Four of the 20 plates from one of Keith Haring's final works: his environmentally-conscious Against All Odds (1990). See number 10 below.

Harper's Books: June Selections

Below, our 22 monthly selections; a range of books, ephemera, and other printed matter relating to art, photography, modern literature, and design. Follow the links for additional images and purchasing options. To browse similar materials, visit our New York bookshop at 504 West 22nd Street and our East Hampton gallery at 87 Newtown Lane.

1. Josef Albers and Jürgen Wissmann

Josef Albers (Signed)

Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1973. Anniversary Edition. Tall octavo. SIGNED by Albers and dated in the year of publication. Originally appearing in 1971, as part of the Bongers series of monographs on visual artists from the North-Rhine/Westphalia region; republished here by the Ministry of Culture on the occasion of Josef Albers' 85th birthday. Featuring a 3-color screenprint as frontispiece, from Albers' Homage to the Square series; illustrated throughout after dozens of images, both in color and black-and-white. A fine copy in white cloth boards, in a very good illustrated jacket with spots of rubbing to the corners and some scuffing to  front panel. Bound-in screenprint in excellent condition. Uncommon signed.

$500.00

2. Harold Ancart

There is No There There

Brussels: Triangle Books, 2016. First Edition. Oblong octavo. One of 500 copies. With 27 color plates reproducing Harold Ancart's 2014 cycle of oil stick drawings (There is No There There), executed as he traveled across the U.S. in his modified jeep studio. Accompanied by introductory text from David Breslin, then-curator at the Menil, where the drawings were exhibited in 2016 (Aug. 23–Oct. 23). A fine copy in green cloth boards with black lettering to front panel.

$250.00

3. Gianni Bertini and Brion Gysin

Festival de Fort Boyard: Dream Machines (Exhibition Poster, Signed)

Paris, 1967. Screenprint on heavy paper (26.75 x 21 inches). One of seven posters designed by Gianni Bertini and Henri Chopin to promote their absurd—and wholly fictitious—Fort Boyard arts festival; with a programme of avant-garde public art from the likes of Brion Gysin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Mimmo Rotella, and Gil Wolman purportedly installed on a 19th century island fortress off the coast of Rocheford, a five hour drive west of Paris. This poster, announcing an exaggerated version of one of Gysin's dream machines—three meters in diameter, to host up to 18 spectators—features a striking Mec-Art design from Bertini; SIGNED by the artist in pencil to lower margin, with brief inscription. Fold-lines from mailing and some offsetting, with postmarks to verso. Archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexiglass (28.75 x 23 inches).

$2500.00

4. Ernst Caramelle

Conzert für Klavier und Gespräch

Groß-Gerau: INITIATIVE-GG, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Programme published for a performance of Ernst Caramelle's experimental "Concert for Piano and Conversation" at INITIATIVE-GG in Groß-Gerau (June 1, 1974). Self-wrappers; [16] pages, with three pages fully illustrated after a condensed list of names of artists, musicians, philosophers, and pop cultural figures; a long, concrete poem, which the audience was encouraged to read out loud during the performance, as per Caramelle's artist statement at rear. Identified as Caramelle's first work of printed matter in the 2005 catalogue raisonné from the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (Porto). A fine copy, xerographically printed to newsprint. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.

$450.00

5. Diego Cortez (curator)

The Pressure to Paint (Exhibition Catalogue)

New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1982. First Edition. Slim quarto. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of New Painting curated by Diego Cortez at Marlborough Gallery, New York (Jun. 4–Jul. 9, 1982). "The politics of the New Painting is direct. People want image and color; after the quasi-cybernetic hardware-software Network hook-ups of the 70s (gadgets as concepts), artists are again working with their hands. A new manual culture. An eighties lunch-break from the seventies appropriation of art-labor." With poetic curatorial statement from Cortez—punctuated with excerpts from Émile Zola—followed by color reproductions of a select work from each of the exhibited artists, including Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Keith Haring, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, David Salle, and Julian Schnabel. Bright yellow wrappers with minor edge-wear and blind impression to front panel, else near fine.

$450.00

6. Marcel Dzama

Paintings and Drawings (Signed with Original Drawing)

Köln: Walther König, 2004. First Edition. Quarto. Catalogue published on the occasion of Marcel Dzama's exhibition at Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (Apr. 30–May 29, 2004), showcasing a number of the artist's first canvases. This copy INSCRIBED by Dzama to title page ("all the best / Marcel Dzama"), with accompanying cat-head drawing. Illustrated by color reproductions of 20 paintings and 12 drawings, and a number of facsimiles from Dzama's scrapbooks. Fine copy in purple cloth boards with silver-stamped lettering to front panel.

$350.00

7. Mark Gonzales

Peachy: Poetry That Will Make You Sweat (Signed)

Bolt Publishing, 2018. Limited Edition. Octavo. SIGNED and hand-numbered to first page, as number 92 of 100 copies. A "Mark Gonzales Poetry Zine," assembling dozens of his idiosyncratic texts, drawings, and collage works. Contents: side-stapled self-wrappers, [72] pages, printed on yellow paper stock. A fine copy. Uncommon, with no OCLC records located.

