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(WEINER, LAWRENCE). Weiner, Lawrence. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Art & Project, 1973. First Edition 1/300. Tall Narrow 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good -.. np (20pp), no illustrations. Text in English and Dutch. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Dating from 1971, "Perhaps When Removed" is one of Lawrence Weiner's earliest publications, and his first artist's book for Amsterdam's "Art & Project". A handsome example of this uncommon item (entry number three of the artist's books in Dieter Schwarz' "Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968-1989: Catalogue Raisonné") limited to three hundred unnumbered copies showing some minor handling along with the faintest rippling and discoloration to the extremities due to having been stored in a moist environment. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 018430

(WEINER, LAWRENCE). Weiner, Lawrence. Basel, SWITZERLAND & New York: Rolf Preisig & Moved Pictures (Lawrence Weiner), 1978. First Edition 1/780. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (42pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English and German. Photographs by Beate Nilsen. Limited to seven hundred and eighty copies and dedicated to Simon Rodia, "Regarding Inscriptions..." is a 1978 photographically illustrated artist's book by the esteemed conceptual practitioner Lawrence Weiner. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item (entry number twenty-two of the artist's books in Dieter Schwarz' "Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968-1989: Catalogue Raisonné") limited to seven hundred and eighty unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "Lawrence Weiner" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 003537

(WEINER, LAWRENCE). Weiner, Lawrence. Germano Celant & Pierluigi Pero, Editors. Torino, ITALY: Sperone Editore, 1970. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Boards in Printed Dust Jacket. Artist's Book. Very Good./Near Fine.. np (110pp), no illustrations. Text in English and Italian. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1970 by the renowned Italian gallerist Gianenzo Sperone, "Tracce / Traces" is Lawrence Weiner's second publication in which the artist's textual works are printed back-to-back and upside down in both English and Italian. An internally most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item (entry number two of the artist's books in Dieter Schwarz' "Lawrence Weiner: Books 1968-1989: Catalogue Raisonné") limited to one thousand unnumbered copies showing some light dampstaining along the spine and bottom of the boards and dust jacket. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026825

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James. Buffalo, NY: CEPA, 1984. First Edition 1/400. Small Oblong 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good +.. np (12pp), 12 b&w illustrations. James Welling's first artist's book "Gelatin Photographs 1-12" consists of a dozen sensuous cover to cover, high contrast images of dark Jell-O photographed against a light background - quite the endgame for the inner aesthetician in all of us! A handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to four hundred unnumbered copies showing a bit of overall light handling and soiling to its white covers along with the small ghost from a removed adhesive label on the rear cover. 0-939784-12-2 Inventory Number: 021388

(WILLIAMS, MASON) (RUSCHA, EDWARD). Williams, Mason. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 1966. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Cloth. Artist's Book. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 21 b&w illustrations + endpapers. Designed by Ed Ruscha. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. A year prior to Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell's Consumer Reports-style crash test involving a Royal manual typewriter ejected from a 1963 Buick LeSabre traveling at ninety miles per hour along US Highway 91 that became "Royal Road Test", the same Oklahoma-born trio collaborated on self-published "The Night I Lost my Baby...". It features Mason Williams's first-person prose poem narrative of shattered romance illustrated with Patrick Blackwell's vintage photographs of Sin City - all art directed by Ed Ruscha. A most handsome example of the uncommon first and only edition limited to five hundred unnumbered copies additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To ... / Mason Williams / 1967" in black ink on the front free endpaper showing some light soiling and dulling to the metallic cloth covers. Inventory Number: 026020

(ZELLEN, JODY). Zellen, Jody. Santa Monica, CA: Self-Published, 1997. First Edition 1/500. 16mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jody Zellen. Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition "Blur" at San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, this is the second of Santa Monica-based artist/graphic designer Jody Zellen's self-produced small format artist's books. Uniformly scaled to 4 ½ x 4 ½", these beautiful little editions combine photographic reproduction, text, and a grid format to achieve a sublime narrative. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 023103

Cohen, Arthur A.. New York: Ex Libris, 1982. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine.. np (30pp), 62 b&w illustrations. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. This slender hord serie catalogue was devoted entirely to The Bauhaus and its impact - featuring one hundred and ninety fully described original photographs, weavings and textiles, drawings, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera related to the likes of Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Aenne Biermann, Walter Dexel, T. Lux Feininger, Walter Gropius, Joannes Itten, Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Hannes Meyer, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Lucia Moholy, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Xanti Schawinsky, Oskar Schlemmer, Joost Schmidt, Thonet, Jan Tschichold, "Umbo" (Otto Umbehrer), Theo Van Doesburg, and many, many others. And while at the time of its publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty-five odd years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome example this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 025895

