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FIFTEEN: JIM ISERMANN SURVEY
(ISERMANN, JIM). Pagel, David & Michael Darling. Milwaukee, WI: Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, 1998. First Edition. Square 8vo. Printed Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color. With a bibliography and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1998 touring Museum retrospective - the most comprehensive to date - of the day-glo bright, geometric work of Los Angeles retro-futurist Jim Isermann. A handsome example showing just a bit of light wear and handling to the covers 0-9664020-0-6 Inventory Number: 012354
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PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIOS 1,2,3,4 & 5: A COMPLETE SET
(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. 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: 016698
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PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 4
(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. Four individual 4 ½ x 6 ¾" black and white photographic reproductions hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced fourth portfolio (of five) 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 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 example still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-13-0 Inventory Number: 009665
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PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 3
(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. Four individual 4 ½ x 6 ¾" black and white photographic reproductions hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced third portfolio (of five) 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 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 example still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-12-2 Inventory Number: 009664
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PREWAR SURFING PHOTOGRAPHS: DON JAMES - PORTFOLIO 1
(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. Four individual 4 ½ x 6 ¾" black and white photographic reproductions hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced first portfolio (of five) 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 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 example still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-10-6 Inventory Number: 009662
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CHRIS JOHANSON: UNTITLED ARTIST'S BOOK (SUN POWER)
(JOHANSON, CHRIS). Johanson, Chris. Bruxelles, BELGIUM & Paris: Baronian-Francey & Daviet-Thery, 2004. First Edition 1/1200. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New.. np (14pp), profusely illustrated in duotone and b&w. "Chris Johanson takes over where Raymond Pettibon leaves off. Less angry and witty than his predecessor, Johanson scribbles colorful, dead-on portraits of street culture and the yuppies, hippies, hipsters, losers, and drunkards who inhabit it". Published in Europe, this is a slender little artist's book of drawings by noted "Beautiful Loser" and Deitch Projects stalwart Chris Johanson. A brand new, pristine example of the first and only printing of this uncommon charming item limited to one thousand, two hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 024238
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VENICE SPACEWALK: THE SPACETIME PHOTOGRAPHY OF JAY MARK JOHNSON: VOLUME ONE - LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(JOHNSON, JAY MARK). Finch, Christopher, Shana Nys Dambrot & Jay Mark Johnson. Venice, CA: Venice Family Clinic & Jay Mark Johnson, 2010. First Edition. Oblong Narrow 4to. Linen Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hsuan-ying Chou and Jay Mark Johnson with Lorraine Wild and Victor Hu, Green Dragon Office. This lavishly produced volume is the first monograph on the space-time photography of Jay Mark Johnson. "Coming across Jay Mark Johnson's photographs for the first time, a viewer may well be reminded of the photo finish images used to determine winners at track meets, horse races, and other sporting events. In Johnson's work, as in photo finish imagery, people, animals and moving objects are frozen against a background that has been dissolved by the camera into horizontal bands of color stretching from edge to edge of the picture plane. This similarity is no accident, since both Johnson and the photo finish cameraman employ the same technology - slit-scan photography. As utilized by both, slit-scan is used to capture movement as it unfolds in time. In emulsion-based photography, the technology involves an actual slit moving continuously past the film, exposing a sliver at a time to create an image that "freezes" motion. With the highly sophisticated digital camera that Johnson employs, the same effect is achieved with a "virtual" electronic slit, a single pixel in breadth that scans the subject (which, like a race, is in fact an "event"). In either case, all of the movement that occurs in front of the lens is synthesized into a single image. The resulting photographs capture, in a graphic way, the event that takes place during that period, so that in Johnson's pictures a person may appear more than once in the same image (having overtaken the tracking movement of the slit), and objects become subject to an exaggerated form of the photographic phenomenon known as "focal-plane shutter distortion". A brand new, pristine example of the limited slipcased edition of this amazing book of color time and motion studies taken in and around Venice California additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jay Mark Johnson 2014" in black ink on the title page still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 023696
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JOE JOHNSON: THREE SELF-PUBLISHED 1960s MALE NUDE GREETING CARDS
(JOHNSON, JOE). Johnson, Joe. NP (San Francisco, CA). ND (Circa Late 1960s).: Self-Published. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Paper. Greeting Cards. Near Fine.. Three individual 8 ½ x 11" heavy paper sheets printed photo-offset rectos only, machine-folded vertically in half to make 8 ½ x 5 ½", 3 b&w illustrations. Joe Johnson was an early and prominent member of San Francisco's burgeoning LGBTQ community of the 1960s. While primarily known as the creator of the pioneering underground gay comics "Miss Thing" and "Big Dick", Johnson was additionally an accomplished artist and illustrator who at various times in the sixties and seventies produced fine art prints and greeting cards featuring male model studies. These were lo-fi ventures most likely sold under the counter, by word of mouth, and discreet mail order. This is a group of three individual cards issued by the artist each depicting a young male nude - all full frontal - reproduced by photo-offset on heavy, textured paper stock. A handsome group of these exceedingly uncommon vintage ephemeral items without envelopes each showing a bit of mild soiling. Inventory Number: 026945
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JOE JOHNSON: A SELF-PUBLISHED 1967 PRINT PORTFOLIO OF EIGHT MALE NUDES - EACH SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(JOHNSON, JOE). Johnson, Joe. NP (San Francisco, CA). ND (1967).: Self-Published. First Edition. Folio. Loose Prints in a Portfolio. Print Portfolio. Fine.. Eight individual 17 ½ x 11" heavy paper sheets printed photo-offset rectos only, 8 b&w illustrations. Joe Johnson was an early and prominent member of San Francisco's burgeoning LGBTQ community of the 1960s. While primarily known as the creator of the pioneering underground gay comics "Miss Thing" and "Big Dick", Johnson was additionally an accomplished artist and illustrator who at various times in the sixties and seventies produced fine art prints and greeting cards featuring male model studies. These were lo-fi ventures most likely sold under the counter, by word of mouth, and discreet mail order. This is a set of eight of these prints issued in 1967 by the artist each depicting a young male nude - six full frontal - reproduced by photo-offset on cream colored, heavy woven paper stock housed in a plain red textured paper portfolio. We acquired from a single source several variants of this set, with none bearing any form of labeling or printed documentation; just the plates with or without the portfolio. The prints were issued without a signature in the plate, but Johnson signed some in pencil, and even hand-colored a few in a flesh-colored watercolor. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item with each print additionally SIGNED "Joe Johnson" in pencil in the publisher's unprinted paper portfolio. Inventory Number: 026944
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EL CROQUIS 198: JOHNSTON MARKLEE 2005-2019: FOLDING TIME - SIGNED BY THE ARCHITECTS
(JOHNSTON MARKLEE) (EL CROQUIS). Lee, Mark & Sharon Johnston. Fernando Marquez Cecilia and Richard Levene, Editors. Madrid, SPAIN: El Croquis, 2019. First Edition. Small Folio.. Pictorial Flexi-Binding. Monographic Architectural Journal. As New..
278pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Founded by partners Sharon Johnston, F.A.I.A. and Mark Lee in 1998, Johnston Marklee is recognized for its diverse portfolio of architecture, engaging the physical and cultural circumstances of each project through a precise synthesis of structural form, materiality, and atmospheric light. The work of the firm pays tribute to a specific Southern Californian interpretation of modernism, and at the same time operates at the intersection of a global and local dialogue. Johnston and Lee have forged a leading role in the cultural discourse around contemporary art and architecture, eliciting design collaborations with distinguished museums, foundations, and artists around the world. Complementing this far-reaching network, the firm’s work is recognized for being deeply rooted in the history and foundations of the discipline. Their work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Art Institute of Chicago, Menil Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston served as Artistic Directors for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. In 2018 they were named Professors in Practice at Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Mark Lee was appointed Chair of the Architecture Department. They have also taught at major universities including Princeton University, the University of California, Los Angeles, the Technical University of Berlin, ETH Zurich, and have held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry Chair at the University of Toronto. A brand new, most handsome example of this brand new, comprehensive monograph i,on the firm in the form of the one hundred and ninety-eighth installment of noted Spanish architectural journal "El Croquis" additionally SIGNED by Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee.
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SOUVENIR PROGRAM FOR THE SIXTH ANNUAL JUNIOR LEAGUE FROLIC - CABARET / DINNER / DANCE - AT THE BILTMORE HOTEL, DECEMBER 6TH, 1927
(JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PASADENA). Junior League of Pasadena. Pasadena, CA: Junior League of Pasadena, 1927. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Good.. np (110 + 6pp), profusely illustrated in sepia tone. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published at the height of The Roaring Twenties, this is the heavily illustrated program for the 1927 fundraising "Frolic" presented by the Junior League of Pasadena. Reflecting both the status of its blue-blooded members of Southern California's elite and the look of The Jazz Age, this is a fascinating early "advertorial" in which the wives and daughters of Pasadena's toniest families are photographed flapperishly styled and posed admiring of the wares of its paid advertisers. Featured in the highly staged portraits - primarily by Ray Huff-Richter's studio - are the likes of silent-era star Colleen Moore, Mmes. Donald and Stuart O'Melveny, Hancock Banning, Stephen W. Royce, Stanley Robinson, Franklin Baldwin, Miss Marion Williams, and scores of others. Amongst the more than one hundred businesses touting their wares in support of the Junior League are The Biltmore, Ambassador, Alexandria, Fairmont, Flintridge, and Huntington hotels; May Company, Barker Bros., Hales, and Crown Emporium department stores; E.F Hutton, Bond & Goodwin & Tucker, Wilcox Drake & Co., The House of Rollins, E.A. Pierce & Co., and Francis P. Graves & Company brokerages; Richfield and Union Oil companies; Roland E Coate and Florence Yoch & Lucile Council, Architects; The Hal Roach Studios, Vroman's Books, The Pig 'N Whistle restaurant, and many of the local luxury car dealerships. Additionally bound in with a silk tie is the detailed six page program for the December 6th, 1927 "Topics of the Day" benefit theatrical Frolic - "with a book and original lyrics to popular tunes by Madeline Blackmore and Charles Crouch" - featuring a bevy of Junior League of Pasadena beauties of all ages joined by Mrs. Forrest Tucker as "Miss America!" An internally most presentable example of this exceptionally uncommon item - not a single copy appears in either OCLC WorldCat or the holdings of the Los Angeles Public Library - starting to pull from the wrappers at the staples showing a dent at the head of the spine, notable wear and creasing, some dampstaining, and minor paper loss along the extremities of its illustrated pale blue cardstock covers. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026727
$400.00 InquireFiled Under: Architecture, California Artists and Arts, Cinema, Fashion, Food and Drink, Photography -
ALLAN KAPROW: ROUTINE - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
(KAPROW, ALLAN). Kaprow. Allan. NP (Valencia, CA): Self-Published, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good.. np (4pp), 10 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Self-published by the artist in 1975, "Routine" is the photographically illustrated artist's book documenting three December 1973 "activities" by the renowned late Happenings and Performance artist Allan Kaprow. An internally most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item (cited as entry sixteen on pages 66-67 of Giorgio Maffei's "Allan Kaprow: A Bibliography") additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "For Sherry & Mel / Allan" in red ink on the front cover showing some soiling and typical minor age-patination to its white wrappers. 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: 024998
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ALLAN KAPROW: AN EXHIBITION SPONSORED BY THE ART ALLIANCE OF THE PASADENA ART MUSEUM
(KAPROW, ALLAN). Kaprow. Allan & Barbara Berman. Preface by James T. Demetrion. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1967. First Edition. 4to. Spiral-Bound Boards. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 56pp, profusely illustrated in b&w gravure. With an exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the exceedingly cool catalogue published in conjunction with the first major museum survey of the work of the renowned late Happenings and Performance artist Allan Kaprow. Published in 1967, the retrospective travelled from the Pasadena Art Museum to St. Louis' Washington University and The University of Texas, Austin. It includes copious photographic documentation, a transcribed interview between the artist and Barbara Berman, and the announcement for Kaprow's happening "Fluids" that was performed throughout Southern California in conjunction with the exhibition. A most handsome example of this uncommon spiral-bound document limited to one thousand, two hundred unnumbered copies showing some typical minor age-patination to the boards and preliminaries. Inventory Number: 025826