$250.00

8. David Hammons

David Hammons: In the Hood

Springfield: Illinois State Museum, 1994. First Edition. Slim quarto. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition held in David Hammons' hometown of Springfield, (Illinois State Museum, Sept. 11–Nov. 8, 1993), opening a few months after Hammons had celebrated his 50th birthday. With an interview between curator Robert Sill and Hammons accompanied by a series of critical texts from Sill, Ralph Rugoff, and Calvin Reid; interspersed with dozens of color photographs documenting Hammons' life and oeuvre. Front cover illustrated after his iconic 1993 work In the Hood. Slight bump to top corner of illustrated wrappers, with minor scuffing to rear panel, else near fine.

$1500.00

9. David Hammons and Dawoud Bey

Been There and Back

Salzburg: Salzburger Kunstverein, 1995. First Edition. Slim quarto. Catalogue for an exhibition held at Salzburger Kunstverein (Aug. 4–Sep. 27, 1995), for which David Hammons flew his African American Flag outside of the Künstlerhaus, establishing a kind of imaginary emissary, as per the opening essay from Silvia Eiblmayr. Illustrated throughout with color photographs of installation views; accompanied by an essay on Hammons' career by Dawoud Bey ("In the Spirit of Minski"), previously published in an issue of Third Text. Essays printed in both English and German. A fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers.

$750.00

10. Keith Haring

Against All Odds: 20 Drawings: Oct. 3, 1989

Rotterdam: Bébert Publishing House, 1990. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Hand-numbered to colophon as 1353 of 2500 copies. "These drawings are about the Earth we inherited and the dismal task of trying to save it—against all odds." A suite of 20 impassioned drawings from Haring, executed one afternoon in October 1989, with his 4 pp. introduction—reproduced in facsimile manuscript—dated January 27, 1990, just weeks before his death. Beautifully printed on acid-free Rivoli paper. Spine sunned, else near fine in bright laminate orange boards with black lettering to front panel. Minor scuffing to orange cloth slipcase with matching lettering; also near fine.

$2500.00

11. Martin Kippenberger

21 Jahre unter Euch: Kippenberger, 1954–1974 (Signed Edition of Artist's Stamps)

Hamburg: Self-published, 1974. Perforated sheet of artist's stamps (11.5 x 8.5 inches), SIGNED and numbered as 12 of 100 copies. One of the earliest examples of Kippenberger's art of self-projection, produced to commemorate his 21st birthday; each of the stamps illustrated after a portrait of Kippenberger, from infancy through adolescence to adulthood: "21 Years Amongst You." Kippenberger would integrate individual stamps from this edition when posting his personal letters. Minor creasing to margins; near fine. Hinged with over-sized mat in aluminum frame (21.25 x 17.5 inches).

$7500.00

12. Martin Kippenberger

Kippen Seltzer (Signed Multiple)

Lund: Anders Tornberg Gallery, 1990. Multiple. A comically-large hand-carved wood pill (11 in. diameter, 2 in. depth) produced for Martin Kippenberger's exhibition at Anders Tornberg Gallery—Jetzt geh ich in den Birkenwald, denn meine Pillen wirken bald (Now I'll Go into the Birch Forest, for My Pills Will Soon Take Effect. SIGNED, dated, and numbered 1/25 in pencil on the verso. (Multiples, 28). Minor scuffing to left edge, with Hamburg gallery label affixed to verso.

$6000.00

13. Martin Kippenberger and Andreas Höhne

The Canary Searching for a Port in the Storm: 186 Drawings (Signed with Original Drawing)

New York: David Nolan Gallery, 1991. Deluxe Edition. Duodecimo. The fourth and final installment of Martin Kippenberger's playful send-up of A. R. Penck's 1985 artist's book Die Welt des Adlers, replacing Penck's eagle with the humble canary. For this palimpsest, Kippenberger's student Andreas Höhne reworks the 186 abstract drawings that Kippenberger had published in the first volume (Die Welt des Kanarienvogels, 1989). SIGNED by Kippenberger to colophon and hand-numbered as 10 of 120. This being one of only thirty copies to include an original drawing from Kippenberger; graphite and white-out on loose sheet (6 x 4 inches). (Koch 98). Fine in canary yellow cloth boards. In printed black jacket, with small abrasions to front panel, thus close to near fine. In original black paper slipcase.

$3500.00

14. Tom Kryss and Robert J. Sigmund

Dialogue in Pale Blue (Unique Artist's Book)

Cleveland, OH: Broken Mimeo Press, 1969. Limited Edition. Square octavo. An aleatory artist's book from two poets associated with d.a. levy's mimeograph scene. One weekend in 1969, Tom Kryss and Robert J. Sigmund gathered to produce a collaborative book of poetry, only to find themselves confronted with a broken mimeograph machine. Unfazed, they accepted the challenge—i.e. to find a poetry without words—and proceeded to transform the sheets of pale blue mimeo paper in front of them; cutting, folding, and pasting those sheets into an edition of 200 unique copies. Hence the only publication to issue from the Broken Mimeo Press. Contents: [18] leaves of pale blue paper, with hand-stamped titles to front wrapper and first leaf, along with hand-stamped colophon; 13 of the following leaves hosting cut-and-folded segments. Some fading to edges of wrappers; near fine.

