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(JAMES, DON). James, Don. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Five boxes with pastedowns each housing 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is a complete set of the five beautifully produced portfolios of pioneering waterman and photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surf riders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6" archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A brand new, pristine set still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. Inventory Number: 016698

Hershenson, Bruce. Los Angeles: Christie's, 1996. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (168pp), 174 color illustrations. This is the catalogue for two December 15th, 1995 sales of film posters organized by noted collector/dealer/author/publisher Bruce Hershenson held at Christie's in Los Angeles. It features two complete auctions in one volume. First there are one hundred and seventy-four full-color Rock 'n' Roll movie posters ranging from Bill Haley in 1956's "Rock Around the Clock" to Nirvana in 1992's "The Year Punk Broke". Then there are an additional two hundred and seventy-six full-color classic film posters including an ultra-rare "Flying Down to Rio" one-sheet that sold for a staggering $81,700.00. A most handsome example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED in ink by Bruce Hershenson on a printed label affixed to the front pastedown, as issued. Inventory Number: 016627

Hershenson, Bruce. West Plains, MO: Bruce Hershenson, 1996. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (80pp), 380 color illustrations. This is the fourth installment of noted collector/dealer/author/publisher Bruce Hershenson's indispensable film poster references categorized by subject matter. From 1913's "Ben Hur" through the Roger Corman's "Death Race 2000", it reproduces three hundred and eighty sports-themed posters and lobby cards. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to three hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED in ink by Bruce Hershenson on a printed label affixed to the front pastedown, as issued. 1-887893-15-6 Inventory Number: 016625

(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1957. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Near Fine.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover design after Wassily Kandinsky. This eighth installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features two original color pochoirs by Jean Dubuffet, and one each by Jean Arp and Jean Miro; who also has contributed an original color lithograph (entry number forty in Patrick Cramer's "Joan Miro: The Illustrated Books - Catalogue Raisonné). The contents include contributions on or by Maria Luz, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Lebel, Jean Arp, Patrick Waldberg, Max Ernst, Pablo Picasso, Jean Cassou, Wassily Kandinsky, Pierre Volboudt, Paul Klee, Will Grohmann, Joan Miro, Pierre Gueguen, Jean Dubuffet, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, Gilioli, Jacques Dopagne, Jean Fautrier, Andre Verdet, Giuseppe Marchiori, Alain Boaquet, Cesar, Pietro Consagra, Umbro Apollonio, Signori, Robert Muller, Georg Schmidt, Futurism, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Manessier, Franco Gentelini, Alberto Burri, Atlan, Zoran Music, Jackson Pollock, and more. A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 016583

(XXe SIECLE). Di San Lazzaro, Gualtieri, Managing Editor. Paris: XXe Siecle (Vingtieme Siecle), 1952. First Edition. Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Periodical. Very Good.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover design after Guillaume Apollinaire. This third installment of San Lazzaro's deluxe, semi-annual art periodical features original lithographs by Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Henri Michaux, and Alberto Giacometti. The contents include contributions on or by Herbert Read, Guillaume Apollinaire, Futurism, Gino Severini, Poetry and Text in Art, Jean Arp, Jean Cassou, Jean Miro, Alexander Calder, Pierre Courthion, Henri Michaux, Michel Tapie, Blaise Cendrars, Max Jacob, Salvador Dali, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Eluard, Milena Milani, Wassily Kandinsky, Robert Motherwell, American Abstract Art, Michel Seuphor, Antonio Corpora, Gustave Singier, Julio Gonzalez, Amodeo Modigliani, Henri Laurens, Frank Lloyd Wright, Igor Stravinsky, Vittorio De Sica, and more. A handsome example showing a slight soft crease through the textblock at the lower foredge corner. Inventory Number: 016582

(OROZCO, GABRIEL). Orozco, Gabriel, James Lingwood, Jean Fisher, Mark Hayworth-Booth & Guy Brett. London: Artangel, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 106pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Luc Derycke. Published in conjunction with a 1996 London exhibition, the year's Artangel book commission is a well-illustrated monograph in English on the renowned contemporary Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco. A most handsome copy. 1-902201-02-7 Inventory Number: 016574

