Black & white illus. throughout. Two large folded newsprint sheets (=8 pp.), loose as issued, mailed. New York: 1978.

The rarest Backworks catalogue, their third and hard to find in good condition. WorldCat locates no examples in North America. Backworks was a New York-based collaboration between Barbara Moore and Jon Hendricks, specializing in documents and artifacts of avant-garde and experimental art. Located at 488 Greenwich Street, the store was active into the early 80s. In 1981, Hendricks left the partnership to become curator of the Fluxus collection formed by Gilbert and Lila Silverman (now at the Museum of Modern Art... More

Single A4 sheet with brown paper seal for mailing, horizontal folds. Amsterdam: 1975.

A famous Beau Geste Press flyer repurposed as a mailed invitation for the group’s 1975 Other Books and So exhibition. Ulises Carrión forged a close relationship with Felipe Ehrenberg and Martha Hellion, co-founders of the Devon-based small artist-run press. In 1973, he published two artist’s books with Beau Geste Press: Arguments and Tras la Poesía. Carrión also learned first-hand about printing processes, in particular mimeography, which he employed frequently in later years. With the opening of Other Books and So in Amsterdam, Carrión soon became one of... More

Many color illus. 183 pp. & colophon. 8vo, green rubber-stamped softcover. New York: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller Inc., 2022.

Our catalogue on the Mexican artist Ulises Carrión (1941-89). Offered 92 items for sale, followed by lists of the artist’s editioned bookworks, exhibitions at Other Books and So, and a bibliography.

As new, each example is rubber-stamped on the front and back covers. Designed by Flat Fix and printed by KOPA (Lithuania).

OCLC Accession No.: 1295641351. More

Diagrams in the text. 207 pp. & colophon. 8vo, printed softcover, title on spine. Geneva: Héros-Limite, 1997.

First edition of this important Ulises Carrión (1941-89) sourcebook. The artist’s most influential texts are presented in French and English, edited by Juan J. Agius. These are paired with essays by the great scholars of artists’ books, Anne Moeglin-Delcroix (b. 1948) and Clive Phillpot (b. 1938).

Near fine. More

86, [1] p. 8vo (225 x 155 mm.), orig. printed red semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Cullompton, Devon: Beau Geste Press, 1973.

First edition, the deluxe version on vibrant multi-colored Strathmore Grandee paper and exceptionally signed twice by Carrión (1941-89). Arguments was printed in a total edition of 400 copies, 200 on Huntsman white cartridge and unsigned, and 200 deluxe copies and signed on the verso of the title-page. The present copy is remarkable for its additional signature on the recto of the first blank leaf, especially given that the artist hardly ever signed his bookworks and reluctantly produced a.... More

Amsterdam: 1977.

The black version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition, held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers, which were all displayed in the artist’s bookshop.

From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate, regardless of profession, sex, age, etc. […]

“Just write your definition (of what art is) on... More

70 pp. Small 4to (210 x 160 mm.), pictorial semi-stiff wrappers, title on spine. Amsterdam: VOID distributors, 1980.

The essential compendium of Ulises Carrión’s polemical essays; printed in an edition of 500 by Hetty Huisman’s VOID Distributors. His trailblazing theories and beliefs about artists’ books and mail art remain influential to this day. “The New Art of Making Books,” first published in Plural no. 41 (1975), is frequently cited by contemporary book artists.

The book includes his most important essays: “The New Art of Making Books,” “From Bookworks to Mailworks,” “Rubber Stamp Theory and Praxis,” “Rubber Stamp Art,” “Mail Art... More

Amsterdam: ca. 1979.

An original collage made by Ulises Carrión (1941-89) and gifted to Maurizio Nannucci (b. 1939) in support of Zona’s non-profit mission following the Zona Parolo & Suono festival (11-19 June 1979). Near fine; very faint foxing and residue from the glue.

❧ See G. Schraenen, ed., Dear reader. Don’t read. (2016), pp. 120-23, for similar collages by Carrión employing graph paper. More

Color illus. throughout. 344 pp. Large 4to, softcover. London: Reaktion Books, 2012.

An essential book on artists engaging with the postcard. Jeremy Cooper is one of the greatest collectors of artists’ postcards. As new. More

Printed on both sides. Postcard, mailed. Paris: Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, [1976].

Postcard invitation for a Darboven solo exhibition, mailed to fellow dealer Rolf Preisig. In fine condition. More

N.p.: ca. early 1980s.

A playful mail art piece created by Lucia Francesca Del Sasso, an artist about whom we know very little. She was affiliated with the Amsterdam artist-run space Stempelplaats in the early 1980s. A work of hers, Stone by Stone (1979-81), published by Stempelplaats, is in the collection of the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and a library in the Netherlands.

Del Sasso has stamped the requisite lines and box for a postcard on the front of the envelope. The envelope opening on the other side has been closed with a stamp bearing a pair of lips... More

Black & white portrait, printed on one side only. Folded sheet, stamped on verso. Amsterdam: 1978.

Rare program for a performance by Anna Banana (b. 1940) and Bill Gaglione (b. 1943) at Other Books and So’s second location (259 Herengracht). Carrión’s bookshop–cum–gallery closed several months later, and this was one of the final performances held there. The program lists nine acts for the duo’s performances and the verso bears the shop’s stamp in blue ink. Fine.

❧ Catalogue 237: Ulises Carrión (2022), p. 181. More