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DIANE KEATON: THE HOUSE THAT PINTEREST BUILT
(KEATON, DIANE). Keaton, Diane & D.J. Waldie. Photographed by Lisa Romerein. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2017. 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. As New/As New. 272pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w.
“At once a style guide, an inspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one’s home, “The House That Pinterest Built” will serve as a go-to reference for all those seeking to spur their own creativity as they embark on the creation of home. When Diane Keaton decided that she wanted to build her own home from the ground up, she took the advice of her dear friend, film director Nancy Meyers, and took to the boards of Pinterest to find inspiration. There she discovered the practical and the fantastical, elements and styles long adored and ones that she never knew she was drawn to. Keaton’s dream house was officially under way and this book that resulted is a compelling account of her that house, from idea to realization in brick, stone, and wood.
Filled with ideas that reveal a personal yet engaging aesthetic, this volume includes compelling photos from Keaton’s past homes and those she admires, as well as a multitude of details from every corner of those spaces and objects that excite and inspire the house designer and dreamer—dramatic staircases and magical light fixtures, film stills and book covers, pottery and art—drawn from the visual treasure trove known as Pinterest and Keaton’s private collection, as she creates and designs her newest house
“If you want to explore. If you love to see. If you’re looking to look; this book is an example of a home made from the gifts of other people’s addictive yearnings for the perfect home, with the perfect landscape and the perfect interior. It illustrates my choices of your choices. Who knows, you might find one of your pins here. You might smile. You might shake your head and say, ‘This isn’t what I had in mind.’ You might think: ‘Hey that’s my kitchen. She copied my kitchen.’ But the truth is, as much as I tried, I could never entirely recreate the light filled photograph of a kitchen that led the way to the journey that brought me here. No one can.” – Diane Keaton”
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MIKE KELLEY: POSTCARD ANNOUNCEMENT FOR BEAT OF THE TRAPS"
(KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley Mike. Los Angeles: Art Resources Transfer Inc., 1992. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Printed Postcard. Performance Announcement. As New.. One 4 ¼ x 5 ¾" glossy cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, 1 b&w illustration. This is the postcard announcement published in conjunction with the June 29th and 30th, 1992 American premiere of Mike Kelley's collaborative performance piece with close friends Anita Pace and Stephen Prina entitled "Beat of the Traps" at the Gindi Auditorium of Los Angeles' University of Judaism. Unveiled earlier in the month in Vienna, it consisted of actor Alan Abelew and dancers Anita Pace and Carl Buckley interacting with musical accompaniment by drummers M.B. Gordy and Jonathan Norton alongside guitar and vocals by Stephen Prina. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item perfect for the Mike Kelley completeist. Inventory Number: 027383
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MIKE KELLEY: THE THIRTEEN SEASONS (HEAVY ON THE WINTER)
(KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley Mike. Koln, GERMANY: Galerie Jablonka, 1995. First Edition 1/400. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 15 color and 1 b&w illustration. Designed by Kuhle und Mozer. Text in English and German. With a protective clear acetate dustwapper. This is the jaunty catalogue published in conjunction with the noted late Los Angeles-based artist Mike Kelley's 1995 exhibition of thirteen paintings on shaped wood held at his longtime German representative, Galerie Jablonka. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of wear and rubbing to its covers with a TLS from Jochen Link on gallery stationery dated September 21, 1995 detailing the exhibition's remaining available works and pricing to a well-known art dealer additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 026867
$275.00 InquireFiled Under: Artist Monographs, California Artists and Arts, Exhibition Catalogues, Mike Kelley, PMVABF -
THE UNCANNY - SIGNED BY MIKE KELLEY
(KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley, Mike. Arnhem, THE NETHERLANDS: Sonsbeek, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Fine.. np, 115 b&w illustrations. Text in English. This provocative, copiously illustrated essay by renowned artist Mike Kelley is a meditation on Sigmund Freud's "Uncanny", and its relation to the grotesque in art and everyday life. Published as part of the "Sonsbeek 93" exhibition in Arnhem, The Netherlands, artists whose work is represented here include Hans Bellmer, Nayland Blake, Robert Gober, Duane Hanson, Edward Kienholz, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Tetsumi Kudo, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy, John Miller, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith, Paul Thek, and Mike Kelley himself. A brand new, most handsome example of the first and only printing of this 1993 edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Mike Kelley 93" in the year of publication in black ink - at our shop - on the title page. 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: 027516
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MIKE KELLEY / FRANZ WEST
(KELLEY, MIKE) (WEST, FRANZ). Pontegnie, Ann, Mike Kelley, Franz West & Andreas Reitner Raabe. Brussels, BELGIUM & Wien, Austria: OneTwoThree & Pakesch & Schlebrugge, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Fine.. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. Designed by Hans Wiegand (Flat Mountain Press). This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a jointly conceived exhibition of like-minded works by Mike Kelley and Franz West held in 2001 at the OneTwoThree space in Brussels. Included are previously unpublished texts, interviews, and the documentation of the artists' collaborative performance piece "To Be Read Aloud". A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item. 3-85160-014-2 Inventory Number: 024525
