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(ARCENEAUX, EDGAR). Arceneaux, Edgar. Franklin Sirmans, Editor. 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 Angeles' 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 Ruscha's piece by shooting every building on 107th Street (the location of the historic Watts Towers) in a photomontage across one accordion-folded sheet, 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 (featured on pages 74-75 of Jeffrey Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner's "Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha"). 3-934823-82-3 Inventory Number: 023419

(ARCENEAUX, EDGAR). Arceneaux, Edgar. Franklin Sirmans, Editor. 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 Angeles' 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 Ruscha's piece by shooting every building on 107th Street (the location of the historic Watts Towers) in a photomontage across one continuous accordion-folded sheet, 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 (featured on pages 74-75 of Jeffrey Brouws, Wendy Burton and Hermann Zschiegner's "Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha") additionally SIGNED by Edgar Arceneaux in black ink on the rear endpaper of the text volume. 3-934823-82-3 Inventory Number: 019107

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Basquiat, Jean-Michel. Santa Monica, CA. ND (2005).: Ikon Gallery. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Printed Card Stock. Exhibition Announcement. Fine.. One 5 x 7" glossy cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, 4 color illustrations. This is the postcard announcement for a 2005 Jean-Michel Basquiat gallery exhibition that reproduces three artworks as well as a photographic portrait of the artist in full color. A brand new, pristine unmailed example of this uncommon ephemeral item. Inventory Number: 026330

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL) (HARING, KEITH) (SCHARF, KENNY). Basquiat, Jean-Michel, Keith Haring & Kenny Scharf. New York: Malca Fine Art, 1997. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Printed Poster. Exhibition Poster. Near Fine.. One 11 x 17" heavy textured paper sheet printed color offset recto only, machine-folded once. This is the festive, brightly colored poster published in conjunction with a 1997 Malca Fine Art gallery exhibition of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf - the undisputed stars of the East Village scene of the early eighties - entitled "In Your Face". A most handsome unmailed example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was folded by the printer and subsequently flattened that reproduces one artwork in color by each of the trio of artists. Inventory Number: 026464

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Hoffman, Fred. New York: Enrico Navarra Gallery, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 256pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat" is the authoritative, copiously illustrated 2017 monograph on the late, great New York artist published by his longtime gallerist, Enrico Navarra. It was authored by noted Basquiat scholar Fred Hoffman, who was a friend, confidant, and print publisher to the artist during his brief but stellar career; and who has written several significant catalogue esaays for exhibitions over the past several decades. A brand new, most handsome example of this important document. 2-911596-53-6 Inventory Number: 026609

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Marshall, Richard & Franklin Sirmans. Los Angeles: DeSanctis Carr Fine Art, 2001. First Edition 1/2000. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 32pp, 14 b&w and 8 color illustrations + cover. Designed by Hanna Alderfer of HHA Design. With an annotated chronology. This is the slender yet elegant catalogue produced as the prospectus for the 2001 estate-authorized portfolio of four hand-pulled limited screenprints based on four of Jean-Michel Basquiat's favorite paintings that he refused to sell during his lifetime. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to two thousand unnumbered copies. 0-9712924-0-X Inventory Number: 026325

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Marshall, Richard, Ingrid Sischy & Fred Braithwaite (aka "Fab 5 Freddy"). London: Serpentine Gallery, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (16pp) + np (6pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Area. With an exhibition checklist. This is the slender catalogue featuring an essay by Richard Marshall published in conjunction with a posthumous 1996 Serpentine Gallery exhibition of twenty-five works by Jean-Michel Basquiat that subsequently traveled to Malaga. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item with the inclusion of the separate eight page booklet of a transcribed reminiscence of the artist between Fred "Fab 5 Freddy" Braithwaite and Ingrid Sischy. Inventory Number: 026324

