Alexander Pilis (1954-); Iris Lenz, et al.

Alexander Pilis; Architektur-Parallaxe: Turm, Tisch, Türe [Signed] ; Exhibition and publication, Iris Lenz, Alexander Pilis

[Stuttgart, Germany], Institut für Auslandsbieziehungen , 1998. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 55. Slim 8vo. measuring 6" x 8.25". Original bright-yellow cloth over boards, black-and-white lettering to the spine. Richly illustrated with full-page black-and-white plates, illustrations, including some printed on glassine paper. Front front (only) rubbed with black spotting, contents entirely without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding. Warmly SIGNED, and inscribed by Pilis to the ffep. Scarce exhibition catalogue. See OCLC #1054471041. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the ifa-Galerie, Stuttgart, September 11-October 18, 1998.

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Book number: 5797

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: signed; exhibition catalogue; art catalgoue; history

Berman, David (Illust.)

The Portable February

Chicago, Drag City, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 12mo. Pictorial boards. Chielfy comprises of whimsical line-drawings by the author, some captioned. As new, without blemish. Running the gamut in topic and style from faux-political to faux-New Yorker, David Berman's lo-fi cartoons incorporate strains of high and low comedy, wistful Americana, contemporary art, dream visions, and a visual analog to the semipenetrable personal allusions found in his music and poetry. His drawings invite the same deeper thought as his writings, making use of wordplay, cultural references, and offbeat observations. The sparse illustrations are complemented by poignant one-liners, and reveal moments of lightness within the author's dark humor, providing a wry, erudite commentary on American culture.

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Book number: 7046

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: humour; culture; critic; american culture; illustrated works

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882)

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection ; or Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

[Toronto], Parasitic Ventures Press, 2005. Volume LI, Syntactic Analyses. Card Covers. pp. 382. Small 8vo. measuring 5" x 7.5". Plain card covers, black endpapers. Light rubbing, short crease to the front cover, contents without blemish with bright, clean, and unmarked pages and firm, sound binding; very good. Exceptionally scarce in commerce. Unrecorded in OCLC. Volume 51 in a series published by Prasitic Ventures Press. "Conceived in the waning years of the last century, produced as a one-off for an exhibition in 2004, and now republished as a new open-edition set, Syntactic Analyses is modelled on ‘great-books’ series such as the Everyman’s Library. One hundred volumes of must read books, primarily covering political thought, philosophy, and history.

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Book number: 5437

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: art; art catalogue; natural history; conceptual art

Falls, Sam; James Kanzler; AN ART SERIVCE (Design)

Val Verde (Limited Edition of 1000 Copies)

East Village, New York, KARMA, 2011. Limited Edition. Softcover. Unpaginated [pp. 112]. 8vo. Plain stiff card covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white, and colour photographs, and illustrations. Entirely without blemish with bright, clean, adn unmarked; fine. Scarce in commerce in this, the limited edition. .

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Book number: 4521

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: american art; fine press; poetry; literature; prose poetry

Fillion, John (1933-2019); Dorothy Cameron; John Reeves; Allan R. Fleming

John Fillion: Thoughts About My Sculpture ; Recorded by Dorothy Cameron and John Reeves

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The Martlet Press, 1968. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Unpaginated [pp. 29], arranged in an accordion-style format. 4to. measuring 9.5" x 12.2". Bound in publisher's original ivory linen cloth with gilt lettering over black label to the centre of the front board, all housed within a like slipcase. Chiefly comprises of vivid black-and-white photographs of the late sculptor in his element, and still-life images of their works. A marvellous achievement of photography, and in a most uncommon, and imaginatively produced binding. Most handsome, and quite well-preserved with little-to-no flaws apparent to the extremities, or contents. Scarce in commerce in this edition, and state. Near fine. Corresponds to OCLC #81084691. This book was designed by Allan Fleming using the notes of Dorothy Cameron and the photography of John Reeves. The reproductions were produced by Herzig Sommerville Ltd. the typography by Cooper & Beatty, Limited, and the binding was executed by Hamilton Ruling & Bindery Service Ltd. The whole was prepared under the direction of The Martlet Press, Limited of Toronto who hold the copyright, 1968.

