(ITEMS WE ARE LOOKING FOR)
We are always interested in purchasing rare items of likely relevance to our expertise. Please get in touch if you have something that you think we might like.
We also will sell items on your behalf on consignment (under certain conditions) - again please get in touch.
The following are just a few of the books, records, artworks, editions and ephemera we are looking for - this list changes regularly and is far from extensive or complete. Price and condition are both important - sadly a fact of economic life is that if we are buying to sell on to someone else then we need to pay less than we would charge to sell to our clients so please bear that in mind when letting us know what price you might be seeking for any particular item.
However if you have any of the following or things similar to them please let us know.
In no particular order we are seeking:
FLUXUS - vTre 1, 2, 4, 6, 7 vintage copies not the later Italian reprints. ALL Fluxus vintage items including posters, boxes, unique works, broadsheets, object multiples, publications, ephemera and documents..
(Cattalan, Mauricio) Permanent Food - Nrs 1 - 7 NOT 3
STANLEY BROUWN All items and emphemera especially Which Way Brouwn drawings (original) or multiples prior to 1980
INSTRUCTION DRAWINGS especially those for well known sculptures. Book macquettes for well known artist's books.
MAIL ART items (the envelope being present is usually quite important although not always essential) and editioned postcards by well known conceptual artists including Beuys, Boltanski, Brecht, Brouwn, Buren, Feldmann, Gilbert & George, Richard Tuttle, Lawrence Weiner, Fluxus artists and others.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT:
THE NEW WAVE COOKBOOK (Fourteen 3" x 5" printed cards featuring twelve different artists, including Basquiat). New York: Edited by Stanley Moss, October 1980.
FAST (group exhibition catalogue). New York: Alexander F. Milliken Gallery, June 1982.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (exhibition catalogue). Rotterdam: Delta Gallery, December 1982. [Note: sometimes known as BASQUIAT, tentoonstellingscatalogus galerie Delta Rotterdam, 1982.
JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: PS Gallery, October 1987.
All 'PATAPHYSIQUE items or items relating to Jarry - price dependant.
DONALD EVANS: artist's books, exhibition catalogues and artist stamps (both unique and editioned).
All artists stamps ie stamps designed specifically as artworks or 'CINDERELLA' stamps
Copies of Poquettes Volantes (Daily Bul) Nrs 2,3,4, 8, 12, 13, 14, 20, 26, 35, 38, 51, 58, 60++
RENE MAGRITTE. Le Carte d'apres Nature - a magazine found in the form of a postcard - all although price and condition is important here - also copies of RHETORIQUE (nrs 2- 5, 6 - 9, 12)
RICHARD LONG - scarce editions and ephemera and some books including
River Avon Book (London: d'Offay, 1979)
Mud Hand Prints (London: Coracle, 1984)
Mud Foot Prints (London: Coracle, 198?)
Walking, Mud, Stones (1995) - catalogue?
HAMISH FULTON - scarce editions, prints and ephemera and some books
DAVID TREMLETT
Plans We Walk On (Krems: Galerie Stadpark, 1994)
Columns (Krems: Galerie Stadpark, 1995)
International Situationisme (aka IS or International SItuationism) and/or Internationale Lettriste (lettrisme)
Items relating to GUY DEBORD and his colleagues especially correspondence, manuscripts, ephemera as well as
The 1963 conference poster (Marylin Monroe)
Poster for publication of spectacle/revolution of everyday life
Hands off Alexander Trocchi
Finis le pieds plats (Anti-Chaplin tract)
Construisez vous une petit situation son avenir (this is a small leaflet somewhat like the more commong 'Genius' tract)
The naked city and other psychogeographical maps
Early copies of potlatch (not the later reprints)
France alone has a bar like.. (poster made by Debord for opening of la Methode Paris bar)
Jorn 68 poster- vive la revolution pasione
Memoires with the sandpaper cover
Fin de Copenhague
Rare Lettriste items by Isou or his colleagues including paintings and documents, recordings, books, periodicals.
Cheap copies of DIETER ROTH (DIETER ROT / DITER ROTH / DITER ROT) Gessamelte Werk nrs 1 - 40 but not 20, 40, 8, 38 and other Roth items.
Original PUNK magazines from the UK and Ireland from before 1986 and ephemera.
SOL LEWITT Artist's books, artworks, editioned works, documents and ephemera.