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Sirmans, Franklin. West Hills, CA: David DeSanctis Contemporary Art, 2005. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 32pp, 14 color and 4 b&w illustrations + cover. Designed by Hanna Alderfer of HHA Design. With an annotated chronology. This is the slender yet elegant catalogue produced as the prospectus for the second, 2005 estate-authorized portfolio of four hand-pulled limited screenprints based on four of Jean-Michel Basquiat's favorite paintings that he refused to sell during his lifetime. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies. 0-971-2924-0-X Inventory Number: 026326

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL) (TWOMBLY, CY). Pellizzi, Francisco. Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2004. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Fine.. np (36pp), 20 color illustrations. This is the slender yet elegant catalogue produced in conjunction with a 2004 gallery exhibition of drawings and paintings by Cy Twombly and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Each of the twenty works shown - five by Twombly, fifteen by Basquiat - is illustrated. A brand new most handsome example. 1-880086-14-X Inventory Number: 026327

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL) (WARHOL, ANDY). Als, Hilton. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Fine.. np (36pp), 24 color and 1 b&w illustration. Designed by Bruce Mau Design, Inc. This is the slender yet elegant catalogue produced in conjunction with a 2002 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of twenty-four of the collaborative paintings produced by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat during 1984 and 1985. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. 1-880154-78-1 Inventory Number: 026264

(BEARDEN, ROMARE). M(iller)-K(eller), Andrea. Hartford, CT: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1975. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (4pp), 1 b&w illustration. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender four page brochure published in conjunction with a 1975 exhibition of six collages by the venerable African-American artist Romare Bearden held at Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. A most handsome copy of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 026736

(CASEY, BERNIE). Casey, Bernie. NP (Los Angeles): Self-Published, 1977. First Edition #14/130. Folio. Framed Lithographic Print. Artist's Multiple. Fine.. One 20 x 15" sheet of textured heavy art paper printed lithographically in colors, recto only. "Neighbors" is a 1977 lithograph by the noted late Los Angeles-based African-American artist, poet, and actor Bernie Casey. An All-American athlete at Bowling Green State University, Casey went on to a standout NFL career as a wide-receiver with the Los Angeles Rams. Following his retirement, he focused on his visual artwork as well as well as featured roles in such varied cinematic fare as "Cleopatra Jones", Black Gunn", "Hit Man", the James Bond film "Never Say Never", and "Revenge of the Nerds." A bright, most handsome example housed in a contemporaneous aluminum sectional frame with a glass face NUMBERED (#14/130), SIGNED "Bernie Casey", and DATED "77" by the artist in pencil along the lower margin, as issued. Inventory Number: 026267

(CATLETT, ELIZABETH). Lewis, Samella & Elizabeth Catlett. Foreword by Maxine Waters. Claremont, CA: Hancraft Studios, 1984. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/Near Fine. 194pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Robert Biddle. With a biography and bibliography. This is the lavishly produced 1984 monograph cum catalogue raisonné of the graphic work by the noted late African-American artist Elizabeth Catlett. Still the most comprehensive document of her printed work to date, it features a significant text by Samella Lewis with contributions by the artist along with scores of previously unpublished images. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon deluxe hardbound edition of this important publication limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (131/1000)  AND SIGNED "E Catlett" in silver ink on the front pastedown showing a bit of light wear and creasing to the dust jacket. Laid in is Catlett's graphically striking 9 ½ x 7 1/8" linoleum block print from 1983 entitled "Survivor" that is TITLED, NUMBERED, SIGNED, AND DATED "Survivor / 131/1000 / E Catlett '83" in pencil along the bottom margin, as issued. The sheet shows some light foxing along the top and right edges that in no way affects the print image. While the limitation states that one thousand of these deluxe versions were produced, its relative scarcity in the marketplace seems to indicate that only a portion were actually distributed, and it is increasingly unusual to find copies of the print still paired with the book. Additionally laid in is the publisher's "A Note on the Production on The Art of Elizabeth Catlett" brochure. 0-941248-06-2 Inventory Number: 025300

