Amerikaner

by ZOBERNIG, Heimo

Black & white illus. throughout. ca. [664] pp. Large & thick 4to, printed softcover, numbered on lower cover, title on spine. Graz, Austria: Forum Stadtpark, 1992. One of 500 numbered copies of a rare artist’s book by Zobernig (b. 1958); WorldCat records a single copy in North America. It was published for the 1992 Steirischer Herbst, organized by the Grazer Kunstverein project Compiled by artist Mathias Poledna (b. 1965), the book consists of photocopies of the first... Read More

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Manuscript on paper, entitled on first leaf of text “Secret and Truthful Story of the Capture of the Bandits.”

by ZOKKINHISEIDAN 賊禁秘誠談

39; 41 folding leaves. Two parts in one vol. Large 8vo (277 x 187 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers with orig. manuscript title slip, new stitching. [Japan:] after 1782. The story of the life of Ishikawa Goemon 石川五右衛門 (1558-94), a legendary bandit of the late “Warring States” period. Historical sources pertaining to Ishikawa’s life are extremely sparse, amounting to only a few mentions of his execution by being boiled in a vat of oil in Kyoto... Read More

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Book Show: Artist’s Book Show and Reading Room Exhibition (opening 12 September [1981])

by ZONE, publisher

Unpaginated. 8vo, pink printed wrappers, staple-bound. Springfield, MA: 1981. Scarce exhibition catalogue of artists’ books. The show was organized by guest curator Carol Forget and assistant curator Brendan Stecchini. 246 books listed (plus some “late entries”). From Forget’s Introduction: “An artist’s book like any other artwork is a result of a concern. It is a merging of ideas or of one single idea and some kind of technology into an intimate, accessible form…An overwhelming number... Read More

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