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Where possible we try to recycle packaging materials. If you require new pristine packing boxes/envelopes (say for a gift) then please let us know.

Large posters are usually rolled and sent in firm tubes - if you require flat packing for any large item then please let us know on ordering:in such cases, there may be a surcharge to cover the extra costs.

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Unoriginal Sins is an established venture trading in the field of the contemporary and modern avant garde movements from 1900 to the present day. We have a vast inventory of books, documents, artworks, ephemera, object multiples, LPs and other digital media as well as representing major collections from significant artists.

We trade almost entirely online - we purchase new material all the time and offer regular clients email lists (which you can sign up to here) of new arrivals. Soon after the distribution of those lists, new items are placed online so it is worth returning regularly to this site to see what new things are for sale.

It may be possible to visit in person and see our inventory but that is by appointment only - please email us. We can supply references for new clients should that be required.

We are always looking for new material to add to our stocks - we have a desiderata here but we are interested in all material that is similar to our core interests. Do get in touch.
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Leicester: De Montfort University, 2017
Standard audio cassette with a recording of the Monk sound work - "My Mother Cleaning My Father's Piano" which is exactly what it says it is. The recording is on both sides of the tape - the first being labelled "Repeat" and the second "DIgitally Remastered".
There is a 10 x 6.5cm, 10pp (single folded sheet) insert with a text on the work and five small b/w images of works shown in the exhibition including the pianist playing the sheet music transcribed from the original recording. This insert is signed in pencil by Monk and dated 2018. VG+.

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Glasgow: Wax366, 2017 23 x 16cm, plastic MENU wallet content of two artist postcards on thick card in transparent pockets.
The card on the printed blue and black as a parody of a menu - but the various months listed as the various courses. The card on the left is hand drawn by Bellingham in red and black felt-tipped pen and has the "Specials" - "SPRING/SUMMER/AUTUMN/WINTER AND EARTH/AIR/FIRE/WATER".
There were 17 such works made - each unique in the series. Signed and numbered in pencil on the bottom of the "special" menu on the left. VG+.

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Glasgow: Wax366, 2017
19 x 11.5cm, 1pp artist postcard printed red on brown card. Various spurious "conversions" are listed such as 1,760 yards in a year - hence "bites of distance in bits of time". Two small water stains on the front else VG+. ...

Glasgow: Wax366, 2017
21 x 14cm, 1pp artist postcard on thick card printed blue and black as a parody of a menu - but the various months listed as the various courses. Another New Year's card sent to friends and colleagues by the artist. VG+. Signed in red ink on the reverse by the artist.

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Brussels: MOREpublications, 2016
Four b/w 20.7 x 14.6cm, b/e offset prints each showing an enlarged detail from a photograph of a female swimming costume that has an oval which has stripes on it - Monk is emphasising the similarity to a Daniel Buren in situ stripe work.
One of 40 signed and numbered examples aside from 7 artist's proofs. In original unprinted mailing envelope and with a 1pp signed colophon sheet. All VG+.

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Brescia: Galleria Massimo Minini, 2016
30 x 21cm, 1pp announcement leaflet reproducing a drawing by Monk that references Sol Lewitt, Boetti and Weiner all at once. The over all design looks like several Boetti announcement leaflets but the drawing is a Lewitt cube and the idea of a wall drawing being covered and uncovered reminds one of early Lawrence Weiner conceptual art sculptures/structures. This example fo the leaflet is signed by Monk at the bottom in pencil. Folded for mailing else VG+.

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Torino: Studio Salvo, 2016
21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card with a reproduced painting on the front by Monk which has a very similar style (or parody or homage?) to that of the arte povera artist Salvo and gallery details on the back. This card is signed by Monk on the back in black felt tipped pen. VG+.

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Copenhagen: Nicholai Wallner, 2016
25.5 x 21cm, unpaginated (c. 64pp) plus boards. Exhibition catalogue with installation views throughout in b/w with highlighted colour in areas. The show was primarily site-specific wallpapers. There is a short essay by Grace Roy Hess. Laid in to a plastic corner on the back inside cover is a folded colour poster showing the installation that opens up to 19 x 58cm. This book is signed by Monk on the title page. VG+.

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Torino: Studio Slavo, 2016
21 x 15cm, 48pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a show of paintings on canvas by Monk all of which are in the style of Salvo's tree paintings. These are gorgeous works by Monk even if clearly in homage to the arte povera artist who painted in a very rounded, geometric style. Twenty paintings all reproduced in colour. This book is signed by Monk on the title page. VG+.

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Edinburgh: Ingleby Gallery, 2016
21 x 15cm, 4pp printed outer folder with flag containing a 17. 5 x 12.5cm, 2pp posthumous artist card PLEASE DO NOT FEED THE BOATS which was first published in 1966. The card was reprinted for the exhibition by Michael Hamish Glen on the original letterpress 50 years later from its first printing. Because of the posthumous nature of this work we have retained it in the invitation card section of this catalogue VG+.

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Tokyo: Metropolitan Teien Art Museum, 2016
30 x 19cm, 124pp plus card covers and printed pictorial dust-jacket. Exhibition catalogue for a major Japanese show with many colour images of the exhibition and in particular a major shadow play work and several videos of public installations. Printed on various paper stocks (some transparent) there are also interviews in Japanese and English. VG+.
This copy is signed in black ink on the inner dust-jacket by Boltanski.

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