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Hicks, Dan. Edited by Kristine McKenna. Afterword by Tommy LiPuma. Foreword by Elvis Costello.. London, UK: Jawbone Press, 2017. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Music Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 100 b&w and color illustrations.

Please join us on Sunday, June 18th (4:00 - 6:00 PM) for a Book Signing and Panel moderated by Kristine McKenna with Van Dyke Parks, Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, and Hot Licks guitarist Paul Robinson!

This vivid memoir of a man described as “one of America’s greatest songwriters” by Elvis Costello, and a cat that was “fly, sly, wily, and dry” by Tom Waits. Dan Hicks had a front-row seat to the birth and death of counter culture -- San Francisco, 1966 -- it would affect both him and his music.

"I Scare Myself" captures the highs and lows of a lifelong adventure in music. You’ll get to see Hicks’ memories of one of the changes the sixties brought, working with great musicians, plus, a foreword by Elvis Costello, afterword by producer Tommy LiPuma, and annotations by his close friend Kristine McKenna.

“I just started taking ingredients I liked and putting them together to see what came out,” Hicks writes. What came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink and drug abuse.

Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music, and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Ms. McKenna on June 18th, and posted starting Tuesday, June 20th.

978-1911036234 Inventory Number: E000DHISM

(BEY, DAWOUD). Bey, Dawoud & Brian Ulrich. New York, NY: Aperture, 2019. First Edition. 10 x 7 1/2", Small 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New. 128 pages, profusely illustrated in color and black and white. 978-1-59711-3373

"In the fifth installment of The Photography Workshop Series, Dawoud Bey - well known for striking portraits that reflect both the individual and their larger community - offers his insight on creating meaningful and beautiful portraits that capture the subject and speak to something more universal.  Through images and words, the renowned artist shares his own creative process and discusses a wide range of issues, from lighting and location to establishing relationships with subjects, and practical strategies for starting a larger portraiture project. " A brand new example of the now out of print first edition additionally SIGNED by photographer Dawoud Bey.

Inventory Number: E000DBOPP

(BEY, DAWOUD). Bey, Dawoud, Valerie Cassel Oliver, LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry & Christina Sharpe. Richmond, VA & New York: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Aperture, I00240223. 2023. First Edition. 11 1/2 x 12". Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. New/New. 176 pages, 75 illustrations in black and white. 978-1-59711-5643

"Renowned for his Harlem street scenes and expressive portraits, Dawoud Bey continues his ongoing series on African American history focusing on the landscape to create a portrait of the early African American presence in the United States. "Elegy" brings together Bey’s three landscape series to date - "Night Coming Tenderly, Black (2017)", "In This Here Place (2021)", and "Stoney the Road (2023)" - elucidating the deep historical memory still embedded in the geography of the United States. Bey takes viewers to the historic Richmond Slave Trail in Virginia, where Africans were marched onto auction blocks; to the plantations of Louisiana, where they labored; and along the last stages of the Underground Railroad in Ohio, where fugitives sought self-emancipation. Essays by the exhibition’s curator, Valerie Cassel Oliver, and scholars LeRonn P. Brooks, Imani Perry, and Christina Sharpe illuminate the work. By interweaving these bodies of work into an elegy in three movements, Bey doesn’t merely evoke history, he retells it through historically grounded images that challenge viewers to go beyond seeing and imagine lived experiences. A brand new example additionally SIGNED by photographer Dawoud Bey.

Inventory Number: E000DBE

(AITKEN, DOUG). Aitken, Doug, Joseph Akel, Daniel Birnbaum, Marc Spiegler, Terry Riley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joseph Grima, April Lamm, Susan Solomon & Jorg Heiser. London, UK: MACK Books, I00221206. 2022. First Edition. Stout 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 608pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. 9781913620257

"This comprehensive new book explores the career of multimedia artist Doug Aitken, following the path from his first major works through to the present day. Aitken’s practice encompasses large-scale film installations such as Sleepwalkers (2007), site-specific sculptures including his Underwater Pavilions (2016) installed off the coast of Catalina Island, California, and peripatetic happenings like Station to Station (2013), which saw a train containing a travelling studio cross the USA from the Atlantic to the Pacific, staging unique performance events at each stop. Weaving together images and text in an energetic composition of rhythm and movement, this authoritative volume mirrors the ways in which Aitken has approached and explored the contemporary world in his conceptual body of work across multiple mediums. Works 1992-2022 features an introduction by Joseph Akel, an extended essay on Aitken’s oeuvre by Daniel Birnbaum, plus archival essays and interviews with the artist by writers Marc Spiegler, Terry Riley, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Joseph Grima, April Lamm, Susan Solomon, and Jörg Heiser."

