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(ANDREWS, BENNY). Andrews, Benny. Los Angeles: Ankrum Gallery, 1975. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. np (8pp), 4 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition history. This is the slender eight page catalog published in conjunction with Benny Andrews' 1975 Ankrum Gallery exhibition; the noted late African-American artist/illustrator's first Los Angeles one-person show. A handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event showing a tiny area of white-out at the bottom of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024232

(ANDREWS, BENNY). Andrews, Benny. Los Angeles: Ankrum Gallery, 1975. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (8pp), 4 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition history. This is the slender eight page catalog published in conjunction with Benny Andrews' 1975 Ankrum Gallery exhibition; the noted late African-American artist/illustrator's first Los Angeles one-person show. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 022933

(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

(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 199 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

(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

(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

(KING, MARTIN LUTHER). King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther. New York: The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1965. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Civil Rights Movement Document. Fine.. 24pp, no illustrations. "The Civil Rights Struggle in the United States Today" is a May 1965 supplemental publication to Volume 20, Number 5 of The Record of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Devoted entirely to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s appearance before the Bar Association of the City of New York on Wednesday April 21, 1965, it typographically transcribes the introductory remarks of the Honorable Samuel I. Rosenman, Dr. King's full address, and the audience question and answer session moderated by Judge Rosenman afterwards. A bright, exceptionally well-preserved example of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral vintage historical document of the Civil Rights movement showing a few light handling creases. Inventory Number: 024418

(KING, MARTIN LUTHER). King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther & Lawrence Spivak. Washington, D.C.: Merkle Press Inc., 1965. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Civil Rights Movement Document. Near Fine.. 10pp, no illustrations. This is the Merkle Press offprint publication that is a typographic transcription of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s appearance on the March 28th, 1965 broadcast of NBC's venerable "Meet the Press". Dr. King's was questioned on his views regarding the Civil Rights movement by a panel consisting of the program's producer Lawrence Spivak, John Chancellor, Tom Wicker, and James J. Kilpatrick that was moderated by Ned Brooks. A handsome, well-preserved example of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral vintage historical document of the Civil Rights movement showing a few light handling creases. Inventory Number: 024419

(LARK, RAYMOND). Lark, Raymond. Introduction By Ruth Dalzell Hatfield. Los Angeles: The Art of Raymond Lark, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Embossed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Good +.. 58pp, 25 b&w illustrations. Designed by Raymond Lark. With a biography, chronology, bibliography, and exhibition history. Self-published by the artist himself in conjunction with a 1975 exhibition at Dalzell Hatfield Galleries, this remains the major reference on the well-known Los Angeles-based African-American draftsman Raymond Lark. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing some light overall wear, handling, and soiling to the white covers. Inventory Number: 008757

(LAWRENCE, JACOB). Lewis, Samella, Langston Hughes & Mary Jane Hewitt. Santa Monica, CA: The Museum of African American Art, 1982. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine. np (16pp), 12 b&w and 10 color illustrations + covers. Designed by Samella Lewis. With a chronology and a collections listing. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1982 California retrospective of works by the pioneering late African-American artist Jacob Lawrence that was exhibited at the Santa Monica College gallery and The Clark Humanities Museum at Scripps College, Claremont. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 021363

(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

(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1996. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Contemporary Art Periodical. Fine.. ca 250pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. A brand new, pristine example of the forty-seventh issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly that includes Raymond Pettibon's original ten part, two color silkscreened fold-out multiple "Untitled (Justly Felt and Brilliantly Said" - entry number twenty-six in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98" - still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-907509-97-8 Inventory Number: 012133

(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

(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

(TALAMON, BRUCE W.) (MARLEY, BOB). Talamon, Bruce W. & Roger Steffens. Foreword by Timothy White. Afterword By Marcia Battle. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1994. First Edition 1/99 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Music Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. "Bob Marley was the proudest-walking black man I had ever seen. He didn't walk, he would stride. I would observe his presence and humanity... relating to a sensibility that acknowledged his mission. Like the old folks say, he did not tarry. He had a purpose. Like no one I have ever seen before or since". This is from Bruce W. Talamon's preface to "Bob Marley: Spirit Dancer" - perhaps the great photographic study of the late, great music legend. Limited to ninety-nine copies only, this deluxe edition is bound in black linen with a black linen slipcase and contains a beautiful 10 x 8" black and white portrait of Bob Marley signed by Bruce Talamon laid in. A brand new, pristine example acquired directly from the photographer SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Bruce Talamon at the colophon, as issued. 0-393-03686-3 Inventory Number: 013889

