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(WILLIAMS, ROBT.). Williams, Robert. Introduction by Meg Linton. San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2005. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 240pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jill Von Hartmann. "Through Prehensile Eyes" is a collection of Robert Williams' fifty-eight then-recent paintings first exhibited at New York's Tony Shafrazi Gallery and subsequently shown in May 2005 at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Los Angeles' Otis College of Art. The images range from the artist's familiar lowbrow and biker culture, stretching deep into a faux science of quantum mechanics leaving the viewer in a world of scientific mindplay. Robert Williams sprang from the custom car culture of Southern California and was one of the original Zap Comix artists. He transcended the constraints of both, mastering oils and forging a career as the preeminent artist among a generation of imagist painters. After singlehandedly becoming the model of Lowbrow Art, Williams has now penetrated the inner sanctum of the fine arts movement. A brand new, pristine example of the 2005 first deluxe numbered hardbound edition of four hundred copies with the publisher's numbered bookplate featuring a caricature of the artist SIGNED by Robert Williams in black ink affixed to the front inside cover still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 0-86719-637-8 Inventory Number: 022508

(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

(WILSON, S. CLAY). La Luz De Jesus Gallery. Los Angeles: La Luz De Jesus Gallery, 1991. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Exhibition Poster. Very Good.. One 20 x 16" sheet of heavy yellow paper stock printed b&w offset recto only, 1 illustration. This is the graphically striking poster published in conjunction with an August 1991 S. Clay Wilson exhibition entitled "Toxic Icons" held at Los Angeles' storied La Luz De Jesus Gallery. It reproduces a 1991 drawing by the legendary late San Francisco comix artist featuring a seriously freaked out Checkered Demon facing a "Come to Jesus" moment!  A handsome example of this delightful ephemeral item additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "To Fazul - S. Clay Wilson" in black marker along the bottom margin showing some flattened creasing along the left hand edge. Fazul is / was the noted late Los Angeles "Dadazine" publisher and cultural man about town, Eugene "Fazul Reet" Timiraos, from whose library we acquired this directly. Inventory Number: 026950

(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

(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

(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

(WOOD, BEATRICE). Wood, Beatrice. Los Angeles: MGM Press, 1992. First Edition 1/99 Deluxe. 4to. Tied Illustrated Wrappers. Illustrated Book. Fine.. np (24pp), 12 hand colored and 1 b&w illustration + hand colored cover. "Touching Certain Things" is a girlish memoir authored and illustrated in 1992 by the late, great "Mama of the Dadas", Beatrice Wood. Primarily renown for her ceramic sculpture, lusterware vessels, and dalliance with Marcel Duchamp, this gossamer bit of erotica recounts a youthful Ms. Wood and actress pal Helen Freeman's trip to Europe to hear Jiddu Krishnamurti speak, and the amorous hijinks that ensued. From the deluxe edition of ninety-nine copies only, it contains twelve illustrations by the author, each of which (and the front cover as well) has been hand colored by her in pencil. A brand new, pristine example of this rarity that has been SIGNED, NUMBERED AND DATED by Beatrice Wood in black ink at the rear colophon, as issued. 0-9620574-5-2 Inventory Number: 017047

(WOOD, JONAS) (KUSAKA, SHIO). Wiley, Chris. New York: Gagosian Gallery & Rizzoli International Publications, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 220pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by An Art Service. This is the nicely appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2015 joint exhibition of work by the noted Los Angeles-based artists Shio Kusaka and Jonas Wood at Gagosian Hong Kong. A brand new, most handsome example of the unavailable 2015 first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by both artists WITH A LARGE DRAWING OF A BASKETBALL DATED "2015" by Jonas Wood in black marker on the front pastedown. 0-8478-4701-2 Inventory Number: 026474

