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AND YOU KNOW I COULD HAVE LOVED YOU. PENCIL 2008.

paul robertson — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:41:46 +0000

Edinburgh: MOMA, 2008

Standard wood and graphite pencil (19cm x 0.8cm dia.) bearing the foil stamped text: "AND YOU KNOW I COULD HAVE LOVED YOU". Apparently c. 1,000 printed. Fine.

A BOOK ABOUT LOVE & WAR & DEATH. 1972.

paul robertson — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:24:39 +0000

Barton: Something Else Press, 1972 21 x 15cm, 242pp. Soft card covers. First edition in this format of this novel by the founder of the Press (with a structure that is at times similar to poetry). VG.

LIVES & WORKS 2. ONLY LOYAL LOVE WILL BRING ME HAPPINESS. 2006. ONE OF THREE DESIGNS.

paul robertson — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:21:53 +0000

Berlin:Gitte Weise Galerie, 2006 10.5 x 15cm, 2pp announcement card printed with a typographic design by Lexier on the front (two asterixes) and verso gallery details. There were three different announcement cards all with similar by different images issued - this is one of the three. VG+.

PAUL ELUARD. 1945.

paul robertson — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 21:05:26 +0000

Paris/Bruxelles: A l'enseigne du cheval aile, 1945

18 x 13.5cm, 152pp. card covers. First edition of this clandestinely written (1942) appreciation that was not published until immediately after the war - a dissection of Eluard's surrealist and dada work. There is a reproduction of a Valentine portrait of Eluard as frontispiece and hors text a b/w photograph of the poet. One of numbered 550 copies on velin de Lyon aside from 35 deluxe copies. Very good + with minor fading to spine.

BUNNY BOY DREAMS. 2010. SIGNED & NUMBERED (2) FROM AN EDITION OF 350.

paul robertson — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:39:20 +0000

NYC: Faile, 2019 46 x 30cm, 13 color hand pulled silkscreen print, made on a heavyweight Coventry Rag 325gsm with a deckled edge displaying Faile's iconic image of the "bunny boy". This is one of 350 signed in pencil "Faile" , stamped & embossed prints by Faile which is numbered on back of the print. In fact this is number 2 from the edition. VG+.

OPERA SEXTRONIQUE BY NAM JUNE PAIK. 1968. WITH HAND STAMPINGS.

paul robertson — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:10:05 +0000

Koln: Lidlraum, 1968

30 x 21cm, 1pp mimeographed leaflet for this famous performance by Moorman and Paik. This being at Immendorff’s German Lidlraum space. This leaflet has 4 rubber stamp impressions by Immedorff. Edge damage and the cheap paper is browned but it is very scarce item.

THE BANG BOOK. 1971. SIGNED BY FURNIVAL.

paul robertson — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 21:50:58 +0000

USA: The Jargon Society, 1971 23 x 20.5cm, 44pp plus wrappers and printed mylar dj. Meyer's homo-erotic ghost tale/poem about Wild Bill Hickok, his ghost and a young boy's introduction into an aggressive frontier manhood. This copy is signed on the title page by Furnival. Very good copy with a 5 x 1cm loss of plastic from the rear of the transparent dust jacket.

ME AND MY LIONESS. 2002.

paul robertson — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 07:20:53 +0000

Zurich: Bilgerverlag Zurich, 2002 10.5 x 15cm, 10pp (single folded sheet), the announcement /prospectus for Iannone's artist book of how she met Dieter Roth in Iceland and they became lovers. Several illustrations from the book reproduced. VG+.

A VALENTINE. 1993.

paul robertson — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 09:28:51 +0000

Little Sparta: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1993
8 x 14.8cm, 4pp (single folded sheet). Artist's card which internally has the concrete poem:

A, E, I, O, YOU.

Finlay must have been in love. Printed blue on green. VG+.

XXX OOO LOVE & KISSES FROM ANNIE SPRINKLE VOL 2. 1997.

paul robertson — Sun, 08 Dec 2019 13:32:03 +0000

NYC: Gates of Heck, 1997

15 x 17cm, 30 bound in (serrated for removal) full colour postcards displaying photographic works, text works and pornographic (explicit) images of the 'post-porn modernist'. Sprinkle at one point was married to the Fluxus artist De Ridder (who was also the publisher of the first sex newspaper SUCK). Fine condition.

MISTER HEARTBREAK. 1984.

paul robertson — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:21:52 +0000

USA: Arista Records, 1977 12 inch LP with original printed sleeve and inner sleeve with lyrics. Performaners include Peter Gabriel, Phoebe Snow, William S. Burroughs and others. Minor wear to sleeve.

LES SOUVENIRS DE KIKI. PREFACE BY FOUJITTA. 1929.

paul robertson — Sat, 09 Oct 2021 18:27:00 +0000

Paris: Henri Broca, 1929

22.5 x 18cm. 174pp. B/w breitz of the author by Kisling, Foujita, Per Krohg, Hermine David, et. al. Ten photographs by Man Ray. Wrappers with tipped-on pictorial design. First edition of these clipped illustrated memoirs by Montparnesse's most famous model, "chanteuse informale", star of Man Ray's "L'Etoile de Mer", and many wild Parisian nights. The false sexy rumour of the time was that she could not grow pubic hair and did not need to shave. A close to fine example of this very desirable and highly entertaining work. Scarce.