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Book number: 4393

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: sculpture; canadian history; canadiana; canadian art; sculpting; bronze scultpure; early canadian art; avant-garde; fine press; fine binding

Husar, Natalka; Janice Kulyk Keefer; Iryna Pasichnyk (Illustrator)

Burden of Innocence | Foreign Relations [Signed]

Kyïv, Ukraine, Rodovid Press, 2009. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 103; 93. Square 4to. measuring 23 x 25 cm. Padded pictorial boards; two volumes beautifully bound in one. Richly illustrated in colour throughout. Text in English and Ukrainian. No detectable flaws: contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding. Near fine. Uncommon in commerce. Corresponds to OCLC #499154688. SIGNED by the author(s) to the title page. Burden of Innocence is the project of a Canadian Ukrainian, the painter Natalka Husar, who has made a name for herself in her field in both Canada and abroad. Here Husar's visual work is presented with her own commentary on what she sees as the social ills and goods in contemporary Ukraine: the subject matter is post-Orange Revolution Ukraine and our continually shifting, always-problematic but utterly abiding relationship with our parents' homeland and the homeland of our imaginations. Burden of Innocence is a bridge between various worlds: Canada and Ukraine, painting and writing, and verbal and visual images.

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Book number: 4913

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: artist exhibition; catalogue of an exhibition; fine art; art books; illustrated works

Kline, Nick; Kegan McFadden

He: Images from the Series, Boys' Shirts by Nick Kline; Text from the Series by Keegan Mcfadden

Winnipeg, Manitoba, As We Try And Sleep Press, 2014. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. pp. 64. 4to. measuring 9" x 11". Card covers. Chiefly comprised of full-page black-and-white plates. Fine. Corresponds to OCLC #905582943. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC. he, is a collaboration between Kline’s abstract photographs, Boys’ Shirts and the memory-based text men, by Kegan McFadden, a writer, publisher, curator and artist, based in Manitoba, Canada. Kline’s horizontal striped shirts, especially viewed in black and white, might resonate with the typical optimism portrayed in 1950’s American television shows and advertisements, and he uses this filmic and photographic history to appeal to viewer’s sense of the familiar while also inviting viewers to explore their own memories, and notions of masculinity and its development. Men who have failed McFadden inform his similarly removed and disjointed text. McFadden’s melancholy writing, using only the pronoun “he,” may also be considered an abstract self-portrait.

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Book number: 6093

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: manitoba art; local history; photography; illustrated works; exhibition catalogue; exposition; private press

Liz Flyntz (Ed.); David Everitt Howe (Ed.); Gabriel Florenz; Rudolf Frieling; Ant Farm, et al.

The Present Is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and Lst (Complete with Embedded Usb)

Brooklyn, New York, Pioneer Works Press [Pioneer Works Center for Art and Innovation], 2016. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. 256. Square 4to. measuring 28 cm tall. Black boards with white lettering and illustration to the spine, and front board. Richly illustrated with in-text, and full page colour illustrations, photographs throughout. No flaws noted: bright, clean, and unmarked with firm, sound binding; fine. Complete with an [unused] embedded USB drive within the front board, beneath the front pastedown. A remarkable and innovative work. Corresponds to OCLC #1268235691. Within this cover lies the Pioneer Works Time Capsule, a USB drive containing 1,518 images. These were collected by the HUQQUH device at random, when viewers plugged their smartphone into the device during the exhibition The Present Is The Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST. The time capsule was sealed on October 16, 2016 at Pioneer Works. As custodian of this time capsule, you should remove the USB drive from the adjacent circle when the value of the past is greater than the value of the present.

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Book number: 7254

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: art; conceptual art; art history; american art; digital art; modern art; photography; visual art; images

Pike, Bev; Linda Jansma (Curated by)

Bev Pike: Microscopic Remains ; Catalogue of an Exhibition held April 12-June 17, 2001, at the Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa

Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, 2001. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Fourteen unpaginated leaves. Oblong 8vo. measuring 10" x 5". Single-stapled lilac card covers. Richly reproduced colour photographs of the artist' works. Single faint spot to the lower-margin of the front cover, else, bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Scarce in commerce. See OCLC #47968352. .

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Book number: 5371

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: canadian art; exhibiton catalogue; canadiana; exhibition catalogue; catalogue

Purdy, Richard (1953 -); Helene Le Beau (Trans.)

Patiner Sur L'Oeil

Montréal, Quebec, The Lost Industries, 1997. First Edition, First Printing. Card Covers. pp. 43; 42, [10] leaves of plates, illustrations. 12mo. measuring 4" x 7". Illustrated, stiff, card covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, illustrations. No detectable flaws, extremities and contents without blemish; fine. Published for the tour of Richard Purdy's Areoarchaeology, presented at Gallery Axe-Néo7 (Hull, Québec) in 1997 and Koffler Gallery (Toronto) in 1998".

