188 mostly numbered photocopied leaves, printed on one side only. Housed in a portfolio with lithographed text and two pockets to hold the printed sheets. San Francisco: S. Leiber, [1996].

The rare 23rd catalogue issued by Leiber, which he modeled after Correspondence, the catalogue for the exhibition of the same name, presenting the letters of Ray Johnson at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (October 31-December 5, 1976). The present catalogue offers dadazines, artists’ stamps, mail art, publications by mail artists, and other primary documents related to North American mail art.

This copy is in remarkably fine condition... 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; produced in an edition of ca. 100 copies. 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... More

Hand-colored illus. in the text, hand-colored plate hors texte & sheet of “Timbres Anticrisopestiques” laid-in. [12], [1] pp. Small folio (322 x 246 mm.), orig. pictorial wrappers, stitched as issued. Paris: J. Bernard, 1933.

First and only edition of an amusing narrative about the imaginary “Crisopeste,” with fine illustrations by Lewitska, heightened in color pencil, which disrupt and transform the text. One of 100 numbered luxury copies on vélin blanc fort, heightened with hand coloring, and with an additional plate hors texte, from a total edition of 1000 copies.

Born in Poland, Lewitska (1880-1937) trained as a painter in Paris... More

Printed on both sides. Postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1993.

Postcard invitation for LeWitt’s 1993 show with Konrad Fischer, his main gallery in Germany since the late 1960s. Fine.

❧ P. Credi, ed., An Invitation to Sol LeWitt (2016), p. 34 (pictured). More

Black & white illus. on recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard. Düsseldorf: Konrad Fischer, 1969.

Rare postcard invitation to LeWitt’s second presentation with Fischer. Their first collaboration had taken place 6 January-3 February 1968 – the gallerist’s fourth exhibition and the artist’s debut show in Europe. LeWitt’s preliminary sketch for one of the two wall drawings shown, A square divided horizontally and vertically into four equal parts, each with a different direction of lines (1969) is reproduced on the recto.

“Konrad Fischer most likely saw Sol LeWitt’s work for the first time in 1967 in the exhibition Serielle Formationen in... More

Black & white illus. on recto, details on verso. Pictorial postcard. Houston: Cusack Gallery, 1973.

Rare and early postcard for LeWitt’s exhibition at Houston’s Cusack Gallery. Barbara Cusack (now Hill) opened the space in 1971, and shortly thereafter began hosting exhibitions by a series of influential Conceptual and Minimalist artists, such as Mangold, LeWitt, Kawara, Buren, Tuttle, Ian Wilson, Darboven, Andre, Dibbets, etc. By 1976, she was forced to close the little-known gallery.

In fine condition.

❧ Michael Lailach, ed., Printed Matter: Die Sammlung Marzona in der Kunstbibliothek (2005), p. 138.

Not in P. Credi, ed., An Invitation to Sol... 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