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(APERTURE) (SOMMER, FREDERICK). White, Minor, Editor. Rochester, NY: Aperture Inc., 1962. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -.. 42pp, 30 duotone illustrations + rear cover. Designed by Frederick Sommer. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This fortieth installment of Aperture from 1962 is designed and edited by, and devoted entirely to the writings and images of Frederick Sommer. The very first monograph on his work, it contains a portfolio of twenty-nine beautifully reproduced full page photographs by the venerable late American proponent of the Surrealist image. An internally bright, most handsome example of this surprisingly uncommon item (cited on pages 162-163 of "The Book of 101 Books") showing some faint spotting to the glossy white surface of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019948

(ARTFORUM). Sandback, Amy Baker, Editor. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1984. First Edition. Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Good +. 342pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath. Beginning with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from its June 1962 inaugural issue, this is an amazing compendium of articles and reviews culled from the first twenty-one years of the noted art periodical "Artforum" featuring contributions by the stellar likes of Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, j. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition whose dust jacket shows some overall light wear, handling and scuffing. 0-8357-1536-1 Inventory Number: 014028

(BROODTHAERS, MARCEL) (OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Debossed Buckram. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 212pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a bibliography. The forty-second installment of "October" from Fall 1987 was a special monographic issue devoted to Marcel Broodthaers that quickly sold out. Given the issue's importance, MIT chose to reprint it the following year as a trade publication minus the extraneous editorial content and advertisements. The contents of this version are Untitled Poem, Azure, Questions of Painting, Selections from Pense-Bete, Investigating Dreamland, Gare au defi: Pop Art, Jim Dine, and the Influence of Rene Magritte, To be bien pensant...or not to be. To be blind, An Interview by the Film Journal Trepied, Ten Thousand Francs Reward, and A Portfolio of Photographs - all by Marcel Broodthaers; Look! Books in Plaster! - Dieter Schwarz; Open Letters, Industrial Poems - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; The Exhibition at the MTL Gallery in Brussels - Anne Rorimer; The Figures - Dirk Snauwaert; Section des Figures: The Eagle from the Oligocene to the Present - Rainer Borgemeister; Eagle/Pipe/Urinal - Michael Oppitz; Recourse to the Letter - Birgit Pelzer; "Pauvre Belgique: An Asterisk in History" - Yves Gevaert; DÉCOR: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers - Marcel Broodthaers; and Bibliography - Marie-Pascale Gildemyn. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon hardbound edition of this important document perfect for the Broodthaers completeist issued without a dust jacket. 0-262-02281-8 Inventory Number: 020748

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). Coplans, John. Akron, OH: Akron Art Institute, 1978. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 32pp, 21 b&w illustrations. This slender catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 Joseph Cornell retrospective held at the Akron Art Institute is small and elegant, just like the artist's work. A brand new, pristine example. Inventory Number: 022058

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). McShine, Kynaston. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, 1972. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. np (12pp), 10 b&w illustrations. Text in German. With an exhibition checklist and biography. This is the slender twelve page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1972 Swiss gallery exhibition of seventeen boxes and six collages by the late, iconoclastic American artist Joseph Cornell. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing some slight sunning and soiling to the covers. Inventory Number: 013167

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard. New York: Castelli-Feigen-Corcoran, 1983. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 88pp, 48 b&w and 1 color illustration. Designed by the Castle Press. This is the lovely catalogue issued in conjunction with a posthumous 1983 New York gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell boxes and collages whose imagery reflects his lifelong obsession with the ballet. A most handsome example. LC 83-73032 Inventory Number: 024628

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard. New York: Castelli-Feigen-Corcoran, 1983. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 88pp, 48 b&w and 1 color illustration. Designed by the Castle Press. This is the lovely catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1983 New York gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell's boxes and collages whose imagery reflects his lifelong obsession with the ballet. A handsome example additionally bearing the SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "For ... - Love, Hugs, kisses / Sandy / 12.16.83" from the author - noted Cornell dealer and scholar Sandra "Sandy" Starr - in black ink in the year of publication on the first preliminary showing a bit of wear and soiling to its white covers. LC 83-73032 Inventory Number: 005860

