[Paris]: Yves Rivière, [1974]. Small folio. Folded sheets, laid into chemise and decorated board slipcase. Illustrations in color by Alechinsky. Slipcase a bit smudged and edgeworn, contents fine. First edition. A facsimile of Caillois's corrected typescript, accompanied by color full-page and in/over text illustrations by Alechinsky. One of a total.....
![Item #WRCLIT74304 CITY GUIDE [cover title]. Stefan Altenburger](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT74304.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593712535)
[Zürich: Edition SEC 52, 1992]. Oblong octavo (150 x 197 mm). Twelve original prints of color photos, each in glassine sleeve, plus large folding map. Laid into blue silk over boards box, lettered on the upper lid. Fine. First edition of this completely visual artist's book. Copy #9 of an.....
[London: The Author/Artist, ca. 1997]. [1],10,[1]pp. Octavo (21 x 14.5 cm). Loose sheets, printed on rectos only. Enclosed in plastic zip-top bag. Fine. First edition. Here the prominent designer and educator undertakes an unconventional analysis of objects, features and events in a London neighborhood, ranging from "Phone Box Calling Cards,".....
[New York]: Artists Equity Association, 1952. [12]pp. plus 99 leaves. Large quarto (305 x 235 mm). Plastic comb bound stiff pictorial card covers. 99 lithographed sheets, printed on rectos only, with color lithographs on rectos and versos of covers. Extreme fore-tips of wrappers a bit creased and soft, plastic comb.....
[Verona]: Edizioni Factotum-Art, March 1980. Large, thick quarto. Glossy printed stiff wrappers. B&w photographs. Small inventory sticker to rear wrapper, faint rubs and dusting to wrappers; very good. First edition. English translations by Michael Haggerty. Photographs and brief descriptions of artists' books by 100 artists/authors from all over the world.....
[Bethesda, MD: The Artist, 1983]. Oblong quarto (13 x 24.5 cm). Ringbound decorated stiff wrapper, within acetate wrapper. Color illustrations and diecuts throughout. Very near fine. First edition. A quite early artist's book by the principal of the Popular Kinetics Press, and influential artist in the pop-up genre. Although the.....
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1993. Quarto (29 x 21 cm). Stiff decorated wrappers. Color illustrations and pop-ups. Fine, with instruction sheet and 12 extra tab strips laid in. First edition. One of "hopefully" 600 copies printed on Mohawk Poseidon 80 pound cover stock. Both a "how-to" and an example of the.....
[Milan: Edizioni Galleria Schwarz, 1971]. 32mo (9 x 9 cm). Stiff card printed black wrappers. Wrappers a trace edge-rubbed from matching slipcase, otherwise about fine. First edition. The word "kiss" rendered and shaped as a word/art narrative.
[Milan: Edizioni Galleria Schwarz, 1971]. 32mo (9 x 9 cm). Stiff card printed black wrappers. Wrappers a trace edge-rubbed from matching slipcase, otherwise about fine. First edition. The word "and" rendered and shaped as a word/art narrative concluding in "end." The wrapper is printed with two juxtaposed arrows.
[Leipzig?]: Privatdruck, 1922. Thin quarto. Batik over boards. Illustrated. About fine, in battered and partially split decorated folding case. First edition in this format. Illustrated with six full-page etchings and a smaller etched title-page vignette of nude women by German designer, architect and artist, Georg Alexander Mathéy. From a total.....
Aarau: Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau, [2007]. 215pp. Quarto. Printed cloth. Plates, including color. Faintly shelf-rubbed, but very good or better. First edition of this expansive exhibition of and commentary about the imprint. Laid in is a 31pp. separate of the text translated into English, along with a warm, chatty t.l.s. from.....
Paris: The Author and Artist, April 1985. 27,[1]pp. Small folio (32 x 25 cm). Loose sheets and bifolia laid into hand-decorated wrappers. White portions of wrappers slightly tanned along edges, but about fine. A unique artist's book, with Bohbot's text written by him in ink in 1985 within the context.....
