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United Kingdom


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Europe and USA and Canada


£45
Rest of the World including Asia and South America


If your order contains only items listed under Cards & Ephemera the following discounted rates apply:

£7
United Kingdom


£18
Europe and USA and Canada


£20
Rest of the World including Asia and South America


PACKING
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Where possible we try to recycle packaging materials. If you require new pristine packing boxes/envelopes (say for a gift) then please let us know.

Large posters are usually rolled and sent in firm tubes - if you require flat packing for any large item then please let us know on ordering:in such cases, there may be a surcharge to cover the extra costs.

Other items are send in appropriate packaging.

INSURANCE
We will cover all shipments with full loss insurance up to £250. Thereafter a surcharge is needed.

We will consider sending items without full insurance but this is at the purchaser’s decision and risk. If you wish us to do this then please indicate in writing what you want us to do.





Unoriginal Sins is an established venture trading in the field of the contemporary and modern avant garde movements from 1900 to the present day. We have a vast inventory of books, documents, artworks, ephemera, object multiples, LPs and other digital media as well as representing major collections from significant artists.

We trade almost entirely online - we purchase new material all the time and offer regular clients email lists (which you can sign up to here) of new arrivals. Soon after the distribution of those lists, new items are placed online so it is worth returning regularly to this site to see what new things are for sale.

It may be possible to visit in person and see our inventory but that is by appointment only - please email us. We can supply references for new clients should that be required.

We are always looking for new material to add to our stocks - we have a desiderata here but we are interested in all material that is similar to our core interests. Do get in touch.
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UN LIBRO ILLEGIBLE QUADRATO (AN UNREADABLE QUADRAT-PRINT). 1964. THE SIXTEENTH KWADRAAT-BLAD.

£500.00

Hilversum: Hilversum Jong & Co, n.d (1964)
Outer printed and folded paper wrapper with texts in green that are in eight different languages – the complicated fold opens up to show a 25 x 25cm, unpaginated (36pp approx) and card covers artist’s book which has no text but each red paper page  internally is cut in different shapes and bound in string. The card covers are wrapped around by a dust-jacket with a die-cut diamond hole that allows the red card to be seen through it.

This is probably the most famous of the Kwadraat-Blad books – the 16th produced – a highly complicated binding job for any press. Munari’s unreadable books are a form of artist book that takes the form of a book but turns it into a sculpture – the obstructions put in the way of any reader taking the object away from its more usual function to something to be admired in itself.

This is very scarce item in any condition and the outer wrapping are almost always not in great condition. Here the outer pages have browning in areas, some tears along folds and some dog ears or creases on the pages. The inner booklet has a paper scuff near the die-cut hole in the dust-jacket – else is VG.

If you wish we can supply more detailed images of the condition issues but we have priced this to account for these flaws.

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