LAWRENCE WEINER Artist's books, artworks, editioned works, documents and ephemera including Nach Themyscira, Vienna 1986
Some multiples including matchbooks and badges particularly WE ARE SHIPS AT SEA NOT DUCKS ON A POND Moved Pictures, New York 1985 (a pink enameled pin); COVERED BY CLOUDS,a key ring for the Hotel Furkablick and a metal plate also for the hotel both published by
Editions Mediaa in Neuchaatel. We are also interested in all Weiner postcards and invite cards and some posters.
TROCCI Sigma portfoio (usually mimeograph sheets on coloured stock) - Nrs 8, 18, 20, 21, 23 - 28. All Trocchi documents.
HANS-PETER FELDMANN - all Bilder books and early posters and photographs and also:
Bucher Fotoarbeiten (Museum Folkwang Essen) Essen 1977
Postcard editions including 12 Postcards calendar but only a MAILED copy
Image Nr 1
Telefon Bucher
3 Bilder Texte (auflage 3 Exemplare)
Billedaer af feldman Sommersko verlag, Copenhagen 1973
Buchdekel Buch, Einzelar beit, 1974
Ein Leben Unveroffentlicht 1978
Das grosse frauenbuch Unveroffentlicht 1972 - 1980
VITO ACCONCI Two or Three Structures that can hook to a Room Mario Diacono Bologna and other early books, artworks etc.
BAS JAN ADER All period items including What Makes me so Pure, Almost Holy? All Ader books and emphemera from the 60s/70s Claremont College Claremont
NOBUYOSHI AKARI Xeroxed Photo Albums Self Published Tokyo and all early artist's books.
CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI - first editions ONLY please not the reprints from the various later boxes (sold for example by some Ebay sellers as "1st thus" which is to my mind outrageous - yes you Mr Chicago Bookseller)
(Sten, Oliven) L'enterreur et Autre Poems 1966
La vie impossible de Christian Boltanski 1968 Invitation card
Recherche et presentation de tout ce qui reste de mon enfance 1st edition ONLY (plastic clip binding and with typed text first inside page "on ne remarquera jamais assez.....")
La concession a perpetuite with Jean Le Gac and Gina Pane - 5pp A4 with contact sheets of 60 B/W photos 1969
Fabrication et envoi de 60 petits sachets en drap blanc contenant des chevaux 11 x 8 or 7.7..5cm folded cotton with 2 pins contaIning hair 1969
Reconstitituion d'un accident qui ne m'est pas encore arrive et ou j'ai trouve la mort (aka Description de mon accident) Paris 1969 6pp 17.5 x 28cm. Plastic clip.
Photographie de ma petite soeur en train de creuser sur la plage de Granville 10 x 9cm b/w original photograph 1969 (Nov)
Lettre manuscripte demandent de l'ide Handwritten letter A4 1pp.
LOCAL III with Jean Le Gac An apartment metal key with added label 1970 (41 rue reny Dumancel Paris XIV handwritten on label with artists' names)
LETTRE MANUSCRIPTE DANS LAQUELLE J'EXPLIQUE LES DIRECTIONS CONTRADICTOIRES DANS LAQUEELE MON TRAVAIL S'ENGAGE letter dated 10 Juin 1970 attached to 3 photocopies of a photo of a missing child with the text "la derniere photo de Paul Chardon"/4 photos of the same person noting the timescale passed and a drawing of an installation of cones of dirt, nails and electrical circuit.
PROMENADES Nine different b/w 1pp postcards each 8 x 13cm with various walks printed on them (with le Gac and Paul Armand Gette)
All unique or editioned works including prints and all documentation or signed items by Boltanksi and Annette Messager.
MARCEL BROODTHAERS Pense-Bete Self -Published Brussels
All other Broodthaers books and catalogues and multiples before 1975.
LARRY CLARK Exhibition catalogue from Stockholm
HANNE DARBOVEN 1968-1977. New York Self Published book
Hanne Darboven e.t.c. 2 = 1,2; 1 + 1 = 1,2 Self Published Hamburg book
Hanne Darboven 1975 Self Published Hamburg book
Other items by Darboven including ephemera and works.
Jimmy DeSana 101 Nudes Self Published New York
Have, Henrik. Bookobjects and catalogues
Hirschhorn, Thomas - all items.
