One of a group of early works on paper (1955-1957) from famed fashion photographer Guy Bourdin, executed while under the mentorship of Man Ray. For more, see number 2 below.

Booth Highlights: 2026 Armory Book Fair (Booth C25)

Below, some highlights from our booth at next week's New York International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Park Avenue Armory; Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3. You'll find us at Booth C25. With some complimentary tickets still available. During the Fair, our Chelsea bookshop will maintain regular hours (Wednesday through Saturday, 11-6) at 504 West 22nd Street.

1. ALVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel / André Breton, Frida Kahlo, Ubac, et al.

Mexique (Deluxe Edition)

Paris: Renou & Colle, 1939. First Edition. Octavo. Deluxe version (No. 3 of 20 copies). Catalogue published for the exhibition of Mexican art curated by André Breton at Renou & Colle (Mar. 10 - 25, 1939), following his pivotal 1938 voyage through the country. To supplement a group of eighteen paintings from Frida Kahlo (one of which—The Frame—would sell to the Louvre), Breton assembled a range of Mexican paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries, examples of Pre-Columbian art, and a series of photographs from Manuel Alvarez Bravo, whose work he celebrates here as one of the purest examples of Mexican soul. The twenty deluxe copies printed on Vergé de Montval paper; tan wrappers differing from the regular purple covers. Contents: [2], 16, [2] pages, illustrated with five tipped black-and-white plates, including two after photographs by Ubac and the affixed cover image after Alvarez Bravo; gatherings loose in unbound wrappers. Minor scuffing to rear panel of wrappers, else fine.

$3500.00

2. BOURDIN, Guy

Le Retour d'Ulysse (Work on Paper)

[Paris], circa 1956. Mixed media work on paper (19.75 x 25.5 inches). One of a group of artworks from famed fashion photographer Guy Bourdin. Executed at the dawn of his decades-long collaboration with Vogue, these playful mixed media works display the Surrealist influence of Bourdin's mentor Man Ray, as well as the distinct narrative approach that would come to define his visual style. In this instance, with striking collage element, Bourdin depicts the literary scene of Ulysses returned to Penelope, following the decisive contest of the bow. Although the subject of solo exhibitions at Galerie de Beaune (1954), Galerie de Seine (1956), and New York's Peter Deitsch Gallery (1957), Bourdin's works on paper have yet to receive their due as foundational, pre-photographic moments in his oeuvre. A faint stain to upper margin; boldly SIGNED in black ink with manuscript title to lower margin.

$6500.00

3. CATTELAN, Maurizio and Pierpaolo Ferrari

Toiletpaper Magazine (All Published with Variants and Related Publications)

Athens: Deste Foundation / Bologna: Damiani, 2010-2026. First Editions. Quarto. A full run of the artist's magazine Toiletpaper, with numerous variants, limited editions, and related publications; a full description below. "In a way Toiletpaper is a declaration of love to images—to pure, aimless visuals." An unabashed celebration of post-Internet pictures—and something of a midway point between Surrealism and generative AI—Toiletpaper is the 2010 stepchild of artworld jester Maurizio Cattelan and fellow Italian fashion photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari; the duo soon joined by Art Director Mico Talso and an army of creatives to create a magazine devoid of words or themes. While the brand still produces magazines (however sporadically)—with their website promoting additional product categories for posters, interiors, lifestyle, and beauty—a number of the early variants represented here have become key desiderata. In total: a full run of the magazine (Nos. 1-21) across 25 individual issues, including the scarce variant covers for Nos. 1 and 2, Special Editions for Nos. 13 (442/659), 15 (182/700), 16 (312/1000), 17 (867/1000), and ToiletMartin PaperParr (143/1000)—each sealed, with accompanying multiples—and the special issue Tar (2011), for which Cattelan and Ferrari selected the "worst images" from the magazine's first three issues. Also accompanied by: three annual Toiletpaper calendars (2015, 2017, 2018), the Vinyl Factory compilation disc (I Always Remember a Face, Especially When I've Sat on It), and the two volumes of Toiletpaper Book (2012, 2015), with the first also present in its limited edition state (no. 296/1000), with lenticular front board and a supplementary issue of the magazine (Diamond Collection). Save for a fore-edge bump to No. 5, the items in this collection are uniformly near fine to fine. More images available upon request.

