SIGNED BOOKS

(ABELES, KIM). Sims, Patterson. William S. Bartman & Lucinda Barnes, Editors. Interview By Michael McMillan. KIM ABELES - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles: A.R.T. Press, 1988. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 32pp, 25 b&w and 7 color illustrations + covers. Designed by Lausten / Cossuta Design. With an exhibition history. This was the first monograph on noted Los Angeles contemporary artist Kim Abeles. A pristine copy SIGNED by the artist in black ink on the title page. 0-923183-01-9 Inventory Number: 009355 $ 20.00 order/inquire       (ADAMS, ROBERT). Adams, Robert. ROBERT ADAMS: INTERIORS 1973-1974 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition 1/1000. Folio. Loose Plates in Portfolio. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. (np) 28pp, 24 loose duotone illustrations. Limited to one thousand copies, this is an elegant portfolio that individually reproduces twenty-four contemplative photographs of rather mundane domestic interiors in the Denver area taken by Robert Adams between 1973 and 1974 and recently rediscovered. A most handsome copy in the publisher's debossed cloth presentation case as issued, BOLDLY SIGNED by Robert Adams in black ink on the title page. 1-59005-064-9 Inventory Number: 015433 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (AFANADOR, RUVEN). Afanador, Ruven. Foreword by Jean-Paul Gaultier. RUVEN AFANADOR: SOMBRA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. London & New York: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2004. First Edition. Small Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (192pp), profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Monica Sziladi at Hoopycake! "Sombra" is the lavishly produced second book by noted New York fashion photographer Ruven Afanador. The title is taken from his native Columbian childhood, meaning the act of one's shadow being captured in a photographic portrait. As with Afanador's exquisite first book, "Torero", the images are entirely of men. Beautifully staged, some elaborately toned or solarized, these nudes as seductive as they are compelling. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED in black ink by Ruven Afanador on the first preliminary. 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. 1-85894-249-7 Inventory Number: 018130 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (ALECHINSKY, PIERRE). Alechinsky, Pierre & Eugene Ionesco. Foreword by Leon A. Arkus. ALECHINSKY - WITH AN ORIGINAL SIGNED COLOR LITHOGRAPH. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 260pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with Pierre Alechinsky's receiving the first Andrew W. Mellon Prize, and an attendant exhibition at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, this was the first comprehensive English monograph on the noted Belgian artist. It is copiously illustrated (including "sixteen pages especially produced by the artist"), and features numerous texts by Alechinsky as well as an introduction by renowned playwright Eugene Ionesco. Limited to one hundred copies only, this is from the edition that is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED color lithograph laid in, as issued. A most handsome copy. 0-8109-0656-2 Inventory Number: 014343 $ 550.00 order/inquire       (ALI, MUHAMMAD) (KOONS, JEFF). . Taschen, Benedikt, Muhammad Ali, Howard L. Bingham, Neil Leifer, et al. Helmut Sorge, Editor. GOAT (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) COLLECTORS EDITION: A TRIBUTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI - SIGNED BY ALI AND WITH A LITHOGRAPH BY JEFF KOONS. Signed by the Artist and the Pugilist. Köln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2004. First Edition 1/9000. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Clamshell Box. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 792pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. "Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable personalities of our time and the greatest sportsman ever to walk the earth. To honor this living legend, Benedikt Taschen has created a work that is epic in scale and as unique and vibrant as the man himself. A worthy tribute to his life should reflect the scale of his achievements, and GOAT is fully up to that task". Bound in pink leather (the color of Ali's first Cadillac) by the official bindery for the Vatican, it weighs in at over seventy-five pounds, and contains over three thousand images - photographs, art and memorabilia (much of it published for the first time) from over one hundred and fifty photographers and artists. The text features original essays as well as the best interviews and writing on Ali of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling six hundred thousand words. A pristine copy of this massive undertaking still in the publisher's unopened shipping carton SIGNED by both Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons, with the specially executed photo-lithograph "Radial Champs" by the artist Koons, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-822816-27-2 Inventory Number: 013446 $ 4000.00 order/inquire       (ALI, MUHAMMAD) (KOONS, JEFF). . Taschen, Benedikt, Muhammad Ali, Howard L. Bingham, Neil Leifer, et al. Helmut Sorge, Editor. GOAT (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) COLLECTORS EDITION: A TRIBUTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI - SIGNED BY ALI AND WITH A LITHOGRAPH BY JEFF KOONS. Signed by the Artist and the Pugilist. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2004. First Edition 1/9000. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Clamshell Box. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 792pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. "Muhammad Ali is one of the most remarkable personalities of our time and the greatest sportsman ever to walk the earth. To honor this living legend, Benedikt Taschen has created a work that is epic in scale and as unique and vibrant as the man himself. A worthy tribute to his life should reflect the scale of his achievements, and GOAT is fully up to that task". Bound in pink leather (the color of Ali's first Cadillac) by the official bindery for the Vatican, it weighs in at over seventy-five pounds, and contains over three thousand images - photographs, art and memorabilia (much of it published for the first time) from over one hundred and fifty photographers and artists. The text features original essays as well as the best interviews and writing on Ali of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling six hundred thousand words. A pristine copy of this massive undertaking still in the publisher's unopened shipping carton SIGNED by both Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons, with the specially executed photo-lithograph "Radial Champs" by the artist Koons, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-822816-27-2 Inventory Number: 014633 $ 3500.00 order/inquire       (ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi & Jerome Sans. ARAKI - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. First Edition 1/2500. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 636pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English, German and French. With a biography and bibliography. "Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender". Limited to two-thousand, five hundred copies worldwide, this massive volume (the first of Taschen's XXXL series) pares down decades of Nobuyoshi Araki's oeuvre into a thousand or so images that tell the story of the renowned Japanese photographer and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. A pristine copy numbered and BOLDLY SIGNED by Araki in black ink on the title page housed in a clamshell box still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-1292-7 Inventory Number: 014522 $ 3150.00 order/inquire       (ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi. Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Editor. NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: POLAEROID - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Initialed and Numbered by the Photographer. Koln, GERMANY & New York: Oktagon Verlag, 1997. First Edition 1/800. 16mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in German. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to eight hundred copies only, this elegant little artist's book cum survey by the legendary Japanese provocateur Nobuyoshi Araki reproduces Polaroid images of bound, (mostly) naked female models alternating with lush floral still lifes. A pristine copy BOLDLY INITIALED "A" AND NUMBERED by Araki in black ink on the front free endpaper, as issued. 3-89611-038-1 Inventory Number: 015749 $ 290.00 order/inquire       (ARCENEAUX, EDGAR). Arceneaux, Edgar. Franklin Sirmans, Editor. EDGAR ARCENEAUX: 107TH STREET WATTS - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Frankfurt am Main, GERMANY: Revolver Archiv fur Aktuelle Kunst, 2003. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. np + np (18 + 20pp), 1 b&w illustration. Text in English. "In his conceptual photography project "107th Street Watts", Edgar Arceneaux follows a desire to produce a number of strong visual counter-arcs to a relentlessly mediated social space, as well as a desire to ignite a critique of the narrow histories of Los AngelesÆ provocative past. Expanding the traditional subjects of Southern California artistic practice, the artist photographed an area of the world known through a singular event in its history: the Watts Riots of 1965. Performing the type of clinical overlay of the street in the manner of Ed Ruscha and his well-known 1966 mapping of the Sunset Strip, "107th Street Watts" formally mimics Ruschaæs piece by shooting every building on 107th Street (the location of the historic Watts Towers) in a photomontage across one page folded like an accordion, allowing for it to be opened and pulled completely out for an undisturbed viewing from end to end". Housed in the publisher's glossy white unprinted slipcase , there is a second, companion volume containing essays by Malik Charles Gaines, Lynell George and Vincent Johnson. A bright,most handsome example SIGNED by Edgar Arceneaux in black ink on the rear endpaper of the text volume. 3-934823-82-3 Inventory Number: 017784 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (ASHER, MICHAEL) (MUDFORD, GRANT). Longhauser, Elsa & Miwon Kwon. MICHAEL ASHER: JANUARY 26 - APRIL 12, 2008 - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Spiral Bound Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. As New. np (74pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by William Longhauser. This is the lovely catalogue documenting renowned Los Angeles based conceptual artist Michael Asher's most recent site-specific installation. Commissioned for the Santa Monica Museum of Art's twentieth anniversary, Asher stripped its interior down to the shell, then reconstructed each of the temporary walls erected for exhibition installations between May 1998 through December 2007 (as drawn from the construction floor plans housed in the Museums archives) using aluminum studs, but no drywall. The result was a gleaming, claustrophobic but navigable maze in which the only art was present was Asher's architectural barriers. The catalogue includes reproductions of the original exhibition floor plans, Miwon Kwon's essay "Support and Decoration: Michael Asher's Critique of the Architecture of Display", and gorgeous full-color documentation of the finished project (including four multi-page foldout plates) by noted architectural photographer Grant Mudford. A pristine copy SIGNED by Michael Asher in blue ink on the title page. 0-9475108-4-X Inventory Number: 015803 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (BACON, FRANCIS). Ades, Dawn, Andrew Forge, Andrew Durham & Krzysztof Cieszkowski. Foreword by Alan Bowness. FRANCIS BACON - AN EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED TO R.B. KITAJ. Signed Presentation Copy from the Artist. London: The Tate Gallery, Thames and Hudson, Ltd. & Global Asset Management, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Gilt Debossed Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 246pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology, exhibition checklist and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the triumphant 1985 Francis Bacon exhibition organized by the Tate Gallery - one of the very few times the venerable British venue had presented a second retrospective to a British artist in their lifetime. Consisting of one hundred and twenty-five paintings executed between 1944 and 1984, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of Bacon's work, and the last great museum show before the influential artist's death in 1992. A most handsome copy of the special hors commerce edition bound in gilt-debossed orange linen (issued without dust jacket) for promotional use by the exhibition's corporate underwriter Global Asset Management Limited, this example was BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "To R.B. Kitaj with very best wishes Francis Bacon" by the artist in black ink on the half-title page at the Tate opening. Ronald Brooks Kitaj was the American born, London based artist who shared a thirty year affiliation with Bacon at Marlborough Galley, and as colleagues in the informal, Kitaj-coined "School of London" clan of figurative artists. The association is made all the more poignant as Kitaj's own Tate retrospective a decade later proved to be one of the most critically vilified shows there of all time, irreparably affecting the artist's career. This volume was purchased by us directly from Mr. Kitaj in the month preceding his 2007 passing. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017954 $ 6000.00 order/inquire       (BALDESSARI, JOHN). Baldessari, John. ZORRO (TWO GESTURES AND ONE MARK) - SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY JOHN BALDESSARI. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Koln, GERMANY & New York: Oktagon, 1998. First Edition 1/800. Oblong 16mo. Printed Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine. np, 77 b&w illustrations. Limited to eight hundred copies only, this is an extremely charming "flip book" profusely illustrated with cinematic images of three male screen icons: Jean Paul Belmondo (from "Breathless" - smoking of course), Zorro (slashing his "Z" on a wall), and Humphrey Bogart (as his mood changes). A pristine copy SIGNED AND NUMBERED by John Baldessari in black ink on the inside covers. 