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(FERRINGTON GUITARS). Schell, Orville. Preface by Linda Ronstadt. New York: HarperCollins Publishers & Callaway Editions, 1992. First Edition. Tall 4to. Jacketed Boards in Guitar Case. Musical Instrument Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. 122pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Weddell. Originally published in 1992, "Ferrington Guitars" is a survey of the work of master guitar designer and builder Danny Ferrington. Based in Santa Monica, CA, he has created instruments for many of the world's great musicians including Elvis Costello, Pete Townsend, Richard Thompson, Jackson Browne, Kurt Cobain, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Henry Kaiser, and many more. This unusually designed, comprehensive compilation of his work examines in detail dozens of custom made stringed instruments along with a twenty track audio CD featuring contributions - many original - by Costello, Thompson, Cooder, Lindley, Kaiser, David Hidalgo, Reeves Gabrels, J.J. Cale, Neil Finn, Albert Lee, Don Was, and nine more. A most handsome example of the deluxe first "Collectors Edition" SIGNED "Danny Ferrington" in blue ink on the half title page housed in a blue plush-lined locking guitar road case with CD, key, and yellow Farrington Guitars thin pick, as issued. The case's brass-plated hardware shows some mild oxidation and pitting, but all in all this is a sharp copy of this desirable book object. 0-06-016935-4 Inventory Number: 025786

(FRANCIS, SAM). Francis, Sam. NP. ND (1973).: Self-Published. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine./No Jackets - As Issued.. np (36pp), no illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Printed offset without illustrations, this charming little self-published collection of brief aphorisms by the late, great Sam Francis precedes the 1986 Lapis Press edition by over a decade. A bright, most handsome unique example of this exceedingly uncommon true first printing issued hors commerce without dust jacket to be given by the artist to his friends additionally BEARING A BOLD SELF PORTRAIT DRAWING INITIALED AND DATED "S.F. / '73" in black ink on the front cover. Inventory Number: 025572

(FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee. San Francisco, CA: Fraenkel Gallery, 2000. First Edition 1/600 Deluxe. Oblong Small 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 88pp, 77 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills Design. "Self Portrait" was Lee Friedlander's first book of photographs - containing a series of images taken over the course of six years between 1964 and 1969 in which Friedlander inhabits each photo, though not always in the most obvious of ways. This 2000 publication by his longtime gallery revisits and updates the earlier book with seventy-seven new self-portraits of an older and wiser looking subject taken between 1993 and 1999. A brand new, pristine example of the hardbound edition limited to six hundred copies NUMBERED AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Lee Friedlander" in silver marker across the half title page, as issued, still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-881337-09-X Inventory Number: 024321

(FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee & Leslie George Katz. With a brief text by Walt Whitman. New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. Oblong Folio. Cloth with Leather Spine. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (78pp), 213 b&w gravure illustrations. "The American Monument" is Lee Friedlander's groundbreaking portfolio of striking images of statues and memorials taken across the United States during the early seventies. Uniquely bound in baby blue cloth-over-boards with sumptuous printing by The Meriden Gravure Company from half-tone negatives made by Richard Benson, it certainly ranks among the great American photography books of the Twentieth Century. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly uncommon "Special Edition" of this impressive tome (cited on pages 310-311 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 28 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", page 35 of "From Fair to Fine", and pages 236-237 of "The Book of 101 Books") limited to one hundred and fifty copies bound in red cloth with a gilt-embossed leather spine NUMBERED (60/150) in ink on the rear colophon accompanied by an 11 x 14" silver gelatin print of an image that is not reproduced in the book NUMBERED (60/150) AND SIGNED "Lee Friedlander" in ink on the recto that has been laid into in an archival display mat affixed to the inside of the rear board, as issued. These are housed in the publisher's vintage unprinted blue cardboard presentation box. A Fine condition example of Lee Friedlander's "Fourteen American Monuments" catalogue published by the Eakins Press Foundation has been additionally laid in. 0-87130-045-1 Inventory Number: 022825

