Small books

For Glue book fair ICA

  • Front cover Roni Horn, Catalogs, Artist's Books and Monographs, Edizioni Periferia / a+mbookstore Edizioni, 2004. Front cover: metallic gold reflective wrappers with rippled, cloud-like surface texture in warm gold and pale yellow tones; "RONI HORN" in small spaced blue serif capitals centre; "CATALOGS, ARTIST'S BOOKS / AND MONOGRAPHS" in smaller spaced blue serif type below. Softcover, staple-bound, 10.5 × 15 cm. Rubbing, surface marks and light scratching visible across wrappers. Back cover Roni Horn, Catalogs, Artist's Books and Monographs, Edizioni Periferia / a+mbookstore Edizioni, 2004. Back cover: metallic gold reflective wrappers with rippled surface texture, lighter and more diffuse than front; "EDIZIONI PERIFERIA · A+MBOOKSTORE EDIZIONI · CHRISTOPHE DAVIET-THÉRY" in small spaced blue serif type lower centre. Edge wear and small area of loss along lower edge visible.

    RONI HORN — Catalogs, Artist’s Books and Monographs. Edizioni Periferia / a+mbookstore, 2004

    RONI HORN — Catalogs, Artist’s Books and Monographs. Edizioni Periferia / a+mbookstore, 2004

  • Artist book, David Shrigley, Man in a Room, Blue Q, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 2007. Miniature staple-bound booklet, 7.5 × 5.5 cm, 44 pages. Front cover: green ground, hand-lettered black text reading ‘MAN IN A ROOM’ with underline, ‘BY D. SHRIGLEY’ below. New old stock, unopened in original wrap. Artist book interior spread, David Shrigley, Man in a Room, Blue Q, 2007. Left page: hand-lettered text reading ‘CASTING IDEAS / VOICE OF MAN: SIR RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH / VOICE OF LADY: SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER / VOICE OF RAT: A CHILD / VOICE OF GOD: COMPUTER’. Right page: line drawing of figure lying in bed. Light toning visible at centre fold.

    David Shrigley — Man in a Room, Blue Q, 2007

    David Shrigley — Man in a Room, Blue Q, 2007

  • Original 2004 Laylah Ali Types artist's book, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Front cover showing black illustrated card wrapper with masked multi-armed figure in white line drawing and TYPES title in lower right corner. Interior spread of 2004 Laylah Ali Types showing pale blue endpaper opposite a colour drawing of a masked figure in a white suit with crossed arms and an X motif on the chest, rendered in blue and red crayon.

    LAYLAH ALI — Types, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2004

    LAYLAH ALI — Types, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2004

  • Cover of Mladen Stilinović, The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015, showing the title in large pale pink rounded serif type on a vivid magenta risograph-printed wrapper, with the author name mladen stilinovic below in smaller type. Reverse of Mladen Stilinović, The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015, showing a risograph-printed pale pink seated cat with hollow circular eyes on a magenta ground.

    Mladen Stilinović — The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015

    Placed

    Mladen Stilinović — The Praise of Laziness, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2015

    Placed
  • Cover of Zoe Leonard, I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017, showing the title in large dark brown sans-serif type over a risograph-printed heart on a vivid orange wrapper, with the author name Zoe Leonard below and C¿MI colophon at lower left. Interior spread of Zoe Leonard, I Want a President, Gato Negro, 2017, showing white sans-serif text on black pages reading "someone who cross dresses and has done drugs and been in therapy." on the left and "I want someone who has committed civil disobedience." on the right, with visible hand-sewn binding at centre.

    Zoe Leonard — I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017

    Placed

    Zoe Leonard — I Want a President, Gato Negro, Mexico City, 2017

    Placed