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1885Best.-Nr. 309308Charles Webster 1885-86. Hardcover. Fair. Both volumes in the full sheep bindings red and black morocco spine labels. The front board of Vol. I is present but detached hinges cracked but text blocks still firmly bound quite a bit of scuffing to the leather on Vol. II moderate rubbing all around the boards of Vol. II are a bit bowed. The fold-out in Vol. I is without tears or separations; the facsimile in Vol. II has four closed tears. All other maps and illustrations present as called for. Charles Webster hardcover
Best.-Nr. 10228Diagrams in the text. 207 pp. & colophon. 8vo printed softcover title on spine. Geneva: Héros-Limite 1997. First edition of this important Ulises Carrión 1941-89 sourcebook. The artist’s most influential texts are presented in French and English edited by Juan J. Agius. These are paired with essays by the great scholars of artists’ books Anne Moeglin-Delcroix b. 1948 and Clive Phillpot b. 1938. Near fine. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10307Single paper sheet 348 x 224 mm. mounted on black craft paper letterpress-printed signed. Amsterdam: 1975. A very rare signed language work print by Ulises Carrión. Fine; a trifle sunned. Inscribed in the lower left corner: “U. Carrión ‘75.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10308Single paper sheet 350 x 222 mm. mounted on black craft paper letterpress-printed signed in lower left corner. Amsterdam: 1975. A signed Ulises Carrión print adapted from a 1972 typewritten work. Near fine; minuscule tear on the left side inoffensive sunning. Inscribed in the lower left corner: “U. Carrión ‘75.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10309Single purple paper sheet 298 x 209 mm. mounted on beige paper collaged yellow pieces of paper with ms. text. signed. Amsterdam: 1977. Manuscript collage language work by Mexican artist Ulises Carrión. He contributed a version of the piece to the magazine Kontexts it appears in issue 5 1974. Near fine; adhesive in corners bleeding through. Signed in the lower left corner: “Ulises Carrión ‘77.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. With thanks to Rich Dana Sackner Archive Project Coordinator Librarian at the University of Iowa Special Collections who confirmed the appearance of this work in Kontexts issue 5. The Sackner Archive holds the editorial files for Kontexts including original contributions like Edgardo Antonio Vigo JH Kocman Carrión Felipe Ehrenberg Bob Cobbing Clemente Padin Jiri Valoch etc. â§ G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 114 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10310Single purple paper sheet 295 x 210 mm. mounted on beige paper collaged yellow pieces of paper with ms. text in ink & graphite signed. Amsterdam: 1977. A Ulises Carrión language work with manuscript text on the collaged strips of paper. In fine condition; adhesive in corners bleeding through the paper. Inscribed in the lower left corner: “Ulises Carrión ‘77.” From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. â§ G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 115 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10311Two torn pieces of watermarked paper typewritten text mounted on black craft paper signed. Amsterdam: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. Initialed in the bottom left corner of the left sheet. â§ G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 116 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10312Two torn pieces of watermarked paper typewritten text mounted on black craft paper signed. Amsterdam: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. The artist has initialed the bottom left corner of the left sheet. â§ G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 117 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10313Two torn pieces of watermarked paper typewritten text mounted on black craft paper signed. Amsterdam: n.d. A signed “structure work” by Ulises Carrión. Fine; adhesive bleeding through the corners. The artist has initialed the bottom left corner of the left sheet. â§ G. Schraenen Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015 pp. 110 & 117 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10315Single paper sheet 290 x 160 mm. adhered to beige paper sheet Letraset lettering affixed signed & dated. Amsterdam: 1974. Heretofore undocumented language work by Ulises Carrión employing Letraset lettering with which he has created five vowel-consonant pairs. In fine condition. With the work’s title written in the bottom left in Carrión’s characteristic hand and signed on the right: “U. Carrión / 74.” â§ Not in Dear reader. Don’t read. 2015. