Cage to half-title. Housed in a matching cloth, two-piece box which addition- ally holds two 60-minute audio cassettes. Mild shelf rubbing.....
INSULT TO INJURY
np: Steidlmack, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong folio. Original black blindstamped boards. Minor bumping to corners, rubbing. Near fine overall. From an unstated edition. Unpaginated. Striking and indelible artist's book, in which Jake and Dinos Chapman alter, to haunting effect, Goya's DISASTERS OF WAR series of etchings. Includes 80 full-color.....
MONDRIAN TIC TAC TOE
New York: Purgatory Pie Press, 1984. First edition thus. Set includes: Small 4to hand-sewn pamphlet, with 10 game blanks in protective plastic cover and two Caran d'Ache art crayons, red and blue. Housed in ziplock bag as issued. All components near fine, with some wear to outer bag. SIGNED by.....
100 PHOTOS QUI NE SONT PAS DE PHOTOS DE CHEVAUX
[Nevers]: Editions de la RN7, 1995. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound in original photographic wraps. Mild wear to wraps at edges. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. [100]pp. As the title suggests, this artists' book contains 100 black-and-white photographs that are not of horses (in fact, they are all of.....
TOUT CE QUE JE PEUX ÊTRE
Limoges, France: Editions F.R.A.C., n.p. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in original white wraps printed in green text. Very mild rubbing at rear wrap and sunning around spine. Interior clean and bright. Near fine. [15]pp. Artists' book composed of an alphabetical list of possible things to be, from abandonné to.....
TOUT CE QUE JE PEUX FAIRE
Paris: Galerie Jennifer Flay, 1992. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled in original white wraps with text printed in green. Mild sunning at spine, else clean and bright. Near fine. [15]pp. Artists' book composed of an alphabetical list verbs, from abaisser to zyeuter. From an edition of 500.
SPIRALE 8: Internationale Zeitschrift für Konkrete Kunst und Gestaltung
Bern: Spiral Press, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. Square folio folder in original plain folding slipcase, folder containing loose bifoliums; (8), 44. Minor tearing to folds of slipcase, some fading. Minor edgewear to issue. Complete. Very good plus or better overall. Text in English and German. Founded by Dieter Rot and.....
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[Child's Cartooning Album]
[Pittsburgh]: [c. 1941-44]. Large 4to. String- tied brown leatherette album. Pages toned and partially detached from binding in places; some soil to page edges. Pencil drawings throughout, with printed illustrations mounted to pages in first half. Pencil smudged or faded in places, but generally clear, with written captions legible throughout.....