Jon Kessler Exh. Cat. Kunstverein Hamburg
Jeff Wall Landscape Manual Fine Arts Gallery, UBC Vancover
Uncommon BOETTI books or invite cards
RICHARD TUTTLE books, multiples and all ephemera including
Story with 7 characters 1965
Sparrow 1965
Two books 1969
Interlude Kinesthetic drawings 1974
Stacked Colour drawings 1971 1974
Print 1976
Poems: Larry Fagin/Drawings Richard Tuttle 1977 NB: one of 26 copies
A Drawing book 1983 (one of 100 unnumbered copies)
Suite I, II, II 1983
Neve 185 (with Mei mei Berssenbrugge) Hiddenness 1989 (one of 120 copies)
Loophole 1987 (one of 50 copies)
XX Blocks 1988
Octavio for Annemarie 1990 (5 +4 copies)
Pig 1990
Grouse 1990 (print rather than book)
Lonesome Cowboy Styrofoam 1990
Early Auden 1991 (80 copies)
The Altos 1991 (120 copies)
Plastic History 1991 (print 50 copies)
CrIckets 1991
Poetry of form 1992 (100 copies)
Oxyerood 1992
Book and cover 1993 (with Mei Mei Berssenbrugge) Sphericity 1993 (one of 50 deluxe copies)
Galistea paintings 1993 (1/30 - woodcut prints)
Yeats/The Gyres (50 copies)
Painted frames for Alma Ruempol, 1995 (50 copies)
Selected Works (Tokyo) in bag
A FEW EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Boston Changing Terms 1971
Buenos Aires El Arte Como Idea En Inglaterra 1971
Calcutta Aspects of Conceptual Art: a Documentation 1975
Genoa Arte povera (Galleria la Bertesca) 1967
Long Beach, CA Photo as Object,Metaphor, and Document of a Concept 1973
Luzern Dusseldorfer Szene 1969
Munich Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: 4 Artists from New York 1989
Newport Harbor The Appearing/Disappearing Image/Object 1969
Nottingham Nottingham Festival 1970 1970
Paris A.R.C. 1973-1983 1984
Rome Roma in Mostra 1970-1979 1995
When Attitudes Become form - various locations
Konception/Conception
JOURNALS AND SERIAL PUBLICATIONS
Aspen Asian number or other numbers if in exceptional condition
Landart, Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum 1969 2nd edition only
Art & Project Bulletin nr 1 and other numbers from the series if priced well
Fuck You, a magazine of the Arts especially Vol.5 No. 9
YEAH Nrs 1- 9 and after 10.
DERRIERE LE MIROIR - FIRST EDITIONS only and then well priced copies (usually these are over priced due to US dealers cutting them up and selling lithographs individually in frames in Soho / Rodeo Drive overpriced galleries) NRS 16, 18 - 21, 33, 35 - 40, 42, 46 -49, 54, 57-61, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 79 - 84, 87 - 91, 99 - 103, 105, 106, 110, 112 - 115, 117 -119, 121 -123, 125, 126, 128, 129, 131- 136, 139 - 141, 143 -148, 151 - 153, 160, 162 - 166, 168, 175, 176, 179 - 181, 184-187, 189, 190, 193, 194, 198, 200 - 205, 208, 212 - 213, 217, 220 - 221, 225 - 226, 231 - 233, 236 - 238, 240 -242, 249, 250, 254 ++++
PLASTIQUE. Revue Internationale, consacree aux oeuvres davant-garde des arts plastiques et litteraires. No. 1. Edited by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Nr 4,5
DAILY BUL (POL BURY) NRS 2, 4, 8, 10, 14++
LONDON BULLETIN June 1938 All but NOT Nr 3, 6, 8/9, 11, 13 (edited by Mesens) London: London Gallery, 193
Panderma magazine - condition and price important but all enclosures must be present.
L'ETERNELLE REVUE. Any BUT NOT Nos. 1 and 2 (nouvelle serie). Directeur: Louis Parrot.
Paris: Editions de la Jeune Parque, 1944-45.
GENERAL IDEA 1970 General Idea Pageant Self Published Toronto 1971
FILE Magazine Nrs 1, 2, 3 4,6,7,8,9,20,21,22,23,24 (only very good condition),
SOME OTHER ARTISTS AND THINGS
Ackling, Roger. Bookworks/catalogues
MATTHEW BARNEY Editioned and unique works including the Parkett edition and Cremaster 4 book (NOT 1, 2, 5 unless signed). Films/videos.
