Berliner, Nancy.

Digging to China.

(Cambridge, MA: Firefly Press, 1980). 1980). - Small oblong quarto [5-1/2 inches high by 7 inches wide], softcover bound in printed rice paper over stiff black paper wrappers. [47] pages. After the first 3 pages of minimal text there is a hole in each succeeding page [representing the hole being dug to China in the text]. Several black-and-white illustrations. Very good.

Limited edition of 100 copies hand-printed by the author.

Scarce. Very good .

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Book number: 26154

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOK; NANCY BERLINER; DIGGING TO CHINA; ILLUSTRATIONS; HAND-PRINTED; LIMITED EDITION.

Celant, Germano.

Germano Celant: Record As Artwork 1959-73. Translated from the Italian by the Linguists' Club.

London: The Royal College of Art, Kensington Core, November, 1973. 1973. London: The Royal College of Art, Kensington Core, November, 1973. 1973. Very good. - Sextodecimo (16mo), 7-1/8 inches high by 7 inches wide. Softcover, bound in black wraps illustrated with the image of a 45 rpm record in red on both covers. [28] unnumbered pages, illustrated in black & white. There is minor dampstaining to the top edge of several leaves. Very good. First edition. A Royal College of Art Publication Edited by Rosalee Goldberg. Book designed by Laurence Bradbury. Very good .

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Book number: 99737

Catalogue: Artist's Book

Keywords: ART; ARTIST'S BOOK; GERMANO CELANT: RECORD AS ARTWORK 1959-73; TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY THE LINGUISTS' CLUB; THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; FIRST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; RECORDINGS; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS;

Ferrari, Vincenzo. (b. 1941).

IL Divertimento Intellettuale Dell'Infinito. Signed by Vincenzo Ferrari.

(Milano: Mercato del Sale), [1976]. [1976]. - Small quarto [11-3/4 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide], softcover. The contents are laid into a black stiff paper folding case with the artist's name printed in white on the front panel. The case is lightly rubbed & bumped. 11 sheets, each of a different color & type of stock, each an original artwork employing various techniques, including printing, stamping, tearing, burning and collage. Near fine in a very good case. This is example number "193" of an undetermined limitation and the artist has signed his name in full with the date "1976" below the number. Fine .

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Book number: 18490

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOK; ARTIST; ITALIAN; VINCENZO FERRARI; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; PORTFOLIO; IL DIVERTIMENTO INTELLETTUALE DELL'INFINITO.

Geller, Matthew.

Hidden Away in a Musty Chamber.

(New York: Wedge Press, 1983). 1983). - Small quarto [10 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover bound in pictorial cream & black wraps. [10] pages, including pictorial title & 9 pages of black-and-white illustrations with brief texts. Near fine.

Wedge Pamphlet 5. An artist's book on the early history and future of television and video. Fine .

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Book number: 13828

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOKS; MATTHEW GELLER; HIDDEN AWAY IN A MUSTY CHAMBER; TELEVISION; VIDEO.

Hastings, Pattie Belle; and Michel, Karl.

Elegy: An Intuitive Chronicle of War.

[Atlanta, Georgia]: Ice House Press, (1992). (1992). - 12mo, 4-1/2 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. A fine press artist's book, consisting of 8 letters from the front written by a young Vietnam veteran dating from October 1968 to June 1969. Each letter is printed on 16 inch high by 5-1//2 inch wide fine buff paper between illustrations of a medal at the top and bottom. Each broadsheet letter is further illustrated with several monochrome photographs of war scenes printed in offset on the verso. Titled "Sweep", "Spy", "Cache", "Hope", "Surprise", "Wrong", "Purge", and "Return", each of these broadsheet letters is folded and housed in a 4-1/2 inch high by 5-3/4 inch wide buff envelope titled above a monochrome illustration of medals on the front. The eight envelopes are, in turn, housed within a stiff fine paper band titled and illustrated in indigo and green. Near fine.

First edition. According to the publisher, this work was limited to 625 copies.

