Riley Cunningham (3 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. 372 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Vera Bock (illustrator). 1st Edition. 61 pp. No Date; characteristically, a reprint. presumably, of the only, First Edition. 10 red figure-over-gold background illustrations (6 appearing on the jacket and book cover itself, for example, Paul Revere on his "Midnight Ride", Little Bo Peep, ) decorating text. Dustwrapper and book have identical design, grid of 6 squares, illustrated with images representing the poems with red over gold, or gold over red, figures; Title lettering in white superimposed upon a 5/8" band of dark green across upper middle front cover. Dustwrapper price-clipped with micro chip to surface red at lower right front cover corner; small 1/8" open tear at gutter lower left corner front cover and micro ruffling across spine end; 5/8 x 1/16" missing bit at rear cover lower left corner and on lower edge; micro tear at top right front cover corner: describes worse than it is, but there you have it: essentially Fine with cosmetic flaws and NO fading to spine or covers, like book itself, appearing fresh and newish. Only peccadillo with book itself is tiny chips at lower spine corners, revealing gray beneath missing white bits of surface at those corners: still nugatory. Strong sewn binding; corners sharp (NO bumps or curls); virtually no rubbing wear (dustwrapper did its job); NO previous owner names. Clean text. Arguably, in Gift-Giving Condition.

48 pp.; 21 x 15.3 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white; edition size 800; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Exhibition catalogue for show of artists' books held September 20 - October 14, 1972. Text by Germano Celant. Exhibition checklist organized chronologically by Celant and Linda Morris. Show included books by Dick Higgins, Claes Oldenburg, Dieter Rot [aka Dieter Roth], Ben, Daniel Spoerri, George Brecht, Yoko Ono, Claus Bremer, John Cage, La Monte Young, Jackson MacLow, Nam June Paik, Emmett Williams, Walter de Maria, Malka Safro, Simone Forti, Richard Maxfield, Christian Wolff, Stanley Brouwn, Piero Manzoni, Edward Ruscha, Robert Filliou, Ray Johnson, Allan Kaprow, Alison Knowles, Joseph Kosuth, Eduardo Paolozzi, Gianfranco Baruchello, Mel Bochner, Terry Atkinson, Michael Baldwin, Ay-o, Oyvind Fahlstrom, John Giorno, Jerome Rothenberg, Wolf Vostell, Robert Watts, Philip Corner, Juan Hidalgo, Mel Ramsden, Carl Andre, Robert Barry, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Lawrence Weiner, Ian Burn, Merce Cunningham, Terry Riley, Ben Vautier, Stephen Kaltenbach, Walter Marchetti, N.E. Thing Co. LTD., Giulio Paolini, Bernard Venet, Franz Erhard Walther, Andy Warhol, Vito Acconci, Stig Brogger, José Luis de Castillejo, Roger Cutforth, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Dan Graham, James Lee Byars, Maloney, Bruce Nauman, Michelangelo Pisteletto, Emilio Prini, Allen Ruppersberg, Richard Tuttle, Harold Hurrell, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Mark Boyle, Daniel Buren, Donald Burgy, Gerald Ferguson, Dorothy Iannone, Bejamin Patterson, Gilbert & George, Kathe Gregory, Marilyn Landis, Russell F. Lewis, David Crane, Scott R. Kahn, Lawrence Alloway, Gerard Hemsworth, David Lamelas, Mario Merz, Tom Phillips, Peter Roehr, Klaus Staeck, Art & Language, Derek Boshier, Marcel Broodthaers, Alessandro Carlini, James Collins, Giancarlo Croce, Giorgio Fabbris, Giorgio Spiller, Sandro Greco, Hamish Fulton, Bob Law, Richard Long, Philip Pilkington, David Rushton, Kevin Lole, Peter Smith, Giuseppe Penone, John Stezaker, Athena Tacha, Gérard Titus-Carmel, Vincenzo Agnetti, Giovanni Anselmo, John Baldessari, John Blake, Victor Burgin, Ger van Elk, Richard Hamilton, and Bruce McClean Reference : No. 3 and No. 135 in "The Book on Books on Artists' Books" by Arnaud Desjardin. London, England : The Everyday Press, 2011, pp. 15, 74. Very Good. Very light wear to covers. Name of previous owner in ink on first inside page, and small ink dash next to the names of Alison Knowles, Hanne Darboven, and Athena Tacha in the checklist. Otherwise Fine.