Itself by Godard Keith (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. No damage to text; short note on title page. Spine is firm with wear and mild chipping at hinges. Clean, whole cover with basic signs of handling.

paperback. Condition: Good. No Highlighting or underlining. Some Wear but overall good condition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

1975, second edition, Art, Works, New York, Eastern Press, circa 44 pages, very good paperback.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Interactive softcover Art book with shape cutouts telling a story.

20x20 cm. 48 n.n. S. mit Ausstanzungen. OBr. Mit hs. Signatur von Keith Godard. - Mit dem Stempel des Graphikers Ruedi Rüegg.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition of this inventive early artist's book for children of all ages by graphic designer and educator Keith Godard—known for exhibition design, wayfinding, and public art—and his first self-published book project. Published by his imprint, Works, in 1975 following a small initial run in 1970. Approximately 8 × 8 inches, printed wrappers, 48 unnumbered pages on variously colored stocks, extensively die-cut throughout. Itself reduces the language of the book to its most elementary components—shape, color, sequence, aperture, and page—then sets them in motion. Circles, triangles, bars, and other geometric forms search for and encounter one another across changing fields of orange, yellow, blue, gray, and cream. Die-cut openings allow forms on succeeding leaves to enter the composition before the page is turned: the physical construction of the book becomes the mechanism of its narrative. At once graphic-design experiment, book object, and playful meditation on identity, with affinities to the experimental books of Bruno Munari. An exceptional presentation copy from the estate and working library of Massimo and Lella Vignelli, inscribed by Godard on the inside front wrapper, "To Massimo / Keith Godard 77." Additionally bearing the Vignelli Associates library stamp on the rear wrapper. The association is particularly resonant: a designer-to-designer presentation of a book devoted to the fundamental vocabulary of graphic form, given by Godard to one of the defining practitioners of modernist graphic design. Hinges weakened; binding otherwise sound. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities, with minor soiling to front wrapper. Inscribed by Author(s). …