"A series of letters written by a young man serving in the Vietnam War dated from October 1968 to June 1969 reveal the harsh realities of this tragic conflict. In his first letters home, 'Karl' writes with enthusiasm and almost palpable relief about his first encounter with the Viet Cong. His mood is upbeat, though an undercurrent of fear is below the surface. By the 6th letter he hints at atrocities that he has been commanded to inflict and guilt and mental anguish betray his earlier bravado. By the last and 8th letter he is hanging by a thread, exhausted and counting the days till his scheduled R & R. His mood is tense and he speaks of needing help in maintaining his sanity. His political views about the war have decidedly changed as he acidly comments on those in power who make decisions without having to soil their hands. Hastings has printed each letter offset in dusky colors and embellished them with images of war medals and photos from earlier wars. Letters are enclosed in numbered envelopes with single word headings: 'Sweep', 'Spy', 'Cache', 'Hope', 'Surprise', 'Wrong', 'Purge', and 'Return'. The reader experiences these letters as if they have been discovered in an attic, intentionally saved, but put out of sight in order to try to forget." -- [Rhode Island School of Design 2010 Exhibition Catalog: "Artists' Books Content Design Voice Form"].

RARE in commerce. Very good .

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Book number: 96007

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: MILITARY; ARTIST'S BOOKS; LIVRE D'ARTISTE; FINE PRESS; KARL MICHEL; PATTIE BELLE HASTINGS; VIETNAM WAR; LETTERS; FRONT; VIETNAM VETERAN; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHS; PHOTOGRA

Korn, Henry James.

Proceedings of the National Academy of the Avant Garde. Volume One, Number One. Fall 1975.

Brooklyn, NY: Assembling Press, 1975. 1975. Brooklyn, NY: Assembling Press, 1975. 1975. Fine. - Octavo, 8-3/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed light peach wraps. 29 & [1] pages. Near fine. Subtitled "Henry James Korn, Administering the Coup de Grace to the American Reality Concensus". Fine .

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Book number: 99797

Catalogue: Artist's Book

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOK; HENRY JAMES KORN; PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF THE AVANT GARDE; VOLUME ONE, NUMBER ONE; FALL 1975; ADMINISTERING THE COUP DE GRACE TO THE AMERICAN REALITY CONCENSUS.

Ligorano, Nora; Reese, Marshall.

Ligorano/Reese: Selected Works 1991-95.

(Brooklyn, NY: Published by the artists, n.d. [circa 1995]. n.d. [circa 1995]. - Quarto [11 inches high by 8-1/2 inches wide], softcover. The contents are bound with cream cord between decorative printed blue cover sheets. [26] leaves printed on one side only, including 14 color xerox plates. There is a small label mounted on each plate giving the title and date of the work depicted. Also with black-and-white textual illustrations. There is a very small area of soiling to the verso of 1 plate. Near fine.

Collaborators Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese have worked together since the early 1980s. Their art includes videography, installations, sculptures and what they describe as "video books", several of which are illustrated here. The artists write: "For the past five years we have been working on a series of sculptures, which could be called 'video installations'. We prefer to use the term 'video books' to describe them. They are pieces, which make use of video in relation to printed media, such as newspapers and books. They focus on how we read the media and demonstrate that video and television, as vehicles for words and images, are texts to read and decipher. We expand on this metaphorically and have made book structures that incorporate monitors and video.." They then go on to comment on the individual ''books", their origins and the materials used.

Very scarce. We were unable to locate any copies in WorldCat. Fine .

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Book number: 20973

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ART; ARTIST'S BOOK; LIGORANO/REESE: SELECTED WORKS 1991-95; VIDEO BOOKS; VIDEOGRAPHY; SCULPTURES; INSTALLATIONS; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR XEROX PLATES; REVIEWS; ARTICLES.

Ogust, Richard.

Ibhr. [the International Bill of Human Rights].

New York: Element, (1987). (1987). - Octavo, 8-1/2 inches high by 5-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in black & white pictorial wrappers. [30] unnumbered pages. Near fine.

