Published by Terry Sladden and Ron Shuebrook at the Art Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada. Number 3, August–September 1973. Small octavo (14 × 9 cm). Original rubber-stamped blue wrappers; contents side-stapled; 40 pp. With one insert. Front wrapper faded and with stains; else very good. Special East European..... More
Unpaginated artist's book (462 pp.) by the German Mail Art and Fluxus artist, comprised of random newspaper clippings, with certain blocks at times repeated. Profusely illustrated from newspaper photographs.16mo. Original illustrated wrpps. Very minor sunning and fading, overall very good. Oldenburg, Germany (Art Agency) 1969. With small signed statement by..... More
50 pp. catalogue, in German and Dutch, of an exhibition of works by artists based in the city of Mulheim in the Ruhr area of western Germany, all working in various manifestations of neo-Expressionism, with introd. text by Frans Haks, interviews with the artists by Wolfgang Max Faust, and altogether..... More
20 leaves, printed recto and verso, presenting text by Uta Johanna (a pseudonym for Egmont Hesse) with facing reproductions of boldly executed drawings, printed in offset lithography, by Hegewald. 8vo. Orig. printed wrpps., very sl. soiled. Dresden (Leitwolfverlag) 1989. One of only 100 copies. Signed in pencil by both Johanna..... More
Small cardboard box containing an introductory booklet folded accordion-style and printed recto only, and a group of 329 printed cards and 4 blank cards, the printed cards mostly each bearing a single word to each side of the card, some printed instead with an image (one example being a clip..... More
![Co se slovy všechno poví [All that we use words to tell]. Illustrated by Věra and Pavel...](/pictures/thumb/50321_1.jpg?v=1590758883)
[Prague]: Státní nakladatelství dětské knihy, 1964. Small octavo (17 × 11 cm). Decoratively printed white synthetic wrappers; 45 pp. Numerous full-page illustrations in color and two-color letterpress designs set by Josef Doležal. Very good. Strikingly designed children’s book, a playful exploration of word-based games children play on a train ride..... More
Unpaginated (altogether 65 pp.) artists' book reproducing handwritten love letters, songs, and free verse by Iannone and Harding, followed by reproductions of the same in German (translated by Dieter Schwarz), bound in pictorial concertina boards portfolio together with two audio cassettes of the artists reading to one another, in English..... More
Unpag. (70 pp.) artist's book from the Berlin-based American visual artist, featuring a striking combination of erotic drawings and photomontages, together with a few photographs by Mary Harding, to whom the book is dedicated, which combine to form a description of a fictional ideal lover as well as a declaration..... More
Unpag. volume on Lettrist photography containing an 8 page introduction by Isou followed by 20 original silver photographs by 20 different artists tipped to hard paper mounts, each signed: 10 photographs by Jean-Bernard Arkitu, Pierre Battini, Gérard Philippe Broutin, Françoise Canal, Carole Courteau, Maurice Lemaître, Roland Sabatier, Jean-Louis Sarthou, Dany..... More
Leipzig: Galerie Eigen+Art, 1985–1987. Text volumes quartos, portfolios folio-size and measuring ca. 55 × 41.5 × 5 cm. Text volumes cloth boards, portfolios in black and white linen cassettes, artworks loose as issued. One image with partial adhesions from tissue paper overlay, some very minor soiling and rubbing to portfolios..... More
Czech Republic: 1977–2000. Various book objects consisting of the artist's binding and leaves of thick hand-made paper, sometimes with boards and pastedowns of the same paper. The book objects in various sizes, ranging from ca. 18.6 × 12.5 to 30 × 20.2 cm. Very good. This group brings together five..... More
![Gersaintův štít [Signboard for Gersaint]. Jiří Kolář](/pictures/thumb/P003817_1.jpg?v=1590786088)
Prague: Svoboda, 1965. Quarto (24.5 x 17 cm). Gatherings loose in printed wrappers; 42, [2] pp. Introductory text in Czech. Very good; small tear to front panel; two unidentified signatures to flap. A distinguished Czech artist and poet, Kolář (1914–2002) was the co-founder of the existentialist post-war group “Skupina 42”..... More
Collection of 73 sheets of black cardstock forming a file of ideas, with glued-down papers containing collage, montage, and 129 typed "pieces" from the important Fluxus artist covering the years 1958-1964, each sheet of cardstock reading "you can put each piece as a way of action for the rest of..... More
