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(ADAMS, BRYAN). Adams, Bryan. Foreword by Margaret Atwood. Toronto, CANADA: Key Porter Books, 1999. First Edition (Second Printing). 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. "In some ways, this book started when Flare magazine published my photograph of model Linda Evangelista in 1998, promoting a concert she and I were co-sponsoring to raise money for a breast cancer screening clinic in St. Catharine's, Ontario. Previously, I had recorded some music for a CD and performed at a concert in Los Angeles both for breast cancer research, so the idea of continuing to raise awareness was forefront in my mind. I approached Flare with the idea of continuing to promote awareness, hence this book. I am extremely grateful to all those who gave both time and money to help make each photo happen and especially to all the women photographed here who were Made in Canada". This book of musician and photographer Bryan Adams' images of inspiring Canadian women includes portraits of Margaret Atwood - who contributed the foreword, Shalom Harlow, Kim Cattrall, Catherine O'Hara, Margaret Trudeau, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Silken Laumann, Natalie and Nicole Appleton, Alison Sydor, Shannon Tweed, Carolyn Waldo, Jane Sibbery, Eve Salvail, Floria Sigismondi, Dayle Haddon, K.D. Lang, Genevieve Bujold, Celine Dion, Natasha Henstridge, Margo Timmins, Pamela Anderson Lee, Anne Murray and Dawn Langstroth, Sarah Polley, Jill Hennessy, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Tricia Helfer, Stacey MacKenzie, Linda Evangelista, Margot Kidder, Alanis Moris7sette, Angela Featherstone, Neve Campbell, Carrie-Anne Moss, Shania Twain, Diana Krall, Estella Warren, and many, many more. A brand new, pristine example of the 1999 Key Porter Books second printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A SMILEY-FACE DRAWING by Bryan Adams in black marker on the title page. 1-55263-071-4 Inventory Number: 020358

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nye, Tim, Robert Creeley, Walter Hopps, Klaus Kertess & Dr. Milton Wexler. New York: Nyehaus Gallery and the Monacelli Press, 2013. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Kyle Lamar. With a biography, exhibition history and collections listing. Published to coincide with a 2014 retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "The Astonishing Works of John Altoon" surveys the colorful paintings and virtuosic drawings of this larger-than-life personality exhibited at New York's Nyehaus in 2013. Altoon's art is intimate, haunting, and erotic - capturing a magical moment in California art between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolutions. The work is put in context through essays and remembrances from those who knew him best: the poet Robert Creeley; psychiatrist and fan Dr. Milton Wexler; pioneering West Coast curator Walter Hopps; and curator, gallerist, and critic Klaus Kertess. This lavishly produced original collection also features a juxtaposition of Altoon's lithographs with a selection of Creeley's poems that the longtime friends originally published as "About Women" in 1965, a facsimile of his Ed Kienholz-published memorial exhibition catalog, and posthumously addressed letters from friends. A brand new, pristine example of this exquisite document. 1-58093-386-6 Inventory Number: 025206

(AMER, GHADA). Homes, A.M.. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2004. First Edition. Small 4to. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 60pp, 26 color illustrations. Designed by Giampietro + Smith. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue produced in conjunction with the 2004 Gagosian Beverly Hills exhibition of recent paintings on canvas and paper by Egyptian-born, New York-based artist Ghada Amer. It includes the original literary contribution "Your Mother Was a Fish" by A.M. Homes. A brand new, most handsome example. 1-932598-06-5 Inventory Number: 018427

(ANDRE, CARL). Delahunty, Gavin, Lynn Kost & Valerie Mavridorakis. Lynn Kost, Editor. Zurich & Schaffenhausen, SWITZERLAND: JRP Ringier & Museum zu Allerheiligen Schaffhausen, 2014. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. Designed by Nicolas Eigenheer and Vera Kaspar. With an exhibition checklist. "Carl Andre was a poet before he was an artist, and between 1960 and 1965 he produced a substantial body of innovative visual poetry. Arranging language on paper as carefully and as sculpturally as he was later to arrange pieces of metal or bricks on the floor, Andre approached words as adjustable entities, to be moved around within the limits of the space of the sheet of paper. These works, made during the height of the international Concrete poetry movement, appeared alongside his sculptures in exhibitions and were excerpted in scholarly writings about the artist. With this volume, Andre’s influential poetic oeuvre is now gathered comprehensively for the first time. The poems, which were often typed on 8 x 11" paper, are reproduced in quasi-facsimile, to convey Andre’s sculptural intentions. Also included are essays by art historians Gavin Delahunty and Valérie Mavridorakis, and curator Lynn Kost". A brand new, pristine hardbound example of this scholarly yet lively study published in conjunction with a 2014 Swiss Museum exhibition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-03-764364-1 Inventory Number: 026005