(WOOD, JONAS). Holte, Michael Ned, Ana Vejzovic Sharp & Jonas Wood. New York, Los Angeles & Brooklyn: Anton Kern, David Kordansky & PictureBox, 2012. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Familiar. This is the nicely appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition of work by the noted Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood. It features an essay by Michael Ned Holte, a transcribed interview between the artist and Ana Vejzovic Sharp, and scores of color illustrations. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2012 first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jonas Wood / 2015" INCORPORATING A DRAWING OF A BASKETBALL as the 0 of the date in black marker on the title page. 0-9837199-3-4 Inventory Number: 025359

(WOOD, JONAS). Mark Grotjahn, Helen Molesworth, Ian Alteveer & Jonas Wood. London & New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2019. First Edition Thus. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New./As New.. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Melanie Mues. With a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography and public collections listing. One of the most recent installments of Phaidon's nicely appointed Contemporary Artists monographs, this is devoted to the work of the noted Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood. It features texts by Helen Molesworth and Ian Alteveer  along with a lengthy transcribed interview between Jonas Wood and fellow artist Mark Grotjahn. A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable first printing of what is the most comprehensive Wood publication additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Jonas Wood" in black marker on the blank front leaf. 1-83866-063-1 Inventory Number: 027061

(WOOD, JONAS). Sharp, Brian & Jonas Wood. J.C. Gabel, Editor. Los Angeles: David Kordansky Gallery, 2015. First Edition. Tall 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 68pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Brian Roettinger. With an exhibition checklist. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2015 David Kordansky Gallery exhibition of eighteen paintings and twenty-five drawings by the noted Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood. It features scores of color illustrations accompanied by a transcribed interview between Wood and fellow artist Brian Sharp. A brand new, pristine example of the first - and only - printing of this uncommon, unavailable gem additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jonas Wood / 2015" WITH A DRAWING OF A BASKETBALL in the year of publication in black marker on the title page. Inventory Number: 026383

(WOOL, CHRISTOPHER). Wool, Christopher. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey Modern Art & Uncommon Objects, 2010. First Edition 1/1000. Atlas Folio. Printed Poster. Exhibition Poster. As New.. One 28 x 22" poster printed color offset recto only. Designed by Christopher Wool. This is the poster published in conjunction with a 2010 exhibition of recent large-scale paintings by Christopher Wool entitled "Sound on Sound" held at Chicago's Corbett vs. Dempsey Modern Art & Uncommon Objects. A brand new, most handsome unmailed example from an edition of one thousand unnumbered copies machine-folded in ninths by the gallery and subsequently flattened. Inventory Number: 024902

(WRIGHT, RICHARD). Ferguson, Russell, John Lowden & Sarah Lowndes. London: Gagosian Gallery & Rizzoli International Publications, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Graphic Thought Facility. With an exhibition checklist. This is the beautifully designed and printed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the 2009 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of work by Richard Wright - the artist's first at the gallery. "Wright utilizes a unique visual and spatial language in which he paints directly onto walls, ceilings, corners and other more liminal spaces of architecture. In doing so, he reasserts the power of incidental details that adorn the edges of our designed world in his response to the individual character of the elected space. Moving beyond the limits of early conceptualism with its stated arbitrariness, Wright paints each of these works himself with almost medieval precision. The artist was pronounced the winner for the 2009 Turner Prize where his work was on view at Tate Britain through 2010". A most handsome copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-8478-3504-9 Inventory Number: 020463

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Los Angeles: APKG Press, 2025. First Edition of 12 examples. 7 1/4 x 9". Etching on Paper. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 7 1/4 x 9" etching on paper, 1 monochrome illustration. Published in a limited edition of twelve copies in conjunction with his 2025 Hat & Beard Press book "Scrapyard", "Everything Must Go'" is a charming new etching from esteemed Los Angeles artist, musician, and author SEnon Williams. A brand new example SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the artist in pencil across the lower margin, as issued. Inventory Number: E00SWEMG

