205 x 26cm, 233pp plus original card covers. , Exhibition catalogue of post-World War II multiples and works in editions, including prints, posters, sculpture, artists' books, etc., by European and American artists.

There were 509 works exhibited in this huge and important show.

Foreword and introduction by Gert von der Osten; essays by Erhard Kästner, Horst Keller, Karl Gerstner, Willi Bongard, Othmar Metzger and Hein Stanke and biographical notes on the artists. Text in German.

Included are von Agam, Albers, Alechinsky, Antes, Appel, Arp, Baumeister, Bellmer, Beuys, Braque, Chagall, , Christo, Dine, Dubuffet, Duchamp, Ernst, Esteve, Faßbender, Francis, Fruhtrunk, Geiger, Giacometti, Grieshaber, Hamilton, Hartung, Hockney, Johns, Jones, Jorn, Leger, Lichtenstein, Matta, Matisse, Miro, Nay, Nevelson, Newman, Oldenburg, Picasso, Pollock, Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Rot, Soto, Soulages, Stella, Tapies, Tinguely, Warhol and Wols.

A VG example. 

Uniformly, 20.2 x 14cm, 32pp plus card covers. Modern board bindings with tape. Three separate numbers in two issues of this Danish art review which includes the rare double number (5/6) devoted to French surrealism with poems in their original language by Paul Eluard, Hugnet, Dali, Peret as well as illustrations by Dali, Valentine Hugo, Magritte, Man Ray, Arp.  Edited by the painter and writer Vilhelm Bjerke-Petersen.

Nr 1 has contributions by and on Arp, Kandinsky, Petersen and others and reproductions of works after Man Ray, Sophie Tauber Arp, Kandinsky, Arp, Dali and Max Ernst amongst others. Original wrappers retained, both copies have former owner's signatures on the first inside page and the wrappers of the double issue have some printer's ink stains and a minor water mark reducing what would have been otherwise near fine to very good+. Rare.

27 x 21cm, 1pp announcement leaflet for a public meeting and exhibition - the text warns: "We won't talk much We will see a lot of moving things and in colour, interruptions will be part of the program". Paper is a little fragile and browned but a hard to find document. 

49.8 x 35cm, 44pp plus original orange paper wrappers. One loose 1pp insert. The fourth number of this important avante garde and design journal with texts and works in b/w by Vincenco Lorigo, Vordemberge-Gildewart, Georges Vantongerloo, Ruy Costa Duarte, Max Bill, Eugen Gomringer, Hanns Weissenborn, und Abbildungen von Kurt Blum, Mary Vieira, Verdemberge-Gildewart, Marcel Wyss, Georges Vantongerloo, Erwin Rehmann, Rolf Willimann, Karl Gerstner, Martin Krampen, André Piccoli, Max Bill, Richard Lippold, Ibram Lassaw, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Reg Butler, Ben Nicholson, Hans Aeschbacher, Alexander Calder, James Rosati, Hans Hofmann, Walter Zeischegg, Enio Iommi, Hans Arp, Julio Gonzales, Maria Martins, Hans Uhlmann, Antoine Pevsner, Emile Gilloli, Werner Witschi, Robert Jacobson, Josef Pillhofer, Max Schneider, René Monney, Oedoen Koch, Peter Raacke, Leon Golub, Adolf Weisskopf, Jean Georges Gisiger, Johannes Burla, André Bloc und Bernhard Luginbühl. B/w images of mostly sculptural works throughout.

This is one of only 600 journals issued. Not only is this an important publication as part of the Swiss avant garde but has a very early work by Leon Golub. There is also an interesting full page concrete poetry work by Eugen Gomringer.

The spine of this journal has several tears along the fold and needs repair although the sheet has not separated and can be opened with care. Internally this is VG+.

CHRISTO/DIETER ROTH/TIMM ULRICHS 1971 4pp

14.5 x 11.5cm, 52pp. Original wrappers. First edition of this French version of this co-operative text as translated from the Spanish by Rita Walter. One of 450 numbered examples. Near fine and partly uncut.

24.5 x 16.3cm, 24pp.  Original wrappers. The fourth number of this vanguard revue as  edited and published by Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Tri-lingual (French, German and English) texts and illustrations by Raoul Hausaman, Kandinsky, Hans Arp, Kurt Schwitters and Georges Hugnet as well as a short novel which was co-written in a collaboration by Arp, Duchamp, Eluard, Ernst, Hugnet, Pastoureau and Gisele Prassino. A very good example apart from a closed 4cm tear along the bottom of the spine. Scarce.

21 x 15cm, 2pp. Announcement card for a museum retrospective of collage and torn paper works. Recto a b/w design by Arp. Fine.

23 x 21cm, 16pp + 15 b/w plates. Pale orange printed paper dustjacket with printed label over boards. First edition of this brief survey of new works emerging from the French avant garde presented by Arp and Neitzel for the interest of German readers. The choice of works displayed herein was made by Arp who has included Henri Rousseau le Douanier (2 works), Matisse (4), van Dongen (3), Derain (2), Picasso (4). Very good with only some minor paper loss at top and bottom of dustjacket.

12 numbers in 6 issues including the double number 10/11. Directeur Gerard Legrand.  Uniformly 25 x 30 cm. 3 to 7 pages per. All illustrated with numerous b/w drawings and reproductions of paintings and photographs. Photographic wrappers bound into printed publisher's paper over boards.

A complete run of this revue as bound into boards by the publisher at the end of the entire run. Bief was conceived as a supplement to "Surrealisme Meme" however it took on a life of its own given that Bief became more of a polemic vehicle than the former publication. Strident and wickedly funny at times. Contributions by Breton, Bedouin, Dax, Toyen, Paalen, Arp, Pierre, Peret, Lebel, Mayoux, Schuster, Mitrani, et. al. A near fine copy.

26.8 x 21cm. 4pp. Black on white. First edition of this open letter condemning the bourgeois appropriation of Rimbaud on the occasion of an unveiling of a monument to the gunrunner, pimp and poet. Signed in print by Aragon, Arp, Baron, Breton, Desnos, Duhamel, Eluard, Ernst, Leiris, Masson, Naville, Nouge, Peret, Prevert, Queneau, Tanguy and Unik amongst others. Slightly browned otherwise very good. Scarce early tract.