Beecroft, Vanessa Editioned and unique works including the Parkett edition of prints
Bellmer, Hans. Prints, photo-pieces, correspondence and documentation
Beuys: posters, prints, photo-pieces, correspondence and documentation as well as signed items and postcards.
Boetti - all artist books and emphemera and interesting items
BYARS, James Lee . All items including bookworks, posters unique items and ephemera
LOURDES CASTRO - All items including bookworks, posters unique items and ephemera and items relating the the KWY Group.
Cobra - including books, works by Alechinsky, Corneille, Jorn, Brands, Rooskens but prior to 1955.
CONSTANT - New Babylon Informatief nr 3 and other materials including documents, ephemera etc before 1980
MARCEL DUCHAMP: all multiples, correspondence and ephemera as well as related early exhibition catalogues and ephemera.
Dutch anarchism - including items by F. Domela Nieuwenhuis (pre-1915) as well as emphemera. leaflets, brochures etc.
Dutch PROVO and Kabouter and counter culture items from c. 1963 onwards - mostly primary documents and ephemera including leaflets, periodicals, posters, stickers, letters, original photographs.
COUNTER CULTURE including hippies, Yippies, Motherfuckers, Panthers, etc. All items
Extremes in politics including armed struggle material eg RAF (RED ARMY FACTION), Irish PROVO, etc.
FINLAY, Ian Hamilton. Bookworks, folding cards, paper sculptures, some individual copies of POTH and all other items including unique items (see separate list below).
GILBERT & GEORGE - unique pieces, multiples, A+P bulletins, mail art, ephemera especially Art + Project, Amsterdam # 20 and the postcard sculpture "Human Sculpture" 1972 and the following Red Boxer - Wooden Air
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES. Bookworks and signed items and editioned items
Hockney, David - Lithographs including the following Godetia; Marguerites; Portrait of an Artist ( pool with two figures)1972; Harlequin 1980; Two dancers 1980; A bigger splash 1967; A visit at Christopher and Dan 1984; Mulholland Drive: the road to the studio 1980; Nicholas Canyon 1980; Invented man revealing still life 1975; Le parc des sources, vichy 1970; Conversation in the studio 1984; Artist and model 1974 and Coloured paper pools # 27, #18 1978 as well as a well priced Blue Guitar suite.
Other POP ART related items including early Allen Jones erotic silkscreen prints and all ephemera,
RAY JOHNSON. Exhibition catalogues, posters, cards, multiples and prints and mail art as well as unique items.
ROLF JULIUS "Lullabye For The fishes" LP (mint only); "Projekt Berliner Konzertreihe 1981/82" 5 cassette set; "Musik fueine Glasscheibe" Cassette; Musik fudie Ohren" cassette
MARTIN KIPPENBERGER
Hard to find bookworks, editions and ephemera (especially signed items) especially
The Cologne Manifesto (w/ A. Oehlen) Edition Lord Jim Lodge Graz/Cologne
Was konnt ihr dafur (w/ A. Oehlen) Edition Daniel Buchholz Cologne
O Rio de Janeiro besser (richtig) Self Published Cologne
T.O.T. Walther Konig Cologne
Das Ende der Avandgarde Gisela captain/Thea Westreich Cologne/New York
4 Taxis in Berlin ( Nr. 7 )
Die Gute der Gewohnheit ( Nr.25 )
YVES KLEIN. Recordings and other works
Kruger, Barbara: prints and signed editions
MAN RAY. Object-multiples
PIERO MANZONI. All items, exhibition items and ephemera.
ANNETTE MESSAGER. Photo-pieces, early books
MERET OPPENHEIM - LOVE OF POLYPHEMUS. NY: Multiples, Inc., 1974 Silkscreen on glass (froM the MIRRORS OF THE MIND portfolio) and other items/catalogues by Oppenheim including ephemera and documents/letters.
RAYMOND PETTIBON books Nos. 3, 6, 7, 13, 14, 23, 36, 38 - 64, 66 - 69, 72 -78, 80-82, 85-87, 89, 91, 93, 95, 97, 98, 101, 104, 105.
SIGMAR POLKE prints and bookworks noted in the catalogue raisonne - nos. 1 - 5 ( 5 only with signature), 8-11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 34, 36-38, 44, 45, 47, 48, 50, 57, 60, 61-64, 66, 72, 73, 76-78, 82, 88, 98, 102, 107, 110, 113, 114, 123, 124, 126, 138 and all ephemera etc
GERHARD RICHTER - All items.
