mèla post card book / a collection of artists’ postcards edited by maurizio nannucci / una raccolta di cartoline d’artista [postcards]

nannucci, maurizio, ed.

firenze: mèla, 1979. No binding. Limited edition of 1,000. Forty-eight 14.5 x 10.5 cm (5.75 x 3.75") postcards offset printed in color or black on coated rectos, and black on uncoated versos. Housed inside a two-piece slipcase portfolio printed in maroon on kraft card stock. Collated and complete.

Collection of forty-eight artists’ postcards by contributors of the artists’ periodical mèla. Edited and published by Maurizio Nannucci, with contributions by Eric Anderson, John Baldessari, Luciano Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Bernd & Hilla Becker, Joseph Beuys, James Lee Byars, Alighiero Boetti, Chris Burden, Daniel Buren, John Cage, Sarah Charlesworth, Giuseppe Chiari, James Coleman, Claudio Costa, Coum Transmissions, Herman de Vries, Mario Diacono, Antonio Dias, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Ian Hamilton Finlay & Jud Fine, Hans Gappmayr, Marco Gastini, General Idea, Paul Armand Gette, Pieter Holstein, Dorothy Iannone, Ray Johnson, Milan Knizak, Jirí Kolar, Jean Le Gac, Sol Lewitt, Tom Marioni, Paolo Masi, Fabio Mauri, Maurizio Mochetti, Massimo Nannucci, Maurizio Nannucci, Luigi Ontani, Claudio Parmiggiani, Dieter Roth & Arnulf Rainer, Edward Ruscha, Fulvio Salvadori, Franco Vaccari, Ben Vautier, and Emmett Williams. A collated and complete example of this handsome publication, with a duplicate of Mario Diacono’s contribution.

Trace amounts of wear and faint age toning to slipcase portfolio. Postcards also with faint age toning on account of the paper quality. Near fine. Item 1138.

Price: $750.00