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard & Takashi Hiraide. Tokyo: Shigeru Yokota Inc., 2003. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Loose Contents in a Portfolio. Artist Monograph. As New.. 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, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to five hundred NUMBERED (466/500) copies. Inventory Number: 025429

(DALI, SALVADOR). Morse, A. Reynolds, Michel Tapie & Salvador Dali. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1958. First American Edition. Oblong Small Folio. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Good +/No Jacket. 96pp, 94 b&w and 17 tipped-in color illustration. This is the comprehensive 1958 monograph on Salvador Dali compiled by the artist's prolific American collector A. Reynolds Morse - who subsequently founded the Salvador Dalí Museum. A presentable example only of this standard work lacking the publisher's original printed acetate jacket additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "Pour Alexander Eliot / Hommage de Dali / 1959" in blue fountain pen across the entire blank leaf facing the half title page showing moderate age-toning, soiling, wear, and abrading to the boards along with foxing to the inside covers, endpapers, and edges of the textblock. Noted late historian, critic, and author Alexander Eliot - for whom this was inscribed - was the "Time" magazine art editor between 1945 and 1960 and a close friend of the artist. It has been priced accordingly. LC 58-6725 Inventory Number: 025564

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Duchamp, Marcel, Andre Breton & Arturo Schwarz. Antwerp, BELGIUM: Ronny Van de Velde, 1991. First Edition #715/850 Deluxe. Square Folio. Wooden Chessboard in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. Various loose components housed in a facsimile 14 ½ x 14 ½ x 2 ¼" wooden chessboard in an unprinted black cloth-over-cardstock slipcase. Text in English. This luxe object was produced in conjunction with a significant 1991 Marcel Duchamp exhibition held at Ronny Van de Velde in Antwerp. The contents are: 1. a fiberboard volume containing reproductions of numerous Duchamp-related photographs and documents including a printed facsimile of H. Vuibert's "Les Anaglyphes Geometriques", Paris, Librairie Vuibert, 1912 (with 3D-glasses), plus a reproduction of a leaf from "The Blind Man No. 2 (P.B.T.)", 2. a original volume in wrappers containing articles on the artist by Andre Breton and Arturo Schwarz, with a loosely inserted reproduction of "Le Grand Verre", 3. an audio cassette of Duchamp's 1959 interview with Richard Hamilton along with his 1967 reading of "The Creative Act" housed in a plastic case with a miniature silicon reproduction of his "Priere a Toucher", 4. a giant leporello exhibition checklist cum catalogue detailing the one hundred and fifty-one works exhibited, and 5. the colophon with a postcard reproduction of "Marcel Duchamp at the age Eighty-Five" for "View"'s special Marcel Duchamp number laid in. A brand new, most handsome example of this elaborate, uncommon offering limited to eight hundred and fifty NUMBERED (715/850) copies in the publisher's hand-tooled wooden box - a facsimile of Marcel Duchamp's "Mental" Chess Board, black slipcase, and unprinted cardboard shipping box, as issued. Inventory Number: 026434

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Duchamp, Marcel. Mathieu Mercier, Editor. Köln, GERMANY: Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2016. First Edition. Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Sixty-nine loose components housed in a box. Text in English. "Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase," Marcel Duchamp said in 1952. Finally, that suitcase is available to all! One of the most important and enigmatic pieces of modernist art, the Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Duchamp between 1935 and 1941. The portable suitcase contains "the sum of his artistic work" up to that point. Perhaps in premonition of the coming war, and over years without a fixed address, Duchamp reproduced his work in a format that enabled him to easily transport his "complete works" at any time. Though the artist eventually made three hundred copies of his box, many are behind glass in museums and private collections. This is the first ever reinterpretation of the legendary book-object, conceptualized by French artist Mathieu Mercier, and now available to a broader audience. At once a work in and of itself, and a reproduction in the Duchampian spirit, this miniature museum contains sixty-nine reproductions of Duchamp's most celebrated creations, including the famous "Fountain", "Nude Descending a Staircase", and "The Large Glass". Mercier has reproduced the bulk of the contents of Duchamp's original box in paper form, designing everything to scale. Playful and accessible, the "Boîte" reflects Duchamp's desire to display his works outside the museum and gallery system." A brand new, pristine example of the quickly sold out 2016 Walther König first populist edition of this monumental undertaking unopened in the publisher's printed shipping carton."Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase," Marcel Duchamp said in 1952. Finally, that suitcase is available to all! One of the most important and enigmatic pieces of modernist art, the Boîte-en-valise (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Duchamp between 1935 and 1941. The portable suitcase contains "the sum of his artistic work" up to that point. Perhaps in premonition of the coming war, and over years without a fixed address, Duchamp reproduced his work in a format that enabled him to easily transport his "complete works" at any time. Though the artist eventually made three hundred copies of his box, many are behind glass in museums and private collections. This is the first ever reinterpretation of the legendary book-object, conceptualized by French artist Mathieu Mercier, and now available to a broader audience. At once a work in and of itself, and a reproduction in the Duchampian spirit, this miniature museum contains sixty-nine reproductions of Duchamp's most celebrated creations, including the famous "Fountain", "Nude Descending a Staircase", and "The Large Glass". Mercier has reproduced the bulk of the contents of Duchamp's original box in paper form, designing everything to scale. Playful and accessible, the "Boîte" reflects Duchamp's desire to display his works outside the museum and gallery system." A brand new, pristine example of the quickly sold out 2016 Walther König first edition of this monumental undertaking unopened in the publisher's printed shipping carton. 3-86335-518-0 Inventory Number: 026435