$6500.00

4. CHRISTO and Charles Wilp

"Empaquetage de Femme"... Film Realisé par Charles Wilp (Performance Photograph)

Düsseldorf/London, 1963. Vintage gelatin silver print (8.5 x 11.5 inches) with matte finish. German Pop-adjacent artist Charles Wilp generated some of the most avant-garde European advertising from the 1960s (cf. Afri-Cola spots on Youtube), while also producing artist's vinyl with Yves Klein. In 1963, he filmed Christo twice—in both Düsseldorf and London—as the latter continued with his Wrapped Women series, which had some of its earliest iterations in Klein's Paris apartment. Rather than wrapping cars or oil barrels or architecture, Christo here wrapped the nude female body; a practice that soon lead to his stunning jewelry and fashion designs. The present photograph—rather abstract, of the model's torso—most likely issues from the Düsseldorf performance of this work. A sharp print, with only minor edge-wear; Wilp's studio stamp to verso, along with bold manuscript title in black ink.

$850.00

5. (COUNTERCULTURE) / Marina and Andrea Valcarenghi (editors)

Il Re Nudo (First 19 Issues)

Milano: Arti Grafiche La Monzese, 1970-1973. First Editions. Quarto. Run of the first 19 issues of the influential counterculture magazine Il Re Nudo (i.e. The Naked King); lifting its title from Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Emperor's New Clothes. While reporting on political developments from Italy's infamous Years of Lead—including some of the earliest communiqués from the Red Brigades—these early issues of the magazine turned special attention across the Atlantic, with dozens of features on American counterculture (e.g. Burroughs, Dylan, Ginsberg, marijuana, Leary, LSD, Rubin) and radicalism (e.g. Angela Davis, Black Panthers, gay rights, the Weather Underground, Women's Lib, Young Lords). Also featuring write-ups on the first iterations of the Re Nudo Pop Festival, through which the magazine attempted to organize its movement as libidinal force. Contents: self-wrappers, 16 pages; thoroughly illustrated, with the stunning lysergic printing style of the period. A remarkably well-preserved set; minor foxing to covers of No. 4, else all issues uniformly near fine to fine.

$2500.00

6. ESS, Barbara

This Happened Yesterday: Friday, August 20... Thursday, October 21 (Inscribed Set)

[New York: Self-published, 1982]. First Edition. Octavo. A conceptual, ten-volume suite of zines from photographer, musician, editor, and educator Barbara Ess, with fully-illustrated contents ranging from 12 to 20 pages. With a subtle nod towards On Kawara's Today series of date paintings, Ess here trains her sight on what happened yesterday—illustrating simple yet expressive vignettes relating to war, sports, crime, entertainment; a ritual transformation of the daily paper into something mythical. Contents: self-wrappers (8.5. x 5.5 inches), ranging from 12 to 20 pages; each SIGNED (B. Ess) to rear cover. Corner stain to wrappers of final volume, else a fine set. All contents housed in original plastic zippered bag with printed label to front, which is further INSCRIBED by Ess ("For Jean-Noel / xxxx / B. Ess") with date of 11/5/82. Scarce, with single OCLC record located at NYPL.

$2000.00

7. GOLDIN, Nan

Nan as a Dominatrix, Cambridge, MA., 1978 (Artist's Proof)

1978. Vintage cibachrome print (39.5 x 26.75 inches). "By the time of the work of the Boston School, impersonality as the basis for photography gives way to a different model, autobiography; photography is for recording your own life. It is work that argues, by implication, that establishing photography as the site of vision's disembodiment was achieved at a terrible cost, the cost of carnality itself" (Norman Bryson). Captured close to her graduation from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston—and her subsequent move to New York City—Nan Goldin's self-portrait as dominatrix remained a relatively obscure image, until her 2018 Spring/Summer collaboration with Supreme blazoned it on skateboards and t-shirts; the image to be included in the upcoming publication Sisters, Saints, and Sibyls (2026). This artist's proof SIGNED, numbered, and hand-titled by Goldin to label affixed to the verso of her trademark flush-mounted frame (41 x 28.25 inches).

$35,000.00

8. JODOROWSKY, Alejandro and Rene Rebetez (editors)

Crononauta: Revista Mexicana de Ciencia-Ficción y Fantasia (All Published)

Mexico D.F.: Club Mexicano de Ciencia-Ficción, 1964. First Editions. Octavo. Two issues (all published) of Crononauta—the first Mexican serial dedicated to developments in science fiction writing and art, as understood (rather eccentrically) through nineteenth century figures such as Raymond Roussel and Charles Fourier. Co-editor Alejandro Jodorowsky—eventually to gain cult status through his films El Topo and The Holy Mountain—would supply illustrations for both the covers and some contents, while contributing an excerpt from his own unpublished novel (Blando animal de colección fúnebre). Other contributors included Jodorowsky's Mouvement Panique collaborators Fernando Arrabal and Roland Topor, with additional illustrations from Jose Luis Cuevas and Enrique Bessonart. Soiling to illustrated wrappers, with rubbing at edges and faint crease to rear panel of first issue; nonetheless, a very good set with sound bindings. Uncommon to the trade, with nine OCLC records located in North America.

