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(ALBERTS, ULVIS). Alberts, Ulvis, A. Alvarez & Paul Zibits. POKER FACE 2: ULVIS ALBERTS PHOTOGRAPHS - SIGNED AND NUMBERED BOXED EDITION. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. Riga, LATVIA: Poligrafijas Infocentrs, Ltd., 2006. First Edition 1/2000. Folio. Boards in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 356pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Published twenty-five years after his extraordinary book "Poker Face", Ulvis Alberts has gone home to his native Latvia to produce its lavish follow-up, "Poker Face 2". Chronicling the explosive growth of professional and tournament poker since 1981, Alberts supplements his gritty portraits of late seventies and early eighties Las Vegas pioneers such as Doyle Brunson, Stu Ungar, Jack "Treetop" Straus, "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Jack Binion, "Puggy" Pearson, Johnny Moss and many more with hundreds of additional images of more recent practitioners including Johnny Chan, Gabe Kaplan, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Phil Gordon, Phil Ivey, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Tilly, and again, many, many more. Interspersed throughout the book are famous quotes about the game from many personalities within the poker world. Limited to two thousand copies only, this massive deluxe volume is NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Ulvis Alberts in black ink on the colophon, and housed in the publisher's elegant silkscreened solander box, as issued. A most handsome unopened copy of what is simply the most comprehensive photographic study of contemporary poker players to date still in its original printed protective shipping carton. 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. 9984-764-65-6 Inventory Number: 018850 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (ALECHINSKY, PIERRE). Alechinsky, Pierre & Eugene Ionesco. Foreword by Leon A. Arkus. ALECHINSKY - WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH. Signed by the Artist - with a 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. 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. 0-8109-0656-2 Inventory Number: 014343 $ 550.00 order/inquire       (APOLLO 11). Mailer, Norman, Colum McCann & Buzz Aldrin. MOONFIRE: THE EPIC JOURNEY OF APOLLO 11 - FIRST LIMITED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. With a Photograph Signed by Buzz Aldrin. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2009. First Edition 1/1969 Deluxe. Folio. Cloth in a Plastic Case. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 350pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, Taschen has paired Norman Mailer's seminal text with spectacular photography from the archives of NASA, LIFE magazine and many other sources to create a unique tribute to the defining scientific mission of our era. It has been called the single most historic event of the 20th century: On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins met John F. Kennedy's call for a manned Moon landing by the end of the 1960s. A decade of tests and training, a staff of 400,000 engineers and scientists, and a twenty-four billion dollar budget climaxed with the launch of the most powerful rocket ever built, and an unprecedented event watched by millions the world over. And nobody captured the men, the mood, and the machinery like Norman Mailer. One of the greatest writers of his generation, Mailer was hired by LIFE to cover the Moon shot. His three-part feature, the longest nonfiction piece LIFE had published, was later developed into his book "Of A Fire On The Moon". This seminal work of cultural analysis and philosophy is reproduced here for the first time ever, and Mailer's provocative and trenchant insights remain unsurpassed in defining this epochal event. Illustrating Mailer's gripping text are hundreds of the greatest photographs and film stills from the NASA vaults, magazine archives, and private collections. Many previously unpublished, these images trace the development of the agency and its mission, from early experimentation to that breathtaking instant when Man first stepped on the Moon s surface, and the world's jubilant reaction. An original introduction by Colum McCann and captions by Apollo 11 experts explain the history and science behind the images, citing the mission log, post-flight interviews with the astronauts, and publications of the day. Each copy includes a Plexiglas-framed, numbered, ready-to-hang, archival-quality photographic print signed by Buzz Aldrin produced using the revolutionary new Skia printing technique. This shot of Aldrin standing on the Moon with fellow astronaut Neil Armstrong reflected in his helmet's visor is the definitive image of the Apollo 11 mission, and one of the most famous and iconic photos ever taken". A pristine copy (#0452) of this extraordinary, no longer available from the publisher undertaking limited to one thousand, nine hundred and sixty-nine copies unopened in Taschen's printed 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. 3-8365-1179-7 Inventory Number: 021260 $ 2000.00 order/inquire       (APPLEBROOG, IDA). Applebroog, Ida. IDA APPLEBROOG: DYSPEPSIA WORKS + BLUE BOOKS - COMPLETE IN EIGHTEEN PARTS: EACH SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. NP (New York). 1979-81.: Self-Published, First Editions. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist's Books. Near Fine or Better. each np (20pp), illustrated in monochrome. This is a collection complete in eighteen individual publications of Ida Applebroog' two sets of artist's books cum performance documents entitled "Dyspepsia Works" (1979) and "Blue Books" (1981). "Dyspepsia Works" consists of eleven individual titles each in cream-colored wrappers printed in sepia ink on heavy stock entitled: "A Performance: But I Wasn't There", "A Performance: I Feel Sorry For You", "A Performance: The Sweet Smell of Sage", "A Performance: the end", "I Pretend To Know: A Performance", "It Isn't True: A Performance", "Look at Me: A Performance", "Now Then: A Performance", "Sure I'm Sure: A Performance", "You What?: A Performance", and "You'll See: A Performance". "Blue Books" consists of seven individual titles each in blue wrappers printed in blue ink on heavy stock entitled: "A Performance", " A Performance: I Can't", "A Performance: I Mean It", "A Performance: It's Very Simple", "A Performance: So?", "A Performance: Stop Crying", and "A Performance: the end". A most handsome group of these two complete series additionally individually SIGNED AND DATED "Ida Applebroog 1984" in black ink along the bottom edge of the first page of each showing some typical slight age-toning to the extremities of the "Dyspepsia Works" volumes. 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: 021471 $ 2000.00 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 Deluxe. 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1292-7 Inventory Number: 014522 $ 3000.00 order/inquire       (ARGENTINI, GUIDO). Argentini, Guido. GUIDO ARGENTINI: SHADES OF A WOMAN - DELUXE SLIPCASED, SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION WITH A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES . Signed by the Photographer - with a b&w Photograph. NP: Self-Published, 2011. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Square 4to. Padded Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 104 color and 78 duotone illustrations. Text in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The sculpture of Michelangelo, Rodin, and Brancusi, serve as the inspiration for Guido Argentini's masterly images of the female nude. Published by the Italian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer himself, "Shades of a Woman" is a sumptuously produced collection of nearly twenty years of work including his striking "Silvereye" series of statuesque models completely covered in metallic pigment a la Shirley Eaton in "Goldfinger". A pristine copy of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies only BOLDLY NUMBERED, SIGNED AND DATED "Guido Argentini '11 42/100" in ink on the front free endpaper accompanied by a NUMBERED, SIGNED AND DATED 10 3/4 x 10 3/4" silver gelatin photographic print housed in the publisher's gilt-embossed blue silk over boards slipcase, 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. 