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réf. 9261Two sheets printed on rectos only and program card. Stockholm: Fylkingen 1979. A small group of materials related to Carrión’s appearance at Fylkingen in February 1979. Fylkingen is an artist-run Swedish organization for the support and distribution of experimental music and art. We include here: a program of Carrión’s performance on 17 February; a brief biography of Carrión and Yvonne Rainer who performed two days later; and a card listing Fylkingen performances from February to May 1979. All in fine condition. ⧠G. Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 p. 144. unknown books
2001réf. 353013London: The British Council 2001. First edition. 156 pp. Illustrated in black and white and color throughout. 4to. White wrappers with teal titles on front and spine with glassine dust jacket. Inscribed on half title by Stephen Coppel; a near fine copy. First edition. 156 pp. Illustrated in black and white and color throughout. 4to. Richard Hamilton 1922 - 2011 made work for over 50 years focused on James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Through a series of drawings etchings and digital prints Hamilton depicted the wanderings of Leopold Bloom. This monograph was made to accompany the exhibition 'Imaging Ulysses at The British Museum February 2nd - May 19th 2002. The British Council unknown books
1876réf. 375056Washington D.C. 1876. 44th Congress 1st session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 81. 6pp. 8vo. Modern morocco backed marbled paper boards. 44th Congress 1st session Senate Ex. Doc. No. 81. 6pp. 8vo. Forwarding a report by General Terry this government document was the first official account Custer's defeat at the Little Big Horn. unknown books
réf. 41205Margins: 175x119 mm. Remnants of mounting on reverse of print very small tear on bottom margin. unknown books
réf. 8086Card 150 x 106 mm. with text added by rubber stamp in red blue green and yellow ink. Amsterdam: 1976. One of the rarest pieces of ephemera created by Ulises Carrión’s bookstore and exhibition space Other Books and So. In 1975 the year of its founding the space had hosted shows for the Beau Geste Press Jiri Valoch Opal L. Nations and Eric van der Wal. For the present exhibition Carrión invited 200 artists who employed stamps in their work and displayed their pieces on the walls of Other Books and So when it was located at 227 Herengracht. In fine condition; nice impressions. From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. ⧠Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 38-39 pictured on p. 38 with a photograph of the exhibition. unknown books
réf. 11037Single A4 sheet printed & stamped on one side. Amsterdam: 1978. Scarce flyer announcement of the artist’s utopian vision of a free artist-run postal system called E.A.M.I.S. and operated from his Other Books and So bookstore in Amsterdam. Referring to himself as the “Post Master” Carrión writes eight point describing the network the final item on the flyer reads: “By usin sic. the E.A.M.I.S. you support the only alternative to the national bureaucracies and you strengthen the international artists community.” “Carrión conceived a support other than the official postal system to deliver letters and packages. It was based on the erratic distribution of the mail by people traveling around. As Postmaster of E.A.M.I.S. he set up the rules and services of this alternative system in 8 points as the concept of the project. It was mimeographed on a DIN A4 sheet and distributed and included in the program of the International Artists’ Meeting at the Galeria Remont Warsaw in April 1978 for the first time…A couple of months later as the project came to an end 24 letters and parcels were distributed and reached their addresses while 9 others remained undelivered.”–Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 64-65 pictured on p. 64. In fine condition. unknown books
réf. 9234Black & white illus. 25 pp. & colophon. 4to black printed softcover title on spine. Amsterdam: Galerie Da Costa 1980. One of 500 copies a scarce exhibition catalogue with an introduction composed by Carrión 1941-89. The catalogue provides a survey of Galerie Da Costa a publisher of artists’ books and livres d’artistes managed by Juan J. Agius. Agius published two of Carrión’s bookworks: Verzamelde Werken 1980 and Sistemas 1983. Carrión writes: “This catalogue illustrates the publishing activity developed by Juan Agius from Da Costa Gallery during the last 4 years. Such an activity takes place in a cultural context that is already familiar with the production of books by visual artists but where it has not yet been decided what the defining characteristics of this type of work are.” With pictures and bibliographical information on bookworks by François Righi Adriaan Nette Francesc Guitart Manuel Menán Agius Federico Sanguineti François Bouillon Lia Rondelli Ben Sleeuwenhoek Roberto Comini Alessandro Algardi and Jean Zuber. Near fine copy. Withdrawn stamp of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Library on title-page. unknown books