Inventory Number: E000DAW1992

(AITKEN, DOUG). Aitken, Doug & Neville Wakefield. Arles, FRANCE, Brussels, BELGIUM & Mexico City, MEXICO: The LUMA Foundation, JRP | Editions, and Zolo Press, 2023. First Edition. Stout 4to. Printed Boards. Artist Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 168pp, profusely illustrated in color. 978-3-03764-564-2

"Between 2017 and 2021 artist Doug Aitken presented his site-specific installation entitled “Mirage” in the California desert outside Palm Springs, at a defunct Detroit bank, and nestled in the Swiss Alps. “Mirage” takes the form of a ranch-style suburban American house whose exterior is entirely clad in reflective mirrored surfaces that camouflage it in landscapes far removed from the familiar lawn and picket fence. The book is an immersive chronicle of the three installations, featuring photographs, architectural drawings, and other materials related to the project accompanied by a text by Neville Wakefield as well as an interview with the artist. Published collaboratively by The LUMA Foundation, JRP | Editions, and Zolo Press, and handmade with cold foils, silver printing, an exposed spine, and bound as a leporello, this extraordinary document is a tour de force of the bookmaker’s art."

A brand new example of the first edition collaboratively published by The LUMA Foundation, Zolo Press, and JRP Editions limited to one thousand copies additionally SIGNED by the artist.

Examples of the deluxe signed, numbered and slipcased edition of "Mirage" limited to one hundred copies can be ordered here from co-publishers Zolo Press, or JRP Editions.

Inventory Number: E000DAM

Woodside, Clint. Um Yeah Arts, 2016. First Edition 1/10 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. First issued in 2013 as a Deadbeat Club zine, Undercover Cars has been substantially enlarged and re-conceived as an elegant hardcover book featuring a new text by photographer Mike Slack. Undercover Cars is the culmination of a series of color photographs – shot on film and printed in the dark room – spanning five years, scores of autos, and thousands of miles from Los Angeles to Bangkok. The book contains 52 images of cars parked in plain sight, but covered from the elements. In his insightful essay, co-publisher Mike Slack (The Ice Plant) observes, “What strikes me now, looking at this fresh new edit, is not the boring ubiquity of the subject matter - the deadpan Christo-like charm of all these tarps attached to all these automobiles - but the man-made environments Woodside is showing us in the photographs, and the sense of walking-and-looking that the series implies. Never mind the covered cars; look at what surrounds them.” Hailing from New York, Clint Woodside currently resides in LA by way of Philadelphia. His work as a photographer has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Philadelphia, and internationally in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Woodside is also known for his extensive work as a curator, graphic designer, and as creator/publisher of Deadbeat Club - a publisher and distributor of more than forty publications whose diverse roster of photographers includes Todd Hido, Tobin Yelland, Ed Templeton, Deanna Templeton, Andrea Sonnenberg, Jerry Hsu, Patrick O’Dell, Woodside, and others.

Comes in 8.5" X 10.5" box
With signed, stamped and numbered print and book
Choice of 5 different prints
Edition of 10 each set - 50 Total Inventory Number: E000CWUCDLX

(PILDAS, AVE). Campany, David & Ave Pildas. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, I00221000. 2022. First Edition 1/750 Copies. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-04-5

"Hollywood Boulevard, Walk of Fame, 1970s. You were there, with your camera, with your love of life and people. It seems you turned the sidewalk into a little stage, and everyone came for a momentary audition. Some wanted to be famous, some were ok with a walk-on part, most were just happy to see you.”

So writes David Campany of the pictures in Star Struck, the first monograph from the legendary Ave Pildas in more than forty years. These photographs were made between 1972 and 1975 in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm.

In Pildas' generous and gentle view, everyone is an A-list celebrity. And he should know! Those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and the Velvet Underground. Pildas brings the same joyous discipline to regular folks on the street as he did to his well-known work for DownBeat magazine and Capitol Records.
 

In the end, the most beautiful and beguiling thing about Star Struck is that you’re not sure if the title refers to the people whom Ave Pildas encountered on Hollywood Boulevard, or to the photographer himself. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to seven hundred and fifty copies additionally SIGNED by Ave Pildas in ink.

Inventory Number: E000APSS

(ERIZKU, AWOL). Erizku, Awol, Ashley James, Doreen St. Felix, Urs Fischer & Antwaun Sargent. Foreword by Ishmael Reed. New York: Aperture and The Momentary, I00230705. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 9 1/2", 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. New/As New. 300pp, 168 illustrations in color and b&w. "Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, Awol Erizku's work references and re-imagines African-American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans the artist’s career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, “It’s important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people.” Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Félix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist’s tremendous power and originality." A brand new example of this spectacularly designed and produced first monograph additionally SIGNED "Awol Erizku" in ink on the front pastedown.

9781597115469 Inventory Number: E000AEMP

Low, Abby Clawson. New York, NY: Clarkson Potter Publishers, 2018. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Travel Guide. As New. 304pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w.

Abby Clawson Low is a design director specializing in identity and publication design. Her studio projects range from logos, websites, and books to self-published projects and collaborations - including work for The New York Times Magazine, Kid O products, Madewell, New York magazine, Abrams Books, Melcher Media, Partners & Spade, Mayle, Seersucker, CHANCE, and Harvey Faircloth.

