Mondo makes unique book by cutting up prints… by the likes of Olly Moss!

If you were lucky enough to attend Mondo's first gallery show a couple of weeks back, then you got to see the much hyped but rarely explained "Mondo Book." And now, finally, the silence has broken on what this ultra-special edition is:

I briefly talk about this in the intro of the book, but I was at a friend’s house earlier this year and noticed a book he had by Jay Ryan. It was full of posters…. actual pieces of the screenprinted posters. I thought about the giant stack of returned posters we’ve gotten over the years and figured this would be a great way to get those out as we were moving to the new space and didn’t want to transport them. So, we began to go through the giant stack and pick out which ones we wanted in and in what order they should go. We found a local binder and had him cut them down to size and over several weeks we hand put these books together. It was an intricate process and below you can see some of the pics of the book getting put together.

And they obviously weren't being overly choosy about what to include of not, since I can clearly see a copy of Olly Moss's "My Neighbor Totoro" print in there… which typically sells for a couple of hundred bucks. There were only 105 copies made worldwide, each costing $200, and at some point today the remaining copies will be available through Mondo's online store; we suggest you follow their Twitter to get a better "head's up" as to release time. And the book, bound in 100% genuine leather, seems to simply be titled "Mondo, Vol. 1"… which certainly does imply that there might be a Vol. 2 some day!

*** UPDATE *** It is on sale now HERE.