Text Art, Poetry & Writing

Ian Ritchie Hardcover | 16.8 x 1.1 x 14.5 cm | 64 pp Unicorn Press | 2023 | 9781911397755 Light is the material of Architecture. Ian Ritchie is one of the UK’s most visionary architects, and remarkable for synthesising multiple creative disciplines to bring the...

Hardcover in slipcase | 18.9 x 5.23 x 27.13 cm | 1008 pp Verso Books | 2015 | 9781784781569 Renowned poet and conceptual artist Kenneth Goldsmith collects a massive assortment of quotations about New York City in the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic montage from hundreds...

Mary Richards Softcover | 21 x 0.8 x 27 cm | 128 pp Tate Publishing | 2008 | 9781854376237 American artist Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) is a master of creating art that is at once playful and profound. Ruscha’s inimitable work frequently involves the...

Michael Lailach & Andzeas Schalhorn Hardcover | 24.77 x 1.91 x 27.31 cm | 184 pp Konig | 2007 | 9783865602275 Egidio Marzona's intensive experience with contemporary art forms the basis for his encyclopaedic collecting activity, which started in the mid-1960s and continues to the...

Softcover | 21.5 x 13.8 cm | 178 pp Research Group for Artists Publications | 2017 | 9780954063979 Edition of 1000 some forms of availability assembles speculative essays, reviews, interviews, and collected statements and texts by Simon Cutts, long-time publisher of Coracle Press. The...

Hardcover | 19.7 x 2.5 x 26.7 cm | 282 pp Turner | 2005 | 9788475066196 Rare & Collectible PLEASE NOTE: All copies are shrink-wrapped, however many have some very minor marking to the covers under the shrink-wrap Ah, capitalism and schizophrenia. Everyone's favorite two topics,...

Paul Stephens Hardcover | 16.21 x 2.64 x 23.83 cm | 288 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262043670 An exploration of minimal writing―texts generally shorter than a sentence―as complex, powerful literary and visual works. In the 1960s and 70s, minimal and conceptual artists...

10 booklets in box | 12.5 x 3.5 x 17.5 cm | 16 pp per book Coracle Press | 2025 Boxed edition of 60 Rare & Collectible A boxed set of the remaining copies of the Coracle A6 ephemera pamphlets, each one the subject of...

Hardcover | 30.63 x 3.51 x 34.62 cm | 352 pp Distanz | 2012 | 9783942405683 For over thirty-five years, Monica Bonvicini (b.1965) has created a vast collection of drawings, including sketches, designs, and concepts for the sculptures, installations, and works of media art...

Steven Heller & Gail Anderson Softcover |  24.1 x 2 x 33.8cm | 224 pp  Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500420577 A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice.Stretching the boundaries...

Tom Gatti Softcover | 12.7 x 1.7 x 19.7 cm | 224 pp Bloomsbury | 2022 | 9781526625762  In Long Players, fifty of our finest authors write about the albums that changed their lives, from Deborah Levy on Bowie to Daisy Johnson on Lizzo, Ben...

Softcover | 23.88 x 1.52 x 28.45 cm | 160 pp JRP Ringier | 2008 | 9783905829877 Since the early 1990s, Sean Landers' oeuvre has proven to be one of the most fascinating and repeatedly irritating in contemporary art. Over the years, he has...

Softcover | 11.18 x 1.52 x 17.53 cm | 128 pp Hatje Cantz | 2016 | 9783775740968 The French original from 1950, published here for the first time in English and German. Poésie sur Alger, written in 1942 and published for the first time...

Charles Wylie Hardcover | 21.95 x 2.18 x 28.68 cm | 192 pp Yale University Press | 2008 | 9780300137347 Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (1932-2014) objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents...

Softcover | 16 x 3.81 x 24.26 cm | 224 pp Monacelli Press | 2018 | 9781580935197  From typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes, I Wonder offers new ways of thinking about art, design, beauty, and popular culture through elaborately crafted word pictures. Whether intricately hand-drawn...

William Minor Softcover | 16.5 x 11.5 cm | 84 pp  Coracle | 2018 | 9780906630563 In The Balthus Poems, fragment and detail achieve a form of still-life, in this case surrounding the life and work of its protagonist. These poems move with their own innate syntax, detailing the...

Hardcover | 23.65 x 3.63 x 31.45 cm | 348 pp Prestel | 2020 | 9783791387185 For over thirty years, William Kentridge has been combining fine arts, performance, theatre, and opera to create dreamlike, political, and humanist works. His installations , films, and drawings...

Michael Arndt Hardcover | 17.1 x 1.8 x 17.1 cm | 160 pp HQ | 2022 | 9780008530204 What is the purpose of the comma – perhaps the most used symbol in the English language – and what are the proper uses of the asterisk?...

Hardcover | 21.03 x 3.38 x 26.11 cm | 224 pp Rizzoli | 2019 | 9780847865291 From the first ever sketch of the Red Cross logo by its founder Clara Barton to a cartoon scrawled on a love letter from Charles Bukowski, the objects in...

Hardcover | 15 x 14 cm | 144 pp Coracle | 2019 | 978906630624 Gertrude Stein’s sentences Descriptions of Literature were originally written by hand, then later typeset for printing and publication. Here they are handwritten again by Erica Van Horn.  Writing someone else’s...