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Lebel, Robert, Andre Breton. H.P. Roché & Marcel Duchamp. Paris: Editions Trianon, 1959. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Very Good -/Near Fine. 193pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Marcel Duchamp. Text in French. With a bibliography. This graphically striking publication is Robert Lebel's catalogue raisonné of two hundred and seven works executed by Marcel Duchamp between 1902 and 1958 that includes a design by the pioneering Dada and Surrealist master. An internally most handsome example of the 1959 French first printing showing minor abrading to the cloth over the tips of the boards at both ends of the spine along with some mottling and light discoloration of the cloth in a bright, well preserved English language Trianon Press dust jacket housed in the publisher's unprinted chipboard slipcase bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATIONS "Cher Emily / Cher Georges / Staempfli / Anges de Cadaques / et pas du ski nautique / affecteusement / Marcel 1961" and "lu et apprové (pas le livre, la dedicace) / Robert Lebel 1961" in blue ink across the portrait of Duchamp on the second preliminary. Swiss-born George William Staempfli moved to New York in 1935 where he later worked for Knoedler Gallery before becoming the curator of paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 1959 he and his wife Emily opened the Staempfli Gallery in Manhattan, and the following year the couple purchased a home in Cadaques, Spain where they frequently hosted their close art world friends including Salvador and Gala Dali - who the gallery showed - and Marcel and Teeny Duchamp. Inventory Number: 025647

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Paz, Octavio & Marcel Duchamp. Mexico City: Ediciones ERA, 1968. First Edition 1/3000. 4to. Cloth Portfolio in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. Seven components housed in a slipcased green cloth folio. Text in Spanish. This unique Marcel Duchamp item was produced in the spirit of the "Boite en Valise", and as such is a portfolio containing several smaller items related to the maestro's oeuvre, They are as collated: 1. "Marcel Duchamp o el Castello de la Pureza" - the first appearance of Octavio Paz's notable essay on the Large Glass (62pp, cloth, 8vo, 4 b&w, 8 tipped color plates), 2. "Marcel Duchamp - Textos" (69pp, wrappers, 8vo, illustrated in b&w), 3. "El Gran Vidrio" - a color transparency of "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even" with a printed cardboard enclosure, 4. Color reproductions of each of the three versions of "Nude Descending a Staircase" - printed on heavy stock, 5. Nine postcard sized reproductions of various readymades - again on heavy stock, laid into a printed envelope, 6. "Album Fotografico / Texto Autografo / Nota Biografica" (10pp, wrappers, 8vo), and one unnumbered item, a white cardboard stand-up bust of Duchamp printed in blue ink. The contents of this copy are all in Near Fine condition or better but for the stand-up, whose cardboard has age-toned somewhat. The internal cloth portfolio shows starting and cracking of the inner hinges due to the use of cheap animal glue. The slipcase shows minor browning, abrading, fraying, and a bit of the insect damage that typically afflicts this ambitious but inexpensively produced undertaking. All in all, this is a handsome, complete example of this uncommon item - only nine copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - limited to three thousand unnumbered copies that looks nicer in hand than it describes. Inventory Number: 026433

