Artists’ Books & Multiples

1 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)

£6,500

ref: 21693

2 ALLIX, Susan.

A Flora. Words about Flowers from Sixteen Authors, with Prints by Susan Allix.

London. Published by the artist. 1992. 4to. Illustrated with 24 colour prints in various formats. Bound in pink paper-covered boards with green morocco inlays to resemble vegetation, silk applique flowers, housed in green cloth box.

From the edition limited to 26 copies signed by the artist. A collection of poems and texts by ... (more)

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ref: 29024

3 ALLIX, Susan. Burnett, A. M. (Translator).

Pyramids. An Account by Herodotus.

London. 1995. 8vo. Illustrated in monochrome and colour throughout using a variety of printing techniques. Morocco-backed cloth boards titled in blind with affixed plaque of polished brass and triangular snakeskin section, printed endpapers, fold-out cloth slipcase with title and morocco flap.

From the edition limited to 12 copies signed by Allix, with this an artist's proof marked 'AP'.
A wonderful artist's book, Pyramids was designed, illustrated and bound by Susan Allix. The translation was undertaken by Allix's husband.

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ref: 29050

4 ALLIX, Susan.

Shine.

London. 1997. 12mo. (10 x 7 cm). Illustrated in monochrome and colour throughout using a variety of printing techniques. Original yellow morocco-backed mylar over printed mirrored plastic, original turquoise velour bag.

From the edition limited to 14 copies, signed by the artist on the colophon.
Text includes quotations from Lewis Carroll, William Shakespeare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Edward Fitzgerald.

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ref: 29053

5 ALLIX, Susan.

The Golden Temple Mail to Bharatpur.

London. 2001. 4to. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original publisher's printed wrappers using a variety of paper stock, dust-jacket with paper-backed mylar section.

From the edition limited to 25 copies signed by Allix, with this one of 10 with reproductions of all the prints.
The prints were taken from original paintings made using traditional Rajasthani techniques and materials.

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ref: 29051

6 APPEL. Vrijman, Jan (introduction).

Musique Barbare van Karel Appel.

Baarn, Holland. International Publishing Co. Ltd, The World's Window. 1963. 24 pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page black-and-white photographic images of the artist at work. Includes 12'' gramaphone record of Appel's frantic musical inventions "Musique Barbare", recorded at the Phonogram studio at Hilversum. Cloth-backed pictorial boards.

A fine book-album with text in English, large photographs by Ed van der Elsken and a record by Karel Appel in a pocket. Also present is the original colour lithograph by Appel, signed in the stone, inserted loose.

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ref: 28847

7 ARP, Hans.

Die Wolkenpumpe.

Hannover. Paul Steegemann. 1920. 4to. pp. 24 + 2 pages adverts. Original wrappers with woodcut illustration by Arp on front cover.

This copy with an ORIGINAL SIGNED DRAWING by Arp on first blank leaf and a dedication 'à Louis ... (more)

£7,500

ref: 29901

8 ART D'AUJOURD'HUI. Juin 1949 - Decembre 1954 [Complete run]

Boulougne-sur Seine. Architecture d'Aujourd'hui. 1949-1954. 43 issues in 36 (67double issues). 4to ... (more)

The publication of the five series was irregular. The aim of 12 issues a year was never ... (more)

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ref: 29553

9 ARTE CONCRETA.

Bollettino del Movimento Arte Concreta di Milano. No. 1 (1st November 1951) - No. 15 (31st May 1953).

Milan. M. A. C. 1951 - 1953. 15 issues (14 square 8vo. (170 x 165 mm.); 1 tall 8vo. (235 x 175 ... (more)

A wonderful set in excellent condition of the ground-breaking Bollettino del Movimento Arte Concreta ... (more)

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ref: 29923

10 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. Illustrates the importance of photography in the work of these artists.

Contents of Box: Mel Bochner - Misunderstandings (A theory of photography) Christo - Packed ... (more)

£4,000

ref: 30180

11 BELLMER. Eluard, Paul.

Les Jeux de la Poupée. Illustrés de Textes par Paul Eluard.

Paris. Les Editions Premières. 1949. Small 4to. pp. 86. Some pages uncut. Illustrated with tipped-in vignette photograph on title and 15 tipped-in photographs hand coloured by Bellmer. Original publisher's black wrappers with mounted vignette photograph (matching that on the title), small pink title label to spine and pink bandeau.

From the edition limited to 142 copies, signed by Bellmer. The 'Jeux de la Poupée' is preceded by a ... (more)

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ref: 30089

12 BALDESSARI, John.

Throwing Three Balls in the Air to get a Straight Line (Best of Thirty-Six Attempts).

Milan Giampaolo Prearo Editore S.r.L. / Galleria Toselli. 1973. Oblong 4to. 14 leaves in slipcase. Leaves offset lithograph printed. Card slipcase, letterpress printed with cut-out.

Limited to 2000 copies. As early as 1972-73, Baldessari had set himself the impossible task of ... (more)

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ref: 30108

13 BEUYS.

Noiseless Blackboard Eraser.

New York. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. 1974. 5 x 13 x 2.5 cm. Felt blackboard eraser, yellow label. Signed by Beuys in felt pen in Suetterlin (prewar German) script; numbered in felt pen by another hand.

From the edition limited to 550, plus 6 hors commerce. Beuys had the idea for this edition at a ... (more)

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ref: 29898

14 BOLTANSKI.

L'Album Photographique de Christian Boltanski 1948-1956.

Hamburg & Paris. Edition Hossmann & Sonnabend Press. 1972. 8vo. With 32 original black-and-white photographs, each tipped onto card with printed descriptive titles. 32-page booklet, with English & German caption translation inserts. With title and colophon cards. Loose as issued in aluminium box with title on lid.

From the edition limited to 500 copies, with this one of 60 deluxe copies presented in a metal ... (more)

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ref: 30123

15 BURLIUK, David and others.

Poshchechina obshchestvennomu vkusu. V zashchitu svobodnogo iskusstva. Stikhi, proza, stat'i. (A Slap in the Face of Public Taste: In Defense of Free Art. Verse, Prose, Essays).

Moscow. G.L. Kuz'min. 1912. 4to. pp. 112. With essays by David and Nikolai Burliuk, Wassily Kandinsky, Khlebnikov, Kruchenykh, Livshits, and Mayakovsky. Original limp brown burlap cover with letterpress text on front.

Limited to 600 copies. The first collection of Futurist poetry, "A Trap for Judges" (1910), was ... (more)

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ref: 29921