3-89611-045-4 Inventory Number: 016878 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (BALLEN, ROGER). Ballen, Roger. ROGER BALLEN: OUTLAND - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. London & New York. 2001 (2009).: Phaidon Press Ltd., Later Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 120pp, 61 duotone illustrations. Designed by SMITH. "Outland" is the culmination of almost twenty years' work for artist-photographer Roger Ballen. After beginning in the early 1980s by documenting the small dorps (or villages) of rural South Africa, by the late 1980s and early 1990s Ballen moved on to photographing their inhabitants: isolated rural whites, scarred by history, in the process of losing the privileges of apartheid which had provided them livelihoods and sustained their identity for a generation. The results were shocking, both powerful social statements and disturbing psychological studies". A pristine copy of the 2009 printing SIGNED by Roger Ballen in black ink on the title page. 0-7148-4058-0 Inventory Number: 017887 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (BALLEN, ROGER). Ballen, Roger & David Travis. ROGER BALLEN: BOARDING HOUSE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. London & New York. 2009 (2010).: Phaidon Press Ltd., Later Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 128pp, 67 b&w illustrations. Designed by Lucy Newell. "Boarding House" captures an imaginary space of transient residence, of comings and goings, focusing on the evocative drawings and sculptural objects as well as the people and animals found there. Compelling and thought-provoking, the sixty-seven photographs (many of them previously unpublished) are like images from a waking dream; with layers of rich detail, flashes of dark humour and an altered sense of place". A pristine copy of the hardbound 2010 printing BOLDLY SIGNED by Roger Ballen in black marker on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-7148-4952-9 Inventory Number: 017889 $ 150.00 order/inquire       (BALLEN, ROGER). Ballen, Roger & Robert Sobieszek. ROGER BALLEN: SHADOW CHAMBER - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. London & New York. 2005 (2009).: Phaidon Press Ltd., Later Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 128pp, 61 b&w illustrations. Designed by Lucy Newell. "In "Shadow Chamber", Roger Ballen focuses on the interactions between the people, animals and objects that inhabit his unique image space. The rooms in his pictures are actual places that we know to exist, yet they are made unsettling and strange, logical yet utterly impossible. The human and animal beings in Ballen's photographs appear isolated, estranged and lost, yet strangely empowered at the same time". A pristine copy of the hardbound 2009 printing BOLDLY SIGNED by Roger Ballen in black marker on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-7148-4466-7 Inventory Number: 017888 $ 135.00 order/inquire       (BALTZ, LEWIS). Baltz, Lewis & Cornelia Butler.. LEWIS BALTZ: THE POLITICS OF BACTERIA/DOCILE BODIES/RONDE DE NUIT - SIGNED BY LEWIS BALTZ. Signed by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art & RAM Publications, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 59pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the stylishly designed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1998 Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition consisting of three installations of Lewis Baltz' large-scale photographic works; "Ronde de Nuit", "Docile Bodies", and "The Politics of Bacteria". A pristine copy SIGNED by the photographer in ink on the colophon, at the rear. 0-914357-57-3 Inventory Number: 015179 $ 80.00 order/inquire       (BALTZ, LEWIS). Baltz, Lewis. Introduction by Adam Weinberg. LEWIS BALTZ: NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS NEAR IRVINE, CALIFORNIA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Santa Monica, CA & Gottingen, GERMANY. 1974 (2001): RAM Publications & Steidl Verlag, First Edition Thus. Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 112pp, 51 duotone illustrations. This lovely volume is the reprinted edition of "The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California" - Lewis Baltz' landmark typological study that virtually single-handedly gave birth to the "New Topographics" movement. It reproduces all fifty-one images that comprised the 1974 Castelli Graphics photographic print portfolio of the same name that was issued in an edition of forty with six artist's proofs. A pristine copy of the 2001 RAM Publications and Steidl Verlag edition (the original is cited on pages 298-299 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", and pages 228-229 of "The Book of 101 Books") SIGNED AND DATED by Lewis Baltz in the year of publication on the front free endpaper in the publisher's grey chipboard slipcase with pastedown. 0-9630785-6-9 Inventory Number: 016079 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (BANKS, STEVE) (HENDRIX, JIMI). Banks, Steve. JIMI, SLY & ME: A PHOTOGRAPHIC SOUVENIR BY STEVE BANKS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Beverly Hills, CA: Studio 6 Art Press, 2010. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New np (84pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. This is a handsomely produced photographic documentation of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Sly & the Family Stone's Friday, May 10th, 1968 concert at New York's Fillmore East. Very much in the format of Steve Banks' previous Janet Joplin tome, it is a souvenir of a magical evening featuring two sixties musical titans at the height of their powers. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by photographer Steve Banks in black marker on the title page. 0-9822089-1-X Inventory Number: 018002 $ 30.00 order/inquire       (BANKS, STEVE) (JOPLIN, JANIS). Banks, Steve. JANIS' GARDEN PARTY- SIGNED BY STEVE BANKS. Signed by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Bugiganga Press, 1998. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine. np (33 pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. With a biography, bibliography, discography and videography. This is a handsomely produced photographic documentation of Janis Joplin's concert at New York's Madison Square Garden on Friday, December 19th, 1969. Shot less than a year before her untimely demise, it features Janis, Janis, and more Janis, with appearances by her band and special guests Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED by photographer Steve Banks in black marker on the first preliminary. 0-9658205-0-5 Inventory Number: 017523 $ 35.00 order/inquire       (BARIL, TOM). Baril, Tom. TOM BARIL - DELUXE SIGNED FIRST EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a Photograph. Los Angeles: 4AD Publishing, 1997. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Silk Over Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 170pp, 81 tritone illustrations. The first in a projected series of photography monographs to be published by cult record-label 4AD's owner Ivo Watts-Russell, this extraordinarily lovely Tom Baril volume proved to be the last as well. Designed by V23 partner Paul McMenamin, this is one of only fifty first-state Deluxe copies of the photographer's first book. The book itself is bound in cocoa colored silk with a tritone image pasted down to the front cover, with a tooled leather pastedown affixed to the spine, and is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Tom Baril in black ink on the first preliminary. An accompanying silk chemise contains a matted 6 1/2 x 5 inch toned silver print of "The Chrysler Building" (NOT the subsequently issued Botanical image) that is SIGNED, NUMBERED AND DATED on the mount. These are both housed in a like silk slipcase, with a circular tooled leather pastedown affixed, as issued. A pristine example. 0-9657450-0-7 Inventory Number: 017081 $ 2500.00 order/inquire       (BARNES, ERNIE). Barnes, Ernie. FROM PADS TO PALETTE: ERNIE BARNES - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Waco, TX: WRS Publishing, 1995. Oblong 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "From Pads to Palette" is the most comprehensive monograph to date on Ernie Barnes, the former NFL and AFL guard who has gone on to become one of the most popular African-American artists of the Twentieth Century. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED by the artist in black marker on the front free endpaper with an invitation to a book signing event for the artist laid in. 1-56796-064-2 Inventory Number: 017188 $ 175.00 order/inquire       (BARNEY, TINA). Barney, Tina & Merry Foresta. TINA BARNEY: THE EUROPEANS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Gottingen, GERMANY & London: Steidl & Barbican Art Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color. "The social class that Tina Barney photographs might well be called the flaky upper crust. Originally part of that culture herself, Barney started out making pictures of her own tony family, then other American Eastern seaboard swells, and now she turns her lens on a Grand Tour of European grand dames and hommes. Theatrically posed, but catching the intruding serendipitous gesture, her pictures are at once distant and intimately funny". A pristine copy SIGNED AND DATED in the year of publication by Tina Barney in black ink on the title page. 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. 3-86521-095-3 Inventory Number: 017556 $ 400.00 order/inquire       (BARTH, UTA). Conkelton, Sheryl, Russell Ferguson & Timothy Martin. UTA BARTH: IN BETWEEN PLACES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Seattle, WA & New York: The Henry Art Gallery & Distributed Art Publishers, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, profusely illustrated in color throughout. Published in conjunction with a 2002 Henry Art Gallery retrospective, this major monograph on Los Angeles based artist/photographer Uta Barth is designed much like an artist's book - its text intertwined amongst Barth's diffuse, sensuous images of the late 20th Century man-made environment. A most handsome copy SIGNED by the photographer in black marker on the first preliminary. 0-935558-37-3 Inventory Number: 017127 $ 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 inch color print mounted on one inch deep plywood backing entitled "Ground (02.1)". A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9713681-0-4 Inventory Number: 011491 $ 2750.00 order/inquire       (BARTH, UTA). Smith, Elizabeth A.T.. AT THE EDGE OF THE DECIPHERABLE: RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS BY UTA BARTH - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Los Angeles. 1995 (2002).: Museum of Contemporary Art & St. Ann's Press, Second Edition (First Thus) 1/1800. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New. 54pp, 25 color illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin. Originally published in conjunction with her 1995 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 revised edition of this, featuring a different cover photograph, and color images for the previously black and white text illustrations. A pristine copy SIGNED AND DATED by Uta Barth in black ink on the front free endpaper. 0-9713681-0-4 Inventory Number: 017401 $ 75.00 order/inquire       (BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Basquiat, Jean-Michel. JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT: DRAWINGS - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. Zurich, SWITZERLAND & New York: Edition Gallery Bruno Bischofberger & Edition Mary Boone Gallery, 1985. First Edition 1/1000. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (76pp), 32 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in English. Designed by Walter Haas. This is the elegant 1985 hardbound Jean-Michel Basquiat book issued in 1985 Bruno Bischofberger Gallery and Mary Boone - the artist's primary dealers. Limited to one thousand copies only, it contains full page color reproductions of each of thirty-two works on paper executed between 1982 and 1983 as well as a photographic portrait by James Van Der Zee as the frontispiece. A most handsome copy of this uncommon and desirable document BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Jean-Michel Basquiat in blue ink on the verso of the title page in the publisher's unprinted cardboard shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-905173-06-9 Inventory Number: 016674 $ 2500.00 order/inquire       (BAUMGARTEN, LOTHAR). Baumgarten, Lothar & Thomas Wagner. LOTHAR BAUMGARTEN: EKLIPSE - DELUXE EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Dusseldorf, GERMANY: Richter Verlag, 1997. First Edition 1/650 Deluxe. Small Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 70pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in German. This nicely designed and illustrated Lothar Baumgarten monograph copiously documents three early nineties German Museum installations by the artist. From the deluxe limited signed edition of six-hundred and fifty copies (of one thousand total), this is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Baumgarten in pencil on the colophon at the rear, as issued. A most handsome copy. 3-928762-80-X Inventory Number: 011817 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (BEARD, PETER). Beard, Peter & Kotaro Iizawa. PETER BEARD: DIARY (FROM A DEAD MAN'S WALLET: CONFESSIONS OF A BOOKMAKER) - AN ELABORATELY SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY. Signed Presentation Copy from the Photographer. Tokyo: Libro Port Publishing Co., Limited, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. Designed by Tsuguya Inoue. With a biography. Published only in Japan in conjunction with a 1993 exhibition, this remarkably beautiful volume documents Peter Beard's obsessively collaged diaries - many of which were consumed in the fire pictured on the dust jacket that destroyed photographer's Montauk estate. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item in the publisher's obi with a BOLDLY SIGNED FULL PAGE PRESENTATION from the photographer "To..., Salaams and warm regards, from Nairobbery, Peter Beard, Hog Ranch" in deep blue watercolor accompanied by a full green ink handprint on the half title page in the publisher's obi, as issued. In addition, a twelve page brochure for The Friends of Mkomazi Game Reserve with photos by Beard is laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 4-8457-0791-8 Inventory Number: 018056 $ 1800.00 order/inquire       (BERNHARD, RUTH). Mitchell, Margaretta K. Foreword By Ruth Bernhard. RUTH BERNHARD: BETWEEN ART & LIFE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. "Hailed by Ansel Adams as "the greatest photographer of the nude," Ruth Bernhard has lived a life that spans almost a century of passionate, ceaseless exploration of the magic of light to create form. "Between Art & Life" is the first biography of this charismatic woman who kept her personal promise to infuse her art with life, and live her life though art". Centered around a series of detailed interviews between Ruth Bernhard and author Margaretta Mitchell, this is a superbly illustrated survey of the photographer's seminal modernist work (including many of the famous female nudes) , personal life, correspondence, and quotations from the photographer regarding her inspirations, technique, and creative process. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED in Ruth Bernhard's unmistakable calligraphic hand in black fountain pen on the title page. 0-8118-2191-9 Inventory Number: 015275 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (BLECKNER, ROSS). Crone, Rainer. ROSS BLECKNER - SIGNED BY RAINER CRONE. New York: Mary Boone & Michael Werner Gallery, 1987. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Vellum Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np (32pp), 6 color and 3 b&w illustrations. Designed by Anthony McCall Associates. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with a 1987 Ross Bleckner exhibition of recent large-scale paintings on canvas, this is another of Mary Boone's elegant catalogues that are always scarce as they were oh-so-exclusively hors commerce, and not given to "just anyone"! A most handsome copy of this uncommon item in a like printed vellum jacket SIGNED by author and noted art historian Rainer Crone in black ink. Inventory Number: 014521 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (BLECKNER, ROSS). Milazzo, Richard. THE PAINTINGS OF ROSS BLECKNER - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Dated by the Artist. Brussels, BELGIUM: Editions Alain Noirhomme, 2007. First Edition. Small Folio. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 458pp, 132 color and 248 b&w illustrations. Designed by Richard Milazzo with Erika Knerr. With an index of works, bibliography and exhibition history. "Covering thirty years of groundbreaking work spanning from 1976 to 2006, "The Paintings of Ross Bleckner" is the first major monograph on this important American artist, as well as the first publication devoted to his work since his 1995 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Beginning with an analysis of Bleckner's much-overlooked Constructivist and Post-Constructivist paintings of the 1970s, it continues with chapter-by-chapter studies of all the critically-acclaimed series, from the "Stripe", "Weather", "Chandelier", and "Memorial" (or AIDS) paintings of the early to mid-1980s to the "Specific and Anonymous", "Inheritance", "Protein" and "Meditation" paintings of the new millennium". A pristine copy of this massive, exceedingly lovely tome BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Ross Bleckner in black marker on the front free endpaper. 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. 2-930487-01-1 Inventory Number: 015113 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (BOURGEOIS, LOUISE). Bourgeois, Louise. LOUISE BOURGEOIS: ODE Á LA BIEVRE - DELUXE EDITION WITH TWO SIGNED AND NUMBERED PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES . With Two Initialed Photographic Ink-Jet Prints. New York: Zucker Art Books, 2007. First Edition 1/95 Deluxe. Oblong Folio. Linen Over Boards, Slipcased. Artist's Book. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.. 52pp, 25 color illustrations. Designed by Louise Bourgeois. "When Louise Bourgeois was eight years old in 1919, her family moved to the Parisian suburb of Antony where the Bievre River cut across the garden in a straight line. The river was key to their relocation as it was imperative to the family's business of tapestry restoration for the washing of the tapestries. In 2002, Bourgeois would distill her emotions and memories of the river and the garden in an important unique fabric book entitled "Ode a la Bievre". In the book she reminisces through images and text, "with the soil from that river we planted geraniums, masses of peonies, and beds of asparagus and honeysuckle that smelled so sweet in the rain". Using her own garments as raw material to make sewn fabric collages, she evoked feelings and memories through lines, shapes and colors. Years later, the artist was to go back to the house with her own family only to find the river to no longer exist - "only the trees that my father had planted along its edge remained as a witness". Published in 2007, this edition faithfully reproduces all twenty-five pages of that original fabric work in vivid, beautifully printed color on heavy stock, along with a two page text by Louise Bourgeois. From the limited edition of ninety-five deluxe copies, this includes two numbered and initialed photographic ink-jet prints entitled "The Garden in Antony, 1921" and "The Bievre River, 1951" printed on Verona paper and mounted on 300 gram watercolor paper. It is hand bound in distressed, hand stamped linen over boards, and housed in the publisher's blind-stamped slipcase, as issued. A pristine copy of this elegant item. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9790321-2-1 Inventory Number: 013112 $ 3000.00 order/inquire       (BOWIE, ANGELA) (BOWIE, DAVID). Bowie, Angela & Patrick Carr. BACKSTAGE PASSES: LIFE ON THE WILD SIDE WITH DAVID BOWIE - SIGNED BY ANGELA BOWIE AND CALVIN MARK LEE WITH A TIPPED IN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. Signed By the Author with a Photograph. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2000. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Music Monograph. Very Good -. 352pp, 36 b&w illustrations. "One person knows David Bowie better than he knows himself - ex-wife Angela Bowie". This is the chatty, tell-all memoir of the Ziggy Stardust era written by Bowie's then paramour Angie in collaboration with Patrick Carr. There is absolutely nothing left out here by the two authors about that salacious, androgynous decade. A handsome copy of the 2000 Cooper Square Press paperback edition showing some light overall wear and handling. This unique example contains a 2009 color photograph of Angela Bowie and good friend Calvin Mark Lee (the colorful London-based scientist prominently featured in the text here who was responsible for Mercury's signing of Bowie as well as introducing David to Angie!) that has been BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by the two in ink tipped in to the inside front cover. 0-8154-1001-8 Inventory Number: 016167 $ 110.00 order/inquire       (BRAQUE, GEORGES). Mangin, Nicole S.. CATALOGUE DE L'OEUVRE DE GEORGES BRAQUE: PEINTURES 1928 - 1935 - A PRESENTATION COPY FROM AIMÉMAEGHT. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1962. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Linen Ring Binders. Catalogue Raisonné. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. 126pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in French. The fourth of seven volumes comprising the monumental catalogue raisonné of works on canvas by the late Cubist master, Georges Braque. This is a first printing featuring the debossed, decorative linen cover with a design by Braque. A handsome copy showing just a bit of browning to the free endpapers (as usual), this copy is BOLDLY INSCRIBED in ink to Los Angeles Art dealer Steven Silagy by Braque's French dealer (and publisher of this set) Aimé Maeght. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 001999 $ 800.00 order/inquire       (BRISKI, ZANA). Briski, Zana. ZANA BRISKI: BROTHEL - LIMITED BOXED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Mantis Editions, 2007. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong 4to. Silk Over Boards, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (130pp), 54 tritone illustrations. Designed by Zana Briski with Nashima Gokani and Jeff Magness. Limited to one thousand copies only, "Brothel" is the exquisitely designed and printed volume of Zana Briski's original photographs of the Calcutta house of prostitution that led to her 2005 Academy Award winning feature documentary film (and accompanying book) "Born into Brothels". Noirish and dark, it presents the photographer/director's arresting images of the girls and women at work there, and the squalid conditions they endure. Printed in tritone throughout, it incorporates two tipped-in plates as well as hand made and colored papers + inks in a beautiful debossed black raw silk over boards binding with full black edges. It is housed in a hand made clamshell box covered in scarlet raw silk from India. One of the most sumptuously produced books we've carried in recent years, Zana Briski's "Brothel" is a compelling companion volume to Mary Ellen Mark's classic "Falkland Road". A pristine copy SIGNED by Zana Briski in gold ink on the title page still sealed in the publisher's shipping box, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9788754-1-9 Inventory Number: 015351 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (BROUWS, JEFFREY). Brouws, Jeffrey. JEFFREY BROUWS: TWENTYSIX ABANDONED GASOLINE STATIONS - DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WITH A PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Photograph. Santa Barbara, CA: Handjob Press & National Gas-N-Go Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Wrappers in Cloth Portfolio. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 48pp, 26 b&w illustrations. Jeffrey Brouws' first book is an exquisite little paean to Edward Ruscha's own first volume of virtually the same title. Designed and typeset as if a Ruscha publication, the photographs are reproduced in lush duotone and nicely illustrate America's crumbling autopia thirty years later. This example is from the limited, signed deluxe edition of fifty copies only housed in a black linen binding (with a pictorial pastedown) that contains a matted 8 x 10" silver gelatin print of Union 76, Ludlow, CA" - an image also featured in the book itself. A pristine copy of this self-published rarity in an unprinted vellum wrapper SIGNED by Brouws in black ink on the title page, and hand numbered, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017934 $ 1000.00 order/inquire       (BROUWS, JEFFREY). Brouws, Jeffrey. TWENTYSIX ABANDONED GASOLINE STATIONS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Santa Barbara, CA: Handjob Press & National Gas-N-Go Publications, 1992. First Edition 1/1000 Copies. 8vo. Printed Wrappers with Glassine. Photography Monograph. Near Fine./Good +.. 48pp, 26 b&w illustrations. Jeffrey Brouws' first book is an exquisite little paean to Edward Ruscha's own first volume of virtually the same title. Designed and typeset as if a Ruscha publication, the photographs are reproduced in lush duotone and nicely illustrate America's crumbling autopia thirty years later. This example is BOLDLY SIGNED by Brouws in ink at the colophon (not called for), and hand numbered. A most handsome copy of this self-published rarity for those who covet "Highway", "Inside the Live Reptile Tent", and any Ed Ruscha artist book collector whose unprinted vellum wrapper shows some wear, chips and creases. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 017000 $ 195.00 order/inquire       (BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.). Burroughs, William S.. THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS - "LUXE" EDITION SIGNED BY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS. New York: Lococo Mulder, 1991. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. 4to. Linen Boards with Pastedown. Artists' Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 7 color and 1 b&w illustration + front cover. This elegant William S. Burroughs artist book cum object contains seven color screenprint reproductions (one for each sin) of "shotgun paintings" interleaved with brief texts by the artist/author. It's frontispiece is a Robert Mapplethorpe image of Burroughs wielding a shotgun, and the front cover is replete with a unique sheet of red pellet-riddled balsa wood veneer laid down to the black linen covered board, as issued. From the stated "Luxe Edition" of one hundred and fifty copies only, it is BOLDLY SIGNED by William S. Burroughs in black ink across the title page, though not numbered as is seemingly called for by the colophon. A most handsome copy. Inventory Number: 014646 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (CANNIZZARO, LOUIS). Cannizzaro, Louis. FULL OF GRACE - SIGNED WITH A DRAWING BY LOUIS CANNIZZARO. Signed by the Artist - with a Drawing. Los Angeles: Powder French Books, 2003. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artists' Book. As New. np (88pp), 40 color illustrations. The follow up to "To My Sweetheart", this is the third, self-published artist's book from Louis Cannizzaro; the Los Angeles based artist whose postcard reproducing his drawing of the shopping list "Coffee...Milk...Heroin...Cat Food...Bread..." resides on a good many refrigerators throughout the world. At times reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat, it is an incredibly sweet, poignant and witty collection of his latest drawings and paintings; most incorporating text. A pristine copy SIGNED WITH A DRAWING by the artist in black and pink ink on the first preliminary. 0-9718312-2-X Inventory Number: 010988 $ 30.00 order/inquire       (CANNIZZARO, LOUIS). Cannizzaro, Louis. HAVE FAITH - SIGNED WITH A DRAWING BY LOUIS CANNIZZARO. Signed by the Artist - with a Drawing. Los Angeles: Powder French Books, 2005. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artists' Book. As New. np (88pp), 40 color illustrations. The follow up to "Full of Grace", this is the fourth, self-published artist's book from Louis Cannizzaro; the Los Angeles based artist whose postcard reproducing his drawing of the shopping list "Coffee...Milk...Heroin...Cat Food...Bread..." resides on a good many refrigerators throughout the world. At times reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat, it is an incredibly sweet, poignant and witty collection of his latest drawings and paintings; most incorporating text. A pristine copy SIGNED WITH A DRAWING by the artist in black and yellow ink on the first preliminary. 