New York: Didymus Press, 2000. Quarto. Linen, printed spine label. Illustrated with five original color woodcuts by Donald Baechler, printed from the block. New, with prospectus laid in. First edition of the poet's first book. One of 330 numbered copies (of 360) printed after a design by Thomas Whitridge by.....
[Paris]: Les Francs-Bibliophiles, 1961. 109,[8]pp. Large octavo (24.5 x 16cm). Loose gatherings laid into printed wrappers. Frontis and 24 illustrations in mezzotint, with supplementary plate laid in. Fine in lightly worn chemise and velvet covered slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated with original mezzotints by Mario Avati. One of.....
![Item #WRCLIT88161 ISAAK I AVRAAM [text in Russian]. Joseph Brodsky, Mikhail Karasik](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT88161.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1677872286)
[St. Petersburg: Izd-vo. M.K., 1994]. Narrow quarto (29 x 15.2cm). Forest-green paper over boards, printed paper label. Printed on one side only of accordion fold- out leporello text block Unfortunately, this copy evidently fell into the hands of an unappreciative (or more likely very, very young) handler who decorated many.....
Berlin: Edition Hundertmark, 1974. Thick quarto. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Trace of minor soiling to lower wrapper, otherwise about fine. First edition of this occasionally sexually explicit collaborative commingling of narrative text and image. One of 600 numbered copies, signed by Brus and Steiger.
[Nice]: Editions Unes, [1984]. Oblong small octavo. Loose gatherings laid into stiff printed wrappers. Fine. First edition. Two poems by the artists, Camille's dated 1947 ("Tête à coq") and Réquichot's dated 1957 ("Kullbull' le coq"). In addition to 19 numbered copies printed on Chiffon vieux rose and some out of.....
[Paris: Éditions du Rouleau Libre, 1991]. Small octavo. Stitched accordion sheets, sewn into printed wrapper with pictorial onlay. Fine. First edition. Illustrated with original etchings by Palayer. One of 45 numbered copies, from an edition of fifty.
![Item #WRCLIT74201 OBLIQUES [Special Number 16/17]. Michel Butor, Gregory Masurovsky](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCLIT74201.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1593712532)
[Les Pilles, Lyons & Paris]. [February 1976]. Special number 16/17. Two volumes. Quarto. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Very faint dusting to white portions of wrappers, else about fine. First edition. Copies 'xx' of thirty E.A. copies numbered in roman, and signed by Butor and Masurovsky in each volume. A......
[Paris & Nice: Published by the Author and Artist, 1985 - 6]. Folio (15.75 x 11.5"; 39 x 29 cm). Loose bifolia laid into hand calligraphed wrappers. Wrappers faintly dusty, but about fine. First edition thus. Copy #8 of ten numbered copies, utilizing serigraphed text sheets from INTEMPÉRIES (1985), reconceived.....
[Portland, ME: The Map Room, 2004]. Oblong large narrow octavo (10.5 x 24 cm). Wirebound stiff pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout. Fine. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Published to coincide with an exhibition, under the same title, of Carrera's currency collages / manipulations. Prefatory note by the artist.
New York: MOMA, [1980]. Oblong large octavo. Glossy pictorial wrapper. Illustrated throughout, including color. First edition, wrapperbound issue. Very slight tanning to wrapper laminate, otherwise very good or better.
[Np]: Editions de l'Eau, 1989. Oblong small quarto (25.5 x 29 cm). Folded gatherings and plates laid into printed wrappers. Fine in lightly marked silk covered slipcase. First edition in this format, illustrated with six original engravings ("burins et manières noires") by Albert Woda, and six calligraphic interleaves by Lalou.....
[Rochester: Printed at the Visual Studios Workshop, 1984]. Seven panel double-sided leporello cut in the shape of a chain of paper dolls (17 x 8.5 cm folded; 59 x 17 cm unfolded). Fine. Copy #90 of 500 numbered copies, marked with the artist's paraph.
[Np: The Artist, 1983]. [13] leaves. Bright pink construction paper printed with text in black; die-cut in the shape of a pair of lips; Tied with black ribbon (16 x 7 cm). Although not stated, the edition is reported to have consisted of 500 copies. Fine.