(FUCHS, ERNST). Fuchs, Ernst. Salzburg, AUSTRIA: Residenz Verlag, 1970. First Edition Thus #5/200 Deluxe. 4to. Decorated Cloth in Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 212pp, 106 illustrations in b&w. Text in English. Designed by Walter Pichler. "Architectura Caelestis" - subtitled "Images of the Hidden Prime of Styles" is Viennese School of Fantastic Realism member Ernst Fuchs' treatise on the significance and influence of arcane mathematics in Architectural form over the centuries. A striking production, it is illustrated by the author in black and white and bears a similarity to the self-published works of Stanislav Szukalski. A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1970 Residenz Verlag deluxe slipcased edition limited to two hundred NUMBERED (5/200) copies containing two beautiful etchings NUMBERED (5/200) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Ernst Fuchs" in pencil bound in housed in the publisher's royal blue cloth-over-boards slipcase decorated with a gilt-stamped reproduction of a drawing. The book and jacket are lovely while the cloth-over-boards slipcase shows a bit of wear along with some fraying at the joints. Inventory Number: 026585

(FULFORD, JASON). Fulford, Jason & Adam Gilders. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2006. First Edition 1/6 Deluxe. 4to. Boards with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Following his two awesome J&L books "Crushed" and "Sunbird", Jason Fulford has arranged his third collection of photographs published by The Ice Plant into eight distinct chapters. Together they can be read as a game, a series of essays, an abstract visual narrative, or all of the above. The work in "Raising Frogs for $ $ $" was selected from his personal archive, and was taken in various countries between 1997 and 2005. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe edition limited to six copies only produced exclusively for sale at "Art LA 2007" SIGNED "Jason Fulford" in red ink on the title page accompanied by the SIGNED AND DATED 10 x 8" color print "Seoul 2003", which is also reproduced in the book. 0-9776481-1-7 Inventory Number: 018846

(FUSCO, PAUL). Fusco, Paul & Norman Mailer. London: Magnum Photos & Umbrage Editions, 1999. First Edition 1/350. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (138pp), 63 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's coffin was put on a train twenty cars long in New York and taken slowly to Washington, D.C. for burial in the Arlington Memorial Cemetery. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for Look, was on that train, and the pictures he took of people who lined the tracks along the way fill this moving book. These emotional photographs, many never-before-seen, remember the urgency and tragedy of Bobby Kennedy's assassination and the moving farewell from hundreds of thousands of people who stood patiently in the searing heat along roadsides down the east coast to watch his funeral train pass slowly by just as Abraham Lincoln's had one hundred and three years before". A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1999 Magnum Photos true first edition (cited on pages 46-47 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and pages 118-119 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") of this supremely moving volume limited to three hundred and fifty copies in wrappers printed on a Xerox Docucolor 100 Digital Color Press (with one of nine different front covers) NUMBERED (067/350) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Paul Fusco" in silver marker on the title page. An announcement for the 2001 Leica Gallery New York exhibition of Kennedy images by Paul Fusco and Jacques Lowe has been laid in. Inventory Number: 022366

(FUSS, ADAM). Fuss Adam. NP (New York): Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 1998. First Edition 1/200. 4to. Silk Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine. np (30pp), 7 color illustrations. Designed by Adam Fuss and Andrew Roth. Typography by Jerry Kelly. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to two hundred copies only, this mysterious, exquisitely produced artist's book contains six images by Adam Fuss of butterfly chrysalides as well as a very dark portrait of the esteemed student of eastern thought, William Segal. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the photographer in red ink on the rear colophon, as issued. Inventory Number: 017068

(GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. London, Cologne, GERMANY & New York: Art For All & Konig Brothers, 1972. First Edition 1/600. 8vo. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artists' Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 85 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to six hundred copies, the beautifully bound "Side by Side" is the very first artists' book by British conceptual duo, "the sculptors" Gilbert & George. It contains three chapters entitled "With Us in the Nature", "A Glimpse Into the Abstract World", and "The Reality in Our Living" which alternate pages of text and illustration and that "together represent a contemporary sculpture novel". A brand new, most handsome example in lovely hand-marbled boards of the 1972 first edition of this exceedingly uncommon item SIGNED "Gilbert & George" in red on the foreword AND NUMBERED (No. 85 of 600) on the inside rear cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 025705

(GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. London & Koln, GERMANY: Enitharmon Editions Ltd. & Walther Konig, 2012. Second Edition (First Thus 1/2000). 8vo. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artists' Book. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 85 b&w illustrations. First published in 1971 in an edition limited to six hundred copies, "Side by Side" was the very first artists' book by British conceptual duo, "the sculptors" Gilbert & George. It contains three chapters entitled "With Us in the Nature", "A Glimpse Into the Abstract World", and "The Reality in Our Living" which alternate pages of text and illustration and that "together represent a contemporary sculpture novel". A brand new, pristine example of the 2012 Enitharmon Editions Ltd. facsimile edition limited to two thousand copies each with unique covers hand-marbled linen by the artists NUMBERED (#1990/2000) AND SIGNED "Gilbert & George" in purple ink, as issued. 3-86335-268-8 Inventory Number: 023898

(GOODE, JOE AKA BUENO, JOSE). Goode, Joe. Jerry Sohn, Editor. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1990. First Edition 1/38. Folio. Silk Over Boards in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (32pp), 12 color etchings. "Water" is Joe Goode's - credited as Jose Bueno - exquisite 1990 limited edition book from The Lapis Press consisting of twelve color etchings of abstracted water executed by master printer Jacob Samuel on handmade paper at Sam Francis' Litho Shop. The title page and colophon were typeset and printed by hand letterpress by Les Ferriss, with its striking Royal Blue silk binding and grey slipcase by Ulli Rotzscher. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition limited to thirty-eight copies NUMBERED (38/38) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Joe Goode" in pencil on the title page showing just a bit of age-toning to the spine of the book and some light wear to the slipcase. Inventory Number: 025577

(GOODE, JOE). Goode, Joe. Santa Monica, CA: Jacob Samuel, 1987. First Edition 1/8. 4to. Linen Over Boards, Slipcased. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (36pp), 12 white ground aquatints. Designed by Joe Goode and Jacob Samuel. "Storm Trees" is the supremely beautiful first book of the press of Santa Monica-based master printer Jacob Samuel. It is a collaboration with renowned Los Angeles (by way of Oklahoma with Ed Ruscha) artist Joe Goode featuring twelve gorgeous abstract aquatints printed at Sam Francis' Litho Shop on vintage Whitman Fine paper, bound in debossed green linen-over-boards, and housed in a blue linen slipcase. The title page and colophon were typeset and printed using a hand letterpress by Les Ferriss, with the hand-binding by Klaus-Ullrich S. Rotzscher. A brand new, most handsome example of the first product of Edition Jacob Samuel - one of only eight bound copies (with an additional two composed of loose sheets issued as artist's proofs) - BOLDLY NUMBERED (6/8) AND SIGNED "Joe Goode" in blue ink at the rear colophon, as issued, showing some trivial scuffing to its slipcase. Inventory Number: 024545

(GOODE, JOE). Goode, Joe. Jerry Sohn, Editor. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1993. First Edition 1/25. 4to. Handmade Wrappers in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (20pp), 8 monochrome etchings. Designed by Joe Goode. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Nature's Revenge" is the beautiful 1993 Joe Goode limited edition book from The Lapis Press consisting of eight gorgeous monochrome Chine-colle´ etchings of abstracted tornados executed by master printer Jacob Samuel on Hiromi paper at Sam Francis' Litho Shop. The title page and colophon were typeset and printed by hand letterpress by Les Ferriss, and the wrappers are bound and sewn in the Japanese style using unprinted handmade Hiromi paper and housed in a like paper-over-boards slipcase by Klaus-Ullrich S. Rotzscher. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition limited to twenty-five copies NUMBERED (22/25) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Joe Goode" in pencil. Inventory Number: 024163

(GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1998. First Edition 1/32 Deluxe. 4to. Loose Contents in a Wooden Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. Thirty-seven individual 10 x 8" cardstock sheets, 32 duotone illustrations. John Gossage's "The Things That Animals Care About, And." is a unique book cum object that presents thirty-two views of nature as they might appear from the perspective of an animal. The images are for the most part mundane and undistinguished to the human viewer, but perhaps integral to the daily life and well-being of a different species. Each is presented as a duotone black and white plate affixed to the recto of a matte cream-colored cardstock sheet that has an irregular horizontal pencil line that references perhaps terrain - or the horizon - drawn across it. These are accompanied by one blank sheet, two title pages uniquely lettered by John Gossage, and a hand-letterpressed colophon that are all housed in the publisher's 11 x 9 x 2" ramen wood display box (that doubles as a frame) with a Plexiglas face and sliding wooden closure with Gossage's hand drawn title silkscreened across it. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe first edition limited to thirty-two copies containing an additional 4 ½ x 3 ¾" black and white silver gelatin print of two trees and a cloud that is reproduced in the book mounted on a 10 x 8" sheet of board SIGNED "John Gossage / 12" in pencil on the verso, as issued. 3-923922-53-1 Inventory Number: 025785

(GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John. NP: Self-Published, 1987. First Edition 1/100. 8vo. Cloth in Newsprint Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (56pp), 27 b&w illustrations. Text in English. John Gossage's self-published "L A M F" contains twenty-seven noir-ish details of some seedier neighborhoods of Berlin and its environs photographed over three days in 1987. These views are presented as individual silver gelatin prints mounted on pages of heavy archival stock, with no two books exactly alike. Each dust jacket is a unique remnant from a German newspaper (this is from "Der Tages Spiegel") stamped L A M F in red ink and enclosed in an acetate dustwrapper. The half title page is hand lettered by the photographer on a scrap of paper tipped to the first preliminary, and there is a unique, sealed hand-written letter from Gossage posted from Berlin to himself in Washington, DC affixed to the third preliminary. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition (cited on page 148 of "From Fair to Fine 3") limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (56/100) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "John Gossage" in blue ink, as issued. Inventory Number: 022703

(GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John. Introduction by Jane Livingston. Washington, D.C.: Loosestrife Editions, 1987. First Edition 1/500. Folio. Cloth in Acetate Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. np (36pp), 17 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. Designed by Gabriele F. Gotz, Ulrich Gorlich and John Gossage. Text in English. This extraordinarily beautiful, oversized 1987 monograph from Loosestrife Editions presents eighteen moody, noir-ish images of Berlin and its environs as seen through the lens of the redoubtable John Gossage. The front cover of the sleek black linen binding features a laid down 8 ½ x 6 ¾" silver gelatin photograph printed by the author. A most handsome example of this uncommon item (cited on page 149 of "From Fair to Fine 3") limited to five hundred copies BOLDLY NUMBERED (20/500) AND SIGNED "John Gossage" black ink on the front preliminary, as issued. Inventory Number: 018249

(GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John & Thomas Weski. Berlin: Nazraeli Press, 1997. First Deluxe Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp + 16pp, 124 duotone illustrations. Text in English and German. This is the lovely hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the 1997 John Gossage exhibition entitled "There and Gone" that travelled from Hannover's Sprengel Museum to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College. It features reproductions of each of the photographs shown, and includes a sixteen page insert containing a transcribed interview between Gossage and curator Thomas Weski. According to Chris Pichler, Nazraeli Press planned to produce a deluxe boxed edition of one hundred and forty-four copies with an ISBN separate from the trade edition - each retailing for nine hundred and fifty dollars and containing a single unique photograph from the one hundred and forty-four images in the book. Ten clamshell boxes were fabricated in Japan, and John Gossage agreed to produce and supply the prints as orders were received. Unfortunately, the first two copies ordered were returned to Nazraeli by the purchasers who objected to Mr. Gossage's insistence on splashing a few drops of coffee on the mat of each of the original prints as an artistic gesture, and the entire project was then scrapped. Only between three and five vintage completed copies of this near-unique edition exist. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon unnumbered deluxe edition BOLDLY SIGNED by John Gossage in black ink on the first preliminary housed in the publisher's debossed and silkscreened black clamshell box, as issued. Laid in is a 4 x 2 ¾" black and white silver gelatin print of a woman's silhouette at the water's edge (reproduced on page 39 of the book) mounted on a 10 x 8" sheet of board SIGNED "John Gossage 1996 / p 39" in pencil on the verso, as issued. It shows the small coffee splash to the board on the recto, which was the intent of the photographer. 3-923922-50-7 Inventory Number: 022704

(GROPPER, WILLIAM). Freundlich, August L. & William Gropper. Los Angeles & Miami, FL: The Ward Ritchie Press & Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, 1968. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. 1/4 Leather Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 104 b&w and 8 color illustrations. Designed by Joseph Simon. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the significant monograph on the celebrated American Social Realist artist William Gropper published in conjunction with a 1968 touring retrospective exhibition circulated by the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami. It presents a comprehensive selection of over forty years of the artist's figurative portraits of the world's disenfranchised poor and working classes contrasted with their powerful employers and oppressors. A handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon ultra-deluxe edition bound in one-quarter blue leather-over-boards for the use of the artist housed in a blue paper-over-boards slipcase limited to one hundred copies with the 8 ½ x 10 ½" black and white lithograph entitled "Grandfather" NUMBERED (84/100) AND SIGNED "Gropper." in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto along with the publisher's limitation slip laid in, as issued. The gilt-stamped leather spine bears just a bit of sunning and spotting along with a slight nick to both the heel and crown. The slipcase shows some mild soiling and age-toning along with an inch-long separation to the joint at the bottom edge. It has been priced accordingly. This is separate and distinct from the editions issued in a yellow paper-over-boards slipcase made for sale by the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery. LC 68-18437 Inventory Number: 024670

(HASSINK, JACQUELINE). Hassink, Jacqueline, Henri Peretz & Raoul Bunschoten. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Menno van de Koppel, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Gilt-Stamped Cloth. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 22 b&w and 21 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Melle Hammer, Plus X. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "The Table of Power" is Dutch photographer Jacqueline Hassink's gem-like 1996 artist's book cum interior design typology that like much of her work explores the balance of power conferred in private, public and social settings. It details the meeting rooms of the boards of directors of forty European companies such as British Petroleum, Ciba-Geigy, and Daimler Benz - twenty-one of which she was able to photograph - revealing the rarely-if-ever seen enclaves where corporate decisions that affect the social sphere are made in secret. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly uncommon first edition (cited on pages 278-279 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (0775/1000) by rubber stamp on the front cover's gilt panel, as issued. 90-73926-14-7 Inventory Number: 024518

(HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Heinecken, Robert. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.. np (12pp), 12 b&w illustrations. Robert Heinecken's "StudiesNinteenSeventy" is the fourteenth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 5 1/8 x 4" black and white photographic print of a photogram collaged from multiple exposures of men's magazine nudes tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 80 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter" and page 152 of "From Fair to Fine 3") of this uncommon, lovely item. 1-590050-31-2 Inventory Number: 016700

(HERMAN, ROGER). Connors, Matt & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2019. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's polychrome ceramics. It features a brief text by artist Matt Connors, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of nearly two decades worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new, pristine example of this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued. 0-578-50456-1 Inventory Number: E000RHC

(HERMAN, ROGER). Connors, Matt & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2019. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's polychrome ceramics. It features a brief text by artist Matt Connors, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of nearly two decades worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new, pristine example of the 2019 first printing this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued. 0-578-50456-1 Inventory Number: 027677