First edition, wraps issue.

Richard Ogust is a writer and as a New York State licensed wildlife rehabilitator his New York City loft once held one of the nation's largest private collections of endangered turtles. The 2007 documentary "The Chances of the World Changing" by Eric Daniel Metzgar & Nell Carden Grey portrayed the trials and tribulations of a man devoted to the rescue of endangered species of turtles. Fine .

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Book number: 98389

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOK; RICHARD OGUST; IBHR; INTERNATIONAL BILL OF HUMAN RIGHTS; ARTIST'S BOOK; POETRY; PROSE; AMERICAN LITERATURE; TURTLES; WILDLIFE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; TWENTIETH CENTURY.

Peters, Robert.

Gold & Silver Do Not Spoil.

Chicago Books, 1988. 1988. SIGNED BY ROBERT PETERS - Small quarto [10 inches high by 8 inches wide], softcover bound in plain dark brown wraps with a keyhole in the front wrap revealing part of a color title page vignette & and a keyhole in the rear wrap revealing a small section of text. There is a light crease & 2 short tears to the top edge of the front wrap keyhole. There is a tiny chip out of the bottom corner of the rear wrap. The wraps are slightly faded along the spine. Unnumbered, mechanically reproduced pages. Profuse illustrations in color and black & white interspersed with texts compiled from various authors. An acetate sheet is laid in. Very good. Complete with the acetate overlay.

Signed by the artist "R. Peters" on the title page. Very good .

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Book number: 24920

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOK; ROBERT PETERS; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; GOLD & SILVER DO NOT SPOIL; MONEY; WEALTH; CAPITALISM.

van Raay, Jan; Niggl, Thomas.

Coping and Hoping: Against Terrorism But No Real Solution Ye... .

Muenchen, [Germany]: Omnibus Press, (1978). (1978). - Small oblong octavo. Postcard book of 16 cards, each approximately 4-1/2 inches high by 6 inches wide, including a color pictorial title card, a printed rear cover card & 14 cards, each illustrated in black & white. The cards were originally bound together but are now disbound. The title card is rubbed and slightly darkened with a light vertical crease and with its top left corner soiled & slightly bumped. Good.

The edition was limited to 500 copies.

The postcards are numbered "Verhaltens Forscher" 1-15, with the rear cover card unnumbered. The rest of the text is in English.

Scarce. Good .

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Book number: 33955

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOKS; PICTORIAL POSTCARDS; JAN VAN RAAY; THOMAS NIGGL; COPING AND HOPING: AGAINST TERRORISM BUT NO REAL SOLUTION YE...; VERHALTENS FORSCHER.

Tower, Jon.

Garden Voice Fault Line.

(Buffalo, NY): Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, (1990). (1990). - Octavo, softcover bound in white wrappers. The extremities are slightly soiled & darkened & there is a small, light stain to the front wrap. 60 pages. Black-and-white illustrations & a black oscillating line over a number of pages, being a graphic imprint of the author's voice. Very good.

This publication, the first of Hallwalls' Project Room/Artist Book Series, was produced on the occasion of the exhibition "Adam's Sorrow: Genetic Mutation and the Fall of Man", a Hallwalls Project Room Installation by Jon Tower, November 17-December 21, 1990. A section in the rear of the book titled "Errata" includes two texts: the Fall of Adam and Eve from the King James Version of the Bible, and a scientific report on Hexadactyly, the hereditary condition of being born with six fingers or six toes. The graphic voice imprint is of Tower reading the passage from Genesis. Very good .

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Book number: 21472

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: ARTIST'S BOOKS; CONCEPTUAL ART; ARTIST; JON TOWER; GARDEN VOICE FAULT LINE; HALLWALLS CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER, BUFFALO, NY; PROJECT ROOM INSTALLATION; ADAM'S SORROW: GENETIC MUTATION AND THE FALL OF MAN; GENESIS; BIBLE; HEXADACTYLY; GRAPHIC VOICE