Two engraved plates (one is folding & with eight images) & five folding woodcut plates of watermarks. Five vols. bound in four. 8vo, cont. paste-paper boards (occasional minor browning), flat spines gilt, red leather lettering pieces on spines. Brussels: [Privately Printed], 1803.

The very rare privately printed catalogue, in its most complex state, of the vast and famous library of Carlos Antonio La Serna (1752-1813), bibliographer, historian of early printing, and “conservateur” at the Brussels Library. The main part of the library, the finest of the time in the Low Countries, was actually amassed by his uncle, Don Simon de... More

xxiv, [1], 94 pp. Small 4to, orig. blue limp cloth boards (spine defective), upper cover stamped in gilt. London: Woodfall & Kinder, 1856.

A rare privately printed catalogue of this important collection featuring works by Titian, Turner, Elsheimer, and Palma Vecchio. The collection began with Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland (1602-68), who was one of the greatest collectors during the Civil War and Restoration periods and a significant patron of Van Dyck. “By the late 1650s, Northumberland’s collection was perhaps the finest in England. His genuine aesthetic appreciation of Venetian pictures, especially by Titian, and portraits by Van Dyck... More

Numerous illus. Large folding poster (914 x 610 mm.), folded into eight panels (minor wear to the central fold). [San Francisco]: November 2010.

Leiber’s scarce penultimate catalogue (no. 51), a poster issued on the occasion of the 2010 New York Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1; WorldCat records no copies in the United States. “This poster mimics the event flyer for 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering, a series that took place October 13-23, 1966, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. The series was the inaugural program of the Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) organization and involved a.... More

13 double-page illus. 5 pp. of text. 4to (280 x 215 mm.), orig. plain stiff boards, spine taped as issued. San Francisco: Steven Leiber, [2010].

Steven Leiber’s rare last catalogue, devoted to the artists’ books of the Schmidt-Heins sororal twins, with color reproductions of their work. It is modeled after the exhibition catalogue Buchwerke, Barbara Schmidt-Heins, Gabriele Schmidt-Heins, Original-Bucher 1972 bis 1976, issued by the Kunstraum München & the Institut für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, in 1976. This catalogue offers 14 unique bookworks for sale (seven by each twin), and provides detailed descriptions of their structures and illustrations.

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Black & white illus. on first & last pages. Two large folded brown sheets (457 x 305 mm. folded). 6 pp. of text & one small blue sheet entitled “Vault Room” laid-in. San Francisco: 1996.

Leiber’s uncommon 25th catalogue, published for an exhibition (18 July - 31 August 1996) at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles. Designed by Jody Zellen and Yoon Ki Chai and published in an edition of around 1000 copies.

In excellent condition.

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Single printed sheet & large crumpled and folded sheet (ca. 440 x 600), printed on both sides. San Francisco: [1999].

A very rare Steven Leiber (1957-2012) catalogue, one of approximately 100 copies produced. Numbered by Leiber as no. 30, Steven Leiber Catalogs has it as his 36th (March 1999). Imitating Duchamp’s celebrated poster and a work by Martin Creed, this catalogue is also very rare. Our copy is complete with the tongue-in-cheek certificate of authenticity for “A Sheet of 24 x 18 inch paper printed on both sides crumpled into a ball.”

The catalogue itself offers artists’ books by Roberta... More

Many black & white photocopied illus. 18 unnumbered leaves. 8vo (215 x 143 mm.), printed pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. [San Francisco: 2005].

A rare catalogue (no. 44) issued by Leiber in zine form that offers 39 works by Raymond Pettibon, including drawings, artist’s books, ephemera, and a collaborative piece with Ed Ruscha. These were all shown at 871 Fine Arts in an exhibition assembled by Adrienne Fish and Leiber. This catalogue is modeled after Pettibon’s zine Tripping Corpse, published by SST Records from 1981 to 1985.

In near fine condition, small stain to bottom of lower wrapper.

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[34] pp. 8vo (212 x 149 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers, staple-bound. Cambridge, UK, & San Francisco: 20th Century Art Archives & Steven Leiber, 1996.

The scarce Leiber catalogue (no. 22) dispersing the remaining holdings of Leif Eriksson’s Swedish Archive of Artists’ Books; produced in an edition of around 250 copies. A great collector and advocate of artists’ publications, Eriksson started his archive in 1978. This catalogue was made in collaboration with Louisa Riley-Smith (20th Century Art Archives), who designed the catalogue. She selected an entrancing image from Annette Messager’s Les Tortures Volontaires (1974) as the cover image.

This catalogue offers... More

23 mailed envelopes (104 x 241 mm.) with one or multiple sheets (27 sheets in total, each 278 x 532 mm. unfolded) with listings and black & white illus. San Francisco: 2003-5.

An ingenious Steven Leiber (1957-2012) catalogue, this, his 43rd, was constituted serially from October 2003 to July 2005 envelope by envelope; our set is complete with all 23 envelopes, containing 27 “Proposals.” Most of the envelopes were mailed at regular two-week intervals. Steven Leiber Catalogs attributes the inspiration for the present catalogue to a 1969 series of project reports made by the conceptual art collective N. E. Thing... More

Many black & white illus., four original artist’s “pageworks” by Albrecht D., and photograph pasted to lower wrapper. 8vo (280 x 108 mm.) & 4to (210 x 220 mm.), orig. green printed wrappers, staple-bound. San Francisco: S. Leiber, April 1998.

Steven Leiber’s 33rd catalogue; it is tantamount to a comprehensive bibliographic survey of the German artist Albrecht D. and his Reflection Press. The book’s leaves, printed in two sizes, are bound in alternating format, corresponding to the materials they describe. The catalogue’s format imitates several works created by Albrecht D. (b. 1944). Leiber includes a concise history of the Reflection... More

Two large vellum leaves (430 x 280 mm.), offset printed on one side only. [From bottom of second leaf]: San Francisco: February 1997.

An extremely rare catalogue (no. 27) which Leiber fabricated as an homage to Jamie Lee Byars’s The Black Book (1971), a work consisting of a single sheet of black tissue paper with gold text. That book is offered in this catalogue for $1500.

The present catalogue also lists scarce artworks, exhibition catalogues, and ephemera by or related to Andre, Beuys, Boltanski, Christo, Filliou, Iannone, R. Johnson, LeWitt, Pettibone, Rauschenberg, Rot, Ruppersberg, Schneemann, Shiomi, Stella, Tuttle, Vautier, Warhol... More

Many illus. 305 pp. 4to, printed softcover. Santander: Ediciones La Bahía, 2014.

Uncommon exhibition catalogue that is an essential resource on Sol LeWitt’s artist’s books, exhibition invitations, and posters. As new. More