Raysse, Martial. Pre-1970 prints and multiples as well as other items by Nouvelle Ralistes such as Arman, Klein.
Roussel, Raymond Books (first edition), related period material and ephemera
ED RUSCHA
Stains (1st printing not the reprint)
Dutch Details
26 Gasoline Stations
Russia. post revolutionary books and pamphlets especially Mayakovski. Condition is important.
DAVID SHRIGLEY - early books, multiples, prints and unique works.
Smith, Patty and Robert Mapplethorpe - all items including ephemera.
Akio Suzuki, unique and multiple items
Teige, Karel and the Czech modernist avantgarde including other surrealism. All significant Czech rarities including photography and other such material.
Documents relating to the Velvet Revolution, Havel and true SAMIZDAT publications of the period.
Toyen. Bookworks, unique pieces, documentation (also Styrsky)
URBAN INTERVENTIONISM (STREET ART) - Faile, Obey, Invader, Paul Insect, Yeo, Bast (Oh god, if I write Banksy will I get the usual shit from those precious people who think 'street' means 'authentic' and that these artists want their art to be never sold on - if you believe that then ask the situationists about alllowing everything they did to be free of copyright (only Guy Debord never truly sold out and, then, by using others to give him a living!). Before you send em an email please note at least one of the well-known Street artists agreed to do an event with us up here (with my paying for all the costs with no likelihood of recouping the money) only to disappear and not reply to emails when they suddenly became successful on the back of Banky's rise to tabloid fame and they found they could make real money showing elsewhere in bigger galleries in bigger cities. We don't blame them at all we just don't want them to pretend such decisions are all about the art! ;) )
ANDY WARHOL All "signature" pieces at good prices including prints and "Black" Lenin
ZERO GROUP - including Uecker, Peine and the Dutch and NUL GRUPPEUECKER ZEITUNG Nos. 2, 6, 8 and 9 (published in Dusseldorf 1969-1978).
Avantgarde material (1920s vintage Dada etc) from the former Yugoslavia or Romania including facsimiles of the periodicals ZENIT and/or the Romanian HP75 (edited by Serner).
All Nezval items and Styrsky items including Edice 69 publications and Devestil documents.
Interfunktionen magazine
Autographed items (such as postcards, letters or invitation cards etc) by Art and Language, Judy Chicago, Sonia Boyce, Willie Doherty, Mary Kelly, Odd Nerdum, Wolfgang Laib, Gordon Matta-Clark, Arnulf Rainer, Charles Ray, Mark Tansey, Jeff Wall, Hans Haacke, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Tony Cragg, Sophie Calle, and Louise Bourgeois.
DADA - all Kurt Schwitters first edition books and related items apart from EBAY-purchased collages (all fakes), George Groz, all Dada items including Tzara, Ball, etc including papillions (tracts) and documents.
Here is our current desiderata in the field of INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM (all dependant on price/condition) :
Alvarez-Bravo, Manuel MEXIQUE. Preface d’Andre Breton. Paris: Renou et Colle, 1939
ANTOLOGIA POETILOR DE AZI. Editors: Ion Pillat & Perpessicius.
Arnaud, Celine. Point de Mire. 1921.Bucharest: Editura ‘Cartea Romaneasca’, 1925-28. 2 volumes
Arp, Hans. Poemes sans Prenoms. 1941.
Bataille, Georges. All.
Cahun, Claude. Vues et Visions. 1919.
(Ibid). Aveux nons Avenus. 1930.
Carrington, Leonora. La Maison de la Peur. 1938.
Char, Rene. Placard Pour un Chemin des Ecoliers. 1937.
Craven, Arthur. All.
Dali, Salvador. BABAOUO, c’est film surrealiste, precede d’un abrege d’une histoire critique du Cinema et suivi de Guillaume Tell, ballet portugais. Paris: Editions des Cahiers Libres, 1932.
Deharme, Lise. Le Coeur de Pic. 1937.
(Ibid). Le Poids d'un Oiseau. 1953.
ALL LISE DEHARME PHOTOGRAPHS, MEMORABILIA AND EPHEMERA AND AUTOGRAPHED ITEMS
Duchamp-Crotti, Suzanne. ANY.
