Fall 1989 issue of Sally Alatalo's artist magazine, Du Da, which ran from 1984 to 1991. With a background in printmaking, Alatalo combines text and image. This issue combines black and white photographs and drawings with stories about Henny Penny and rape, the latter perhaps culled from news reports.

Condition: Near Fine.
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An original, miniature James Castle handmade book from his second solo exhibition at the Bush Barn in Salem, Oregon in 1962. From a private collection and acquired in 1962 after the Salem exhibit traveled to The Image Gallery in Portland, OR. Interior drawings are soot and spit on found newsprint. Castle (1899-1977) was a deaf and mute self-taught artist who created drawings, handmade books and constructions in an intensive daily practice for nearly 70 years. His work has been the subject of retrospectives organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.....
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The signed and numbered special edition of "Life Size" by Sam Falls. No. 23 of 25 copies bound in hand-dyed fabric cut from original artworks. Life Size presents full-page photographs of the Los Angeles-based artist's process in making textile and dyed works, paintings and sculpture through his investigations into the natural process and contrasting the organic with the man made. The trade edition of "Life Size" is also out of print.

Condition: Fine, Like New.
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A rare copy of one of the delightful wood-block on crepe paper books produced by Takejiro Hasegawa in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. This in a larger size (5.75" x 7.5") than the popular Japanese Fairy Tale Series, and being mostly pictorial representations of traditional life in Japan with little text. The 10 Hiyoshicho address on the title page indicates this is an earlier printing. Created for the Western market, Hasegawa's books were known for their high quality in all aspects: paper, ink, execution of the illustrations.....
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The rare first book of Roni Horn's ten-volume "To Place" series, which explores her artistic relationship to Iceland. All drawings were produced during a two-month stay in the lighthouse at Dyrhólaey, Iceland in the Spring of 1982. Drawings are reproduced at actual size and are watercolor and/or graphite. Beautifully printed in the Netherlands in an edition of 1,150 from Peter Blum Editions.

Condition: Very Good, light foxing to endpapers (see last detail photo); tiny areas of rubbing to cover corners; now in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek uses modern printing process such as lithography to manipulate and alter existing imagery and text such as advertisements and printed matter, exploring repetition, order, redaction and other themes. With essays by Camiel van Winkel and Wouter Davidts. This monograph, which is more of an artists' book than traditional artist survey, is from his 2008 exhibition at Culturgest in Lisbon. Out of print.

Condition: Fine, with a custom mylar jacket.
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A book based on Swiss artists Fischli & Weiss' art project for the Ringier AG Annual Report 2007, edited by Kunsthalle Zurich Director and Ringier Collection Curator Beatrix Ruf. "The encyclopedic element in all Fischli & Weiss pieces is just as evident in this Annual Report which is best described as an encyclopedia, obtained from hundreds of magazines, of the temptations and yearnings that mark contemporary life. The artists clearly consider print ads the most powerful embodiment of the economic principle and show their fascination with the never-ending flood of.....
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A new edition of a little-known book by Marc Saporta, originally published in France in 1962 and called "the first book in a box". With no page numbers and loose pages, it can be read in any order. This 2011 edition was recreated and reimagined by innovative London publisher Visual Editions. The verso of each page features computer-generated imagery by Salvador Plascencia. Out of print.

Condition: Fine/Like New.
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A re-imagined edition of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by the innovative London publisher Visual Editions, it was their first release. Their approach was to imbue the classic with what they called "visual writing" and to highlight the book’s brilliance and playfulness again. With colored text and innovative typography and graphic sprinkled throughout. British author Will Self adds an irreverent introduction.

Condition: Fine/Like New; tiniest of corner bumps visible on about 50 interior pages; now in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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