LIMITED EDITIONS

(ALECHINSKY, PIERRE). Alechinsky, Pierre & Eugene Ionesco. Foreword by Leon A. Arkus. ALECHINSKY - WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 260pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with Pierre Alechinsky's receiving the first Andrew W. Mellon Prize, and an attendant exhibition at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, this was the first comprehensive English monograph on the noted Belgian artist. It is copiously illustrated (including "sixteen pages especially produced by the artist"), and features numerous texts by Alechinsky as well as an introduction by renowned playwright Eugene Ionesco. Limited to one hundred copies only, this is from the edition that is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED color lithograph laid in, as issued. A most handsome copy. 0-8109-0656-2 Inventory Number: 014343 $ 550.00 order/inquire       (ALI, MUHAMMAD) (KOONS, JEFF). . Taschen, Benedikt, Muhammad Ali, Howard L. Bingham, Neil Leifer, et al. Helmut Sorge, Editor. GOAT (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) COLLECTORS EDITION: A TRIBUTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI - SIGNED BY ALI AND WITH A LITHOGRAPH BY JEFF KOONS. Signed by the Artist and the Pugilist. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2004. First Edition 1/9000. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Clamshell Box. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 792pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. "Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable personalities of our time and the greatest sportsman ever to walk the earth. To honor this living legend, Benedikt Taschen has created a work that is epic in scale and as unique and vibrant as the man himself. A worthy tribute to his life should reflect the scale of his achievements, and GOAT is fully up to that task". Bound in pink leather (the color of Ali's first Cadillac) by the official bindery for the Vatican, it weighs in at over seventy-five pounds, and contains over three thousand images - photographs, art and memorabilia (much of it published for the first time) from over one hundred and fifty photographers and artists. The text features original essays as well as the best interviews and writing on Ali of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling six hundred thousand words. A pristine copy of this massive undertaking still in the publisher's unopened shipping carton SIGNED by both Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons, with the specially executed photo-lithograph "Radial Champs" by the artist Koons, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-822816-27-2 Inventory Number: 014633 $ 3500.00 order/inquire       (ALI, MUHAMMAD) (KOONS, JEFF). . Taschen, Benedikt, Muhammad Ali, Howard L. Bingham, Neil Leifer, et al. Helmut Sorge, Editor. GOAT (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) COLLECTORS EDITION: A TRIBUTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI - SIGNED BY ALI AND WITH A LITHOGRAPH BY JEFF KOONS. Signed by the Artist and the Pugilist. Köln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2004. First Edition 1/9000. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Clamshell Box. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 792pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. "Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable personalities of our time and the greatest sportsman ever to walk the earth. To honor this living legend, Benedikt Taschen has created a work that is epic in scale and as unique and vibrant as the man himself. A worthy tribute to his life should reflect the scale of his achievements, and GOAT is fully up to that task". Bound in pink leather (the color of Ali's first Cadillac) by the official bindery for the Vatican, it weighs in at over seventy-five pounds, and contains over three thousand images - photographs, art and memorabilia (much of it published for the first time) from over one hundred and fifty photographers and artists. The text features original essays as well as the best interviews and writing on Ali of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling six hundred thousand words. A pristine copy of this massive undertaking still in the publisher's unopened shipping carton SIGNED by both Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons, with the specially executed photo-lithograph "Radial Champs" by the artist Koons, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-822816-27-2 Inventory Number: 013446 $ 4000.00 order/inquire       (ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi & Jerome Sans. ARAKI - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. First Edition 1/2500. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 636pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English, German and French. With a biography and bibliography. "Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender". Limited to two-thousand, five hundred copies worldwide, this massive volume (the first of Taschen's XXXL series) pares down decades of Nobuyoshi Araki's oeuvre into a thousand or so images that tell the story of the renowned Japanese photographer and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. A pristine copy numbered and BOLDLY SIGNED by Araki in black ink on the title page housed in a clamshell box still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1292-7 Inventory Number: 014522 $ 3150.00 order/inquire       (ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi. Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Editor. NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: POLAEROID - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Initialed and Numbered by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY & New York: Oktagon Verlag, 1997. First Edition 1/800. 16mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in German. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to eight hundred copies only, this elegant little artist's book cum survey by the legendary Japanese provocateur Nobuyoshi Araki reproduces Polaroid images of bound, (mostly) naked female models alternating with lush floral still lifes. A pristine copy BOLDLY INITIALED "A" AND NUMBERED by Araki in black ink on the front free endpaper, as issued. 3-89611-038-1 Inventory Number: 015749 $ 290.00 order/inquire       (BACON, FRANCIS). Ades, Dawn, Andrew Forge, Andrew Durham & Krzysztof Cieszkowski. Foreword by Alan Bowness. FRANCIS BACON - AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED TO R.B. KITAJ. Signed Presentation Copy from the Artist. London: The Tate Gallery, Thames and Hudson, Ltd. & Global Asset Management, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Gilt Debossed Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 246pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology, exhibition checklist and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the triumphant 1985 Francis Bacon exhibition organized by the Tate Gallery - one of the very few times the venerable British venue had presented a second retrospective to a British artist in their lifetime. Consisting of one hundred and twenty-five paintings executed between 1944 and 1984, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of Bacon's work, and the last great museum show before the influential artist's death in 1992. A most handsome copy of the special hors commerce edition bound in gilt-debossed orange linen (issued without dust jacket) for promotional use by the exhibition's corporate underwriter Global Asset Management Limited, this example was BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "To R.B. Kitaj with very best wishes Francis Bacon" by the artist in black ink on the half-title page at the Tate opening. Ronald Brooks Kitaj was the American born, London based artist who shared a thirty year affiliation with Bacon at Marlborough Galley, and as colleagues in the informal, Kitaj-coined "School of London" clan of figurative artists. The association is made all the more poignant as Kitaj's own Tate retrospective a decade later proved to be one of the most critically vilified shows there of all time, irreparably affecting the artist's career. This volume was purchased by us directly from Mr. Kitaj in the month preceding his 2007 passing. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017954 $ 6000.00 order/inquire       (BALDESSARI, JOHN). Baldessari, John. ZORRO (TWO GESTURES AND ONE MARK) - SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY JOHN BALDESSARI. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Koln, GERMANY & New York: Oktagon, 1998. First Edition 1/800. Oblong 16mo. Printed Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine. np, 77 b&w illustrations. Limited to eight hundred copies only, this is an extremely charming "flip book" profusely illustrated with cinematic images of three male screen icons: Jean Paul Belmondo (from "Breathless" - smoking of course), Zorro (slashing his "Z" on a wall), and Humphrey Bogart (as his mood changes). A pristine copy SIGNED AND NUMBERED by John Baldessari in black ink on the inside covers. 3-89611-045-4 Inventory Number: 016878 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (BARIL, TOM). Baril, Tom. TOM BARIL - DELUXE SIGNED FIRST EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a Photograph. Los Angeles: 4AD Publishing, 1997. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Silk Over Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 170pp, 81 tritone illustrations. The first in a projected series of photography monographs to be published by cult record-label 4AD's owner Ivo Watts-Russell, this extraordinarily lovely Tom Baril volume proved to be the last as well. Designed by V23 partner Paul McMenamin, this is one of only fifty first-state Deluxe copies of the photographer's first book. The book itself is bound in cocoa colored silk with a tritone image pasted down to the front cover, with a tooled leather pastedown affixed to the spine, and is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Tom Baril in black ink on the first preliminary. An accompanying silk chemise contains a matted 6 1/2 x 5 inch toned silver print of "The Chrysler Building" (NOT the subsequently issued Botanical image) that is SIGNED, NUMBERED AND DATED on the mount. These are both housed in a like silk slipcase, with a circular tooled leather pastedown affixed, as issued. A pristine example. 0-9657450-0-7 Inventory Number: 017081 $ 2500.00 order/inquire       (BARTH, UTA). Smith, Elizabeth A.T.. AT THE EDGE OF THE DECIPHERABLE: RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS BY UTA BARTH - DELUXE HARDBOUND SLIPCASED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER WITH A PRINT . Signed by the Photographer, with a Signed Print. Los Angeles. 1995 (2002).: Museum of Contemporary Art & St. Ann's Press, First Thus 1/45 Deluxe. Square 8vo. Pictorial Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 54pp, 25 color illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin. Originally published in conjunction with her 1995 solo exhibition at MOCA, Uta Barth's first catalogue went out of print almost immediately upon publication. This was our initial look at the artist's hazy color photographs of indistinct subjects which, though they appear to be indecipherable, are mysteriously evocative and suggestive of great meaning. Now, Barth has produced along with the extraordinary St. Ann's Press a new edition of this, featuring a different cover photograph, and color images for the previously b&w text illustrations. Limited to forty-five copies only, this example is from the ultra-deluxe hardbound, slipcased edition NUMBERED, SIGNED AND DATED by Uta Barth in black ink on the title page, as issued, that includes a SIGNED AND DATED 9 1/4 x 8 1/2 inch color print mounted on one inch deep plywood backing entitled "Ground (02.1)". A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9713681-0-4 Inventory Number: 011491 $ 2750.00 order/inquire       (BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Basquiat, Jean-Michel. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: DRAWINGS - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. Zurich, SWITZERLAND & New York: Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger & Edition Mary Boone Gallery, 1985. First Edition 1/1000. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (76pp), 32 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in English. Designed by Walter Haas. This is the elegant 1985 hardbound Jean-Michel Basquiat book issued in 1985 Bruno Bischofberger Gallery and Mary Boone - the artist's primary dealers. Limited to one thousand copies only, it contains full page color reproductions of each of thirty-two works on paper executed between 1982 and 1983 as well as a photographic portrait by James Van Der Zee as the frontispiece. A most handsome copy of this uncommon and desirable document BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Jean-Michel Basquiat in blue ink on the verso of the title page in the publisher's unprinted cardboard shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-905173-06-9 Inventory Number: 016674 $ 2500.00 order/inquire       (BAUMGARTEN, LOTHAR). Baumgarten, Lothar & Thomas Wagner. LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN: EKLIPSE - DELUXE EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Dusseldorf, GERMANY: Richter Verlag, 1997. First Edition 1/650 Deluxe. Small Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 70pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in German. This nicely designed and illustrated Lothar Baumgarten monograph copiously documents three early nineties German Museum installations by the artist. From the deluxe limited signed edition of six-hundred and fifty copies (of one thousand total), this is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Baumgarten in pencil on the colophon at the rear, as issued. A most handsome copy. 3-928762-80-X Inventory Number: 011817 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (BRISKI, ZANA). Briski, Zana. ZANA BRISKI: BROTHEL - LIMITED BOXED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Mantis Editions, 2007. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong 4to. Silk Over Boards, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (130pp), 54 tritone illustrations. Designed by Zana Briski with Nashima Gokani and Jeff Magness. Limited to one thousand copies only, "Brothel" is the exquisitely designed and printed volume of Zana Briski's original photographs of the Calcutta house of prostitution that led to her 2005 Academy Award winning feature documentary film (and accompanying book) "Born into Brothels". Noirish and dark, it presents the photographer/director's arresting images of the girls and women at work there, and the squalid conditions they endure. Printed in tritone throughout, it incorporates two tipped-in plates as well as hand made and colored papers + inks in a beautiful debossed black raw silk over boards binding with full black edges. It is housed in a hand made clamshell box covered in scarlet raw silk from India. One of the most sumptuously produced books we've carried in recent years, Zana Briski's "Brothel" is a compelling companion volume to Mary Ellen Mark's classic "Falkland Road". A pristine copy SIGNED by Zana Briski in gold ink on the title page still sealed in the publisher's shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9788754-1-9 Inventory Number: 015351 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (BROUWS, JEFFREY). Brouws, Jeffrey. JEFFREY BROUWS: TWENTYSIX ABANDONED GASOLINE STATIONS - DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WITH A PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Photograph. Santa Barbara, CA: Handjob Press & National Gas-N-Go Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Wrappers in Cloth Portfolio. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 48pp, 26 b&w illustrations. Jeffrey Brouws' first book is an exquisite little paean to Edward Ruscha's own first volume of virtually the same title. Designed and typeset as if a Ruscha publication, the photographs are reproduced in lush duotone and nicely illustrate America's crumbling autopia thirty years later. This example is from the limited, signed deluxe edition of fifty copies only housed in a black linen binding (with a pictorial pastedown) that contains a matted 8 x 10" silver gelatin print of Union 76, Ludlow, CA" - an image also featured in the book itself. A pristine copy of this self-published rarity in an unprinted vellum wrapper SIGNED by Brouws in black ink on the title page, and hand numbered, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017934 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (BROUWS, JEFFREY). Brouws, Jeffrey. TWENTYSIX ABANDONED GASOLINE STATIONS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Santa Barbara, CA: Handjob Press & National Gas-N-Go Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/1000 Copies. 8vo. Printed Wrappers with Glassine. Photography Monograph. Near Fine./Good +.. 48pp, 26 b&w illustrations. Jeffrey Brouws' first book is an exquisite little paean to Edward Ruscha's own first volume of virtually the same title. Designed and typeset as if a Ruscha publication, the photographs are reproduced in lush duotone and nicely illustrate America's crumbling autopia thirty years later. This example is BOLDLY SIGNED by Brouws in ink at the colophon (not called for), and hand numbered. A most handsome copy of this self-published rarity for those who covet "Highway", "Inside the Live Reptile Tent", and any Ed Ruscha artist book collector whose unprinted vellum wrapper shows some wear, chips and creases. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 017000 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.). Burroughs, William S.. THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS - "LUXE" EDITION SIGNED BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. New York: Lococo Mulder, 1991. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. 4to. Linen Boards with Pastedown. Artists' Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 7 color and 1 b&w illustration + front cover. This elegant William S. Burroughs artist book cum object contains seven color screenprint reproductions (one for each sin) of "shotgun paintings" interleaved with brief texts by the artist/author. It's frontispiece is a Robert Mapplethorpe image of Burroughs wielding a shotgun, and the front cover is replete with a unique sheet of red pellet-riddled balsa wood veneer laid down to the black linen covered board, as issued. From the stated "Luxe Edition" of one hundred and fifty copies only, it is BOLDLY SIGNED by William S. Burroughs in black ink across the title page, though not numbered as is seemingly called for by the colophon. A most handsome copy. Inventory Number: 014646 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (BYARS, JAMES LEE). Byars, James Lee, James Butler, Harald Szeeman, Dr. Reiner Speck & Morgan Thomas. JAMES LEE BYARS - LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ARTWORK/MULTIPLE LAID IN. Los Angeles: Foundation for Art Resources, Inc. (FAR), 1980. First Edition 1/500. Large Square 4to. Wrappers. Artists' Book with Multiple. Good +. np, 17 b&w illustrations.Text in English. This is truly an unusual James Lee Byars item; it was produced in an edition of five hundred copies only by the Non-Profit Arts organization Foundation for Art Resources, Inc. with primary funding from an NEA grant written in such a way that prevented the actual sale of the book itself! This untitled publication was conceived with Byars' collaboration as an expanded version of the 1978 Kunsthalle Bern exhibition catalogue, which was a full documentation of the artist's public performance pieces from 1963 - 1975. Laid in to the book is the Artwork/Multiple "The Exhibition of Perfect", which disperses in a rather surprising way when the object is perused. Approximately three hundred of these were sent hors commerce to Museums, Art Libraries, Non-Profit Arts Organizations and friends & supporters of FAR; this was never made commercially available - one had to receive this as a gift at the time of publication. The remaining copies languished with the publisher, never having been assembled with the artwork or distributed, and have ultimately disappeared... This copy's unprinted matte white wrappers show soiling, browning, and some light wear, as is typical with this item. The edges of the textblock also show some light soiling. Still, an internally sound copy of this scarce and desirable Byars object. Inventory Number: 006267 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (BYARS, JAMES LEE). Byars, James Lee, James Butler, Harald Szeeman, Dr. Reiner Speck & Morgan Thomas. JAMES LEE BYARS - LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ARTWORK/MULTIPLE LAID IN. Los Angeles: Foundation for Art Resources, Inc. (FAR), 1980. First Edition 1/500. Large Square 4to. Wrappers. Artists' Book with Multiple. Fine. np, 17 b&w illustrations.Text in English. This truly unusual James Lee Byars item was produced in an edition of five hundred copies only by the non-profit Arts organization Foundation for Art Resources, Inc. with primary funding from an NEA grant written in such a way that prevented the actual sale of the book itself! This untitled publication was conceived with the artist's collaboration as an expanded version of the 1978 Kunsthalle Bern exhibition catalogue, which was a full documentation of Byars' public performance pieces from 1963 through 1975. Laid in to the book is the artwork/multiple "The Exhibition of Perfect", which disperses in a rather surprising way when perused. Approximately three hundred of these were sent hors commerce to Museums, Art Libraries, Non-Profit Arts organizations and friends and supporters of FAR. It was never made commercially available - one had to receive this as a gift at the time of publication. The remaining copies languished with the publisher, never having been assembled with the artwork or distributed, and have ultimately disappeared. A bright, white near pristine copy of this scarce and desirable Byars gem. Inventory Number: 018112 $ 400.00 order/inquire       (CALLAHAN, HARRY). Callahan, Harry. PHOTOGRAPHS: RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN. Providence, RI: The Photographic Education Society, 1970. First Edition 1/150. Folio. Loose Prints in Clamshell Box. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. iii, twenty (of twenty-three) original b&w photographic prints mounted onto 13 1/2 x 11 inch archival boards; housed in the publisher's unprinted black clamshell box, as issued. This is the fourth in a series of annual portfolios published during this period by the participants of Harry Callahan's photography class at The Rhode Island School of Design. These are all original photographs, not reproductions. Published in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies only, the contributors are Harry Callahan, William (Bill) Burke, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Bert Beaver, Richard Lebowitz, Paul Krot, John Femino, Dicran Derderian, Lee DeJasu, Chester Michalik, Lawson Little, Brian Pelletier, John Benson, David Campbell, Lee Post, Steven Liebman, Roy Zimmerman, Roy DiTosti, Charles Matter, Stephen Frank, WIlliam Joseph Carner, Roz Gerstein, and Alan Metnick. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item whose contents are all in Fine condition, and whose clamshell box shows only the most minimal wear and scuffing. PLEASE NOTE: This set is LACKING the three plates by Callahan, Burke and Carner. Due to this condition issue we have priced this example accordingly and are offering it for sale strictly "AS IS", with no returns. If you have any questions or concerns about these details, please voice them before purchasing this - we will be happy to answer any inquiry. Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003570 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (CALLAHAN, HARRY). Callahan, Harry. PHOTOGRAPHS: RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN. Providence, RI: The Photographic Education Society, 1969. First Edition 1/150. Folio. Loose Prints in Clamshell Box. Photographic Portfolio. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. iii, twenty-two (of twenty-four) original b&w photographic prints mounted onto 13 1/2 x 11 inch archival boards; housed in the publisher's unprinted black clamshell box, as issued. This is the third in a series of annual portfolios published during this period by the participants of Harry Callahan's photography class at The Rhode Island School of Design. These are all original photographs, not reproductions. Published in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies only, the contributors are Harry Callahan, William (Bill) Burke, Jeffrey Silverthorne, Ed Grazda, Bert Beaver, Richard Lebowitz, Paul Krot, Dicran Derderian, Chester Michalik, Brian Pelletier, John Benson, Steven Liebman, Douglas Sandhage, Walter Rabetz, Rosalyn Gerstein, Mark Sandrof, David Campbell, Giuseppe Rozzo, Marcia Lee Macdonald, Bart Parker, Robert Richfield, Eugene Dwiggins, Reed Estabrook, and Julius Neelley. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item whose contents are all in Fine condition, and whose clamshell box shows only the most minimal wear and scuffing. PLEASE NOTE: This set is LACKING the two plates by Callahan and Burke. Due to this condition issue, we have priced this example accordingly and are offering it for sale strictly "AS IS", with no returns. If you have any questions or concerns about these details, please voice them before purchasing this - we will be happy to answer any inquiry. Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003569 $ 650.00 order/inquire       (CALLAHAN, HARRY). Callahan, Harry. PHOTOGRAPHS: RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN - THE FIFTH ANNUAL PORTFOLIO OF THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EDUCATION SOCIETY. Providence, RI: The Photographic Education Society, 1971. First Edition 1/150. Folio. Loose Prints in Clamshell Box. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. iii, twenty-six (of twenty-seven) original b&w photographic prints mounted onto 13 1/2 x 11 inch archival boards; housed in the publisher's gilt debossed brown clamshell box, as issued. This is the fifth in a series of annual portfolios published during this period by the participants of Harry Callahan's photography class at The Rhode Island School of Design. These are all original photographs, not reproductions. Published in an edition of one hundred and fifty copies only, the contributors are Harry Callahan, Henry Horenstein, Bert Beaver, Richard Lebowitz, Paul Krot, John Femino, Chester Michalik, Alan Metnick, Lee Post, Roy DiTosti, Stephen Frank, Robert Richfield, Sean Wilkinson, Lyn Whitaker, Jay Seeley, Lawson Little, Eve Becklund, Lauren Shaw, Mariah Hughs, Susan Hacker, Peter Schlessinger, Hugh Talman, Alma Davenport, Dewey Janney, Joan Sussman, Patrick McNeally, and Frank Poplawski Jr. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item whose contents are all in Fine condition, and whose clamshell box shows only the most minimal wear and scuffing. PLEASE NOTE: This set is LACKING the plate by Callahan. Due to this condition issue we have priced this example accordingly and are offering it for sale strictly "AS IS", with no returns. If you have any questions or concerns about these details, please voice them before purchasing this - we will be happy to answer any inquiry. Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003571 $ 650.00 order/inquire       (CALLAHAN, HARRY). Callahan, Harry. Foreword By Hugo Weber. HARRY CALLAHAN: PHOTOGRAPHS. Santa Barbara, CA: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. First Edition 1/1500. Small Folio. Gilt Stamped Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 126 duotone plates. With a bibliography by Bernard Karpel. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in a stated edition of fifteen hundred copies, this exquisite 1964 Harry Callahan monograph is notoriously scarce as it has been widely reported that only half of these were actually ever bound for sale. A tight and clean, most handsome example (featured on pages 202-203 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", and pages 168-169 of "The Book of 101 Books") in a like slipcase marred only by the typical browning of the glue binding the endpapers to the boards - as is the case with every copy that we've ever handled. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 015848 $ 2250.00 order/inquire       (CARRINGTON, LEONORA). Carrington, Leonora. Foreword By Gloria Orenstein. THE OVAL LADY: SIX SURREAL STORIES BY LEONORA CARRINGTON - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Numbered and Signed by the Author. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1975. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. 8vo. Boards with Pastedown. Artist Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. np, 6 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed and printed by Noel Young. This is a charming little collection of six short Surrealist tales from the thirties by everyone's favorite British born, repatriated to Mexico, formerly institutionalized, ex-wife of Max Ernst - Leonora Carrington. It features a cover painting by the artist as well as six illustrations by her son, Mexican artist Pablo Weisz. A most handsome example of the limited edition of one hundred and fifty letterpress copies in boards numbered and SIGNED by Leonora Carrington on the rear colophon, as issued. 0-88496-036-6 Inventory Number: 016884 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (CELMINS, VIJA). Bartman, William S., Editor. Interview by Chuck Close. VIJA CELMINS - ONE OF FIFTY SIGNED DELUXE HARDBOUND COPIES WITH A SIGNED MEZZOTINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Mezzotint. New York: A.R.T. Press, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the very first monograph on this influential contemporary artist whose precisely detailed drawings and prints of waves, celestial photographs and spider webs still continue to amaze. It features beautiful reproductions of Vija Celmins' work as well as the transcript of a lengthy interview between her and artist Chuck Close. Limited to fifty copies only, this limited deluxe hardbound example (the trade edition was issued only in wrappers) is SIGNED by Celmins and Close in pencil on the title page, and accompanied by the SIGNED 11 x 9 1/4" one-color mezzotint "Untitled (Saturn)" - entry number twenty-three in Samantha Rippner's "The Prints of Vija Celmins" - whose image is reproduced on the book's jacket. A pristine example of copy number 50 of 50. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-923183-08-6 Inventory Number: 013460 $ 6500.00 order/inquire       (CHRISTO). Javacheff, Christo & Jeanne-Claude. Foreword and Interview By Masahiko Yanagi. Photographs By Wolfgang Volz. THE ACCORDION-FOLD BOOK FOR THE UMBRELLAS, JOINT PROJECT FOR JAPAN AND U.S.A. - DELUXE LIMITED BOXED EDITION SIGNED BY CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE. Signed by the Artists. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, Publishers, 1991. First Edition 1/400 Deluxe. Folio. Boards in Clamshell Box . Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 8pp, 8 accordion panels printed offset in color, recto + verso. Limited to four hundred copies only, this is the deluxe edition of the fold-out book issued by the late, great Bedford Arts Publishers to coincide with the California installation of "The Umbrellas Project". SIGNED by both Christo and Jeanne-Claude, it contains swatches of both the blue and yellow umbrella fabrics bound in, and is housed in the publisher's brown linen clamshell box, as issued. A most handsome copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-938491-58-X Inventory Number: 003819 $ 345.00 order/inquire       (CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. LAELIUS DE AMICITIA. NP (Alpignano, ITALY): Officina Tallone, 1984. First Thus 1/150 Deluxe. 12mo. Printed Wrappers in Slipcase. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 188pp, hand printed by letterpress, no illustrations. Text in Latin. This lovely version of Roman statesman and author Marcus Tullius Cicero's "Laelius de Amicitia" was set by hand and printed by the esteemed Officina Tallone Tipographi in 1984. Limited to one hundred and forty copies only, it is a most handsome example in glassine dustwrapper of this classic second century B.C. treatise on friendship published by one of Italy's most renowned fine printers, showing only the most minute age toning to the publisher's printed chemise and slipcase. Inventory Number: 016436 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. TULSA - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Photograph. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Nearly thirty years after the 1971 Lustrum Press publication of this landmark book, Larry Clark's taboo breaking "Tulsa" is once again available. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", this was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, this book forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. This example is from the limited slipcased edition of two hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by Larry Clark, with a SIGNED 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print (of an image that is not reproduced in the book) laid in. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 0-8021-1678-7 Inventory Number: 014214 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). Rushdie, Salman. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: SELF PORTRAITS - DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES SIGNED BY FRANCESCO CLEMENTE AND SALMON RUSHDIE. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Tall 4to. Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 42pp, 14 color illustrations. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is elegantly designed catalogue featuring an essay by literary lion Salman Rushdie published in conjunction with a 2005 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of fourteen self portraits by Francesco Clemente. A most handsome copy of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies only BOLDLY SIGNED by Francesco Clemente and Salman Rushdie in pencil on the title page in the publisher's silkscreened slipcase, as issued. 1-932598-24-3 Inventory Number: 017671 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (CORBIJN, ANTON). Corbijn, Anton, Bono, Helena Christensen, Bill Clinton, William Gibson, Paul Morley, Salman Rushdie, Michael Stipe & Wim Wenders. ANTON CORBIJN: U2 AND I - THE PHOTOGRAPHS 1982-2004: DELUXE LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. With a Color Print Signed by the Photographer. Munchen, GERMANY: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 2005. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 416pp, 320 illustrations in color and duotone. Text in English. "U2 & i" is the photo story of the twenty-two year friendship between Irish rock band U2 and Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn who invented the band's image and has shaped it to the present day. It presents a wealth of official and private pictures taken between 1982, when they first met in New Orleans, and their April 2004 shooting in Lisbon for U2's most recent album". In addition to noted photographer/director ("Control") Corbijn's commentary throughout, this massive collaboration contains additional texts by Bono, Helena Christensen, Bill Clinton, William Gibson, Paul Morley, Salman Rushdie, Michael Stipe and Wim Wenders. Limited to one hundred numbered copies only as part of Schirmer/Mosel's "Collectors Editions" series, this example (number eighty-six) is accompanied by the archivally mounted and matted blue-tinted 8 7/8 x 11 3/4" Polaroid Print "U2 in the train to Nice, France, 2000" that has been SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Anton Corbijn on the verso in pencil, and housed in a grey silk chemise. A pristine copy of the book along with the print and chemise in the publisher's grey linen slipcase, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: The signature is that of Anton Corbijn alone (none the members of U2 have signed), as called for. Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8296-0174-3 Inventory Number: 016622 $ 2000.00 order/inquire       (CORNELL, JOSEPH). Polko, Elise & Joseph Cornell. MARIA - ONE OF AN ESTIMATED ONE HUNDRED COPIES PRIVATELY PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH CORNELL. NP. (Queens, NY).: Salamander Editions, 1954. First Edition. 12mo. Printed Wrappers with Glassine. Artists' Book. Fine./Fine.. np (12 pp), 1 b&w illustration. This tiny gem of a pamphlet was self-published by Cornell in 1954 and distributed only sparingly. Quoting from Deborah Solomon's insightful biography, "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell" - "As he had once designed special issues of Dance Index, he now published two pamphlets devoted to two great divas. "Maria" (1954) was dedicated to Maria Malibran. And "Bel Canto Pet", done the next year, was his tribute to Giulia Grisi. Cornell printed the pamphlets at his own expense, in editions of 100, and sent them to his friends. While Cornell was a well-known balletomane, virtually nothing has been written about his interest in opera. Many of his bird boxes bear opera-related titles, and comments in his diary suggest that Cornell associated birds with stars from Opera's "golden age". Cornell's pamphlet "Maria" was almost as cryptic as his bird boxes. It doesn't even give the singer's last name. All text, no pictures, it consists of an excerpt from the German author Elise Polko and relates the story of an unnamed diva who becomes enraptured with a nightingale's song". While some of the copies given as gifts by Cornell contained hand-collaged elements or greetings from the artist, this is an exceptionally bright, flawless (save for some slight oxidation of the two staples) example in a glassine wrapper of this rarity, just as Cornell would have received it from the printer. Inventory Number: 017037 $ 800.00 order/inquire       (CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard, Editor. JOSEPH CORNELL PORTFOLIO - DELUXE LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION SIGNED BY EACH OF THE CONTRIBUTORS. Numbered and Signed by the Authors. New York & Los Angeles: Leo Castelli Gallery, Richard L. Feigen & Company & James Corcoran Gallery, 1976. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 8vo. Hand Marbled Boards, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 43 b&w illustrations. Designed by Sandra Leonard Starr and Kay Susmann. With an exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elaborate portfolio cum catalogue issued in conjunction with a posthumous 1976 Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell boxes, assemblages and objects executed between 1939 and 1956. Each of the forty-three works shown is illustrated on an individual cardstock plate housed in one pocket of an elegant 1/4 linen over handmade marbled paper boards portfolio with a ribbon tie. Gathered in the other pocket is a collection of loose printed reminiscences about the artist. These consist of a colophon page, "Cornell: prose-poem" by Donald Barthelme, "Joseph Cornell" by Bill Copley (Cply), "A Letter" by Tony Curtis, "L'Esprit Cornell" by Howard Hussey, "Joseph Cornell: a reminiscence" by Allegra Kent, "Twelve Needles Dancing on the Point of an Angel" by Julien Levy, "Notes on Films of Joseph Cornell" by Jonas Mekas, "Preface to a Joseph Cornell Exhibition" by Robert Motherwell, a 7 3/4 x 6" black and white photograph of the artist by Hans Namuth, the sixteen page "Bibliography and Catalogue", and a four page table of contents - both by editor Sandra Leonard Starr. From the deluxe limited edition of one hundred numbered copies, each of this example's contributions is SIGNED by its author, and the portfolio is additionally encased in a dark blue linen over boards chemise and like slipcase with a pastedown. A most handsome copy of this uncommon and exquisite object. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. LC 76-5561 Inventory Number: 016891 $ 1500.00 order/inquire       (CRANE, STEPHEN). Crane, Stephen & Stanley Wertheim. STEPHEN CRANE: A PHOTOGRAPH AND A LETTER. New York: Black Sun Books, 1976. First Edition 1/200. 8vo. Hand-Tied Printed Wrappers. Very Good -. np (20pp), 2 b&w illustrations, 1 hand-tipped black and white photograph. Limited to two hundred hand-numbered letterpress copies only, this is a prospectus by noted New York Antiquarian dealer Black Sun Books that reproduces a letter from Stephen Crane to his British publisher William Heinemann regarding a review of "The Red Badge of Courage" by George Wyndham. The letter appears reproduced both photographically and typographically, along with a brief essay by Stanley Wertheim, and a facsimile military photograph of Stephen Crane in a Cadet group at Claverack College and Hudson River Institute. A handsome copy showing a bit of sunning along the spine of the rear cover. Inventory Number: 008430 $ 40.00 order/inquire       (CRANSTON, MEG). Cranston, Meg. AS I TOLD YOU: MEG CRANSTON - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Los Angeles: Marc Richards Gallery, 1989. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artists' Book. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), no illustrations. In 1989, California based artist Meg Cranston transferred all of her worldly possessions from her home to the Marc Richards Gallery - putting them up for sale as a single installation. This exhibition catalogue cum artist's book is a typographic inventory of the show's contents from "black puckered stockings given to me by Rita McBride" to "letter from Patti Smith - may God bless you". A most handsome example of this uncommon document from the DELUXE SIGNED AND NUMBERED edition of twenty-five copies only. Inventory Number: 005091 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert. GOTTA HAVE 'EM: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN BY R. CRUMB - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR SERIGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Serigraph. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2003. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Boards in a Clamshell Box. Artist Monographs. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (224pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "For the first time ever, R. Crumb's drawings of women are collected in one volume, in chronological order, spanning the 38 years since his pen-and-ink beginnings. The usual fetishes are on display ¡ the "built from the ground up" body type, the loving fixation on solid thighs and buttocks ¡ but so is Crumb's heart, on his sleeve, in the great tenderness with which he renders the women in his life. They're all here: his high-school crushes, his paramours, the girls and women who tormented him - and to whom he gave it right back - or who caught his eye on the street, and, of course, his wife and fiery sometimes collaborator Aline, and their daughter Sophie. Add to this his mistress of fifteen years and you have not only a catalogue raisonné of Crumb's portraits of women but also a revealing record of a passionate life. Crumb calls it "an autobiography of sorts" and it is ¡ these aren't just portraits of women but the most intimate portrait of Crumb's life in love". Limited to one hundred hardbound, clamshell boxed copies, each containing a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 10 x 7 1/2 inch color serigraph print, this deluxe version of "Gotta Have 'Em" illuminates Crumb's lifelong fascination/obsession with the fairer sex. A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9672366-8-1 Inventory Number: 010099 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert. Dian Hanson, Editor. ROBERT CRUMB'S SEXUAL OBSESSIONS - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR SERIGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Serigraph. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2007. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Stout 4to. Illustrated Boards in Slipcase. Artist Monographs. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 258pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. " R. Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a two hundred and fifty-eight page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total, "Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions" features fourteen complete stories, including "My Troubles With Women", "If I Were a King", "A Bitchin' Bod", and "How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl", as well as sixty single page drawings. This signed slipcased edition limited to one thousand copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book - front and back covers, spine, and introductory pages - created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book comes with an art print selected by Mr. Crumb. A pristine copy sealed in shrinkwrap still in the publisher's printed cardboard shipping carton. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-2540-9 Inventory Number: 014911 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert. Edited & Designed By Peter Poplaski. THE R. CRUMB COFFEE TABLE ART BOOK - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR SILKSCREEN PRINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Silkscreen Print. Chesterfield, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1997. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Small Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Artist Monographs. As New/As New. 250pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" collects the finest work from throughout Crumb's career, ranging from some of his earliest published comics in the mid-sixties to work completed in the nineties. His best stories, illustrations, covers, and paintings are here, many of them appearing in color for the first time". Limited to one thousand hardbound, slipcased copies only, each containing a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 12 1/2 x 10" color silkscreen print, this deluxe version of "The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" is a must-have for the Crumb completeist. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrinkwrapped faux-leather slipcase. 0-87816-614-9 Inventory Number: 017560 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. BRUCE DAVIDSON: BROOKLYN GANG - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION. Signed by the Photographer. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 98pp, 70 b&w gravure plates. "These photographs of Brooklyn gangs, Bruce Davidson's first photographic project, were undertaken when he was barely older than the rough boys depicted in the work. Never before published as a whole, though frequently excerpted in collections, this gritty monograph is photodocumentary at its best". Photographed during the Summer of 1959, (and uncollected in book form until this undertaking) Davidson's revealing portraits of the daily life of these New York J.D.s very much mirror those in his groundbreaking work, "The Bikeriders". A pristine copy from the deluxe limited edition of one hundred copies numbered and SIGNED by Bruce Davidson in black ink on the colophon housed in the publisher's black linen slipcase, as issued. 0-944092-51-9 Inventory Number: 017082 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. BRUCE DAVIDSON: BROOKLYN GANG - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED, BOXED EDITION WITH A SILVER GELATIN PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Print. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jackets, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 98pp, 70 b&w gravure plates. "These photographs of Brooklyn gangs, Bruce Davidson's first photographic project, were undertaken when he was barely older than the rough boys depicted in the work. Never before published as a whole, though frequently excerpted in collections, this gritty monograph is photodocumentary at its best". Photographed during the Summer of 1959, (and uncollected in book form until this undertaking) Davidson's revealing portraits of the daily life of these New York J.D.s very much mirror those in his groundbreaking work, "The Bikeriders". A pristine copy from the deluxe limited edition of fifty copies numbered and SIGNED by Bruce Davidson in black ink on the colophon housed in a silkscreened black linen solander box containing the 10 x 8" matted silver gelatin photographic print "Mike's Tattooing" SIGNED on the verso by the photographer in pencil, still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-944092-51-9 Inventory Number: 015621 $ 4000.00 order/inquire       (DE GEER, KARL JOHAN).Kugelberg, Johan. KARL JOHAN DE GEER: THE CAMERA AS CONSOLATION 1959-1980 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Ectoplasm Books, 2009. First Edition 1/300. Oblong Small 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (60pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Taylor Brigode for Octopuss Limited. "Carl Johan De Geer, born in 1938, grew up in absurd privilege and abject unhappiness as a member of one of SwedenÆs most powerful aristocrat families. His parents showed no discernable interest in him or his siblings, and so he grew up on a grand country estate with his grandparents, went to art school in the late 1950Æs, and in an epic choice of rejection lived his life to this day as a perennial Swedish underground artist, working in counterpoint to the privilege of his surname. De Geer, as a masterful Leica M4 snapshot giant α la Van Der Elsken or Daido Moriyama, has the sacred ability to capture the monotone grit of everyday life and demand its reflection. He gives us a glimpse of a Sweden inhabited by people who are the other, whose life experience is impregnated with otherness, providing a visual cue into an unseen world. The visible scratches, fades and imperfections, the wabi-sabi of this collection of vintage prints, is reflected in the images". "The Camera as Consolation" is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the Johan Kugelberg curated 2009 Boo-Hooray Gallery exhibition of the gritty Vietnam-era social reportage of this unsung Swedish master that parallels the work Ed Van Der Elsken and Anders Peterson. A pristine copy of this already out of print document limited to three hundred copies only, this additionally SIGNED by Carl Johan De Geer in black ink on the front free endpaper. Inventory Number: 017908 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (DIEBENKORN, RICHARD). Yeats, William Butler. Selected and Introduced By Helen Vendler. POEMS BY W. B. YEATS - WITH SIX ETCHINGS BY RICHARD DIEBENKORN. Signed by the Artist. San Francisco, CA: The Arion Press, 1990. First Edition 1/400. 4to. 1/4 Leather over Linen Boards. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 171pp, 6 original etchings bound into a one-quarter red morocco leather over green linen binding. Slipcased, with a gilt embossed leather spine label, as issued. A typically sumptuous undertaking by Andrew Hoyem's Arion Press, this collection of poems by William Butler Yeats features six austere monochrome graphics by Richard Diebenkorn printed at Berkeley's renowned Crown Point Press. The text is set by hand in Monotype Baskerville, and hand printed on mould-made Somerset paper. A pristine copy from the numbered edition of four hundred copies NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Richard Diebenkorn in pencil at the colophon, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 015567 $ 2700.00 order/inquire       (DORA, MIKI "MICKEY"). Kampion, Drew & Craig Stecyk III. Foreword By Steve Pezman. Tom Adler, Editor. DORA LIVES: THE AUTHORIZED STORY OF MIKI DORA - THE DELUXE BOXED ESTATE-STAMPED EDITION OF FIVE HUNDRED COPIES WITH A 5 X 7" PHOTOGRAPH. Signed By the Publisher. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2005. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. Small Oblong 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards in Box. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 137pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom Adler. With the 2002 passing of Miki "Da Cat" Dora, the surfing world lost one of its most talented, charismatic, and controversial innovators. A legend of Malibu lore since the late '50s, Dora helped to create and simultaneously revile the "Gidget"/"Beach Party" California surfing explosion of the '60s, then turned his back to the 'Bu and the world of competitive wave riding to travel the world, often just a step or two ahead of law. Initiated by Miki Dora himself, this loving tribute to the legendary enigma by noted designer/art director/publisher/surfing aficionado Tom Adler is very much in the same vein as Adler's previous deluxe editions on Don James and Tom Blake. It reproduces vintage images and screen captures of Dora by Joe Quigg, Leroy Grannis, Grant Rohloff, Don James, Pat Darrin, Peter Gowland and many others along with biographical texts by Drew Kampion, Craig Stecyk III and Steve Pezman; transcribed interviews, ramblings, and reprinted writings from "Surfer" magazine (including the full "Million Days to Darkness" from 1989!) in an elegantly produced package that was authorized by Miki's family and estate. Limited to five hundred copies only, this deluxe edition comes in a printed, sliding box that includes a 5 x 7" Lambda print of Dora in action taken from a film by Grant Rohloff, NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Tom Adler with the stamp of the estate on the rear colophon, as issued. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-890481-18-1 Inventory Number: 017879 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (DUBUFFET, JEAN). Dubuffet, Jean. LA FLEUR DE BARBE. Paris: Chez L'Auteur, 1960. First Edition 1/500. Folio. Wrappers in Slipcase. Artists' Book. Fine. np (32pp), 5 monochrome photo-lithographic reproductions. Text in French. Limited to five hundred copies only, this is a quirky yet alluring large format artist's book featuring lavish reproductions of Jean Dubuffet's drawings of bearded men with an accompanying text hand lettered by the artist. A pristine copy, in a somewhat scuffed and separating publisher's slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 001453 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (DWECK, MICHAEL). Dweck, Michael & Christopher Sweet. MICHAEL DWECK: MERMAIDS - DELUXE BOXED EDITION WITH THE SIGNED CHROMOGENIC PRINT "MERMAID 37, MIAMI 2007". Signed by the Photographer - with a Color Print. NP (New York): Ditch Plains Press, 2008. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (160pp), 65 tritone and 36 color illustrations. Designed by Jeremy Miller. "Mermaids" is Michael Dweck's knockout, lavishly produced follow-up to "the End": in which "drawing inspiration from his teenage years spent by the beach on Long Island, Michael Dweck set out to photographically capture the vanishing surf culture of Montauk, a sleepy fishing village that in the 1970s became a heaven for East Coast surfers". For his second book, the photographer "explores the theme of the female nude submerged in water, and celebrates the modern mermaid, as represented by beautiful young women who appear very much at home in the water". A pristine copy of this stunning tome from the limited edition of one hundred copies only housed in a debossed black linen solander box SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Michael Dweck. This is one of fifty examples containing the 8 x 10" chromogenic color print "Mermaid 37, Miami 2007". PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9818465-0-5 Inventory Number: 016736 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Wagner, Bruce. WILLIAM EGGLESTON: 2 1/4 - DELUXE SIGNED, LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION . Signed by the Photographer. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 101pp, 45 color illustrations. This is a beautifully designed and printed survey of William Eggleston's work with the 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch negative format. A pristine example from the deluxe slipcased edition of one hundred copies only SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the photographer at the rear colophon, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-944092-70-5 Inventory Number: 015702 $ 800.00 order/inquire       (EISENSTAEDT, ALFRED) (HEMINGWAY, ERNEST). Hemingway, Ernest & Alfred Eisenstaedt. Introduction by Charles Scribner. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB PUBLICATION WITH FIVE PHOTOGRAVURES BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT. Signed by the Photographer with Five Gravures. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. First Edition 1/600. Oblong Folio. 1/4 Leather over Linen Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (ix + 96pp), 5 gravure illustrations. Designed by Benjamin Shiff. Published in 1990 in an edition of six hundred copies only, this typically lavish Limited Editions Club presentation of Ernest Hemingway's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Old Man and the Sea" is illustrated with five photogravures on Arches paper by legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt taken from the original negatives shot with the author in Cuba in 1952 for a Life Magazine cover story. Printed by letterpress on thick Magnani paper, it is bound in gilt-debossed one-quarter blue goatskin over oatmeal colored linen-covered boards and housed in a blue suede-lined black linen solander box with a gilt-debossed blue goatskin spine label matching the book's binding. It is BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Alfred Eisenstaedt in pencil at the rear colophon, as issued. A most handsome example of this extraordinary production with the June 1990 Limited Editions Club newsletter detailing the publication's particulars laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 015816 $ 1250.00 order/inquire       (ELENGA, HENK) (HARD WERKEN). Elenga, Henk, Jan Middendorp, Lewis MacAdams & Erik Beenker. THE CELEBRATION OF EXISTENCE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY HENK ELENGA - DELUXE EDITION WITH A SIGNED AND NUMBERED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. With an Original Signed and Numbered Print . Los Angeles: Hard Werken, 1990. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 16mo. Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 24pp, 17 duotone illustrations. This sweet little item was designed and self-published by noted Dutch graphic/product designer Henk Elenga while he ran Hard Werken's Los Angeles desk during the late '80s/early '90s. It was originally issued in conjunction with a 1990 exhibition of his photographs at the Torch Gallery in Amsterdam. A pristine copy of the deluxe edition limited to two hundred copies only, with an original 4 x 5 inch black and white photograph SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Henk Elenga laid in a velour pocket inside the front cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 016922 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (ENO, BRIAN) (SCHMIDT, PETER) (WHITE, PAE). Eno, Brian, Peter Schmidt & Pae White. Peter Norton, Editor. OBLIQUE STRATEGIES: ONE HUNDRED WORTHWHILE DILEMMAS BY BRIAN ENO AND PETER SCHMIDT: FOURTH AGAIN REVISED AND MORE UNIVERSAL EDITION - 1996 PETER NORTON FAMILY CHRISTMAS PROJECT ARTISTS' MULTIPLE. Santa Monica, CA: The Peter Norton Family, 1996. Fourth Revised Edition (First Thus). Oblong 8vo. Loose Contents in a Box. Artists' Multiple. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 102 (+ 1 blank) heavy paper playing cards printed recto and verso laid into a 6 x 5 x 1 1/2" Corian box, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Pae White. "When a creative problem can't be solved directly, solutions might be found by approaching the task from an unusual direction; by using Oblique Strategies". Updating yet again Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt's iconic 1975 project, this Fourth Revised and More Universal Edition features the added collaborative efforts of artist/graphic designer Pae White, art collector/philanthropist Peter Norton, and Berlitz Translation Services. Issued as the 1996 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, this limited edition multiple has reinvisioned its austere black and white predecessors as a vibrant visual object whose set of "worthwhile dilemmas" has been transformed into a riot of color, translated into Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, Russian and Arabic, and housed in an ultra-cool biomorphic Corian case. Issued hors commerce, this luxe object is a must-have for every serious Eno fan. As the deck says - "Give way to your worst impulse"! A most handsome example. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016360 $ 2500.00 order/inquire       (ERNST, MAX) (ELUARD, PAUL). Ernst, Max and Paul Eluard. Translated by Hugh Chisholm. MISFORTUNES OF THE IMMORTALS. New York: The Black Sun Press, 1943. First American Edition 1/610. 8vo. Illustrated Boards. Artists' Book. Poor/No Jacket - As Issued. 46 + vi pp, 21 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Designed by Caresse Crosby. Published by the renowned Surrealist abettors The Black Sun Press, this is the first English language edition of Max Ernst and Paul Eluard's charming collage/prose collaboration of 1920, "Misfortunes of the Immortals". This new version is augmented by "Three Drawings Twenty Years Later" by Ernst. Printed by handset letterpress at the Gemor Press in 1943, this unfortunately utilized exceptionally cheap wartime newsprint, which due to the high acid content has become brown and brittle with age. The paper covering the boards at the spine has chipped off entirely (albeit neatly), and both the front and back covers show some rubbing, spotting and discoloration. The inside front board bears a previous owner's ink inscription, and the endpapers show a slight bit of soiling. A few pages of the text have chipped at the edges, and the textblock is at this point fragile. Having described these flaws, it should be noted that this collaborative gem is still quite presentable, stable, and in no danger of falling apart; the pages just need to be handled gingerly. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 001891 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (ERNST, MAX). Ernst, Max. LIEUX COMMUNS: ONZE POEMES ET DOUZE COLLAGES DE MAX ERNST. Milan, ITALY: Galerie Alexande Iolas, 1971. First Edition 1/1000. Folio. Loose Prints in a Portfolio. Illustrated Book. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (36pp), 12 color illustrations (in nine signatures) laid into the publisher's silkscreened cloth portfolio, as issued. Text in French. Limited to one thousand copies published in 1971 by Ernst's renowned art dealer Alexandre Iolas, this sumptuous Livre D'Artiste printed by Sergio Tosi reproduces twelve collages by the artist in vivid photolithography juxtaposed with eleven brief accompanying poems. A most handsome copy showing a few minor abrasions to the exterior of the portfolio and a light brown smudge to the inside front cover. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its size and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003881 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (ERNST, MAX). Ernst, Max. With Brief Texts by Andre Breton, Piet Mondrian, Rene Crevel, Paul Eluard, Dorthea Tanning, J.F.P., Benjamin Peret, Man Ray, Robert Desnos & Nicolas Calas. MAX ERNST: 30 YEARS OF HIS WORK - A SURVEY (ABOUT MAX ERNST: AT EYE LEVEL - POEMS AND COMMENTS / BY MAX ERNST: PARAMYTHS - NEW POEMS AND COLLAGES). Beverly Hills, CA: The Copley Galleries, 1949. First Edition 1/513. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth Over Pictorial Board. Artist Monograph. Good +./No Jacket - As Issued. 39pp, 24 monochrome illustrations. Designed by Max Ernst. Printed by Lynton Kistler. Frontispiece photograph by Frederick Sommer. Published by the renowned artist and Surrealist gallerist William Copley (Cply), this chaming 1949 Max Ernst exhibition catalogue cum artist's book was limited to five hundred and thirteen copies only. The first portion ("At Eye Level") contains brief Surrealist and Ernst-related texts and quotes by a stellar array of artists and literary figures. The second ("Paramyths") is a series of eight poems and collages executed by the artist especially for this volume. This includes a complete listing of each of the sixty-six pieces shown. A most presentable copy of this fragile, uncommon item whose matte covers show a bit of overall soiling (especially noticeable along the foredge, minor wear and handling to the boards, and some fraying of the lower front tip that has exposed the cardboard beneath. The matte blue pages of the "Paramyths" portion have lightened just a bit at the extremities as is typical with this item. As a bonus, the original 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch postcard announcement for this show (addressed by hand and postmarked) in Fine condition has been laid in. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 004024 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Francis, Sam. APHORISMS - SIGNED BY SAM FRANCIS. Signed by the Artist. Santa Monica, CA: The Lapis Press, 1984. First Edition 1/600. 12mo. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Artists' Book. Fine./Near Fine.. np (36pp), no illustrations. Designed and printed by Jaime Robles. Printed by hand letterpress without illustrations, this charming little collection of brief aphorisms by the late, great Sam Francis is one of the very first publications of the artist's own Lapis Press. While the colophon calls for six hundred copies, we know from the publisher that the vast majority of the print run was never jacketed, signed, nor distributed. A most handsome complete copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Sam Francis in black ink at the rear whose dust jacket shows a few minor creases. Inventory Number: 017044 $ 150.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Segalen, Victor. Translated By Michael Taylor. STELES - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC COVER BY SAM FRANCIS. Santa Monica, CA: The Lapis Press, 1987. First Edition Thus 1/150 Deluxe. Tall 8vo. Lithographic Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, illustrated in b&w, with an original color lithograph as the cover. Designed by Les Ferriss, Jaime Robles, and Jack W. Stauffacher. "The first edition of "Steles" contained 48 poems and was printed on the press of the Lazarist fathers at Beidang in Northern China in August, 1912. It was probably composed by Chinese hands, but each detail of the book from the round mark used to indicate breaks in the poems, to the yellow ribbons which made opening the slender volume an act of ceremonial unbinding, was chosen by the author Victor Segalen - a 34 year old officer in the French Navy who had arrived in the Far East two years earlier. Only 81 copies were made". This exquisitely adorned, translated edition of that extraordinarily scarce tome was issued by Sam Francis' Lapis Press in 1987. It features calligraphy by Sam's great friend Walasse Ting (of "One Cent Life"), typesetting by Patrick Reagh, and its beautiful wraparound cover is an original Sam Francis lithograph. A most handsome copy of the deluxe, limited edition of one hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by the artist and the translator in black ink at the rear colophon. 0-932499-22-8 Inventory Number: 015717 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Selz, Peter, Susan Einstein & Jan Butterfield. SAM FRANCIS - ONE OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DELUXE SLIPCASED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. New York. 1975 (1982).: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, Second Revised Edition 1/150 Deluxe. Large Oblong 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 296pp, 82 color and 135 b&w illustrations. With a biography and bibliography. This is the revised edition of the first comprehensive monograph on important American abstract painter Sam Francis. It includes a well illustrated thirty-two page supplemental essay on his graphic work not found in the first printing. A pristine copy of the 1982 deluxe edition limited to one hundred and fifty copies only BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Sam Francis in blue ink on the limitation page in the publisher's silver-gilt debossed blue Tsumugi silk slipcase in its printed cardboard shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8109-0928-6 Inventory Number: 017829 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (FREY, ALBERT). Golub, Jennifer. ALBERT FREY: HOUSES 1 + 2 - DELUXE EDITION WITH A FACSIMILE BLUEPRINT SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECT. Signed by the Architect. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. Oblong 8vo. Cloth in Slipcase. Architecture Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 84pp, 53 color and 22 duotone illustrations. Designed by Simon Johnston. This elegant monograph is devoted exclusively to the two houses that Corbu associate Albert Frey built for himself in the desert area of Palm Springs, California. A labor of love by the author, designer, and photographers, this first, hardbound edition sold out prior to its publication. The example we are offering is from the limited edition of three hundred copies only that contain a 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inch facsimile blueprint of a suspended dining table designed by the architect for House Number 2. This is initialed by Frey (sadly, he died just two weeks after the volume's appearance, and was too weak at the time to fully sign the copies), and laid in at the rear, as issued. A most handsome copy of this design-award winning tribute enclosed in the publisher's translucent plastic slipcase that shows a few minor mars. 1-56898-156-2 Inventory Number: 013688 $ 400.00 order/inquire       (FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee. Foreword by Walker Evans. LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE LITTLE SCREENS - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION. Signed and Numbered By the Photographer. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Small Square 4to. Boards in Plexiglas Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. np (96pp), 34 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills. "The Little Screens" reproduces for the first time in its entirety an early body of early work by Lee Friedlander depicting broadcast images flickering across television screens in motel rooms, and other nondescript vacant interiors during the 1960s. The book's preface was written in 1963 by Walker Evans, and is also published here for the first time. Limited to one hundred copies only, this is from the deluxe edition SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Lee Friedlander in black ink opposite the title page, with a lenticular photographic image affixed to the front cover, housed in the publisher's green tinted Plexiglas slipcase, as issued. A pristine example. 1-881337-14-6 Inventory Number: 015574 $ 1100.00 order/inquire       (FRIEDMAN, TOM). Rugoff, Ralph & Arthur C. Danto. TOM FRIEDMAN - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH AN ARTIST'S MULTIPLE. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards in Box. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 320pp. profusely illustrated in color (with several fold-out plates). Designed by Goto Design. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elegantly appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Tom Friedman's massive 2008 Gagosian Gallery London installation/exhibition. Over one hundred and fifty whimsical, often obsessive process oriented works are detailed, making it the most comprehensive reference the artist's oeuvre to date. From the deluxe edition limited to two hundred copies only, the book is signed and housed in a pale blue Styrofoam clamshell box measuring 17 7/8 x 13 3/8" along with hand-crafted silver miniature figure created by Tom Friedman specifically for this edition. A pristine copy of this ultra-cool artists' multiple still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-300-14258-7 Inventory Number: 016836 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (FUSS, ADAM). Fuss Adam. ADAM FUSS: WHAT IS MAN - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. NP (New York): Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 1998. First Edition 1/200. 4to. Silk Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine np (30pp), 7 color illustrations. Designed by Adam Fuss and Andrew Roth. Typography by Jerry Kelly. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to two hundred copies only, this mysterious, exquisitely produced artist's book contains six images by Adam Fuss of butterfly chrysalides as well as a very dark portrait of the esteemed student of eastern thought, William Segal. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the photographer in red ink on the rear colophon, as issued. Inventory Number: 017068 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (GERMS, THE). Mullen, Brendan, Don Bolles & Adam Parfrey. LEXICON DEVIL: THE FAST TIMES AND SHORT LIFE OF DARBY CRASH AND THE GERMS - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Signed by the Authors. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2002. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 8vo. Foil Debossed Boards. Music Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 296pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is Masque proprietor and man about town Brendan Mullen's copiously researched anecdotal biography of that short-lived comet of the Los Angeles punk scene, The Germs. With contributions from virtually everyone who's still alive (and coherent) who was anyone back then, Lorna Doom, Pat Smear, Don Bolles and Darby Crash come to life (figuratively) again! A most handsome example from the blue foil debossed hardbound edition limited to one hundred copies only SIGNED AND NUMBERED in ink on the front free endpaper by Brendan Mullen, Adam Parfrey, Don Bolles, and Pat Smear. 0-922915-70-9 Inventory Number: 016046 $ 325.00 order/inquire       (GIGER, H.R.). Giger, H.R. Introduction By Clive Barker. H.R. GIGER'S NECRONOMICON: VOLUMES I & II (1 & 2) - LIMITED SIGNED AND NUMBERED LEATHERBOUND SLIPCASED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL GRAPHIC. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. Beverly Hills, CA: Morpheus International, 1992. First Edition Thus 1/666 Deluxe. Folio. Full Leather in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 82 + 94pp, profusely illustrated in color. With a biography, bibliography, filmography and exhibition history. This is the deluxe leatherbound Morpheus International combined in one volume edition of Swiss master of the macabre H.R. Giger's "Necronomicon" and "Necronomicon II". Best known for his biomorphically grotesque design concepts for films such as "Alien" and "Species", this stylish large-format tome includes selections from the projects "Passages", "Shafts", "Dune", "Baphomet", "Biomechanoid", "Passagen", "Der Aesthet", "New York City 1977", "Debbie Harry - Blondie", "Alien", and many more, along with Giger's thoughts on his work for the theatre, posters, airbrush technique, etc. A most handsome example of the deluxe full black leather with debossed black gilt bound edition limited to six hundred and sixty-six copies only BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by H.R. Giger in silver marker on his specially designed original graphic title page housed in the publisher's black linen over boards slipcase, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value, size and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017338 $ 900.00 order/inquire       (GIGER, H.R.). Giger, H.R., Timothy Leary, Fritz Billeter, Andrea Melcior & Mia Giger. H.R. GIGER: N.Y. CITY - DELUXE HARDBOUND LIMITED SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Ugly Publishing, 1981. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 48pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With a biography, bibliography, filmography and exhibition history. This is the deluxe edition of "N.Y. City" - the artwork laden visual diary of H.R. Giger's exploits amongst the glitterati of Beverly Hills, Hollywood and New York. See the tuxedoed master of the macabre toting his "Alien" Oscar, mugging with Farrah Fawcett, and transforming Deborah Harry into...something, before your very eyes! A most handsome example of the hardbound edition limited to three hundred and fifty copies only BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by H.R. Giger in black ink on the front free endpaper, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value, weight and size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017339 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. DARK SHADOW: GEORGE & GILBERT THE SCULPTORS. London: Art For All & Nigel Greenwood Inc., 1976. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Gilt Debossed Linen Over Board. Artists' Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 288pp, 128 b&w illustrations. In a protective glassine dustwrapper. Limited to two thousand numbered copies, this is the beautifully bound 1976 artists' book by British conceptual duo sculpture Gilbert & George. It contains eight chapters entitled "Gordon's Gin", "Dark Shadow", "Broken Hearts", Bloody Life", "Balls Bar", "Bad Thoughts", "Inca Pisco", and "Human Bondage" - each of which consists of sixteen pages of text alternating with sixteen photographically based images. A bright, most handsome copy of this moody semi-autobiographical offering cited on page 153 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" SIGNED AND NUMBERED (12/2000) by Gilbert & George in red, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017858 $ 800.00 order/inquire       (GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Editor. LOST DAY: GILBERT & GEORGE 1972 - SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS. Signed by the Artists. Koln, GERMANY: Oktagon Verlag, 1996. First Edition 1/900. Oblong 16mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artists' Book. As New. np (68pp), 34 b&w illustrations. Text in English and German. Limited to nine hundred numbered copies, this is a charming photographically illustrated artists' flip-book by British conceptualists Gilbert & George catching the young Mr. Prousch taking a drag on a fag watched by his attentive partner with the Thames serving as a backdrop. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Gilbert & George in red ink on the inside front cover. 3-89611-009-8 Inventory Number: 015602 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. Robert Violette & Hans Ulrich-Obrist, Editors. THE WORDS OF GILBERT & GEORGE WITH PORTRAITS OF THE ARTISTS FROM 1968 TO 1997 - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A SELF-PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS. Signed by the Artists - with a Signed Photograph. London: Violette Editions, 1997. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 8vo. Printed Cloth in Slipcase. Artist Monograph with Multiple. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 312pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Peter B. Willberg. This authoritative compilation of text and images culled from thirty years of writings and artists' books deftly and insightfully illuminates Gilbert & George's wry, oh so British artistic practice. A pristine copy from the deluxe hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies only BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED (38/300) by the artists in red marker in the publisher's unprinted lavender chipboard slipcase with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED original 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" black and white photograph of the artists clad only in white jockey shorts laid in, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-900828-03-0 Inventory Number: 016685 $ 650.00 order/inquire       (GRANNIS, LEROY). Grannis, Leroy, Jim Heimann & Steve Barilotti. LEROY GRANNIS: SURF PHOTOGRAPHY OF THE 1960S AND 1970S - DELUXE SIGNED, LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2006. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Oblong Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 278pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. Limited to one thousand copies only, this signed and numbered first edition of Taschen's amazing Leroy Grannis tome is more than likely the most lavish surf photography book produced to date. "This collection, drawn from Grannis's personal archives, showcases an impressive selection of surf photographs-from the bliss of catching the perfect wave at San Onofre to dramatic wipeouts at Oahu's famed North Shore. An innovator in the field, Grannis suction-cupped a waterproof box to his board, enabling him to change film in the water and stay closer to the action than other photographers of the time. Equally notable is his work covering an emerging surf lifestyle, from surfer stomps and hoards of fans at surf contests to board-laden woody station wagons along the Pacific Coast Highway. It is in these iconic images that a sport still in its adolescence embodied the free-spirited nature of an era-a time before shortboards and celebrity endorsements, when surfing was at its bronzed best". Sold out long before publication, it lovingly reveals the kinder and gentler California surf scene of over a quarter century ago in hundreds of vintage images taken by one of the pioneers of the field. Mickey Dora, Greg Noll, Dewey Weber - they're all here! A pristine copy NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Leroy Grannis still shrinkwrapped in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-5069-1 Inventory Number: 012528 $ 1250.00 order/inquire       (GUSTON, PHILIP). Coplans, John. PHILIP GUSTON 1., 2., & 3. - COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES IN THE PUBLISHER'S SLIPCASE. Los Angeles, 1980, 1981, 1983.: Gemini G.E.L., First Editions. Oblong 8vo. Printed Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist Monographs. Fine. np (24pp) + np (20pp) + np (18pp), 26 duotone and 2 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition history. Published between 1980 and 1983, this is a set of the three slender, elegantly produced Gemini G.E.L. prospectuses for twenty-three lithographs created by the revered late Abstract Expressionist turned quirky representational artist Philip Guston just prior to his untimely passing. A pristine example (including the elusive third installment) with Gemini G.E.L.'s pricelist in, in the publisher's limited edition printed slipcase, as issued. Inventory Number: 015472 $ 150.00 order/inquire       (HATAKEYAMA, NAOYA). Hatakeyama, Naoya. NAOYA HATAKEYAMA: RIVER SERIES / SHADOW (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 25) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOR THETA PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer with a Color Photograph. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 9 color illustrations. Naoya Hatakeyama's "River Series"is the twenty-fifth title in Nazraeli Press' series of "One Picture Books". Limited to five hundred copies only, each example of this edition is signed and numbered, containing an original 4 3/4 x 2 1/4" color theta print (whose image is that of light reflected on a stream) tipped in at the rear of the book. A pristine copy of this lovely item. 1-59005-107-6 Inventory Number: 014031 $ 145.00 order/inquire       (HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Heinecken, Robert. ROBERT HEINECKEN: STUDIESNINETEENSEVENTY (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 14) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. With a B&W Print Signed by the Photographer. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (12pp), 12 b&w illustrations. Robert Heinecken's "StudiesNinteenSeventy" is the fourteenth title in Nazraeli Press' series of "One Picture Books". Limited to five hundred copies only, each example of this edition is signed and numbered, containing an original 5 1/8 x 4" b&w print (whose image is photogram collaged from multiple exposures of men's magazine nudes) tipped in at the rear of the book. A pristine copy. 1-590050-31-2 Inventory Number: 016700 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (HERNANDEZ, ANTHONY). Hernandez, Anthony & Ralph Rugoff. ANTHONY HERNANDEZ: PICTURES FROM ROME - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED IRIS PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with an Iris Print. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 90pp, 35 color illustrations. From the catalogue essay by Ralph Rugoff we quote; " Anthony Hernandez' "Pictures From Rome" (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, make no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings". Not unlike his recent work of abandoned homeless dwellings, these stark color images find great beauty in the solitude of urban decay. This example is from the deluxe edition of one hundred copies only SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER, and accompanied by a 9 3/4 x 9 3/4 inch signed color Iris Print (of an image not reproduced in the book). A pristine copy. 1889195456 Inventory Number: 005703 $ 350.00 order/inquire       (HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Foreword By Luc Sante. OUTSKIRTS: TODD HIDO - DELUXE BOXED, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WITH A COLOR PRINT SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer - with a Color Print. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/30 Deluxe. Large Folio. Boards in Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 52pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Post Tool Design. "Outskirts" is Todd Hido's second book - the photographer's stunning follow up to "House Hunting" - featuring more large scale format color images of suburban San Francisco in the dead of night. A most handsome example (number twenty seven of thirty - one of five numbered artist's proofs) from the deluxe limited edition SIGNED by Todd Hido in black ink on the title page housed in a tan, debossed linen clamshell box accompanied by the gorgeous 16 3/4 x 13 1/2" SIGNED AND NUMBERED chromogenic color print "#2591", as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-59005-028-2 Inventory Number: 017220 $ 5000.00 order/inquire       (HINE, LEWIS). Torosian, Michael & Walter Rosenblum. LEWIS HINE: ELLIS ISLAND - MEMORIES AND MEDITATIONS ON THE LIFE & WORK OF AN AMERICAN ARTIST - LIMITED EDITION WITH TWO GELATIN-SILVER PRINTS. Toronto, CANADA: Lumiere Press, 1995. First Edition 1/200. 8vo. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 44pp, 4 duotone illustrations and 2 tipped-in b&w silver-gelatin prints. Designed by Michael Torosian. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1995 as the seventh installment of Toronto's Lumiere Press "Homage" series, this is an exquisitely produced monograph on the great early twentieth century photographer of labor Lewis Hine and his work at New York's Ellis Island. Limited to two hundred copies, it was designed and printed by author/publisher Michael Torosian on Mohawk Superfine paper, bound in one-quarter oatmeal linen over grey paper boards with a printed spine label, and contains two small tipped-in gelatin-silver prints of images by Hine. A pristine copy of this uncommon gem. 0-921542-09-7 Inventory Number: 015156 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (HINZ, VOLKER). Hinz, Volker. Text By Denis Brudna. VOLKER HINZ: S/W PORTRAITS 6 X 6 - WITH AN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Photograph. Hamburg, GERMANY: Volker Hinz, 1997. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. Oblong 8vo. Printed Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 70pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in German. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is a copy of noted "Stern" staff photographer Volker Hinz' self-published first monograph. Limited to five hundred copies only, it includes portraits of Woody Allen, William Burroughs, Calvin Klein, Hillary Clinton, Keith Haring, Federico Fellini, Clint Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Stephen King, Annie Lennox, David Byrne, Pete Townshend, Stevie Wonder, Moammar Gadhafi, and many, many others. A most handsome copy SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Volker Hinz in black ink on the inside rear cover, with a unique black and white photograph laid down on the front cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 015683 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (HOGARTH, BURNE). Hogarth, Burne. BURNE HOGARTH: THE LIFE OF KING ARTHUR - PORTFOLIO 1 - SIGNED AND NUMBERED PRESENTATION COPY WITH FIVE COLOR SERIGRAPHIC PRINTS. Signed by the Artist - with Six Serigraphs. Schonau, GERMANY: Norbert Hethke Verlag, 1992. First Edition. Folio. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Artist Monograph. Very Good -./No Jacket - As Issued.. 5 loose 19 1/2 x 15 3/4" sheets printed in color, recto only and 1 loose 19 1/4 x 15" monochrome sheet in b&w, recto only laid into a printed cardstock portfolio. Text in English and German. Legendary American illustrator and comic strip artist Burne Hogarth (1911-1996) came into prominence as Hal Foster's successor on the United Features Syndicate strip "Tarzan" from 1937 until 1950. In 1947, he co-founded the School of Visual Arts, which led to "Dynamic Anatomy" - the first in a series of highly successful books on technique. He returned to Tarzan in 1972, and in 1983 produced two lovely Collector's Press portfolios of black and white plates illustrating the life of King Arthur. In 1992 Hogarth in conjunction with Schonau based Norbert Hethke Verlag produced this "The Life of King Arthur - Portfolio 1" containing five vibrant color serigraphs and one additional black and white plate - all unsigned as issued. These six loose sheets are laid into in a printed cardstock portfolio cover that has an illustrated, adhesive-backed bookplate SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY BURNE HOGARTH affixed to the inside front cover stating a limitation of one thousand, one hundred worldwide. It is generally assumed that no more than five hundred numbered copies were actually produced, and no further volumes were ever issued. A most presentable "Artist's Proof" copy of this uncommon and desirable item (designated A.P. 36) presented as a gift by Burne Hogarth that shows some light overall wear, handling and creasing to the portfolio covers as well as some minor soft creases at the corners of a few of the plates. It has been additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "For..., Hope all goes well for you both, Warmest Regards, Burne Hogarth Jan. 93" in black ink by the artist on the inside front cover. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this portfolio beyond our standard rates due to its value and size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 015817 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (HUGNET, GEORGES) (DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Hugnet, Georges. GEORGES HUGNET: LA SEPTIEME FACE DU D╔: POEMES - DECOUPAGES (COUVERTURE DE MARCEL DUCHAMP). Paris: Editions Jeanne Bucher, 1936. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Sewn Illustrated Wrappers. Livre D'Artiste. Good +./No Jacket - As Issued.. (84pp), profusely illustrated in small woodcuts along with 15 color and 5 full page monochrome collotype plates + b&w cover. Cover designed by Marcel Duchamp. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "La Septieme Face du Dé" is repeatedly acknowledged as one of the triumphs of the Surrealist illustrated book. It masterfully combines twenty of Hugnet's prose poems alongside overtly erotic, beautifully collaged and photomontaged images. The cover design and typography by Marcel Duchamp was created especially for the publication featuring a Man Ray photograph of the sculpture "Why Not Sneeze Rrose Selavy". Cited on pages 92-93 of "The Book of 101 Books", this example (number forty-four of the two hundred and fifty copies on vélin) shows soiling, patination, and wear to the wrappers - most notably a tiny chip missing from the front cover at the crown of the spine and diagonal soft-creases through each of its foredge corners. The top and bottom edges of the wrappers show some wear and abrading, and the rear cover is slightly sunned along its extremities. The contents and textblock are intact and sound, and for the most part quite bright though showing a bit of foxing to the inside front cover, the front free endpaper, and the first few pages along the foredge. The edges display typical mild age patination and soiling, and there is in addition a tiny diagonal soft-crease to a portion of the textblock at the upper foredge corner. Still in all, it is a most presentable copy of this exquisite tome (housed in a modest custom cloth chemise slipcase) that has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016520 $ 12000.00 order/inquire       (JAMES, DON). James, Don. PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 1. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced first portfolio (of five) of pioneering waterman/photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surfriders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6 inch archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-10-6 Inventory Number: 009662 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (JAMES, DON). James, Don. PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 3. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced third portfolio (of five) of pioneering waterman/photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surfriders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6 inch archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-12-2 Inventory Number: 009664 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (JAMES, DON). James, Don. PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 4. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced fourth portfolio (of five) of pioneering waterman/photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surfriders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6 inch archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-13-0 Inventory Number: 009665 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (JAMES, DON). James, Don. PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 5. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced fifth (and final) portfolio of pioneering waterman/photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surfriders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6 inch archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-14-9 Inventory Number: 009666 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (JAMES, DON). James, Don. PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIOS 1,2,3,4 & 5: A COMPLETE SET. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 5 boxes with pastedowns each housing 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is a complete set of the five beautifully produced portfolios of pioneering waterman/photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surfriders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6 inch archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A pristine set still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this set beyond our standard rates due to its size and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016698 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (JODOROWSKY, ALEXANDRO) (GIMENEZ, JUAN). Jodorowsky, Alexandro & Juan Gimenez. LA CASTE DES META - BARONS ODA LA BISAIEULE (TOME QUATRIEME) - DELUXE SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ADDITIONAL PRESENTATION FROM ALEXANDRO JODOROWSKY. Signed Presentation Copy from the Author. Paris: Book-Maker, L'Editeur & Les Humanoides Associés, 1997. First Edition 1/500. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Graphic Novel. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This copy of the fourth installment of Jodorowsky & Gimenez' science fiction themed bande dessinée "La Caste Des Méta - Barons" is from the deluxe edition, limited to five hundred copies only. This is SIGNED by both contributors on the first preliminary. In addition, Alexander Jodorowsky has added a BOLD PRESENTATION IN BLUE FELT-TIP PEN to Raffaella De Laurentis, the producer of David Lynch's "Dune" - a film that Jodorowsky was originally attached to direct! A handsome example of this most remarkable association copy showing a few scuffs to the boards. Inventory Number: 004320 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (JOHNS, JASPER). Bernstein, Roberta. JASPER JOHNS: THE SEASONS - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC FRONTISPIECE. New York: Brooke Alexander Editions, 1991. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np (58pp), 52 illustrations in color and b&w + covers. Designed by Jordan Davies. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the austerely elegant catalogue published in conjunction with a 1991 touring exhibition of preparatory works and various states of Jasper Johns' series of graphic works, "The Seasons". The cover was created by the artist especially for this publication, and the frontispiece is an original one color lithograph executed by Johns and printed by U.L.A.E. A bright white, most handsome copy. Inventory Number: 015619 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley, Mike. RECONSTRUCTED HISTORY: EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MIKE KELLEY - ONE OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. New York & Cologne, GERMANY: Thea Westreich & Gisela Capitain, 1990. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Illustrated Boards in Jacket. Artists' Book. Fine/Fine. np (138pp), 61 b&w illustrations + cover. Designed by Mike Kelley and Patti Podesta. "Reconstructed History" is Mike Kelley's rollicking, scatologically inflected view of America's past that would have our founding fathers spinning while copulating and excreting in their graves. Taking the form of the fictional grade-school textbook "Living in Our America: A Record of Our Country - History for Young Citizens", it features sixty-one black and white reproductions of historically based artwork and photographs that have been subsequently altered in the manner of naughty child to blend pithy commentary with phalluses, breasts, and all manner of bodily secretions galore. After seeing "Reconstructed History", you'll never view the Empire State Building in quite the same way again. A most handsome copy of this deluxe artist's book that was limited to two hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Mike Kelley in black ink on the colophon, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016657 $ 3500.00 order/inquire       (KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael. MICHAEL KENNA: BOARDING SCHOOL (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 21) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer with a Signed Print. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (17pp), 8 duotone illustrations. Michael Kenna's "Boarding School" is the twenty-first title in Nazraeli Press' series of "One Picture Books". Limited to five hundred copies only, each example of this edition is signed and numbered, containing an original 4 5/8 x 4 5/8" sepia-toned silver gelatin print (whose image is the Upholland Hall seminary college that young Mr. Kenna attended) tipped in at the rear of the book. Apparently, you can go home again. A pristine example. 1-59005-072-X Inventory Number: 016778 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael. MICHAEL KENNA: HEIDEN HOTEL (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 56) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer with a Signed Print. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (20pp), 14 duotone illustrations. Michael Kenna's "Heiden Hotel" is the fifty-sixth title in Nazraeli Press' series of "One Picture Books". Limited to five hundred copies only, each example of this edition is signed and numbered, containing an original 3 1/2 x 4 7/8" silver gelatin print (whose image is of the Heiden Hotel - a Catskill's resort where the young Mr. Kenna worked as a summer exchange student in 1976 and has returned to repeatedly until its sad demise in 2008) tipped in at the rear of the book. A pristine example. 1-59005-255-2 Inventory Number: 016959 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (KOONS, JEFF). Sischy, Ingrid, Eckhard Schneider, Katy Siegel & Jeff Koons. Hans Werner Holzwarth, Editor. JEFF KOONS (COLLECTOR'S EDITION). Signed by the Artist. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2007. First Edition 1/1500. Elephant Folio. Boards in Clamshell Box. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 606pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. With an exhibition history, biography and bibliography. "This exhaustive monograph begins with a biographical essay by Interview magazine editor-in-chief Ingrid Sischy that puts his work into context and tells his personal story, as well as a text by Eckhard Schneider analyzing Koons from a European perspective. Arranged in chronological chapters by work groups, the main body of the book features art historian and critic Katy Siegel's detailed analyses alongside hundreds of large-format images tracing Koons' career from 1979 to today. Rounding off the book are an extended bibliography and a lavishly illustrated biography. Fans of Jeff KoonsÆs work will find in this publication not only a sumptuous book-object, but also the most comprehensive study of the artist's work ever published". Limited to one thousand, five hundred copies NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Jeff Koons, this massive undertaking sold out long before publication. A pristine copy still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value, size and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-4944-8 Inventory Number: 018016 $ 2700.00 order/inquire       (LACHAPELLE, DAVID). LaChapelle, David. LACHAPELLE: ARTISTS & PROSTITUTES - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2005. First Edition 1/2500. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 698pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English, German and French. "Once called the Fellini of photography, David LaChapelle has worked for the most prestigious international publications and has been the subject of exhibitions in both commercial galleries and leading public institutions around the world. Celebrating this visionary artist's truly extraordinary photography, "Artists & Prostitutes" is packed cover-to-cover with vibrant full-bleed images. Bursting at the seams with spectacle and drama, and saturated with colors that only LaChapelle can realize, this limited edition pays tribute to the most daring and ambitious photographer in the history of portraiture". Limited to two thousand, five hundred copies worldwide, this massive volume (the second in Taschen's XXL series) is the most lavish and comprehensive survey of the renowned photographer/director's work to date. A pristine copy numbered and BOLDLY SIGNED by David LaChapelle in black ink on the title page housed in a clamshell box still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1617-5 Inventory Number: 014523 $ 3150.00 order/inquire       (LEIFER, NEIL). Leifer, Neil, Ron Shelton & Gabriel Schechter. Eric Kroll, Editor. NEIL LEIFER: BALLET IN THE DIRT - THE GOLDEN AGE OF BASEBALL . Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2007. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong Folio. Pictorial Boards, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 302pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. Limited to one thousand signed copies only, this beautifully designed and printed Taschen undertaking presents over three hundred of Neil Leifer's extraordinary baseball images of the sixties and seventies. "From the 1960 World Series between the Yankees and the Pirates to the 1977 Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers, Neil Leifer never stopped shooting. He was up in the nosebleed section of the grandstands in Yankee Stadium, in the rafters of the Astrodome in Houston, or a helicopter high above. Who won the games wasn't important - only how the game was played. The blood, sweat, and grace, it's all about the game, and Leifer's photographs create a topographical map to the very heart and soul of baseball". A pristine copy of this already out of print gem NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Neil Leifer, still sealed in shrinkwrap in the publisher's printed shipping box. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-2207-8 Inventory Number: 016849 $ 850.00 order/inquire       (LEVITT, HELEN). Levitt, Helen & James Agee. HELEN LEVITT: A WAY OF SEEING, WITH AN ESSAY BY JAMES AGEE - DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. New York: Horizon Press, 1981. First Edition Thus 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. 1/4 Vellum Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 90 b&w illustrations. Designed by Marvin Hoshino. "A Way of Seeing" is the late Helen Levitt's classic presentation of New York street photography accompanied by an incisive essay by James Agee. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only, this example is from the 1981 Horizon Press deluxe edition that was completely redesigned from the 1965 Viking first printing; containing a revised text along with twenty-four additional images. It is bound in 1/4 gilt stamped vellum over gilt stamped blue boards, and is housed in a blue linen slipcase. A most handsome copy (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 252-253 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 214-215 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", and pages 178-179 of "The Book of 101 Books") SIGNED AND NUMBERED 31/250 by Helen Levitt in black ink on the colophon, as issued, showing some sunning to the slipcase along its extremities. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8180-1422-9 Inventory Number: 016847 $ 1250.00 order/inquire       (LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Bois, Yve-Alain, Jack Cowart, Robert Rosenblum, Frederic Tuten & Hal Foster. ROY LICHTENSTEIN: EARLY BLACK AND WHITE PAINTINGS + PERFECT / IMPERFECT + SCULPTURE - THREE VOLUMES IN A SPECIAL GAGOSIAN GALLERY SLIPCASE. New York & Beverly Hills, CA. 2001, 2002 & 2005.: Gagosian Gallery, First Editions. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Artist Monographs. Fine/No Jackets - As Issued. 60 + 128 + 132pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Bruce Mau Design, Inc. With exhibition checklists. This is an ultra-limited set of the beautifully designed and printed hardbound Roy Lichtenstein catalogues published in conjunction with the 2001 "Early Black and White Paintings" (1-880154-62-5), 2002 "Perfect" / "Imperfect " (1-880154-81-1), and 2005 "Sculpture" (1-932598-16-2) Gagosian exhibitions. The three are housed in a gallery issued hors commerce, custom-made black linen slipcase with the publication information silk-screened in white on the spine. A most handsome example of this most uncommon set whose slipcase shows a few minor scuffs to the surface. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017670 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Lichtenstein, Roy. ROY LICHTENSTEIN: PAPER PLATE MULTIPLE. New York: On First (Roy Lichtenstein & Bert Stern), 1969. First Edition. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 10 1/4" diameter paper plate screenprinted in primary blue, red and yellow inks. Stated on verso "Roy Lichtenstein ⌐ On 1st Inc. 1969" - unsigned as issued. This is the striking Pop Art tableware that Roy Lichtenstein produced at the height of his powers for the groovy sixties shop, On First. Located on First Avenue in New York, the store was the brainchild of noted fashion and advertising photographer Bert Stern who opened it with the idea that they would sell objects for the home designed by artists, fashion designers, etc. However, the store closed very shortly after this item was commissioned, and most of these plates were neither distributed, nor seen again. A pristine example of this ephemeral yet charming multiple - as bright and fresh as the day it was printed! Inventory Number: 017644 $ 275.00 order/inquire       (LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Lichtenstein, Roy. ROY LICHTENSTEIN: PAPER PLATE MULTIPLE. New York: On First (Roy Lichtenstein & Bert Stern), 1969. First Edition. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 10 1/4" diameter paper plate screenprinted in primary blue, red and yellow inks. Stated on verso "Roy Lichtenstein ⌐ On 1st Inc. 1969" - unsigned as issued. This is the striking Pop Art tableware that Roy Lichtenstein produced at the height of his powers for the groovy sixties shop, On First. Located on First Avenue in New York, the store was the brainchild of noted fashion and advertising photographer Bert Stern who opened it with the idea that they would sell objects for the home designed by artists, fashion designers, etc. However, the store closed very shortly after this item was commissioned, and most of these plates were neither distributed, nor seen again. A pristine example of this ephemeral yet charming multiple - as bright and fresh as the day it was printed! Inventory Number: 017614 $ 275.00 order/inquire       (LONG, RICHARD). Long, Richard. RICHARD LONG: A ROUND OF DESERT FLOWERS ( STRAIGHT VERSION & BOTTLE NECK DOBRO) - LIMITED EDITION MULTIPLE. Los Angeles: Lapis Press, 1987. First Edition 1/100. 45 RPM Single + Sleeve. Artist Multiple. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 7 inch, 45 rpm vinyl record in unprinted white paper sleeve. This single was produced for inclusion as part of Richard Long's 1987 Lapis Press Livre D'Artiste "Dust, Dobros, Desert Flowers"; published in an edition of thirty-five copies only at a cost of $6,500.00 each. The record pressing plant's minimum order was for one hundred copies, so there were approximately sixty-five of these produced hors serie. We can't vouch for the music (featuring Dobro guitar played by Simon Childs), but we can tell you that this is an unlikely find! A pristine example of this uncommon item cited on page 169 of Guy Schraenen's "Vinyl: Records and Covers by Artists". Inventory Number: 017585 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (LONG, RICHARD). Long, Richard & Sean Rainbird. SIXTEEN WORKS - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY RICHARD LONG. Signed by the Artist. London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery & Coracle Press, 1983. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Decorative Cloth. Artists' Book. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (42pp), 16 two color plates printed by hand letterpress, recto only, and 1 b&w illustration. Limited to five hundred hardbound copies printed by the Coracle Press, this artists' book by Richard Long consists of sixteen typographic pieces based on his walks between 1979 and 1983. A handsome example showing a tiny bit of soiling to the cloth BOLDLY SIGNED by Richard Long in orange crayon at the rear colophon, as issued. Inventory Number: 011573 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (LONG, RICHARD). Long, Richard. Jerry Sohn, Editor. NILE: PAPERS OF RIVER MUDS - ONE OF ONLY EIGHTY-EIGHT COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY RICHARD LONG . Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1990. First Edition 1/88. Small Folio. 1/4 Vellum Over Boards. Artist's Book. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. np (44pp), no illustrations. Designed by Richard Long. Published in an edition of eighty-eight copies only, "Nile: Papers of River Muds" is Richard Long's tour de force deluxe artist's book published by The Lapis Press in 1990. It consists of twenty-four sheets of thick, handmade paper fabricated utilizing muds collected from rivers around the world by Long on his walking journeys. The 13 1/2 x 11 1/4" pages have then been silkscreened in red with the name of its river source, and bound by hand into 1/4 vellum over river mud paper boards, housed in a similarly silkscreened slipcase. Each of the river muds (from the Nile, Umpqua, Mississippi, Indragoodby, Jordan, Condamine, Avon, Chitravathri, Amazon, Rhine, Guatiquia, Huang He, Hudson, and the Nairobi) lends a different shade and texture to the oh so tactile pages, making each book unique. A pristine copy of this uncommon item (cited on page 222 of the comprehensive bibliography of "books by or on the artist" found in the catalogue accompanying the Tate's 2009 exhibition "Richard Long: Heaven and Earth") BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Richard Long in pencil on the rear colophon, as issued. This example (#44/88) is from the archive of pulisher Sam Francis, and includes the 12 x 9" hors commerce Lapis Press pre-publication broadside on paper from the Murrumbidgee river (#44/172) laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017828 $ 6500.00 order/inquire       (MALLEY, ALIA). Malley, Alia & Sam Lee. ALIA MALLEY: SOUTHLAND - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Sam Lee Gallery, 2010. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. np (12pp), 7 color illustrations. With a biography and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with her 2010 Sam Lee Gallery solo exhibition, this slender yet elegant twelve page catalogue gorgeously illustrates Los Angeles photographer Alia Malley's current body of work - large scale, muted color images of the pastoral local exurban landscape that rest somewhere between Joel Sternfeld, Robert Adams and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. A pristine copy of her first publication limited to five hundred copes only BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Alia Malley in black ink. Inventory Number: 018021 $ 12.50 order/inquire       (MARCLAY, CHRISTIAN). Marclay, Christian. CHRISTIAN MARCLAY: TINSEL - 1996 PETER NORTON FAMILY CHRISTMAS PROJECT ARTISTS' MULTIPLE. Santa Monica, CA: Peter Norton Family Foundation, 2005. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Music Box. Artists' Multiple. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. One 3 3/4 x 5 x 4" wooden music box with the anagram "Silent" and "Listen" printed on the recto and verso of its hinged lid. Each year Peter Norton commissions an original a work of art to celebrate the holiday season. This year's edition is by Christian Marclay who was born in California, raised in Switzerland, and is based in New York City. The cultural implications of music and sound are central to his sculptures, installations, videos, and performances. For this project, Marclay has composed "Tinsel" - a seamless melodic loop without beginning or end that incorporates the gradual slowing of the unwinding mechanism - to play with our expectations of the music box. The box was made in Sainte-Croix by Reuge, the last remaining manufacturer of music boxes in Switzerland". "A pristine example of this extraordinary object issued in 2005 hors commerce (never commercially for sale) in the publisher's unprinted shipping box with a letterpress gift card laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 016507 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (MARDEN, BRICE). Marden, Brice & Pat Steir. BRICE MARDEN: RECENT DRAWINGS AND ETCHINGS - ONE OF ONE HUNDRED COPIES NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY BRICE MARDEN AND PAT STEIR. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. New York: Matthew Marks Gallery, 1991. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 5 color and 39 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed by Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in conjunction with a 1991 Matthew Marks Gallery Brice Marden exhibition, this beautifully produced hardbound catalogue features a selection of twenty-seven works on paper and six etchings as well as portrait photograph of the artist by Bill Jacobson. Also included is a transcribed interview between Marden and fellow artist Pat Steir. A most handsome copy of the deluxe harbound edition limited to one hundred copies only NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Brice Marden and Pat Steir on the rear colophon, as issued. Inventory Number: 017668 $ 650.00 order/inquire       (MASSON, ANDRE). Masson, Andre. NOCTURNAL NOTEBOOK: ANDRE MASSON. New York: Curt Valentin, 1944. First Edition 1/665. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 31pp, 14 b&w illustrations. Printed by the Marchbanks Press. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "A mere witness of a sleepless night, this is all this little book claims to be. These drawings were made in a few hours one night in May 1942, and are presented in the order of their appearance". A most handsome copy of this facsimile of Masson's Surrealist sketches executed during the artist's wartime stay in New York. Inventory Number: 000728 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (MEIER, CARL ALFRED). Meier, C. A., Mokusen Miyuki, Joseph L. Henderson, Laurens van der Post, Ian Player, M. Vera Buhrmann, Rix Weaver, Jane Hollister Wheelwright, Sam Francis & Robert Hinshaw. A TESTAMENT TO THE WILDERNESS - ONE OF THIRTY DELUXE HAND PRINTED AND BOUND COPIES. Zug, SWITZERLAND & Santa Monica, CA: Daimon Verlag & The Lapis Press, 1985. First Edition 1/30 Deluxe. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedowns. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 144pp, no illustrations. This beautiful book of essays in honor of the noted Swiss Jungian psychiatrist and psychotherapist C.M. Meier's eightieth birthday was conceived by a planning committee consisting of Joan Meier, Lela Fischli, Sam Francis and Robert Hinshaw. It contains Meier's 1983 paper "Wilderness and the Search for the Soul of Modern Man", plus nine essays in response to it appearing here for the first time. This is from the deluxe first edition of thirty copies only published by Sam Francis' Lapis Press. The Monotype Janson type was composed by Patrick Reaugh, with the letterpress printing by Jamie Robles at the Lapis Press in Santa Monica, and the hand binding by Bruce Schnabel. A pristine copy of this uncommon item. 3-85630-502-5 Inventory Number: 017590 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (MORIMURA, YASUMASA). Morimura, Yasumasa. YASUMASA MORIMURA: AMBIGUOUS BEAUTY / AIMAI-NO-BI - 1995 PETER NORTON FAMILY CHRISTMAS PROJECT ARTIST'S MULTIPLE. Santa Monica, CA: Peter Norton Family Foundation, 1995. First Edition. Artists' Multiple. Fine. "Each year the Norton Family commissions an original artwork as a greeting for the holiday season. This year's is by Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura. Morimura-san photographs himself in re-creations of important Western cultural images. His work explores the issues of meaning, identity, authenticity, and viewpoint: issues that have become key themes in contemporary cultural dialogue". For 1995's Christmas Project, Morimura contributed "Ambiguous Beauty" - the artist/photographer's rather unsettling, gender bending self-portrait as Marilyn Monroe (in Tom Kelley's iconic 1949 full-length nude against a red background) photomechanically reproduced on the face of an inexpensive Japanese hand-held folding fan. The fan is housed in a paper sleeve inside a silkscreened wooden case. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 016506 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (MORIYAMA, DAIDO). Moriyama, Daido. DAIDO MORIYAMA: HAWAII - SIGNED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Signed by the Photographer. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2007. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np (438pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Limited to five hundred numbered copies each BOLDLY SIGNED by Daido Moriyama in English in black marker on the front free endpaper, "Hawaii" is beautifully printed in full-bleed velvety blacks and entirely devoid of text (but for a paragraph of publishing details). It is the photographer's cultural survey to the interesting minutiae of the Hawaiian Islands circa 2004. A pristine copy of the first (and only) Nazraeli Press edition. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-59005-211-0 Inventory Number: 015937 $ 275.00 order/inquire       (MORIYAMA, DAIDO). Moriyama, Daido. DAIDO MORIYAMA: KUCHIBIRU (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 39) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL COLOR THETA PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer with a Color Photograph. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 9 color illustrations. Daido Moriyama's "Kuchibiru" is the thirty-ninth title in Nazraeli Press' series of "One Picture Books". Limited to five hundred copies only, each example of this edition is signed and numbered, containing an original 3 1/4 x 4 1/2" color print (whose image is that of a woman's lipstick print in an album) tipped in at the rear of the book. A pristine copy of this lovely item. 1-59005-184-X Inventory Number: 017911 $ 145.00 order/inquire     [1/3]

 

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