This gorgeous travel and look book is a love letter to Mexico City that celebrates in photographs and descriptive text the cultural, architectural, design, art, and culinary destinations in this extremely popular and vibrant destination. Vast and exciting, Mexico City has so much to offer for both tourists and locals. "This Is Mexico City" is a visual and descriptive guide with an emphasis on design, art, architecture, and culture, showcasing the best museums (both traditional and off-the-beaten-path), old-school mercados, public art, locals’ favorite restaurants - from the fancy to the food trucks, and more. This lifestyle-driven city tour will captivate Mexico City’s residents, future and past visitors, and even armchair travelers. A brand new, pristine example.

978-1524762117 Inventory Number: E000ACLTIMC

(ADAMS, ANSEL). Senf, Rebecca A. Foreword by Anne Breckenridge Barrett. New Haven, CT & Tucson, AZ: Yale University Press in association with the Center for Creative Photography, 2020. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 288pp, 175 color illustrations. "One of the most influential photographers of his generation, Ansel Adams (1902–1984) is famous for his dramatic photographs of the American West. Although many of Adams’s images are now iconic, his early work has remained largely unknown. In this first monograph dedicated to the beginnings of Adams’ career, Rebecca A. Senf argues that these early photographs are crucial to understanding Adams’ artistic development and offer new insights into many aspects of the artist’s mature oeuvre. Drawing on copious archival research, Senf traces the first three decades of Adams’s photographic practice - beginning with an amateur album made during his childhood and culminating with his Guggenheim-supported National Parks photography of the 1940s. Highlighting the artist’s persistence in forging a career path and his remarkable ability to learn from experience as he sharpened his image-making skills, this beautifully illustrated volume also looks at the significance of the artist’s environmentalism, including his involvement with the Sierra Club.

Rebecca A. Senf is chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. Anne Breckenridge Barrett is associate vice president for the arts at the University of Arizona and director of the Center for Creative Photography."

PLEASE NOTE: We will begin shipping copies to PAC/LA members the week of July 13th. 0-300-24394-4 Inventory Number: E000AAMAP

Grace, Arthur. Counterpoint , 2016. Deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies that includes an 11 x 8 1/2" black and white photographic print.

"I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . ."

Photographer Arthur Grace first met Robin Williams in April 1986, at a comedy club in Pittsburgh where Williams was working to polish what would eventually become his award-winning special “Evening at the Met”. The two hit it off immediately, and thus blossomed a close friendship that carried them through their increasingly successful careers. Told through a series of stunning photographs of Williams taken by Grace over the course of this decades-long partnership, Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait offers a touching and up-close look at the real Robin Williams—the manic and happy, the pensive and weary, the engaged and disengaged, a true portrait of one of America’s greatest comics and most beloved actors.

For the millions of people around the globe that Robin Williams has touched, these images, more than 150 photographs, a glorious mixture of stunning color and resonating black and white presented in exhibit format, will be something to embrace and cherish, not simply because of their exclusivity, but because of their intimacy and their honesty.

Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning thirty-year career, his photos have been featured on the cover of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the High Museum of Art. He has published four critically-acclaimed photographic books: Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race, Comedians, State Fair, and America 101. Inventory Number: E0000AGRWDLX

Grace, Arthur. Counterpoint , 2016. ON SALE: August 9, 2016

"I had always thought that when I was around 84 and Robin was 80 we could collaborate on a book about the golden years of his career where he could look at my photographs and reminisce about the events and his feelings at the time. Unfortunately, that book was never to be . . . ."

Photographer Arthur Grace first met Robin Williams in April 1986, at a comedy club in Pittsburgh where Williams was working to polish what would eventually become his award-winning special “Evening at the Met”. The two hit it off immediately, and thus blossomed a close friendship that carried them through their increasingly successful careers. Told through a series of stunning photographs of Williams taken by Grace over the course of this decades-long partnership, Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait offers a touching and up-close look at the real Robin Williams—the manic and happy, the pensive and weary, the engaged and disengaged, a true portrait of one of America’s greatest comics and most beloved actors.

For the millions of people around the globe that Robin Williams has touched, these images, more than 150 photographs, a glorious mixture of stunning color and resonating black and white presented in exhibit format, will be something to embrace and cherish, not simply because of their exclusivity, but because of their intimacy and their honesty.

Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning thirty-year career, his photos have been featured on the cover of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, are in the permanent collections of numerous museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the High Museum of Art. He has published four critically-acclaimed photographic books: Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race, Comedians, State Fair, and America 101. 978-1619027275 Inventory Number: E0000AGRW

. I00250702. Our first bit of ARCANA merch! A big, strong bag with a zippered top & 6 1/2 inch square zippered inside pocket. 20″ x 15″ with a 5″ squared-off gusset and 10 1/2″ handles. Made from 12 oz. canvas and reinforced at stress points to carry even your biggest, baddest books. In “natural” with black print. Printed with love in Venice, CA by Tony Mac.
More colorways available seasonally - call or write to find out what's in stock now.