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Venice, CA: Hamilton Press, 2017. First Edition 1/750. Small 4to. Illustrated Flexible Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket as Issued. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood". With imagery ranging from stark silhouettes to lush landscapes and human forms staged in undetermined acts of hope, his pairing of words and imagery form a poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle both ancient and contemporary.  Senon Williams' first book, "Hunted & Gathered" was painstakingly produced by Hamilton Press. The press was established in 1990 by master printmaker Ed Hamilton and artist Ed Ruscha to encourage artists to produce art in a peaceful, unhurried atmosphere. Steeped in traditional book making in a modern age, each publication itself is a fine object created by an esteemed team. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Marina Mills Kitchen of Green Dragon Office with color separations by Echelon Color, Santa Monica and printed by Dr. Cantz’sche Druckerei Median GmbH in Ostfildern, Germany, the book consists of seven hundred hardbound copies along with a deluxe edition of limited to fifty copies containing an original work on paper by the artist. A brand new, most handsome example of the standard edition additionally SIGNED by Senon Williams. 978-0-692-87700-5

Inventory Number: E000SWH&G

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon, Richelle Munkhoff & Beth Ann Whittaker. Los Angeles: Hat & Beard Press, I00251213, 2025. First Edition. 8 1/4 x 10 1/2", Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-1955125680

146pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Russell Etchen. Senon Williams is a lifelong musician, visual artist and poet, born and currently based in Los Angeles. Descended from survivors of enslavement and the Holocaust, Williams is an artist whose practice is a response to scarcity and loss with a deep commitment to preservation. He is drawn to the physical scraps of life - and the layering of those scraps into a larger tapestry - believing that these objects have souls. Assembling found pieces, large and small, sometimes literally from yards or the street, Williams collects unwanted things, used things, to create anew. A blending of these objects’ inner character with his own vision into an assemblage, not only of the physical but also of the spirit. Williams’ work is grounded in a love of language play, sounds, textures, and associations of word and object. Working in various media in his visual art practice - sculpture, painting, serigraphy, and printmaking - he counters what we think we know. Something familiar gives us pause and words we know well induce questions. Always blending the visual with poetry, we are addressed with layers of contrasts. 

This book forms a graveyard or a scrapyard of items one might typically discard. In our time of extreme wastefulness, assembling the detritus from his artmaking into a scrapbook gives each of these items a collective home and value. Gathered from his day-to-day studio practice, they are thoughts jotted down, remnants of materials used, random receipts, which suggest a sense of care, like acts of preservation, mending and repurposing. Each piece is held, suspended from its final dissolution, forming a new place in which to exist. Interspersed within are vignettes looking at the histories of scrapbooking and ephemeral collection over time by Richelle Munkhoff and Beth Ann Whittaker of Plain Sight Archive. There is a long legacy and history of this artistic action and this publication represents now another documentation of time and place. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming new work additionally SIGNED "Senon Williams" in black ink on the title page.

Inventory Number: E00251213

(YAMAGATA, HIRO). Yamagata, Hiro & Arnold Schwarzenegger. Tokyo: Yamagata Center, 1989. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 350pp, 404 illustrations in color and b&w. Take one of the world's most popular artists, mix in a no-expense spared flair for the grandiose, add a foreword by the Governator, and you have this extraordinarily massive tome - weighing in at about fifteen pounds! By far the most lavish book on Hiro Yamagata's work to date, this was privately printed for the Yamagata Center, and we suspect only available hors commerce. A most handsome example showing a few minor scuffs to the publisher's gilt-embossed, royal blue linen clamshell box. 4-06-203920-6 Inventory Number: 005094

(YOKOO, TADANORI). Kokushokankokai, I00220315, 2022. 10 x 12 inches, 460 Pages. Hardcover. New.