(ASPEN MAGAZINE). MacLise, Angus & Hetty, Editors. New York: Roaring Fork Press, Inc., 1970. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Portfolio. Periodical. Good +.. np (twelve printed components laid into a printed paper portfolio. Edited by original Velvet Underground drummer and LaMonte Young cohort Angus MacLise and his wife Hetty, this ninth installment of "Aspen" magazine is titled "Dream Warrior". It includes contributions by or about Don Snyder, Ira Cohen and Bill Devore, Aymon De Sales, Dale Wilbourn, Benno Friedman, Diane Rochlin and Vali, Nikki Grand, Paolo Lionni, Harvey Cohen, John Cale, Gerard Malanga, P. Zimmer, Marian Zazeela, LaMonte Young, Terry Riley, Spontaneous Sound, The Joyous Lake, and Lionel Ziprin. An internally bright, complete example in thirteen sections of this uncommon item (cited on page 262 of Giorgio Maffei's "Records by Artists 1958-1990") whose decorative cardstock portfolio shows wear and creasing along the extremities along with notable sunning to the once vivid orange ink of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023495

(AVEDON, RICHARD) (BALDWIN, JAMES). Avedon, Richard & James Baldwin. Lucerne, SWITZERLAND: C.J. Bucher, 1964. First Edition. Small Folio. Silver Gilt Debossed Boards. Photography Monograph. Fair./No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w gravure. Designed by Marvin Israel. Text in English. "Nothing Personal" is Richard Avedon's strikingly beautiful 1964 collaboration with noted literary lion James Baldwin. The photographer's second book, its images primarily hail from "Harper's Bazaar" and other magazine editorial work from the fifties and sixties. With figures from politics, society, fashion, literature, and the arts, it is a veritable who's who of power of the mid-Twentieth Century containing many of Avedon's most famous portraits including Dwight David Eisenhower in close up, the fragile Marilyn Monroe, a smug George Wallace, the pregnant Ted Kennedys in the surf, and many, many more. These are beautifully reproduced in stark black and white gravure, with Marvin Israel's book design here every bit the equal of the legendary Alexey Brodovitch's contribution for Avedon's first work, "Observations". An internally clean and sound example of the 1964 C.J. Bucher first Swiss edition with an English language text lacking the publisher's slipcase additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For Dear ... with gratitude ever, Dick Avedon -" in black fountain pen on the verso of the front pastedown showing some mild brown staining to a few pages along the foredge of the textblock. The binding has a bit of play, and the glossy white boards show some overall wear, soiling and light age-toning with abrasions through to the cardboard at the tips. In addition, the paper covering the spine seems to have separated and subsequently been non-professionally repaired with two overlapping strips of black linen library tape run along its length. All in all, this is a sharper copy of this classic volume in hand than it describes here. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020143

(BACHARDY, DON). Blum, Irving. Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, 1973. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 18 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender twenty-four page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1973 exhibition of one hundred pencil and ink wash portraits executed between 1962 and 1973 by noted Santa Monica artist Don Bachardy held at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Included amongst the sitters are Bachardy's longtime partner Christopher Isherwood, Virgil Thompson, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Norton Simon, Mary Astor, W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Didion and artists Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses, Joe Goode, and Peter Alexander. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item that is the first monographic publication on Bachardy showing a discreet, barely discernable whited-out area at the top foredge corner of the title page. Inventory Number: 025207