0-615-41928-3 Inventory Number: 020789 $ 750.00 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017954 $ 5500.00 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       (BALLARD, J.G.) (RE/SEARCH). Ballard, J. G. Introduction by V. Vale & Andrea Juno. Preface by William S. Burroughs. THE ATROCITY EXHIBITION BY J.G. BALLARD - REVISED HARDBOUND EDITION LIMITED TO FOUR HUNDRED COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Signed by the Author. San Francisco: Re/Search Publications, 1990. First Edition Thus 1/400 Deluxe. 4to. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Literary Monograph. As New/As New. 142pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Andrea Juno. "The Atrocity Exhibition" is widely regarded as Ballard's finest, most complex work. Withdrawn by E.P. Dutton after having been shredded by Doubleday, this outrageous work was subsequently published in a small edition by Grove Press before lapsing out-of-print. Made available once again as a large-format, beautifully illustrated edition by V. Vale and A. Juno's Re/Search Classics Publications, this revised version contains four additional fiction pieces, extensive marginal annotations by Ballard, and a new preface by William S. Burroughs. A pristine copy of the 1990 limited hardbound edition BOLDLY SIGNED by J.G. Ballard in blue ink on the limitation page at front, as issued. 0-940642-19-0 Inventory Number: 020275 $ 250.00 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" 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9713681-0-4 Inventory Number: 011491 $ 2000.00 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       (BEARD, PETER). Beard, Peter & Owen Edwards. Nejma Beard & David Fahey, Editors. PETER BEARD: THE ART EDITION - NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2006. First Edition 1/2250 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. 1/2 Leather over Boards, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 616pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. Art Direction and Design by Ruth Ansel. One of the most lavish books published to date on the work of a single photographer, Benedikt Taschen's sumptuous, already out of print 2006 monograph on Peter Beard rivals Helmut Newton's "Sumo" in both scale and grandeur. "Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted on by Salvador Dali, and made diaries with Andy Warhol; he toured with Truman Capote and the Rolling Stones, created books with Jacqueline Onassis and Mick Jagger - all of whom are brought to life, literally and figuratively, in his work. As a fashion photographer, he took Vogue stars like Veruschka to Africa and brought new ones - most notably Iman - back to the U.S. with him. Spilling out over the pages of this massive tome, Peter Beard's collages are reproduced as a group for the first time at the size they have always meant to be seen, some as foldouts. Hundreds of smaller-scale works and diaries fill the remaining spreads - magnified to show every detail, from Beard's meticulous handwriting and old-master-inspired drawings to stones and bones and bits of animals pasted to the page. All color illustrations are color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and color range". This elephant folio sized book is bound in half leather over boards, housed in a clamshell box, and is accompanied by a wooden viewing stand that is reminiscent of an African headrest. Its companion volume: "PB2" contains an image index with captions for all the pictures reproduced in the main book, personal photos and early work of the artist, an interview with the artist by Steven M. L. Aronson, a facsimile reprint of Beard's 1993 handwritten essay from the sold-out first issue of "Blind Spot" magazine, an extensive bibliography, and an exhibition history. A pristine example unopened in the publisher's original printed 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. 3-8228-2606-5 Inventory Number: 021757 $ 5000.00 order/inquire       (BEUYS, JOSEPH). Beuys, Joseph. JOSEPH BEUYS: WORDS WHICH CAN HEAR - DELUXE LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1981. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), 123 duotone illustrations. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only, this is the deluxe issue of the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1981 exhibition of a series of the renowned German artist's 1975 drawings on Calendar pages entitled "Words Which Can Hear" held at London's Anthony D'Offay Gallery. A pristine copy of this uncommon item BOLDLY NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Joseph Beuys in brown ink at the rear, 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: 019917 $ 900.00 order/inquire       (BEUYS, JOSEPH). Tisdall, Caroline & Joseph Beuys. JOSEPH BEUYS: DERNIER ESPACE AVEC INTROSPECTEUR 1962-1982 - DELUXE LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1982. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. Square 8vo. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (44pp), 30 b&w illustrations. Limited to five hundred copies only, this is the deluxe issue of the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1982 exhibition of sculptural objects entitled "dernier espace avec introspecteur 1964-1982" held at London's Anthony D'Offay Gallery. A pristine copy of this uncommon item BOLDLY SIGNED by Joseph Beuys in pencil on the title page, 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: 019918 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (BLAKE, TOM). Lynch, Gary & Sam George. TOM BLAKE: SURFING 1922-1932 - DELUXE BOXED ESTATE-STAMPED EDITION. Signed by the Publisher. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 1999. First Edition 1/350 Deluxe. 8vo. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards in Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 68pp, 49 duotone illustrations. Designed by Tom Adler. Tom Blake's 1935 "The Hawaiian Surfboard" is generally acknowledged as the first monograph on modern surfing, with Blake the father of surf photography. This loving tribute to Blake by noted designer/art director/publisher/surfing aficionado Tom Adler is very much in the same vein as his press' previous book; "Don James: Surfing San Onofre to Point Dune: 1936-1942". It reproduces forty-nine beautiful vintage images of Blake, Hawaiian Beach scenes, and portraits of the legendary Duke Kahanamoku in an elegantly produced package. Limited to three hundred and fifty copies only (with nearly one hundred of these destroyed by a flood at the publisher's storage area), this deluxe edition comes in a printed, sliding box, NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Tom Adler with the stamp of Tom Blake's estate on the rear colophon, as issued. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. 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. 1-890481-08-4 Inventory Number: 018900 $ 400.00 order/inquire       (BOLTANSKI, CHRISTIAN). Boltanski, Christian. CHRISTIAN BOLTANSKI: LE CLUB MICKEY - DELUXE LIMITED HARDBOUND EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. Gent, BELGIUM: Imschoot, Uitgevers, 1990. First Edition 1/55 Deluxe. 8vo. Linen Over Boards in Jacket. Artists' Book. Fine/Fine. np (30pp), 148 duotone illustrations. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held as part of the 1990 "Antichambres, Affinities Selectives" in Brussels, this charming artist's book by Christian Boltanski reproduces vintage headshots from the fifties of youthful European members of the Mickey Mouse Club. A pristine example of the uncommon deluxe hardbound edition (entry number seventy-three in Jennifer Flay's "Christian Boltanski: Catalogue - Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991") limited to fifty-five copies only SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil at the rear colophon, 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. 90-72191-22-6 Inventory Number: 019947 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (BOURGEOIS, LOUISE). Bourgeois, Louise, Marie-Laure Bernadac & Elisabeth Bronfen. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: THE INSOMNIA DRAWINGS - COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES (SPECIAL EDITION). Zurich, SWITZERLAND & New York: DAROS, Peter Blum Edition & Scalo, 2001. First Edition 1/1500 Deluxe. 4to. Linen Over Boards, Slipcased. Artist Monographs. Fine/No Jackets - As Issued.. 