Books

Katrina Palmer
2015
£185.00

…and is housed in an ebony black slip case, designed and produced by Book Works Studio with Katrina Palmer. Also containing two b&w C-type matt photographic prints, wrapped in a…

…– for both writer and listener, and also for language itself, forcing an escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness that’s usually imposed on it.What’s My Name? contains…

Sophia Al-Maria
2024
£19.95

…writing by Sophia Al-Maria. ‘When Book Works contacted you about printing a second edition you were both honoured and filled with trepidation… it felt like facing a refrigerator you left…

Paul Etienne Lincoln
1997
Out of print

The World and Its Inhabitants is an impressive publication by Paul Lincoln, an English artist living in New York. It consists of a flip-top cardboard case containing twenty-four cards each…

Mel Jackson
1997
Out of print

…world: economics versus magic. The book contains a fold-out panoramic view of books from the Harry Price Collection which can be cut-up and sent as postcards. The reverse side of…

Douglas Gordon
1999
Out of print

…the score along with a CD that contains a complete new recording of the music from Vertigo. The book also contains critical texts by Raymond Bellour and Royal S. Brown….

Laure Prouvost
2019
£300.00 + VAT

…any additional charges for customs clearance. Please note that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information….

…Spa. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Claude d’Avoine. Airport Love Theme is supported by the Contact series Supporters Circle….

Hamishi Farah
2020
Out of print

…Spa. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Claude d’Avoine. Airport Love Theme is supported by the Contact series Supporters Circle….

…Subsequent series have invited a wide range of guest editors including Stewart Home (Semina), Clunie Reid (G.S.O.H.), Hannah Black (Contact), Bridget Penney (Interstices) and most recently Katrina Palmer (Arrhythmia). Commissions…

…it loose, free. – K Patrick ‘I’m always making one thing’, says Skaer, whose assertion is upheld by the structure of this book: a space that contains her various sensibilities…

Nick Crowe
1999
Out of print

…their (digital) self-representation. Co-published by Book Works with Channel/Artec as 1,000 downloadable digital copies and as a unique book produced by Book Works, containing a disc and the original hand-rendered…

Simon Patterson
2009
Out of print

…an edition of 20, signed and numbered by the artist. Price £295.00 Set of all four colours £1000.00. To order a complete set please contact Paul Sammut Edition prices will…

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch. Course dates: TBC Time: Monday evenings 6.30-9pm Cost per students: TBC Contact details: [email protected]

Katrina Palmer
2010
Out of print

…of inter-related but self-contained short stories, The Dark Object explores the tension between the restraint of narrative form, and the explosion of ontic instability. It aims not to subsume fantasy…

Paul Etienne Lincoln
1997
Out of print

…to reveal the contents − is an intricate and delicate device that, through an elaborate and complex ritual enables balloons to be expanded by means of ‘humour’ contained in small…

Sharon Kivland
1998
Out of print

L’Imaginaire is a lipstick mirror that has been subtly altered by the artist. Contained in a sumptuous raw silk-covered box with cushioned satin lining, the lipstick mirror has been engraved…

…survival with many friends and collaborators – James Langdon, Céline Condorelli, Paul Conneally, Herbert Bayer, Duncan McLaren, Paul O’Neill, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, Frederick Kiesler, Gordon Dalton, Åbäke, David…

Steve Beard
1998
£9.95

…programs. The first program scrambled sentences to form ‘machine poetry’, the second created hybrid letterforms. The final draft of Perfumed Head contains elements of all three versions. This intoxicating, disturbing…

…friends and collaborators – James Langdon, Céline Condorelli, Paul Conneally, Herbert Bayer, Duncan McLaren, Paul O’Neill, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, Frederick Kiesler, Gordon Dalton, Åbäke, David Burrows, El Lissitzky,…

…Langdon, Céline Condorelli, Paul Conneally, Herbert Bayer, Duncan McLaren, Paul O’Neill, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan, Frederick Kiesler, Gordon Dalton, Åbäke, David Burrows, El Lissitzky, Abbie Hoffman, R. Buckminster Fuller,…

Charles van Otterdijk
2013
£15.00

…(institutional) illegality. The exterior of the sites reveals a dark, brooding landscape of dense forest, a secret place or no-man’s-land that suggests the sites might have been rendition centres –…

Laure Prouvost
2013
Out of print

…size 455 x 395 mm, folded to 345 x 238 mm. This edition is now sold out. If you would like more information on Book Works’ Special Editions please contact:…

