Paris: Faux Mouvement, 1999 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp typographic announcement card. VG+. JOINT: Rubber stamped mailing envelope with applied cinderella stamp on a design by Gette for the millennium. VG+.
Arles: Act Sud, 2000 19 x 10cm, unpaginated (84pp) plus pictorial card covers. Publication showing artists who use verticality in their work - which includes Daniel Buren, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Raymon Hains, Bertrand Lavier, and Paul-Armand Gette amongst others. The cover image is a photograph of the tall Gette walking towards a forest. Internally are 3 colour images and a short biography. VG.
N.p. (Paris): Eter Sdf, 2001 21 x 15cm, 4pp (self cover). Artist's book with a text by Gette about his lifelong interest in colouring-in and a reproduced lithograph of a breast and a vagina in red, purple and black. VG+.
Sete: Editions Ville Saint-Clair, 2001 23 x 16.5cm, 32pp plus pink boards. Artist's photobook with 18 colour images of naked or nearly naked young women all of whom Gette identifies with the goddesses Aphrodite and Diane. VG+.
Rochechouart: MDCR, 2012<BR> 23 x 17cm, 212pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue/monograph with colour and b/w images of works and the artist throughout. Various essays in French. This example has a signed dedication: "pour Paul Robertson" in black ink and an unique small drawing of a vagina. VG+.<BR><BR>
Saint-Philbert-de-Grand-Lieu: Site de L'Abbatiale, 2020 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card for an exhibition of artist's books by Gette and a talk by the artist. One landscape photograph by Gette on front in colour, verso gallery details. VG+.
Rochechouart: Musee Departmental d"art Contemporain de Rochechouart, 2002 21 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card displaying a watercolour by Gette on the front, verso gallery details. VG+. JOINT Handwritten by Gette addressed envelope. Slightly ripped open. With rubber stamped return address
Paris: Galerie du jour, Agnes b, 2004 15 x 21cm, 2pp announcement card displaying a watercolour by Gette on the front, verso gallery details. VG+. JOINT Handwritten by Gette addressed envelope. Slightly ripped open. With rubber stamped return address DES CACINATIONS A L'ASTROBLEME. 2002.
Paris: CNEAI, 2004<BR> 27 x 36cm, sealed transparent plastic bag content of a printed pair of girl's panties with a silkscreen image of some red rose petals with Gette's "0m" symbol (which refers to distance ie touch). The concept also refers to the painting "Origin of the world" by Courbet and quite possibly menstruation, the onset of womanhood. This is one of 150 numbered copies on a certificate which has a text by the artist which can be read on the back of the sealed bag. Each pair of knickers is initialled by Gette on the label.<BR><BR> Mint in slightly worn but unopened bag.
Saint-Benoit-du-Sault: Editions Tarabuste, 2007 19 x 12cm, 58pp plus card covers. Artist's book with a autobiographic text by the artist with 17 small b/w reproductions of family photographs of Gette, his parents and sister. VG+.
N.p. (Paris): Eter Sdf, 2008 21 x 15cm, 4pp (self cover). Artist's book with a text by Munsch and a tipped on photograph of the artist with his face covered in cherry juice (to resemble a BDSM show of blood one presumes a la Viennese Aktionism) and a very short foreword by Gette. The text thanks Gette for the performance claiming it caused the artist to feel an unusual freedom. One of 50 signed & numbered examples by Munsch.
N.p. (Paris?): n.p. (Gette?), 2009 21 x 15cm, 1pp printed leaflet with a story by Gette about finding a butterfly after a trip to Barcelona. One colour image of the insect. Limitation unknown. VG+.
Marseille: Galerie Porte Avion, 2009 21 x 15cm, 4pp (self cover). Exhibition catalogue for a three day installation in the Hotel Burrhus Vaison-La-Romaine, with an "pExtrait du journal" by Gette. One colour image of a work on the back cover. VG+.
Paris: Galerie Jean brolly, 2009 21 x 15cm, 4pp (self cover). Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition - the text by the artist is supposedly about fluid mechanics but is really a metaphor for Gette's fetishistic interest in female urination. VG+.
Venice: Palazzo Contarini Cofu, 2011 21 x 15cm, 8pp (self-cover). Artist's book with an Italian commentary by Valeria Romagnini Solfato (the curator of the show) on the trust and limits shown by Gette and his models when he asks to be able to touch them. One detail of a work by Gette is tipped on in b/w (Nouvelle naissance de Venus) and another colour image of the show's installation. A text by Gette about "Sophie" one of his models is also reproduced in French. VG+.
N.p.: Editions Joca Seria, 2011 21 x 15cm, 12pp plus card covers. A collective artist's book primarily initiated by Gette - two colour images by the artist, a back cover lithograph and a correspondence between Alain Frontier and Gette and a text La Nymphe regagne son lac. Other works by Noemie de la Cotte, Michele Metail, Marie Lapalus, Didier Trenet and poems by Norbert Duffort and Louis Roquin and a photograph by Arnaud de la Cotte with a text Quelques mots pour la nymphe lacustre. One of 300 examples. VG+.
Crisnee: Editions Yellow Now, 2011 17 x 12cm, 80pp plus card covers with French folds. The French fold at the back of the book has an inserted transparent window with "0m" printed on it. Text in French by Gette and illsutrated in b/w and colour images of works and photographs by the artist. VG+.
Crisnee: Editions Yellow Now, 2011 11.4 x 17.4cm printed black on pink envelope content of 12 different b/w photographic postcards showing different female underwear and the artist's hand touching a woman's hand. One additional text card in French pointing out that the images were originally taken 40 years ago but were censored. VG+ in like envelope.
Villeneuve d'Ascq: Edition de l'Association La Belle Epoque (Arts Contemporains), 2012 21 x 15cm, 36pp plus purple card covers. Ten colour and b/w images of landscapes and female forms which reflect each other in metaphor - for example a waterfall against an image of a woman urinating. Texts in French. This is one of 50 signed and numbered examples aside from 10 du tete examples (with drawing) and four HC examples. VG+.
Roche-Guyon: Castle in La Roche-Guyon, 2012<BR> 24.5 x 24.5cm, 16pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue with 9 full pages of colour images of works and the installation and short texts. This example has a dedication: " Cher Paul! de la part de Paul!! P.G." in black ink - dedicated by Gette to Paul Robertson. VG+.<BR><BR>
Paris: Cdla, 2012<BR> 27 x 21cm, 296pp plus original wrappers. Printed cardboard slipcase. The catalogue raisonne of Gette's artist's book and other publications. B/w images of the various publications. Actually hard to find despite being relatively recently published. VG+ in like slipcase.<BR><BR>
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