Eluard, Paul. Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes. 1937.
(w/ Breton) L'immaculée conception with Dali frontispiece (1/113 copies)
(Ibid). Medieuses. 1939 and/or 1944.
Jouffroy, Alain. Les Quatre Saisons d'une Ame. 1955.
Laure (Colette Peignot). Le Sacre. 1939.
(Ibid). Bernier, Jean. L'Amour de Laure. 1978.
(Ibid). Ecrits Retrouves. 1987.
Le Brun, Annie. Any.
Mansour, Joyce. Cris. 1953.
(Ibid). Duchirures. 1955.
Penrose, Valentine. Le Nouveau Candide. 1936.
(Ibid). Dans des Feminines. 1951.
Prassinos, Gisele. La Sauterelle Arthritique. 1935.
(Ibid). Le Feu Maniaque. 1935, and/or Godet edition from 1944.
(Ibid). Une Demande en Mariage. 1935.
(Ibid). Facilite Crepusculaire. 1937.
Roche, Juliette. ANY.
Van Hirtum, Marianne. ANY.
Zurn, Unica. ANY.
We would also be interested in any documents, ephemera, catalogues and/or correspondence by or related to:
Jane Graverol, Greta Knutson, Alice Paalen, Kay Sage, Toyen, Helene Vanel, Isabelle Waldberg, Unica Zurn and particularly items by Jacqueline Lamba and Dora Maar.
Catalogues/periodicals.
Photomontage items by European and Russian photomontage artists may be of interest.
LITERATURE
ALMANACO LETTERARIO 1933. Milan: Bompiani Editore.
(Aragon, Louis). LA CHASSE AU SNARK par Lewis Carroll. Paris: Hours Press, 1929.
Arensberg, Walter Conrad. Pre 1930 only.
Barney, Natalie Clifford. Pre 1930 first editions + correspondence and documents.
BAROQUE INSTRUMENT STRING CATALOG. New York: E & O, Inc. n.d., circa 1965-69.
Beach, Sylvia. 'Le Theatre Elisabethain' Published in 'Correspondence'. Paris: 1928.
(Ibid). WALT WHITMAN A LA LIBRARIE SHAKESPEARE & CIE. Paris: 1926
Also any correspondence, documents and photos pre 1940. relating to the BLACK SUN PRESS: ephemera, documents, photos (ie Caresse and Harry Crosby).
Braque, Georges. GEORGES BRAQUE. Paris: Kahnweiler, 1909. Catalogue.
COSMOPOLIS. Revue Internationale. No. 17. Paris: Mai, 1897.
Cunard, Nancy. BLACK MAN AND WHITE LADYSHIP. Toulon: 1931.
Deharme, Lise. LE COEUR DE PIC. Paris: Corti, 1937.
Delarue-Madrus, Lucie. Pre 1920 first editions, preferably in the du tete issues + correspondence and documents.
Dixon, Vladimir. STUPENI. Paris: 1924.
LIST'JA. Paris: 1927.
STIKHI I PROZA. Paris: 1930.
Desbordes-Valmore, Marceline. CONTES ET SCENES DE LA VIE DE FAMILLE. Paris: 1865.
H.D., (Hilda Doolittle), THE USUAL STAR. London: privately printed, printed in Paris, 1928.
HOURS PRESS: ephemera and documents - Nancy Cunard.
Hugo, Victor exhibition catalogues of medium-istic drawings, publishers include the V & A or the British Museum in the 1980's. Although earlier French, German, etc catalogues would be of interest too.
JAR'-PTITSA. Berlin/Paris/NY: 1921-26.
Kreymborg, Arthur. LIMA BEANS. first edition only
Leiris, Michel - L'AFRIQUE FANTOME. Paris: 1934
ibid. RITES DE CIRCONCISION NAMCHI. Paris: 1934
ibid (with Schaeffner, Andre) LES RITES DE CIRCONCISION CHEZ LES DOGON DE SANGA. Paris, 1936.
Logue, Christopher WAND AND QUADRANT. Paris, Collection Merlin, 1953
Macpherson, Kenneth POOL REFLECTION. 1927
(Ibid) GAUNT ISLAND, 1927.
Mackworth, Cecily. ELEVEN POEMS. Paris: Les Editions du Booster. Circa 1930's.
Magritte, Rene. MAGRITTE. Brussels: Galerie Dietrich, 1946. Catalogue.
