96 Piccadillies: De Luxe Edition with Signed Original Drawing Dieter Roth

Offered here is the limited de luxe edition of 96 Piccadillies by Dieter Roth, published by Eaton House, Stuttgart and London, in 1977. One of only 200 copies issued, this edition includes an original "speedy drawing" titled "Selfportrait as Piccadilly-Eros," dated and signed by Roth with his initials. The loosely inserted drawing depicts a nude man lifting a barbell, a quintessential example of Roth's provocative, self-referential humor. Illustrated with 96 color postcards printed two-to-a-leaf, the volume is bound in publisher's gray cloth with a matching pictorial dust jacket and housed in the original gray cloth slipcase. The speedy drawing shows light tanning in spots. The slipcase is Near Fine, with fabric beginning to separate slightly from the glue along the top edge and minor foxing to the cloth. The dust jacket is Near Fine+, exhibiting light rubbing and small bumps at the corners and spine ends, with minor edgewear and faint rub marks on the edges from contact with the tight-fitting slipcase. The book itself is Near Fine+, with foxing to the textblock edges only; the binding and hinges are tight, and the text and images remain clean and unmarked. Hardcover boards are bright and well-preserved, showing minimal handling wear. Dust jacket housed in Demco mylar book jacket cover. Dieter Roth (1930-1998) was one of the most innovative postwar artists, known for blurring boundaries between art and everyday life through books, multiples, and intermedia works. 96 Piccadillies represents a major conceptual project in which Roth deconstructs and reinterprets commercial postcards of London's Piccadilly Circus, transforming mass-produced imagery into a meditation on repetition, decay, and artistic authorship.