PLEIN SIGNE, A SEMIOTIC STORY
London: Gallery Number Ten, n.d. No binding. First edition. Two-panel cream-colored card stock folder measuring 20.5 × 13 cm (8.1 × 5.1 in.), printed in neon orange and black, housing 32 unbound leaves printed in black at rectos on cream-colored uncoated stock. Text in French and English.
Early unbound artists’ book by Jean-François Bory in the form of loose leaves exploring the artist’s early investigations into semiotic and concrete poetry, reducing language to a sparse field of symbols, letterforms, and punctuation. No publication date is provided, though likely issued mid-to-late-1960s.
Artifact Vibration Score: 8.5.
Leaves with trace amounts of age toning and faint indents from the folder tabs. Else near fine. Folder with trace amounts of age toning and rubbing, including a small black ink mark at rear, and closed tears to the lower and right hinged tabs. Else very good. Item 1305.
Price: $350.00