(COLESCOTT, ROBERT). Baker, Kenneth, Robert Colescott & Ann Shengold. Charlotte, NC: Knight Gallery / Spirit Square Arts Center, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (32pp), 7 color and 3 duotone illustrations + color cover. With a biography, bibliography, exhibition history and collections listing. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition of thirteen works by the noted late African-American artist Robert Colescott that satirically reference European art history held at Charlotte's Spirit Square Arts Center. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 026739

(COSBY, BILL). Cosby, Bill. NP: Bill Cosby, 1966. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Near Fine.. np (16pp), profusely illustrated in duotone and b&w. This is a very cool, vintage Bill Cosby promotional booklet that was most likely sold as a program at the comedian's performance venues in the mid-sixties. It contains studio, performance, and candid photographs (even one by Dennis Hopper) of Cosby and his family, a section on "I Spy", and a 33 1/3 rpm Eva-Tone flexi-disc of the bit "Noah" excerpted from his then current album; "Bill Cosby is a Very Funny Fellow, Right?". A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item. Inventory Number: 010557

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Very Good -. np, 105 duotone illustrations. Designed by Elton Robinson. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "What you call a ghetto, I call my home. This was said to me when I first came to Harlem, and during the two years that I photographed the people of East 100th Street, it stayed with me". Bruce Davidson's first book, "East 100th Street" which surveys the harrowing state of life in Harlem in the late sixties is one of the classic volumes of Post-War American photography. An internally most handsome example of the 1970 Harvard University Press first hardbound printing (cited on page 18 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 260-261 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 26 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", pages 196-197 of "The Book of 101 Books", pages 46-49 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné", and pages 142-147 of Horacio Fernandez' "New York in Photobooks") additionally SIGNED "Bruce Davidson" in black ink on the half title page showing a bit of typical light soiling and age-toning to the extremities of the cloth and textblock in a neatly price clipped publisher's printed acetate jacket that has a three inch closed tear at the top of the spine along with some chipping at the spine ends and upper foredge corner of the front cover. Despite these condition issues, it is one of the sharper copies of this exceedingly fragile title we have ever seen. 0-674-22435-3 Inventory Number: 025042

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce & Barney Simon. Koln, GERMANY: Galerie am Dom, Burkhard Arnold & Verlag Locher, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 48pp, 28 duotone illustrations. Text in English and German. "What you call a ghetto, I call my home. This was said to me when I first came to Harlem, and during the two years that I photographed the people of East 100th Street, it stayed with me". Bruce Davidson's first book "East 100th Street" which surveys the harrowing state of life in Harlem in the late sixties is one of the classic volumes of Post-War American photography. This elegantly produced hardbound catalogue was issued in conjunction with a 1999 Koln gallery exhibition of twenty-eight of Davidson's arresting "East 100th Street" images. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item (whose 1970 Harvard University Press predecessor is cited on page 18 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 260-261 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 26 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", pages 196-97 of "The Book of 101 Books", and pages 46-49 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Bruce Davidson" in black ink on the title page along with an adhesive label bearing the photographer's New York address and phone number affixed to the inside rear cover. 3-930054-33-7 Inventory Number: 024914

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by Mildred Feliciano. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2003. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (165pp), 140 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. "What you call a ghetto, I call my home. This was said to me when I first came to Harlem, and during the two years that I photographed the people of East 100th Street, it stayed with me". Bruce Davidson's first book, "East 100th Street" is one of the classic volumes of Post-War American photography. After more than twenty years of unavailability, it has been lavishly republished by the redoubtable St. Ann's Press, with thirty-five new images, all beautifully reproduced. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2003 St. Ann's Press edition (whose 1970 Harvard University Press first hardbound printing is cited on page 18 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 260-261 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 26 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", pages 196-197 of "The Book of 101 Books", pages 46-49 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: The Catalogue Raisonné", and pages 142-147 of Horacio Fernandez' "New York in Photobooks") limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (86/100) AND SIGNED "Bruce Davidson" in black ink on the half title page with an original 10 x 8" gelatin silver print of the image of two children peering out a fire escape window that is reproduced in the book SIGNED by Bruce Davidson in pencil on the verso laid into a portfolio and housed in the publisher's slipcase, as issued. 0-9713681-4-7 Inventory Number: 022755