0-9718312-3-8 Inventory Number: 012120 $ 30.00 order/inquire       (CARRINGTON, LEONORA). Carrington, Leonora. Foreword By Gloria Orenstein. THE OVAL LADY: SIX SURREAL STORIES BY LEONORA CARRINGTON - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Numbered and Signed by the Author. Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1975. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. 8vo. Boards with Pastedown. Artist Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. np, 6 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed and printed by Noel Young. This is a charming little collection of six short Surrealist tales from the thirties by everyone's favorite British born, repatriated to Mexico, formerly institutionalized, ex-wife of Max Ernst - Leonora Carrington. It features a cover painting by the artist as well as six illustrations by her son, Mexican artist Pablo Weisz. A most handsome example of the limited edition of one hundred and fifty letterpress copies in boards numbered and SIGNED by Leonora Carrington on the rear colophon, as issued. 0-88496-036-6 Inventory Number: 016884 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (CELMINS, VIJA). Bartman, William S., Editor. Interview by Chuck Close. VIJA CELMINS - ONE OF FIFTY SIGNED DELUXE HARDBOUND COPIES WITH A SIGNED MEZZOTINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Mezzotint. New York: A.R.T. Press, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the very first monograph on this influential contemporary artist whose precisely detailed drawings and prints of waves, celestial photographs and spider webs still continue to amaze. It features beautiful reproductions of Vija Celmins' work as well as the transcript of a lengthy interview between her and artist Chuck Close. Limited to fifty copies only, this limited deluxe hardbound example (the trade edition was issued only in wrappers) is SIGNED by Celmins and Close in pencil on the title page, and accompanied by the SIGNED 11 x 9 1/4" one-color mezzotint "Untitled (Saturn)" - entry number twenty-three in Samantha Rippner's "The Prints of Vija Celmins" - whose image is reproduced on the book's jacket. A pristine example of copy number 50 of 50. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-923183-08-6 Inventory Number: 013460 $ 6500.00 order/inquire       (CHAMBERLAIN, JOHN). Chamberlain, John. RAND PIECE - SIGNED BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles?: Self Published, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Plastic Report Cover. Artists' Book. Fine. Thirty-five loose 8 1/2 x 11" bond sheets printed offset, recto only, in a translucent fluorescent orange plastic report cover with a blue plastic clamp spine (as issued), no illustrations. "Rand Piece" is the printed form of John Chamberlain's contribution to the historic 1971 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition "Art and Technology". It consists of excerpted responses by employees of the noted Southern California think-tank The Rand Corporation to a questionnaire submitted by the artist. The piece was mounted on the walls during the exhibition, with Chamberlain subsequently self-publishing an extremely limited edition of these responses to be distributed to the Rand participants. For further details, see the catalog "Art and Technology" by Maurice Tuchman. Edition size is not known, but surviving copies are truly rare. A most handsome example of this elusive conceptual document whose plastic binder is remarkably fresh BOLDLY SIGNED by John Chamberlain in purple ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 015980 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (CHRISTIAN, ANTON). Christian, Anton. With Texts By H.C. Artmann, Suzanne Bloom, Helmut Eisendle, Erich Fried, Hans Haid, Ed Hill, Felix Mitterer, Ezra Pound, Alexander Schwarz, Turi Werkner, and "funf Sagen aus dem Reich der Fanes". ANTON CHRISTIAN: LANDSCHAFT IN DER N─HE MEINES HAUSES - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Innsbruck, AUSTRIA: Haymon Verlag, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 167pp, 110 color and duotone illustrations. Text in German. This is a beautifully designed and printed monograph on Anton Christian - Viennese figurative painter of the tortured and bizarre. A pristine copy from an unstated SIGNED AND NUMBERED edition that was issued with a loose print laid into a sleeve at the front of the book, but with this example lacking the print. It has been priced accordingly. 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. 3-85218-050-3 Inventory Number: 005063 $ 90.00 order/inquire       (CHRISTO). Javacheff, Christo & Jeanne-Claude. Foreword and Interview By Masahiko Yanagi. Photographs By Wolfgang Volz. THE ACCORDION-FOLD BOOK FOR THE UMBRELLAS, JOINT PROJECT FOR JAPAN AND U.S.A. - DELUXE LIMITED BOXED EDITION SIGNED BY CHRISTO & JEANNE-CLAUDE. Signed by the Artists. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, Publishers, 1991. First Edition 1/400 Deluxe. Folio. Boards in Clamshell Box . Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 8pp, 8 accordion panels printed offset in color, recto + verso. Limited to four hundred copies only, this is the deluxe edition of the fold-out book issued by the late, great Bedford Arts Publishers to coincide with the California installation of "The Umbrellas Project". SIGNED by both Christo and Jeanne-Claude, it contains swatches of both the blue and yellow umbrella fabrics bound in, and is housed in the publisher's brown linen clamshell box, as issued. A most handsome copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and size - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-938491-58-X Inventory Number: 003819 $ 345.00 order/inquire       (CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. TULSA - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Photograph. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Nearly thirty years after the 1971 Lustrum Press publication of this landmark book, Larry Clark's taboo breaking "Tulsa" is once again available. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", this was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, this book forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. This example is from the limited slipcased edition of two hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by Larry Clark, with a SIGNED 8 x 10 inch black and white photographic print (of an image that is not reproduced in the book) laid in. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 0-8021-1678-7 Inventory Number: 014214 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). Rushdie, Salman. FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: SELF PORTRAITS - DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES SIGNED BY FRANCESCO CLEMENTE AND SALMON RUSHDIE. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Tall 4to. Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 42pp, 14 color illustrations. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is elegantly designed catalogue featuring an essay by literary lion Salman Rushdie published in conjunction with a 2005 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of fourteen self portraits by Francesco Clemente. A most handsome copy of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies only BOLDLY SIGNED by Francesco Clemente and Salman Rushdie in pencil on the title page in the publisher's silkscreened slipcase, as issued. 1-932598-24-3 Inventory Number: 017671 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (COBB, RON). Cobb, Ron. COBB AGAIN - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Dated by the Artist. Sydney, AUSTRALIA: Wild & Woolley, 1976. Fourth Printing. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. np (88pp), 87 b&w illustrations + color covers. This is Australia's Wild & Woolley Press' second comprehensive collection of political cartoons by legendary countercultural satirist/illustrator Ron Cobb. Following "The Cobb Book", it presents new material from 1974-1976 culled from the pages of "The Los Angeles Free Press", "L.A. Vanguard", "Mother Earth News", "The Digger", and others, bringing acidic closure to the War in Vietnam, Watergate, and the Nixon Administration. In addition to being one of the great underground cartoonists of the day, the artist also provided "concept" sketches and monster design for films such as "Alien", "Dark Star", and "Star Wars". A most handsome copy SIGNED AND DATED by Ron Cobb in black ink on the title page showing a bit of very light sunning along the spine. 0-909331-2-43 Inventory Number: 015089 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (CONAL, ROBBIE). Rugoff, Ralph & Deborah Irmas. UNAUTHORIZED HISTORY: ROBBIE CONAL'S PORTRAITS OF POWER - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Alliance, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 56pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Deborah Ross. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the 1990 Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts retrospective of the work of wry political artist, Robbie Conal. Firmly in the lineage of 20th Century political artist/satirists John Heartfield, Hans Haacke & Klaus Staeck, Robbie Conal is renowned for his midnight guerrilla postering raids of the Los Angeles urban landscape with such memorable images as "Contra-Diction (Ronald Reagan)" and "It Can't Happen Here (George Bush Sr.)". Other Reagan-Era stalwarts skewered here include Nancy Reagan, Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Jesse Helms, Ed Meese, Oliver North, Dan Quayle, John Poindexter, Magaret Thatcher, Jimmy Swaggart, and Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker. This reproduces almost all of the work of the 1980s, both paintings & posters; including many defaced and in-situ. A most handsome copy SIGNED by Robbie Conal in black ink on the title page. 0-937042 Inventory Number: 007869 $ 65.00 order/inquire       (CONNER, BRUCE). Kohn, Michael & Bruce Conner. BRUCE CONNER: INKBLOT DRAWINGS - ENGRAVING COLLAGES - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles: Kohn Turner Gallery, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. np (32pp), 14 b&w and 2 color illustrations + cover. Designed by Michael Kohn. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition at his longtime Los Angeles Gallery, this is an elegantly designed catalogue that illustrates each of the fifteen exhibited works by the Northern California based master artist/filmmaker, Bruce Conner. Included is an interview with Conner by gallerist Michael Kohn. A pristine copy SIGNED by Bruce Conner in black ink on the rear colophon. Inventory Number: 011578 $ 135.00 order/inquire       (COPPOLA, SOFIA). Coppola, Sofia, Lance Acord & Yoshito Sato. LOST IN TRANSLATION: LIMITED EDITION BOOK WITH THE MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK CD - SIGNED BY SOFIA COPPOLA. Signed by the Director. Los Angeles: Emperor Norton, 2003. First Edition 1/2000. Small Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Film Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in color, with a CD. Designed by Miles Murray Sorrell @ FUEL. This is the deluxe version of the soundtrack from Sofia Coppola's second feature film; "Lost in Translation". The audio CD consists of fifteen tracks; "Intro/Tokyo", "City Girl" - Kevin Shields, "Fantino" - Sebastien Teller, "Tommib" - Squarepusher, "Girls" - Death In Vegas, " Goodbye" - Kevin Shields, "Too Young" - Phoenix, "Kaze Wo Atsumete" - Happy End, "On The Subway" - Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr., "Ikebana" - Kevin Shields, "Sometimes" - My Bloody Valentine, "Alone In Kyoto" - Air, "Shibuya" - Brian Reitzell & Roger J. Manning Jr., "Are You Awake?" - Kevin Shields, and "Just Like Honey" - The Jesus And Mary Chain. It is packaged inside a hardbound book filled with excerpts from the screenplay, along with stills from the film as well as photographs taken on set by cinematographer Lance Acord, Yoshito Sato, and Sofia herself. A pristine example of this charming edition that was limited to two thousand copies only (and sold-out before publication) BOLDLY SIGNED by Sofia Coppola in black marker on the title page. Inventory Number: 014366 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (CORBIJN, ANTON). Corbijn, Anton, Bono, Helena Christensen, Bill Clinton, William Gibson, Paul Morley, Salman Rushdie, Michael Stipe & Wim Wenders. ANTON CORBIJN: U2 AND I - THE PHOTOGRAPHS 1982-2004: DELUXE LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT. With a Color Print Signed by the Photographer. Munchen, GERMANY: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 2005. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 416pp, 320 illustrations in color and duotone. Text in English. "U2 & i" is the photo story of the twenty-two year friendship between Irish rock band U2 and Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn who invented the band's image and has shaped it to the present day. It presents a wealth of official and private pictures taken between 1982, when they first met in New Orleans, and their April 2004 shooting in Lisbon for U2's most recent album". In addition to noted photographer/director ("Control") Corbijn's commentary throughout, this massive collaboration contains additional texts by Bono, Helena Christensen, Bill Clinton, William Gibson, Paul Morley, Salman Rushdie, Michael Stipe and Wim Wenders. Limited to one hundred numbered copies only as part of Schirmer/Mosel's "Collectors Editions" series, this example (number eighty-six) is accompanied by the archivally mounted and matted blue-tinted 8 7/8 x 11 3/4" Polaroid Print "U2 in the train to Nice, France, 2000" that has been SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Anton Corbijn on the verso in pencil, and housed in a grey silk chemise. A pristine copy of the book along with the print and chemise in the publisher's grey linen slipcase, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: The signature is that of Anton Corbijn alone (none the members of U2 have signed), as called for. Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8296-0174-3 Inventory Number: 016622 $ 2000.00 order/inquire       (CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard. JOSEPH CORNELL AND THE BALLET - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. Signed By the Author. New York: Castelli-Feigen-Corcoran, 1983. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. 