Cohen, Arthur A.. New York: Ex Libris, 1981. First Edition. Tall Narrow 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Near Fine.. np (18pp), 17 b&w illustrations. With a bibliography. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. This slender eighteen page hors sequence catalogue describes sixty-one books, catalogues and printed works of the Russian Avant-Garde by the likes of Natan Altman, Yurii Annenkov, David Burliuk, Natalia Goncharova, Iliazd, Velimir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Larionov, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Alexandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Vladimir Tatlin, and many others. And while at the time of its 1981 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty-five years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome example of this uncommon reference. Inventory Number: 025894

Cohen, Arthur A.. New York. ND (circa 1988).: Ex Libris. First Edition. Tall Narrow 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Fine.. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number eighteen features fifty-two fully described and illustrated exceptional works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on or by the likes of Hans (Jean) Arp, Broom, Francesco Cangiullo, Fortunato Depero, Andre Derain, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Die Flaeche, Fluxus, Natalia Goncharova, Wassily Kandinsky, Valentina Kulagina, Fernand Leger, El Lissitzky and Mayakovsky, Kazimir Malevich, Henri Matisse, Bruno Munari, Diter Rot (Dieter Roth), Kurt Schwitters, Surrealism, Ladislav Sutnar, Yves Tanguy, Tato (Guglielmo Sansoni), Tolschin, H. Th. Wijdeveld, Tristan Tzara, Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Zwart, and more. And while at the time of its publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty years later they are finally downright bargains! A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon reference with the original price list additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 025893

Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. New York: Ex Libris, 1983. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Bookseller's Catalogue. Near Fine./Fine.. np (76pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Tamar Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen. With a bibliography. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number ten was devoted entirely to Dada material - featuring three hundred and thirty-six fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on or by the likes of Hans Arp, Hugo Ball, Andre Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, George Grosz, Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janco, Alfred Jarry, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Hans Richter, Kurt Schwitters, Tristan Tzara, Theo Van Doesburg, and many, many others. And while at the time of its 1983 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some thirty-five years later they are finally downright bargains! A most handsome example of this uncommon reference in a like dust jacket. Inventory Number: 025890

Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. New York. ND (circa 1976).: Ex Libris. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Very Good.. np (152pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number three features nine hundred and eighty-five fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Guillaume Apollinaire, Architecture, Expressionism, Illustrated Books and Livres de Peintre, Alfred Jarry, Periodicals and Annuals, Photographs and Photogravures (including a large collection of plates from "Camera Work"), Photography and Film, and Surrealism. And while at the time of its 1976 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some forty years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome example of this uncommon reference showing a bit of light sunning to the covers along with its title added discreetly in ink to the spine. Inventory Number: 015159

Cohen, Arthur A. & W. Michael Sheehe. New York: Ex Libris, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Very Good.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. With an index and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number six was their piece de resistance - with four hundred and thirty-four fully described and indexed books, periodicals, pamphlets, and posters of the Russian Avant-Garde by the likes of Natan Altman, Yurii Annenkov, David Burliuk, Vladimir Burliuk, Marc Chagall, Vasilii Ermilov, Alexandra Exter, Pavel Filonov, Naum Gabo, Natalia Goncharova, Vasilii Kamensky, Vasilii Kandinsky, Ivan Kliun, Gustav Klucis, Petr Konchalovsky, Mikhail Larionov, V. Lebedev, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikail Matiushin, Petr Miturich, Liubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Georgii Stenberg, Vladimir Stenberg, Vavara Stepanova, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexandr Vesnin, and many, many others. It contains over five hundred additional items related to F.T. Marinetti and Italian Futurism, De Stijl, The Bauhaus and its Legacy, and Eastern European & German books, periodicals, graphics and photographs. And while at the time of its 1977 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some forty years later they are finally downright bargains! An internally most handsome example of this uncommon reference showing wear, rubbing, and some sunning along the spine of its graphically striking covers. LC 77-71400 Inventory Number: 025835

Siegelaub, Seth & John W. Wendler, Editors. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Roma Publications, Stedelijk Museum, De Appel & Stichting Egress Foundation, 2015. Second Edition (First Thus) 1/1600. 4to. Wrappers in Acetate Jacket. Artists' Book. As New/As New. np (372pp), 350 b&w illustrations. Issued in 1968 by gallerists Seth Siegelaub and John W. Wendler, this collaborative project known as "The Xerox Book" features contributions from artists Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Lawrence Weiner. Each participant contributed an original twenty-five page, 11 x 8 ½" artwork that would only exist on the printed page - not on a gallery wall. Generally considered to be the first conceptual artists' book, it was originally envisioned as being produced by a Xerox copy machine, however the price for printing the three hundred and sixty-eight page volume proved to financially unworkable, so it was ultimately printed using the offset process. A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable 2015 facsimile edition of this extraordinarily important Conceptual Art document limited to one thousand, six hundred copies published in conjunction with the Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and De Appel arts centre's exhibition "Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art" still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 94-91843-52-4 Inventory Number: 027336