Inventory Number: BAGWB

. I00250702. Our first bit of ARCANA merch! A big, strong bag with a zippered top & 6 1/2 inch square zippered inside pocket. 20″ x 15″ with a 5″ squared-off gusset and 10 1/2″ handles. Made from 12 oz. canvas and reinforced at stress points to carry even your biggest, baddest books. In black with hot pink print. Printed with love in Venice, CA by Tony Mac.
More colorways available seasonally - call or write to find out what's in stock now.

Inventory Number: BAGBP

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2016. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 7 color illustrations. Todd Hido's "Seasons Road" is the ninety-third installment of Nazraeli Press' estimable "One Picture Book" series. "Every year at Christmas for the past ten years, Todd Hido has traveled to Ohio to visit his parents. During his annual trip home, Hido makes photographs along the small road that serves as the namesake for this book. The signed, original photographic print included with each copy of the book was shot on a 126 Instamatic camera" .A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item limited to five hundred numbered copies containing a color type C photographic print SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Todd Hido in ink on the verso tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. 1-59005-456-3 Inventory Number: 20181211 - 4

(ASPEN MAGAZINE). O'Doherty, Brian, Guest Editor. New York: Roaring Fork Press, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Portfolio. Arts Periodical. Good +.. np (nineteen printed components + advertisements, one film reel, and five flexi-discs housed in a printed paper-over-boards box, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Brian O'Doherty, David Dalton, and Lynn Letterman. Edited by Irish-born, New York-based artist and critic Brian O'Doherty, this combined fifth and sixth installment of "Aspen" magazine from 1967 is an elaborate collection of commissioned projects by avant-garde artists, writers, composers, and filmmakers - heavy on the Minimal and Conceptual. Dedicated by the editor to Stephane Mallarme, among its notable components are a recording of William S. Burroughs reading an excerpt from "Nova Express", "Smoke" - a miniature assemble-it-yourself sculptural multiple by Tony Smith, and "Serial Project #1, 1966" - the very first artist book by Sol LeWitt (cited on page 28 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as entry number one in Alicia Legg's "Books by the Artist" bibliography in MoMA's 1979 "Sol LeWitt). The sole double issue of eleven total published, it includes contributions by or about Sigmund Bode, Roland Barthes, George Kubler, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, Jack MacGowan, Burroughs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Max Neuhaus, Morton Feldman, Smith, Hans Richter, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Naum Gabo, Antoine Pevsner, Douglas MacAgy, Michel Butor, Dan Graham, LeWitt, Brian O'Doherty, and Mel Bochner. An internally most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item complete with the usually missing film reel and advertisement folder showing a bit of age-toning and occasional mild soiling to some of the printed sections. The copy of LeWitt's "Serial Project #1, 1966"" is crisp and white. The publisher's printed paper-over-boards exterior box exhibits the usual overall wear, creasing, age-toning, and soiling along with some short closed tears and compression along the joints. Still in all this is a complete and intact copy of this sixties gem that looks better in hand than it describes that has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 027737

(JARVIS, SHANIQWA). Jarvis, Shaniqwa. Introduction by Ryan McGinley. New York: Self-Published, I00250216. 2018 (2025).. Second Edition 1/500. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wappers with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. New./979--8218595005. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Stephen Serrato. "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 2025 self-published paperbound second edition of Shaniqwa Jarvis' impressive debut monograph. Inventory Number: 027735

(LYNCH, DAVID). Lynch, David, Kristine McKenna, Takashi Nibuya, et al. Tokyo: Touko Museum of Contemporary Art & Treville, 1991. First Edition. 8vo. Boards in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 123 + 36pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese (and English). This is an intricately produced and appropriately disconcerting catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of David Lynch's artwork at Tokyo's Touko Museum of Art. Cinema's Master of the Weird displays his skewed genius in a different medium here, to an equally fascinating and unnerving end. A most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To ... / best wishes / David Lynch. 1993." in black ink on the title page with the publisher's English language translation booklet and obi and laid in. 4-8457-0587-7 Inventory Number: 027732

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Duchamp, Marcel. Köln, GERMANY: Gebr. Konig Postkartenverlag, 1987. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First Thus. Square 8vo. Loose Discs in a Vellum Sleeve. Facsimile Artist's Multiple. Fine./Fine. Six loose 5 ¾" cardstock discs printed color offset recto and verso housed in a printed vellum sleeve, 12 color illustrations. Text in English. Published in 1987, this is a facsimile reproduction of Marcel Duchamp's iconic artist's multiple, "Rotoreliefs." "In 1935, Marcel Duchamp published Rotoreliefs, a set of six double-sided discs meant to be spun on a turntable at 40 to 60 rpm. Duchamp and Man Ray filmed early versions of the spinning discs for the short film "Anemic Cinema." A manifestation of Duchamp’s interest in optical illusions and mechanical art, the two-dimensional Rotoreliefs create an illusion of depth when spun at the correct speed. These Rotoreliefs were produced in an edition of five hundred sets that were initially displayed and offered for sale at the Concours Lépine inventor’s fair." A brand new, most handsome example of the long unavailable 1987 Walther König re-edition in the publisher's printed vellum sleeve. Inventory Number: 027728

