041 Peter K. Wehrli
Catalogue of the 134 Most Important Observations During a Long Railway Journey (inscribed)
041 Peter K. Wehrli
Catalogue of the 134 Most Important Observations During a Long Railway Journey (inscribed)
La Paz, Bolivia: Los Amigos del Libro, 1974
67 pp., narrow 16mo. Translated by Roger Frood. Cover photos by Theddy Ruff. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrappers. Light soiling and edgewear, otherwise very good.
An early artist’s book by the author, recounting a 1968 trip across Europe to the Middle East in the form of a catalogue of numbered and titled vignettes.
Wehrli is a Swiss art writer and traveler, who also worked in the late sixties on a series of Swiss television documentaries about avant-garde art. Uncommon; OCLC locates eleven copies, eight of those outside the United States.
This copy warmly inscribed to Anne Waldman in New York in the year after publication.