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Book number: 5034

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: canadian art; catalogue; exhibition catalogue; art

Somerset, Angela; Ace Art Inc.; The Manitoba Arts Council; The City of Winnipeg

At the End of My Rope: Breathing Room

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Privately Printed by the Author | Pat's Printing (Winnipeg, Manitoba), 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Spiral Bound. Unpaginated [pp. 48]. 12mo. measuring 5" x 5". Illustrated, stiff, card covers held with white spiral binding. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white photographs, portraits, illustrations, et al. Bright, clean, and unmarked; near fine. Scarce, privately-printed, artists' book. Corresponds to OCLC #78046327; no Canadian institutional holdings recorded at time of cataloguing. At time of cataloguing not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. .

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Book number: 5023

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: manitoba art; winnipeg art gallery; exhibition catalogue; catalogue of an exhibition; canadian art; fine press

Subotincic, Natalija

Never Speak with Your Mouth Full (Three Volumes in Slipcase)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Publisher: Department of Architecture Press, University of Manitoba; 1st edition (2008), 2008. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. pp. 31; 32 pages; [24] leaves of plates. Replete with black and white and colour illustrations. Three staplebound illustrated volumes housed in clamshell case measuring 29 x 23 x 2 cm. The books are arranged so that they form the title when laid in their case in descending order. Titles of the first two volumes are as follows: Vol. I: "Penumbra: expanding the Museum of Jurassic Technology".; Vol. II: "Freud at the dining table : an architectural act: Part II, Act V, Scene 5". Vol. III comprises exclusively of 24 numbered pages of black and white and colour leaves. Exhibition catalogue housed in an elegantly designed box with three books containing photographs of animal bones gathered from seven years of the artist's meals neatly embedded in the surface of a hand-built table; drawings and commentary about Sigmund Freud's study in Vienna "Freud at the Dining Table," described as an "architectural act"; and Subotincic's architectural work on an expanded Museum of Jurassic Technology. Her collaborators on the museum project -- the artist prefers that term rather than "clients" -- are founders David Wilson and Diana Drake Wilson, the famous subjects of Lawrence Weschler's best-selling Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. No detectable flaws, all contents remain bright, clean, and unmarked; in fine condition and housed in fine clamshell case still in original shrink-wrap. As new. Exceedingly scarce, with no known extant copies available in commerce at time of cataloguing. Not in Peel, LAC/BAC. "Natalija Subotincic was an artist and professor of architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada from 2007-2010. Her research and creative work explores the realm between the psyche and physical space, questioning how we individually and collectively construct, experience, and dwell within this territory. Her book “Never Speak With Your Mouth Full”, DoA Press (2008) conjoins her personal forays into collecting, an interpretation of Sigmund Freud's work environment/collection, and the design for an expansion to the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City, California". .

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Book number: 1539

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: abstract art; architecture; history; canadian history; dining rooms; fine art; limited edition; physchology; psychiatry; history;

Szöke, Donna; Rene Hering; Todd Bruce; Heidi Rees; Lyle Ford; Robert Budde; Joe Burgess, et al.

Can(N)on Magazine ; Februaryish Issue

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Privately Printed | can(N0on Magazine, N.D. [Circa 1990]. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated [pp. 28]. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Student-produced literary and creative writing magazine rich with black-and-white illustrations, short prose, poetry, etc. Most uncommon. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. .

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Book number: 5451

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: manitoba art; priavate press; newspapers; periodicals; manitoba literature; canadian literature; history; prose; poetry; canadian poetry; creative writing

Szöke, Donna; Rene Hering; Todd Bruce; Heidi Rees; Lyle Ford; Robert Budde; Joe Burgess, et al.

Can(N)on Magazine, Now 7% Better!; the Mother of Suepriority ; Springish Issue (-18C)

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Privately Printed | can(N0on Magazine, N.D. [Circa 1990]. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated [pp. 40]. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Student-produced literary and creative writing magazine rich with black-and-white illustrations, short prose, poetry, etc. Most uncommon. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. .

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Book number: 5452

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: manitoba art; priavate press; newspapers; periodicals; manitoba literature; canadian literature; history; prose; poetry; canadian poetry; creative writing

Szöke, Donna; Rene Hering; Todd Bruce; Heidi Rees; Lyle Ford; Robert Budde; Joe Burgess, et al.

Can(N)on Magazine, 2/4 ; Junish Issue

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Privately Printed | can(N0on Magazine, N.D. [Circa 1990]. First Edition, First Printing. Stapled Wraps. Unpaginated [pp. 48]. Small 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Illustrated, twice-stapled, card covers. Student-produced literary and creative writing magazine rich with black-and-white illustrations, short prose, poetry, etc. Most uncommon. Not found in Peel, BAC/LAC, University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections, et al. .

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Book number: 5453

Catalogue: Artist's Books

Keywords: manitoba art; priavate press; newspapers; periodicals; manitoba literature; canadian literature; history; prose; poetry; canadian poetry; creative writing