Karl Holmqvist
2009
Out of print

…escape from the demands of linearity and constraining grammatical correctness thats usually imposed on it. What’s My Name? contains a selection of work from the last twenty years amounting to…

Katrina Palmer
2013
Out of print

…Oedipal fantasy, the Rector a scrofulous, paranoid lech. Made up of inter-related but self-contained short stories, The Dark Object explores the tension between the restraint of narrative form, and the…

Doug Aitken
2000
Out of print

Diamond Sea is a photographic journey through Diamond Areas One and Two: a highly secure 70,000 square kilometre area along the coastline of the Namibian desert. This area, containing the…

Teignmouth Electron  (Special Edition, 2009) A special hardback edition book printed offset, full colour, with blind embossing on the front cover, and presented in a dark blue slipcase. Designed by…

Sophia Al-Maria
2019
Out of print

…first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria is an artist…

Derica Sheilds
2021
Forthcoming

…and mothering. Published by Book Works as part of Contact, guest edited by Hannah Black in an edition of 1,000; designed by Rose Nordin. Derica Shields is a writer, researcher…

Stephen Sutcliffe
2019
£14.50

This book is called Much Obliged for two reasons. The first is that it is what Stephen’s dad says when he has been served in shops. The second is because…

Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan
2019
£150.00 + VAT

…that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in…

Gad Hollander & Andrew Bick
1998
£55.00

…to pay any additional charges for customs clearance. Please note that customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for…

Sharon Kivland
1994
Out of print

Sharon Kivland’s interests in Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis have resulted in a number of works that explore these themes. J’appelle un chat un chat contains extracts from Freud’s Fragments of…

…Made up of inter-related but self-contained short stories, The Dark Object explores the tension between the restraint of narrative form, and the explosion of ontic instability. It aims not to…

Book Works Studio
2021
Forthcoming

…the aim is to give each of the students the knowledge and confidence to create the books for themselves after the day is completed. Timetable and further information here. Contact: [email protected]

Emily Wardill & Ian White
2010
£15.00

…and quotations, and containing extensive reproductions of Wardill’s work, the book’s content and design reflects the labyrinthine, and sometimes hallucinogenic quality of her films and their radical combination of form,…

Liam Gillick
2009
£375.00

…customs policies vary widely from country to country, and we advise you to contact your local customs office for further information. Since January 2021 that includes all countries in Europe….

Christian Nold
2001
£7.50

How do people group together? And what are the methods of containment used in order to regulate the ‘vulgar mob’? These are just two of the questions elicited by Christian…

Sarah Tripp
2020
£12.00

…Tripp’s GUITAR!. It begins with a writer making small illuminated notes in the dark, her record of living alongside a child learning to speak. She marvels at the way he…

…Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2011); Our Daily Permanence, Nomas Foundation, Rome (2010). He is currently showing new work Qualities of Violence at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 24 January – 8…

Silvia Ziranek
1987
Out of print

…cook. At the back of the book a glossary contains instructions for the recipes, which can be cooked as well as read. The recipes are punctuated with images: knick-knacks, objects…

Charles Barber, Sharon Kivland and Conrad Leyser
1991
Out of print

…invited to contribute to the book, grouped into pairs, woman-man, and artist-theorist. Each pair enter into a dialogue with each other through image and text; the sections are self-contained but…

Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane
2005
Out of print

…Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day. Organised by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Folk Archive:…

Brian Catling
1995
£9.50

…handwriting, description and print. The texts for The Blindings are handwritten: each of which contains a pronouncement that a fluid, gas, suspension or extract has been injected into the eye;…

Cecilia Vicuña
2024
£28.00

…at a turning point in her life and career, and reverberating through to the present day. Though the book is highly regarded, it has also been hard to access. This…

Lubaina Himid
2017
Out of print

Freedom Kangas (Special Edition Book, 2017) Special edition handbound book, housed in a dark blue slipcase, both designed and produced by Book Works Studio 360mm x 515mm Edition of 30…

Pavel Büchler
1997
£4.50

…research within the library, Marx Angels contains extracts from correspondence between Marx and Engels, who both spent time studying in Chetham’s Library. Presented as a journal and illustrated with details…

Adrian Piper
1991
Out of print

…about others and those made about art that is delimited as political as a method of containment of what else it may be about, how richly politics may be defined….