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Introduction by Deborah Willis. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2002. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (172pp), 144 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. Photographed during the height of the American Civil Rights struggle (with most of these images uncollected in book form until this undertaking), Bruce Davidson's moving portraits of social change from the rural South to the streets of Harlem and Chicago are a revelation some forty years later. Pictured here are the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the Freedom Riders, National Guardsmen, Cracker lawmen, Klansmen, and the African-American populace undergoing their "Time of Change". A brand new, pristine example of the Deluxe edition of the 2002 first St. Ann's Press (cited on page 223 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") limited to one hundred slipcased copies SIGNED with an original 10 x 8" SIGNED AND NUMBERED gelatin silver print of "Mother Brown" by Bruce Davidson. 0-9713681-2-0 Inventory Number: 019576

(DELANEY, BEAUFORD). Canterbury, Patricia Sue, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ann E. Gibson, Michael D. Plante & Sylvain Briet. Minneapolis, MN: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2004. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 144pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a bibliography and exhibition history. This is the substantive catalogue issued in conjunction with the comprehensive 2004 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts retrospective of paintings by noted African-American artist Beauford Delaney. The most complete document of his work to date, this features dramatic color reproductions of both his early representational images as well as the later abstract work. A brand new, most handsome example. 0-912964-92-8 Inventory Number: 026738

(DELANEY, BEAUFORD). Miller, Henry. New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1978. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 24pp, 8 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. This is literary titan Henry Miller's charming illustrated essay on the noted late African-American artist Beauford Delaney that was originally published in 1945 by the Alicat Book Shop in Yonkers. A most handsome example of the 1978 facsimile reprint by The Studio Museum in Harlem. Inventory Number: 026737

(GETTY MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE J. PAUL). Naef, Weston J., Gordon Baldwin, Virginia Dodier, Thomas Weston Fels, Mikka Gee, Michael Hargraves, Eugenia Parry Janis, Judith Keller, Ben Lifson, Katherine Ware, Brett Abbott, Anne Lacoste, et al.. Malibu & Los Angeles, CA. 1986-2008.: The J. Paul Getty Museum. First Editions. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochures. Very Good - or Better.. This is a collection of eighty-three of the informative brochures issued by the J. Paul Getty Museum between 1986 and 2008 to accompany exhibitions curated by its Department of Photographs. These are beautifully printed keepsakes - typically duotone on coated, heavy stock - that were never made commercially available for sale, with most representing the only published documentation for each show. The format of this series is for the most part one cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8 pages - typically with five illustrations. The monographic publications are on Eugene Atget (2 different), Brassai, Manuel Alvarez Bravo (2 different), Horace Bristol, Julia Margaret Cameron (3 different), Edgar Degas, Luc Delahaye, William Eggleston, P.H. Emerson, Walker Evans (2 different), Roger Fenton (2 different), Lady Clementina Hawarden, Hill and Adamson, John Humble, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Gustave Le Gray (2 different), Man Ray, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eliot Porter, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander (3 different), Camille Silvy, Frederick Sommer (2 different), Alfred Stieglitz (2 different), Paul Strand (2 different), Edmund Teske (2 different), Doris Ulmann, Carleton Watkins (2 different), Weegee, and Edward Weston (2 different). The survey exhibitions are "After the Manner of Women: Photographs by Kasebier, Cunningham, and Ullman", "Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites", "Capturing Time: A Celebration of Photography", "Close to Home: An American Album", "Dance in Photography", "Eternal Cities: Photographs of Athens and Rome", "Experimental Photography: Discovery & Invention", "Experimental Photography: The First Golden Age 1851-1889", "Experimental Photography: The Machine Age", "Experimental Photography: The New Subjectivity", "Experimental Photography: The Painter-Photographer", "The Eye of Sam Wagstaff", "Fame and Photography", "The Flowering of Early French Photography", "Grave Testimony: Photographs of the Civil War", "The Heart of the Storm: Northern California Pictorialism", "Hidden Witness: African Americans in Early Photography", "...Images that yet / Fresh images beget... Photographing Art", "Little Pictures", "Nadar + Warhol: Paris + New York", "Neither Speech Nor Language: Photography and the Written Word", "Palette of Light: Handcrafted Photographs, 1898-1914", "Photographers of Genius at the Getty", "Pictures for the Press", "Procession to the Fallen Gods: Photography in Nineteenth Century Egypt", "Public Faces / Private Spaces: Mary Ellen Mark, Bill Owens, Anthony Hernandez, and Donald Blumberg", "Rare States and Unusual Subjects: Photographs by Paul Strand, Andre Kertesz, and Man Ray", "Recent Acquisitions: Eugene Atget - Brett Weston - William Garnett - Milton Rogovin", "Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties bt Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus", "Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray", "Voyages and Visions: Early Photographs Fom the Wilson Family Collection", "Walls of Algiers", "Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection", and "Women on the Edge: Twenty Photographers in Europe, 1919-1939". A most handsome set of these ephemeral items - all in at least Very Good minus condition, with most being Near Fine or Fine. Inventory Number: 005262

