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(FLUXUS). La Monte Young (editor).

An Anthology.

New York. La Monte Young & Jackson MacLow. 1963. Oblong 19.7 x 22.7 cm. Unpaginated. Publisher's glossy red wrappers, with title continually repeated across covers. Spine restored.

First edition. 'This seminal pre-Fluxus anthology was edited by La Monte Young in 1961, and ... (more)

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(MATTA-CLARK, Gordon). Greenwald, Ted.

Making a Living.

New York. The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. 1973. 4to. Poems by Ted Greenwald with original covers designed by Gordon Matta-Clark - the artist's only book illustrations. Mimeographed printing. Original printed wrappers, stapled

One of 26 deluxe copies, lettered A-Z, signed by both Matta-Clark (in green pen) and Greenwald. Rare.

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(PENN, Irving).

(PENN, Irving).

Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn. Sculpture, Prints and Drawings.

New York. Privately printed by The Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn Trust 1994. 4to. pp. 93, (3). Cloth, dust jacket. Fine copy.

Privately published memorial volume on the work of Irving Penn's Swedish artist wife, Lisa ... (more)

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(ROTH, Dieter).

[Original Drawing]. Autobiographie von Otmar Bauer. (Photostat transcript of an unpublished typewritten manuscript).

Berlin. 1973.

A 95-page loose sheet photostat of Otmar Bauer's proposed autobiography which was to be entitiled ... (more)

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ABBOTT, Berenice. Mitchell, Joseph.

ABBOTT, Berenice. Mitchell, Joseph.

The Bottom of the Harbor.

New York. The Limited Editions Club. 1991. 4to. pp. 249. Illustrated with monochrome photogravure frontispiece and 4 plates. Original black morocco-backed cloth boards, housed in matching cloth slipcase.

From the edition limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. A collection of stories by Mitchell ... (more)

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AKASEGAWA, Genpei.

Ejigen Aimai na umi. (The Ambiguous Ocean).

Tokyo. 1971. Folio. pp. (7). With 12 colour reproductions of Akasegawa collages, each individually mounted in folded numbered card. Loose as issued in plain card chemise and green cloth drop-back box. Original protective cardboard packing sleeve.

Edition limited to 200 copies. Though published in June, Akasegawa’s writing of ‘Aimai na umi’ seems ... (more)

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ref: 40707

ALBERS, Josef.

ALBERS, Josef.

Interaction of Color.

New Haven & London. Yale University Press. 1963. 2 vols. Large 4to. pp. 80 (text); 48 (commentary). 80 silk -screened folders, many with flaps, cut-out overlays and other variables. Text in full publisher's cloth, plates in cloth drop-back box, slipcase. In original publisher's printed card box.

First edition of Albers masterpiece on colour theory.

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ALECHINSKY, Pierre.

ALECHINSKY, Pierre.

Trois Petites Plaques de PA chez PAB + Trois Petites Gravures de PA chez PAB.

1991. Each set contains 3 monochrome and 9 coloured prints. Loose as issued in wrappers with pastedown title labels. Preserved in black box with title labels on cover and spine by Therese Treille.

Each of these sets of prints by Alechinsky contain 12 prints, the original 3 plaques or 3 gravures ... (more)

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ALFABETA. Laboratorio di critica delle arti visive, di storia dell'arte, e. Numero 2.

Milan. Multhipla Edizioni. May 1975. 8vo. pp. 98 Monochrome illustrations throughout, Wrappers.

Second issue of the Milanese art magazine. Includes a notable contribution by Vostell, with reproduction of his Fandango series.

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ref: 40392

ANDRE.

ANDRE.

Carl Andre. Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach.

Mönchengladbach. Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach. 1968. 8vo. Cardboard box with printed ... (more)

From the edition limited to 660 numbered copies. Catalogue for Andre's first one-man exhibition.

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ANTES. Perse, Saint-John.

ANTES. Perse, Saint-John.

Anrufung zum Preise einer Konigin.

Stuttgart. Manus Presse. 1966. 4to. With 8 original colour lithographs by Horst Antes, each signed and numbered in pencil. Loose as issued in wrappers and white cloth-covered drop-back box.

Edition limited to 115 copies.

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ref: 25422

ARMAN & CESAR.

ARMAN & CESAR.

Chimériques Polymères. Le plastique dans l'Art du XXeme siecle.

Nice. Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art contemporain. 1996. 4to. pp. 254. Colour illustrations throughout. Publishers glossy silver boards.

Very important exhibition about plastic in 20th century art, including hundreds of artists like ... (more)

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ARMAN. Lepage, Jacques.

ARMAN. Lepage, Jacques.

Cardiogramme.

Paris. aux dépens d'un amateur / Fequet et Baudier. 1966. Folio. pp. 26, (8). Illustrated with ... (more)

From the first edition limited to 72 copies on vélin d'arches signed by the author and artist on the justification.

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ref: 32726

ARNATT, Keith.

Art & Project Bulletin 23. Keith Arnatt 1220400 - 0000000.

Amsterdam. 1970.

Between 1968 and 1989 Geert van Beijeren and Adriaan van Ravesteijn published 156 issues of the ... (more)

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ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHS. Alloway, Lawrence.

ARTISTS & PHOTOGRAPHS. Alloway, Lawrence.

Artists & Photographs.

New York. Multiples, Inc. 1970. A combination of both exhibition and catalogue. Consists of a box containing various ephemera, texts, images and multiples by nineteen leading artists of the 1960s. Box with cover design by Dan Graham.

“The present exhibition/catalogue clarifies with a new intensity the uses of photography, in a ... (more)

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Artists' Illustrated Books
Artists' Illustrated Books

Our collection of Artists' Illustrated Books is extensive, including many classic livres d'artistes from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, by such artists as Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Kandinsky, Hockney, and many more. Our material is international and covers many artistic schools, including Dada, Surrealism, Art Nouveau, German Expressionism, Russian Avant-Garde and Bauhaus.