(TRAYLOR, BILL). Druckman, Nancy & Kara Lyn Anderson. New York: Sotheby's, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Auction Catalog. Fine.. 68pp, 21 color illustrations. This is the auction catalogue documenting the Sunday, December 3rd 1997 sale of a single private collection of twenty-one works on paper by the late, self-taught African-American artist Bill Traylor. A pristine copy. Inventory Number: 018279

(ULMANN, DORIS). Peterkin, Julia & Doris Ulmann. London: Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1934. First British Edition. 8vo. Cloth. Photography Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket. 256pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Roll, Jordan, Roll" is the influential collaboration between Julia Peterkin and photojournalist Doris Ulmann that brought light to the lives and history of the Gullah descendants of African-American slaves living in South Carolina and Georgia in the thirties. A well-preserved, most presentable example of the uncommon 1934 Jonathan Cape first British edition of this classic (cited on page 135 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I" and pages 78-79 of "The Book of 101 Books") lacking its dust jacket showing some soiling to the top edge of the textblock a previous owner's name in ink on the front pastedown, and some light foxing to the front and rear pastedowns and endpapers. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024208

(WALKER, KARA). Walker, Kara, Stephan Berg, Silke Boerma, Eungie Joo & Robert Hobbs. Hannover, GERMANY: Kunstverein Hannover, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Embossed Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 197pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. This is the elegant catalogue issued in conjunction with the 2002 German museum exhibition "For the Benefit of All the Races of Mankind An Exhibition of Artifacts, Remnants, and Effluvia EXCAVATED from the Black Heart of a Negress" by noted African-American artist Kara Walker. Beautifully designed and printed, it has very much of the feel of an artist designed book. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-922675-84-0 Inventory Number: 024590

(WEBER, BRUCE). Weber, Bruce, Nan Bush, Nathaniel Kilcer, Matthew Richards & Skylar Pittman, Editors. Kempen, GERMANY & New York: teNeues Publishing Group, 2013. First Edition 1/5000. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (192pp), profusely illustrated in duotone and color. Art Director - Nathaniel Kilcer. "The latest volume in Bruce Weber's ongoing literary and art journal series celebrates individuals whose risk-taking and personal vision set them apart from the crowd. There's a common enthusiasm running through this volume, a sense that this cast of characters - be they subjects of the book or contributors to it - was born ready to stand up, face the odds, and declare themselves unabashedly to the world. The book opens with a poem about Basketball by Sherman Alexie. A new commission by Sean Thomas finds him back in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, documenting the teen rites of passage that pile up at the end of high school: senior prom, first romances, lazy summer jobs. Then Bruce Weber's first story in the book is a profile of Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries - the pioneering Los Angeles-based gang intervention and rehabilitation program. From there All-American travels to Harlem with Lisa Eisner, whose commissioned story about Amateur Night at the Apollo becomes a love poem to the vibrant neighborhood. Weber's second contribution is a profile of the charming and eccentric Mickey Wolfson, whose extraordinary collection of furniture, paintings, books, prints, and decorative objects became the Wolfsonian Museum in Miami, Florida. A portfolio of paintings by the Palm Beach society fixture Ralph Wolfe Cowan presents everyone from Doris Duke to Johnny Mathis to Princess Grace in the most ethereal and unexpected light. All-American then traces one woman's personal struggle for justice through exclusive images from the personal archive of Edith Windsor, whose Supreme Court case resulted in the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) earlier this year. This story also features portraits by Bruce Weber and photographs by Poppy De Villeneuve. All-American Volume Thirteen closes with an in-depth look at the world of professional motocross racing. Bruce Weber traveled this summer to Southwick, Massachusetts together with photographers John Scott and Michael John Murphy to capture stars like Ryan Dungey and James Stewart racing against a host of up-and-comers". As with all of the "All-American"s, the quality of the design, paper and printing is impeccable. Not unlike the previous books, there will be only one printing of this title. A brand new, pristine example in slipcase in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 3-8327-9735-1 Inventory Number: 022862