(HOWARD HODGKIN). Sontag, Susan & Howard Hodgkin. London: Karsten Schubert Ltd., 1991. First Edition #26/200. Small Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artists' Book. As New/As New. 34pp, six hand-painted gatefold intaglio color etchings, plus a hand-painted dust jacket. Designed by Gordon House. This extraordinary artistic collaboration grew out of Sontag's text (first printed in 1986 as a short story in the "New Yorker") concerning the responses of a group of Manhattanites upon discovering that a close friend has AIDS. Hodgkin has contributed a series of somber, colorful graphics that have been overpainted with tempera by Jack Shirreff. The resulting artist's book is a moving paean to the plague years. A bright, most handsome example of this exquisite production in the publisher's rice-paper protective dustwrapper NUMBERED (26/200) AND BOLDLY SIGNED BY HODGKIN AND SONTAG in pencil on the colophon in the publisher's slightly creased and age-toned cardboard slipcase, as issued. Inventory Number: 027727

(PICASSO, PABLO). Editions "Cahiers D'Art", Editor. Paris: Cahiers D'Art, 1949. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 44pp, 32 b&w illustrations. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in 1949, this monographic Cahiers D'Art publication presents full page illustrations of thirty-two paintings from a total of sixty-five exhibited works executed by Pablo Picasso between 1946 and 1949. Held at Paris' Maison de la Pensee Francaise between July and December, the show was the most comprehensive presentation to date of the artist's post-war output. An internally bright, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon document - only seven copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - showing some mild wear, soiling, and staining to its cream colored covers along with a quarter inch of paper loss at the bottom edge of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 027726

(PURIFOY, NOAH). Purifoy, Noah & Ted Michel. Los Angeles. ND (1966).: Self Published. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (12pp), profusely illustrated in duotone. This is the slender twelve page catalogue produced in conjunction with a1966 exhibition of Los Angeles-based African-American artist Noah Purifoy's assemblage and sculptural works fashioned from the detritus of the 1965 Watts Riots. A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly important - and uncommon - document additionally signed "Noah Purifoy" in black ink on the title page. Laid in is an 8 1/2 x 11", tri-folded offset flyer for a June 1966 exhibition of a "continuum of '66 Signs of Neon" accompanied by a symposium held at the Men's Lounge of the UCLA Student Union. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 027725

(PICASSO, PABLO). Picasso, Pablo & "Senor Don" Marcel Duhamel. Antibes, FRANCE: Privately Published by Marcel Duhamel, 1965. First Edition #207/250. 16mo. Decorative Cloth in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (116pp), profusely illustrated in monochrome and color. Text in French. "Le Carnet Des Carnets" is the charming 1965 successor to "The Pocket Picasso" - the lovely undertaking that reproduces a small "pre-war, sixty-five centime" notebook illustrated by Pablo Picasso in 1957 and subsequently gifted to his Antibes neighbor, "Senor Don" Marcel Duhamel. In 1964, Duhamel privately self-published a facsimile in an edition limited to eight hundred and fifty total copies. The 5 ¼ x 4 1/8" sketchbook in decorative cloth contains over one hundred playful, calligraphic renderings from the hand of the master in grey gouache. A year later, Picasso additionally borrowed back the original notebook, illustrated as well as annotated it along with its colorful, holographically illustrated presentation envelope, and returned it to the owner. Marcel Duhamel then once again collaborated with master printer Daniel Jacomet to publish the updated versions in facsimile, again housed in a delicate screenprinted clear plastic box. A bright, exceptionally well-preserved example of the uncommon first and only edition of this tiny gem limited to two hundred and fifty NUMBERED (207/250) copies - this time issued without an accompanying text booklet. Inventory Number: 027724