…have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in international venues. She has written and directed to date two feature length films. Recent solo exhibitions took place at the…

Arts Against Cuts
2015
Out of print

…any access requirements, please contact [email protected]. Published by Book Works as part of Common Objectives, guest edited by Nina Power; edited and designed by Louis Hartnoll, Lucy Killoran, Robyn Minogue,…

Deborah-Joyce Holman
2023
£22.00

Queen for a Day is Deborah-Joyce Holman’s debut publication, staging a conversation between two of the artist’s films, Moment and Moment 2 (2022), and the work of cinema verité they…

…the sculptures contains sets of prints in cloth covered portfolios with foil blocked titles. The individual sculptures are also available as separate works contained in their own leather covered box….

An edition of 25 specially made boxes to contain an artists’ multiple consisting of varying sizes and shapes of Haematite pieces. The interior of the box also contains a small…

Unique set of solander boxes containing material collected by the artist for the project. Each box has a printed cloth cover creating an overall design across the spines. The whole…

Paper covered hinged case containing various books and printed panels for a business proposal. The box automatically illuminates the interior when the lid is opened. The video screen contained inside…

An artists’ book containing abstract Indigo printed images. The paper over board covers have all been hand painted by the artist, and the book is contained in a coloured acrylic…

A unique solander box containing a book and DVD contained inside a drawer, and a USB drive in a recess. Designed by Weidemann Lampe, the box is covered in white…

Design prototype with Indigo printed pages. The calfskin cover is foil blocked in gold and then individually printed with a hand. The book contains different sized inserts amongst the pages….

Medieval Hebrew manuscript book originally dating from 1280 produced in a facsimile edition to replicate the original. The facsimile pages are bound with a specially coloured and aged sheepskin spine…

A solander box to contain various digital devices for an artwork produced for Lisson Gallery. The box is cloth covered on the outside with a specially created paper covered interior…

Mock crocodile covered filing cabinet style box containing a series of texts. The drawer slides out to reveal a series of titled files holding texts printed onto cards….

Each book contains 200 original screen printed works onto Shoji paper in collaboration with K2 Screen. The printed pages are loosely mounted onto a core paper enabling the light Japanese…

A leather bound book with engraved metal corners and centre panel created as a film prop. The book contained a few printed pages, the remainder were left blank….

A digitally printed five metre long concertina format book containing the artist’s pencil drawings. The black bookcloth cover is blind debossed with the title and each book is housed in…

Christian Barnes

A unique installation of books contained within a huge steel framed case. The secondhand books were collected by the artist with subject matter connected to American history. Each book was…

Boxed set of 3 digitally printed books containing pencil drawings printed onto Zerkall mouldmade paper. Each concertina format book is covered in a different shade of grey card with titles…

Two books bound as one with two separate spines, containing text and drawings never to be seen. Bound in alum tawed goatskin with an invisible join, and hand embroidered silk…

A special cloth covered presentation case housing three separate scrolls authentically replicating the originals. Each of the scrolls is held in a specific compartment and additional facsimile fragments are contained…

This limited edition artists’ book contains a sequence of highly complex pages working from the artist’s original set of collages. Every element of this book was hand produced for the…

This leather bound artist’s book contains a series of hand printed lithographs by the artist to accompany a series of 10 poems by 10 poets. Book Works designed and letterpress…

Automated flick book displaying a catwalk show by the designer. The pages contained on the loop turn automatically with an adjustable speed control. The outer casing shows the working structure…

Solander boxes containing seven artist’s prints onto goatskin parchment. The box is covered in a black bookcloth with black foil blocked text on the front cover and spine….

An artists’ edition created for the Tate Gallery consisting of six different pamphlets and prints contained inside a folding box. The books were held together with a screw post that…

A box with a hinged lid for an artist’s edition containing two crayons created by the artist from the remains of rose petals and stems that formed part of an…

A solander box covered in the fashion designer’s own design of fabric, and containing printed casebound books and gatefold panels of the work….