(ERNST, MAX).. Tokyo. ND (Circa 1958).: Misuzu. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Very Good/Good +. 106pp, 44 b&w and 26 color illustrations. Text in Japanese. Published as part of a Japanese series of monographs on European and American modern artists, this volume is devoted to the work of noted Dada and Surealist icon Max Ernst. While we cannot make out the publication details in Kanji, this is a nicely illustrated survey of paintings, collages, and frottages dating to the late fifties. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing a bit of handling to the textblock, some chips and closed tears to the dust jacket, and the previous owner's stamp of noted artist Sam Francis on the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 008868

(ERNST, MAX). Ernst, Max. Milan, ITALY: Galerie Alexandre Iolas, 1971. First Edition 1/1000. Folio. Loose Prints in a Portfolio. Illustrated Book. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (36pp), 12 color illustrations (in nine signatures) laid into the publisher's silkscreened cloth portfolio, as issued. Text in French. Limited to one thousand copies published in 1971 by Ernst's renowned art dealer Alexandre Iolas, this sumptuous livre d'artiste printed by Sergio Tosi reproduces twelve collages by the artist in vivid photolithography juxtaposed with eleven brief accompanying poems. A most handsome example showing a few minor abrasions to the exterior of the portfolio and a light brown smudge to the inside front cover. Inventory Number: 003881

(ERNST, MAX). Ernst, Max. With brief texts by Andre Breton, Piet Mondrian, Rene Crevel, Paul Eluard, Dorthea Tanning, J.F.P., Benjamin Peret, Man Ray, Robert Desnos & Nicolas Calas. Beverly Hills, CA: The Copley Galleries, 1949. First Edition #121/513. 8vo. ¼ Cloth Over Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. 39pp, 24 monochrome illustrations. Designed by Max Ernst. Printed by Lynton Kistler. Frontispiece photograph by Frederick Sommer. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This charming, elaborately designed and produced exhibition catalogue cum artist's book was published in conjunction with a 1949 show of sixty-six works executed between 1918 and 1948 by renowned Dada and Surrealist artist Max Ernst at the Beverly Hills gallery of William Nelson Copley - a.k.a artist Cply. The first portion - "At Eye Level" - contains brief Surrealist and Ernst-related texts and quotes by a stellar array of artists and literary figures that includes Andre Breton, Piet Mondrian, Rene Crevel, Paul Eluard, Dorothea Tanning, J.F.P., Benjamin Peret, Man Ray, Robert Desnos, and Nicolas Calas. The second - "Paramyths" - is a series of eight poems and collages executed by the artist especially for this volume. A handsome, tightly bound example of this fragile, uncommon item limited to five hundred and thirteen copies NUMBERED (121/513) in ink on the rear colophon, as issued, showing some typical soiling and slight discoloration to its matte, textured boards, unobtrusive mottling to the blue cloth of the spine, and a small area of surface paper abrasion to the rear board. Internally, there is a tiny bit of mild foxing to a few pages throughout along with occasional discoloration and perished glue at the gutter of some of the pages. Inventory Number: 026378

