Color illus. throughout. [32] pp. 8vo, orange printed wrappers, staple-bound. Athens, Greece: Bernier/Eliades Gallery & Agra Publications, 2013.

Scarce Annette Messager (b. 1943) exhibition catalogue that is beautifully illustrated with installation photographs. With a text by the critic and curator Bernard Marcadé in French, English, and Greek.

Fine. WorldCat records copies at the following American institutions: Magazzino, MoMA, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. More

30 leaves, one blank leaf at end with scholarly annotations dated 1927, all on fine torinoko paper. Small 4to (240 x 178 mm.), decchoso (“butterfly”) binding of early decorated navy blue wrappers (a few careful repairs, one leaf sprung); landscapes of pine trees with mist, all in gold & gold “mud,” painted on covers; orig. orange manuscript title label on upper wrapper. [Japan: mid-Edo].

A beautifully written and bound manuscript of Shojin gyorui monogatari, a fascinating parody of the Heike monogatari [Tale of Heike], a historical epic written in the late 12th or early 13th century. Tale of Heike, second only in importance to Tale... More

27 full-page paintings (14 are colored), after Tokei Niwa. 21 folding leaves. 8vo (238 x 158 mm.), orig. wrappers (some worming throughout). [Japan]: from a note on the final page (in trans.): “copied March 1843.”

A manuscript copy of an important and fascinating illustrated work, Kodo zuroku, originally published in Osaka ca. 1801-11, on the history and technology of smelting copper in Japan. The island nation by the late 1670s had become the largest copper-producing and -exporting country in the world (replacing Sweden and replaced by China in the 1740s), with much of the copper being exported by the Dutch East India Company to European and... More

Color illus. throughout. [104] pp. Small 8vo (190 x 117 mm.), orig. printed dust-jacket (scuffed at spine), perfect-bound. Toronto: Art Metropole; Aachen: Ottenhausen verlag, 1987.

First and only edition; a scarce artist’s book by Maurizio Nannucci (b. 1939). The artist introduces a series of direct photographs of buildings artists once lived in, with the following: “The art community is distinguished by continuous movement, by a sort of visceral nomadism. The images collected here are travel notes taken between 1975 and 1985. Consequently although some things may have changed down through the years, the initial project remains substantially unaltered.”

We see the front doors of buildings where artists like Laurie Anderson, Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti, Daniel Buren, Christo, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ian Hamilton Finlay, General Idea, Hans Haacke, Keith Haring, Dick Higgins, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, Giulio Paolini, Robert Rauschenberg, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Michael Snow, Andy Warhol, Lawrence Weiner, etc., once lived. Only a few women artists are included. More

[12] leaves. 4to, gray printed wrappers, staple-bound. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg, 1992.

Important exhibition catalogue with a translation of Ulises Carrión’s “The New Art of Making Books” into German. This is one of a long series of catalogues on artists’ books that Schraenen edited at the Neues Museum Weserburg in Bremen. With a useful biography and bibliography of Carrión’s bookworks.

In excellent condition. Now a scarce catalogue. Volume 2 in the Sammlung der Künstlerbücher. More

12mo, magenta printed semi-stiff covers, stitched. Geneva: Boabooks, May 2016.

From the colophon: “(the drum) presents a linguistic exercise handwritten in black ink by Ulises Carrión in 1972.”

As new. WorldCat records only two holding institutions in North America. More

[15] leaves, printed on rectos only. 12mo, lime green printed semi-stiff covers, stitched. Geneva: Boabooks, May 2016.

From the colophon: “(a, b, c) presents a linguistic exercise handwritten in green ink on fifteen pages by Ulises Carrión in 1972.”

As new. WorldCat records only two holding institutions in North America. More

Many black & white illus. 267 pp. Thick 4to, printed softcover, title on spine, illustrated endpapers. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2016.

The Spanish edition of this exhibition catalogue, now very scarce. The exhibition took place at the Reina Sofia (16 March-10 October 2016) and Mexico City’s Museo Jumex (9 February-7 May 2017). Profusely illustrated, the catalogue contains essays and remembrances by Guy Schraenen, Felipe Ehrenberg, Jan Voss, Joao Fernandes, Heriberto Yepez, Javier Maderuelo, and Maike Aden. An invaluable reference on Ulises Carrión’s life and works.

Near fine, minimal edgewear. With the inserted DVD present as issued. More

Many illus. throughout. 265 pp. 8vo, printed yellow covers, orig. printed dust-jacket perforated at joints, title on spine. Cantabria, Spain: Ediciones La Bahía, 2014.

Uncommon book on five of Carrión’s public art projects in the 80’s, including Gossip, Scandal, and Good Manners, Trios & Boleros, Love Story, and Lilia Prado Superstar Film Festival. A fascinating examination of the artist’s later years, when he was engrossed in social experiments and video art.

As new. More

Many black & white illus. 127, [1] p. Small folio, printed softcover. Amsterdam: [1992].

Catalogue for the first major posthumous exhibition on Ulises Carrión (1941-89). The exhibition was hosted by the Museum Fodor, Amsterdam (18 January-23 February 1992) and the Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen (March-May 1992).

Developed by Carrión’s close friend and collaborator, Guy Schraenen (1941-2018), the show was the first major retrospective of the artist’s life and works. Printed in parallel Dutch and English, this catalogue begins with a lengthy biography by Schraenen, and continues with short essays on Carrión’s manifold books, social experiments, projects, and thoughts on artists’ books. With an exhaustive bibliography and... More

Several black & white illus. Unpaginated. Small 8vo, pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. San Francisco: 1992.

Scarce dealer catalogue offering works by Baldessari, Bloom, Condo, Cragg, Darboven, Forg, Gober, Hockney, Judd, Knoebel, Z. Leonard, S. Levine, LeWitt, Mangold, Marden, Nauman, Pettibon, Polke, Rauschenberg, Salle, Sherman, Wool, etc. Near fine; mailed copy and stapled photograph inside. More

Unpaginated. 8vo, staple-bound. Amsterdam: 1998.

Catalogue compiled by Harry Ruhé’s gallery for Kunst Rai 1998. Includes works by artists such as Abramovic, Armleder, Ay-O, Beuys, Boetti, Boltanski, Buren, Christo, Duchamp, Kienholz, Knowles, LeWitt, Nitsch, Paik, Roth, Saito, Serra, Sherman, Shiomi, Twombly, Vautier, etc. Fine. More