Many black & white illus. 64 pp. Small 4to (231 x 172 mm.), orig. printed pictorial wrappers offset-printed & designed by M. Boyle, staple-bound. Stuttgart & London: 1979.

An uncommon publisher’s catalogue listing works by Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Richard Hamilton, Andre Thomkins, Stefan Wewerka, Tom Phillips, Mark Boyle, Claes Oldenburg, Dorothy Iannone, Arnulf Rainer, etc. Also offered are videos, prints, multiples, records, and Mayer’s previous catalogues. Most of the items are pictured. Beginning in 1966, Mayer issued a catalogue every year with his newest publications and a backlist.

A fine copy, with a folded flyer for “Dieter Roth’s Verlag” laid-in. Produced in an edition of... More

Many black & white illus. throughout. 64 pp. 4to (231 x 172 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers offset-printed & designed by T. Phillips, staple-bound. Stuttgart & London: 1977.

A scarce publisher’s catalogue presenting books by Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Jan Voss, Richard Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Arnulf Rainer, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Dorothy Iannone, Mark Boyle, etc. It also lists videos, prints, posters, multiples, and Mayer’s previous catalogues. Nearly every item is pictured. Beginning in 1966, Mayer issued a catalogue every year with his newest publications and a backlist.

Fine copy. A number of pencil annotations. Produced in an edition of 1500 copies, with four-color offset-printed wrappers designed... More

Many black & white illus. throughout. [50] pp. (incl. inside wrappers). 4to (230 x 172 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers offset-printed & designed by E. Williams, staple-bound. Stuttgart, London & Reykjavik: 1975.

A scarce publisher’s catalogue presenting books by artists such as Dieter Roth, Emmett Williams, Tom Phillips, Jan Voss, Richard Hamilton, Dorothy Iannone, Stefan Wewerka, Daniel Spoerri, etc. Also listed are records, prints, posters, and Mayer’s previous catalogues. Nearly every item is pictured in this catalogue. Beginning in 1966, Mayer issued a catalogue every year with his newest publications and a backlist.

Fine copy, upper wrapper a little scuffed. From an edition of 4000 copies, with four color offset-printed wrappers designed by Emmett Williams. Laid-in is an illustrated order form for Roth’s Sammlung flachen Abfalls 1975/76 as well as one for his family press. More

12 pp. 8vo (199 x 134 mm.), attractive modern marbled wrappers. Paris: Bénard & Narjot, 1810.

A very scarce catalogue, with nearly all prices in a contemporary hand, dispersing the collection of prints assembled by the philosophe and disciple of Diderot. Naigeon (1738-1810), a professed atheist, editor of a large number of clandestine works, and translator of Greek and Roman texts, was a close friend of Diderot and d’Holbach, editing many of their books.

This catalogue lists 54 lots, with prints by Audran, An. Carracci, Desnoyers, van Dyck, Poilly, Rembrandt, Edelinck, Nanteuil, etc. Lot 48 comprises a portrait drawing of Diderot by Vanloo... More

Many black & white illus. 30 long vertical sheets (ca. 430 x 282 mm.), printed on rectos only, stapled at head. [From final sheet]: San Francisco: August 2003.

A scarce Leiber catalogue (no. 42), offering 289 items of mail art, visual poetry, artists’ books and publications, exhibition catalogues, and rare ephemera. This profusely illustrated catalogue imitates Allan Kaprow’s DAYS OFF: A Calendar of Happenings, a commission by the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art, created in 1970.

Each page focuses on a particular theme or presents works by an individual artist or group, for example: “Bay Area Dadaists,” “Zines,” “Bananology,” “European Mail Art Exhibitions,” “Commonpress,”... More

Many black & white illus. Eighty-one folded sheets housed in the orig. mailing box (310 x 247 x 158 mm.). San Francisco: 1995.

One of Leiber’s most famous catalogues (no. 18), complete with all 81 “bulletins.” Leiber mimicked issues of the Bulletin, published by the proprietors of the Art & Project Gallery, Adriaan van Ravesteijn and Geert van Beijeren, from 1968 to 1989.