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MICHAEL KENNA: 1976-1986
(KENNA, MICHAEL). Johnstone Mark. Foreword by Robert Lassam. Tokyo. 1987 (1990).: Gallery Min. Second Edition. Large Square 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (86pp), 38 duotone illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With a biography, exhibition history and collections listing. Published in conjunction with his first one person exhibition at noted eighties Tokyo photography space Gallery Min, this austere publication is Michael Kenna's first substantive monograph. A most handsome example of the 1990 second edition (whose 1987 first edition is cited on page 64 of "From Fair to Fine 2"). 4-906265-14-6 Inventory Number: 020800
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MICHAEL KENNA: HEIDEN HOTEL (NAZRAELI PRESS ONE PICTURE BOOK NO. 56) - SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT
(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (20pp), 14 duotone illustrations. Michael Kenna's "Heiden Hotel" is the fifty-sixth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 3 ½ x 4 7/8" silver gelatin print of the Heiden Hotel - a Catskill's resort where the young Mr. Kenna worked as a summer exchange student in 1976 and has returned to repeatedly until its sad demise in 2008 - tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item. 1-59005-255-2 Inventory Number: 016959
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MICHAEL KENNA: A TWENTY YEAR RETROSPECTIVE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael, Peter C. Bunnell & Ruth Bernhard.. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First American Edition. Small Square Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (172pp), 130 duotone illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With a biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections listing. Still a defining reference to the work of celebrated British photographer Michael Kenna, this beautifully redesigned and reprinted monograph features images from his "The Rouge", "Desert de Retz", and "Elkhorn Slough" series along with twenty years of moody European landscapes. A brand new, pristine example of the 2002 first printing of the first American edition BOLDLY SIGNED by Michael Kenna in black ink across the title page. 1-59005-019-3 Inventory Number: 022949
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THE ROUGE: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MICHAEL KENNA - SIGNED AND DATED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kollins, Lee R. & Michael Kenna. Introduction by Ellen Sharp. Santa Monica, CA: RAM Publications, 1995. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 116pp, 50 b&w plates, illustrated endpapers. Designed by Claudia J. Vernia. With an exhibition history and bibliography. Published in conjunction with the 1995 touring exhibition "Industrial Revelations; The Rouge and Other Sites", this lovely hardbound catalogue is renowned photographer Michael Kenna's darkly brooding essay on the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Plant in Detroit. A most handsome example of the first RAM Publications edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Michael Kenna / Jan 96" in black ink on the title page showing a couple of tiny nicks along the spine of the dust jacket. 0-9630785-3-4 Inventory Number: 025637
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ROBERT GLENN KETCHUM
(KETCHUM, ROBERT GLENN). Johnstone, Mark. Tokyo: Gallery Min, 1987. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. This is the beautifully designed and printed catalogue published in conjunction with Robert Glenn Ketchum's 1987 retrospective exhibition that traveled from Tokyo's Gallery Min to Yonkers' Hudson River Museum. This features work from the "Tongass", "Twilight", "Winters", "Sandstone", "Order From Chaos" and "The Hudson River and the Highlands" series. A most handsome example. 4-906265-09-2 Inventory Number: 005894
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JOHN KNIGHT: 87º (87 DEGREES)
(KNIGHT, JOHN). Knight, John, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh & Alexander Alberro. Foreword by Beatrice Stern. Mountainville, NY: Storm King Art Center, 2001. First Edition 1/1300. 8vo. Stapled Die-Cut Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 36pp, 12 b&w and 8 color illustrations. Designed by Katy Homans. This is one of the series of slender catalogues produced to document John Knight's exhibitions and public projects over the past thirty-five years. Austerely designed in a serial format of white, often die-cut wrappers, this installment documents Knight's 2001 outdoor Storm King Art Center installation entitled "87º". "John Knight’s work, 87°, draws the viewer’s focus off the Art Center’s property to an industrial object in its viewshed: the shapely water tower of the former Star Expansion Company. From a telescope on a newly constructed viewing platform, a visual line is drawn obliquely across the allée of trees in the center’s south fields to the upper portion of the water tower, about a mile away. Looking beyond Storm King, the work highlights the institutions relationship to its larger sociopolitical context, including its role within evolving regional land-use systems. Focusing on these overlooked aspects of contextual relevance, it adds meaning to a key element of Storm King’s success: the value of a well-placed lookout." A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 026578
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ERIC KROLL'S BEAUTY PARADE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(KROLL, ERIC). Kroll, Eric. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. With a bibliography. "Beauty Parade" is famed fetish photographer Eric Kroll's second full-length Taschen tome. It is filled with a vast array of his typically sexy young female models engaged in all manner of transgressive poses utilizing undergarments, latex, leather, restraints, bondage-wear and just plain skin. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Eric Kroll in black ink on the first preliminary. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-8601-7 Inventory Number: 019825