(GETTY MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE J. PAUL). Naef, Weston J., Gordon Baldwin, Virginia Dodier, Thomas Weston Fels, Mikka Gee, Michael Hargraves, Eugenia Parry Janis, Judith Keller, Ben Lifson, Katherine Ware, Brett Abbott, Anne Lacoste, et al.. Malibu & Los Angeles, CA. 1986-2008.: The J. Paul Getty Museum. First Editions. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochures. Very Good - or Better.. This is a collection of eighty-three of the informative brochures issued by the J. Paul Getty Museum between 1986 and 2008 to accompany exhibitions curated by its Department of Photographs. These are beautifully printed keepsakes - typically duotone on coated, heavy stock - that were never made commercially available for sale, with most representing the only published documentation for each show. The format of this series is for the most part one cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8 pages - typically with five illustrations. The monographic publications are on Eugene Atget (2 different), Brassai, Manuel Alvarez Bravo (2 different), Horace Bristol, Julia Margaret Cameron (3 different), Edgar Degas, Luc Delahaye, William Eggleston, P.H. Emerson, Walker Evans (2 different), Roger Fenton (2 different), Lady Clementina Hawarden, Hill and Adamson, John Humble, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Gustave Le Gray (2 different), Man Ray, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eliot Porter, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander (3 different), Camille Silvy, Frederick Sommer (2 different), Alfred Stieglitz (2 different), Paul Strand (2 different), Edmund Teske (2 different), Doris Ulmann, Carleton Watkins (2 different), Weegee, and Edward Weston (2 different). The survey exhibitions are "After the Manner of Women: Photographs by Kasebier, Cunningham, and Ullman", "Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites", "Capturing Time: A Celebration of Photography", "Close to Home: An American Album", "Dance in Photography", "Eternal Cities: Photographs of Athens and Rome", "Experimental Photography: Discovery & Invention", "Experimental Photography: The First Golden Age 1851-1889", "Experimental Photography: The Machine Age", "Experimental Photography: The New Subjectivity", "Experimental Photography: The Painter-Photographer", "The Eye of Sam Wagstaff", "Fame and Photography", "The Flowering of Early French Photography", "Grave Testimony: Photographs of the Civil War", "The Heart of the Storm: Northern California Pictorialism", "Hidden Witness: African Americans in Early Photography", "...Images that yet / Fresh images beget... Photographing Art", "Little Pictures", "Nadar + Warhol: Paris + New York", "Neither Speech Nor Language: Photography and the Written Word", "Palette of Light: Handcrafted Photographs, 1898-1914", "Photographers of Genius at the Getty", "Pictures for the Press", "Procession to the Fallen Gods: Photography in Nineteenth Century Egypt", "Public Faces / Private Spaces: Mary Ellen Mark, Bill Owens, Anthony Hernandez, and Donald Blumberg", "Rare States and Unusual Subjects: Photographs by Paul Strand, Andre Kertesz, and Man Ray", "Recent Acquisitions: Eugene Atget - Brett Weston - William Garnett - Milton Rogovin", "Strange Days: Photographs from the Sixties bt Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus", "Surrealist Muse: Lee Miller, Roland Penrose, and Man Ray", "Voyages and Visions: Early Photographs Fom the Wilson Family Collection", "Walls of Algiers", "Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection", and "Women on the Edge: Twenty Photographers in Europe, 1919-1939". A most handsome set of these ephemeral items - all in at least Very Good minus condition, with most being Near Fine or Fine. Inventory Number: 005262

(MAN RAY) (PAOLINI, GIULIO) (BOLAFFIARTE). Man Ray & Giulio Paolini. Torino, ITALY: Bolaffi & Mondadori Editori, 1973. First Edition 1/5000. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Periodical. Very Good -.. 136pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, with two 11 ¾ x 9 ¼" original graphics laid in. Text in Italian. This is the thirty-first installment of the Italian Arts magazine "BolaffiArte". Amongst the more interesting articles here are features on American Land Art (Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson) and Hippie Communes in the Southwest - both with photographs by Gianfranco Gorgoni, collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Conceptual Art and Arte Povera 1966 - 1969, and a section devoted to Man Ray. For the issue, Man Ray was commissioned to create an original work of art utilizing the letter "R" (as part its "L'Alfabebeto di BolaffiArte" series), which was then reproduced utilizing the photolithographic process and included as a loose insert. It consists of an embossed sheet of cardstock which has been overprinted with a stylized "Man Ray" in dark green, save for the "R" printed in red. In addition, noted Italian Arte Povera/Conceptual artist Giulio Paolini has contributed an original insert entitled "Vedo, 1969 (la decifrazione del mio campo visivo)". A most presentable example with like inserts showing a bit of overall light wear along with a slight dent at the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 009218

(MAN RAY) (PENROSE, ROLAND) (MILLER, LEE). Getty Museum Department of Photography Staff, The J. Paul. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Brochure. Fine.. np (8pp), 7 b&w and i color illustration. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany a 2003 exhibition of works by Man Ray, Roland Penrose, and Lee Miller entitled "Surrealist Muse" that were primarily drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item - the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 025595

(MAN RAY). Powers, Dennis H. Foreword by Robert Doty & Paul Doty. New York: Light Gallery, 1985. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Stapled Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (36pp), 48 duotone illustrations. Designed by Dennis H. Powers. With an exhibition checklist. This is the catalogue produced to accompany a 1985 New York exhibition of seventy-three photographs, books, prints and objects by Man Ray drawn from the collection of Dennis H. Powers. A pristine copy. Inventory Number: 016246

