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(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. 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

(FERUS GALLERY). McKenna, Kristine. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Art Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 320pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild with Lauren Harden, Annessa Braymer and Xiaoqing Wang, Green Dragon Office. With artists' biographies and a bibliography. This is Kristine McKenna's extraordinary new history of Ed Kienholz, Walter Hopps, and Irving Blum's visionary Ferus Gallery. Between 1957 and 1966 the gallery was home to such influential California artists as Robert Alexander, John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Streeter Blair, Bruce Conner, Jay De Feo, 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 the first Los Angeles exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, and Kurt Schwitters. "The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin" recounts the gallery's history chronologically in transcribed interviews with the Ferus artists, wives and girlfriends, collectors, and other well-placed Los Angeles denizens; featuring hundreds of vintage images of the artists and friends, artworks, installation photographs, posters, and much more - including many published here for the first time. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2009 Steidl first - and only - edition of this exceedingly uncommon, incredibly vital document. 3-86521-610-2 Inventory Number: 026436

Filipacchi, Daniel, Nesuhi Ertegun, Jose Pierre, Rosalind Krauss, Werner Spies & David Sylvester. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications & Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Dust Jackets, Boxed. Exhibition Catalogs. Fine/Fine. 399 + 495pp, 830 color and 50 b&w illustrations. Creative director: Agnes Cruz. With artist biographies and an index. "Over the course of almost five decades, famed French magazine publisher Daniel Filipacchi and record producer Nesuhi Ertegun assembled two of the most important groupings of Surrealist art in private hands. This extraordinary two volume set, accompanying a 1999 Guggenheim Museum show (the only public exhibition of these collections) captures the full range, paradoxical nature, and fascinating aspects of the genre. Featuring works by leading figures such as Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, and Yves Tanguy, these volumes are comprised almost entirely of full-page, full-color reproductions. Major paintings, sculpture, photographs, works on paper, rare books, and ephemera appear alongside complimentary texts, creating a complete guide to one of the most intriguing movements in art history". A brand new, most handsome example in its decorative printed slipcase still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-8109-6921-1 Inventory Number: 010516