(TUNBJORK, LARS). Tunbjork, Lars & Goran Odbratt. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Linen Boards with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (106pp), 49 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Greger Ulf Nilson. With a bibliography and exhibition history. "After his earlier series on leisure time and the world of office labor, Lars Tunbjork returned to his childhood neighborhood to photograph his mother's house. The experience intrigued him, and he continued shooting in similar areas around Sweden. Saturated with other people's personal memories, his photographs convey the peculiar atmosphere of silence familiar in middle-class housing districts". Featuring elegantly detached images of Swedish housing projects, yards and interiors devoid of their occupants, this lovely hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Goteborg's Hasselblad Center is a worthy successor to the photographer's celebrated "Landet Utom Sig / A Country Beside Itself". A most handsome copy. 3-88243-868-1 Inventory Number: 016560

(BIALOBRZESKI, PETER). Bialobrzeski, Peter, Florian Hanig & Christoph Ribbat. Ostfildern-Ruit, GERMANY: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, 40 color illustrations. Text in German and English. Designed by Jung und Pfeffer. This is the lovely hardbound book published in conjunction with German photographer Peter Bialobrzeski's 2004 exhibition of luminous images of the architectural details of Asian megalopolises Hong Kong, Shanghai, Bangkok, Singapore, Shenzhen, and Kuala Lumpur held at Bremen's Museum der Arbeit. Contrasting decaying blocks of flats with under-construction skyscrapers, "Neon Tigers" bears more than a passing resemblance to the urban dystopia of "Blade Runner" - especially in its sodium light drenched night skylines. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-7757-1394-8 Inventory Number: 016516

(DAVIES, PETER). Gayford, Martin. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2001. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 16pp, 10 color illustrations. Designed by North. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the innovatively designed slender hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with British painter (and Charles Saatchi favorite) Peter Davies' 2001 Gagosian Gallery exhibition of fifteen large-format works. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item. 1-880154-54-4 Inventory Number: 016513

(THRESHOLDS). Kroiz, Lauren, Patrick Haughey & Talia Dorsey, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Fine.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. The twenty-seventh issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "Exploration", and includes contributions by Lauren Kroiz, Helene Lipstadt, Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, Bradley McGilvary Pitts, Peter Galison and Jennifer Ferng, Thomas Beischer and Marion Lee, Jedediah Smith Ela, Raoul Bunschoten, Brigitte Desrochers, Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Prodromos Nikiforidis, Bernard Cuomo, Paraskevi Tarani, Martin Hogue, Lisa Hsieh, B. Alex Miller, and Neyran Turan. A most handsome example of this unavailable issue. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 016451

(THRESHOLDS). Guaraldo, Anthony L., Matthew J. Simitis & Katherine Wheeler Borum, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Near Fine.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. The twenty-first issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "Readings", and includes contributions by Katherine Wheeler Borum, Elizabeth Grossman, Garyfallia Katsavounidou, Martin Hogue, Stephanie Hammer, Helene Lipstadt, Hanna Hamplova, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Vittorio Gregotti, Douglas Cooper, Mark Jarzombek, Kim Dovey, Alex Haw, Omar Khan, Alfred B. Hwangbo, Zissis Kotionis, David Sledge, and John Fernandez. A handsome example. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 016450

(THRESHOLDS). O'Brien, James P., Garyfallia Katsavounidou & Jennifer Mack, Editors. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department & MIT Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Architecture Periodical. Near Fine.. 100pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. The nineteenth issue of this thematic, semi-annual theoretical journal from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Architecture Department is entitled "The Invisible", and includes contributions by Stanford Anderson, Francesca Rogier, Alex Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre, Mary Otis Stevens, Alfredo Jaar, Zissis Kotionis, Diane Ghirardo, Mark Jarzombek, Garry Stevens, Edith Ackermann & Krsysztof Wodiczko, Garryfallia Katsavounidou, Kristin Little, Jill Magid, Steven Landau, Greg Russell, Pia Lindman, and Kevin Fellingham. A most handsome example. ISSN 1091-711X Inventory Number: 016448

(WEIFENBACH, TERRI). Weifenbach, Terri. Introduction by Yayako Uchida. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Tall 4to. Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (64pp), 32 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 2000 by the estimable Nazraeli Press, "Hunter Green" is the beautifully designed and printed second sampling in book form of Terri Weifenbach's lush, often hazy examinations of mysterious backyard flora. A brand new, most handsome example from the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies featuring an original 5 ¼ x 3 ½" color photograph mounted on the front cover. 3-923922-88-4 Inventory Number: 016438