(HERMAN, ROGER). Lowe, Nick & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, I00240518. 2024. First Edition 1/250. 11 x 9", 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. New.. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's most recent paintings and polychrome ceramics. It features a brief text by artist Nick Lowe, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of the past half decade's worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new example of this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued. 979-8-218-14795-2 Inventory Number: I00240518

(HERNANDEZ, ANTHONY). Hernandez, Anthony & Ralph Rugoff. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 90pp, 35 color illustrations. With a biography, exhibition checklist, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections listing. "Anthony Hernandez' "Pictures From Rome" (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, makes no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings". Not unlike his recent work of abandoned homeless dwellings, these stark color images find great beauty in the solitude of urban decay. A brand new, pristine example from the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies (issued in numbered editions of twenty-five copies each of four different images) BOLDLY SIGNED "Anthony Hernandez" in black ink on the title page with the 9 ¾ x 9 ¾" SIGNED AND NUMBERED (1/25) color Iris Print "Along The River Tiber" laid in, as issued. 1-889195-45-6 Inventory Number: 023943

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 5 color illustrations. Todd Hido's "Crooked Cracked Trees" is the fifty-ninth installment of Nazraeli Press' estimable "One Picture Book" series. Limited to five hundred copies, it contains "four reproductions of watercolor paintings by the students of Mrs. Flores' 08-09 monolingual First Grade class at Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Waukegan, Illinois" along with a 3 ¾ x 4 ¾" color type C photographic print of an actual cracked tree SIGNED AND NUMBERED (18/500) by Todd Hido in ink on the verso tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Todd Hido" in black ink on the title page. 1-59005-292-1 Inventory Number: 023059

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 5 color illustrations. Todd Hido's "Crooked Cracked Trees" is the fifty-ninth installment of Nazraeli Press' estimable "One Picture Book" series. Limited to five hundred copies, it contains "four reproductions of watercolor paintings by the students of Mrs. Flores' 08-09 monolingual First Grade class at Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Waukegan, Illinois" along with a 3 ¾ x 4 ¾" color type C photographic print of an actual cracked tree SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Todd Hido in ink on the verso tipped in. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item. 1-59005-292-1 Inventory Number: 022877

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 5 color illustrations. Todd Hido's "Crooked Cracked Tree in Fog" is the sixtieth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred copies, it contains "four reproductions of collages by the students of Ms. Campos' 08-09 monolingual First Grade class at Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Waukegan, Illinois" along with a 3 ¾ x 4 ¾" color type C photographic print of an actual crooked cracked tree - in fog - SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Todd Hido in ink on the verso tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item. 1-59005-292-1 Inventory Number: 018585

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Foreword By Luc Sante. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/30 Deluxe. Large Folio. Boards in Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 52pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Post Tool Design. "Outskirts" is Todd Hido's second book - the photographer's stunning follow up to "House Hunting" - featuring more large scale format color images of suburban San Francisco in the dead of night. A most handsome example (cited on page 153 of "From Fair to Fine 3") from the deluxe limited edition of thirty copies NUMBERED AND SIGNED "Todd Hido" in black ink on the title page housed in a tan, debossed linen clamshell box accompanied by the gorgeous 16 ¾ x 13 ½" SIGNED AND NUMBERED chromogenic color print "#2591", as issued. 1-59005-028-2 Inventory Number: 017220

(HIRST, DAMIEN). Hirst, Damien, Iwona Blazwick, Charles Hall & Sophie Calle. London: Institute of Contemporary Art & Jay Jopling, 1991. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. Small 4to. Debossed Leather Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (64pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Form, London. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue issued on the occasion of Damien Hirst's tour-de-force 1991 Institute of Contemporary Art London exhibition - the enfant terrible of the New British Art scene's very first one-man museum presentation. The first monographic publication on his work, this elegant document reproduces each of the exhibited butterfly paintings, dot paintings and glass vitrine pieces, and includes a transcribed interview between Hirst and Sophie Calle. A brand new, most handsome example from the exceedingly uncommon deluxe edition bound in full dark blue leather-over-boards debossed with yellow lettering limited to two hundred and fifty copies NUMBERED (114/250) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Damien Hirst" additionally WITH A DRAWING of a smoldering cigarette in black ink on the verso of the last page. 0-905263-53-7 Inventory Number: 021554

