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KOCMOC (COSMOS). C. 1988?

paul robertson — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:43:48 +0000

N.p. (Moscow?): First Model Printing House, n.d. (c. 1988?) 17 x 11.6cm, four part printed folder content of 25 Russian stamps commemorating their space programme with individual cosmonauts and space vehicles. Some of the stamps have been franked. Most of the stamps seem to have been issued in the 1980s although a couple are dates 1961 but may be later publications. It seems they produced 50,000 copies of the folder but the stamps were mostly added afterwards. SOme of the designs are lovely. VG+ but the inside of the folder has a short ink note in Russian on one of the blank sides.

CONCERNING ADA. 1997. WITH HANDWRITTEN CARD,

paul robertson — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:27:00 +0000

NYC: Winstar Films, 1997 Standard DVD in plastic case with printed insert. The first commercial film by Hershmann which looks at the role of Ada Lovelace (Byron's daughter) in the development fo the world'ss first computational machine (computer). Starring Tilda Swinton. Laid in: 5 x 9cm, 1pp business card for Hershman with verso a hand written note: "With Appreciation Lynn (Heart)". Not currently for sale.

9 EVENINGS: THEATRE AND ENGINEERING PRESS CONFERENCE. 1966. LATER PRINT.

paul robertson — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:27:00 +0000

N.p.: n.p., n.d. 30 x 21cm, black and white silver gelatine photograph from original negative taken at the press conference for Billy Kluver's 9 Evenings initiative where he attempted to include scientists and engineers in the arts to inform artists of new available technologies. John Cage is speaking and one can identify Billy Kluver, Öyvind Fahlström, Lucinda Childs, David Tudor, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Rauschenberg at the top table amongst others. This image was originally taken by Fred McDarrah and his estate retains copyright on the image so this is sold for personal use and not for reproduction. This is in very good condition and a crisp modern print (post 1990s we suspect) from original negative. If this was a vintage print we would charge much more.

SIGNIFICANT NOTES. 2002.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 21:24:32 +0000

Arhus: Arhus Kunstforening af 1847, 2002 21 x 19cm, 48pp plus pictorial card covers with French folds. Exhibition catalogue with essays by Stefanie Jenssen, Claus Emmeche and Ulla Angkjaer Jorgensen in English and Danish and colour images of botanical drawings and sculptural (mobile) installations throughout. VG+.

DM. 2002.

paul robertson — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:47:54 +0000

Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 2002 15 x 10.5cm, unpaginated (c. 68pp) plus card covers and pictorial full colour dustjacket. A small artist's book with a text by Donachie about her sister's new baby and the unexpected diagnosis of myotonic dystrophy (MD) followed by a trip to Canada to see what help might be given by a team of scientists. The second half of the book consists of colour images from the trip mostly portraits. VG+.

TEST DE NIVEAU GENERAL T.N.G. 1940s?

paul robertson — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:31:48 +0000

Centre de Psychologie Applique, n.d. (1940s?) 12 x 12 x 5cm, two part hinged wooden box with sliding lid and hook. The box contains 16 x 2.5cm cubes with each face printed in a different pattern in red and white only. The cubes can be re-arranged to make various patterns. Some wear to box with but mostly Ok - glued on label indicating its title. JOINT: Three hand made spiral bound books content of red and white patterns which the psychologist would show to the testee and ask him or her to replicate from the cubes. Slight wear.

ECHELLE D’INTELLIGENCE DE WESCHLER-BELLEVUE. FORME 1. IMAGES A ORONNER. 1950S?

paul robertson — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:11:06 +0000

Centre de Psychologie Applique, sn.d. (1950s?) 7 x 10cm, seven unnumbered small opened envelopes which are spiral bound together with green covers - the various envelopes each contain three printed cards (different sizes). Each set of cards are themed and are used to text individuals - the cards usually show a progression (for instance a house being built) and the testee has to order the three cards to show the passage of time. One of the scarcer sets from the Centre de Psychologiee Applique used in the Weschler-Bellevue IQ tests. VG+.

