A collection of approximately 30 modern alphabet books in Fr - Lot 194

A collection of approximately 30 modern alphabet books in French or English created by painters or photographers (after 1960). Overall condition: 9/10 - Rarity: 3/5 Including: - Martin, Etienne. - Abécédaire et autres lieux. Geneva, Editions Claude Givaudan, 1967. Art book presented in a square, screen-printed cardboard box containing 62 square sheets (21 x 21 cm). First edition, printed in a run of 1,204 copies (no. 674/1,100). - Adler, Jérémie. - *The Electric Alphabet*. Alphabox, 1996. Hradec Králové (Czech Republic), Alphabox Press, 1996. Square format, 21.5 x 20.5 cm, loose-leaf format with a titled cover and publisher’s slipcase. Complete with 26 engravings by Jiri Sindler (1 frontispiece and 26 illustrations accompanying the texts). Print run of 60 copies (No. 27), signed in pencil by the author and the engraver. - Kaliardos, J. - Gan, Stephen - Dean, Cecilia. - Visionaire the alphabet. New York, Visionaire, 1993–1994. Folio-size loose-leaf volume in a color-illustrated folder with flaps—33 ff. (including 1 with 3 panels). More than 50 artists, primarily photographers, contributed to the creation of this work. Printed in an edition of 1,500 copies (no. 1364). - Nellens, Roger. - Répertoire. Catalog printed by Pierre Chave in Vence for the Iolas Gallery, on the occasion of Nellens’s exhibitions in Paris, Milan, and New York. Layout by Sergio Tosi—31 leaves in an illustrated hardcover folder. E.A.S. by R. Nellens to the philosopher, essayist, literary critic, art critic, and art historian Gaëtan Picon and his wife Geneviève. - [Collective] - Letters by Twenty-Six Artists. N.p., La Chose Typo, 2016. In-8 format, loose sheets in a portfolio—26 ff. created in black by 26 artists.Printed in an edition of 260 copies (no. 45), August 22, 2026. - [Collective] - ABC of Collage. Produced by Patricia Dupuy; graphic design by J.P. Borezée; artistic collaboration by J.-P. Kahn. L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Éditions Le Renard Pâle, 2006. Large in-4, spiral-bound booklet in an embossed and die-cut cover—[33 ff.], including 26 letters illustrated by 26 different artists. Each full-color composition is accompanied by a text and a captioned serpentine. Print run of 650 copies on Arches paper; one of 450 (unnumbered).