Michelet, Raymond AFRICAN EMPIRES AND CIVILISATION. Forward by Nancy Cunard. Published by Panaf Service Ltd., 1945
Myers, F.W.H. - HUMAN PERSONALITY AND ITS SURVIVAL AFTER BODILY DEATH. c. 1890. British edition only.
LES VERTUS. Paris: 1926. + ephemera, correspondence and photos pre 1940.
Ocampo, Victoria. Pre 1950 French-language editions.
Pawlowski, Gaston de. VOYAGE AU PAYS DE LA
QUATRIEME DIMENSION. Paris: 1923. Or later Belgian edition.
Przybyszewska, Dagny Juel - all items including short stories, poems, dramas.
Perles, Alfred. SENTIMENTS LIMITROPHES. Paris: c. 1935.
LE QUATOR EN RE MAJEUR. Paris: c. 1938. In addition: other Alfred Perles titles published in Paris but only before 1940
(Peret, Benjamin) Peralta. LE MANIFESTE DES EXEGETES. Mexico City, 1946.
Rachilde. CONTES ET NOUVELLES. Paris: 1900. + other pre 1920 first editions.
Ray, Man. TABLEAUX DE MAN RAY ET OBJETS DES ILES. Paris: Edition Surrealistes, 1926.
Riding, Laura. FOUR UNPOSTED LETTERS TO CATHERINE. Paris: Hours Press, 1930.
Riding THE SECOND LEAF. The Seizin Press, 1935.
Roussel, Raymond. 'Collection Roussel'. Paris Galerie Georges Petit, 1912. Auction catalogue.
Saint-Point, Valentine de. UN INCESTE. Paris: 1907. + correspondence, documents and manuscripts.
Salt, Sidney CARAVEL.c.1920's-30's.
Sartoris, Ramon. THREE PLAYS. illustrated by Dorothea Tanning.
(V. Sirin.) Nabokov, Vladimir, translator, ANYA V STRANE CHUDES by Lewis Carroll. Berlin: Gamajun,1923. Any books translated under this pseudonym may be of interest.
Soupault, Phillipe. AQUARIUM. Paris: 1917.
(Ibid) LE COEUR D'OR. Paris: 1927.
Three Montains Press items via Dorothy Shakespear
Vivien, Rene, pseudonym of Pauline Tarn. Pre 1930 first editions + correspondence and documents.
Williams, William Carlos: WILLIAM ZORACH TWO DRAWINGS/WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS TWO POEMS. n.p. The Stovepipe Press, 1937.
Zayas, Marius de books and/or periodical contribs before 1940 only
JOURNALS:
AMERICA: Cahiers France-Amerique Latine. No.5. Paris: 1947. Jazz issue.
BLUES Edited by Charles Henri-Ford
BROOM
CLOSE UP, British film magazine published from 1927 until the mid 30's. (Possibly published by Pool Press in France)
CONFESSIONS. No's. 1-12. Paris: 1936-37.
DANCE INDEX. Published in NY: 1940's
GARGOYLE Published in Paris in the 20's
LES ECRITS NOUVEAU. Paris: 1917-22. Various issues.
G.L.M. Serie 'Reperes': Paris: 1935-37. No's 6, 7, 11, 12, 17, 18 & 19.
LES JOURNEL DES POETES. No.14, 3rd year. Brussels: Mars, 1933.
L'YMAGIER. published in Paris c. 1890's Edited by Alfred Jarry
MAUVAIS TEMPS. Published in Hainaut (Belgium), 1935.
OTHERS, third year, number 6, 1917
PARIS MAGAZINE published in Paris in the 20's - 30's.
THE LITTLE REVIEW
THE QUARTER
Interesting items by:
BOOSTER EDITIONS, Paris;
AQUILA PRESS
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY DESIDERATA
Cards
The Star in its Stable of Light
Boats of letters 1970
The Christmas card variant of The Lands Shadows (Murray 4.49)
A Pittenweem Fancy
Small is Quite beautiful
Hommage to Watteau (card not the book)
Et in ASrcadia Ego (with Carl Heideken) (Murray 4.120 1977)
Homage to J. M. Synge (with John Borg Manduca) 1977
Camoflage/Flag/Flak
From 35 One word Poems - - actually only one of these cards is needed from the set of five: Drip-Dry May from the Presences of Nature published by Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery 1982/3
Wildflower (pressed flower in folding card - 14 x 10cm)
Closed
The SAC is now discovering the price...
