Humument, Signed (21 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This copy signed by Phillips on the half-title page, also with gift inscription by previous owner opposite title page. After its first publication in book form in 1980, A Humument rapidly became a cult classic. This new revised edition incorporates over fifty entirely new pages. 367 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm. First revised edition. Green cloth boards, unclipped dust jacket (now in a removable protective sleeve). Slight shelf wear to edges, some light staining to boards, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback (boxed). Condition: Very Good. Color & b/w Illustration and Fold Out Map (illustrator). First Revised Edition. A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel; Tom Philips' altered book in full color facsimile detail; 8vo, 367pp. Signed by author on first title page; revised edition incorporating over 50 entirely new pages. (light shelfwear to green wraps). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Signed by Author(s). Book.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A post card (14.1 x 8.9cm in portrait) printed on both sides, with the work in colour, signed by Tom Phillips (as 'jill & tom') and sent to Andrew Crozier at Christmas. Very Good with small corner rubs and a moderate crease. Signed by Artist.

With hand-wrtitten postcard, signed, from Tom Phillips. The book is bound in cloth, with dust jacket. 367 [8] pp. - ca. 17,5 (h) x 12,5 (b) x 3,8 (d) cm. -(Some shelf-wear, but overall in excellent condition. A very collectable copy.). ISBN 0500091463.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 2nd Edition. Final edition of this ongoing work in as new condition, signed on title page by Tom Phillips, the book comes with a signed print (initialled 'HC' for Hors the Commerce) no markings, the book and print are in as new condition. please see pics. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Superb copy - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - COMES WITH A SIGNED & NUMBERED PRINT - This is an AP (artist proof) copy - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Superb copy - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - COMES WITH TWO SIGNED & NUMBERED PRINTS - Pictures of the book are available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Single page 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. printed on recto side only. In 1966, Tom Phillips embarked on a pivotal project with a simple premise: to find a second-hand book for threepence. After this acquisition, he planned to alter every page with painting, collage, and cut-up techniques, in order to create an entirely new version of the book. For these purposes, he obtained a copy of W. H. Mallock's obscure 1892 Victorian work, titledA Human Document,at a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London, and retitled his altered bookA Humument. The first printing of this extraordinary work was issued by Ian Tyson's Tetrad Press in a series of boxed pages, 19711976 (the complete edition comprises 367 pp.); on the fiftieth anniversary of its inception, in 2016, Phillips completed the sixth and final version of this work, each version with successively more pages reworked, until his original work had itself been completely transformed. Now regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art, and one of the most importantartists' books of the twentieth century,A Humumenthas become a touchstone of Phillips's oeuvre. The Royal Academy's 2015 Summer Exhibition dedicated a full room to it, and manuscript was acquired by the Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. In Artforum, William H. Gass writes: "Influenced early on by William S. Burroughs' 'cut up' experiments, limited by an arbitrary budget of three pence, guided by propitious chance to Mallock's volume (which, by the happiest of coincidental ironies, is a novel pretending to be a discovered journal), and finally favored by the fact thatA Human Documentwas found in a popular reprint version that might furnish additional copies, Tom Phillips'A Humumentcomes rationally, arbitrarily, fortuitously, gradually into existence just about the way everything in life does. It begins the way an epic ought: 'The following sing I a book, a book of art of mind art and that which he hid reveal I.'" (ArtforumNov. 1996) Signed by the artist in pencil. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Signed by Tom Phillips on the ffep. Some wear to jacket, with a little loss to top edge. Label trace on rear panel. Outer edge of page-block lightly marked.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First paperback edition of the first Humument edition in as new condition, signed by Tom Phillips to title page, no markings, the book is in as new condition, please see pics. Signed by Author(s).

Hardback. Condition: Near fine in wraps. First revised edition. 13 x 18cm 368pp near fine hardback in dust jacket, an ISBN sticker to lower rear jacket. The first revised edition number 15/50. this one signed and inscribed to art critic, Marina Vaisey by Tom Phillips on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. First edition first impression small format hardback in as new condition, signed by Tom Phillips to title page. No markings, the book is as new and unread. please see pics. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Phillips, Tom (illustrator). First Edition. A SIGNED first edition, published in association with the Talfourd Press, London. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is very bright, is unfaded, and is complete. It is unclipped. Looks very sharp. The Book : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The pages and closed page edges are clean, white and bright. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. No remainder marks. This copy has been FLAT SIGNED by Tom Phillips to the half title page. It also comes with a folded, handwritten letter from Tom Phillips to the binder Philip Smith. It reads : Dear Philip, Nice to see you on my quick - as - possible visit to your bookworks opening. Here's two binders' copies, one gratis, just in case. Hope you have fun with it ! Warm best wishes as ever, Tom. A lovely copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted. Signed by Author(s).

5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. clamshell box with aubergine paper over boards and an original lithograph title label on front panel. The 4 x 3 in. book within is bound in red leather over boards, with artwork stamped and hand-painted on front boards, with a hand-painted spine. The binder's name, Richard Minsky, is gold-stamped along the bottom lip of the interior of the back cover, along with the date of the binding. Autograph colophon (before text begins) signed by Phillips, and signed by Phillips with date of 1985 at rear. Published to the trade by Edition Hansj?rg Mayer in 1985, Heart of a Humument is a miniaturized version of Tom Phillips' seminal altered bookwork, known as A Humument. This special edition of Heart of a Humument?was produced from the text block of the earlier Talfourd Press edition in 1984, and is notable for its binding by Richard Minsky, founder of Center for Book Arts in Manhattan, among many other notable endeavors in the world of book arts.? This is no. 5 from an edition of 30 copies, from the library of Tom Phillips. Near fine with only minor loss of gold on gilded edges and a minor impression, 1/2 in., in the leather on the back cover. Box near fine with small instance of wear to paper on bottom left corner of the back panel, else overall fine. Photographs courtesy of Honey & Wax Booksellers.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First edition thus. Signed limited edition, with two signed and numbered prints, of this "third revised edition" (fourth overall) of one of the most famous artist's books of the last fifty years. A more than 50-year-long undertaking begun in 1966, Phillips' altered book project remains one of the most popular and important artists' book of the last century. Inspired in part by William Burroughs' cut-up methods, Phillips utilized a used book from his local bookshop (the otherwise unremarkable 1892 Victorian potboiler THE HUMAN DOCUMENT by William H. Mallock) in order to create a new work by elaborately coloring, painting over, crossing out, obfuscating, effacing, or otherwise altering Mallock's existing text. In doing so, Phillips allowed a new narrative to emerge, whose "relationship of overlay and latency, of invention and contrast [.] gives the transformed book its tension" (Drucker 110). Originally published in a limited edition in 1970, a first trade edition followed in 1980. Since then, Phillips has continued to revise and add to the book over the decades and he issued more than six editions (each revised) during his lifetime. This, the "third revised edition" (i.e. fourth overall) includes 40 new pages and like most of the revised editions was also issued in a deluxe limited edition, as here. The book remains a beloved classic - arguably the most popular and enduring book of its kind - and these deluxe editions remain scarce on the marketplace. A beautiful copy of a major artist's book. Original full yellow cloth. In original unclipped (no price) color pictorial jacket. [8], 368, [8] pages. Limited edition, one of 175 copies signed by Phillips, this #69. Additionally loosely laid in are two prints from the book, each also numbered 69 from an edition of 175 and both signed by Phillips - as issued. Touch of trace sunning to spine. Else bright, sharp, and clean overall. Fine in a near fine or better jacket. Signed.