TPL : Tombeau de Pierre Larousse
Wuppertal: Verlag der Kalender, 1961. First edition. Large square 4to in blank wrappers, bound with French-fold signatures silkscreened in black on white paper stock. Housed in a dust jacket printed in black. Unpaginated [60 pp.]. Text in French and German.
Artists’ book by Wolf Vostell featuring twenty-one full-page silk screens, mostly on versos, reproducing décollages found in the streets of Paris. Published by Vostell a year prior to the first issue of ‘Décollage.’ Includes a poem by François Dufrêne, and concrete poetry and a text by Alain Jouffroy.
Artifact Vibration Score: 7.9.
Dust jacket in battered shape, torn at spine with a few old cellophane-tape reinforcements, two small holes, and a few stray red ballpoint-ink marks at front, with general wear and creasing; now housed in a mylar jacket. Thus good only. Book with age toning, a few small stains at wrappers, and a narrow abrasion at fore edge of back wrapper. Else very good. Item 1283.
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