$2500.00

9. KAWARA, On

Pure Consciousness (Original Box Set of Exhibition Catalogues)

Various locations, 1998-2008. First Editions. Octavo. A group of 19 exhibition booklets housed in a custom handmade box, with accompanying instruction sheet: "No one should ask the children about their reactions to the paintings. The purpose of the exhibition is simple: to allow the children to look at the paintings as they are. Nothing more... this exhibition is not educational." In 1997, as an offshoot to his Today series of date paintings, On Kawara collaborated with curator Jonathan Watkins to devise the first instance of Pure Consciousness: a traveling installation through which seven of Kawara's date paintings—from January 1 through January 7, 1997—would be exhibited in kindergarten classrooms across the globe, where the children could "live" with his paintings, without pretense. The first iteration was in Sydney, as part of the 1998 Biennale, with subsequent versions organized in classrooms in Iceland, Ivory Coast, China, Colombia, Madagascar, Bhutan, Finland, Palestine, and the United States. At some point after the 2008 exhibition in South Korea, Kawara collected the catalogues that had been published from the first nineteen shows—as stipulated by the rare instruction sheet that's included here—and gathered them together into a handful of box sets, to gift to friends and associates. (A few years after Kawara's death, Walther König published a facsimile edition of these nineteen catalogues—with truncated instruction sheet and simulated box design—adding reprints of two later booklets from the final lifetime exhibitions in Belgium and India). The present copy being a pristine instance of the original—produced in no more than a handful of sets—with all elements fine, including handmade box (8.5 x 6.25 x 1.5 inches) with printed exhibition history affixed to lid-top. Rare, with no OCLC records located.

$4500.00

10. KERN, Richard / Ronnie Burk, Montanna Houston, et al.

The Valium Addict (Nos. 1 - 3)

New York: Self-published, 1981. First Editions. Three volumes. Quarto/octavo. "The valium addict yearning—one big black dog snarling; glistening teeth sinking below the flesh of the unknown masters..." All three numbers of Richard Kern's No Wave zine The Valium Addict; a follow-up to his seven volume Heroin Addict project, with Nos. 4 through 6 re-titled as Dumb Fucker. Published in the Spring and Summer of 1981, these issues feature some of Kern's earliest photography, with dynamic layout foreshadowing the energy that would characterize his later contributions to the Cinema of Transgression. With literary and journalistic contributions from such Downtown figures as Ronnie Burk, Montanna Houston, and Tommy Turner. (Copy Machines Manifesto, pp. 142-144). A well-preserved group, with minimal toning at edges; near fine. Uncommon, with incomplete OCLC holdings at three institutions.

$1750.00

11. KRUGER, Barbara

Untitled (Your Moments of Joy Have the Precsision of Military Strategy) (Original Paste-Up Collage)

1980. Unique collage work; photograph and type on paper (10.75 x 13.5 inches). One of the very first instances of Barbara Kruger's pre-digital paste-up technique—developed during her time as graphic designer for both Mademoiselle magazine and the leftist book publisher Schocken—as she pivoted, in 1980, from the conceptual photography that animated projects like Picture/Readings and Hospital to a "picture practice" in which she mined the historical archive for images to reinvent through collage. These word/image syntheses would then serve as the foundations for the large-format gelatin silver prints, billboards, subway posters, matchbooks, postcards, etc. that would come to define her career. Artwork matted into black-stained frame (19 x 22 inches), with previous gallery label to verso. A landmark work.

$85,000.00

12. LEWITT, Sol

[Wall Drawing #517] (Manuscript Plan)

[1987]. Ballpoint pen drawing on sheet of watercolor paper (5.75 x 9.5 inches). A manuscript plan from Sol LeWitt, complete with color codes and measurements, for what would soon become Wall Drawing #517: Symmetrical Flat-Topped Pyramid with Color Ink Washes Superimposed, with a 15-inch (37.5 cm) Black Band on Each Side—first installed at Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University by David Higginbotham and Anthony Sansotta (February 1987). This very drawing is reproduced in the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné, where the editors distinguish plans from instructions and preparatory drawings, as "the final drawn or written representations followed by LeWitt's assistants... [Plans] are considered artworks in their own rights." Faint foldlines and minor soiling to left margin; else near fine. With a manuscript note from Higginbotham to verso ("Black 1 bottle / white paper tape / 430"). A rare, behind-the-scenes artifact from LeWitt's conceptual apparatus.