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ERIC KROLL'S BEAUTY PARADE: 30 POSTCARDS - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(KROLL, ERIC). Kroll, Eric. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1997. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (64pp), 30 color illustrations. This is Taschen Postcard book number ninety-five, containing thirty bound (yet easily detached and ready to mail) postcard images by famed fetish photographer Eric Kroll distilled from his second full-length Taschen tome, "Beauty Parade". A most handsome, completely intact copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Kroll in black ink on the title page. 3-8228-8519-3 Inventory Number: 012845
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MONA KUHN: PHOTOGRAPHS - SIGNED BY MONA KUHN
(KUHN, MONA). Kuhn, Mona. Göttingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2004. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 108pp, 33 duotone and 20 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Steidl Design. "The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn's intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates tautly composed images and balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination". This is Brazilian born, California based photographer Mona Kuhn's extraordinary second book of portraits and nudes. Coming from a background that included time as an assistant to Jock Sturges, she has formed her own unique documentary approach that is an ongoing study of youth, nature, and the beauty of the unguarded human body. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2004 Steidl first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Mona Kuhn" in black ink across the entire title page. 3-86521-008-2 Inventory Number: 026972
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JASON LEE: IN THE GOLD DUST RUSH - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(LEE, JASON). Lee, Jason. Stanley / Barker, I00210204, 2020. First Edition. 10 x 11 in., 112 pages. Hardbound. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
For the past fourteen years, artist, actor and skateboarder Jason Lee has traversed America making quiet, reflective photographs detailing the landscape and its oft-overlooked and forgotten places.
His new book "In The Gold Dust Rush" draws together eighty-four never before published black and white photographs from the last twelve of those years into a meandering journey from the mountains to the city.
“Since my first photographic outings in my native California in 2006, where I explored a more rural, perhaps neglected face of the state, and the many subsequent outings zigzagging through the West Coast, the Southwest, and Texas, I remain fascinated by these American scraps, by evidence of cancellation and departure, and the environmental contradictions that make up our collective everyday view. These conflicts, at once strange and beautiful, this is where the questions are. It’s then and now splitting time, man and nature pushing up against each other, and progress forever forcing itself on the contented. And somewhere in the middle you make pictures.” Jason Lee
A brand new, most handsome example of the quickly sold out 2020 first edition additionally signed "Jason Lee" in ink on the title page. 978-1913288211 Inventory Number: I00210204 -
JASON LEE: GALVESTON - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(LEE, JASON). Lee, Jason. Galveston, TX: Galveston Historical Foundation & Film Photographic, 2021. First Edition 1/2500. Oblong 4to. Debossed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 98 illustrations in color and duotone. "Between the months of January and April of 2017, I roamed Texas sporadically with my old Speed Graphic 4 x 5 camera for what turned out to be twenty-five days and roughly 5000 miles. I'd moved to Texas just two years prior and thought it only made sense to see more of the big state than I'd seen before as a visiting photographer. And so, I did. Up into the Panhandle, a bit east, central, south, and West Texas. 111 of the 298 exposures I made would end up being printed in the 2018 book "A Plain View.' But no matter how many miles and real estate I'd covered on those travels, I never thought to make it far enough south to meet Galveston. And then, perhaps ironically, the Galveston Historical Foundation contacted me in May of 2020 to see if I might like to extend my Texas series by making photographs in Galveston. I was happy to accept the offer, as perhaps the whole of my Texas story had yet to be completed. And so that November I drove my car from Los Angeles, where I was living once more, to Galveston with my cameras, in the passenger seat my friend and fellow photographer Raymond Molinar who would assist me in my efforts to document as strange and beautiful a land as I'd ever seen while also making not only behind-the-scenes photographs of my process but his own photographs of this remarkably standstill place. And the payoff of the experience is not just that I've now seen more of Texas than I ever thought I would but that this new book would stand as my favorite thus far, if not an extension of the mainland Texas photographs before it." A brand new, most handsome example of the quickly sold out 2021 first and only printing of this lovely publication additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Jason Lee" in black ink on the title page at our shop. 1-7370129-0-1 Inventory Number: 027592
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CASA SANTA FE: DESIGN, STYLE, ARTS AND TRADITION - SIGNED BY MELBA LEVICK AND RUBEN G. MENDOZA
(LEVICK, MELBA). Mendoza, Ruben G. Photographs by Melba Levick. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2023. First Edition. 9 x 10". Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architectural Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 978-0-8478-9914-2
288pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Desert hues, natural materials, thick hand-plastered walls, and adobe brick construction are hallmarks of the Santa Fe Style, which is as much an expression in architecture, interior design, art, and crafts as it is a way of life. Rooted in a sense of earthy comfort inspired by its history, the surrounding desert, and Native American and Hispanic design influences, the style has a timeless appeal and vibrant ongoing life that has resulted in these extraordinary homes.
With features such as eighteenth-century peeled vigas, tin chandeliers, romantic iron sconces, and hand-hewn wood-beamed ceilings, each house is a rich yet harmonious invitation that will engage the senses and speak to the soul. Beyond the houses, the writer and photographer spotlight those details and spaces that together convey the magic of this very special place, including patios and gardens; fireplaces, kivas, and hornos; ceramics; Native American arts; cabinets and trasteros; folk art; and weaving.