1941réf. 1358136New York: The Dryden Press 1941. Hardcover. Octavo 1082 pages; VG-; bound in publisher's light blue cloth dark blue rows with silver titling to spine; some rubbing and wear fading to spine small tear to middle of spine; mild toning to pages; measuring 20cm high this copy is 2cm shorter than the more commonly seen issue with blue boards and gilt titling; shelved case 1. Contains sections on Short Stories Novels Selections Poetry Folk Literature Drama Speeches Pamphlets and Letters Biography and Essays. From the Preface: "This anthology of the writings of American Negroes has three purposes: 1 to present a body of artistically valid writings by American Negro authors 2 to present a truthful mosaic of Negro character and experience in America and 3 to collect in one volume certain key literary works that have greatly influenced the thinking of American Negroes and to a lesser degree that of Americans as a whole." 1358136. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Dryden Press hardcover books
réf. 1122470 pp. Small 4to 210 x 160 mm. pictorial semi-stiff wrappers title on spine. Amsterdam: VOID distributors 1980. The essential compendium of Ulises Carrión’s polemical essays; printed in an edition of 500 by Hetty Huisman’s VOID Distributors. His trailblazing theories and beliefs about artists’ books and mail art remain influential to this day. “The New Art of Making Books” first published in Plural no. 41 1975 is frequently cited by contemporary book artists. The book includes his most important essays: “The New Art of Making Books” “From Bookworks to Mailworks” “Rubber Stamp Theory and Praxis” “Rubber Stamp Art” “Mail Art and the Big Monster” “Table of Mail Art Works” “Personal Worlds or Cultural Strategies” “Bookworks Revisited.” Each has printed notes in the margins providing clarifications or revealing Carrión’s latest views on a subject. Fine copy. This book is now rather rare on the market. ⧠John Held Jr. ed. Mail Art: An Annotated Bibliography 1991 6–”Highly recommended.”. unknown books
1992réf. 321218New York: American Classics Library 1992. Facsimile. hardcover. fine. Some b/w illustrations. 2 volumes. Thick 8vos full gilt-decorated gray leather all edges gilt marble endpapers. New York: American Classics Library/Gryphon Editions. Fine. A facsimile of the first editions from 1885/86. American Classics Library unknown books
1883réf. 70569Paris: A. Quantin imprimeur-éditeur rue Saint-Benoît 1883. 16mo pp. 4 vi 220; 14 oval cul-de-lampe vignette engravings in the text by Méaulle printed in color after watercolors by Meyeré; text within chromolithograph border contemporary and likely original full blue morocco gilt rules on covers with fleurons in the corners and enclosing a central gilt lozenge gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 1; the whole lightly rubbed but overall very good clean and sound. Issued as no. 10 in the publisher's Petits Chefs-d'Oeuvre Antiques series. Mills College Check List 1874a. A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, rue Saint-Benoît unknown books
réf. 4510ULYSSES S. GRANT 1822-1885. Grant was the Eighteenth President and the head of the Union Army during the Civil War. Manuscript. 3pg. 8 x 12 . No date circa 1888. No place likely New York. A lengthy manuscript entitled Grants Last Review of Veterans done by an unknown soldier. He wrote The final farewell which the representatives of the Army took other old chief for the scene so memorable and so touching that it will never be if faced from the memories of those who participated in it or of those who viewed it. It occurred on decoration day three years ago. On that day the old veterans rose earlier than was there want spent more time than usual in unfurling their old battle flags in burnishing their metals of honor which decorated their breasts. They seem for time to forget ever the pain of their old wounds for they had resolved on that day to March by the house of their dying commander give a final marching salute the knew that one year from that day there would be a new made grave to decorate one which their children's children down through all the years would keep decked with the choicest of flowers. Outside that house the street was filled with the sound of marching men and martial music. Inside that house the chief lay upon a bed of anguish the power of approaching death already beginning to His features for his disease with doing the work which even the enemies bullets had shrunk from. The hand which it sees the surrender sounds of countless thousands was scarcely able to return the pressure of a friendly grasp. The voice which had cheered on to triumph and victory the legions of American manhood was no longer able to call for the cooling draft which lacked the thirst of a fever tongue and prostrate upon that bed of suffering lay the form which is the New World had written at the head of concrete columns in the old world had marched through the palaces of crown heads with the descendants of a line of kings rising and standing uncovered before him. His ears caught the sound of the movement of marching men. The bands were playing the grand strains which had mingled with the echo of his guns at Vicksburg playing the same quick steps to which his men had stepped in hot haste in pressuring Lee through Virginia and there came the measured tread swinging past of trained men which seem to shake the earth. He understood it all then it was the approaching tread of the old veterans. He seized his crutch with his little remaining strength and dragged himself painfully and slowly to the window. And as he gazed upon those banners bullet ridden battle stained those kindled in his eyes the flame which had