[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

Details and illus. on recto, verso blank. Pictorial card. New York: John Weber Gallery, 1980.

Invitation distributed by John Weber Gallery for an exhibition of Sol LeWitt photographs. These photographs were eventually used in LeWitt’s 1982 artist’s book under the same title, published by Texas Gallery.

Fine.

❧ Not in P. Credi, ed., An Invitation to Sol LeWitt (2016). More

Color illustrations throughout (on covers & inside of covers). [10] leaves. Tall 8vo, semi-stiff pictorial covers, stitched. Paris: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, [1987].

A rather scarce and nicely illustrated exhibition catalogue/artist’s book stemming from LeWitt's 1987 exhibition in Paris. Two publications were realized in conjunction with the occasion, the other, entitled Four Colors and All Their Combinations, consists of 20 leaves and has the exhibition’s dates as 20 February-19 April. It focuses on single colors and their transformations when mixed, while the present book reproduces Wall Drawings of geometrical shapes. As indicated by the text on... More

Rich color illus. Leporello forming [20] pp. Oblong 4to, orig. pictorial boards, title on spine. Munster, Germany: 1987.

Scarce Sol LeWitt exhibition catalogue/artist’s book. Recreates the entire wall installation specially made for the exhibition with an effective use of the leporello format. The illustrations are beautifully printed.

Near fine.

❧ Maffei & de Donno, Sol LeWitt Artist’s Books (2009), p. 120.

Sol LeWitt: Libros, El concepto como arte (2014) 69 (pictured on pp. 155–57). More

12 black & white illus. [24] pp. Very tall 8vo (169 x 356 mm.), orig. printed wrappers (some sunning), staple-bound. Zurich: Bruno Bischofberger, 1969.

LeWitt’s second “autonomous” artist’s book – i.e., not connected to an exhibition or part of another publication. This is one of 1000 copies printed, all of which were numbered (ours is no. 924), there were also 500 copies signed by LeWitt.

49 three-part variations… was published by the Zurich gallerist Bruno Bischofberger, with whom LeWitt had his first solo presentation in February-March 1968. Bischofberger, along with Konrad Fischer and Heiner Friedrich, was one of the earliest... More

[4] pp. Single folded A3 sheet. Amsterdam: Art & Project, 1971.

LeWitt’s scarce third Art & Project bulletin, this copy is in excellent condition with the additional folds forming 48 rectangles. It is one of several bulletins that were intentionally left blank by the artists designing them.

“Sol LeWitt’s Bulletin 43 is another issue that is blank inside, but in this case LeWitt had each closed Bulletin folded vertically and three time horizontally to create 48 rectangles when the Bulletin is opened up…At first sight, the rectangles created out of Bulletin 43 each appear to be squares, but the fact... More

Color illus. throughout, printed with 4-color offset lithography. [84] pp. Square 4to (200 x 200 mm.), orig. printed wrappers, perfect-bound. New York: Multiples, Inc. & Colombes, France: Générations, 1977.

First edition of LeWitt’s first artist’s book published with Marian Goodman’s Multiples, Inc. Up to this point the artist had produced a number of prints and portfolios through Goodman, but this was the first “multiple” made in book form. This work consists of 78 combinations of the components listed in the title.

Fine copy. Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.

❧ D. Schwarz, ed., Multiples, Inc.: 1965-1992 (2021) 1977.15 (pictured... More

16 black & white plates. [32] pp. Square 4to (200 x 200 mm.), orig. illustrated semi-stiff wrappers (extremities a bit worn), staple-bound. London: Studio International, 1969.

An extremely rare signed copy of this early Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) artist’s book, he has inscribed the verso of the final leaf: “For Sid Tillim / Sol LeWitt.” Sidney Tillim (1925-2001) was an influential art critic and artist who wrote for Artforum and Arts Magazine. This is LeWitt’s fifth book, but the third standalone publication not originating from an exhibition or periodical.

“The front cover of Four Basic Kinds of Straight Lines is an... More

Seven color illus. [16] pp. Square 4to (181 x 181 mm.), orig. printed wrappers, staple-bound. Jerusalem: 1975.

Scarce exhibition catalogue designed by Sol LeWitt (1928-2007) for his exhibition at the Israel Museum in 1975. It is printed in parallel English and Hebrew. The seven illustrations show seven iterations of LeWitt’s concept for the exhibit. With a checklist of works exhibited at the end.

Near fine copy; some inoffensive discoloration to the wrappers. WorldCat: Museum of Modern Art (NY), Stanford, National Gallery of Art (D.C.), Clark Art Institute, and Rhode Island School of Design.

❧ Maffei & de Donno, Sol LeWitt... More