88pp, 48 b&w and 1 color illustration. Designed by the Castle Press. This is the lovely catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1983 New York gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell's boxes and collages whose imagery reflects his lifelong obsession with the ballet. A most presentable copy showing a bit of wear & soiling to the white covers, this has a five line SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION in black ink on the first preliminary from the author, noted Cornell dealer & scholar Sandra "Sandy" Starr. LC 83-73032 Inventory Number: 005860 $ 85.00 order/inquire       (CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard, Editor. JOSEPH CORNELL PORTFOLIO - DELUXE LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION SIGNED BY EACH OF THE CONTRIBUTORS. Numbered and Signed by the Authors. New York & Los Angeles: Leo Castelli Gallery, Richard L. Feigen & Company & James Corcoran Gallery, 1976. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 8vo. Hand Marbled Boards, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 43 b&w illustrations. Designed by Sandra Leonard Starr and Kay Susmann. With an exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elaborate portfolio cum catalogue issued in conjunction with a posthumous 1976 Leo Castelli Gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell boxes, assemblages and objects executed between 1939 and 1956. Each of the forty-three works shown is illustrated on an individual cardstock plate housed in one pocket of an elegant 1/4 linen over handmade marbled paper boards portfolio with a ribbon tie. Gathered in the other pocket is a collection of loose printed reminiscences about the artist. These consist of a colophon page, "Cornell: prose-poem" by Donald Barthelme, "Joseph Cornell" by Bill Copley (Cply), "A Letter" by Tony Curtis, "L'Esprit Cornell" by Howard Hussey, "Joseph Cornell: a reminiscence" by Allegra Kent, "Twelve Needles Dancing on the Point of an Angel" by Julien Levy, "Notes on Films of Joseph Cornell" by Jonas Mekas, "Preface to a Joseph Cornell Exhibition" by Robert Motherwell, a 7 3/4 x 6" black and white photograph of the artist by Hans Namuth, the sixteen page "Bibliography and Catalogue", and a four page table of contents - both by editor Sandra Leonard Starr. From the deluxe limited edition of one hundred numbered copies, each of this example's contributions is SIGNED by its author, and the portfolio is additionally encased in a dark blue linen over boards chemise and like slipcase with a pastedown. A most handsome copy of this uncommon and exquisite object. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. LC 76-5561 Inventory Number: 016891 $ 1500.00 order/inquire       (CRANSTON, MEG). Cranston, Meg. AS I TOLD YOU: MEG CRANSTON - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. Signed and Numbered By the Artist. Los Angeles: Marc Richards Gallery, 1989. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artists' Book. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), no illustrations. In 1989, California based artist Meg Cranston transferred all of her worldly possessions from her home to the Marc Richards Gallery - putting them up for sale as a single installation. This exhibition catalogue cum artist's book is a typographic inventory of the show's contents from "black puckered stockings given to me by Rita McBride" to "letter from Patti Smith - may God bless you". A most handsome example of this uncommon document from the DELUXE SIGNED AND NUMBERED edition of twenty-five copies only. Inventory Number: 005091 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Crewdson, Gregory. BENEATH THE ROSES: GREGORY CREWDSON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. np (8pp), 15 color illustrations + covers. Designed by Gianpietro + Smith. Published in conjunction with a traveling 2005 exhibition, this is the slender eight page illustrated catalogue that is a combined list of the crew members from the four productions between 2003 and 2005 that helped realize Gregory Crewdson's twenty image photographic work "Beneath the Roses". A most handsome copy of this uncommon item (NOT to be confused with the comprehensive hardbound 2008 publication with the same title) BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in black marker on the title page. Inventory Number: 017473 $ 90.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Crewdson, Gregory. GREGORY CREWDSON: FIREFLIES - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Skarstedt Fine Art, 2006. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Embossed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 61 tritone illustrations. "In the summer of 1996, Gregory Crewdson spent two solitary months at his family's cabin in Becket, Massachusetts. Using both small and medium-format cameras, he obsessively photographed the fireflies that came alive at dusk each evening. Crewdson was drawn to the flickering lights in part, by the underlying impossibility of capturing their elusive beauty in pictures. This luxurious volume, featuring sixty-one full-page tritone reproductions calls to mind many of the hallmarks of Crewdson's oeuvre, from the sense of wonder in the nocturnal landscape, to the focus on light as a narrative event, to the fascination with nature as a psychological mystery. Although consistent in terms of their subject matter, these photographs demonstrate a wide scope of visual expression ranging from almost pure abstraction to more idyllic representations of the natural landscape". A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in black marker on the title page still retaining the publisher's shrinkwrap (that was neatly sliced open to allow the signature). 0-9709090-5-5 Inventory Number: 015748 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Crewdson, Gregory & Russell Banks. BENEATH THE ROSES: GREGORY CREWDSON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 2008. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 140pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Miko McGinty and Rita Jules. Published in conjunction with the exhibition that traveled from London's White Cube to New York's Luhring-Augustine, then Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, this elegant, large-format volume presents all forty-eight photographic images that comprise Gregory Crewdson's series "Beneath the Roses". In addition to the cinematically sweeping series itself, there is a section of production stills along the lines of a "making of Beneath the Roses" documentary, a full credits list of its cast and crew members, and an essay by Russell Banks. A most handsome copy of the first printing BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in black marker on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8109-9380-5 Inventory Number: 014456 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Crewdson, Gregory, Darcey Steinke & Bradford Morrow. GREGORY CREWDSON: DREAM OF LIFE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Salamanca, SPAIN: Ediciones Universidad De Salamanca, 1999. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine. 131pp, profusely illustrated in color. Text in English and Spanish. With an exhibition history, chronology, bibliography, and interview with the artist. Published in conjunction with a major 1999 Spanish exhibition, this is the first comprehensive monograph on this young American purveyor of the cinematic gaze in photography. Included are works from the "Natural Wonder", "Hover", and "Twilight" series. A pristine copy of the first printing of this uncommon item BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in black marker on the title page. 84-7800-097-6 Inventory Number: 014453 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Crewdson, Gregory, Darcey Steinke & Bradford Morrow. GREGORY CREWDSON: DREAM OF LIFE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Salamanca, SPAIN. 1999 (2000).: Ediciones Universidad De Salamanca, Second Printing. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine. 131pp, profusely illustrated in color. Text in English and Spanish. With an exhibition history, chronology, bibliography, and interview with the artist. Published in conjunction with a major 1999 Spanish exhibition, this is the first comprehensive monograph on this young American purveyor of the cinematic gaze in photography. Included are works from the "Natural Wonder", "Hover", and "Twilight" series. A pristine copy of the second printing BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in black marker on the title page. 84-7800-097-6 Inventory Number: 015461 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Moody, Rick. TWILIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY CREWDSON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Gary Tooth and Carrie Hamilton / Empire Design Studio. With a bibliography and exhibition history. This is the first comprehensive publication on Gregory Crewdson; the American photographer that constructs and then documents cinematic-style narratives in lush, large scale color images. One of the charming aspects of this monograph is the section of behind the scenes (the "making of"...) photos that very much illuminates, while playfully subverting the serious nature of the finished photographs. A pristine copy of the first printing BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in silver marker on the title page. . 0-8109-1003-9 Inventory Number: 014458 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (CREWDSON, GREGORY). Moody, Rick. TWILIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY CREWDSON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York. 2002 (2007).: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, Eighth Printing. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Gary Tooth and Carrie Hamilton / Empire Design Studio. With a bibliography and exhibition history. This is the first comprehensive publication on Gregory Crewdson; the American photographer that constructs and then documents cinematic-style narratives in lush, large scale color images. One of the charming aspects of this monograph is the section of behind the scenes (the "making of"...) photos that very much illuminates, while playfully subverting the serious nature of the finished photographs. A pristine copy of the eighth printing BOLDLY SIGNED by Gregory Crewdson in silver marker on the title page. . 0-8109-1003-9 Inventory Number: 014457 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (CROSHER, ZOE). Crosher, Zoe. OUT THE WINDOW (LAX): PHOTOGRAPHS BY ZOE CROSHER - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles: Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, 2007. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Artists' Book. Fine./Fine.. 80pp, 32 color illustrations. "Contemporary artist Zoe Crosher takes the viewer on an exploratory journey inside the impersonal and transient travel world surrounding the mega international airport, LAX. She finds a landscape packed with identical hotel chains pushed up against giant billboards, where the words "hotel" and "taxi" are understood by nearly everyone. Crosher methodically settled into a different hotel room each day and photographed out the window. The only requirement was that the view from each room must duplicate the one she inhabited before. The pattern of the drapes change, the color of the stucco exterior changes and the airplanes caught in mid flight move through the atmosphere, but the basic view stays the same. There is a haunting familiarity that one has never really left the first room, a feeling of complete deja-vu. Time and identity almost cease to exist. For Crosher, her very quiet, minimal images create huge questions about place, identity, the homogenization of global cultures". A pristine copy of this charming tome SIGNED by Zoe Crosher in black ink on the title page. 0-9763166-2-5 Inventory Number: 015094 $ 30.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert. GOTTA HAVE 'EM: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN BY R. CRUMB - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR SERIGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Serigraph. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2003. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Boards in a Clamshell Box. Artist Monographs. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (224pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "For the first time ever, R. Crumb's drawings of women are collected in one volume, in chronological order, spanning the 38 years since his pen-and-ink beginnings. The usual fetishes are on display ¡ the "built from the ground up" body type, the loving fixation on solid thighs and buttocks ¡ but so is Crumb's heart, on his sleeve, in the great tenderness with which he renders the women in his life. They're all here: his high-school crushes, his paramours, the girls and women who tormented him - and to whom he gave it right back - or who caught his eye on the street, and, of course, his wife and fiery sometimes collaborator Aline, and their daughter Sophie. Add to this his mistress of fifteen years and you have not only a catalogue raisonné of Crumb's portraits of women but also a revealing record of a passionate life. Crumb calls it "an autobiography of sorts" and it is ¡ these aren't just portraits of women but the most intimate portrait of Crumb's life in love". Limited to one hundred hardbound, clamshell boxed copies, each containing a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 10 x 7 1/2 inch color serigraph print, this deluxe version of "Gotta Have 'Em" illuminates Crumb's lifelong fascination/obsession with the fairer sex. A pristine copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9672366-8-1 Inventory Number: 010099 $ 600.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert. Dian Hanson, Editor. ROBERT CRUMB'S SEXUAL OBSESSIONS - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR SERIGRAPHIC PRINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Serigraph. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2007. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Stout 4to. Illustrated Boards in Slipcase. Artist Monographs. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 258pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. " R. Crumb has selected his most intimately revealing comic strips and single page drawings to create a two hundred and fifty-eight page encyclopedic trip through his sexual psyche. All images were created between 1980 and 2006, and all strips are hand-colored for a lush vibrancy never seen in his comic books. In total, "Robert Crumb's Sex Obsessions" features fourteen complete stories, including "My Troubles With Women", "If I Were a King", "A Bitchin' Bod", and "How To Have Fun With a Strong Girl", as well as sixty single page drawings. This signed slipcased edition limited to one thousand copies is a work of art in itself, with every part of the book - front and back covers, spine, and introductory pages - created for this project by Robert Crumb. Each book comes with an art print selected by Mr. Crumb. A pristine copy sealed in shrinkwrap still in the publisher's printed cardboard shipping carton. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-2540-9 Inventory Number: 014911 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert. Edited & Designed By Peter Poplaski. THE R. CRUMB COFFEE TABLE ART BOOK - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR SILKSCREEN PRINT. Signed by the Artist - with a Silkscreen Print. Chesterfield, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1997. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Small Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Artist Monographs. As New/As New. 250pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" collects the finest work from throughout Crumb's career, ranging from some of his earliest published comics in the mid-sixties to work completed in the nineties. His best stories, illustrations, covers, and paintings are here, many of them appearing in color for the first time". Limited to one thousand hardbound, slipcased copies only, each containing a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 12 1/2 x 10" color silkscreen print, this deluxe version of "The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book" is a must-have for the Crumb completeist. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrinkwrapped faux-leather slipcase. 0-87816-614-9 Inventory Number: 017560 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. BRUCE DAVIDSON: BROOKLYN GANG - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION. Signed by the Photographer. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 98pp, 70 b&w gravure plates. "These photographs of Brooklyn gangs, Bruce Davidson's first photographic project, were undertaken when he was barely older than the rough boys depicted in the work. Never before published as a whole, though frequently excerpted in collections, this gritty monograph is photodocumentary at its best". Photographed during the Summer of 1959, (and uncollected in book form until this undertaking) Davidson's revealing portraits of the daily life of these New York J.D.s very much mirror those in his groundbreaking work, "The Bikeriders". A pristine copy from the deluxe limited edition of one hundred copies numbered and SIGNED by Bruce Davidson in black ink on the colophon housed in the publisher's black linen slipcase, as issued. 0-944092-51-9 Inventory Number: 017082 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. BRUCE DAVIDSON: BROOKLYN GANG - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED, BOXED EDITION WITH A SILVER GELATIN PRINT. Signed by the Photographer - with a B&W Print. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1998. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jackets, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 98pp, 70 b&w gravure plates. "These photographs of Brooklyn gangs, Bruce Davidson's first photographic project, were undertaken when he was barely older than the rough boys depicted in the work. Never before published as a whole, though frequently excerpted in collections, this gritty monograph is photodocumentary at its best". Photographed during the Summer of 1959, (and uncollected in book form until this undertaking) Davidson's revealing portraits of the daily life of these New York J.D.s very much mirror those in his groundbreaking work, "The Bikeriders". A pristine copy from the deluxe limited edition of fifty copies numbered and SIGNED by Bruce Davidson in black ink on the colophon housed in a silkscreened black linen solander box containing the 10 x 8" matted silver gelatin photographic print "Mike's Tattooing" SIGNED on the verso by the photographer in pencil, still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-944092-51-9 Inventory Number: 015621 $ 4000.00 order/inquire       (DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce, Henry Geldzahler, Fred Brathwaite (aka Fab Five Freddy) & Arthur Ollman. SUBWAY: BRUCE DAVIDSON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2003. Second, Revised Edition (First Thus). Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 125pp, 96 color illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. "From 1980 to 1985, Bruce Davidson explored and shot six hundred miles of New York subway tracks. In his own words, "I wanted to transform this subway from its dark, degrading, and impersonal reality into images that open up our experience again to the color, sensuality, and vitality of the individual souls that ride it each day". Originally published in 1986, this dark, democratic environment provided the setting for the photographer's first extensive series in color. Subway riders are set against a gritty, graffiti-strewn background, displayed in tones Davidson described as "an iridescence like that I had seen in photographs of deep-sea fish." Never before has the subway been portrayed in such detail, revealing the interplay of its inner landscape and outer vistas. The images include lovers, commuters, tourists, families, and the homeless. From weary straphangers to languorous ladies in summer dresses to stalking predators, Davidson's compassionate vision illuminates the stubborn survival of humanity. On the eve of the New York subway's 100th anniversary, St. Ann's Press published a beautiful revised edition of Bruce Davidson's 1986 masterpiece newly supplemented by forty previously unpublished images, a new introduction by Arthur Ollman, and a foreword by graffiti artist Fred Braithwaite (aka Fab Five Freddy)". A pristine copy of the quickly exhausted 2003 printing SIGNED by Bruce Davidson in black ink on the title page. 0-9713681-8-X Inventory Number: 014870 $ 350.00 order/inquire       (DAY, JEREMIAH). Day, Jeremiah. PORTABLE MEMORIAL - SIGNED BY JEREMIAH DAY. Signed by the Artist. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Self Published, 2003. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine. 40pp, 10 color and 8 b&w illustrations + cover. Designed by Jeremiah Day and Novak. "Since 1997, I've traveled to sites of public meaning in an attempt to embody my thinking. This book compiles photographs from five of those pilgrimages. The accompanying texts and book designed were produced in Amsterdam, 2003". This thought provoking first artist's book by Los Angeles to Amsterdam transplant Jeremiah Day combines the author's writings with his photographs taken at the opening night of Las Vegas' Bellagio Hotel/Casino/Gallery, the former site of the Alfred P. Murragh Building in Oklahoma City, the Ruin of The Memorial for The International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War (Erected 1937 - Demolished 1939) at the Jarama River, preparations for The Founder's Day of Celebration, Florida, and Inflancka Street, Warsaw; the Site of Krzysztof Kieslowski's "Decalogue" (and former Jewish Ghetto). A pristine copy of this uncommon item SIGNED by Jeremiah Day in black ink on the title page. 90-808317-1-9 Inventory Number: 018148 $ 45.00 order/inquire       (DE GEER, KARL JOHAN).Kugelberg, Johan. KARL JOHAN DE GEER: THE CAMERA AS CONSOLATION 1959-1980 - DELUXE LIMITED SIGNED EDITION WITH A VINTAGE PRINT HOUSED IN A HAND DRAWN SLIPCASE BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER . Signed by the Photographer - with a Photo Laid In. New York: Ectoplasm Books, 2009. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (60pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Taylor Brigode for Octopuss Limited. "Carl Johan De Geer, born in 1938, grew up in absurd privilege and abject unhappiness as a member of one of SwedenÆs most powerful aristocrat families. His parents showed no discernable interest in him or his siblings, and so he grew up on a grand country estate with his grandparents, went to art school in the late 1950Æs, and in an epic choice of rejection lived his life to this day as a perennial Swedish underground artist, working in counterpoint to the privilege of his surname. De Geer, as a masterful Leica M4 snapshot giant α la Van Der Elsken or Daido Moriyama, has the sacred ability to capture the monotone grit of everyday life and demand its reflection. He gives us a glimpse of a Sweden inhabited by people who are the other, whose life experience is impregnated with otherness, providing a visual cue into an unseen world. The visible scratches, fades and imperfections, the wabi-sabi of this collection of vintage prints, is reflected in the images". "The Camera as Consolation" is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the Johan Kugelberg curated 2009 Boo-Hooray Gallery exhibition of the gritty Vietnam-era social reportage of this unsung Swedish master that parallels the work Ed Van Der Elsken and Anders Peterson. A pristine copy of this already out of print document from a handful of ultra deluxe copies BOLDLY SIGNED by Carl Johan De Geer in black ink on the front free endpaper that comes with a 5 3/4 x 4 1/8" SIGNED VINTAGE B&W PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT in a translucent archival envelope affixed to the inside front cover and is housed in the publisher's handmade black linen over board slipcase with a SIGNED DRAWING in white marker on the front face by Carl Johan De Geer, as issued. Laid in is the gallery's printed exhibition invitation as well as a special numbered (24/80) silkscreened opening invitation designed and SIGNED by the photographer. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 017909 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (DE GEER, KARL JOHAN).Kugelberg, Johan. KARL JOHAN DE GEER: THE CAMERA AS CONSOLATION 1959-1980 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. New York: Ectoplasm Books, 2009. First Edition 1/300. Oblong Small 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (60pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Taylor Brigode for Octopuss Limited. "Carl Johan De Geer, born in 1938, grew up in absurd privilege and abject unhappiness as a member of one of SwedenÆs most powerful aristocrat families. His parents showed no discernable interest in him or his siblings, and so he grew up on a grand country estate with his grandparents, went to art school in the late 1950Æs, and in an epic choice of rejection lived his life to this day as a perennial Swedish underground artist, working in counterpoint to the privilege of his surname. De Geer, as a masterful Leica M4 snapshot giant α la Van Der Elsken or Daido Moriyama, has the sacred ability to capture the monotone grit of everyday life and demand its reflection. He gives us a glimpse of a Sweden inhabited by people who are the other, whose life experience is impregnated with otherness, providing a visual cue into an unseen world. The visible scratches, fades and imperfections, the wabi-sabi of this collection of vintage prints, is reflected in the images". "The Camera as Consolation" is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the Johan Kugelberg curated 2009 Boo-Hooray Gallery exhibition of the gritty Vietnam-era social reportage of this unsung Swedish master that parallels the work Ed Van Der Elsken and Anders Peterson. A pristine copy of this already out of print document limited to three hundred copies only, this additionally SIGNED by Carl Johan De Geer in black ink on the front free endpaper. Inventory Number: 017908 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (DEMAND, THOMAS). Demand, Thomas, Ralph Rugoff & Julia Franck. Eckhard Schneider, Editor. THOMAS DEMAND: PHOTOTROPHY - DELUXE SLIPCASED COLLECTORS EDITION WITH A SIGNED PRINT. With a Color Print Signed by the Photographer. Munchen & Bregenz, GERMANY: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag & Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2004. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Oblong Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 128pp, profusely illustrated in color. Text in English and German. Designed by Markus Weisbeck, Surface. "In his photographs of reconstructed rooms and places Thomas Demand explores a notion of reality that guides our perception of a media and technology-dominated world. For this purpose he produces life-size reconstructions then are perfectly lit and photographed with a large-size camera. What, at first sight, seems to be a hyperrealistic reproduction of reality proves, at a closer look, to be a model". This is a lovely catalogue that combines Demand's images interspersed with texts about, the artist was published in conjunction with a major 2004 exhibition held at the Kunsthaus Bregenz. Limited to one hundred copies, this Schirmer/Mosel Verlag "Collectors Edition" comes in a grey linen slipcase accompanied by an identical chemise containing the 12 x 14 inch color digital pigment print "Detail XII, 2005" (a tabletop still life tableaux) on handmade paper that has been BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Thomas Demand on the verso. A most handsome copy. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-829601-71-9 Inventory Number: 014520 $ 3200.00 order/inquire       (DINE, JIM). Dine, Jim & Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Ron Padgett. THE POET ASSASSINATED - LIMITED DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH EIGHT SIGNED POCHOIRS BY JIM DINE. Signed by the Artist and Translator. New York: Tanglewood Press Inc., 1968. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine./Near Fine.. 130pp, profusely illustrated in b&w with eight loose signed and numbered 10 x 8 inch pochoir plates laid in, as issued. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Designed by Elaine Lustig Cohen. Innovatively illustrated by Jim Dine, this is the deluxe edition of Ron Padgett's 1968 translation of Guillaume Apollinaire's "The Poet Assassinated". Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only (of which this is example number 1!), it contains loose pages printed on Euroset offset paper gathered in a paper chemise with an illustrated jacket and glassine wrapper. These are housed in a buckram over boards slipcase illustrated with a pink Day-Glo photographic image by the artist. The colophon is hand NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Jim Dine, Ron Padgett, and (though not called for) designer Elaine Lustig Cohen. Laid in are the eight immaculate "Original Pochoir Drawings" each numbered 1/250 and initialed "J.D." in pencil. A most handsome example of this great Pop Art illustrated book missing a chip of the glassine over the spine, in a slightly sunned and age-toned slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 015070 $ 5000.00 order/inquire       (DINE, JIM). Dine, Jim & Neil Curry. THE BENDING OF THE BOW - WITH ONE SIGNED ETCHING, A LITHOGRAPH AND FOUR PHOTOGRAVURES BY JIM DINE. Signed by the Author and the Artist. London: Enitharmon Editions Ltd., 1993. First Edition 1/75 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. As New. 64pp, with a loose signed lithograph, a lithographic frontispiece and four photogravures bound into the book. Beautifully illustrated by Jim Dine, this is the deluxe edition of author Neil Curry's colloquial version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey in which he has "scrubbed the story free from all its side-tracks and digressions so as to leave clear one thread of Odysseus's final journey: from the shores of Ithaca to the marriage-bed where he is finally reunited with Penelope". Limited to seventy-five copies only, it is hand-printed in 14 point Monotype Baskerville on Canaletto 160gsm (fine) and bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery. Jim Dine's signed original 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inch etching of "The Head of Homer" (contained loose in a wallet in the slipcase) was printed on 300gsm Hahnemuhle at the Spring Street Workshop in New York. The lithographic frontispiece and four photogravures bound into the book all reproduce drawings made by the artist in 1987-8 from Greek and Roman statuary at the Glyptotek in Munich, and were printed in London by Pauper's Press and Hope Sufferance Press. A pristine copy SIGNED by the author, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-870612-09-4 Inventory Number: 013858 $ 1750.00 order/inquire       (DORA, MIKI "MICKEY"). Kampion, Drew & Craig Stecyk III. Foreword By Steve Pezman. Tom Adler, Editor. DORA LIVES: THE AUTHORIZED STORY OF MIKI DORA - THE DELUXE BOXED ESTATE-STAMPED EDITION OF FIVE HUNDRED COPIES WITH A 5 X 7" PHOTOGRAPH. Signed By the Publisher. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2005. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. Small Oblong 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards in Box. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 137pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom Adler. With the 2002 passing of Miki "Da Cat" Dora, the surfing world lost one of its most talented, charismatic, and controversial innovators. A legend of Malibu lore since the late '50s, Dora helped to create and simultaneously revile the "Gidget"/"Beach Party" California surfing explosion of the '60s, then turned his back to the 'Bu and the world of competitive wave riding to travel the world, often just a step or two ahead of law. Initiated by Miki Dora himself, this loving tribute to the legendary enigma by noted designer/art director/publisher/surfing aficionado Tom Adler is very much in the same vein as Adler's previous deluxe editions on Don James and Tom Blake. It reproduces vintage images and screen captures of Dora by Joe Quigg, Leroy Grannis, Grant Rohloff, Don James, Pat Darrin, Peter Gowland and many others along with biographical texts by Drew Kampion, Craig Stecyk III and Steve Pezman; transcribed interviews, ramblings, and reprinted writings from "Surfer" magazine (including the full "Million Days to Darkness" from 1989!) in an elegantly produced package that was authorized by Miki's family and estate. Limited to five hundred copies only, this deluxe edition comes in a printed, sliding box that includes a 5 x 7" Lambda print of Dora in action taken from a film by Grant Rohloff, NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Tom Adler with the stamp of the estate on the rear colophon, as issued. A pristine copy in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-890481-18-1 Inventory Number: 017879 $ 250.00 order/inquire       (DWECK, MICHAEL). Dweck, Michael & Christopher Sweet. MICHAEL DWECK: MERMAIDS - DELUXE BOXED EDITION WITH THE SIGNED CHROMOGENIC PRINT "MERMAID 37, MIAMI 2007". Signed by the Photographer - with a Color Print. NP (New York): Ditch Plains Press, 2008. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (160pp), 65 tritone and 36 color illustrations. Designed by Jeremy Miller. "Mermaids" is Michael Dweck's knockout, lavishly produced follow-up to "the End": in which "drawing inspiration from his teenage years spent by the beach on Long Island, Michael Dweck set out to photographically capture the vanishing surf culture of Montauk, a sleepy fishing village that in the 1970s became a heaven for East Coast surfers". For his second book, the photographer "explores the theme of the female nude submerged in water, and celebrates the modern mermaid, as represented by beautiful young women who appear very much at home in the water". A pristine copy of this stunning tome from the limited edition of one hundred copies only housed in a debossed black linen solander box SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Michael Dweck. This is one of fifty examples containing the 8 x 10" chromogenic color print "Mermaid 37, Miami 2007". PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9818465-0-5 Inventory Number: 016736 $ 700.00 order/inquire       (DWECK, MICHAEL). Dweck, Michael & Christopher Sweet. MICHAEL DWECK: MERMAIDS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. NP (New York): Ditch Plains Press, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. 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 BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Michael Dweck in black marker on the half title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9818465-0-5 Inventory Number: 018115 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Eggleston, William & Constance Sullivan. HORSES AND DOGS - SIGNED BY WILLIAM EGGLESTON. Signed by the Photographer. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good. 62pp, 27 color illustrations. Designed by Katy Homans. With an interview with the photographer. This installment of the Smithsonian Institution's now defunct "Photographers At Work" series contains a nicely reproduced selection of William Eggleston's images of...Horses and Dogs! A tight, bright copy discreetly SIGNED by the photographer on the title page showing a small dent to the crown of the spine. 1-56098-505-4 Inventory Number: 016278 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Eggleston, William & John Szarkowski. WILLIAM EGGLESTON'S GUIDE - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER. New York & Cambridge, MA: The Museum of Modern Art & The MIT Press, 1976. First Edition. Square 8vo. Boards with Pastedown & Gilt. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, 48 color and 1 b&w illustration. Designed by Carl Laanes. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This innovatively designed catalogue was published in conjunction with the 1976 exhibition of William Eggleston's haunting photos of everyday life in the American South held at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Curated by John Szarkowski, it was the first one-man show extended by MoMA solely to a color photographer - confirming Eggleston's well-deserved place in the pantheon of post-war photographic artists, and passing the torch on to the medium's new generation of practitioners. It is a supremely beautiful document, and a piece of twentieth century photo history as well. A bright, fresh, most handsome copy of the first edition of this wonderful tome (featured on page 265 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 308-309 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 29 of "From Fair to Fine", and pages 234-235 of "The Book of 101 Books") in the gilt embossed, pebble-grained boards with the pastedown of the green tricycle on the front cover INSCRIBED "For ..., William Eggleston 1997" in black ink on the title page. 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. 0-87070-317-X Inventory Number: 015699 $ 1350.00 order/inquire       (EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Eggleston, William, Gunilla Knape, Walter Hopps, Thomas Weski & Ute Eskildsen. WILLIAM EGGLESTON: THE HASSELBLAD AWARD 1998 - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Goteborg, SWEDEN & Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Hasselblad Center & Scalo, 1999. First Edition. Square 8vo. Boards with Pastedown & Gilt. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 126pp, 112 color illustrations. William Eggleston's elegiac photos of everyday life are sublimely reproduced in this elegant book issued in conjunction with his selection as the 1998 recipient of the Hasselblad Award - Sweden's most prestigious photographic prize. A pristine copy SIGNED in black ink by the photographer beneath his frontispiece self-portrait. 3-90-82-47-98-5 Inventory Number: 014513 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Wagner, Bruce. WILLIAM EGGLESTON: 2 1/4 - DELUXE SIGNED, LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION . Signed by the Photographer. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 101pp, 45 color illustrations. This is a beautifully designed and printed survey of William Eggleston's work with the 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch negative format. A pristine example from the deluxe slipcased edition of one hundred copies only SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the photographer at the rear colophon, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-944092-70-5 Inventory Number: 015702 $ 800.00 order/inquire       (EISENSTAEDT, ALFRED) (HEMINGWAY, ERNEST). Hemingway, Ernest & Alfred Eisenstaedt. Introduction by Charles Scribner. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - SIGNED LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB PUBLICATION WITH FIVE PHOTOGRAVURES BY ALFRED EISENSTAEDT. Signed by the Photographer with Five Gravures. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1990. First Edition 1/600. Oblong Folio. 1/4 Leather over Linen Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (ix + 96pp), 5 gravure illustrations. Designed by Benjamin Shiff. Published in 1990 in an edition of six hundred copies only, this typically lavish Limited Editions Club presentation of Ernest Hemingway's 1953 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Old Man and the Sea" is illustrated with five photogravures on Arches paper by legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt taken from the original negatives shot with the author in Cuba in 1952 for a Life Magazine cover story. Printed by letterpress on thick Magnani paper, it is bound in gilt-debossed one-quarter blue goatskin over oatmeal colored linen-covered boards and housed in a blue suede-lined black linen solander box with a gilt-debossed blue goatskin spine label matching the book's binding. It is BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Alfred Eisenstaedt in pencil at the rear colophon, as issued. A most handsome example of this extraordinary production with the June 1990 Limited Editions Club newsletter detailing the publication's particulars laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 015816 $ 1250.00 order/inquire       (EISNER, LISA). Eisner, Lisa. RODEO GIRL - SIGNED BY LISA EISNER. Signed by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2000. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, 140 full-page color and b&w plates. One of the purely great American fashion photography books to come along of late, Lisa Eisner's first monograph is a look at the world of rodeo beauty pageantry, drawing on her own youthful experiences as a contestant. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. 0967236606 Inventory Number: 011983 $ 60.00 order/inquire       (ELENGA, HENK) (HARD WERKEN). Elenga, Henk, Jan Middendorp, Lewis MacAdams & Erik Beenker. THE CELEBRATION OF EXISTENCE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY HENK ELENGA - DELUXE EDITION WITH A SIGNED AND NUMBERED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. With an Original Signed and Numbered Print . Los Angeles: Hard Werken, 1990. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 16mo. Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 24pp, 17 duotone illustrations. This sweet little item was designed and self-published by noted Dutch graphic/product designer Henk Elenga while he ran Hard Werken's Los Angeles desk during the late '80s/early '90s. It was originally issued in conjunction with a 1990 exhibition of his photographs at the Torch Gallery in Amsterdam. A pristine copy of the deluxe edition limited to two hundred copies only, with an original 4 x 5 inch black and white photograph SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Henk Elenga laid in a velour pocket inside the front cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 016922 $ 100.00 order/inquire       (ESHLEMAN, CLAYTON). Eshleman, Clayton. ALTARS - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY WITH AN ELABORATE DRAWING FROM CLAYTON ESHLEMAN. Signed Presentation Copy from the Author. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Letterpress Printed Wrappers. Very Good -. 147pp, no illustrations. This first Black Sparrow Press collection of poems by Eshleman has been inscribed in ink "The Throne is difficult poetry. Religion is for the nuts. Love to Virginia + Gordon Wagner - Love Clayton + Caryl Eschleman." within a rather elaborate figurative ink drawing on the title page. Gordon Wagner was a prominent Los Angeles assemblage artist, and a friend of the poet Eshleman. A most presentable copy showing a bit of dulling to the spine of the wrappers. The textblock and interior are Fine. Inventory Number: 003744 $ 50.00 order/inquire       (ESHLEMAN, CLAYTON). Eshleman, Clayton. COILS - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM CLAYTON & CARYL ESHLEMAN. Signed Presentation Copy from the Author. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Letterpress Printed Wrappers. Very Good -. 147pp, no illustrations. This second Black Sparrow Press collection of poems by Eshleman has been inscribed in ink "for Gordon + Virginia - Warmest Wishes - Clayton 1977.", and additionally by the poet's wife Caryl; "1977 Birthday. A blue sky on May 1". Gordon Wagner was a prominent Los Angeles assemblage artist, and a friend of the poet. A most presentable copy showing a bit of soiling and toning of the cream colored wrappers. The textblock and interior are Fine. Inventory Number: 003743 $ 30.00 order/inquire       (FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig. JAMES FEE: NEW FIGURATIVE WORK SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Farmani & Fee, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. 