Jean-Noel Herlin, Brain Storms: Catalogue 8

New York, J.N. Herlin Inc., 1983. 32 loose xeroxed sheets, 28 x 21.5 cm, 64 pp. Housed in a silkscreen printed transparent plastic sleeve, 30.5 x 23.5 cm, featuring photographic images by Herlin. This copy numbered 123/200 on the first sheet. Amazing sales catalogue produced in DIY mode, featuring photocopied title sheets of books with handwritten edition numbers and price information.

Listed books are among the creme de la creme of Conceptual art, with publications from American artists and institutes, European galleries such as Yvon Lambert, Paul Maenz, Sperone and Art & Project, as well as CAYC from Buenos Aires. J.N. Herlin Inc., was an antiquarian bookshop and archive in New York, specializing in 20th century art publications (1972-1987), run by Jean-Noël Herlin (1940), French born artist, bookseller, archivist, curator, and appraiser. Between 1975 and 1998, Herlin published 9 mail-order catalogues. This particular catalogue is very rare, one copy located at the collection of the Center for Book Arts in New York.