438 + 132pp, 445 color illustrations. Text in English and French. "Insomnia has been a lifetime companion of Louise Bourgeois' night hours. Between November 1994 and June 1995, she committed to paper whatever thoughts, memories, and images surfaced during her long sleepless nights. The resulting two hundred and twenty drawings are the quintessence of all the impulses, sources, and motifs that inspire her work. The Insomnia Drawings show the artist's mind at work: drawings and sketches alternate with poems and aphorisms in both French and English, interspersed with notes referring to the business of everyday life. The series is a unique mirror of an extraordinary woman's life and work: beautiful, disquieting, passionate, inquiring, and imbued with a quirky sense of humor. The first volume contains facsimiles of both the recto and verso of the drawings. The second volume provides the reader with valuable background information on this complex and exhilaratingly beautiful work of art". A most handsome copy (#529/1500) of this massive set still in the publisher's shrinkwrap of the elegantly produced special edition bound in debossed, silkscreened Japanese linen over boards limited to one thousand, five hundred numbered copies showing some tiny creases to a few corners of its printed cardboard slipcase. 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. 3-908247-381 Inventory Number: 021501 $ 850.00 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 and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9788754-1-9 Inventory Number: 015351 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.). Burroughs, William S.. THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS - "LUXE" EDITION SIGNED BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. Signed by the Artist. 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. 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: 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. Artist's 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. 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: 019653 $ 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. Photographic Portfolio. Near Fine (But Incomplete)/No Jacket - As Issued. iii, twenty (of twenty-three) original b&w photographic prints mounted onto 13 1/2 x 11" 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 LACKING the three plates by Callahan, Burke and Carner whose contents are all in Fine condition, and whose clamshell box shows only the most minimal wear and scuffing. PLEASE NOTE: 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 $ 500.00 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 (But Incomplete)/No Jacket - As Issued. iii, twenty-two (of twenty-four) original b&w photographic prints mounted onto 13 1/2 x 11" 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 LACKING the two plates by Callahan and Burke whose contents are all in Fine condition, and whose clamshell box shows only the most minimal wear and scuffing. PLEASE NOTE: 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003569 $ 600.00 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. Photographic Portfolio. Near Fine (But Incomplete)/No Jacket - As Issued. iii, twenty-six (of twenty-seven) original b&w photographic prints mounted onto 13 1/2 x 11" 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 LACKING the plate by Callahan whose contents are all in Fine condition, and whose clamshell box shows only the most minimal wear and scuffing. PLEASE NOTE: 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003571 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (CHARLOT, JEAN ). Morse, Peter. JEAN CHARLOT'S PRINTS: A CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ - DELUXE EDITION WITH A SIGNED ETCHING. Signed by the Artist With an Etching. Honolulu, HI: University Press of Hawaii & The Jean Charlot Foundation, 1976. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. 1/4 Blue Leather Over Boards . Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 451pp, 29 color and 700+ b&w illustrations. This is the complete catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of Jean Charlot, the French born artist best known for his involvement with Mexico's Muralist movement from the nineteen twenties through the forties. A most handsome example from the deluxe slipcased edition limited to two hundred copies only with the pencil-signed etching "Self Portrait, 1975" 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. 0-8248-0364-7 Inventory Number: 018338 $ 450.00 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. 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: 016436 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. LARRY CLARK 1. Zurich, SWITZERLAND & Milan, ITALY: Nieves & Le Case D'Arte, 2006. First Edition 1/150. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine np (18pp), 12 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies only, this is the first of two slender catalogues published as part of the Nieves "Zine" series on the occasion of the 2006 exhibition of work by Larry Clark held at the Le Case D'Arte in Milan. Issued without text, it contains images from Clark's landmark "Tulsa" series. A pristine copy of what might be the most uncommon of the photographer's many sought after publications numbered 132/150 on the rear cover in pencil, 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: 020751 $ 450.00 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. The 1971 Lustrum Press first edition is cited on page 260 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 272-73 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 25 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 208-09 of "The Book of 101 Books". This example is from the Grove Press 2000 limited slipcased edition of two hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by Larry Clark, with a SIGNED 8 x 10" 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. 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. 0-8021-1678-7 Inventory Number: 020125 $ 750.00 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, Slipcase. 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8296-0174-3 Inventory Number: 020868 $ 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. 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: 017037 $ 800.00 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 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, R(obert).. R. CRUMB COMICS: THE STORY O' MY LIFE / PEOPLE... YA GOTTA LOVE 'EM / I'M GRATEFUL! I'M GRATEFUL! - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION. Signed by the Artist. Hamburg, GERMANY: Gingko Press, 1992. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. Small Folio. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. "R. Crumb Comics" collects three short 1989 stories from everyone's favorite comix curmudgeon, R. Crumb that feature the artist as the protagonist - "The Story O' My Life", "People... Ya Gotta Love 'Em", and "I'm Grateful! I'm Grateful!". A pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to five hundred hardbound, numbered (# 8/500) slipcased copies BOLDLY SIGNED by R. Crumb in black ink on the rear colophon, 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. 3-927258-10-5 Inventory Number: 020035 $ 500.00 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 weight and value - 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, Slipcase. 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, 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. 0-87816-614-9 Inventory Number: 017560 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Introduction by Deborah Willis. TIME OF CHANGE - BRUCE DAVIDSON: CIVIL RIGHTS PHOTOGRAPHS 1961-1965 - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED, SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a b&w Photograph. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2002. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (172pp), 144 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. Photographed during the height of the American Civil Rights struggle (with most of these images uncollected in book form until this undertaking), Bruce Davidson's moving portraits of social change from the rural South to the streets of Harlem and Chicago are a revelation some forty years later. Pictured here are the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the Freedom Riders, National Guardsmen, Cracker lawmen, Klansmen, and the African-American populace undergoing their "Time of Change". A pristine copy of the Deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies only SIGNED and slipcased with an original 10 x 8" numbered and SIGNED gelatin silver print of "Mother Brown" by Bruce Davidson. 