30pp, 22 color plates. In the body of work pictured here, the noted late, Los Angeles based photographer James Fee beautifully captured the nude with his characteristic experimental manipulations of the photographic printing process. A most handsome copy SIGNED by James Fee on the title page. Inventory Number: 012055 $ 125.00 order/inquire       (FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig & James Fee. JAMES FEE: PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMERICA - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Los Angeles: James Fee, 1994. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -. np (50pp), 23 duotone plates. Designed by SoS Los Angeles / Susan Silton. This beautifully printed, self-published catalogue was the first publication by 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 presentable copy of this uncommon item SIGNED by James Fee in black ink on the front free endpaper showing a couple of slight bends to the covers and textblock. 0-964-0494-0-6 Inventory Number: 013278 $ 275.00 order/inquire       (FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig & Keiji Okuhira. JAMES FEE: ROAD - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. Signed by the Photographer. Los Angeles: Farmani & Fee, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine. np (56pp), 25 duotone plates. Text in English and Japanese. Limited to one thousand copies, this beautifully printed, self-published catalogue presents the late Los Angeles based photographer James Fee's second installment of moody images of an unpopulated, dystopian homeland first seen in his "Photographs of America". A most handsome copy of this incommon item SIGNED by James Fee in black ink on the front endpaper. 0-964-0494-1-4 Inventory Number: 011604 $ 275.00 order/inquire       (FERRETTI, DANTE). Lucci, Gabriele & Dante Ferretti. Preface by Martin Scorsese. FERRETTI: L'ARTE DELLA SCENOGRAFIA / THE ART OF PRODUCTION DESIGN - SIGNED BY DANTE FERRETTI AND GABRIELE LUCCI. Signed By the Production Designer. Milan, ITALY: Electa & Accademia dell'Immagine, 2004. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Pictorial Boards. Film Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 344pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Italian. With a biography, filmography and exhibition history. Newly published only in Italy, this is an extraordinarily beautifully produced monograph covering the career and work of Dante Ferretti. In his more than forty years as one of Cinema's premier production designer/art director/costume designers, Ferretti has received eight Academy Award nominations - often in conjunction with his wife, noted art director Francesca Lo Schiavo. These include Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator", "Gangs of New York", "The Age of Innocence", and "Kundun", Neil Jordan's "Interview with the Vampire", Terry Gilliam's "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen", and Franco Zeffirelli's "Hamlet". Other notable film collaborations include "Casino", Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain", Julie Taymor's "Titus", Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom", "A Thousand and One Nights", and "The Canterbury Tales", and Federico Fellini's "Satyricon". A truly massive volume, it features numerous examples of his preparatory sketches and production drawings for both film and opera, as well as still photographs; all accompanied by the designer's commentary. It also contains a lengthy dialogue between Ferretti and noted Italian film historian Gabriele Lucci. A handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Dante Ferretti in black ink on the half title page as well as by editior Gabriele Lucchi on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 88-370-2772-9 Inventory Number: 017446 $ 500.00 order/inquire       (FINSTER, HOWARD). Finster, Howard. HOWARD FINSTER'S VISION OF 1982. VISION OF 200 LIGHT YEARS AWAY SPACE BORN OF THREE GENERATIONS. FROM EARTH TO THE HEAVEN OF HEAVENS - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM HOWARD FINSTER. Signed Presentation Copy from the Artist. Summerville, GA: Howard Finster, 1982. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is a most charming, self-published artist's book cum souvenir from Summerville Georgia's late, great "Man of Vision", the Reverend Howard Finster. Perhaps America's best known Outsider artist, he created the scores of thousands of pieces in his eighty-four years including artwork for Talking Heads, The Tom Tom Club, and R.E.M. In 1976 Finster was called upon by God in a vision to create "sacred art", which he did prolifically for the next twenty-five years. This publication was sold by the artist during the 1980s at his elaborate Folk Art environment/home "Paradise Gardens", and is reproduced from an almost entirely hand-drawn and lettered manuscript, including collages featuring photographs of favored friends, visitors, and press clippings. A most handsome example INSCRIBED IN INK "Howard Finster to ...." on page 86. Inventory Number: 005438 $ 300.00 order/inquire       (FISKIN, JUDY). Fiskin, Judy & Christopher Knight. With an Interview By John Divola. William Bartman, Editor. JUDY FISKIN - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. New York: A.R.T. Press, 1988. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine. 40pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With an exhibition history. This is still the major monograph on noted Los Angeles based photographer Judy Fiskin, whose gem-like miniature still lifes always provoke thought. It features numerous reproductions as well as the transcript of a lengthy interview between her and colleague John Divola. A most handsome copy SIGNED by Judy Fiskin in black ink on the title page. 0-923183-00-0 Inventory Number: 017971 $ 25.00 order/inquire       (FOLON, JEAN-MICHEL). Bradbury, Ray, Sabine Rewald & William S. Lieberman. Preface by Carlo De Benedetti. FOLON'S FOLONS - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST. Signed Presentation Copy from the Artist. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good. 132pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition checklist. Published in conjunction with a 1990 Olivetti sponsored retrospective held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, this is a comprehensive monograph on the noted Belgian artist/illustrator Jean-Michel Folon. It reproduces the seventy-six watercolors, prints and objects selected from the artist's personal collection for display, and features an appreciation by Ray Bradbury. A handsome presentation copy BOLDLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Jean-Michel Folon for one of the publicists of the Met exhibition "Bonjour -------, Bonjour -------, de New York, Folon - March 1990" in black ink on the front free endpaper, with a press release laid in. Inventory Number: 015332 $ 225.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Francis, Sam. APHORISMS - SIGNED BY SAM FRANCIS. Signed by the Artist. Santa Monica, CA: The Lapis Press, 1984. First Edition 1/600. 12mo. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Artists' Book. Fine./Near Fine.. np (36pp), no illustrations. Designed and printed by Jaime Robles. Printed by hand letterpress without illustrations, this charming little collection of brief aphorisms by the late, great Sam Francis is one of the very first publications of the artist's own Lapis Press. While the colophon calls for six hundred copies, we know from the publisher that the vast majority of the print run was never jacketed, signed, nor distributed. A most handsome complete copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Sam Francis in black ink at the rear whose dust jacket shows a few minor creases. Inventory Number: 017044 $ 150.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Segalen, Victor. Translated By Michael Taylor. STELES - WITH AN ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPHIC COVER BY SAM FRANCIS. Santa Monica, CA: The Lapis Press, 1987. First Edition Thus 1/150 Deluxe. Tall 8vo. Lithographic Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, illustrated in b&w, with an original color lithograph as the cover. Designed by Les Ferriss, Jaime Robles, and Jack W. Stauffacher. "The first edition of "Steles" contained 48 poems and was printed on the press of the Lazarist fathers at Beidang in Northern China in August, 1912. It was probably composed by Chinese hands, but each detail of the book from the round mark used to indicate breaks in the poems, to the yellow ribbons which made opening the slender volume an act of ceremonial unbinding, was chosen by the author Victor Segalen - a 34 year old officer in the French Navy who had arrived in the Far East two years earlier. Only 81 copies were made". This exquisitely adorned, translated edition of that extraordinarily scarce tome was issued by Sam Francis' Lapis Press in 1987. It features calligraphy by Sam's great friend Walasse Ting (of "One Cent Life"), typesetting by Patrick Reagh, and its beautiful wraparound cover is an original Sam Francis lithograph. A most handsome copy of the deluxe, limited edition of one hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by the artist and the translator in black ink at the rear colophon. 0-932499-22-8 Inventory Number: 015717 $ 200.00 order/inquire       (FRANCIS, SAM). Selz, Peter, Susan Einstein & Jan Butterfield. SAM FRANCIS - ONE OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DELUXE SLIPCASED COPIES SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Signed and Numbered by the Artist. New York. 1975 (1982).: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, Second Revised Edition 1/150 Deluxe. Large Oblong 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 296pp, 82 color and 135 b&w illustrations. With a biography and bibliography. This is the revised edition of the first comprehensive monograph on important American abstract painter Sam Francis. It includes a well illustrated thirty-two page supplemental essay on his graphic work not found in the first printing. A pristine copy of the 1982 deluxe edition limited to one hundred and fifty copies only BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Sam Francis in blue ink on the limitation page in the publisher's silver-gilt debossed blue Tsumugi silk slipcase in its printed cardboard shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8109-0928-6 Inventory Number: 017829 $ 750.00 order/inquire       (FREY, ALBERT). Golub, Jennifer. ALBERT FREY: HOUSES 1 + 2 - DELUXE EDITION WITH A FACSIMILE BLUEPRINT SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECT. Signed by the Architect. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. Oblong 8vo. Cloth in Slipcase. Architecture Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 84pp, 53 color and 22 duotone illustrations. Designed by Simon Johnston. This elegant monograph is devoted exclusively to the two houses that Corbu associate Albert Frey built for himself in the desert area of Palm Springs, California. A labor of love by the author, designer, and photographers, this first, hardbound edition sold out prior to its publication. The example we are offering is from the limited edition of three hundred copies only that contain a 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inch facsimile blueprint of a suspended dining table designed by the architect for House Number 2. This is initialed by Frey (sadly, he died just two weeks after the volume's appearance, and was too weak at the time to fully sign the copies), and laid in at the rear, as issued. A most handsome copy of this design-award winning tribute enclosed in the publisher's translucent plastic slipcase that shows a few minor mars. 1-56898-156-2 Inventory Number: 013688 $ 400.00 order/inquire       (FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee. Foreword by Walker Evans. LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE LITTLE SCREENS - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION. Signed and Numbered By the Photographer. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2001. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Small Square 4to. Boards in Plexiglas Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. np (96pp), 34 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills. "The Little Screens" reproduces for the first time in its entirety an early body of early work by Lee Friedlander depicting broadcast images flickering across television screens in motel rooms, and other nondescript vacant interiors during the 1960s. The book's preface was written in 1963 by Walker Evans, and is also published here for the first time. Limited to one hundred copies only, this is from the deluxe edition SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Lee Friedlander in black ink opposite the title page, with a lenticular photographic image affixed to the front cover, housed in the publisher's green tinted Plexiglas slipcase, as issued. A pristine example. 1-881337-14-6 Inventory Number: 015574 $ 1100.00 order/inquire       (FRIEDMAN, TOM). Rugoff, Ralph & Arthur C. Danto. TOM FRIEDMAN - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH AN ARTIST'S MULTIPLE. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards in Box. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 320pp. profusely illustrated in color (with several fold-out plates). Designed by Goto Design. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elegantly appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Tom Friedman's massive 2008 Gagosian Gallery London installation/exhibition. Over one hundred and fifty whimsical, often obsessive process oriented works are detailed, making it the most comprehensive reference the artist's oeuvre to date. From the deluxe edition limited to two hundred copies only, the book is signed and housed in a pale blue Styrofoam clamshell box measuring 17 7/8 x 13 3/8" along with hand-crafted silver miniature figure created by Tom Friedman specifically for this edition. A pristine copy of this ultra-cool artists' multiple still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value and weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-300-14258-7 Inventory Number: 016836 $ 600.00 order/inquire     [1/4]

 

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