Casa Santa Fe is the definitive sourcebook for architects, designers, builders, homeowners, and interior decorators seeking to expand their visual repertoire of historically defined and classically inspired architectural details and interior appointments." A brand new, most handsome example of this exquisite new reference additionally SIGNED by both Melba Levick and Rubén G. Mendoza.Melba Levick is an internationally renowned photograper based in Los Angeles and Paris, with more than sixty books to her name. Her most recent publications from Rizzoli include The Spanish Style House, The California Missions, The Ranches: Home on the Range in California, The California Casa, and Classic Homes of Los Angeles.Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza is an archaeologist, photographer, and founding faculty member of the California State University, Monterey Bay. He is the author of several books including The Spanish Style House, The California Missions, and Mission San Miguel Arcángel.Inventory Number: E000MLCSF
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DREAMING SMALL: INTIMATE INTERIORS - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND PHOTOGRAPHER
(LEVICK, MELBA). Woods, Douglas & Melba Levick. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 240pp, profusely illustrated in color. "The masterpieces of small-house living featured here will serve as inspiration to those who struggle with the challenges presented by contemporary life in petite-size homes. "Dreaming Small" is a celebration of jewel-box homes, each marked by a sense of style that marries eclecticism, practicality, beauty, and livability. From quintessential bungalows and classic casas to Tudor fantasies, these delightful abodes are models of rich diversity and inspired living. In brilliant new photography, the book explores the possibilities that exist in these mostly unpublished gems by legendary architects Irving Gill, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, and Paul R. Williams, among others. The houses, each under two thousand square feet, are examples of what is possible in the small home and offer the reader a colorful palette of ideas from which to artfully transform spaces into comfortable, contemporary living". A brand new, pristine example of the 2014 first printing of this charming survey of intimate Southern California interiors additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by author Douglas Woods and photographer Melba Levick in black ink on the title page. 0-8478-4231-2 Inventory Number: 023138
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MY MOTHER'S KILLER - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH SEVEN SIGNED ORIGINAL DAVID LEVINTHAL PHOTOGRAPHS
(LEVINTHAL, DAVID) (ELLROY, JAMES). Ellroy, James & David Levinthal. Paris: Coromandel Express, 1998. First Edition 1/55. Small Square Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, with six Cibachrome prints and one hand-painted gelatin silver print. Text in English and French. Designed by Olivier Andreotti and Penelope Monnet. "My Mother's Killer" is the luxe 1998 Coromandel Express collaborative interpretation of the events surrounding the unsolved 1958 Los Angeles murder of James Ellroy's mother Geneva as recreated by noted photographer David Levinthal in a series of stylized miniature tableaux. It features a highly graphic bi-lingual presentation of Ellroy's text juxtaposed across six tri-fold leaves - each of which contains an archivally housed 11 ½ x 10 ½" color Cibachrome print. The publisher's chemise contains a seventh print - a 7 ¾ x 9 ¾" hand-painted gelatin silver photograph SIGNED AND DATED "David Levinthal 1988/1998" in black ink on the verso. These are all housed in a printed slipcase. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition limited to fifty-five copies BOLDLY SIGNED by Ellroy and Levinthal in pencil on the colophon with a Coromandel Express 1998 New Year's card cum publisher's announcement laid in. 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: 025053
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INDEPENDENT PROJECTS VOLUME ONE + VOLUME TWO: SELECTED RECORDINGS FROM THE MUSICAL CAREER OF BRUCE LICHER 1979-1985 (ON TWO 10" RECORDS...) - SIGNED, WITH AN ADDITIONAL SIGNED LETTER FROM BRUCE LICHER
(LICHER, BRUCE). Licher, Bruce. Foreword by Kurt Braun. Afterword by Gary Todd. Los Angeles: Independent Project Records, 1989. First Edition 1/300. Square 4to. Letterpress Printed Wrappers. Vinyl LPs + Loose Contents. As New/As New. np (42pp) + two 10" vinyl LPs with loose printed matter housed in a hand letterpress printed chipboard jacket. Art Direction and Design by Bruce Licher. This is the lavishly designed and printed compilation of the earliest recordings by noted Los Angeles-based musician, graphic designer and printer Bruce Licher issued in conjunction the 1989 Independent Project Press exhibition entitled "Bruce Licher: The Ten Year Retrospective" held at the Hallway Gallery. It contains two 10" vinyl discs featuring Licher's solo endeavors along with works by Neef, Them Rhythm Ants, Tunneltones, 1/2 "Bridge", Africa Corps, Savage Republic, "Bridge", and Final Republic, along with a detailed booklet of notes, a portfolio of ten 8 ½ x 10" reproductions of performance flyers from 1980-1982, and a glassine envelope filled with reprints of selected letterpress items, as issued. A brand new, pristine unplayed numbered example (048/300) from an edition of three hundred copies of Independent Project Records release IP 024/025 in its elegant hand letterpress printed package SIGNED "Bruce Licher" in black ink on the front cover still in its original plastic sleeve. Laid into the package is an additional SIGNED hand written one page letter in red ink from Bruce Licher bearing an IPR stamp effusively thanking two record industry colleagues for their support of the project. Inventory Number: 022817