(MORTENSEN, VIGGO). Mortensen, Viggo. Introduction by Dennis Hopper. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1998. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 110pp, 83 illustrations in color and b&w. This is the true first printing of Viggo Mortensen's first book. It is the catalogue that accompanied the artist's first one-man exhibition of writings, paintings, collages and photographs at Santa Monica's Track 16 Gallery. While primarily known for his role as "Aragorn" in Peter Jackson's cinematic version of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, Mr. Mortensen is an artist whose boundless creative output embraces a myriad of media. Included with this publication is an Audio CD with music and spoken-word poetry. A most handsome example of the uncommon 1998 first edition showing a short soft crease at the hinge of the rear cover. 1-889195-32-4 Inventory Number: 016421

(PHILLIPS, RICHARD). Ruf, Beatrix, Frank A. Meyer & Richard Phillips. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Ringier AG Corporate Communications, 2007. First Edition. Small 4to. Gilt-Debossed Boards. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. xx + 40pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English. Published as Swiss media conglomerate Ringier's 2006 annual report, this beautiful hardbound tome is an artist's book designed by Richard Phillips after a 1930s German monograph on the Medieval sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider. It features reproductions of eleven works on paper by the artist executed during 2006 (including a delightful appropriated drawing of Tom Cruise!) along with a discussion of the project with noted curator Beatrix Ruf. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item that was issued hors commerce and never made commercially available for sale. Inventory Number: 016351

Reed, Jr., Orrel P. & Robert Gore Rifkind. Foreword by Gerald Nordland. Los Angeles: Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. 380pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Jack Carter. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the copiously illustrated, scholarly catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 exhibition of four hundred and eighteen German and Austrian Expressionist, Dada, Bauhaus, and related European modernist prints, drawings, illustrated books, posters and periodicals drawn from the Robert Gore Rifkind Collection. Now part of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's holdings, the collection is reputedly the most comprehensive archive of Expressionist graphics outside of Germany. Artists whose work is featured include Josef Albers, Cuno Amiet, Alexander Archipenko, Hans Arp, Ernst Barlach, Willi Baumeister, Herbert Bayer, Max Beckmann, Albert Bloch, Max Buchartz, Heinrich Campendonk, Lovis Corinth, Otto Dix, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Lyonel Feininger, Conrad Felixmuller, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Erich Heckel, Karl Jakob Hirsch, Ferdinand Hodler, Karl Hofer, Johannes Itten, Willi Jaeckel, Alexej Von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, Gustav Klimt, Oskar Kokoschka, Kaethe Kollwitz, Alfred Kubin, Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Max Liebermann, August Macke, Franz Marc, Frans Masereel, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Ludwig Meidner, Wilhelm Morgner, Otto Mueller, Edvard Munch, Gabriele Munter, Emil Nolde, Max Pechstein, Hans Purrmann, Christian Rohlfs, Egon Schiele, Oskar Schlemmer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Arnold Schoenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Richard Seewald, Arthur Segal, Max Slevogt, Georg Tappert, Emil-Rudolph Weiss, and many, many more. A handsome copy of the uncommon hardbound first edition (issued without dust jacket) whose gilt is bright and fresh showing a tiny bump to the tips of the rear board at the upper foredge corner (not affecting the textblock) as well as some light overall wear. 0-915346-27-3 Inventory Number: 016201

(UKLANSKI, PIOTR). Brown, Gavin, Jacek Petruczenko & STAH Z WARTY (Stanislaw) Szukalski. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by An Art Service. This is the charming hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the first Gagosian Gallery solo exhibition by Polish-born, New York-based artist Piotr Uklanski. "Bialo-Czerwona" (white-red), referring to Poland's bi-colored flag, is a nationalist slogan as familiar to Poles as "Red, White, and Blue" is to Americans. Uklanski's title unites diverse works that engage typical imagery of his native Poland and play on the red/white palette. Although it is, on one level, authentically Polish, in its use of populist decorative traditions and political symbols alluding to the country's not-so-distant Communist past the exhibition is also a highly stylized performance of identity". A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-72-3 Inventory Number: 016196

(PHILLIPS, RICHARD). Steinke, Darcey. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 62pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Dan Miller Design. Published in conjunction with a 2007 Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills exhibition, this elegant hardbound catalogue featuring a textual contribution by Darcey Steinke reproduces nine recent Richard Phillips paintings along with their preparatory studies and original printed source materials. A most handsome copy. 1-932598-48-0 Inventory Number: 016191