lit them at Chattanooga at the Wilderness and amid the glories of Appomattox. And as he gazed upon those banners dipping to him in the salute he once more drew himself into the position of a soldier. And as they saw him standing cheeks which had been bronzed by Southern suns and begrimed with powder were now bathed in the tears of a manly grief. And then they saw a rising hand which had so often pointed out to them the path of victory he raises slowly and feebly to his head in acknowledgment of their salutations. The last the column had passed. The hand fellto his side. It was his last military salute. In late May 1885 the Union veterans knowing that Grant was dying had a military parade outside his 66th Street home. The document has light staining and chipping; the two pages have some separation and the lower right corner of the third page is missing but it affects no text. A fine firsthand account of the love the troops had for their general. unknown books
réf. 10479New York: The Dryden Press 1941. 8vo 8.25" x 5.75" blue cloth gilt spine and title. xvii 1082 pp. Ownership inscription in ink at front paste-down: "From the Library of T. Earl Pardoe." CONDITION: Very good front cover lightly scratched in two places minimal wear. First edition of this "one-thousand-eighty-two-page anthology that not only defined the field of African American literature as a legitimate academic discipline for the first time but by soberly assessing black authors 'without sentimental allowances' on an equal rather than separate basis 'served notice that the Negro author has come of age" Weinstein. Collects African American writers working across short stories novels poetry folk literature drama speeches biography and essays including works by Frederick Douglass Langston Hughes Chester Himes Charles W. Chesnutt Zora Neale Hurston Phillis Wheatley W. E. B. Du Bois Booker T. Washington Katherine Dunham and many others. The breadth of selection not only represents the range of Black writing but allows readers to "appreciate the evolution of black writing in style subject matter and theme in each genre not to mention having the sheer pleasure of reading works of which one had only heard or had never known existed" Lester. Most importantly this anthology presents a counternarrative to the dominant mode of Black representation-characterization by White persons and authors who "believed that "they knew blacks better than blacks knew themselves." As the editors state in their introduction this anthology claimed for African Americans "the responsibility of being the ultimate portrayers of their own." REFERENCES: Blockson 5948; Weinstein 249; Lester Julius. "Journey Through Black Literature: The Negro Caravan" The New York Times November 30 1969. New York: The Dryden Press, 1941 unknown books
1885réf. 2349284New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. 9x5x1. First edition of first volume 1892 reprint of second volume. Boards of second volume stained and discolored front hinge of first volume just beginning to weaken. Text clean and unmarked. 1885 Hard Cover. 584; 647 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt titles and rules. Engravings and maps throughout text as well as fold-out facsimiles of the original terms of Lee's surrender which Grant wrote himself and of General Buckner's dispatch regarding terms of capitulation with Grant's reply and Buckner's response surrendering Fort Donelson. The famous memoirs of the leader of the Union army during the American Civil War including accounts of his boyhood and early career during the Mexican War. Mark Twain can be partially credited for the release of Grant's memoirs: Grant's health was ailing he soon died of cancer and Twain encouraged Grant to write them as a way to provide for his family after his death. The books were barely completed before Grant passed away and were published posthumously. Charles L. Webster & Company hardcover books
1885réf. 2340247New York: Charles L. Webster & Company 1885. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 9x5x1. First edition. Hinges loosening boards rubbed with a couple tears to spine corners of second volume a few smudges on spine and front board of first volume ink name and date on front endpaper of each volume. Text clean and unmarked. 1885 Hard Cover. 584; 647 pp. 8vo. Original green cloth with gilt titles and rules. Engravings and maps throughout text as well as fold-out facsimiles of the original terms of Lee's surrender which Grant wrote himself and of General Buckner's dispatch regarding terms of capitulation with Grant's reply and Buckner's response surrendering Fort Donelson. The famous memoirs of the leader of the Union army during the American Civil War including accounts of his boyhood and early career during the Mexican War. Mark Twain can be partially credited for the release of Grant's memoirs: Grant's health was ailing he soon died of cancer and Twain encouraged Grant to write them as a way to provide for his family after his death. The books were barely completed before Grant passed away and were published posthumously. Charles L. Webster & Company hardcover books
