Np: Np, 1968. First edition. Stab-stapled horizontal 8vo in white wrappers with pink pages printed in black. Unpaginated (51 pp.) Text in German. An elegant artists’ book featuring the phrase ‘über 50 mal!’, which translates to ‘over 50 times!’, printed on fifty-one pink sheets. Handsomely and sparsely typeset, like most.....
London: Hyphen Press, 2004. Tall softcover 4to bound in French fold wrappers. Unpaginated. An elaborately produced artists’ book featuring actual-size reproductions of prints by Marterns from the 1990’s. Published as an English-language edition of ‘Karel Martens: weerdruk’ following the success of ‘Karel Martens: printed matter / drukwerk’. Complete with a......
Antwerp: Guy Schraenen éditeur, 1975. Edition of 130, of which this is no. 40. Softcover 4to in brown paper wrappers with a belly band. Unpaginated (ca. 24 pp.) Signed in pencil on the band by the artist. An artists’ book featuring Dermisache’s ongoing exploration of asemic writing using abstract elements.....
Frankfurt: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1982. Edition of 300, of which this is no. 36. Softcover 8vo printed in red, blue, yellow, black, and white ink, housed in a printed dust jacket. Unpaginated. To which is added a translucent vellum sheet printed in black ink. Text mostly in English, some German and.....
Journeyman Press, 1971. Saddle-stapled 8vo printed on card stock. Unpaginated (8 pp.) A collaborative artists’ book featuring four pages of a printed grid in blue with twenty-four squares on each page filled in variations of red and blue, with most of them in blue. Given the drawings and design is.....
New York: Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970. First edition. Small 4to in blue paper covered boards with yellow titling on spine inside dust jacket. 102 pp. A profusely illustrated survey edited by Kostelanetz (who also contributes) dissecting the overlap of concrete and visual poetry. Designed without divider pages, the sequencing of.....
Paris: Editions Agentzia, 1969. Softcover 8vo in printed wrappers. Unpaginated. Text in French. An illustrated artists’ book featuring concrete poems and images contained within various sized and placed circles. Published by Editions Agentzia which was founded and directed by Jochen Gerz and Jean-François Bory. Very good with trace amounts of.....
Paris: Editions Agentzia, 1970. Softcover 8vo in printed wrappers. Unpaginated. Text in French. An illustrated artists’ book featuring French newspaper articles describing various deaths juxtaposed with weather patterns from the magazine Le Monde for each day of October, 1969. Published by Editions Agentzia which was founded and directed by Jochen.....
Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1970. Stab-stapled 4to with a cloth covered spine against a chipboard back cover. Unpaginated (ca. 120 pp. with 12 two-panel fold-outs). Parallel text in Swedish and English. A handsome art catalog published on the occasion of Kienholz’ solo exhibition at Moderna Museet in Stockholm which ran January.....
Otterlo: Rijksmuseum Krölle-Müller, 1977. Saddle-sewn horizontal 4to printed in alternating sheets of white card stock and translucent vellum. Unpaginated (16 pp). Text in Dutch. A catalog published on the occasion of Dekkers’ exhibition of transparent drawings at the Rijksmuseum Krölle-Müller June 11 – July 31, 1977. The translucent sheets are.....
Hamburg: Merlin Verlag, 1971. Small 4to with eight folded brown paper envelopes bound into two foil stamped hardcover panels with a ribbon enclosure. Each envelope with a different item – 1. stab-stapled and folded 4 pp document printed in black and white on recto sides only; 2. softcover 8vo in.....
Vaucluse: Robert Morel Editions, 1969. Edition of 500. 6 x 6 cm (2.36 x 2.36") round book bound with a brass ring. Unpaginated (ca. 100 pp). Text in French. An inventive small round book of poetry by Filliou which straddles the line between artists’ books and Fluxus. Published by Robert.....
