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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

(ASPEN MAGAZINE). O'Doherty, Brian, Guest Editor. New York: Roaring Fork Press, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Portfolio. Arts Periodical. Good +.. np (nineteen printed components + advertisements, one film reel, and five flexi-discs housed in a printed paper-over-boards box, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Brian O'Doherty, David Dalton, and Lynn Letterman. Edited by Irish-born, New York-based artist and critic Brian O'Doherty, this combined fifth and sixth installment of "Aspen" magazine from 1967 is an elaborate collection of commissioned projects by avant-garde artists, writers, composers, and filmmakers - heavy on the Minimal and Conceptual. Dedicated by the editor to Stephane Mallarme, among its notable components are a recording of William S. Burroughs reading an excerpt from "Nova Express", "Smoke" - a miniature assemble-it-yourself sculptural multiple by Tony Smith, and "Serial Project #1, 1966" - the very first artist book by Sol LeWitt (cited on page 28 of Giorgio Maffei and Emanuele de Donno's "Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books" as well as entry number one in Alicia Legg's "Books by the Artist" bibliography in MoMA's 1979 "Sol LeWitt). The sole double issue of eleven total published, it includes contributions by or about Sigmund Bode, Roland Barthes, George Kubler, Susan Sontag, Samuel Beckett, Jack MacGowan, Burroughs, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Max Neuhaus, Morton Feldman, Smith, Hans Richter, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Stan VanDerBeek, Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Huelsenbeck, Naum Gabo, Noton Pevsner, Douglas MacAgy, Michel Butor, Dan Graham, LeWitt, Brian O'Doherty, and Mel Bochner. An internally most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item complete with the usually missing film reel and advertisement folder showing a bit of age-toning and occasional mild foxing to some of the printed sections. The copy of LeWitt's "Serial Project #1, 1966"" is exceptionally crisp and white. The publisher's printed exterior box exhibits the usual overall wear, creasing, age-toning, and soiling along with some mild insect damage and compression. Still in all this is a complete and intact copy of this sixties gem that looks better in hand than it describes that has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026561

(BELLMER, HANS). Jelenski, Constantin. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. First American Edition #616/1000. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Cloth in Jacket in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 113pp, 97 duotone illustrations. Translated from the 1966 Editions DeNoel French edition, this is a substantial, beautifully printed hardbound survey of nearly one hundred of Hans Bellmer's eroticized drawings executed between 1934 and 1965. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1967 first Grove Press American edition limited to one thousand NUMBERED (616/1000) copies still in the publisher's chipboard slipcase with printed pastedown. LC 67-25425 Inventory Number: 026502

(CAGE, JOHN). Cage, John. Russell Ferguson, Editor.. New York & Los Angeles: Rizzoli International Publications & Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Silkscreened Aluminum Box. Music Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, loose printed contents laid into an Aluminum Box. Designed by Catherine Lorenz. This is the spirited exhibition catalogue for a huge traveling retrospective that celebrated John Cage, his collaborators, influences, and influence on twentieth Century culture. Composer, lecturer, musician, artist, theoretician, Zen student, mycologist - all aspects of his life and art are represented here in a patchwork quilt of texts and images jammed into a sleek, mirror-like metal case. Every day in each of the show's venues (MOCA, the Menil Collection, the Guggenheim, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center in Japan, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art) the art objects shifted in placement and installation - a nod to Cage's pioneering use of chance, and randomization as compositional elements. This catalogue/object functions much the same way, with nearly fifty pieces of printed ephemera laid in, with no hierarchical order. The primary texts here include; "Paying Attention" by Anne d'Harnoncourt, "nothingtoseeness" by Julie Lazar, "John Cage in the Social Realm" by Laura Kuhn, "UNCAGEDWORDS" by Joan Retallack, "Cage and Counting" by Mark Swed, "Anarchy" by John Cage, "An Autobiographical Statement" by John Cage, "Macrobiotic Cooking" by John Cage, "The Agenbite of Outwit" by Marshall McLuhan, "What Should I Eat?" by Andrew Weil, M. D., "Chronological Table of John Cage's Life" by Ellsworth Snyder, "Zen and Dhyana" by Daisetz T. Suzuki, "The Dancer and the Dance" by Merce Cunningham in conversation with Jacqueline Lesschaeve, and "The Director's Forward" by Richard T. Koshalek of MOCA. Artists' work in the show (but not necessarily in the catalogue) included Cage, Josef Albers, Antonin Arthaud, Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Cornell, Willem De Kooning, Maya Deren, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Buckminster Fuller, Allen Ginsberg, Arshile Gorky, Peter Greenaway, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Ellsworth Kelly, Yves Klein, Franz Kline, Sol LeWitt, Kasimir Malevich, Robert Motherwell, Barnett Newman, Isamu Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Harry Partch, Robert Rauschenberg, Man Ray, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Erik Satie, Jean Tinguely, David Tudor, Cy Twombly, Edgar Varese, La Monte Young, and many, many others. A brand new, most handsome example of this cleverly designed book object still in the publisher's shrinkwrap and obi showing none of the fine surface scratches to the mirror-like finish of its box one typically finds. 0-8478-1772-5 Inventory Number: 026634

