Tsujimoto, Karen. WAYNE THIEBAUD. 207 pp., 89 color and b&w plates and 36 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, wraps. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1985.
Exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

THIEBAUD, Wayne. Invisible Cities. Text by Italo Calvino. Translated from the Italian with a new introduction by William Weaver. 164 pp. Illustrated with twelve drawings of sites and artifacts by Thiebaud. Folio, 14 x 12 inches, bound by Paul Sheet in an anodized aluminum ring binding with U-posts, allowing the leaves to be turned over in sequence. Preserved in grey cloth box. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1999.

Limited Edition of 400 copies numbered and signed by the artist. Italo Calvino, regarded by many as the greatest master of Italian fiction in this century, first published this work in 1972 as Le Citta Invisibili. A tale mixing fantasy, reality, and philosophy, it recounts a long conversation between a young Marco Polo and an aging Kublai Khan.

The artist Wayne Thiebaud contributed twelve drawings, with the idea that the images of cities and objects remain invisible until the reader takes action. To realize this concept, Andrew Hoyem designed the book with the drawings printed on clear plastic in different ink colours, each matching the colour of the following sheet. The images are revealed only when the transparent sheet is turned back onto the preceeding page, a white sheet with printed text.

The paper, both coloured and white, is Italian Tiziano, mouldmade at Fabriano mill. The types are Veronese (Monotype and handset) and Twentieth Century (handset). The type (on paper) and the photopolymer plates for the drawings (on mylar) were printed by letterpress. As new.

Nash, Steven A. with Adam Gopnik. WAYNE THIEBAUD: A Paintings Retrospecitve. 216 pp., 160 illustrations, 124 in colour. 4to, cloth. New York, Thames and Hudson in association with San Francisco, Fine Arts Museums, 2008.
A reprint of the 2000 edition