Other and still other
5 words
The name of the bow
How will one hide...
Even the oatmeal drink
Sticker for victory
The National Trust follifies...
Wild Hawthorn Weapon Series: Saint Just Vigilantes celebrate
Imprisoned in every Italian Battleship...
A proposal for the Furka pass
Rowan
The Enlightenment (not confirmed - double entry in Murray possibly)
A fragment
The perfect sentence
Callimachus
Bicentenary Tricolour
The Flageolet's Surname
Aphrodite of the terror
Martin Waters
A proposal for the celebration of the Bicenternary
Order is repetition
3 dates
Water-Lilies (1990)
Christmas card (1990)
A model of order
Abraham & Santa Clara - folding card
Gate Fold
Abraham & Santa Clara - concertina card which is noted as (Death is a reaper) to accompany Fruitmarket exhibition card according to the flawed Murray catalogue raisonne
Reflection of the French revolution
Joseph Barra
Two landscapes Viewed throughout the vision slit of a tank
Chrsitmas card 1991
Birch
She loves him
Which figure is in costume
Dropping zone of the rose petals recollection
Villa Hamilton
Vorticist/Cubist
Five Finials
Shepherd of Stones/Pastor of Oaks
and a few others post 1992
Books
Concertina (with John Picking and Pete McGinn) 1963
Canal Stripe Series 8
Picture Book
6 small pears for Eugen Gomringer
Headlines Eavelines
Collected Coaltown of Callange Tri-kai
So you want to be a Panzer leader? 1975
Tachenbuch der Panzer (1981 printed by the Stellar Press)
A mixed exhibition (1983)
A memory of the 90s
Detached Sentences on weather 1986 (20ppm 18 x 12cm)
Sundial (4pp 13 x 8.2cm)
Still Life 1989 (10 x 14cm)
Thermidor 1989 (21 x 14.5cm)
3 Stitches
Jacobin Definitions
Two adaptions 1991 (8pp 12.8 x 8.8cm)
Scud 1991 (8pp 7.6 x 11.1cm)
Myths 1991 (24pp 12 x 30.8cm)
Detatched sentences on friendship (20pp 9.8 x 6.8cm)
Four Monostitches 1991 (12pp with 4 foldouts 10.7 x 16cm)
Prosaic Proverbs 1992 (16pp, 10.5 x 7.2cm)
More Proverbs for Jacobins with Dust Jacket (16pp, 11.2 x 7.8cm)
7.01 (with Eva-Marie Weinmayr) 1992 with Dust Jacket (16pp, 9 x 11.4cm)
The happy catastrophe
Calligrammes & Sonnets 1992 (4pp, 8.9 x 7.5cm)
and there are few others post 1992
POTH (POOR. OLD. TIRED. HORSE.)
We might be interested in copies of nrs 1 and 6 and / or other early numbers in very good condition
WILD HAWTHORN PRESS PUBLICATION
Drawing (Vaserely)
Terror is the Piety of the revolution (Stoddart)
(Possibly POLAR by John Furnival if in VG condition)
Prints - quite a number but these are not as yet our collecting priority but we'd be interested in examples of The Blue & Brown Poems Calendar, Evening will come, Modern Art, Sail Wholemeal, Poster Poem, Le Circus, Seven Plates from Edgar March, Seashells (in folder) Shenval Xmas Poem, Spiral Binding and possibly Topiary Aircraft Carrier, HMS Illustrious and Washington Fountain, A Panzer Selection, The Sound of Running Water (1989) - all dependent on price.
PROPOSALS
All especially xeroxed originals.
ALL FINLAY MULTIPLES AND UNIQUE WORKS ARE ALSO OF INTEREST INCLUDING EDITIONED XMAS PRESENTS.
FINLAY EPHEMERA & EXHIBITION CATALOGUES /CARDS OR CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAGAZINES FROM BEFORE HIS DEATH - too many to note - please offer.
Please note - this list is NOT extensive - if you think you might have something of interest do get in touch. Equally we are interested in complete collections and archives and extremely rare books (50,000$ upwards having successfully sold books of this price to clients before)
Email us on mail@heartfineart.com if you think you might have something that will interest us. If possible please include photographs, full descriptions including condition and the background to where you obtained the item and the price you are seeking for it.
Last updated on 19 May 2010.