1866réf. 22955St. Louis MO 1866. No binding. Fine. Manuscript Letter Signed as Lt. Col of Ordnance and Brevet Brigadier General to Adam Badeau Grant's Military Secretary St. Louis Arsenal Mo. August 1 1866. 2 pp. 7 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. Callender responds to Grant's aide-de-camp Adam Badeau's request ""for a statement of the number and calibre of guns captured at Fort Donelson February 16th 1862"" the Tennessee battle that was Grant's first success. Not having that report he offers one on Vicksburg instead.Callender advises: ""I have not been able to find any report of the character referred to among the records of my office and search for such a report has also been made among the records of the Department of the Missouri - likewise without success. But I applied to Capt. Brink late Acting Ordnance Officer at Fort Donelson for information on the subject and he has kindly furnished me with the enclosed list which I transmit herewith together with his letter neither is present. In looking for a report of the guns captured at Fort Donelson a very full report was found of guns and Ordnance Stores captured at Vicksburg - which if the General Grant desires could be forwarded to you.""Franklin D. Callender 1817-1882 Union officer; after distinguished service in the Seminole War and Mexican War took command of the St. Louis Arsenal in 1861 and served as Chief of Ordnance of the Dept. of the Missouri Nov. 19 1861-Mar. 11 1862; holding same post in Dept. of the Miss. March 11 - July 11 1862 he returned to Mo. where he was on the Governor's staff and then served in the advance upon and siege of Corinth; returned to Dept. of the Mo. and the St. Louis Arsenal July 11 1862 and commanded it throughout the war; breveted B.G. USA for Corinth St. Louis and war service. unknown books
1941réf. 1395657New York New York: The Dryden Press 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo vii 1082 pages. In Good plus condition. Spine is navy with gilt detailing and black lettering. Boards have moderate general scuffing and rubbing wear spine mildly cocked and mild fraying along rear head joint. Text block moderately scuffed and age toned along edges has mild bending wear p. vii. DL Consignment. Shelved Case 1. Contains sections on Short Stories Novels Selections Poetry Folk Literature Drama Speeches Pamphlets and Letters Biography and Essays. From the Preface: "This anthology of the writings of American Negroes has three purposes: 1 to present a body of artistically valid writings by American Negro authors 2 to present a truthful mosaic of Negro character and experience in America and 3 to collect in one volume certain key literary works that have greatly influenced the thinking of American Negroes and to a lesser degree that of Americans as a whole." 1395657. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Dryden Press hardcover books
réf. 8078Many black & white illus. Two large folded sheets 299 x 212 mm. folded unbound. Purmerend: Museum Waterland 1981. An uncommon exhibition flyer for a display of bookworks at the Museum Waterland co-curated by Ulises Carrión and Juan J. Agius. Both featured their own works along with those of François Bouillon Axel Heibel Diderick van Kleef Federico Sanguinetti Ben Sleeuwenhoek Ad Gerritsen J. H. Kocman Tom Ockerse Gèza Perneczky and Pawel Petasz. Several examples of each artist’s work are pictured. All the works displayed were drawn from Agius’s and Carrión’s personal collections. This catalogue’s text written by Alex A. M. de Vries is in parallel Dutch and English. De Vries pointedly notes “Two book-artists curated and arranged this exhibition in such a way that you will not see much of the usual mania for conservation which is being practised in most of the musea. This means that you will be able to take the books in your hands…This exhibition proves that artists’ books deserve to be shown more often and on large scale. And in an adequate way. The actual treatment like that of conservators in musea who like to take care of books as if they were dealing with radio-active material does not satisfy. A book ought to be in the hand of the reader.” Fine and fresh copy. ⧠U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 210. unknown books
réf. 9558Illus. throughout. 4 printed sheets orig. craft paper wrappers staple-bound. Hou Denmark: Egmont Højskolen Feb. 1979. A scarce exhibition catalogue dedicated to books with rubber-stamped illustrations curated by Ulises Carrión 1941-89. His introduction is printed in Danish and English: “Time pressures didn’t allow for a wide research but I believe that the show includes most if not all the significant artists in this field. Some available catalogues and anthologies have been included because they possess a reasonable coherence in character theme or intentions. These criteria rather than dictionary definitions were also applied when deciding what was to be considered as being ‘a book.’ The show includes quite a number of unbound works; in all cases however they consist of a series of loose works that have been put between the same covers and under a common name. Many of the included items were lent by Aart van Barneveld from the Stempelpaats in Amsterdam.” The exhibition featured the works of Anna Banana Luciano Bartolini Peter van Beveren Cozette de Charmoy Robert Jacks Ray di Palma Pawel Petasz Dieter Roth Ruedi Schill Gabor Toth Dick Walraven etc. A few of the pieces are illustrated. In fine condition. With the stamps of Niels Lomholt’s Lomholt Formular Press and the Other Books and So Archive on the verso of the first leaf. unknown books