(HIRST, DAMIEN). Hirst, Damien. Robert Violette, Editor. London: Other CRITERIA, 2005. First Reduced Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/As New. 334pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Damien Hirst. With a chronology, bibliography, and exhibition history. Originally published in 1996 by Booth-Clibborn Editions in conjunction with the Gagosian Gallery, "I Want to Spend My Life With You,..." was at the time likely the most lavish single trade publication to date on a contemporary artist. Frieze enfant terrible Hirst collaborated with the great Jonathan Barnbrook on its innovative, over the top design; incorporating a number of pop-ups, sliding and movable plates, transparent overlays, die-cut pages, stickers, and two posters. The book reproduces nearly every work created by the artist up to 1997, and is a lasting monument to the Saatchi decade. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe edition of the 2005 first 9 ½ x 8 ¼" reduced format printing by Hirst's publishing firm Other CRITERIA limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (5/1000) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Damien Hirst" in black marker across the entire title page with everything including its magnifying glass book mark present showing a trivial binding flaw at the lower front hinge. 1-904212-30-1 Inventory Number: 025763

(HIRST, DAMIEN). Moynihan, Danny. London: Duck Editions, 2000. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. As New/As New. 254pp. Cover Art by Damien Hirst. "Boogie-Woogie" is British author Danny Moynihan's first novel - a witty, thinly veiled satire skewering the avarice and mores of the 1990s art scene that was adapted as the scabrous 2009 feature film directed by Duncan Ward. A brand new, pristine example from the deluxe edition limited to five hundred copies NUMBERED (264/500) AND SIGNED "Danny Moynihan" in ink on the title page alongside the Duck Editions rubber stamp as well as BOLDLY SIGNED "Damien Hirst" in black ink on the rear of the dust jacket, as issued. 0-7156-3021-0 Inventory Number: 021844

(HOMMA, TAKASHI). Homma, Takashi. NP (Zurich, SWITZERLAND): Nieves, 2006. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (32pp), profusely illustrated in color + color covers. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Tokyo and My Daughter" is the slender, charming 2006 book of photographs by Takashi Homma of his daughter, apartment, and Tokyo environs. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered copies BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A SMALL DRAWING OF THE SUN by Takashi Homma in silver marker on the rear cover with a 6 x 8 ¾" SIGNED AND NUMBERED color photograph of an interior image that does not appear in the book laid in, as issued. 3-905714-10-8 Inventory Number: 020115

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Dennis, Michael McClure & Walter Hopps. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1986. First Edition #39/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in gravure. Designed by Jack Woody. With a filmography and exhibition history. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the new Hollywood. Issued in 1986 in gravure with the typically austere and lovely Twelvetrees Press aesthetic, "Out of the Sixties" was the first published collection of Hopper's photographs. Divided into "Artists and Collectors", "Hollywood", "Music", "Civil Rights March, Selma to Montgomery", "Mexico", and "The Scene", it is a tour de force view of the clash of the old and the new in sixties culture! A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe limited slipcased edition of the 1986 first printing limited to one hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED "Dennis Hopper" in black ink below his introductory text and NUMBERED (39/100) in ink on the rear colophon, as issued, showing some mild sunning along the extremities of its slipcase. 0-942642-25-2 Inventory Number: 026375

