Books, Boxes & Prints

1 ALBIN-GUILLOT, Laure. Henry de Montherlant.

La Déesse Cypris. Douze Etudes de Nus.

Paris / Bordeaux. Henri Colas Editeur & Rousseau Frères. 1946. Folio. Illustrated with 12 monochrome photogravure plates after Laure Albin-Guillot. Original publisher's printed wrappers, slipcase.

From the edition limited to 295 copies, with this one of 190 on 'vélin blanc de papeteries de ... (more)

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ref: 32825

2 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.

£600

ref: 31748

3 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)

£1,200

ref: 33023

4 [ARMAN, CESAR].

On ne regarde pas la lune, mais le doigt qui montre la lune.

Paris. Panorama de l'art contemporain. 1974. Oblong 4to. pp. 232. Black and white illustrations throughout. Loose as issued in printed wrappers designed by Daniel Smerck.

Compendium comprised of work by 45 artists principally those of the Ecole de Nice and the Nouveaux ... (more)

£3,200

ref: 32986

5 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.

£3,500

ref: 32726

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

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

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

£7,500

ref: 33090

7 ASHBERY, John.

Self-Portrait in Convex Mirror.

San Francisco. Arion Press. 1984. This is the complete portfolio with 8 original signed prints ... (more)

From the edition limited to175 numbered copies.
One of the most important of the Arion Press portfolios.

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ref: 33067

8 ASPEN MAGAZINE. Nos. 1-10, including no. 6a. [All published].

New York. Roaring Fork Press / Aspen Communications Inc. 1965-1971. 11 issues, each housed in original publisher's cardboard boxes or printed envelope. Contents loose. A fine set. A full listing of contents can be made available on request.

Aspen was a multimedia magazine published on an irregular schedule by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to ... (more)

£9,500

ref: 32081

9 AYRTON.

Etchings by Michael Ayrton illustrating Femmes/Hombres by Paul Verlaine.

London. Douglas Cleverdon. 1972. Plate size 200 x 255 mm (8 x 10 ins), sheet size 285 x 405 mm (11.25 x 16 ins). Set of seventeen etchings, printed on white japon, each signed, numbered in sequence, and marked O, aside from the published edition. Some creases to margins otherwise a fine set.

This set of the signed etchings includes two additional etchings not published in the book edition - variant impressions of two of the prints, one printed in reverse.

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ref: 32813

10 AZIMUTH. A cura di Enrico Castellani - Piero Manzoni. Nos.1 & 2. [All published].

Milan. Editoriale periodici italiana. 1959-1960. 4to. pp. 32; 24. Numerous illustrations including serigraph by Manzoni, plate by Tinguely, and two 'blues' (large and small) by Yves Klein. Original printed wrappers.

Complete set of this very important periodical of the Galleria Azimuth, featuring work by ... (more)

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ref: 33019

11 BALDESSARI, John.

Two Bowlers (with Questioning Person).

1994. Lithograph and screenprint in colours.

Signed in pencil and numbered 23/43. Printed and published by Gemini GEL, California. 244 x 94 cm

£4,500

ref: 33119

12 BALDESSARI, John.

Two Opponents. (Blue and Yellow).

2004. Screenprint in colours.

Signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 150. Printed and Published by Gemini GEL, California. (30.5 x 30.5 cm).

£1,200

ref: 33120

13 BALDESSARI.

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 showing one of Baldessari's attempts (see notes).

From the edition limited to 2,000 copies. As early as 1972-73, Baldessari had set himself the ... (more)

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ref: 32838

14 BANKSY.

A Tenner.

A spoof Di-faced ten pound note, with image of Princess Diana in place of that of the Queen. The ... (more)

£650

ref: 33344

15 BERTINI.

Identikit di Gianni Bertini.

Nansola / Paris. Edizioni Castelli e Rosati. 1969. 4to. Composed of 32 sheets of thin aluminium, majority screenprinted. Leaves interspersed with transparent coloured sheets of flexible plastic. Bound in black morocco-backed transparent plexiglas boards. Slipcase.

THE ORIGINAL MAQUETTE for the first of Bertini's Identikit series. The series was to eventually run ... (more)

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ref: 33317