(BROWN, GLENN). Morton, Tom. Berlin: Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin & Holzwarth Publications, 2006. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 78pp, 14 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth. With an exhibition history and bibliography. "I am a little bit like Doctor Frankenstein because I create my pictures with the remains and dead parts of other artists' works." So says the rising London painter, Glenn Brown, while essayist Tom Morton likens Brown's canvases to a zombie comedy". This is the beautifully produced hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2006 Galerie Max Hetzler exhibition of six art-history inflected paintings by Glenn Brown. Each work is sumptuously reproduced with a tipped in color plate on heavy stock with an accompanying full page color detail; as well as two installation photographs. A pristine copy of this already unavailable and uncommon item. 3-935567-35-9 Inventory Number: 016183

(SERRA, RICHARD) (BOCHNER, MEL). Halbreich, Kathy. Cambridge, MA: Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 52pp, 36 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition histories and bibliographies. This is the well-illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 1980 Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology joint exhibition of works by Mel Bochner and Richard Serra. A most presentable example showing some overall light wear as well as some mild soiling and browning to the white covers. Inventory Number: 016180

Donnan, Christopher B.. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin America Center Publications / University of California, 1976. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good -. 146pp, 128 b&w and 16 color illustrations. With a bibliography. Published by the UCLA Latin America Center in 1976, this is the second monograph devoted to Moche material culture written by the preeminent American researcher on the subject, Christopher Donnan. A handsome example bearing a bold ink ownership inscription of the noted late Los Angeles artist and collector Emerson Woelffer in his hand on the first preliminary whose dust jacket shows a short closed tear with some attendant creasing on the front near the crown of the spine. 0-87903-033-X Inventory Number: 016169

(HIRST, DAMIEN). Shani, Annushka. London: White Cube, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 143pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jason Beard. With an exhibition checklist. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with Damien Hirst's 2003 London gallery show of twenty-eight new works entitled "Romance in the Age of Uncertainty". While these numerous formaldehyde pieces, pharmacies, and butterfly paintings bear a resemblance to the artist's earlier works, these creations each have titles based on Biblical themes. A brand new, most handsome example of this quirkily designed book that incorporates quite a number of blank pages. 0-9542363-7-8 Inventory Number: 016145

(BOCHNER, MEL). Bochner, Mel, Frederic Paul & Nelson Knight. Bignan, FRANCE: Domaine De Kerguehennec, 2008. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 85 color and 36 b&w illustrations. Text in English and French. With an exhibition history and bibliography. This is the lovely new hardbound catalogue that documents the 2007 Domaine De Kerguehennec retrospective of renowned Conceptual artist Mel Bochner. It contains primarily newly photographed images of the works installed during the exhibition as well as earlier documentary photographs, essays by Frederic Paul and Nelson Knight, and a lengthy transcribed interview between Paul and Mel Bochner. A brand new, pristine example. 2-906574-15-5 Inventory Number: 016143

(WOELFFER, EMERSON). Silverman Gallery, Manny. Los Angeles: Manny Silverman Gallery, 1990. First Edition. Tall Narrow 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Announcement. Fine.. One 9 ¼ x 16" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, neatly folded in thirds to make 6pp, 5 color illustrations. This is the exhibition announcement cum brochure for a 1990 show of collages by the late Los Angeles (by way of Chicago) artist/educator/collector Emerson Woelffer held at his longtime local gallery. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 016124

(KIPPENBERGER, MARTIN). Felix, Zdenek, Veit Loers & Rudolf Schmitz. Hamburg & Koln, GERMANY: Deichtorhallen Hamburg & Oktagon Verlag, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Foil-Debossed Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.. 80pp, 32 color and 4 b&w illustrations. Text in German and English. Designed by Panhans/Zander. With a biography and bibliography. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the 1999 Deichtorhallen Hamburg exhibition of Martin Kippenberger's riotous Kafka-inspired installation of furniture entitled "The Happy End of Franz Kafka's "Amerika". A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-89611-074-8 Inventory Number: 016086

(RIOS, SUSAN). Rugoff, Ralph. New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1988. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/Fine. 143pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With over one hundred lavish color and duotone plates, an early critical essay by Ralph Rugoff, and a catalogue raisonné of her serigraphs, this is still the major monograph on the populist painter / printmaker Susan Rios. A brand new, most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Susan Rios" in black marker on the front pastedown. 0-88363-587-9 Inventory Number: 016074