$4500.00

13. MAPPLETHORPE, Robert and Jack Walls

Robert Mapplethorpe: Autoportrait (with Palimpsest Poem by Jack Walls)

Santa Fe, New Mexico: Arena Editions, 2001 / Manuscript, 2009. Quarto. An incredibly unique extra-illustrated copy of this posthumous collection of self-portraits from Robert Mapplethorpe, with 80 pages intervened-upon by his former lover, the poet Jack Walls. About to fill the book's wide margins with his heavy graphite scrawl, Walls begins: "I cannot resist the heavy vanity of the poet. Sometimes when I take a hit off a certain drug the room begins to spin. Everyone understands fine. Whether I turn out to be the hero of my own life, I am born. These pages must show I began my life at the center of a tornado. And I died as I thought I'd die, when the first snows of winter fell." Walls' long poem obliquely circles around his relationship with Mapplethorpe, while snaking its way around dozens of the latter's often-pornographic Polaroids. Towards the end, Walls also supplies two original crayon drawings; one entitled Drawing after Robert Mapplethorpe. A near fine copy in illustrated boards, in near fine illustrated jacket; SIGNED and dated by Walls to title page and final page of contents. A truly moving association copy.

$4500.00

14. PRINCE, Richard

Single Man Looking to the Right (Signed Artist's Statement with Announcement Card)

[New York: Artists Space, 1980]. Xerographic sheet (11 x 8.5 inches); SIGNED by Prince in black ink to lower corner. Artist's statement published to supplement Richard Prince's contribution to an Artists Space group show (Feb. 23 - Mar. 29, 1980), which also featured works from Jeff Balsmeyer, Silvia Kolbowski, Allan McCollum, and Jenny Snider. Prince's oblique text serves as a kind of psychoanalytic reading of an image—one of three photographs he'd exhibited the year prior, in a window installation at Three Lives and Company; reproduced as thumbnail image above the text. "Since the material of which he's made extends to the public domain, he exists on his own terms, with his own solutions... For him not to be is as it should be. If artefacts remain, he thinks of them as temporary proof providing the convenience of hindsight." Faint creasing to sheet from handling, but an otherwise sharp copy; near fine. Accompanied here by the related announcement card, fully illustrated to recto after a detail from Untitled (Two Women, Two Men, in Three-Quarter Profile), with Artists Space details printed to verso. A key specimen of Prince's early ficto-theoretical prose.

$4500.00

15. SNOW, Dash

Slime the Boogie (Inscribed)

Los Angeles / Berlin: Peres Projects, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. Artist's proof (signed AP), outside of the edition of 300 numbered copies, with front endpaper INSCRIBED by Snow to fellow IRAK graffiti crew member Ry Fyan. “This book is for / Mister Ryan / love Mister Snow / Keep Shining Girl / The Snow Man / New York Shitty 200?.” Published on the occasion of Dash Snow's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles—“God Spoiled a Perfect Asshole When He Put Teeth in Yer Mouth” (Peres Projects, Sep. 22 - Nov. 10, 2007)—this photobook adds layers to Snow’s famed hedonism, with more-than-subtle anticipations of his impending fatherhood, including a series of nude images of a pregnant Jade Berreau in the Jeffrey Deitch nest. One of only two of Snow's works to appear in Martin Parr's photobook bibliography (Parr/Badger, v3, 100). Rubbing to perfectbound wrappers, with minor lifting at front hinge; close to near fine. A pleasing association copy of an often overlooked work.

$1250.00

16. WARHOL, Andy

Andy Warhol: 21 Nov. - 17 Dec. (Castelli Mailer for Flowers)

New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, [1964]. Announcement poster / mailer (21.75 in. square, unfolded). A pristine copy of the trademark Castelli mailer produced for Andy Warhol's 1964 exhibition Flower Paintings (Nov. 21 - Dec. 17), with stunning color reproduction to interior; purportedly printed at same time as the matching Castelli edition of 300 posters by Total Color (Feldman & Schellmann, II.6). Unmailed and preserved folded (5.5 x 11 in. panels), this copy remarkably fine.

$2500.00

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