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10316Black & white photographic print 169 x 169 mm. matted with beige paper captioned and initialed. Amsterdam: 1979. A rare signed photographic print; the same image depicting the artist’s “address archive” adorns the lower cover of Ulises Carrión’s artist’s book In Alphabetical Order 1979. In fine condition. Captioned on the bottom left and signed and dated to the right. From the collection of Guy Schraenen 1941-2018. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10317Single sheet mounted on black craft paper printed in red & green perforated. Amsterdam: late 1970s. A compelling specimen of Ulises Carrión’s avid involvement with the Eternal Network: a complete sheet of his “Here & Now” stamps. In excellent condition. unknown
Best.-Nr. 9935Black & white illus. throughout. 16 pp. incl. wrappers. 4to printed wrappers staple-bound. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1976. An extremely scarce exhibition catalogue published for Carrión’s first exhibition at Henryk Gajewski’s Galeria Remont. Gajewski b. 1948 the Polish artist and filmmaker founded this contemporary art space in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. This catalogue contains the artist’s celebrated manifesto “The New Art of Making Books” which had been published for the first time the previous year in Plural no. 41 in Spanish and Michael Gibbs’s Kontexts nos. 6-7 in English. Galeria Remont became one of Carrión’s most important international connections in the vast network of collaborators he formed. Following this show he curated another exhibition at the Warsaw space — Inne Ksiazki 8-30 May 1977 — and gave lectures and performances there related to mail and stamp art. Most of the text in the catalogue reproduces Carrión’s characteristic bold script. In a very frank artist’s statement he elucidates his pivot from Mexican literary wünderkind to avant-garde language artist: “After extensively publishing short stories and theater plays in Mexico U. C. began using language outside the mould of what is usually called literature. Since then rather than writing poems ‘in the form of’ an advertisement or a dictionary old literature under new masks he situates dictionaries phone-books ads or any other manifestations of language as autonomous structures. His aim is to reveal the beauty and richness of these structures regardless of their referential content. U. C. is still a writer — and he insists on calling himself such — who writes very little or doesn’t even write at all. This is a radical shift in attitude which enables U. C. to concern himself not only with verbal languages but also with any system of symbols he may come across. He presents such systems either in the form of a book or as a display on a wall.” A fine copy but for faint browning to the wrappers. â§ Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown
Best.-Nr. 9983Photocopied illus. printed on one side. Flyer. Porto Alegre: espaco no 1980. Flyer for a Ulises Carrión exhibition in Porto Alegre. In fine condition. unknown
Best.-Nr. 9984One illus. & ads. Two folded sheets 8 pp. Amsterdam: Vereniging van Videokunstenaars 1983. Rare program for the first screening of Carrión’s best-known video work. The viewing was hosted by the Association of Videoartists whose mission and membership benefits are included at the end of the program. Near fine. unknown
Best.-Nr. 9985Black & white illus. Illustrated flyer horizontal & vertical folds. Amsterdam: 1979. Promotional flyer for the artist’s forthcoming bookwork offered for 12.50 guilders or $6 per copy. In fine condition. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10113159 pp. & one leaf with index & colophon. Small 8vo 180 x 115 mm. orig. printed pictorial softcover spine worn author portrait on lower cover. Guaymas Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz August 1970. First and only edition of Carrión’s second book a collection of six short stories printed in a numbered edition of 3000 copies. In the 1960s Carrión 1941-89 was one of Mexico’s emerging literary talents; a number of his short stories had been published in leading journals and his first play El Gran Espectáculo was performed at the Casa de la Cultura de Tlacotalpan Veracruz to rave reviews. Following his studies in philosophy and letters at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México he spent time in France and Germany 1964-65 with the aid of scholarships learning both languages. Dissatisfaction with the Mexican literary world and local hostility toward the gay community