(MAN RAY) (STRAND, PAUL ) (KERTESZ, ANDRE). Getty Museum Department of Photography Staff, The J. Paul. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Brochure. Fine.. One continuous 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, folded neatly in fourths to make 8pp, 5 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany a 1987 exhibition of vintage prints by Paul Strand, Andre Kertesz, and Man Ray from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item - the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 025596

(MAN RAY). Ware, Katherine. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Brochure. As New.. One 7 ½ x 24 inch continuous sheet printed recto and verso, folded neatly in fourths to make 8pp, 4 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany a 1998 exhibition of vintage prints by Man Ray from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the exhibition. Inventory Number: 025597

(MATTA ECHAURREN). Matta (Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren) & Alain Sayag. New York: Maxwell Davidson Gallery & Jeffrey Loria & Co., Inc., 1977. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (48pp), 23 color and 2 b&w illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, collections listing, biography and bibliography. This is the beautifully illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with two concurrent 1977 New York gallery exhibitions of twenty-one works on canvas executed between 1994 and 1996 by the Chilean-born Surrealist artist Roberto Sebastian Antonio Matta Echaurren. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024402

(MIRO, JOAN) (ARTIGAS, JOSEP LLORENS I). Bernier, Rosamond, Joan Miro & Josep Llorens i Artigas. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1956. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Very Good -.. np (32pp), profusely illustrated in b&w with two color lithographs. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the charming catalogue published in conjunction with a 1956 exhibition of twenty five collaborative ceramic sculptures by the Catalonian masters Joan Miro and Josep Llorens i Artigas held at Miro's longtime New York gallery, Pierre Matisse. It features a lithograph in colors that wraps around both covers along with a gatefold two sided color lithograph - both printed by Mourlot Freres - bound in, as issued. The black and white photographs are by Sabine Weiss, and the text is a transcribed interview with Miro and Artigas by Rosamond Bernier that first appeared in "The Selective Eye". A handsome example (entry number thirty-eight in Patrick Cramer's "Joan Mirò: The Illustrated Books - Catalogue Raisonné") showing some mild insect damage along the edges of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024733

(MIRO, JOAN). Calas, Nicolas & Elena. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1981. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/Near Fine. 212pp, profusely illustrated in color with a color lithographic cover. Text in French. This is the fourth of six volumes comprising the catalogue raisonné of the lithographic work by the renowned late Catalonian master Joan Miro. It contains two hundred and forty-seven fully illustrated entries for works executed between 1969 and 1972, as well as five bound in color lithographs and a color lithographic dust jacket printed by Mourlot that were commissioned exclusively for this publication. A bright, most handsome complete and intact example of the French language first edition of this invaluable reference (entry number two hundred and XXX in Patrick Cramer's "Joan Miro: The Illustrated Books - Catalogue Raisonné") showing some unobtrusive brown spotting on the front free endpaper and bottom edge of the textblock that does not affect the lithographs in any way. 2-85587-087-9 Inventory Number: 024988

(MIRO, JOAN) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Miro, Joan, Jacques Dupin & Rene Char. Paris. 1948, 1950, 1953 & 1956.: Maeght Editeur. First Edition Thus. Folio. Wrappers Bound in Cloth. Artist Monograph. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. np + np + np + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a compilation of four issues of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Joan Miro. Bound by Maeght in dark blue cloth-over-boards with debossed white lettering in 1956, it collects the complete contents of DLM numbers 14-15 (Novembre - Decembre 1948): "Joan Miro"; 29-30 (Mai - Juin 1950): "Miro"; 57-58-59 (Juin - Julliet - Aout 1953): "Miro"; and 87-88-89 (Juin - Julliet - Aout 1956): "Miro Artigas". A most handsome example whose contents are complete and intact first printings with the wrappers bound in that contain in total thirty-four original color lithographs showing some light brown spotting to the edges of the textblock and endpapers that does not affect the internal lithographs in any meaningful way. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024990