(HOWARD HODGKIN). Sontag, Susan & Howard Hodgkin. London: Karsten Schubert Ltd., 1991. First Edition #26/200. Small Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artists' Book. As New/As New. 34pp, six hand-painted gatefold intaglio color etchings, plus a hand-painted dust jacket. Designed by Gordon House. This extraordinary artistic collaboration grew out of Sontag's text (first printed in 1986 as a short story in the "New Yorker") concerning the responses of a group of Manhattanites upon discovering that a close friend has AIDS. Hodgkin has contributed a series of somber, colorful graphics that have been overpainted with tempera by Jack Shirreff. The resulting artist's book is a moving paean to the plague years. A bright, most handsome example of this exquisite production in the publisher's rice-paper protective dustwrapper NUMBERED (26/200) AND BOLDLY SIGNED BY HODGKIN AND SONTAG in pencil on the colophon in the publisher's slightly creased and age-toned cardboard slipcase, as issued. Inventory Number: 027727

(HUGHES, RICHARD). Hughes, Richard. London: Momart, 2008. First Edition. 12mo. Cast Plastic Sculpture. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 5 x 2 x 1 ½" plastic sculpture.Momart is a London-based company specializing in the storage, transportation, and installation of works of art. Each year they commission a British artist to produce a multiple that is distributed hors commerce by the firm as a holiday gift. "Richard Hughes makes intricate illusions that trick the viewer while, at the same time, laying their artifice bare. His sculptures and installations resemble the aftermaths of good times gone sour. Bags of jettisoned old clothes, rising damp, burnt-out hedges and surreptitious bottles of urine-dog-end residues which hint at elaborate histories. Culturally specific, his works tap into shared memories and the bittersweet feelings reserved for things past their best while revealing themselves to be shams". Issued in 2008, Richard Hughes' sculpture "Joyful Sorrow" takes the form of a partially deflated white balloon with a snowman-style face painted on, featuring a carrot for a nose. A pristine example of this uncommon, unnumbered artist's multiple SIGNED AND DATED "R. Hughes, MOMART 2008" on the rear of the piece in the mold in the publisher's zip-lock plastic bag along with Momart's accompanying two-page printed documentation, as issued. Inventory Number: 023999

(JAMES, DON). James, Don. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Five boxes with pastedowns each housing 4 individual b&w prints hinged on archival mat board. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is a complete set of the five beautifully produced portfolios of pioneering waterman and photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surf riders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different 6.8 x 4.6" archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A brand new, pristine set still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. Inventory Number: 016698

(JAMES, DON). James, Don. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Four individual 4 ½ x 6 ¾" black and white photographic reproductions hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced fourth portfolio (of five) of pioneering waterman and photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surf riders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-13-0 Inventory Number: 009665

(JAMES, DON). James, Don. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Four individual 4 ½ x 6 ¾" black and white photographic reproductions hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced third portfolio (of five) of pioneering waterman and photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surf riders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-12-2 Inventory Number: 009664

(JAMES, DON). James, Don. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2004. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Four individual 4 ½ x 6 ¾" black and white photographic reproductions hinged on archival mat board, housed in a box with a pastedown. Designed by Tom Adler. Published as a labor of love by noted graphic designer Tom Adler, this is the beautifully produced first portfolio (of five) of pioneering waterman and photographer Don James' nostalgic views of the apparent paradise that was Southern California surf culture in the thirties. It reproduces a series of shots of Bluff Cove surf riders taken by James over the summer of 1937 from a Brownie camera set up in the sand to the rather narrow focal point of the breaking waves. Limited to five hundred copies only, each of the five deluxe editions contains four different archival prints reproduced from the original negatives found in Don James' studio shortly after his death in 1996. The images are printed as continuous tone, with soy-based UV inks on 100% cotton rag, acid-free paper. Each print is mounted on an acid-free four-ply board with a numbered certificate of authenticity, and enclosed in a glassine sleeve. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrink wrap, as issued. 1-890481-10-6 Inventory Number: 009662

(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (20pp), 14 duotone illustrations. Michael Kenna's "Heiden Hotel" is the fifty-sixth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 3 ½ x 4 7/8" silver gelatin print of the Heiden Hotel - a Catskill's resort where the young Mr. Kenna worked as a summer exchange student in 1976 and has returned to repeatedly until its sad demise in 2008 - tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item. 1-59005-255-2 Inventory Number: 016959