(VAN VLIET, DON aka CAPTAIN BEEFHEART) (CORBIJN, ANTON). Van Vliet, Don, Jan Van Vliet, Anton Corbijn & Ben Watson. Los Angeles: Artist Ink Editions, 2003. First Edition 1/1500 Deluxe. 4to. Linen Over Boards, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. 88 + 96pp, 1 audio CD + 1 DVD, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tim Eames. "Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart was a visual artist before he was a musician. As a young child he drew serious accolades for his animal sculptures and was offered a scholarship to study in Europe. His parents declined; and while continuing to create in the visual medium, he turned his attention to music, within ten years forming the first incarnation of the legendary experimental outfit Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. The following fifteen years are music history. But in 1983 Van Vliet retired from music to pursue painting and drawing, the focus of this extraordinary boxed set. "Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh" (named after a painting the artist completed in 1987) provides an opportunity to own one of his original, signed color etchings. Executed on paper and cataloged as "Untitled (Self-Portrait)", the work measures 6 5/8 x 9 ½". The paper itself measures 7 7/8 x 10 ½". Van Vliet produced only 1,500 copies of the piece, one for each individually numbered copy of this Artist Ink Edition. A deluxe 9 ¼ x 12 ¾ x 2 ¾" slipcase carefully houses the etching as well as two museum-quality books, a CD, and a DVD. The first book, entitled "Riding Some Kind of Unusual Skull Sleigh" (88 pages), is a monograph of sorts, containing an essay by art historian Ben Watson and full-color reproductions of sixty of Van Vliet's paintings and drawings - some of them previously unpublished. The second book, entitled "Splinters" (96 pages), features portrait photos of the artist by Anton Corbijn, along with a selection of personal archival material supplied by Don and Jan Van Vliet - including family snapshots, newspaper clippings, drawings, and sketches. None of this material has heretofore been seen. The CD features the artist reading eleven of his previously unreleased spoken-word pieces spanning 1977-1999, which are also reprinted in the Splinters book. The DVD features "Some YoYo Stuff", a 1994 filmed observation by Anton Corbijn. "Riding Some Kind Of Unusual Skull Sleigh is available only as an individually numbered limited edition of 1,500 copies". A brand new, pristine example of this remarkable undertaking still sealed in the publisher's original shipping carton. 0-7379-0284-1 Inventory Number: 027723

(LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Lichtenstein, Roy. New York: On First (Roy Lichtenstein & Bert Stern), 1969. First Edition. 4to. Printed Paper Plate. Artist's Multiple. As New.. One 10 ¼" diameter paper plate screenprinted in primary blue, red and yellow inks on molded stiff white paper. Stated on verso "Roy Lichtenstein © On 1st Inc. 1969" - unsigned as issued. This is the striking Pop Art tableware that Roy Lichtenstein produced at the height of his powers for the groovy late sixties New York boutique, On First. Located on First Avenue at 61st in Manhattan, the shop was the brainchild of noted fashion and advertising photographer Bert Stern who opened it with the idea of commissioning stylish-yet-inexpensive objects for the home and wardrobe from artists and fashion designers. The store was ultimately short-lived - closing its doors after little more than a year - leaving most of these plates neither distributed, nor seen again. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming ephemeral multiple - as bright and fresh as the day it was printed. Inventory Number: 027720

(AIKO, JHENE). Chilombo, Jhené Aiko Efuru. Berkeley, CA: Ulysses Press, 2018. First Edition. Small 8vo. Printed Boards. Poetry Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 144pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. "Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo was born on March 16, 1988 in Los Angeles, California. Jhené began writing poetry at six years of age, at thirteen, she signed to a major record label and began her career as a recording artist. Today, she is a mother of one, a three-time Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter, and a poet. "2Fish", her first published book, presents a collection of intimate poems (and a few short stories) written from adolescence to adulthood, in no particular order. It details Chilombo's thoughts in their most raw and honest form taken directly from a collection of notebooks she has kept since age twelve." A bright, most handsome example of the uncommon stated first printing of this intimate gem additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "J. Aiko" WITH A DRAWING OF A HEART AND A PEACE SIGN inside the "o" in her name in black marker on the front pastedown during a 2018 event held at our shop. 1-61243-763-X Inventory Number: 027719

Alva, Robert "Wisk" & Robert "Relax" Reiling. Roger Yale, Editor. Los Angeles: Alva & Reiling Publications, 2005. First Edition #108/300 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards, Boxed. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 448pp, profusely illustrated in color. "The History of Los Angeles Graffiti Art" is a series of four books that will cover the years 1983 to 2005. Volume 1 is based on the years 1983 to 1988, and is the starting point to the real story behind the movement that began in the early 1980s. It documents all aspects of Los Angeles Graffiti Art, providing an unbiased look into this world through the eyes of the people that have lived it. Within the book, you will discover the truth behind the photos and stories - all interviews and DVD slideshows are uncut and real. It's exciting and fresh to the point of understanding our culture, without cutting it up". This unprecedented, gigantic, full color encyclopedic document is divided into the following chapters: "Spotlights" - a special tribute to all writers who made significant contributions and influences to the L.A. Graffiti scene; "Pieces / Burners" - showcasing familiar works as well as numerous lost and legendary Pieces / Burners; "Battles" - a special section dedicated to L.A.'s first battles between some of its most prolific crews and writers of the first era; "Blackbooks" - historical detailed drawings done within writers' sketchbooks; "Articles" - reproductions of newspaper and magazine pieces related to historical L.A. Graff subject matter; and "R.I.P." - memorials for all respected deceased Los Angeles Graffiti writers. Perhaps most significantly, a DVD is included with each book that contains over thirty slide shows by various L.A. writers. Shot by the authors (who are respected members of the L.A. Graff scene themselves) for this project, it contains exclusive commentaries by the graffiti writers that allow them to breathe life into their own work - uncut, raw and true - and the reader to be able to place a voice on the parade of images. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe edition of this uncommon historical document - only twelve copies of the trade edition are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - housed in the publisher's elaborate printed cardboard box limited to three hundred NUMBERED (108/300) copies whose book and the interior of the box have additionally been BOLDLY TAGGED "RELAX" by artist and author Robert "Relax" Reiling in thick silver marker. 1-59975-146-1 Inventory Number: 027717