An edition created for the artist combining two separate books of text and photographs with additional quotations contained within the form of the book. The front and back covers have…

An artist’s multiple consisting of five small books, containing the artist’s writings, fitting into a specially constructed wooden case. Each of the letterpress printed books was printed at the Studio…

A selection of artists’ books containing various printmaking and collage techniques. The featured arttists include Ellis Nadler, Colin Hall, Adam Pendleton, and Beatriz Milhazes…

…end of the hourglass allow it to be lifted out without danger of damaging the work. The hourglasses were specially made for the artist and contain dust that is older…

Anya Gallaccio

A two-part box containing a series of miniature postcards from the artist’s own collection made in an edition of 50 sets. The box is covered in black bookcloth with a…

A cloth covered solander box with paper linings to contain a series of prints. The title letters are cut from pieces of copper and inset into the front cover. …

A one-off presentation box for the annual book awards presented in a specially designed clamshell box containing the winning title. The box is covered in silk with foil blocked design…

Two-part presentation box containing various electronic devices for domestic use. The internal lining is created from multiple layers of coloured felt that have been cut away to house the objects….

Unique series of books containing original Japanese calligraphy with letterpress printed text pages. Hand sewn and bound with different coloured goatskin spines and printed aluminium covers….

Cloth covered portfolio to contain a series of prints. The folio is lined with mouldmade paper and has a foil blocked title on the front cover….

A specially commissioned ten sided box containing 20 books and printed objects in different forms showing the architectural design and construction of the Cleveland Museum. The black silk covered box…

Wedding album containing printed photographs. The covering is made from five different cloths with a foil blocked title across the middle. The spine is left exposed to show the sewing….

A large cloth covered box containing a limited edition necklace created by the artist. Each of the stone beads on the necklace is annotated on the printed guide on the…

Two-part cloth covered box to contain a series of DVD cases. The boxes are lined with specially printed Yves Klein blue panels. Foil blocked titles throughout….

Three different editions of books containing cocktail recipes. The books are bound in black hide allowing the covers to be slightly floppy. The outer cover is blind debossed with a…

A coloured vellum covered two-part box containing a limited edition copy of the book by Julian Barnes with accompanying etchings by the artist….

A presentation book containing the history of the jewellery brand. The book is bound in hand marbled calfskin with a foil blocked title. The text pages are digitally printed and…

A series of printed and bound books containing architectural photographs. The cloth bound covers are foil blocked and blind debossed….

Part of a series of large scale solander boxes to contain a set of prints. Various techniques of inlaid and onlaid calfskin and goatskin were used to create four of…

Unique series of five different books based on the Five Elements each containing original calligraphy by the artist. The bindings were covered using different layered materials revealing coloured cores. Letterpress…

Archive Items

Susan Hiller
1994
3 leaves (recto)

A4 (folded into 3 sections) fax strip from Alison Green at the Freud Museum, London to Jane Rolo at Book Works detailing a symposium. Contains handwritten and printed text. Dated…

Liam Gillick; Book Works
1995
1 leaf (recto)

A single sheet of Book Works headed paper with a separate sheet containing an illustration attached by Sellotape. A handwritten letter from Rob Hadrill at Book Works to the designer…

Susan Hiller; Freud Museum
1993
3 leaves (recto-verso)

Copy of Athene, the Freud Museum Newsletter, no.4, Winter 1993/94. Page six contains a short article on The Reading Room exhibition organised by Book Works….

Liam Gillick
1995
1 leaf (recto)

Fax containing typed communication from Liam Gillick to Rob Hadrill and Jane Rolo at Book Works regarding the first draft for his publication Erasmus is Late. The letter is signed…

Liam Gillick; Gillian Gillick
1995
2 leaves (recto)

Reproduction of one of the illustrations for the publication Erasmus is Late, with a strip of fax paper containing handwritten text from Liam Gillick to Book Works regarding the accompanying…

Book Works
1994
1 leaf (recto-verso)

Photocopied sheet of advertisements in Art Monthly, contains a quarter page advertisement from Book Works regarding a New Texts commission (Post-It note on reverse listing the dates of the issues…

Book Works
1994
1 leaf (recto)

Text containing information for a New Texts commission at Book Works to be placed in Art Monthly, with handwritten annotations by Jane Rolo….