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. 0-9713681-2-0 Inventory Number: 019576 $ 1450.00 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 Sweden's 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 1950's, 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 à 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: 019544 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (DENES, AGNES). Hobbs, Robert, Donald Kuspit, Peter Selz & Lowery Stokes Sims. Introduction By Thomas Leavitt. Jill Hartz, Editor. AGNES DENES - DELUXE HARDBOUND EDITION LIMITED TO TWO HUNDRED COPIES WITH A SIGNED LITHOGRAPH LAID IN. With a Lithograph Signed by the Artist. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum Of Art, Cornell University, 1992. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jordan Davies. With a biography and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1992 retrospective held at Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum Of Art, this is the most comprehensive documentation to date on the cartography-based work of noted Conceptual artist Agnes Denes. A most handsome copy of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to two hundred copies only containing an original 8 3/4 x 12" lithograph NUMBERED (12/200) AND SIGNED by Agnes Denes in pencil on the verso laid in in its deckle-edged handmade paper folder, 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. 0-295-97277-7 Inventory Number: 021455 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (DICORCIA, PHILIP-LORCA). diCorcia, Philip-Lorca. PHILIP-LORCA DICORCIA: A STORYBOOK LIFE - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION. Numbered and Signed by the Photographer. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2003. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Oblong Small Folio. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (164pp), 75 color illustrations. This is the gorgeously produced 2003 Twin Palms survey of the work of Philip-Lorca diCorcia (one of the most significant American photographers to emerge over the past two decades) who states; "The disparate photographs assembled here were made over the course of twenty years. None of them were originally intended to be used in this book. By ordering and shaping them I tried to investigate the possibilities of narrative both within a single image and especially in relation to the other photographs. "A Storybook Life" is an attempt to discover the possibilities of meaning in the interaction of seemingly unrelated images in the hope that content can constantly mutate according to both the external and internal condition of the viewer, but remain meaningful because of its inherent, but latent content. The conscious and subconscious decisions made in editing the photographs are the real work of "A Storybook Life". A pristine copy of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies only in debossed white linen over boards numbered and SIGNED by Philip-Lorca diCorcia on the colophon, housed in the publisher's debossed sea foam green slipcase, 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. 1-931885-24-9 Inventory Number: 018866 $ 495.00 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. 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. 1-890481-18-1 Inventory Number: 021107 $ 250.00 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 and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9818465-0-5 Inventory Number: 016736 $ 700.00 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" 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 016360 $ 1750.00 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 $ 275.00 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 003881 $ 550.00 order/inquire       (FARBER, NEIL). Farber, Neil. NEIL FARBER: HEY KID. NP (Zurich, SWITZERLAND): Nieves, 2006. First Edition 1/150. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artists' Book. As New. np (24pp), 28 b&w illustrations. Limited to one hundred and fifty copies only, this is a charming little artists' book reproducing twenty-eight "Hey Kid" drawings by Royal Art Lodge member Neil Farber. A pristine copy of this uncommon gem numbered #77/150 in pencil on the rear cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 020428 $ 85.00 order/inquire       (FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig.. JAMES FEE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMERICA - AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY OF THE LIMITED HARDBOUND EDITION WITH A PHOTOGRAPH. Signed Presentation Copy from the Photographer. Los Angeles: James Fee, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (50pp), 23 duotone plates. Designed by SoS Los Angeles / Susan Silton. This beautifully printed, self-published catalogue was the first publication by the late, great Los Angeles photographer James Fee. It presents twenty-three dark and disturbing images of a haunting road trip across an unpopulated, dystopian America. A most handsome copy of the ultra-limited deluxe edition bound in black linen over debossed boards with a 5 x 5 1/4" SIGNED original silver gelatin photograph laid down on the front cover. An extraordinary association copy, this example bears the lengthy SIGNED PRESENTATION "Jean Paul, Thank you so much for everything. You really came through for me on this project. Best, James Fee 9-19-94" in black ink on the first preliminary. Jean Claude Nataf of the Bremik Press is credited as the book's printer and is thanked in the author's printed acknowledgements. 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. 0-964-0494-0-6 Inventory Number: 019818 $ 900.00 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: 019367 $ 150.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Segalen, Victor. Translated by Michael Taylor. STELES - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC COVER BY SAM FRANCIS. Signed by the Artist - with a Lithographic Cover. 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 forty-eight 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 thirty-four year old officer in the French Navy who had arrived in the Far East two years earlier. Only eighty-one 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 Sam Francis and translator Michael Taylor in black ink at the rear colophon, as issued. 0-932499-22-8 Inventory Number: 021320 $ 225.00 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" 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. 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. 1-56898-156-2 Inventory Number: 013688 $ 400.00 order/inquire       (FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee. LEE FRIEDLANDER - LIMITED HARDBOUND EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. San Francisco, CA: Fraenkel Gallery, 2000. First Edition 1/600 Deluxe. Oblong Small 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 88pp, 77 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills Design. "Self Portrait" was Lee Friedlander's first book of photographs - containing a series of images taken over the course of six years between 1964 and 1969 in which Friedlander inhabits each photo, though not always in the most obvious of ways. This 2000 publication by his longtime gallery revisits and updates the earlier book with seventy-seven new self-portraits of an older and wiser looking subject taken between 1993 and 1999. A most handsome copy of the hardbound edition limited to six hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Lee Friedlander in silver marker across the half title page. 1-881337-09-X Inventory Number: 019754 $ 150.00 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. 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. 1-881337-14-6 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. Signed by the Artist - with a 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 SIGNED by Tom Friedman 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 the artist 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-300-14258-7 Inventory Number: 016836 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (FUKASE, MASAHISA). Fukase, Masahisa. FUKASE MASAHISA: HYSTERIC TWELVE. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 2004. First Edition 1/700. 