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard & Takashi Hiraide. Tokyo: Shigeru Yokota Inc., 2003. First Edition #467/500. 8vo. Loose Contents in a Portfolio. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np, 5 color & 1 b&w illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender yet elegant document consisting of loose enclosures housed in a printed paper portfolio published in conjunction with a posthumous 2003 Tokyo gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell's box constructions, collages, and publications. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to five hundred NUMBERED (467/500) copies. Inventory Number: 027716

(CLAXTON, WILLIAM). Claxton, William. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2005. First Edition. Small Folio. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Music Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 720pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "In 1960, photographer William Claxton and noted musicologist Joachim E. Berendt traveled the United States hot on the trail of jazz. Through music halls and marching bands, side streets and subways, they sought to document this living, breathing, beating musical phenomenon that enraptured America across social, economic, and racial lines. The result of Claxton and Berendt’s collaboration was Jazzlife, much sought after by collectors and now revived in this fresh Taschen volume. From coast to coast, from unknown street performers to legends of the genre, this defining jazz journey explores just what made up this most original of American art forms. In New Orleans and New York, in St. Louis, Biloxi, Jackson, and beyond, Claxton’s rapturous yet tender images and accompanying texts examine jazz’s regional diversity as much as its pervasive vitality and soul. They show the music makers and the many spaces and people this music touched, from funeral parades to concert stages, from an elderly trumpet player to kids who hung from windows to catch a glimpse of a passing band. With portraits of Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Muddy Waters, Gabor Szabo, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, and many more, this is as much a compelling slice of history as it is a loving personal tribute". A brand new example of the massive 2005 Taschen XL first printing of this remarkable document additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by the late, great photographer William Claxton still in the publisher's shipping carton. 3-8228-3066-6 Inventory Number: 027705

(WILCO) (SCHMELLING, MICHAEL). Wilco, Michael Schmelling, Fred Tomaselli, Rick Moody, Henry Miller & Bern Porter. Dan Nadel & Peter Buchanan-Smith, Editors. Brooklyn, NY: PictureBox Inc., 2004. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Music Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 164pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by PictureBox. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Published in 2004, "The Wilco Book" is an exploration of the artistic statement presented by the band Wilco. Artwork created by the band, photographer Michael Schmelling, and artist Fred Tomaselli is interspersed with comments excerpted from interviews conducted by PictureBox with the band's members, technicians, and managers, essays by Henry Miller and Rick Moody, and excerpts from Bern Porter's collection "Found Poetry". Packaged with the book is an audio CD containing twelve previously unreleased tracks recorded during the sessions that led to the band's "A Ghost Is Born", which is discussed in the first appendix by Mikael Jorgensen, who produced and played on the sessions before he formally joined Wilco". A brand new, most handsome example of the first PictureBox Inc. edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED for us by all six current band members - Jeff Tweedy, Nels Cline, Mikael Jorgensen, Glenn Kotche, Pat Sansone, and John Stirratt as well as the book's photographer Michael Schmelling in black ink with the publisher's unplayed CD affixed to the inside rear board. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9713670-3-5 Inventory Number: 027704

(HOUSEAGO, THOMAS). Fuchs, Rudi, Lisa Le Feuvre, Michael Stanley & Thomas Houseago. Oxford & Surrey, UK: Modern Art Oxford & Lund Humphries, 2010. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Decorative Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 207 illustrations in color and b&w. Cover art by Thomas Houseago. Designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history, and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the comprehensive hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Los Angeles-based artist Thomas Houseago's 2010 Ashmolean Museum retrospective of sculptures and wall reliefs entitled "What Went Down". A brand new, most handsome example of this comprehensive document limited to one thousand, five hundred copies still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-901352-50-1 Inventory Number: 027703