(HAMMONS, DAVID). Hammons, David, Gary Garrels, Fred Moten, Tongo Eisen-Martin & Anthony Huberman. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Scott Ponik. "The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, an exhibition space and research institute in San Francisco, dedicates year-long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2016-17, the American artist David Hammons was "on our mind." The book begins with the previously unpublished transcript of a rare artist talk given by Hammons in 1994 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, on the occasion of his exhibition there. It then introduces a series of photographs the artist sent to the Wattis Institute in 2017, interspersed with texts by the Bay Area poet Tongo Eisen-Martin and the writer and critic Fred Moten. Much like Hammons' work, this publication raises more questions than it answers. Rather than functioning as a comprehensive introduction to the artist, "David Hammons Is on Our Mind" offers visual and textual elements that relate obliquely to the enigmatic artist's oeuvre." A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to seven hundred and fifty copies of which the majority were withdrawn from distribution shortly following its publication. 0-9849609-4-5 Inventory Number: 026626

(HAMMONS, DAVID). Heiss, Alanna, Kellie Jones, Steve Cannon & Tom Finkelpearl. New York & Cambridge, MA: The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum & MIT Press, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Bethany Johns. Published in conjunction with a traveling 1991 retrospective of works by David Hammons, this remains the major reference on the noted socially and politically active African-American artist. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of sunning to the extremities of the dust jacket.. 0-262-03184-1 Inventory Number: 026595

(JARVIS, SHANIQWA). Jarvis, Shaniqwa. Introduction by Ryan McGinley. New York: Baque Creative Press, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Shaniqwa Jarvis' work is known for blending the aesthetics of modern fashion photography with the sensitive, unfiltered emotion of art portraiture. In this, her impressive first book, Ms. Jarvis presents a selection of her favorite images drawn from two decades that includes editorial work for clients like The Gap, The New York Times, Supreme, Billboard, and Riposte, "Bathroom Portraits" - shot in the toilets of bars in the early 2000s, and portraits of the likes of SZA, Lee Scratch Perry, George Condo, Cardi B, and a few requisite selfies. In some of her best-loved imagery she captures vivid reality across a wide variety of subjects that always appear to be an extension of herself. With an introduction by photographer Ryan McGinley, these images speak to raw, disparate feelings imbued with a deep sparkling optimism taken from a vantage point that is female, black, tirelessly hardworking, and brimming with raucous, positive vibrations." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2018 first and only edition of Shaniqwa Jarvis' stunning debut monograph additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by the photographer in ink at our shop. Inventory Number: 026604