This catalogue was divided into 81 folded sheets, some with added printed sheets. It includes scarce materials by or related to Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Bochner, Barbara Bloom, Boltanski, Brouwn, Buren, Cage, Darboven, Feldmann, Haacke, Holzer, Ray Johnson, Kruger, LeWitt, Marclay, Richter, Roth, Ruscha, Weiner, etc.... More

Ten black & white illus.; text printed in red. 12 pp. Folio (311 x 230 mm.), unbound folded sheets, as issued. [Alkmaar & Amsterdam: 1978].

An uncommon exhibition catalogue of a show curated by Carrión, held at the Stedelijk Museum Alkmaar in October 1978. From the curator’s essay: “This exhibition tries to show the contact points, the relationships, between artists’ bookworks and Mail Art. Both forms are contemporary (they belong more or less to the last two decades) and influence and enrich each other.”

Carrión’s essay (in parallel Dutch and English texts) is interspersed with images showing mail art by Regina Silveira, Donald Burgy, Henryk... More

Four full-page woodcut illus. & two woodcuts in the text. 26 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. patterned wrappers, orig. block-printed title label on upper cover, new stitching. Osaka: Aiwaen, 1810.

First edition and rare; we find no copy of this first edition in WorldCat. Okura (1768-1856?), was one of the three most eminent agronomists of the Edo period. A reformer and advisor to several daimyo, he wrote more than 20 books on all aspects of agricultural improvement and technology; they were amongst the best of their period in range and clarity of explanation of the new methods. Okura was devoted to the development of... More

Lithographed frontis. by Rot on inside of upper wrapper & many black & white text illus. 49 unnumbered pages (incl. inside of lower wrapper). 4to (229 x 170 mm.), orig. yellow printed wrappers, staple-bound. Stuttgart, London & Reykjavik: 1973.

A rare and early catalogue of artists’ books issued by Mayer, featuring a lithograph signed and numbered by Dieter Roth. We have identified three states of the lithograph, each printed in an edition of 850. This catalogue offers the work of Roth, Richard Hamilton, Tom Phillips, Stefan Wewerka, Mark Boyle, Emmett Williams, Eduardo Paolozzi, Dorothy Iannone, etc. Almost all entries are accompanied by photographs.

“A printer, art teacher and publisher living in London, Hansjörg Mayer’s typographical experiments and publications in his edition hansjörg mayer made him into one of the most important protagonists of concrete poetry and the art of the 1960s…Since 1963, as Dieter Roth’s publisher, Mayer was prepared to find ways to convert every provocative artistic idea into the letterpress. Mayer moved to England in 1966, where he taught at the Bath Academy of Art and the Watford School of Art. In 1968 the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag (The Hague) dedicated the first large retrospective to the 25-year-old artist. Since then, Mayer has published more than 300 books, posters, films, records and videos in the edition hansjörg mayer.”–from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin’s exhibition website Hansjörg Mayer, Typoems and Artist Books (October 2019-January 2020). More

Many black & white illus. 43 unnumbered pages. 8vo (180 x 128 mm.), orig. printed semi-stiff pictorial wrappers. Munich: Galerie Heiner Friedrich, 1978.

An uncommon catalogue of 26 Broodthaers editions and multiples. With a check-list at the end with information on edition size, medium, and publisher. Each work is illustrated.

In very good condition, with a few tape marks to the lower cover. More

Many black & white illus. Unpaginated, with price-list. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. [Paris: 2000].

A scarce bookseller’s catalogue offering photobooks and photographs by Araki, Frank, Hosoe, Kawada, Moriyama, etc. Lists 52 items, with the price-list laid-in. WorldCat records no copy in North America. In fine condition. More

One sheet folded into two leaves. Small 4to, unbound, uncut. N.p.: n.d. [but probably Nuremberg: ca. 1780-90].

Very rare; VD18 13815725 offers J.G. Recknagel as the author but without giving a source and says “place of publication not identifiable.” A notary named J.G. (Johann Georg?) Recknagel was active at Nuremberg in 1772, and an eponymous Protestant clergyman (b. 1797), was active in other parts of Franconia in the 1820; neither seems to be our author.

Some of the entries of this satirical fictitious piece of ephemera include the following, in translation. More