1870réf. 603639not signed on a 3/4 length shot of U.S. Grant dressed in a dark suit vest silk bow tie and white shirt. Photograph is on the original stiff bevelled edged photographer's mount with imprint of A. Bogardus 872 Broadway N.Y. 4 1/4" x 6 5/8"; good; circa 1870. Imprint on the back obscured by previous mounting. No Binding. books
réf. 8079Coated paper with black & white illus. Assen Netherlands: 1982. The rare promotional poster for one of Ulises Carrión’s experimental public installations; the present copy is in particularly fine condition and has not been folded or creased. Entitled The Robbery of the Year this exhibition was designed by the artist as a test of visitors’ self-restraint. A large diamond was placed on a cushion without any enclosure but with a single spotlight trained on it in an otherwise dark room. Visitors were invited to enter the room while a photographer took pictures of the space and the visitors. An expected theft failed to transpire and near the end of the exhibition the photographer was withdrawn. Soon thereafter the diamond disappeared. “De Diefstal van het Jaar was an exhibition of a diamond in which visitors are surreptitiously invited to steal the stone raising interesting questions about viewing and stealing a precious object worthy of public exhibition and evoking images associated with museum heists with subsequent analysis on issues such as the value and ownership of objects on display.”–Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 44 & 164 pictured. On his series of public experiments Carrión is quoted as saying: “In my work I use all kinds of materials objects processes and people as formal elements. The final result is only partially determined in advance and the process that leads to that point is influenced by all the factors mentioned above. It is a game without fixed rules and with no winners or losers.”–Guy Schraenen ed. “We have won! Haven’t we” 1992 p. 69. In excellent condition. unknown books
réf. 8080Single A4 sheet printed on both sides illus. on recto. Amsterdam: 1982. Rare flyer for the lone film made by Ulises Carrión 1941-89. In the years after the closing of Other Books and So the artist focused much of his efforts on video works eventually founding Time Based Arts a gallery dedicated to supporting video artists. On the verso Carrión describes the film which was “originally produced for the International Media Meeting organized by the Agora Foundation in Maastricht from 19 to 25 April 1982.” “Ever since his participation in the activities of the In-Out Center Carrión along with other Amsterdam artists shared an increasing interest in the possibility of film and video to document their numerous ephemeral activities and to work with the question of time…Carrión found in the language of film a support for his questioning of narrative widening the possibilities beyond what was previously limited to literature…In his only film the record of a performance The Death of the Art Dealer 1982 Carrión transfers into performance and film the type of processes he had applied to the literary text. Holding a small television set showing a 1940s film by Max Ophuls Carrión moves to the right or left to the rhythm of the movements of the characters in the film. The soundtrack is that of the original film but the narrative itself is ignored. Instead what one observes is a fairly unnoticed and typically forgettable structural aspect. In a way Carrión’s movements are like the parentheses and punctuation marks that he had previously used to strikethrough text in his pieces on certain literary works.”–Joao Fernandes “Art as Subversion: Make and Remake to Make Anew” in Dear reader. Don’t read. p. 45. Pristine copy. ⧠Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 128 130-31 pictured. unknown books
réf. 7894Unpaginated. Square 4to 247 x 204 mm. printed covers with flaps as issued. Mexico City: Taller Ditoria 2007. First printed edition of Ulises Carrión's typewritten manuscript of the same name. Carrión 1941-89 added handwritten punctuation to this work but it was never realized during his lifetime. Entirely letterpress-printed this book is now scarce on the market. It was co-produced by Martha Hellión one of the founders of Beau Geste Press. Near fine. This is a beautifully designed book printed on several special papers from a numbered edition of 600. ⧠Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 pp. 78-79 pictured. Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 84. unknown books
réf. 5677ULYSSES S. GRANT 1822-1885. Grant was the Eighteenth President and the head of the Union Army during the Civil War. A two volume first edition of Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. They are bound in green cloth and gilt stamped. The boards have minor wear and the corners are bumped. There are fold outs of Grant facsimile letters. The internal pages have slight foxing but are in fine condition. hardcover books
réf. 11039Printed on one side with ms. date: “1976.” Single leaf 208 x 150 mm. London: 1975. Invitation/announcement for the artist’s fourth solo show held at art meeting place in London. The show occurred in 1975 but on this copy the year has been written in as “1976.” The rest of the show’s details have been printed in breaks in the text from page 133 of H.G. Wells’s You Can’t Be Too Careful. In fine condition. ⧠Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don’t read. 2016 pp. 174 & 178 pictured. unknown books