ECHELLE D’INTELLIGENCE DE WESCHLER-BELLEVUE. VARIOUS TESTS IN BOX. 1950S?

paul robertson — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 21:04:48 +0000

Paris: Centre de Psychologie Applique, n.d. (1950s?) 300 x 24 x7cm, two part unprinted green cardboard box content of a) ECHELLE D'INTELLIGENCE DE WESCHLER-BELLEVUE. (I) P Centre de Psychologie Applique, n.d. (1950s?) 22 x 23cm, two part printed green box with title in silver content of a seven part jigsaw with a simplistic woman's face prints on brown thick card. Very slight wear to the box else VG+. b) ECHELLE D'INTELLIGENCE DE WESCHLER-BELLEVUE. (I) CUBES Centre de Psychologie Applique, n.d. (1950s?) 11 x 11 x 3cm two part printed green box with title in silver content of 16 x 2.5cm cubes with each face printed in a different pattern in yellow, blue, red and white. The cubes can be re-arranged to make various patterns. Very slight wear to the box else VG+. c) COMPLETEMENT DE FIGURES CARTES POUR LES CUBES PROBLEMES ARITHMETIQUES 9 - 10. Centre de Psychologiee Applique, sn.d. (1950s?) 7 x 10cm, 25 unnumbered leaves spiral bound - the various pages are line drawings of faces or block patterns designed to show to the person being tested to elicit an answer. For example some faces are missing pieces and the testee has to explain what is missing. At the end there are some arithmetic tests (in French). VG+ Price is for all three tests in the unprinted but matching box.

OUR PRODUCT. 2015.

paul robertson — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 16:00:29 +0000

Venice: Swiss Pavilion, 2015 21 x 15cm, 20pp plus card covers. Stapled. Artist's book issued as part of the artist's installation in the Swiss Pavilion during the Venice Biennale. Using coloured liquids and lighting the pavilion was turned into a display of new chemical products such as Neotene, Silicone, Evian, Viagra, Bionin, and Necrion, among other. The booklet is also primarily printed in the pink/greens of the pavilion with abstract images and a text in English by the artist. VG+ although very small traces of rust on some staples.

free radicals: sugababe and other works. 2015.

paul robertson — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 13:46:07 +0000

NYC: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 2015 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card displaying an ear that was "a living bioengineeered replica of Vincent Van Goch's ear grown from tissue engineered cartilage cell's procured from a direct male descendant and contains natural DNA from Van Goch and Genetic engineered components of historical and synthetic DNA." Verso gallery details. A maile example with a typed address. VG.

SUCCESSIONS SECONDAIRES A LONDRES. 1974.

paul robertson — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 11:43:50 +0000

Paris: AARP, 1974 21 x 15cm, 4pp in light green printed wrappers. Artist's book which documents the plants found by Gette around Regent's Canal, Chelsea Embankment (Gette spells Chelsea as "Chelsey"), Tower Bridge and Hammersmith (la rive droit!) and "St Pancrase Way" (Pancras Way in E2) in London during a visit to the ICA in 1972. Lists all the plants he found with two b/w images of the landscape. VG+. Scarce early artist's book.

ER WUSTLING BROER CORNELIS NACH QUELLEN, HAUPTSACHLICH AMTLICHEN AUTENTISCHEN GERICHTSAUFZEICHNUNGEN BEARBEITET UND GEORDNET VON OTOKAR NOVACEK [UND] KARL NOVOTNY. 1934. NR 1 OF 200 COPIES.

paul robertson — Sun, 07 Nov 2021 13:06:17 +0000

Brunn, privately printed, Editions "ON", 1934

21 x 14.5cm, 112 pp in modern binding which retains the original photographic cover of a naked woman by V. Benes and A. Kurial. A work of erotic supposition which plays on the (even then) perceived view that the organised Catholic church is riven with secretive desires (which is clearly true recently for some abusing priests). And such speculations were just as much in 1934 a means to boost sales - as are the three original line drawings by Kurial which make explicit a fetishistic nature of clerical private activities. This is number 1 from a small edition of only 200 copies and is in fine condition.