(HARING, KEITH). Pincus-Witten, Robert, Jeffrey Deitch & David Shapiro. New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1982. First Edition 1/2000. Small Square 4to. Spiral Bound Stiff Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 144pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Dan Friedman. With a biography, exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the elaborately designed catalogue published in conjunction with the massive 1982 Keith Haring show held at Tony Shafrazi Gallery. The exhibition elevated Haring's career from that of an East Village Scene street artist to a rising art-star with international visibility. It contains essays by Robert Pincus-Witten, Jeffrey Deitch, and David Shapiro along with copious photographic documentation of both the exhibited pieces and public works in situ. The final thirty-two pages of this consist of the bound-in black and white artist's book "Keith Haring's Coloring Book, August 29, 1982". An exceptionally bright, most handsome example of the uncommon 1982 first edition limited to two thousand unnumbered copies showing two slight surface abrasions to the front cover where the black ink has streaked and a bit of the fluorescent pink screenprinting has partially come away from the underlying cardstock additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED INSCRIPTION "For Joyce - / X KEITH HARING FEB. 17-83" in thick silver marker above and below an ELABORATE ORIGINAL DRAWING of two running radiant figures reassembling a broken heart. This copy was acquired directly from the library of its original recipient. Inventory Number: 027702

(PERNA, LUCIANO). Perna, Luciano. Los Angeles: Peter Norton Family Foundation, 1993. First Edition. 24mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color. Each year the Peter Norton family commissions an art edition to celebrate the Christmas season and holidays. The 1993 installment for the Norton Family Christmas project was a tiny (2 5/8 x 2") survey cum artist's book featuring the whimsical work of the late Los Angeles-based artist Luciano Perna. A most handsome example of this uncommon little tome that was issued hors commerce and never made commercially for sale in its original protective Peter Norton Family Foundation cardboard armature. Inventory Number: 027699

(MULL, MARTIN). Putnam, James, Ben Brown & Martin Mull. London, UK: Ben Brown Fine Arts, 2007. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 48pp, 31 color and 2 duotone illustrations + color cover. Designed by Peter B. Willberg. With an exhibition checklist, chronology, and collections listing. This is lavishly produced hardbound catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2007 London gallery exhibition of twenty-four then-recent oil on linen paintings by the supremely talented artist/thespian/musician Martin Mull. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Martin Mull" in black ink at Arcana on the title half-title page. Inventory Number: 027694

(MULL, MARTIN). Guenther, Bruce & Martin Mull. Boston, MA & Tokyo: Journey Editions / Charles E. Tuttle, Co., Inc., 2005. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 126pp, profusely illustrated in color. With a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, and exhibition checklist. This is the comprehensive, beautifully illustrated hardbound 1995 monograph on the artwork of the supremely multi-talented Martin Mull. A most handsome example 1-885302-19-5 Inventory Number: 027692

(MULL, MARTIN). Frank, Peter & Martin Mull. NP (Los Angeles). ND (circa 1992).: Martin Mull. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Wrappers in Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Near Fine.. np (16pp), 8 color illustrations. With a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections listing. This is Martin Mull's slender self-published catalogue issued to coincide with his 2003 exhibition of new paintings held at Santa Monica's Dorothy Goldeen Gallery. It features an austere design complimented with eight color reproductions and an essay by the redoubtable Peter Frank. A handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item additionally SIGNED "Martin Mull" in black ink at Arcana on the title page by the exceptionally talented artist/thespian/musician. Inventory Number: 027690

(MULL, MARTIN). Mull, Martin & Thomas W. Styron. Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1998. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 102pp, 40 color illustrations (including one foldover) + color frontispiece. Designed by Victoria Dailey. This is the substantial catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1998 Greenville County Museum of Art exhibition that features an essay by Thomas W. Styron that proves that the talented Mr. Mull is every bit as accomplished a painter as he is a thespian. A most handsome example additionally SIGNED "Martin Mull" in black ink at Arcana on the front free endpaper. 0-9657858-1-5 Inventory Number: 027689

(MULL, MARTIN). Mull, Martin & Thomas W. Styron. Greenville, SC: Greenville County Museum of Art, 1998. First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 102pp, 40 color illustrations (including one foldover) + color frontispiece. Designed by Victoria Dailey. This is the substantial catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1998 Greenville County Museum of Art exhibition that features an essay by Thomas W. Styron that proves that the talented Mr. Mull is every bit as accomplished a painter as he is a thespian. A most handsome example additionally SIGNED "Martin Mull" in black ink at Arcana on the front free endpaper. 0-9657858-1-5 Inventory Number: 027688

(MULL, MARTIN). Mull, Martin. Santa Monica, CA: Patricia Faure Gallery, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (28pp), 6 color illustrations + color covers. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the slender yet elegant catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2002 Santa Monica gallery exhibition of new paintings by the supremely talented artist/thespian/musician Martin Mull. A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 027687

(MULL, MARTIN). Mull, Martin. New York: David Beitzel Gallery, 2001. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (14pp), 5 color illustrations + color cover. With a chronology, exhibition history, and collections listing. This is the slender yet elegant catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2001 New York gallery exhibition of new paintings by the supremely talented artist/thespian/musician Martin Mull. A most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Martin Mull" in black ink at Arcana on the title page with the gallery's postcard announcement laid in. Inventory Number: 027686