(WEEMS, CARRIE MAE). Weems, Carrie Mae & Ernest Larson. Berlin: Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin & Philip Morris Kunstforderung, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 48pp, 14 b&w illustrations. Text in English and German. Designed by Detlev Pusch. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the handsome catalogue published in conjunction with a 1998 German museum exhibition documenting an installation of translucent, photographically-based banners by noted African-American artist Carrie Mae Weems. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 3-932754-04-2 Inventory Number: 025711

(WEEMS, CARRIE MAE). Willis, Deborah, & Laurie Ann Farrell. Forewords by Paula S. Wallace & Stephanie S. Hughley. Savannah, GA: Savannah College of Art and Design, 2008. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. np (56pp), 31 b&w and 28 color illustrations. With a biography. Published by the Savannah College of Art and Design in conjunction with the 2008 National Black Arts Festival, this is a nicely appointed exhibition catalogue surveying photographs and video stills from noted African-American artist Carrie Mae Weems' then-recent work "Constructing History: A Requiem to Mark the Moment". A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Inventory Number: 025713

(WILSON, FRED). Berger, Maurice, Fred Wilson & Jennifer Gonzalez. Baltimore, MD: Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland Baltimore County Fine Arts Gallery, 2001. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 176pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition checklist, biography, and bibliography. This is the beautifully designed and illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with the 2001 traveling Museum retrospective of works by the noted African-American contemporary artist Fred Wilson. For nearly two decades, the artist has worked with Cultural Institutions and their collections to create installations & exhibitions that critique and/or bring to light the relationship between race and American Museum practices. A pristine copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Fred Wilson in black felt-tip pen on the title page. 1-890761-04-4 Inventory Number: 017894

Bradford, Mark. Prestel, 2015. 1st. Artist Monograph. New. 3791354299

Book of the day > Mark Bradford: Scorched Earth. Prestel. "This generously illustrated volume features Mark Bradford's newest work which deals with the body and the performance of identity. Mark Bradford's layered, multi-textured paintings have earned him wide critical acclaim. His latest body of work comprises a new group of paintings and a video, each of which cycles around the idea of the body in crisis. Bradford witnessed the LA riots (1992) from his studio and has translated the fury, fear, outrage, pandemonium, and lasting wounds into artworks. This volume reproduces in full new paintings in which Bradford carved into the layered surface of the work creating depressions and arteries that structure these otherwise abstract compositions. Bradford's new video references the history of black standup comedy taking on Eddie Murphy's controversial concert film "Delirious" (1983). In the video Bradford takes on Murphy's searing comments on sexuality, reinterpreting this important cultural moment while considering the modalities of gender and its performance. Accompanying texts include Bradford's trenchant performance script and a scholarly text by Butler explores Bradford's critique of pervasive cultural racism and homophobia in society as a whole."

Driskell, David C., Preface. Introduction By Tuliza K. Fleming. Washington, D.C. & San Francisco, CA: The National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution with Pomegranate Artbooks, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. 126pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition history and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition at The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, this beautiful catalogue reproduces artists Laura Wheeler Waring and Betsy Graves Reyneau's '40s portraits of prominent African American men & women of achievement commissioned by the Harmon Foundation. Those pictured include Marian Anderson, Richmond Barthe, Ralphe Bunche, Aaron Douglas, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Leroy Locke, Joe Louis, Thurgood Marshall, Paul Robeson, and many, many others. A most handsome copy. 0-7649-0332-2 Inventory Number: 009481

Hanks, Eric, Sibylla Nash, Lynne Thompson & Marlena Williams. Santa Monica, CA: M. Hanks Gallery, 2003. First Edition. Small Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. 60pp, 28 color illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, bibliography and artist biographies. This is the nicely produced, informative catalogue published in conjunction with a 2003 gallery survey of twenty-eight works by the African-American artists Romare Bearden, Walter Williams, Artis Lane, Meta Fuller, Palmer Hayden, John Outterbridge, Marie Calloway, William Pajaud, Phoebe Beasley, John Riddle, Lawrence Jones, Violet Fields, Gary Eugene Jefferson, Jon Offutt, and Jerome Meadows. It also includes an essay on collecting, poems by Lynne Thompson and an interview of Marlena Williams (Walter Williams's widow). A handsome copy. 0-9710150-1-5 Inventory Number: 013174

Harry, Kevin. New York: 2016. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Stapled Wrappers. New.
The magic of an afro.
This special issue of KH focuses on hair….and at the heart of it is the afro and variations on it.

