48 - 556 FINE and APPLIED ARTS, ART REFERENCE
- Edges some sl. foxing; wr. trifle dustsoiled; otherwise fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B16. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Pages trifle yellowed. Dustwr. (sl.) foxed/ soiled.
= Photo-pictorial after "How To Derive The Maximum Enjoyment From Crackers" by Mason Williams (flap of backwrapper w. printed text by Mason Williams). Enbert & Phillpot, B10. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Wrapper trifle yellowed and sl. soiled; one corner w. sm. fold; 2 sm. dents near spine. Otherwise in fine condition.
= Engbert & Phillpot, B14. The most rare and sought after Ruscha title. Although Octopus published a large edition of 3000 copies, the majority of Dutch Details' print run was mistakenly destroyed in a warehouse, and the remaining copies are now highly sought after. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XX.
- Wrappers some tiny chips at outer margins. Otherwise fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B13. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Wrappers trifle soiled. Otherwise fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B8. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Glassine dustwr. and edges some sl. foxing; otherwise (very) fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B12. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Glassine dustwr. and edges some sl. foxing (sl. extending onto a narrow strip of the frontcover); otherwise (very) fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B3; Parr/ Badger II, p.141, one of the vols. of "The most renowned series of artist's books in the history of the genre." p.140). Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Wr. foxed/ soiled; backwr. some sm. stains and tiny dent (also visible on pages of the second half of the book); frontwr. sm. fold in lower corner.
= Engbert & Phillpot, B5. Parr/ Badger II, p.141. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Glassine dustwr. and edges some sl. foxing; otherwise (very) fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B1; Parr/ Badger II, p.140, one of the vols. of "The most renowned series of artist's books in the history of the genre." (p.140). Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Glassine dustwr. sl. yellowed along margins; edges some sl. foxing; otherwise (very) fine.
= Engbert & Phillpot B2; Parr/ Badger II, p.140, one of the vols. of "The most renowned series of artist's books in the history of the genre." (p.140). Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Sm. owner's stamp on title. Frontwr. tiny scratch. Good copy.
= Engbert & Phillpot, B6. Nice conceptual artists' book, investigating the effect of throwing a Royal typewriter out of the window of a Buick Le Sabre while driving through the desert near Las Vegas. The photographs show the typewriter before the experiment, the car, the test area and the wreckage of the typewriter after the test. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
- Yellowed; upper and lower hinge weak; edges foxed. Covers foxed/ soiled and partly sunned; frontcover w. dam. spot. Without the often added business cards of Ruscha and Foster.
= Engbert & Phillpot M25. Provenance: the collection of the Dutch artist Gust Romijn (1922-2010).
ADDED: LeWitt, S. Cock Fight Dance. New York, Rizzoli & Multiples, 1980, (50) leaves w. 48 full-p. col. photogr. plates, orig. wr., sm. square 12mo.
- Sm. owner's stamp "gust romijn" on title and (partly) on top edge. Frontwr. vaguely foxed.
- Fine copy. = Nicely illustrated periodical, with many photographs.
- Offsetting on first free endpapers from turn-ins. Wr. yellowed/ sl. dustsoiled. Vol. 2 rebacked..
- Hinges weak. Wr. partly browned; joints worn/ splitting along extremities. = Derra de Moroda 2453.
- Yellowed as usual, due to the quality of the paper. Fine copy.
= Sumptuous exhibition catalogue on the giant installation 'Hon' (She) by Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely and Per Olof Ustvedt. In the title the word "katedral" is crossed-out (in print) and corrected in "historia".
= One of 25 copies containing an ORIGINAL DRAWING (pen and ink, signed) and an extra suite of lithographs.
= Second vol. is a facsimile reprint of the famous avant garde periodical edited by i.a. Jozef Peeters.
- Vol. 2 w. mounted letter on verso htitle.
= Arntzen/ Rainwater E133: "An authoritative dictionary (...). Based on original research. Good bibliographies; excellent illustrations."
= On the art project by Ian Berry, who created a very large portrait of legendary Formula 1-race driver Ayrton Senna out of denim, donated by family members of Senna.