(MIRO, JOAN) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Miro, Joan, Jacques Dupin & Rene Char. Paris. 1948, 1950, 1953 & 1956.: Maeght Editeur. First Edition Thus. Folio. Wrappers Bound in Cloth. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np + np + np + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a compilation of four issues of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Joan Miro. Bound by Maeght in dark blue cloth-over-boards with debossed white lettering in 1956, it collects the complete contents of DLM numbers 14-15 (Novembre - Decembre 1948): "Joan Miro"; 29-30 (Mai - Juin 1950): "Miro"; 57-58-59 (Juin - Julliet - Aout 1953): "Miro"; and 87-88-89 (Juin - Julliet - Aout 1956): "Miro Artigas". An internally spectacularly bright, most handsome example whose contents are complete and intact first printings with the wrappers bound in that contain in total thirty-four original color lithographs. Inventory Number: 022340

(MIRO, JOAN). Matisse Gallery Staff, Pierre. New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1951. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Very Good.. np (20pp), 14 b&w illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the charming catalogue published in conjunction with a 1951 exhibition of eleven paintings in oil and four sculptures in bronze executed between 1946 and 1950 by Joan Miro held at his longtime New York gallery, Pierre Matisse. Its front cover is an iconic Miro image in colors silkscreened on heavy stock. A handsome example of this uncommon item bearing a discreet date stamp in ink on the inside front cover showing some mild age-toning and trivial insect damage to the wrappers. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024734

(MIRO, JOAN). Miro, Joan. Geneva, SWITZERLAND: Galerie Gerald Cramer, 1969. First Edition 1/1650. Oblong 4to. Color Lithographic Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 25pp, 9 b&w tipped illustrations. Text in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1969 Geneva gallery exhibition of fifty-one graphic works by Joan Miro, the cover of this elegant exhibition catalogue is an original gatefold color lithograph executed by the artist especially for this publication. A handsome example (entry number one hundred and twenty-seven in Patrick Cramer's "Joan Mirò: The Ilustrated Books - Catalogue Raisonné") showing a slight dent to the lower edge of the front cover. Inventory Number: 007882

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1984. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 132pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Broadness and Diversity of the Ludwig Brigade - Hans Haacke; An Unpublished Text for an Unpainted Picture - Walter Grasskamp; A Conversation With Hans Haacke - Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp & Rosalind Krauss; From Faktura to Factography - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; Francis Picabia: From Dada to Petain - Yve-Alain Bois. A most handsome example. 0-262-75180-1 Inventory Number: 021674

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 140pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: In Praise of Horizontality - Annette Michelson; The Religion of the Caves, The Hands of Gargas - Andre Leroi-Gourhan; Originality as Repetition - Rosalind Krauss; The Primary Colors for the Second Time - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; Ready-Made Originals - Molly Nesbit; Repetition, Obsession - Steven Z. Levine; The Origin without an Original - Linda Nochlin; Antiquity Now - Michael Fried; In Praise of Appearance - Louis Marin; Manet's Imagery Reconstructed - Klaus Herding; Painting as Model - Yve-Alain Bois. A most handsome example. 0-262-75187-9 Inventory Number: 018280

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 142pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Mourning and Militancy - Douglas Crimp; Flaming Closets - Michael Moon; Kant with Sade - Jacques Lacan; From Breton to Dali: the Adventures of Automatism - Laurent Jenny; A Conversation with October - The V-Girls (Martha Baer, Erin Cramer, Jessica Chalmers, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Weems). A most handsome copy. 0-262-75201-8 Inventory Number: 021661

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 166pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Drawing Blanks: Notes on Andy Warhol's Late Works - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Flou: Rayographs and the Dada Automatic - Susan Laxton, Speak, Painting: Word and Device in Early Johns - Harry Cooper, From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht's Events and the Conceptual Turn in Art of the 1960s - Julia Robinson, "It has to do with the theater": Bruce Conner's Ratbastards - Kevin Hatch, Remarks on Abstraction - Hubert Damisch, and In Memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) - Rosalind Krauss. A most handsome example. 0-262-75277-8 Inventory Number: 023562

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehnner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 154pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Hiroshima After Iraq: A Study in Art and War - Rosalyn Deutsche, Advertising, Rhythm, and the Filmic Avant-Garde in Weimar: Guido Seeber and Julius Pinschewer's Kipho Film - Michael Cowan, Cinema by Other Means - Pavle Levi, "Big, Middle-Class Modernism" - Richard Meyer, and Leather and Lace - George Baker. A most handsome example. 0-262-75281-6 Inventory Number: 021215