4to. Boards in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. np (84pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Toshio Shiritani (Nomade). Limited to eight hundred copies only, this is the twelfth in the estimably hip Japanese fashion/style purveyor Hysteric Glamour's series of beautifully produced limited edition photography monographs. It is a stark, textural meditation on loneliness and isolation by one of Post-war Japan's pre-eminent photographers, Masahisa Fukase (of "The Solitude of Ravens" fame). A most handsome numbered copy in the publisher's protective clear acetate dustwrapper, as issued. Inventory Number: 018833 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (FULFORD, JASON). Fulford, Jason & Adam Gilders. RAISING FROGS FOR $ $ $ - DELUXE EDITION LIMITED TO SIX COPIES SIGNED BY JASON FULFORD WITH A SIGNED COLOR PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by the Photographer with a Color Photograph. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2006. First Edition 1/6 Deluxe. 4to. Boards with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Following his two awesome J&L books "Crushed" and "Sunbird", Jason Fulford has arranged his third collection of photographs published by The Ice Plant into eight distinct chapters. Together they can be read as a game, a series of essays, an abstract visual narrative, or all of the above. The work in "Raising Frogs for $ $ $" was selected from his personal archive, and was taken in various countries between 1997 and 2005. A pristine copy of the special deluxe edition limited to six copies only produced exclusively for sale at "Art LA 2007" SIGNED by Jason Fulford in red ink on the title page accompanied by the SIGNED AND DATED 10 x 8" color print "Seoul 2003", which is also reproduced in the book. 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. 0-9776481-1-7 Inventory Number: 018846 $ 350.00 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. 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: 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. 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. 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017338 $ 900.00 order/inquire       (GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. DARK SHADOW: GEORGE & GILBERT THE SCULPTORS. Signed and Numbered by the Artists. 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 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 - LIMITED EDITION 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 (cited on page 50 of "From Fair to Fine 2") BOLDLY SIGNED by Gilbert & George in red ink on the inside front cover, as issued. 3-89611-009-8 Inventory Number: 015602 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. Hans Ulrich Obrist, Editor. OH, THE GRAND DUKE OF YORK: GILBERT & GEORGE 1972 - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTISTS. Numbered and Signed by the Artists. Koln, GERMANY: Oktagon Verlag, 1996. First Edition 1/900. 16mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English and German. Limited to nine hundred numbered copies, this is a charming photographically illustrated artists' flip-book by Gilbert & George reproducing the photographic sequence "Oh, the Grand old Duke of York". First published by the British conceptualists as part of a 1972 Kunstmuseum Luzern catalogue of the same name, it captures the pair descending an imposing stone staircase and walking directly towards the viewer. A pristine copy (cited on page 50 of "From Fair to Fine 2") NUMBERED 00461/900 AND BOLDLY SIGNED by Gilbert & George in red ink on the inside front cover, as issued. 3-89611-007-1 Inventory Number: 021791 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John. Introduction by Jane Livingston. STADT DES SCHWARZ / EIGHTEEN PHOTOGRAPHS OF BERLIN BY JOHN GOSSAGE - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WITH A PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed and Numbered with a Print. Washington, D.C.: Loosestrife Editions, 1987. First Edition 1/500. Folio. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. np (36pp), 17 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. Designed by Gabriele F. Gotz, Ulrich Gorlich and John Gossage. Text in English. Limited to five hundred copies only, this extraordinarily beautiful, oversized 1987 monograph from Loosestrife Editions presents eighteen moody, noir-ish images of Berlin and its environs as seen through the lens of the redoubtable John Gossage. The front cover of the sleek black linen binding features a laid down 8 1/2 x 6 3/4" silver gelatin photograph printed by the author. A most handsome example (cited on page 149 of "From Fair to Fine 3") BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED (No. 20/500) in black ink by John Gossage on the front preliminary, 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: 018249 $ 1500.00 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' 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-5069-1 Inventory Number: 020377 $ 1000.00 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 (cited on page 80 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter" and page 152 of "From Fair to Fine 3") is signed and numbered, containing an original 5 1/8 x 4" b&w print of a photogram collaged from multiple exposures of men's magazine nudes tipped in at the rear of the book. A pristine copy. 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. 1-590050-31-2 Inventory Number: 016700 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (HERMS, GEORGE) (TAMBLYN, AMBER). Tamblyn, Amber & George Herms. THE LONELIEST. Initialed and Numbered by the Artist. Los Angeles: The Love Press (George Herms), 2004. First Edition 1/300. 4to. Loose Prints in Printed Box. Illustrated Book. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (102pp), 50 color illustrations. Published as a boxed edition of three hundred copies, "The Loneliest" is a poem-book inspired by Thelonious Monk and his music in which the Haiku poetry of Amber Tamblyn is coupled with original collages by George Herms. It consists of fifty individual sheets of 80# Cougar White Cover stock printed recto only that combine a single Haiku poem with a vivid color photo collage, accompanied by a single loose colophon sheet. These are gathered in a vellum portfolio laid into a cardboard box bearing a black and white image of Thelonious Monk affixed to the cover. A most handsome artist's proof example of this uncommon item INITIALED AND NUMBERED "GH 20/30" by Herms in pencil on the verso of the colophon, 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: 021899 $ 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 a Color Iris Print. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 90pp, 35 color illustrations. "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. A pristine example from the deluxe state of one hundred copies only (issued in numbered editions of twenty-five copies each of four different images) SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER with the 9 3/4 x 9 3/4" SIGNED color Iris Print "Along The River Tiber" laid in, 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. 1-889195-45-6 Inventory Number: 019609 $ 350.00 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 a Color Iris Print. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 90pp, 35 color illustrations. "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. A pristine example from the deluxe state of one hundred copies only (issued in numbered editions of twenty-five copies each of four different images) SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER with the 9 3/4 x 9 3/4" SIGNED color Iris Print "Prostitute's Stand" laid in, 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. 1-889195-45-6 Inventory Number: 019608 $ 350.00 order/inquire       (HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. TODD HIDO: CRACKED TREES (ONE PICTURE BOOK #59) - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER WITH A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH TIPPED IN. Signed by the Photographer with a Color Photograph. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 5 color illustrations. Limited to five hundred copies only, this fifty-ninth installment of Nazraeli Press' charming "One Picture Book" series contains "four reproductions of watercolor paintings by the students of Mrs. Flores' 08-09 monolingual First Grade class at Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Waukegan, Illinois" along with a 3 3/4 x 4 3/4" color type C photographic print of an actual cracked tree - in fog - tipped in. A pristine copy SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Todd Hido in ink on the verso of the print, as issued. 