(JARVIS, SHANIQWA). Jarvis, Shaniqwa. Introduction by Ryan McGinley. New York: Baque Creative Press, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Shaniqwa Jarvis' work is known for blending the aesthetics of modern fashion photography with the sensitive, unfiltered emotion of art portraiture. In this, her impressive first book, Ms. Jarvis presents a selection of her favorite images drawn from two decades that includes editorial work for clients like The Gap, The New York Times, Supreme, Billboard, and Riposte, "Bathroom Portraits" - shot in the toilets of bars in the early 2000s, and portraits of the likes of SZA, Lee Scratch Perry, George Condo, Cardi B, and a few requisite selfies. In some of her best-loved imagery she captures vivid reality across a wide variety of subjects that always appear to be an extension of herself. With an introduction by photographer Ryan McGinley, these images speak to raw, disparate feelings imbued with a deep sparkling optimism taken from a vantage point that is female, black, tirelessly hardworking, and brimming with raucous, positive vibrations." A brand new, most handsome example of the 2018 first and only edition of Shaniqwa Jarvis' stunning debut monograph. Inventory Number: 026457

(JOHNSON, RASHID). Rodrigues Widholm, Julie, Paul Beatty, Ian Bourland & Toure. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2012. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 104pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a biography, exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. Designed by James Guggin. This is the nicely appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the 2012 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago survey exhibition of work by Rashid Johnson that subsequently traveled to the Miami Art Museum and Atlanta's High Museum of Art. The first major Museum retrospective for the noted African-American contemporary artist, it features essays by Julie Rodrigues Widholm, Paul Beatty, Ian Bourland, and Touré. A brand new, most handsome example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-933856-93-8 Inventory Number: 026625

(JOHNSON, WILLIAM H.). Taylor, Joshua C., Adelyn D. Breeskin & Jan K. Muhlert. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 208pp, 161 b&w illustrations. With a bibliography, exhibition checklist, and index of titles. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1971 exhibition of one hundred and sixty works by the pioneering African-American artist William H. Johnson held at Washington, D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution. A bright, most handsome example of this vital document published on the occasion of Johnson's first Museum retrospective. LC 70-172991 Inventory Number: 026087

(JONES, PIRKLE) (BARUCH, RUTH-MARION) (BLACK PANTHERS, THE). Jones, Pirkle & Ruth-Marion Baruch. Introduction by Kathleen Cleaver. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 144pp, 111 b&w illustrations. Designed by Dmitri Levas. "In 1968, FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover vilified the Black Panthers as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States." That same year photographers Pirkle Jones and wife, Ruth-Marion Baruch, documented the Black Panthers for an exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco. Their hope was to expose the public to the Panthers as they saw them - symbols of pride and strength - rather than the way they were being portrayed in the media. Jones and Baruch were given unprecedented access to the inner circle of the Black Panther Party. At intimate meetings, family gatherings and public demonstrations, we witness, through these incredibly moving photographs, a unique crusade for dignity and self-definition. "Black Panthers" is a historic documentation of this fascinating movement, so challenging and controversial to our culture that it was virtually erased from established texts and American history books". "We photographed the Black Panthers intensively from July into October of 1968, during the peak of a historic period and in the Bay Area, where the Black Panther National Headquarters is located. We couldn't possibly photograph all the aspects of this virile, rapid growing and deep rooted movement, but we can show you: This is what we saw, this is what we felt, these are the people - Pirkle Jones and Ruth-Marion Baruch". A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon deluxe edition limited to one hundred blindstamped copies of the book housed in a black leather clamshell box along with an original 11 x 14" black and white photographic print entitled "Black Panthers from Sacramento, Free Huey Rally" - which appears on page thirty-one of the book - NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Pirkle Jones in pencil on the verso. 0-9672366-9-X Inventory Number: 024343

(KH MAGAZINE). Harry, Kevin. New York. 2014-2018: Self-Published. First Editions. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monographs. As New.. Each 48 to 64pp, profusely illustrated in color. "KH" magazine is the colorful, under-the-radar annual (maga)'zine self-published by the amazing New York chronicler of style, Kevin Harry. With an eye for beauty and flair, "KH" captures the vibrant adornment, hair styles, and latest fashions of the five boroughs' African-American community, often at an open air festival or street carnival. A brand new, pristine set of all six hard to find installments published to date - issues 1 through 5 plus the "KH 2016 Special" - of this prescient document of ever-evolving innovative cultural style each of which has been additionally SIGNED by Kevin Harry in pencil on the rear cover. Inventory Number: 026674