(COPLEY, WILLIAM AKA CPLY). Waldberg, Patrick. Paris, FRANCE. ND (circa 1955): Galerie Editions Du Dragon. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np, (18pp), 3 b&w illustrations + cover. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender eighteen page catalogue issued on the occasion of a mid-fifties exhibition of eroticized, automotive-themed paintings by William Copley (CPLY) held at Paris' Galerie Du Dragon. It includes a brief text by Patrick Waldberg along with three reproductions of exhibited works. An internally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon document additionally bearing the SIGNED ASSOCIATION PRESENTATION "To Man & Julie / With Love / Bill Copley" in ink along the top of the front cover showing just a bit of wear and age toning to its pale yellow wrappers. This was acquired by us directly from the library of Joseph Browner, Juliet's brother, and longtime executor of the Man Ray Trust. Inventory Number: 026668

(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, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 026780

(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. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/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 posthumous 1983 New York gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell boxes and collages whose imagery reflects his lifelong obsession with the ballet. An internally most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon clothbound edition whose matte white dust jacket shows some mild age-toning and soiling along with a tiny missing chip along the bottom edge of the rear panel. LC 83-73032 Inventory Number: 026069

(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). Dali, Salvador. NP (Somewhere Le Havre, FRANCE and New York): The S.S. America, 1955. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Silver Gelatin Photograph. Near Fine.. One 5 x 7" silver gelatin print printed recto only. This is a candid portrait of noted Surrealist pioneer Salvador Dali photographed in 1955 aboard the luxury liner S.S. America. Likely taken by one of the ship's staff photographers, it depicts the artist dapper in suit, tie, and with his cane posing with another gentleman in what appears to be a dining area. A nicely preserved example of this no doubt unique vintage silver gelatin print on single weight glossy paper bearing the stamp "S.S. America in black ink and BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Dali / 1955" by the maestro in black ink on the verso showing a few creases that can be seen in raking light. Inventory Number: 026673

(DALI, SALVADOR). Dali, Salvador. New York: Carstairs Gallery, 1958. First Edition. Large 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. One 14 x 21" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso folded in half vertically to make 14 x 11 ½", 4pp, 1 b&w cover illustration. Cover Designed by Salvador Dali. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender four page catalogue published in conjunction with Salvador Dali's 1959 exhibition of thirteen watercolors and drawings at New York's Carstairs Gallery. Stating "This, my best exhibition, I dedicate to Gala, my Sistine Madonna", it features a cover illustration by the Surrealist icon along with his brief "Anti-Matter Manifesto". A most presentable example of this exceedingly uncommon item additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "Monsieur Alexandre ELIOT" in blue ballpoint pen across the rear cover plus "Hommages de Dali / 1959" in blue fountain pen on the inside front cover showing light soiling and spotting, some stray pigment marks, and minor insect damage to the covers. 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. Inventory Number: 025563

(DALI, SALVADOR). Dali, Salvador, Manuel Vasquez Montalban & Igor Wakhevitch. Hamburg, GERMANY: Eurostar Schallplatten, GmbH & Sine Qua Non, 1992. First Thus. Square 8vo. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 326pp, illustrated in b&w and some color + 3 Audio CDs. Text in English, German, French and Spanish. "Etre Dieu" is the strikingly lovely documentation of this work of self-indulgent operatic weirdness written, designed, and staged in Paris in 1974 by the late Surrealist genius/charlatan Salvador Dali. It entails a gilt-embossed 6 ¼ x 6 ¼ x 2 ¼" royal blue velvet clamshell box that houses a softbound book containing an introduction, reproductions of the original manuscripts, the libretto/text, cvs of the participants, as well as a three CD recording of the work's 1974 live presentation. "Etre Dieu"'s participants include the incomparable Delphine Seyrig, Catherine Allegret, Alain Cuny, and Dali himself in the role of "the Divine Dali". A bright, most handsome example of this luxe object perfect for the Dali completeist. Inventory Number: 026495

(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 / 1958" 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). 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

(FERUS GALLERY). Varnedoe, Kirk. Interview with Irving Blum by Roberta Bernstein. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2002. First Edition. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 146pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Bruce Mau Design Inc. With a Ferus Gallery chronology. This invaluable reference catalogue was produced in conjunction with a 2002 Gagosian Gallery exhibition of forty-four artworks celebrating Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps' visionary Ferus Gallery. During its ten year life, the gallery was home to such influential California artists as Robert Alexander, John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Streeter Blair, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, Llyn Foulkes, Sonia Gechtoff, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, James Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Frank Lobdell, John Mason, Edward Moses, Richard Pettibon, Kenneth Price, Philip Rich, Arthur Richer, Richards Ruben, Edward Ruscha, Paul Sarkisian, Hassel Smith, and Julius Wasserstein. It was also the site of Los Angeles exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, Kurt Schwitters, and Joseph Cornell. The publication reproduces sixty-six of the gallery's highly sought-after announcement posters as well as vintage documentary and installation photographs, including many by Dennis Hopper. A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon 2002 first Gagosian printing that sold out during the show's run still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-880154-74-9 Inventory Number: 026637

(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). 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) (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