(TOM OF FINLAND). Laaksonen, Touko aka Tom of Finland. Los Angeles: Tom of Finland, 1989. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Wall Calendar. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 12 b&w illustrations + b&w covers. Self-published by the late, great Tom of Finland, this is a wall calendar for 1990 that features fourteen erotic male illustrations to keep you cozy throughout the year. A most handsome example of this surprisingly uncommon item perfect for the Tom of Finland completeist suitable for use again in 2018. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 016028

(FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig & Keiji Okuhira. 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 example of this uncommon item. 0-964-0494-1-4 Inventory Number: 016013

(WOELFFER, EMERSON). Woelffer, Emerson, Anne Ayres & Roy Dowell. Los Angeles: Otis School of Art and Design Galley, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 64pp, 20 color illustrations. Designed by Daniel Stearns. With a biography, exhibition checklist and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with a 1992 Los Angeles gallery retrospective of sixty-two works on paper by the late Los Angeles (by way of Chicago) artist/educator/collector Emerson Woelffer, this elegant catalogue combines reproductions of the artist's work along with essays by curators Anne Ayres and Roy Dowell, and an interview with Woelffer. A brand new, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 016009

(PARR, MARTIN) (GOSSAGE, JOHN). Obvious & Ordinary aka Martin Parr & John Gossage. NP (Chicago & London). ND (2007).: NP (Stephen Daiter Gallery & Rocket Gallery). First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (72pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Limited to one thousand, five hundred copies only, this playful tome attempted to anonymously document noted photographers Martin Parr (British, color, obvious) and John Gossage's (American, black and white, ordinary) 2006 road trip to Memphis to visit William Eggleston. Charming, cheerful and revealing, it resides comfortably alongside such revered American travelogues as Robert Frank's "The Americans", Steven Shore's "Uncommon Places", and Jeffrey Brouws' "Highway". A brand new, pristine example additionally bearing Parr and Gossage's "Obvious" and "Ordinary" rubber stamps (due to the nature of the project they have decided to "stamp" rather than actually sign any of the copies) in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 015990

(LIBESKIND, DANIEL) (BALMOND, CECIL). Libeskind, Daniel & Cecil Balmond. Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: NAI Publishers (Netherlands Architecture Institute), 1997. First Edition. Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Architecture Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, this is the innovatively designed box of printed elements related to the Boilerhouse extension of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London - a collaboration between noted architects Daniel Libeskind and Cecil Balmond (of Ove Arup and Partners Limited). It contains ten different project-related documents all housed in a beautifully printed heavy butcher paper over board clamshell box. A most handsome, complete example of this uncommon object in the publisher's printed obi, as issued. 90-5662-039-8 Inventory Number: 015972

(DARWELL, JOHN). Darwell, John. Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishers, 2001. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (52pp), 34 color illustrations. This is John Darwell's compact photo-essay documenting the Chernobyl Nuclear Reactors' "Zones of Exclusion": the permanently evacuated area surrounding the 1986 Russian Nuclear Power Plant disaster. It provides a haunting and eerily beautiful glimpse of the thirty kilometer wasteland where no man can now go - and is the perfect compliment to Robert Polidori's oversized volume on the same subject. A brand new, pristine example. 1-899235-58-2 Inventory Number: 015883

(ROYAL ART LODGE, THE) (DZAMA, MARCEL). Baerwaldt, Wayne, Joseph R. Wolin, Michael Dumontier, Hollie Dzama, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois & Myles Langlois. Toronto, CANADA & New York: The Power Plant & The Drawing Center, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 103pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Over a period of six years, The Royal Art Lodge members Michael Dumontier, Hollie Dzama, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, and Myles Langlois (along with former members Jonathan Pylypchuk and Adrian Williams), have together produced a remarkably large body of work including drawings, sculptures, videos, puppets, music, costumes and dolls. Their low-tech aesthetic and crude-yet-precise draftsmanship, combined with a perversely idiosyncratic sense of humor, have resulted in an outpouring of unforgettable hybrid creatures, absurd commentaries on the human condition, and an art of dynamic energy, whimsical charm, and expressive beauty". "Ask the Dust" is the comprehensive, most excellent catalogue issued in conjunction with the 2003 touring retrospective of works by everyone's favorite Winnipeg drawing collective. A brand new, most handsome example. 0-942324-19-6 Inventory Number: 015861