(MEHRETU, JULIE). Mehretu, Julie & Olukemi Ilesanmi. Douglas Fogle, Editor. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2003. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Andrew Blauvelt and Kyle Blue. With an exhibition checklist. This is the elegant catalogue issued in conjunction with the 2003 Walker Art Center exhibition of twelve recently completed drawings and paintings by noted Addis Ababa born, New York based artist Julie Mehretu. Elaborately designed and printed, it has very much of the feel of an artist's book with perforated leporello pages, and several fold-out plates. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 0-935640-74-6 Inventory Number: 026740

(MITCHELL, TYRONE). Mitchell, Tyrone & Stephen Westfall. New York: Cyrus Gallery, 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 22pp, profusely, 7 color and 1 b&w illustration. With a biography, bibliography, and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1988 New York gallery exhibition of then-recent sculptural work by the noted African-American sculptor Tyrone Mitchell. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 026741

(NORTH DRIVE PRESS). Keegan, Matt & Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Editors. Brooklyn, NY: North Drive Press, 2008. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Loose Contents in a Box. Periodical. As New.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Susan Barber. "North Drive Press" was founded by Matt Keegan and Lizzy Lee in 2003. The name refers to the street connecting the parallel blocks on which Matt and Lizzy - childhood friends - lived as adolescents. The impetus for the creation of NDP, as it is affectionately known, was to produce a mobile group exhibition. Beginning with issue #3, Sara Greenberger Rafferty (also an artist committed to collaboration and artist-produced publications) joined North Drive Press as co-editor of the project. Tokion said "It's a magazine but it comes in a box. No, not a magazine in a box, but a bunch of stuff in a box that's a magazine. Which turns out to have some distinct advantages over old-fashion printed-and-bound publications, such as the happy inclusion of posters, matches, original photos, stickers, cards, CDs, 7"s, booklets and even a sew-on patch". The New York Times said "The multiples are a delight, the interviews a gold mine." Limited to one thousand copies, this fourth annual edition features interviews and texts by Becca Albee and Kathleen Hanna, Fia Backstrom and Wade Guyton, Jennifer Bornstein and Jonathan Horowitz, Sarah Charlesworth and Sara VanDerBeek, Ken Gonzales-Day and Edgar Arceneaux, Alice Konitz and Michael Ned Holte, Eileen Quinlan and Liz Deschenes, Frances Stark and Amy Yao, Erika Vogt and Nancy de Holl, Matias Faldbakken, Kristina Kite, Andrew Lampert, Rose Oluronke Ojo, and Kevin Zucker. Artwork and multiples are contributed by Tobias Bernstrup, Laurel Broughton, Xavier Cha, Zoe Crosher, Andre Ethier, Danny Gordon, Corin Hewitt, Vlatka Horvat, Mark Klassen, Justin Lowe with Saleem Dhamee, Dane Mitchell, Jesse Reed, Alex Robbins, Jani Ruscica, Sara VanDerBeek, and Amy Yao. A brand new, pristine example (cited on pages 276-279 of Phillip E. Aarons' "In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955") of the first edition limited to one thousand unnumbered copies still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-933045-71-X Inventory Number: 016519

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 142pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Mourning and Militancy - Douglas Crimp; Flaming Closets - Michael Moon; Kant with Sade - Jacques Lacan; From Breton to Dali: the Adventures of Automatism - Laurent Jenny; A Conversation with October - The V-Girls (Martha Baer, Erin Cramer, Jessica Chalmers, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Weems). A most handsome copy. 0-262-75201-8 Inventory Number: 021661

(PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE CORCORAN). Livingston, Jane & Roy Slade. Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art. First Editions. Square 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Photography Monographs. Near Fine. or Better. np (each circa 24pp), profusely illustrated. With an exhibition checklist, bibliography, biography and exhibition history. This is the boxed set of slender 8 x 8" catalogues issued in conjunction with fifteen one-person photographic exhibitions held at Washington DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art between 1976 and 1980. These include all eight documents from the historic 1976 Bicentennial project "The Nation's Capital in Photographs" ("Lewis Baltz: Maryland", "Joe Cameron: The Extended Mall", Robert Cumming, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, John R. Gossage: The Better Neighborhoods of Greater Washington", Jan Groover, and Anthony Hernandez) along with "The Historic Photographs of Addison N. Scurlock" (1976), "Frank Di Perna: Color Photographs", "Sally Mann / The Lewis Law Photographs", "Mike Mitchell: Other Lights" (1977), Jerry Burchard, "Arnold Kramer / Interior Views" (1978), and Helen Levitt (1980). A most handsome group - each individual example is Near Fine or better - whose printed silver paper-over-boards slipcase shows some notable overall wear and rubbing. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019949

(POPE.L, WILLIAM). Pope.L, William, Lisa Melandri, Wade Graham & Lauri Firstenberg. Santa Monica, CA: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 40pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This is the catalogue issued in conjunction with three recent Santa Monica Museum of Art multi-media installations "the Grove", "A Personal History of Videography" and "The Semen Pictures" by William Pope.L - the mysterious self-proclaimed "Friendliest Black Artist in America". A brand new, most handsome example. 0-9745108-3-1 Inventory Number: 026742

(PURYEAR, MARTIN). Davies, Hugh M. & Helaine Posner. Amherst, MA: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984. First Edition. Square 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 44pp, 33 b&w and 20 color illustrations + cover. With a chronology, bibliography, and checklist of the exhibition. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the 1984 touring Museum exhibition of works by the noted African-American sculptor Martin Puryear - his first comprehensive retrospective. It includes an extensive interview with the artist by curators Hugh M. Davies and Helaine Posner. A handsome example showing some light overall wear, creasing, and soiling to its white covers. LC 83-51797 Inventory Number: 026557

(SAAR, BETYE). Sims, Lowery. Fullerton, CA: Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, 1988. First Edition. Square 8vo. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 36pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a biography, bibliography, exhibition checklist and a color illustration of each of the 10 installations. This is the catalogue produced in conjunction with a 1988 exhibition of renowned Los Angeles-based African-American artist Betye Saar's ritualistic objects and altars on which viewers were invited to add "offerings". A most handsome example in dust jacket. 0-935314-37-7 Inventory Number: 026610

(SIMPSON, LORNA). Simpson, Lorna & Thelma Golden. Santa Monica, CA: The Peter Norton Family, 1994. First Edition. Tall Narrow 4to. Three Sculptural Elements. Artist's Multiple. Fine. Three wishbone sculptural elements (bronze, ceramic and rubber) displayed within a die-cut, lithographed felt compartment housed in a sliding wooden box. Issued as the 1994 Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, this limited edition multiple entitled "III" by noted African-American artist Lorna Simpson "continues the evolution of her art. It centers on a wishbone, a key of her artistic imagery, and draws on the metaphorical meanings of the project's materials. "III" is Lorna Simpson's meditation on wishing". A most handsome example of this elegant artist's multiple issued hors commerce and never commercially available for sale with the Norton Family Christmas card bearing Thelma Golden's descriptive text on the verso laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 016361

(SISKIND, AARON). Siskind, Aaron. Foreword by Gordon Parks. Charles Traub & Ann Banks, Editors. Providence, RI: Matrix Publications, Inc., 1981. First Edition #100/100 Deluxe. Oblong Small 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 80pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Malcolm Grear. This is the historically significant compendium of the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind's photographs from the 1930s of Harlem and its denizens. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1981 Matrix Publications deluxe first hardbound edition in dust jacket limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (100/100) AND SIGNED "Aaron Siskind" in black ink on the vellum limitation page at front, as issued, showing some mild wear and sunning to the publisher's printed slipcase. 0-936554-06-1 Inventory Number: 026401