drove Carrión to emigrate to Amsterdam in 1970 where he found a progressive and free-spirited milieu. From then on he conscientiously abandoned literature and fully dedicated his life and work to the visual arts in the form of books films social experiments performances mail art etc. This book represents the artist’s final moment as a traditional/conventional author preceding his conversion to experimental and avant-garde methods of communication. “In 1970 he published a second six-story collection De Alemania considered a more mature work. Here he has perfected the interior monologue which is the primary manner in which his characters disclose themselves. In some stories the salient characteristic is alienation but in others Carrión employs humor as a catalyst. Since such characteristics are not always mutually exclusive he does achieve a delicate balance between the two.”–Dictionary of Mexican Literature 1992 ed. Eladio Cortés p. 147. Very good copy internally fine; spine a little creased as with most copies. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10210Many black & white illus. 267 pp. Thick 4to printed softcover title on spine illustrated endpapers. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 2015. The Spanish edition of this exhibition catalogue now very scarce. The exhibition took place at the Reina Sofia 16 March-10 October 2016 and Mexico City’s Museo Jumex 9 February-7 May 2017. Profusely illustrated the catalogue contains essays and remembrances by Guy Schraenen Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Voss Joao Fernandes Heriberto Yepez Javier Maderuelo and Maike Aden. An invaluable reference on Ulises Carrión’s life and works. Near fine minimal edgewear. With the inserted DVD present as issued. unknown
Best.-Nr. 10209Many black & white illus. 267 pp. Thick 4to printed softcover title on spine illustrated endpapers. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 2015. The English edition of this exhibition catalogue now very scarce. The exhibition took place at the Reina Sofia 16 March-10 October 2016 and Mexico City’s Museo Jumex 9 February-7 May 2017. Profusely illustrated the catalogue contains essays and remembrances by Guy Schraenen Felipe Ehrenberg Jan Voss Joao Fernandes Heriberto Yepez Javier Maderuelo and Maike Aden. An invaluable reference on Ulises Carrión’s life and works. As new. With the inserted DVD present as issued. unknown
Best.-Nr. 8133Amsterdam: 1977. The black version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers which were all displayed in the artist’s bookshop. From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate regardless of profession sex age etc. … “Just write your definition of what art is on the back of this card put it in an envelope and send it back to Other Books and So. The show will consist of all the cards received and a selective catalogue will be published. The original idea for this show is by H. W. Kalkmann.” In excellent condition. â§ Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 40-49 where a number of returned cards are shown including ones sent by Michael Snow Dorothy Iannone Herman de Vries Herve Fischer Genesis P. Orridge Horacio Zabala Jean Degottex Robert Filliou Martha Wilson John Baldessari Jackson Mac Low Carolee Schneemann Ben Vautier etc. unknown
Best.-Nr. 8134Amsterdam: 1977. The blue version of this postcard distributed by Ulises Carrión for his Definitions of art exhibition held at Other Books and So in March 1977. Recipients were asked to respond with their definition of art on the verso. Carrión received 367 answers. From the recto: “A show called ‘Definitions of art’ will be held at OTHER BOOKS AND SO Herengracht 227 Amsterdam from 1st March to 26th March 1977. Everybody is invited to participate regardless of profession sex age etc. … “Just write your definition of what art is on the back of this card put it in an envelope and send it back to Other Books and So. The show will consist of all the cards received and a selective catalogue will be published. The original idea for this show is by H. W. Kalkmann.” In excellent condition. â§ Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 40-49 where a number of returned cards are shown including ones sent by Michael Snow Dorothy Iannone Herman de Vries Herve Fischer Genesis P. Orridge Horacio Zabala Jean Degottex Robert Filliou Martha Wilson John Baldessari Jackson Mac Low Carolee Schneemann Ben Vautier etc. unknown