30 pages---27 photos.

We are thrilled to have been the exclusive purveyor of this 2016 Special Issue of the fabulous KH zine -- this one devoted entirely to tonsorial style -- at the 2016 Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair!

Over the past two years Kevin Harry has self-published two small books cum zines entitled KH that joyously document the lively sense of fashion and personal style that pervade the participants and attendees alike at street celebrations of the African diaspora. The first issue featured images taken at New York’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, and the second documented the 2015 Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn. Inventory Number: e000KHSP2016

Schimmel, Paul, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker & Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims & Keiko Okamura. Foreword by Richard Koshalek. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Printed Self-Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. 388pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese (with English captions). Designed by Lorraine Wild, Amanda Washburn, and Yuki Nishinaka. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This is the catalogue of the spectacular 1998 Paul Schimmel-curated exhibition held at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art that subsequently traveled to Vienna, Barcelona, and Tokyo. "Out of Actions" surveyed the history and influence of post-war Performance Art, and the objects that exist today as its documentation. It features significant texts by Schimmel, Kristine Stiles, Guy Brett, Hubert Klocker, Shinichiro Osaki, Leslie King-Hammond and Lowery Stokes Sims, and Keiko Okamura. The artists included here are Marina Abramovic, Marina Abramovic and Ulay, Vito Acconci, Genpei Akasegawa, Laurie Anderson, Eleanor Antin, Rasheed Arseen, Mowry Baden, Artur Barrio, Joseph Beuys, Mark Boyle and Joan Hills, George Brecht, Stuart Brisley, Robert Delford Brown, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, John Cage, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Lygia Clark, Pinchas Cohen Gan, Collective Action Group, Houston Conwill, Paul Cotton, COUM Transmissions, Guy de Cointet, Jim Dine, John Duncan, Felipe Ehrenberg, Roberto Evangelista, Valie Export, Robert Filliou, Rose Finn-Kelcey, Sherman Fleming, Lucio Fontana, Terry Fox, Howard Fried, Gideon Gechtman, Gilbert & George, Alberto Greco, Ion Grigorescu, Victor Grippo, Red Grooms, Guerrilla Art Action Group, David Hammons, Al Hansen, Maren Hassinger, Lynn Hershman, Dick Higgins, Tatsumi Hijikata, Susan Hiller, Rebecca Horn, Tehching Hsieh, Joan Jonas, Kim Jones, Michel Journiac, Akira Kanayama, Tadeusz Kantor, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, Juergen Klauke, Yves Klein, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Komar & Melamid, Jannis Kounellis, Shigeko Kubota, Tetsumi Kudo, Yayoi Kusama, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, John Latham, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Lea Lublin, George Maciunas, Leopoldo Maier, Piero Manzoni, Tom Marioni, Georges Mathieu, Gordon Matta-Clark, Paul McCarthy, Bruce McLean, David Medalla, Cildo Meireles, Ana Mendieta, Gustav Metzger, Marta Minujin, Jan Micoch, Linda Montano, Robert Morris, Otto Muehl, Saburo Murakami, Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Bruce Nauman, Paul Neagu, Senga Nengudi, Joshua Neustein, Hermann Nitsch, Helio Oiticica, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Orlan, Raphael Montanez Ortiz, Lorenzo Pace, Nam June Paik, Gina Pane, Lygia Pape, Giuseppe Pinot Gallizio, Adrian Piper, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jackson Pollock, William Pope L., Robert Rauschenberg, Carlyle Reedy, Klaus Rinke, Ulrike Rosenbach, Dieter Roth, Zorka Saglova, Niki de Saint Phalle, Alfons Schilling, Tomas Schmit, Carolee Schneemann, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Bonnie Sherk, Shozo Shimamoto, Ushio Shinohara, Kazuo Shiraga, Barbara T. Smith, Daniel Spoerri, Petr Stembera, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Jiro Takamatsu, Atsuko Tanaka, Mark Thompson, Jean Tinguely, Rasa Todosijevic, Kerry Trengove, Ulay, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell, Franz Erhard Walther, Peter Weibel, Franz West, Hannah Wilke, Emmett Williams, and Zaj. A most handsome example of the uncommon 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Japanese language edition that includes two essays not found in the English version. Inventory Number: 025393