Daniel Spoerri. Six publications 1966-1971

(1) Le petit colosse de Symi. Basel/Zurich, The Nothing Else Review No.4, 1967. Folded broadsheet, 25 x 17.5 cm, 32 pp. Final issue of the obscure art journal made by Spoerri and Kichka Baticheff while they lived in Greece, text in French. It was distributed by Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, to a rumoured subscription base of around two dozen friends of the artists. Scarce.

(2) An Anecdoted Topography of Chance. New York/ Cologne/ Paris, Something Else Press, 1966. Hardcover, 21 x 14.5 cm, 214 pp. First American edition, after the French edition from 1962. Co-operation between Spoerri, Robert Filliou and Emmett Williams, illustrations by Topor. (3) Anekdoten zu einer Topographie des Zufalls. Neuwied/Berlin, Luchterhand, 1968. Softcover, 22 x 17 cm, 162 pp. First German edition, cover by Dieter Roth, with inlaid leaflet displaying the topography of a table top. (4) The Mythological Travels of a modern Sir John Mandeville, being an account of the Magic, Meatballs and other Monkey Business Peculiar to the Sojourn. New York, Something Else Press, 1970. Hardcover with acetate dust-jacket, 21 x 14.5 cm, 278 pp. Introduction by Emmett Williams. (5-6) Wenn all Künste untergehn, die edle Kochkunst bleibt bestehn, and Hommage a Feinstein. Catalogue for Spoerri's 1971 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, in two volumes, 27.5 x 21 cm. All items with moderate shelf wear, fine copies. (total 6)