(ROYAL ART LODGE, THE) (DZAMA, MARCEL). Bartorelli, Guido, Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber & Marcel Dzama. Padova, ITALY: Perugi Artecontemporanea, 2005. First Edition. Small Square 8vo. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artists Monograph. As New.. 92pp, 80 color illustrations + cover. Text in English and Italian. With an exhibition history and bibliography. This is another compact, charming catalogue issued in conjunction with the 2005 Royal Art Lodge onslaught of Europe containing reproductions of eighty collaborative paintings by core members Michael Dumontier, Neil Farber, and Marcel Dzama. A brand new, pristine example. 88-87327-07-6 Inventory Number: 015806

(MERRILD, KNUD). Langsner, Jules, Knud Merrild & William Osmun. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965. First Edition 1/1000. Square 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 32pp, 25 b&w illustrations. Designed by Louis Danziger. Photographic Frontispiece by Man Ray. With an exhibition checklist. This is the catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1965 Museum retrospective of paintings, constructions, collages, watercolors and drawings by the noted California Modernist painter Knud Merrild. A most presentable example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies showing some rubbing to the wrappers. Inventory Number: 015789

(GOTTLIEB, ADOLPH). Hirsch, Sanford & Manny Silverman. Los Angeles: Manny Silverman Gallery, 1992. First Edition 1/1500. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 32pp, 13 color and 1 b&w illustration + color cover. Designed by Suzanne Bernstein. With an exhibition checklist, collections listing and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1992 Los Angeles gallery exhibition of fourteen "Pictograph" works on canvas and paper by noted American Abstract Expressionist artist Adolph Gottlieb. A handsome copy showing a few creases across the spine. Inventory Number: 015713

Washburne-Harris, Jessie & Donald Kennison, Editors. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Self-Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. np (64pp), 23 color illustrations. Designed by Bruce Mau Design Inc. With an exhibition checklist and bibliographies. This is the sleek catalogue published to document the 2002 group exhibition of twenty-two blue chip works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Gober, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns (4), Donald Judd, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Jeff Koons, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso (2), Robert Ryman, Jenny Saville, Richard Serra, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol (2), and Rachel Whiteread entitled "The Physical World" held at New York's Gagosian Gallery. From the gallery's press release: "While seemingly diverse, the works all display a particular correlation between object and ground whether achieved two dimensionally or with an actual object. An underlying current of sexuality and death runs through and connects the works in the exhibition". What else is left to be said? A most handsome example. 1-880154-76-5 Inventory Number: 015662

(MORRISON, JOEL). Morrison, Joel, Rainer Crone, Alexandra von Stosch & Aimee Chang. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Self-Wrappers with Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 60pp, 9 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by An Art Service. With a biography. This is the elegant catalogue published to document the 2008 Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills exhibition of sculpture and photographic works by Los Angeles-based artist Joel Morrison entitled "Circus". It features photographs of the objects and their gallery installation, an essay by Rainer Crone and Alexandra von Stosch, and a transcribed interview with the artist by Aimee Chang. A brand new, most handsome example. 1-932598-77-4 Inventory Number: 015636

(QUINN, MARC). Quinn, Marc, Brian Eno, Will Self, David Thorp & Mark Gisbourne. London & New York: Booth-Clibborn Editions & Gagosian Gallery, 1998. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (208pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by North. With an exhibition history. Published jointly by Booth-Clibborn Editions and the Gagosian Gallery, this is the most lavish, exquisitely designed and printed hardbound catalogue produced for Marc Quinn's 1998 New York exhibition, "Incarnate". It reproduces in great detail each of forty-nine queasy, anatomically chilling works executed by the renowned British contemporary artist between 1988 and 1998, and contains textual contributions by Quinn, Brian Eno, Will Self, David Thorp, and Mark Gisbourne. A brand new, most handsome example. 1-86154-048-5 Inventory Number: 015628

(WOELFFER, EMERSON). Silverman Gallery, Manny. Los Angeles: Manny Silverman Gallery, 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Announcement. Fine.. One 8 ¾ x 11 ½" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, neatly folded in half as issued to make 4pp, 1 color illustration. With a chronology. This is the exhibition announcement cum brochure for a 2000 show of paintings and collages by the late Los Angeles (by way of Chicago) artist/educator/collector Emerson Woelffer held at his longtime local gallery. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 015612