Best.-Nr. 7889Many black & white illus. 127 1 p. Small folio printed softcover. Amsterdam: 1992. Catalogue for the first major posthumous exhibition on Ulises Carrión 1941-89. The exhibition was hosted by the Museum Fodor Amsterdam 18 January-23 February 1992 and the Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen March-May 1992. Developed by Carrión’s close friend and collaborator Guy Schraenen 1941-2018 the show was the first major retrospective of the artist’s life and works. Printed in parallel Dutch and English this catalogue begins with a lengthy biography by Schraenen and continues with short essays on Carrión’s manifold books social experiments projects and thoughts on artists’ books. With an exhaustive bibliography and exhibition history at the end. Fine copy of an important reference work that is now scarce on the market. unknown
Best.-Nr. 796023 1 leaves mimeographed on rectos only. Small folio 288 x 187 mm. self-bound stapled. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1977. One of Carrión’s rarest exhibition catalogues. The artist curated this show at the Galeria Remont in Warsaw a contemporary art space established by the Polish artist and filmmaker Henryk Gajewski b. 1948 in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. Carrión had staged an exhibition called Contents at the gallery the previous December. The present exhibition’s title translates as “Other Books.” Gajewski and Carrión contributed essays to the catalogue both in Polish. The majority of the catalogue consists of an extensive list of artists engaging with the book form and their bookworks. They include Robert Altman John Armleder Daniel Buren Mirtha Dermisache Peter Downsbrough General Idea Michael Gibbs Klaus Groh Ian Hamilton Finlay Dick Higgins Douglas Huebler Alison Knowles Richard Kostelanetz Joseph Kosuth Anna Kutera George Maciunas Raul Marroquin Maurizio Nannucci Clemente Padin Dieter Roth Ed Ruscha Takako Saito Carolee Schneemann Mieko Shiomi Telfer Stokes Endre Tot Jiri Valoch Wolf Vostell Herman de Vries Lawrence Weiner etc. etc. Leaves 16-23 present Carrión’s selections of seminal books along with essays theorizing on bookworks and mail art. Among the bookworks shown we note: Carrión’s Looking for Poetry 1973 General Idea’s Manipulating the Self 1971 Hamilton Finlay’s Honey by the Water 1973 Huebler’s Location Piece 2 1970 Kosuth’s Notebook on Water 1965-66 1970 Maciunas’s Flux Paper Events 1976 Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip 1966 Schneemann’s Up to and Including Her Limits 1974 Shiomi’s Spatial Poem 1976 and Weiner’s Various Manners and with Various Things 1976. Near fine copy; staples rusted. The pictorial wrappers added to some examples of this catalogue were never bound with the present copy. â§ For more information on the Galeria Remont see the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw’s website page “Art Prints of the Exchange Gallery” then the section on Gajewski and Galeria Remont. U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 209. Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown
Best.-Nr. 8076Single sheet exhibition invitation torn into ca. two dozen pieces. Amsterdam: Pieter Brattinga Gallery 1981. One of Ulises Carrión’s rarest mail art projects with the original mailed envelope sent to the collector Tjeerd Deelstra b. 1937. As the artist intended explained below a small torn portion is not present. “In 1981 when the Print Gallery Pieter Brattinga invited Carrión to exhibit his work there Carrión thought of a response project in which he instructed participants to reconstruct in any way they desired the bottom half of an invitation which had been shredded. They were then to sign it and mail it back to the gallery. The lower section of the invitation included a definition of mail art which the artist had torn up and from which he had then removed a small fragment. This way the definition of mail art could never be reconstructed and the instruction given by the artist was impossible to accomplish. The project resulted in 243 responses in all sorts of formats; not only intervened letters but also objects. By making participants reconstruct the invitation the project had a cyclical component that was emphasized by having the word ‘feedback’ in its title. In this way Feedback Pieces takes one step further Carrión’s intentions to reformulate not only the artwork but also the communication system through which it travels.”–Aimé Iglesias Lukin “King Kong Archives: Ulises Carrión on Mail and Art” in Ulises Carrión: The Big Monster 2019 pp. 11-13 pictured. Both the envelope and torn-up invitation are in excellent condition. â§ Juan J. Agius ed. Ulises Carrión & The Big Monster 2014 pp. 120-35 pictured. unknown
Best.-Nr. 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. â§ U. Carrión Quant aux Livres 2008 p. 210. unknown