News

…The very loose theme is contact. ‘I’m looking for works that encounter the complications of encounter: friendship/enmity, scenes, screens, movements, moments of togetherness. Contact can span from moments of intensity…

Join Book Works at PEER Gallery to celebrate the launch of Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme and the new Contact series, edited by Hannah Black. Readings from Hamishi Farah and…

…what it means to be shown and seen as lesbian, both then and now. Contacts is curated by Laura Guy, who is also the editor of Dark Room: San Francisco…

…address, contact telephone number/skype contact. 4. A completed Equal Opportunities form (download below). 5. A registration fee of £10/£5. If you are on a low income, in receipt of benefits…

News/Events
2025

…On your CV, please ensure that you include: – Your contact details. – Details of your current and previous employment with dates – Contact details for two professional referees (we…

Hamishi Farah’s first UK solo exhibition – London UK – is now open at Arcadia Missa until 30 August 2023. The gallery contains 3 paintings, Roberto Cavalli, Beyoncé, & Whale,…

…book contains hand- and typewritten poems, diary entries, and documentation of assemblages and paintings by Vicuña from the previous ten years. Ehrenberg wrote in his editor’s note that Saborami was…

News/Events
2020

…and can be contacted on 020 7247 2536 or via [email protected]. The BOOK WORKS PUBLISHING team are currently working remotely, as we think that this is the best way to minimise the risk…

…Free and open to the public. Refreshments served. QUERIES: [email protected] 7pm Saturday 29 September, Harlem Adda A talk on Hamja Ahsan’s work resisting Islamophobia, at Harlem Adda Bring a food…

29–30 June 2024 Bower Ashton Campus, Bristol More info/contact We’ll be back in Bristol for BABE, Bristol Artist’s Book Event, on 29–30 June. The first Bristol Artist’s Book Event was…

…final two weeks will include making a slipcase to contain the books made during the course. The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run…

…of Before The Mast, a ten-day durational performance that took place in London in 2013. Contact the Lungley Gallery for further info. The Stuart Brisley Interviews is our Book of…

…journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking…

…issue also contains a cover profile with Rosa-Johan Uddoh, whose new book, Practice Makes Perfect, we will be publishing later this year, along with Focal Point Gallery, Southend, to mark…

*** This course is full. Please check the website for our Wednesday evening course. Or contact Jan for the next round of courses in Autumn. *** A nine week Bookbinding…

…here. There are a couple of places left on this course – if you would like to book or have any questions please contact Jan on jan @ bookworks.org.uk or…

…sizes. These include the reconstruction of a stage prop originally designed by dancer Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson (1878–1949), the evocation of the recently demolished Birmingham pub, Eagle & Tun (compulsorily purchased…

…publication and of the coup in Chile, this expanded edition published by Book Works contains a new introduction by art historian and curator Amy Tobin and poet and writer Luke…

…Britain and the first attempt since the Festival of Britain to document the popular and folk art of the present day. Organised by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane, Folk Archive…

News/Events
2011

…be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio. Course Dates: Thursdays from 2nd February to 29th March, 2012 Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm Cost: £200 per student Course contact details:…

Book Works is delighted to present Queen For A Day, the forthcoming book by Deborah-Joyce Holman, now available to preorder at a reduced price. Queen for a Day is Deborah-Joyce Holman’s…

News/Events
2012

…new post, to start early May 2012. Deadline for applications is 5 March 2012 Interviews for shortlisted applicants 19 March 2012 For more details contact: Jane Rolo 020 7247 2203…

…all. More info/contact. distinguish the limit from the edge is an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert, edited by Jacob Korczynski and published by Book Works….

…with publishers Book Works and The Showroom, the book contains an interview between the artist and editor, and specially-commissioned essays by Melissa Gronlund and Tom Holert, and is designed by…

…Una Marson Library to the National Poetry Library earlier in the day. There’s also a chance to view a signed edition of one of Marson’s books and hear perspectives from…

…in her life and career, and reverberating through to the present day. Though the book is highly regarded, it has also been hard to access. This new, expanded facsimile edition…

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…For more information on sales and distribution, please contact Paul Sammut. To view our current catalogue please click here. On the right is a small selection of bookshops and libraries that…

…INSTITUTIONS Virgil Abloh Eve Arnold David Bailey Georg Baselitz Peter Blake David Bowie Louise Bourgeois Bill Brandt Archive John Claridge Michael Craig-Martin Thomas Demand Jim Dine Tracey Emin Douglas Gordon…

…The course will feature multi-section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese style binding and a concertina binding. The final two weeks will include making a slipcase to contain the books made…

Farshid Moussavi Architects

…room in the interior of the box complete with staircase rising from the ground. Contained inside the internal box were 22 different sets of prints, packs and books in different…

…Gaza, Ceasefire Now £75.00 + VAT Add to cart Katrina Palmer 2024 Landscape £75.00 + VAT Add to cart Sofia Niazi 2024 Intifada Milk £40.00 + VAT Add to cart…

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