1-59005-292-1 Inventory Number: 018584 $ 145.00 order/inquire       (HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. TODD HIDO: CROOKED CRACKED TREE IN FOG (ONE PICTURE BOOK #60) - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER WITH A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH TIPPED IN. Signed by the Photographer with a Color Photograph. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 5 color illustrations. Limited to five hundred copies only, this sixtieth installment of Nazraeli Press' charming "One Picture Book" series contains "four reproductions of collages by the students of Ms. Campos' 08-09 monolingual First Grade class at Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Waukegan, Illinois" along with a 3 3/4 x 4 3/4" color type C photographic print of an actual crooked cracked tree - in fog - tipped in. A pristine copy SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Todd Hido in ink on the verso of the print, as issued. 1-59005-292-1 Inventory Number: 018585 $ 145.00 order/inquire       (HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. TODD HIDO: TAFT STREET (ONE PICTURE BOOK #6) - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER WITH A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH TIPPED IN. Signed by the Photographer with a Color Photograph. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2001. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (18pp), 5 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to five hundred copies only, this sixth installment of Nazraeli Press' charming "One Picture Book" series contains four reproductions of the photographer's large scale color format views of a single suburban San Francisco home captured in the dead of night during each of the seasons along with a 4 3/4 x 3 3/4" color type C photographic print of the Spring image tipped in. A pristine copy SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Todd Hido 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 - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-59005-017-7 Inventory Number: 018233 $ 750.00 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 (the standard edition is cited on page 153 of "From Fair to Fine 3") 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 weight and value - 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. 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. 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       (HIRST, DAMIEN). Hirst, Damien, Iwona Blazwick, Charles Hall & Sophie Calle. DAMIEN HIRST - LIMITED EDITION OF TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES BOUND IN FULL LEATHER SIGNED BY THE ARTIST WITH A DRAWING. Signed by the Artist With a Drawing. London: Institute of Contemporary Art & Jay Jopling, 1991. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. Small 4to. Debossed Leather Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (64pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Form, London. This is the catalogue issued on the occasion of Damien Hirst's tour-de-force 1991 Institute of Contemporary Art London exhibition - the enfant terrible of the New British Art scene's very first one-man museum presentation. The first monographic publication on his work, this elegant document reproduces each of the exhibited butterfly paintings, dot paintings and glass vitrine pieces, and includes a transcribed interview between Hirst and Sophie Calle. A most handsome example from the exceedingly uncommon edition of two hundred and fifty numbered copies (#114/250) bound in full dark blue leather over boards debossed with yellow lettering BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A DRAWING of a smoldering cigarette in black ink on the verso of the last page, 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. 0-905263-53-7 Inventory Number: 021554 $ 5500.00 order/inquire       (HIRST, DAMIEN). Moynihan, Danny. BOOGIE-WOOGIE - DELUXE LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY DAMIEN HIRST AND DANNY MOYNIHAN. Signed by the Author and the Artist. London: Duck Editions, 2000. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. 8vo. Cloth in Dust Jacket. As New/As New. 254pp. Cover Art by Damien Hirst. "Boogie-Woogie" is British author Danny Moynihan's first novel - a witty, thinly veiled satire skewering the avarice and mores of the 1990s art scene that was adapted as the scabrous 2009 feature film directed by Duncan Ward. A pristine example from the deluxe edition limited to five hundred numbered copies (#264/500) SIGNED by Danny Moynihan in black ink on the title page as well as BOLDLY SIGNED by designer Damien Hirst in black ink on the rear of the dust jacket, 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. 0-7156-3021-0 Inventory Number: 021844 $ 350.00 order/inquire       (HOCKNEY, DAVID). Hockney, David. Stephen Spender, Editor. HOCKNEY'S ALPHABET: DRAWINGS BY DAVID HOCKNEY & WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS EDITED BY STEPHEN SPENDER - SIGNED AND SLIPCASED SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION. Signed by the Artist and Author. London: Faber and Faber Ltd. for the AIDS Crisis Trust, 1991. First Edition Thus. 4to. Buckram in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (128pp), 27 color illustrations. Designed by Ron Costley. Conceived for the benefit of London's AIDS Crisis Trust, "Stephen Spender invited a number of distinguished writers in Britain and America to contribute original texts to accompany an Alphabet specially drawn by David Hockney. The letters were allotted by Stephen Spender, who has himself written a poem and the preface. Those who responded, in order of appearance in the book are 'A' Stephen Spender, 'B' Joyce Carol Oates, 'C' Iris Murdoch, 'D' Paul Theroux, 'E' Gore Vidal, 'F' Norman Mailer, 'G' Seamus Heaney, 'H' Martin Amis, 'I' Erica Jong, 'J' Ian McEwan, 'K' Nigel Nicolson, 'L' Margaret Drabble, 'M' Craig Raine, 'N' William Boyd, 'O' V.S. Pritchett, 'P' Doris Lessing, 'Q' William Golding, 'R' Arthur Miller, 'S' Ted Hughes, 'T' Kazuo Ishiguro, 'U' Julian Barnes, 'V' John Updike, 'W' Susan Sontag, 'X' Anthony Burgess, 'Y' Douglas Adams, and 'Z' Patrick Leigh Fermor. An unpublished letter by T.S. Eliot has been given by Mrs. Valerie Eliot, and Lord Norwich has found an extraordinary 19th century alphabet poem ''Alphabetical Alliteration'' by C.C. Bombaugh". A pristine example of the 1991 unnumbered "Signed Special Edition bound in yellow full library buckram, lettered in gilt on a coloured panel on the spine, and preserved in a cloth slipcase" BOLDLY SIGNED by Hockney and Spender in ink on the front colophon, as issued, with the publisher's four page prospectus additionally laid in. 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. 0-571-16544-3 Inventory Number: 019707 $ 650.00 order/inquire       (HOMMA, TAKASHI). Homma, Takashi. TAKASHI HOMMA: TOKYO AND MY DAUGHTER - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION WITH A SIGNED COLOR PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by the Photographer - with a Color Print. NP (Zurich, SWITZERLAND): Nieves, 2006. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. np (32pp), profusely illustrated in color + color covers. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Tokyo and My Daughter" is the slender, charming 2006 book of photographs by Takashi Homma of his daughter, apartment, and Tokyo environs. A pristine copy of the deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered copies only BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A SMALL DRAWING OF THE SUN by Takashi Homma in silver marker on the rear cover with a 6 x 8 3/4" SIGNED AND NUMBERED color photograph of an interior image that does not appear in the book laid in, 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. 3-905714-10-8 Inventory Number: 020115 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (HOMMA, TAKASHI). Homma, Takashi, Ryo Kase & Aya Muto. TAKASHI HOMMA: 35 YEARS LATER - SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION LIMITED TO THREE HUNDRED COPIES. Signed by the Photographer and Authors. Tokyo: The Thunderstorm Press, 2009. First Edition 1/300. Oblong Folio. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 62pp, 15 color illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. "The cabin which stood for an ultimate freedom for one generation, set against the California coast, becomes the location to unravel the emotion and the history the place has had and continues to carry on. An open conversation to a book published by Margaretta Mitchell and Dorothea Lange in 1973, three authors traveled to the very cabin (in which Mitchell and Lange once lived, and culled their inspiration from) one summer and channeled the meaning of the place by observing, reading, and listening". "35 Years Later" is Takashi Homma, Ryo Kase and Aya Muto's deeply personal collaborative literary and photographic meditation on Dorothea Lange and Margaretta Mitchell's "To A Cabin". It is an oblong, oversized artists' book printed on both vellum and newsprint that is uniquely bound to a grey chipboard backing sheet with two industrial bolts. A pristine copy from the edition limited to three hundred copies only numbered 297/300 and SIGNED by Takashi Homma, Ryo Kase and Aya Muto in black ink on the rear cover, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9841944-1-X Inventory Number: 021343 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Marin. Introduction by Brooke Hayward. DENNIS HOPPER: 1712 NORTH CRESCENT HEIGHTS - PHOTOGRAPHS 1962-1968 - DELUXE BOXED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH. With an Original Print Signed by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2001. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np, 129 b&w illustrations. Designed by Dmitri Levas. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the New Hollywood. Published in 2001 by the late, great Greybull Press, "1712 North Crescent Heights" is the beautifully designed and printed successor to Hopper's "Out of the Sixties". Compiled by Dennis and Brooke Hayward's daughter Marin, it provides an incredible glimpse into the art, music, film and fashion scenes of Sixties L.A. as documented by a very talented observer. Candid photographs of the Hopper home and family are accompanied by portraits of Peter Fonda, Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda, Teri Garr and Toni Basil, Dianne Baker, Tuesday Weld, Bill Cosby, Sandy Dennis and George Segal, Steve McQueen, Bob Rafelson, The Buffalo Springfield, The Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Phil and Ronnie Spector, Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, Peggy Moffitt, Rudi Gernreich and Leon Bing, Bruce Conner, Irving Blum and Jasper Johns, Virginia Dwan, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Judd Marmor, and even 1967's "Riot on Sunset Strip". Virtually all of the images in this must-have for any cultured bedside or coffee table are previously unpublished! A most handsome example from the deluxe edition of one hundred copies only (#63/100) issued in an orange linen clamshell box containing the 14 x 11" black and white photographic print "Love In Twins at 1712...1966" (SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Dennis Hopper in pencil on the verso), in an orange linen clamshell box that shows just a bit of light wear and soiling. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its size and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9672366-5-7 Inventory Number: 021901 $ 1600.00 order/inquire       (HUGNET, GEORGES) (DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Hugnet, Georges. GEORGES HUGNET: LA SEPTIEME FACE DU DÉ: 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 $ 11000.00 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. Four individual 4 1/2 x 6 3/4" black and white photographic reproductions 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 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. Four individual 4 1/2 x 6 3/4" black and white photographic reproductions 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 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. Four individual 4 1/2 x 6 3/4" black and white photographic reproductions 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 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. Four individual 4 1/2 x 6 3/4" black and white photographic reproductions 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 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. Five 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" 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 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: 016698 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (JEWELL, DICK). Jewell, Dick. FOUND PHOTOS - SIGNED AND NUMBERED FIRST EDITION. Signed and Numbered by the Photographer. NP (London): NP (Self Published), 1977. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Pictorial Self Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine. np, profusely illustrated in color and monochrome. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Found Photos" is British artist Dick Jewell's prescient little artist's book 'devoted entirely to photobooth pictures all of which have been discarded, and in most cases I have found them in the vicinity of the machine that took them". An internally bright, handsome copy of the exceedingly uncommon 1977 first edition (cited on page 222 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") limited to five hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED (#294/500) by Dick Jewell in black ink on the colophon, as issued, showing some light overall wear and handling to the covers and spine. In addition, an example of the author's creased (as is typical) contemporary business card cum bookmark is laid in. 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: 021613 $ 1750.00 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 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (JOHANSON, CHRIS). Johanson, Chris. I AM GLAD FOR YOU THAT YOU EXIST BY CHRIS JOHANSON. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Nieves, 2006. First Edition 1/150. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New. np (22pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Chris Johanson takes over where Raymond Pettibon leaves off. Less angry and witty than his predecessor, Johanson scribbles colorful, dead-on portraits of street culture and the yuppies, hippies, hipsters, losers, and drunkards who inhabit it". Published by Nieves in a numbered edition of one hundred and fifty numbered copies only, this is a charming, slender little artist's book of drawings by the San Francisco based Chris Johanson. A pristine copy of this exceptionally uncommon item. Inventory Number: 019916 $ 150.00 order/inquire       (JOHNSTON, DANIEL). Johnston, Daniel. DANIEL JOHNSTON: WHERE ARE THE DUCKS WHEN YOU NEED THEM?. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Nieves, 2007. First Edition 1/150. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New. np (20pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Published in conjunction with his 2007 exhibition at Domy Books in Houston entitled "Where are the Ducks When You Need Them?", this is a charming, slender little artist's book of the fanciful drawings and watercolors of everyone's favorite Austin based musical outsider, Daniel Johnston. A pristine copy of this exceptionally uncommon item published by Nieves in a numbered edition limited to one hundred and fifty copies only. Inventory Number: 019631 $ 125.00 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 WITH AN ADDITIONAL ASSOCIATION PRESENTATION. Signed Presentation Copy from the Artist. New York & Cologne, GERMANY: Thea Westreich & Gisela Capitain, 1990. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Illustrated Boards in Jacket. Artist's Book. As New/As New. 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 #153/250 by Mike Kelley in black ink on the colophon, as issued with an additional SIGNED PRESENTATION "To ..., all my best, Mike Kelley 1992" in black ink on the half title page in the publisher's unprinted cardboard shipping carton. 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: 021470 $ 5500.00 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       (KIPPENBERGER, MARTIN). Kippenberger, Martin. MARTIN KIPPENBERGER: HOTEL - HOTEL - SIGNED AND NUMBERED EDITION OF ONE HUNDRED COPIES. Koln, GERMANY: Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1992. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine. np (496pp), 246 b&w illustrations. This charming 1992 Martin Kippenberger artist book was published as the first of a trilogy of the late German artist's whimsical drawings executed on stationery from hotels around the world. A most handsome copy (entry number one hundred and nine in Uwe Koch's "Annotated catalogue raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger 1977 - 1997") from the edition of one hundred NUMBERED (#73/100) copies SIGNED AND DATED "Martin Kippenberger 92" in blue ink on the title page, as issued, showing a few negligible soft creases to the rear cover. 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. 3-88375-143-X Inventory Number: 021332 $ 3000.00 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 Deluxe. 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 Koons’ 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-4944-8 Inventory Number: 018016 $ 2700.00 order/inquire       (KRIMS, LES). Krims, Les. Introduction by Hollis Frampton. FICTCRYPTOKRIMSOGRAPHS: A BOOK WORK BY LES KRIMS - LIMITED EDITION WITH A SIGNED COLOR PHOTOGRAPH. Signed by the Photographer - with a Signed Print. Buffalo, NY: Humpy Press Inc., 1975. First Edition 1/125 Deluxe. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. np (94pp), 40 color illustrations. Designed by Les Krims. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Fictcryptokrimsographs" is one of Les Krims' charming self-published photography books from the seventies. It reproduces in miniature forty vaguely erotic, always humorous Polaroid SX-70 prints along with an introductory essay by the esteemed Hollis Frampton. A bright, most handsome copy of the deluxe edition this little gem (cited on page 244 of Alessandro Bertolotti's "Books of Nudes") limited to one hundred and twenty five copies only bearing the Humpy Press Inc. blindstamp SIGNED AND DATED "Krims 76" in pencil on the front free endpaper with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED (#4/125) 1/4 x 3 1/2" color print of "Goldfish Bowl Press and Plug 1974" (reproduced as plate number 2) laid into a glassine envelope affixed to the inside front cover, 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: 021819 $ 725.00 order/inquire       (KUBRICK, STANLEY). Castle, Alison, Jan Harlan & Christiane Kubrick. Alison Castle, Editor. THE STANLEY KUBRICK ARCHIVES - THE FIRST EDITION WITH INTERVIEW CD + "2001" FILMSTRIP. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2005. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Debossed Boards. Film Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 544pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an Audio CD. "The making of this book has been something of an odyssey: two years of traveling through time and space to the heart of Stanley Kubrick's universe, where I not only had the unprecedented privilege of having access to his archives, but also the invaluable guidance of those who were closest to him. Endeavoring to uncover each and every artifact that could cast light upon Kubrick's creative process, I scoured the archives, gathering the most illuminating items, from bits of paper covered with hurriedly scribbled notes to photographs taken by Kubrick on the sets of his films. Hunched over hundreds upon hundreds of contact sheets with my loupe, I was able to select images that had never been printed before, let alone seen; rifling through screenplay drafts I found references to scenes that were never filmed, and among the photos I found images of sequences that were abandoned; reading Kubrick's notes and letters, I discovered not only clues to his thought processes but also his curious love affair with various types of stationery, typewriters, and pens. Searching through the often chaotic mountains of material was an exhilarating experience: each and every "discovery" was like a minor miracle, a defining moment, an epiphany. Part two of this book features the result of this gleaning: an eclectic collection of material that represents the nuts and bolts of Kubrick's creative history. To help guide readers through the expedition is a selection of articles and essays by noted Kubrick scholars as well as a generous selection of material "from the horse's mouth" (i.e. Kubrick letters, essays, and interviews), refuting the popular misconception that Kubrick was a recluse who didn't or wouldn't talk about his work". This is Taschen's lavishly illustrated history of Kubrick's oeuvre from "Fear and Desire" through "Eyes Wide Shut" - the most comprehensive survey of the late, great director's work to date. A most handsome copy of the lavish, oversized 2005 first printing complete with audio CD and twelve frame filmstrip snipped from Kubrick's own 70mm print of "2001: A Space Odyssey" (that appears only in this edition) 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 size and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-2284-1 Inventory Number: 021956 $ 650.00 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 Deluxe. 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1617-5 Inventory Number: 014523 $ 2700.00 order/inquire       (LANG, CHARLES B.). Starr, Frederick. INDIANS OF SOUTHERN MEXICO: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC ALBUM. Signed and Numbered by the Author. Chicago: Printed for the Author by the Lakeside Press, 1899. First Edition 1/560. Oblong Small Folio. Gilt Debossed Cloth. Photography Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket. xxxii + cxli (350pp), 141 monochrome gravure illustrations. "Indians of Southern Mexico: An Ethnographic Album" is Frederick Starr's beautifully illustrated ethnographic survey of the indigenous peoples of the southern states of Mexico at the close of the nineteenth century. It was printed for the author in 1899 utilizing letterpress and gravure in an edition of five hundred and sixty copies only at Chicago's fabled Lakeside Press. Reproducing photographers Charles B. Lang and Bedros Tartarian's albumen images from the author's 1896 and 1898 expeditions amongst the Aztec, Chontal, Cuicatec and Chinantec, Juave, Mixe, Mixtec, Otomi, Tarascan, Tehuantepecano, Tlaxcalan, Triqui, and Zapotec tribes along with a descriptive text, to this day it remains a standard work in the field. A handsome copy of this elegant tome SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Frederick Starr in black ink on the front colophon, as issued, showing only minor wear to the extremities and tips of its still bright, navy blue gilt debossed cloth along with a few insignificant surface abrasions to the front and rear boards. With one hundred and forty-one photographic plates and weighing nearly eleven pounds, this title's binding and hinges are notoriously fragile. The massive textblock exhibits some typical play and slight pulling to the signatures, however it remains remarkably sturdy given its age and weight. The rear hinge is well preserved but for two small starts, with the front hinge revealing some separating along its length that has been securely repaired using archival adhesive without the need for reinforcement. The endpapers and edges show light wear and soiling, while the plates are bright and crisp with the occasional minor blemish to the margins. This particular example (number 440 of five hundred impressions on "heavy plate paper") was circulated in the 1993 Museum exhibition "Mexico Through Foreign Eyes: 1850-1990" curated by Carole Naggar and Fred Ritchin, and reproduced in the comprehensive catalogue published by W.W. Norton. All in all, it is a spectacular age-appropriate copy of this exceptionally striking and important Mexican ethnography. 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: 019354 $ 1590.00 order/inquire       (LEIFER, NEIL). Leifer, Neil, Ron Shelton & Gabriel Schechter. Eric Kroll, Editor. NEIL LEIFER: BALLET IN THE DIRT - THE GOLDEN AGE OF BASEBALL - LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED FIRST EDITION . Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2007. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. 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: 021272 $ 750.00 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. 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 weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8180-1422-9 Inventory Number: 016847 $ 1100.00 order/inquire     [1/3]

 

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