Stuttgart: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 1967. Edition of 500, of which this is no. 292. Softcover 8vo in publisher’s white wrappers. Unpaginated. The white cover edition of Williams’ iconic and intimate artists’ books exploring the possibilities and limitations of the word ‘sweethearts’ using an eleven-by-eleven grid (the number of letters in.....
Cullompton: Beau Geste Press, 1972. Softcover 4to in pictorial red and yellow wrappers. 144 pp. A traveling exhibition catalog in the form of a profusely illustrated artists’ book featuring work by well know and lesser known artists associated to Fluxus. With contributions by Ay-O, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Ugo Carrera.....
Frankfurt: typos verlag, 1967. Edition of 500, of which this is no. 32. Horizontal leporello bound 8vo consisting of fourteen panels. Letter pressed in black and signed by the artist. Text in German. An artists’ book with groupings of small letterforms that build in layers from panel to panel, finally.....
Amsterdam: Np, [1970]. Tall green paper portfolio 28.2 x 35.5 cm (11.125 x 14") in size with eleven loose plates of the same size measuring 26.8 x 34.9 cm (10.5 x 13.75") printed in color and black and white, and a single sheet of rubber stamped toilet paper. A striking.....
torino: studio d’informazione estetica, 1969. No. 1: Edition of 1,000 of which this is no. 863. Die cut and folded 10.3 x 10.3 cm card stock sleeve containing a leporello bound card stock book printed on recto and verso measuring 10 x 10 cm folded, 80 x 10 unfolded. No.....
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1971. First edition. Unbound folio 22 x 16.5" in size (folded) printed in black and white. Unpaginated (12 pp.) An oversized catalog in the form of an artists’ book published on the occasion of Ono’s exhibition at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse.....
Cranleigh, Surrey: Beau Geste Press, 1976. Edition of 850. Saddle-stapled 8vo in pictorial wrappers with text printed on yellow paper. Unpaginated. An artists’ book of photographs by Yoshida depicting a rectangle of sand on a beach slowly being engulfed by a wave. A handsome publication, meant to be read sideways.....
Eindhoven / Rotterdam: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum / Bébert, 1982. Edition of 500. Softcover 4to in saddle-stapled stiff pictorial wrappers. Unpaginated (24 pp.) Text in English. To which is added a 10.5 x 14.8 cm invitation printed in color on recto and black and white on verso. Edition unknown. Text in.....
Bern: Erika + Otto Friedrich, 1978. Edition of 400, of which this is no. 238. Saddle-stapled 8vo in card stock wrappers with a 0.4 cm die cut hole at center. Unpaginated (16 pp.) Text in German. A conceptual artists’ book with a German title that translates into ‘Empty Thought’ in.....
Göttingen: Verlag *) – Udo Breger, 1970. Edition of 1,000. Horizontal softcover 8vo in pictorial wrappers with pages printed on recto sides only. Unpaginated. Text in German. A conceptual artists’ book with a title that translates into ‘television in close-up – statistics of the television picture’ in which Ulrichs examines.....
Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1971. Saddle-stapled 4to in green paper wraps. Unpaginated (ca. 24 pp.) Text in English, Dutch, German, and French. A collection of research, documents, photographs, drawings, findings, and material related to Filliou’s art project titled ‘Territory of the Genial Republic’ which took place at the Stedelijk Museum in.....
Florence / Paris: Centro Di, Florence / Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, 1975. Small horizontal softcover 8vo in printed black wrappers. Unpaginated (ca. 52 pp.) Published on the occasion of Baldessari’s exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam November 21, 1975 – January 4, 1976, this photographic artists’ book documents a woman.....
Buenos Aires, Argentina: Centro de Arte y Comunicación (C.A.Y.C.), 1971. Edition of 1,500. Small softcover 8vo in printed wrappers. Insides pages printed on rectos only. Unpaginated. Text in Spanish and English. A ‘manual for the new avant garde’ with a repeating sentence structure on each page that’s also translated into.....