Tadanori Yokoo held his first solo exhibition of paintings in 1966 in Tokyo. His revolutionary work, which oscillates between conceptual art and pure design, rapidly gained attention in the international art world. With a signature style of colorful psychedelia and pastiche, he engages a wide spectrum of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and elsewhere. The subject matter often clashes with what seems a nonsensical collage of images. ‘Genkyo’ is an exuberant, far-reaching anthology of Yokoo’s work throughout the years, with a special focus on how the artist constantly revisits and remakes the same images and themes in a mind-blowing variety of styles and artworks. 9784336071019 Inventory Number: I00220315

(YOKOO, TADANORI). Yokoo, Tadanori.. Osaka, JAPAN: Gallery Interform / Masaya Yamaguchi, 1996. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (16pp), 8 color illustrations. Text in Japanese and English. Designed by Jun Sato. Best known for his seventies album covers for Miles Davis, Santana, the Beatles, and more, Tadanori Yokoo is arguably the most influential Japanese graphic designer of the Twentieth Century. He is also a well-known artist, photographer, and designer of installations. Published in conjunction with a 1996 Japanese gallery exhibition, this is a nicely presented book of eight full color postcards that reproduce computer-altered outdoor portraits of the Yokoo family - many including a falling water motif. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item. Inventory Number: O27656

(YOKOO, TADANORI). Yokoo, Tadanori. Introduction by Milton Glaser. Tokyo, JAPAN: Keibun-sha, 1977. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Graphic Design Monograph. Good./No Jacket.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Best known for his seventies album covers for Miles Davis, Santana, the Beatles, and more, Tadanori Yokoo is arguably the most influential Japanese graphic designer of the Twentieth Century. Emerging from the turbulent post-war generation, his bold, unprecedented style mixed traditional Ukiyo-E imagery with Japanese comics, Western sexuality, and Pop Art to create an extraordinary body of work that continues to this day. This is a choice early collection published only in Japan that vividly reproduces seventy-one of Tadanori Yokoo's film, music, theatre, exhibition and advertising posters created between 1965 and 1976. An internally most handsome example of this uncommon item showing moderate overall wear and abrading to the extremities of the wrappers along with frayng and paper loss to the bottom inch of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026693

(YOSHITOSHI, TSUKIOKA). Keyes, Roger & George Kuwayama. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980. Third Printing. Square 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 112pp, 10 color and 67 b&w illustrations. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the comprehensive 1980 traveling Museum exhibition of prints by the groundbreaking Japanese Ukiyo-E master Tsukioka Yoshitoshi - known for his unorthodox and compelling images. A handsome example showing some very light wear and rubbing to the spine and covers. 0-87587-096-1 Inventory Number: 021870

(ZELLEN, JODY). Zellen, Jody. Santa Monica, CA: Self-Published, 1997. First Edition 1/500. 16mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jody Zellen. Published in conjunction with the 1997 exhibition "Blur" at San Diego Mesa College Art Gallery, this is the second of Santa Monica-based artist/graphic designer Jody Zellen's self-produced small format artist's books. Uniformly scaled to 4 ½ x 4 ½", these beautiful little editions combine photographic reproduction, text, and a grid format to achieve a sublime narrative. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 023103

. 1995. np, This artists' book consists of 16 typographic pieces, and is printed by the Coracle Press. This is from the limited edition of 500 hardbound copies in lemon yellow cloth, signed by the artist. A handsome example. Inventory Number: 004676

JUDD, DONALD. Text by Michael Govan, Donald Judd, Flavin Judd, Jinsang Yoo.. Thaddaeus Ropac, 2024. 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs . Hardcover. Art Monograph. New. 9791198372406

A special selection of Judd’s minimalist works curated by his son, Flavin Judd

This catalog follows the first solo exhibition of Donald Judd’s work in South Korea for nearly 10 years. Judd (1928–94) had a personal connection to Korea, having been stationed in Seoul in 1947. The Korean concept of pungsu, similar to the Chinese Feng shui, was instrumental to his visualization of space. Curated by Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of the Judd Foundation, the exhibition presented more than three decades of the artist’s work, and features his experiments in Minimalism across multiple mediums. These works are documented in this publication, which has been conceived in close collaboration with Flavin Judd. The design is a reflection of Donald Judd’s aesthetic values. Its unique binding and layout, which investigate the relationship between presence and emptiness, speak to the rigorous attention to simplicity of form that characterizes the artist’s work.

Inventory Number: I00240802