Printed Matter Inc (5 results)

Condition: New. Brand New! Not Overstocks or Low Quality Book Club Editions! Direct From the Publisher! We're not a giant, faceless warehouse organization! We're a small town bookstore that loves books and loves it's customers! Buy from Lakeside Books.

[1] pp.; 14.5 x 23.1 cm.; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Single sided card / announcement published in conjunction with Printed Matter, Inc.'s 21st Anniversary Benefit Auction held November 9, 1997. Fine. Clean and unmarked as issued.

Wraps. Condition: Near fine. Printed Matter's second retail catalogue of artists' books and publications documenting over 500 works from a range of international artists. Accompanied by two copies of an undated mailer with three pages of offerings and a notice for the "September 1977 Printed Matter catalogue" (presumably this October publication). Founded in 1976, Printed Matter, Inc. is the world's leading non-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination, understanding and appreciation of artists' books and related publications. Octavo: [80] p. Perfectbound in printed brown paper wrappers. Near fine.…

Stiff printed wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Tall 8vo. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black & white photo reproductions. Stiff brown paper wraps, titles printed in black on the covers and spine, perfect bound. End leaf order form intact. One leaf is loose; small bookstamp of previous owner on first leaf. Laid in 8-1/2 x 11 folded errata sheet dated 1 May 1978, along with an undated mailer/poster/order form on heavy beige paper 17 x 22 folded: small bookstamp of previous owner on address panel. This is the second catalog issued by the publisher & distributor founded in 1976 by Sol LeWitt, Lucy Lippard and others, one of the first organized purveyors of artist's books. The gamut of artists represented is broad and impressive, presenting staid, established figures of the NYC art scene to up-and-comer practitioners of various media: Kathy Acker, John Baldessari, Alice Aycock, Laurie Anderson, et al. Remarkably well preserved.Now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve.…

First printing. (80) pp., 4 x 8.5 inches. Perfect-bound in printed card covers. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of pages from listed publications. Laid in is an errata sheet folded in thirds, dated 1 May 1978, with price changes, a list of titles that have gone out of print, and several other corrections. Catalogue in fine condition; errata sheet very good, with mild creasing on one edge and slight toning along folds. The second catalogue from this premier bookstore and distributor, listing well over nine hundred books, records, and magazines by artists (the first catalogue, issued in December 1976, had just half that many). The illustrations feature pages (or in a few cases covers) from publications by Robert Armstrong, Alice Aycock, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Mary Bondarowicz, Stanley Brouwn, Victor Burgin, Don Celender, Constance De Jong, Peter Downsbrough, Jackie Ferrara, Jon Gibson, George Griffin, Douglas Heubler, Ralph Humphrey, Ellen Lanyon, Kasimir Malevich, Richard Nonas, Kingsley Parker, David Shapiro and Lucio Pozzi, Edda Renouf, Marcia Resnick, Martha Rosler, Fred Sandback, Tony Shafrazi, Jim Snitzer, Eve Sonneman, Michelle Stuart, Richard Tuttle, Meredith Monk, Michael Snow, and Lawrence Weiner.Then as now, Printed Matter brings together under one umbrella artists, writers, and publishers of enormously wide-ranging practices. A valuable historical reference, and fascinating document.…