Glasgow: Wax366, 2000
14.5 x 9cm, 800 plus silver paper wrappers. Artist's book - all the pages are blank apart from the centre page which has the text "ripples in the gutter" in silver ink. A visual poem. Staples very slightly rusted else VG. Limitation not known but not many. ...

Glasgow: WAX336, 2000
9 x 15cm, 4pp. Artist's card which alternates lower case "i"s in the fonts Johnston and Gill Sans on the front in white and blue. The shape of the dot over each eye differs between fonts: one is rounded and the other a diamond shape. Edward Johnston designed his font for the London Transport network in 1915, and Eric Gill designed his font around 1927.
The poem inside the card reads:
Johston's diamonds
Gill's pearls
Early concrete poem card by Bellingham. VG+.

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Glasgow: Wax (Bellingham), 2000
Two separate printed sheets - each 32 x 22.4cm in plastic transparent pouch. The first sheet being the title and the second a painting; an abstract pattern made from using the entire content of ink from a single 'Bic' biro and spreading it on the sheet (a 'Bic' biro is a cheap ink pen used most often in offices). There were 30 each of four different colours each unique within the total edition of 120. Fine.

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Glasgow: Wax (Bellingham), 2000
Two separate printed sheets - each 32 x 22.4cm in plastic transparent pouch. The first sheet being the title and the second a painting; an abstract pattern made from using the entire content of ink from a single 'Bic' biro and spreading it on the sheet (a 'Bic' biro is a cheap ink pen used most often in offices). There were 30 each of four different colours each unique within the total edition of 120. Fine.

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Glasgow: WAX336, 1999
10.4 x 14cm, 2pp. Artist's card noting that at the change from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, the fact that the former calendar was created at a time when the concept of zero "was not known" (or rather not used mathematically). Bellingham's suggestion is to restore the year 0 by adding an additional year to any current date. VG+.

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Dundee: Centre for Artist's Books, 1999
21 x 15cm, 12 pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue and cataloguer raisonne of sorts - the essay by Gilonis is a list of 100 works (postcards and other items) by Bellingham with short descriptions. Issued for an exhibition of Bellingham's artist's books and publications. VG+. Scarce early publication.

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Glasgow: Wax366, 1999
13.5 x 8.8cm, 12pp plus printed wrappers. String bound. Artist's book with four two-line poems.
For example

shellac-sealed
meadow-saffron

One of a small limitation - this example signed on the last page. VG+.

. VG+.

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Glasgow: Wax366, 1999
10 x 4cm, 16pp plus printed covers. Artist's book which reproduces eight line drawings of sycamore smara (the lobed seeds of the tree which fall to the ground in a spiral manner). A visual poem by the Scottish artist. This copy is signed in pencil on the last blank page. VG+.

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Glasgow: Wax366, 2000
14 x 10.2cm, 16pp plus printed wrappers. String bound. Artist's book with a number of concrete poems made up from the mixed up letters of well known biscuit types such as Garibaldi, Rich Tea, Digestive, Custard Cream, Bourbon, Malted Milk and Ginger Nut. Of course biscuits are known to break up into small pieces. Small limitation. This example is signed by the artist on the last page. VG+.

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