Black & white illus. throughout. [48] pp. Square 4to (190 x 191 mm.), printed wrappers, staple-bound. N.p.: Self-published, [1970].

A very rare Bas Jan Ader (1942-75) artist’s book, self-published in an unknown edition size. Stills from his legendary Fall I and Fall II (both 1970) are reproduced within. Our copy is in remarkably fine condition. WorldCat records just five institutional examples in North America.

❧ Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du Livre d’Artiste: Une Introduction à l’art contemporain (2nd ed.: 2012), p. 291 (in trans.): “Fall (1970), in which Ader publishes a series of stills of his voluntary falls (rolling from the rooftop... More