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey, Lisa Pasquariello & Catherine de Zegher, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2003. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 103pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: An Allegory of Criticism - David Joselit; The Material of Film and the Idea of Cinema: Contrasting Practices in Sixties and Seventies Avant-Garde Film - Jonathan Walley; Solecisms of Sight: Specular Speculations - Robert Morris; Line Describing a Cone and Related Films - Anthony McCall; Other Voices for a Second Sight - Vito Acconci. A handsome example. 0-262-75253-0 Inventory Number: 014992

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Lisa Pasquariello, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Very Good.. 138pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: From The Neutral: Session of March 11, 1978 - Roland Barthes, Translated by Rosalind Krauss, Roland Barthes's Novel Antoine Compagnon, Translated by Rosalind Krauss, Notes (on the Index Card) - Denis Hollier, On Duchamp - Michel Leiris, Translated by Rosalind Krauss, Leiris / Nerval: A Few File Cards - Richard Sieburth, "These are not exercises in style": Le Chant du Styrène - Edward Dimendberg, Material Remains: Night and Fog - Emma Wilson, and Artists as Filmmakers in Los Angeles - David E. James. A handsome example showing a slight dent to the crown of the spine. 0-262-75262-X Inventory Number: 019363

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon & Carrie Lambert, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 130pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Blinded Insights: On the Modernist Reception of the Art of the Mentally Ill - Hal Foster; Tactile Translucence: Miro, Leiris, Einstein - Charles Palermo; The Artwork Caught by the Tail - George Baker; Duchamp's Labyrinth: First Papers of Surrealism, 1942 - T.J. Demos; Remarks on Some Tendencies of the "Vienna Group" - Oswald Wiener. An otherwise most handsome example showing two lines of whited-out annotation on page fourteen. It has been priced accordingly 0-262-75245-X Inventory Number: 021648

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Mignon Nixon & Carrie Lambert, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 130pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: Blinded Insights: On the Modernist Reception of the Art of the Mentally Ill - Hal Foster; Tactile Translucence: Miró, Leiris, Einstein - Charles Palermo; The Artwork Caught by the Tail - George Baker; Duchamp's Labyrinth: First Papers of Surrealism, 1942 - T.J. Demos; Remarks on Some Tendencies of the "Vienna Group" - Oswald Wiener. A most handsome example. 0-262-75245-X Inventory Number: 014994

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Silvia Kolbowski, Malcolm Turvey & Catherine de Zegher, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1998. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Very Good.. 144pp, illustrated in b&w. At the forefront of contemporary arts theory and criticism, "October" has for over thirty-five years focused critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, photography, performance, sculpture, literature. Contributions to this issue include: The MoMA Expansion: A Conversation with Terence Riley - Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Silvia Kolbowski and Rosalind Krauss; Cezanne: Words and Deeds - Yve-Alain Bois; Arche-tectures: Matisse and the End of (Art) History - Alastair Wright; Figures of the Pseudorevolution - Brigid Doherty; In the Laboratory of Constructivism: Karl Ioganson's Cold Structures - Maria Gough; and Mondrian, Hegel, Boogie - Harry Cooper. A handsome example showing some slight wear to the covers along with a slight dent to the crown of the spine. It has been priced accordingly ISSN 0162-2870 Inventory Number: 021654

(PARRY, ROGER). Fargue, Leon-Paul & Roger Parry. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle Revue Francaise, 1930. First Edition 1/300. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Livre D'Artiste. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. 84pp + xvi, 16 full page monochrome gravure illustrations. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Banalité" is one of the most striking collaborations of word and image in the realm of the photographically illustrated Surrealist book. It marries Leon-Paul Fargue's previously-published 1922 volume of prose and poems with sixteen dramatic, then-new full page images reproduced in lush sepia-toned gravure by the noted French photographer and cinematographer Roger Parry. An exceptionally bright, well-preserved example of this stunning modernist collaboration (cited on pages 100-101 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I") from the standard trade edition limited to three hundred NUMBERED (214/300) copies on Imperial Japon paper showing just a bit of wear to the extremities of the wrappers. Inventory Number: 024548