57 black & white illus. [64] pp. 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, staple-bound. Cologne: Galerie Gisela Capitain, 1989.

Scarce Martin Kippenberger (1953-97) artist’s book, from an edition of ca. 500-800 copies. It was published in conjunction with the artist’s exhibition Die Hamburger Hängung. Umzüge 1957-1988. Fallende Flüge [Hamburger Hanging. Removals 1957-1988. Falling Flights] (20 January-18 February 1989).

“This artist book contains reproductions of drawings (oil crayon, lead pencil, ballpoint pen and Tipp-ex on invoices of the Bahia Othon Palace Hotel, Salvador BA, from the years 1986-1988) of the floor plans of all the premises in which Martin Kippenberger had worked and... More

Text in red on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Brussels: Paul Maenz, [1973].

Postcard invitation for Kosuth’s 1973 exhibition with Paul Maenz in Brussels. Kosuth presented Art as Idea as Idea (1967/68). This card was mailed to another gallery, Wide White Space, managed by Anny de Decker and Bernd Lohaus. Near fine, date corrected by hand.

❧ Gerd de Vries, ed., Eine Avantgarde-Galerie und die Kunst der Zeit: Paul Maenz Köln, 1970 – 1980 – 1990, p. 42. More

Black & white photographic illus. on recto, details to verso. Photographic postcard, mailed. Bremerhaven: Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, 1981.

Postcard invitation to Laib’s second show at Jürgen Wesseler’s Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst. In fine condition. Mailed to graphic designer Wim Crouwel’s firm Total-Designe.

❧ Exhibition installation pictured in Vorhut aus dem Hinterland (Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen: 1992). More

Many black & white illus. Ca. 320 unnumbered pages. Photocopied sheets (280 x 215 mm.), mounted with a metal bracket, orig. manila folder, title written in blue marker on upper cover & spine. [From title page & spine]: San Francisco: 1994.

A famous Steven Leiber (1957-2012) catalogue, his 16th, describing more than 700 items; printed in an edition of about 100 copies. This catalogue is modeled after Harald Szeemann’s catalogue for the celebrated Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form exhibition presented at the Kunstalle Bern in 1969. “Rose Holtz,” mentioned on the cover, is Leiber’s grandmother, whose basement... More

Nine stapled & folded sheets (298 x 199 mm. unfolded), printed on both sides & 16 cards (191 x 149 mm.), with black & white illus. and facsimile ms. on reverse, both housed in the orig. cardstock box (205 x 161 x 24 mm.), with text on lid, sides, and bottom (lid a trifle soiled). Black & white illus. on inside of lid & floor of box. San Francisco: 2007.

Leiber’s rare 47th catalogue, which was issued for the second annual New York Art Book Fair, in 2007. It imitates Giulio Paolini’s boxed publication accompanying his 1977 exhibition at the... 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

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

Printed on one side. Fine paper card. Torino: Gian Enzo Sperone, 1975.

Invitation card for LeWitt’s 1975 exhibition at Gian Enzo Sperone’s Torino gallery. Near fine; very faint spotting.

❧ A. Minola, ed., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino-Roma-New York, 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America (2000), Vol. II, pp. 258 (installation photographs) & 493. More

Printed on one side. Card. Torino: Galleria Sperone, 1970.

Invitation card for LeWitt’s solo debut with Gian Enzo Sperone, in Torino. In excellent condition.

❧ A. Minola, ed., Gian Enzo Sperone: Torino-Roma-New York, 35 anni di mostre tra Europa e America (2000), Vol. I, pp. 168-69 (installation photographs) & Vol. II, p. 492. 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 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