Johns. 195 pp. monograph incl. text on the painter and his views on art, notes, bibliography, and 143 plates (41 in color tipped in). Fore-edge sl. soiled. Obl. 4to. Orig. dec. cloth, d.j. New York (Abrams) 1968. Freitag 5753. More
Unpaginated artists' book (ca. 27 leaves) and collaborative catalog for the eponymous exhibition at Galerie Theaterpassage, as part of the Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR in May of 1988, including texts by Jörg Kowalski, photos by Freike Lindig documenting Weidemann's ceramic sculptures and silk screen prints by Tarlatt, many in color..... More
(Title from cover.) Unpaginated (circa 120 pp.) catalogue for an exhibition featuring the early works of prominent contemporary Swiss artists, including Balz Burkhard, Gianfredo Camesi, Luciano Castelli, H. Huber, Herbert Lienhard, Urs Lüthi, Dieter Meier, Gérald Minkoff, Markus Raetz, P.B. Stähli, and Aldo Walker, heavily illustrated throughout (many full-page). Small..... More
![Havraní stříbro [Raven silver: poems]. Jaroslav Mazač, Eduard Ovčáček](/pictures/thumb/P003227_1.jpg?v=1590786086)
Ostrava: Profil, 1965. Octavo (20 × 13.3 cm). Original printed tan cloth with illustrated dust wrapper by Ovčáček; 45 pp. Illustrations throughout by Ovčáček. Signed and inscribed by the author in 1968. A very good copy, with a few small tears (one closed tear) and one nick to dustjacket. A..... More
Artist's book, unpaginated, published in conjunction with Oursler's 1975 exhibition of the same name, held at Rome's Galleria's Internazionale d'Arte Moderna, with foreword by Italo Mussa in Italian and English, the exhibition catalogue comprised of reproductions of appropriated black and white photographs, each accompanied by a reproduced handwritten caption in..... More
![Poslední výstřely [The last shots]. Eduard Ovčáček, František Čvanda](/pictures/thumb/P002343_1.jpg?v=1591003803)
Opava: Svaz protifašistských bojovníků, 1963. Octavo (20.5 × 14.5 cm). Original pictorial wrappers by Eduard Ovčáček; 48, [4] pp. Very good. Regional publication about the terror of the German occupation during World War II, with an attractive cover design by Eduard Ovčáček (born 1933), an artist and writer whose work..... More
Prague: Trigon, 1995. Square octavo (23 × 21 cm). Original decorative wrappers; 269, [2] pp. Very good. This volume represents the first publication of various concrete and visual poetry cycles created in the 1960-90s by Eduard Ovčáček (born 1933), which could not be published during the Czech Normalization-period of the..... More
![Obraz a písmo [Image and Letter]. Exhibition catalog on Czech concrete poetry and visual art...](/pictures/thumb/P004277_1.jpg?v=1590786089)
Prague: Svaz čs. umělců v Praze, [1966]. Octavo (21 × 15 cm). Original staple-stitched pictorial self-wrappers; [16] pp. Front and rear wrappers with illustrations to rectos and versos; numerous illustrations throughout. Very good. Uncommon catalog of an exhibition of Czech concrete poetry and narrative art at the famous Galerie Václava..... More
Lublin, Poland: Labyrinth Gallery, 1980. Double-sided offset-printed broadside containing the text of Partum's Animal Manifesto, in both English and Polish, comprising 15 bullet points in which he derides the arguments that human beings are superior to animals due to the existence of rational thought, and that progress can be made..... More
Bohrmann. Unpag. presentation of poetry by Pessoa accompanied by 17 striking original color graphic works by Bohrmann. Large 4to. Cloth. Hamburg (Maximilian Gesellschaft) 1991. Limited edition. Signed on the colophon page by the artist. More
Unpaginated (ca. 116 pp.) artist's book pairing enigmatic prose poems with the author's translations of the same into highly imaginative rebus-like compositions incorporating mathematical symbols, the Hebrew alphabet, musical notation, erotic doodles, sign language and other figurative and non-figurative characters. Paper a bit browned, some minor scattered soiling. 4to. Illustrated..... More
Unpaginated (81 plastic sleeves, some filled both recto and verso and some filled recto only, some with several items per sleeve) presentation of letters, drawings, photographs, chronologies, newspaper clippings, flyers, and other ephemeral materials, printed on various types of paper stock so as to best capture the feel of the..... More