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SAVAGE IMPRESSIONS: AN AESTHETIC EXPEDITION THROUGH THE ARCHIVES OF INDEPENDENT PROJECTS RECORDS & PRESS - SIGNED BY BRUCE LICHER
(LICHER, BRUCE). Licher, Bruce & Karen Nielsen Licher. Aurora, NY: P22 Type Foundry, 2019. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Letterpress Illustrated Boards. Music Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 1000+ illustrations in color and b&w. Art Direction and Design by Bruce Licher and Jim Greishaber. "Bruce Licher is a musician, artist, and designer who founded Independent Project Press. After learning the art of letterpress printing at Los Angeles' famed Women's Graphic Center at the beginning of 1982, his initial projects centered around creating album covers, postcards, and promotional stamps for his band Savage Republic. It didn't take long before he was producing work for other Los Angeles underground music groups, along with a growing number of clients in the Los Angeles design community. In addition to packaging and releasing music on his own record label, Independent Project Records, Independent Project Press has produced elegant and creative pieces of letterpress-printed ephemera for the likes of REM, Stereolab, and Camper Van Beethoven. Licher was nominated twice for a Grammy Award for his album packaging, and has been credited with starting the trend in letterpress-printed CD and record packaging using industrial-style chipboard. His work has been featured in two major design exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. Published by P22 Type Foundry Publication, "Savage Impressions" is the first extensive monograph on Bruce Licher's Independent Project Records & Press. Beautifully designed and lavishly produced, the book is a profound reminder of the value of the hand-made and how it can interface with the mass produced." A brand new, most handsome example of this exciting document limited to six hundred and fifty copies - already almost entirely subscribed - additionally SIGNED by authors Bruce Licher and Karen Nielsen Licher in ink on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9631082-6-3 Inventory Number: 027225
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LIZA LOU
(LOU, LIZA). Julia Bryan-Wilson and Cathleen Chaffee and Glenn Adamson and Elisabeth Sherman, Contributions by Carrie Mae Weems. Designed by Conny Purtill.. Rizzoli Electa, I00221004. 2022. 9 x 11-3/4, 296 pages. Hardcover. Art Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued.
The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor.
Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work.
In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of Lou’s singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of the work. 9780847870752 Inventory Number: I00221004 -
NOBLE RICHARDSON: A UNIQUE, HAND PAINTED 1967 FAN ART POSTER FOR "HUMBLE HARVE PRESENTS LOVE, IRON BUTTERFLY, AND CHAMBER (SIC) BROS AT THE CHEETAH"
(LOVE). Richardson, Noble. NP (Los Angeles, CA). ND (1967): Noble Richardson. First Edition. Double Elephant Folio. Painted Construction Paper. Original Fan Art. Very Good.. One 28 x 22" heavy construction paper sheet hand painted with tempera and colored marker recto only. This is an amazing unique vintage fan art poster produced by the beloved late Twentynine Palms-based artist Noble Richardson to celebrate the 1967 appearance of Arthur Lee's Love at Santa Monica teen hotspot, The Cheetah. Then a nineteen year old student at Los Angeles' Mt. San Antonio College, Richardson created this vibrant piece utilizing tempera and colored markers employing lettering inspired by the burgeoning San Francisco psychedelic poster scene. The actual concert was promoted by popular LA top 40 "Boss Radio" station 93 KHJ disc jockey "Humble Harve" Miller, and presented headliners Love preceded by Iron Butterfly, and The Chambers Brothers (misspelled here as "Chamber Bros."). The Cheetah was located next to Santa Monica's POP (Pacific Ocean Park) Amusement Park and had a distinctive logo featuring a bright pink Cheetah with the face and breasts of a young woman, a copy of which has been collaged to the lower left corner. A most presentable example of this one-of-a-kind original artwork showing some minor creases, a dozen pinholes, and some minor water spotting across its face. This was acquired directly from Noble Richardson prior to his passing in 2021. Inventory Number: 027308
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JEAN-FRANCOIS LYOTARD: PACIFIC WALL - A PUBLISHER'S HORS COMMERCE DELUXE PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY SAM FRANCIS AND ROBERT SHAPAZIAN IN A GILT DEBOSSED CLAMSHELL BOX
(LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS). Lyotard, Jean Francois. Bruce Boone, Translator. Venice, CA: Lapis Press, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Clamshell Box. Art Theory Monograph. As New/As New. 64pp, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Robert Shapazian and Patrick Dooley. Originally issued as "Le Mur du Pacifique" by Editions Galilee in 1979, "Pacific Wall" is the first English language edition of renowned French theoretician Jean-Francois Lyotard's anthology of nine essays on "the Western". It is an elaborately designed reinvisioning published in 1990 by Sam Francis' Lapis Press that includes gatefold illustrations of Ed Kienholz' "Five Card Stud" and the downtown Los Angeles freeway system. One of only a handful of presentation copies produced hors commerce for the press and contributors, it consists of the book in its fragile unprinted yellow acetate jacket with printed acetate wraparound title band housed in a crimson linen-over-boards clamshell box with a gilt-debossed spine. A brand new, pristine example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For King Henry, our own, Love from the editor - Robert Shapazian" and "+ the Publisher Sam Francis" for Henry Hopkins in purple ink on page 60 whose box shows some very light wear and soiling. The late Henry T. Hopkins was a pioneering California-based museum director, art historian and gallerist from whom we acquired this directly prior to his passing. 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. 0-932499-64-3 Inventory Number: 019521
