Other Books and So no. 4 (Summer 1977)
Amsterdam: Other Books and So, 1977. First edition. Unbound 8vo printed in black on blue paper. 38 pp. With two handwritten address number corrections in red ink at inside front cover and title page.
Catalogue no. 4 issued summer 1977 from Ulises Carrión’s bookshop Other Books and So, which had then relocated to Herengracht 259 in Amsterdam, a block away from its previous location. Catalogue is divided up into chapters which include Language Art, Art, Language, Objects/Multiples, Records/Cassettes, Posters/Graphics, Music, and Postcards with a few additional subcategories in some of the subjects. Featuring a large selection of now out-of-print material by artists, including Stephen Bann, Ugo Carrega, Bob Cobbing, Simon Cutts, Wladimir Dias-Pino, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Gibbs, Sten Hanson, Bernard Heidsieck, Dick Higgins, Ferdinand Kriwet, Arrigo Lora-Totino, Eugenio Miccini, Stuart Mills, Franz Mon, Herman de Vries, Emmett Williams, Peter Downsbrough, Felipe Ehrenberg, Ad Gerritsen, Paul-Armand Gette, Davi Det Hompson, Alison Knowles, Sol Lewitt, George Maciunas, Jackson Mac Low, Carolee Schneemann, Jan Voss, Ben Vautier, Dan Graham, Wolf Vostell, Allen Ginsberg, Adriano Spatola, Claude Peliue, Gertrude Stein, and Eduard Bal to name a few. A canonical reference as it relates to the emergence and distribution of artists’ books in Europe in the 1970s. Scarce.
Very good with trace amounts of age toning to outer covers and text block extremities, faint fold line at lower right corner of first page, and a diagonal closed tear at lower front cover which has been repaired with cello tape. Item #776
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