$350.00

15. Le Corbusier

Poeme de l'Angle Droit (Exhibition Poster)

Paris: Galerie Berggruen, 1955. Bold lithograph on thick paper (24.5 x 15.75 inches). A striking exhibition poster announcing a showcase of Le Corbusier's impressive portfolio of lithographs at Heinz Berggruen's Paris gallery (Nov. 22–Dec. 3, 1955). Printed by Mourlot in Paris. Archivally-hinged in maple frame with UV plexiglass (27 x 18.5 inches).

$1750.00

16. David Seymour

Children of Europe

Paris: UNESCO, 1949. First Edition. Small spiral-bound quarto. The first book from David "Chim" Seymour (born David Szymin), who was here commissioned by UNICEF to document the plight of millions of children in post-War Europe. The striking gravure-printed images—which Seymour captured across six months of travel through Austria, Greece, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland—are preceded by an 8 pp. introduction, written by Seymour in the voice of one such child: "Believe me, all of us war handicapped children can still forget what we have witnessed, what you made us witness. You can help us a lot... We ourselves shall be 'grown-ups' in a few years and, if we then see that millions of us have been abandoned a second time, we certainly shall lose faith in that ideal for which you fought." Despite what must have been a large printing, this photobook by one of the founding members of Magnum remains an elusive title. Moderate creasing to spiral-bound wrappers, with some chipping to corners. Interior bright and clean. Close to near fine.

$3500.00

17. Amy Sillman

Yes & No: The O.G. #9

Bergenz, Austria: Kunsthaus-Bregenz, [2016]. First Edition. Octavo. Published on the occasion of Amy Sillman's site-specific installation at KUB Arena; her first institutional show in Austria (Nov. 12–Jan. 10, 2016). As per the printed artist statement, Sillman chose to exhibit everything other than the paintings themselves; "a diagram to 'explain' the abstraction, a platform for presentation, a book with an interview, even the color scheme, but no paintings. When no paintings are present, then what is produced?" Interview of Sillman by David Lichtenstein accompanied by 8 color reproductions and an excerpt from an earlier psychoanalytic essay by Lichtenstein ("Fiction of Origins"). Further illustrated by folding plate at rear, with one of Sillman's drawings annotated with Freudian interpretations. Number 9 in Sillman's O.G. series of zines. Minor rubbing to corners of stapled trifold wrappers; close to fine.

$250.00

18. Keiichi Tanaami

A Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami

Tokyo: Keiichi Tanaami Design Office, 1966. First Edition. Quarto. Graphic novella (32 pp.). A romantic self-portrait from Tanaami, one of the leading post-War pop artists in Japan; reminiscent of many of Frans Masereel's wordless narratives. Minor scuffing to illustrated laminate boards; close to fine. Green variant, complete with illustrated obi. Uncommon, with only 2 OCLC records located.

$250.00

19. Andy Warhol 

Andy Warhol: 16 Décembre 1970 – 14 Janvier 1971 (Exhibition Poster)

Paris: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1970. Offset lithograph (26 x 18.5 inches). Poster for Andy Warhol's solo exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Dec. 16, 1970–Jan. 14, 1971), featuring a bold reproduction of his iconic cow wallpaper. Very minor edge-wear; near fine. Archivally-hinged in black lacquer frame with UV plexiglass (29 x 21.25 inches).

$2000.00

20. Andy Warhol and Rainer Crone 

Andy Warhol (Signed Five Times with Drawing)

London: Thames and Hudson, 1970. First U.K. Edition. Quarto. An impressive copy of Rainer Crone's catalogue raisonné of Andy Warhol's early work—SIGNED five times by Warhol in black marker: to the book's fore-edge, to the front endpaper, to the half-title page, to the lower margin of the color reproduction of his 1963 portrait of Elizabeth Taylor, and to the rear endpaper, accompanied by one of his vulva drawings. Near fine in orange cloth boards, with even toning to pages. Illustrated jacket with only minor edge-wear, also near fine. A memorable copy of this landmark work.

$12,500.00

21. Karl Wirsum

Untitled (Study for Show Girl Painting)

[Chicago], circa 1969. Ballpoint pen and colored pencils on paper (17 x 14 inches). Original drawing from one of Karl Wirsum's famed notebooks from the late 1960s. This composition identified as a study for one of his Show Girl acrylic paintings. Clean and bright, with minor toning to margins; not inspected outside of metal frame (18.75 x 16 inches).

$12,500.00

22. Tadanori Yokoo

Are You Ready for Foods? (Restaurant Poster)

Tokyo, 1989. Offset print (40 x 28 inches). A striking advertising poster produced for a Chinese restaurant in Tokyo's Shibuya district, with fifteen dishes embedded within Tadanori Yokoo's maximalist design. Address, opening hours, and small map printed to lower margin. A fine copy, archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexiglass (44.5 x 32.5 inches).

$1500.00

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