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ALIA MALLEY: A CAVALIER IN SIGHT OF A VILLAGE - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(MALLEY, ALIA). Malley, Alia. Los Angeles: Sam Lee Gallery & Alia Malley, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong 4to. Debossed Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (32pp), 13 color illustrations. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Los Angeles-based Alia Malley's 2011 Sam Lee Gallery solo exhibition of thirteen recent large scale color landscape photographs. A brand new, pristine example of this exceptionally lovely publication limited to one thousand copies only additionally SIGNEDa"Alia Malley" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 020495
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ALIA MALLEY: SOUTHLAND - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(MALLEY, ALIA). Malley, Alia & Sam Lee. Los Angeles: Sam Lee Gallery, 2010. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (12pp), 7 color illustrations. With a biography and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with her 2010 Sam Lee Gallery solo exhibition, this slender yet elegant twelve page catalogue gorgeously illustrates Los Angeles photographer Alia Malley's current body of work - large scale, muted color images of the pastoral local exurban landscape that rest somewhere between Joel Sternfeld, Robert Adams and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. A brand new, pristine example of her first publication limited to five hundred numbered copes additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alia Malley" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 021933
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MIKE MANDEL: PHOTOGRAPHER BASEBALL TRADING CARDS - A COMPLETE SET OF ALL ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE CARDS
(MANDEL, MIKE). Mandel, Mike. Santa Cruz, CA: Self-Published, 1975. First Editions. 16mo. Printed Trading Cards. Artist's Multiples. Near Fine or Better.. One hundred and thirty-five 3 ½ x 2 ½" cardstock sheets printed offset recto and verso, 134 b&w illustrations. In 3 x 3 archival plastic protective sheets housed in a three-ring binder. This is a full set of Mike Mandel's iconic, self-published 1975 "Photographer Baseball Trading Cards." Included are the following, often switch-hitting luminaries from the seventies photographic scene: 1. Bob Flick, 2. Joel Meyerowitz, 3. Van Deren Coke, 4. Joe Deal, 5. Ron Walker, 6. Lee Witkin, 7. Al Sweetman, 8. Don Drowty, 9. Ellen Brooks, 10. Dennis Hearne, 11. Elaine Mayes, 12. Bart Parker, 13. Larry Sultan, 14. Ed West, 15. Arthur Siegel, 16. Leonard Freed, 17. Margery Mann, 18. Harry Callahan, 19. Gary Metz, 20. Peter Gowland, 21. Ansel Adams, 22. Ed Ruscha, 23. Grace Mayer, 24. Mike Mandel, 25. Harold Allen, 26. Laura Gilpin, 27. Hank Smith, 28. Anne Tucker, 29. Phil Perkis, 30. Michael Simon, 31. Bill Owens, 32. Manuel Bravo, 33. Nathan Lyons, 34. Bill Arnold, 35. Jim Hajicek, 36. Les Krims, 37. Joyce Neimanas, 38. Judy Dater, 39. Al Coleman, 40. Ira Nowinski, 41. Jack Welpott, 42. Linda Parry, 43. Burke Uzzle, 44. Jim Dow, 45. Dave Freund, 46. Todd Walker, 47. Catherine Jansen, 48. Eva Rubinstein, 49. Eddie Sievers, 50. Minor White, 51. Michael Becotte, 52. Fred McDarrah, 53. Richard Link, 54. Betty Hahn, 55. Nick Hlobeczy, 56. Bob Cumming, 57. Ken Josephson, 58. Naomi Savage, 59. John Divola, 60. Tom Barrow, 61. Carl Chiarenza, 62. Bea Nettles, 63. Roger Mertin, 64. John Benson, 65. Cal Kowal, 66. Aaron Siskind, 67. R. von Sternberg, 68. Paige Pinnell, 69. Arthur Tress, 70. Jacob Deschin, 71. Linda Connor, 72. Don Blumberg, 73. Jim Alinder, 74. Harold Jones, 75. M.J. Walker, 76. Bill Parker, 77. Al Woolpert, 78. Duke Baltz, 79. Gus Kayafas, 80. Duane Michals, 81. Darryl Curran, 82. Arnold Newman, 83. Geoff Winningham, 84. Paul Vanderbilt, 85. Anne Noggle, 86. Timo Pajunen, 87. Edmund Teske, 88. Imogen Cunningham, 89. Andy Anderson, 90. Bill Larson, 91. Pete Bunnell, 92. Robert Doherty, 93. Joe Jachna, 94. Oscar Bailey, 95. Jerry Uelsmann, 96. Art Sinsabaugh, 97. Charles Roitz, 98. Doug Stewart, 99. Chuck Swedlund, 100. Bill Edwards, 101. Bobby Heinecken, 102. Micha Bar-Am, 103. Beaumont Newhall, 104. Wynn Bullock, 105. Jerry McMillan, 106. John Schulze, 107. Neal Slavin, 108. Lee Rice, 109. Joan Lyons, 110. Bill Jenkins, 111. Fred Sommer, 112. Barbara Crane, 113. Emmet Gowin, 114. Barbara Morgan, 115. Mark Power, 116. Cornell Capa, 117. Lionel Suntop, 118. Bunny Yeager, 119. Doug Prince, 120. Eileen Cowin, 121. Eve Sonneman, 122. Reg Heron, 123. Scott Hyde, 124. Conrad Pressma, 125. John Szarkowski, 126. Bill Eggleston, 127. Mike Bishop, 128. Bob Fichter, 129. Liliane DeCock, 130. Tom Porett, 131. Arnold Crane, 132. Arnold Gassan, 133. Elliott Erwitt, and 134. Len Gittleman. Card 135 is a full trading card checklist. A bright, most handsome complete set of the 1975 seminal editions all in Near Fine condition or better in 3 x 3 archival protective plastic sheets housed in a three-ring binder. Inventory Number: 027412