(BACHARDY, DON). Blum, Irving. Los Angeles: Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, 1973. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Good.. np (24pp), 18 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender twenty-four page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1973 exhibition of one hundred pencil and ink wash portraits executed between 1962 and 1973 by noted Santa Monica artist Don Bachardy held at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Included amongst the sitters are Bachardy's longtime partner Christopher Isherwood, Virgil Thompson, Jane Fonda, Angela Lansbury, Norton Simon, Mary Astor, W.H. Auden, Igor Stravinsky, Joan Didion and artists Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses, Joe Goode, and Peter Alexander. A most presentable example of this uncommon item that is the first monographic publication on Bachardy showing some light wear to its white covers along the spine as well as a bit of mild foxing to some pages throughout. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024004

(BALDESSARI, JOHN). Sterne, Laurence, Melvyn New & John Baldessari. San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. First Edition 1/400. Stout 8vo. Full Leather in Slipcase. Livre D'Artiste. Fine/No Jackets - As Issued. 624 + 46 + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This twenty-sixth publication of Andrew Hoyem's esteemed Arion Press is a beautifully constructed and executed hand-letterpress reprinting of Lawrence Sterne's classic of English literature, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" that has been newly-illustrated by the noted Conceptual artist John Baldessari. Remaining faithful to the delightful typographic eccentricities and variant spellings of Sterne's own self-published editions from the 1760s, the main text of the novel has been set in Caslon Old Style - the typeface utilized by Sterne for the original printings - and bound in a single, substantial three-quarter green goatskin over lovely hand-marbled boards volume. This is accompanied by literary scholar Melvyn New's informative forty-six page essay "Lawrence Sterne and Tristram Shandy" separately bound in boards. The crowning achievement of this ambitious undertaking however is the third volume which contains John Baldessari's wry visual commentary of photo-collaged and altered found photographs and film stills in the form of a lengthy accordion-fold leporello that is anchored between green gilt-stamped boards. The three volumes are housed in a gilt-stamped green paper over board slipcase along with the additional Arion Press pre-publication prospectus laid in. A brand new, most handsome example of standard edition of this exquisite, uncommon item limited to four hundred unnumbered copies BOLDLY SIGNED "John Baldessari" in pencil on the colophon of illustrated volume, as issued. Inventory Number: 025136

(BARNEY: THE MODERN STONE AGE MAGAZINE). Skelley, Jack, Editor. Venice, CA: Fred & Barney Press, 1981. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Literary Journal. Near Fine.. 57pp, 8 b&w illustrations + monochrome cover. Designed by Jack Skelley and Michael Jacomella. This first installment (of four total) of Jack Skelley's Venice-based eighties literary anthology "Barney: The Modern Stone-Age Magazine" features contributions by Skelley, Bob Flanagan, Tim Dlugos, Michael Lally, Donald Britton, Dennis Cooper, David Trinidad, Peter Schjeldahl, Elaine Equi, Jerome Sala, Rick Lawndale, Kenward Elmslie, Robert Peters Ron Koertge, Amy Gerstler, Bernard Welt, Tom Clark, Ron Padgett, Michael Silverblatt and Benjamin Weissman, Eric Fisher, Wayne Bertoia, Marc Jacobs, and Michael Jacomella. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 025264

(BATAILLE, GEORGES). Bataille, Georges. Denis Hollier, Editor. Bruce Boone, Translator. Venice, CA: The Lapis Press, 1986. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Fine. 161pp, no illustrations. This is the first complete English language translation of noted French philosopher/theoretician Georges Bataille's 1961 work "Le Coupable", which "combines the genres of fiction, memoir and meditation in a philosophical interrogation of man's entrapment within desire". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition. 0-932499-55-4 Inventory Number: 017290

(BAZAINE, JEAN) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Bazaine, Jean & Marcel Arland. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1953. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. np (8pp), 2 color and 4 b&w illustrations. Text in French. This is a monographic edition of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Jean Bazaine's 1953 exhibition of paintings. It contains two color lithographs (the front cover, and one massive four page spread), and four additional illustrations. A most presentable example showing a bit of wear and a single closed tear along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023559

(BERKSON, BILL). Berkson, Bill. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press, 2018. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Literary Memoir. As New..

Bill Berkson was a poet, art critic, and joyful participant in the best of postwar and bohemian American culture. He collaborated with many artists and writers, including Alex Katz, Philip Guston, and Frank O’Hara. He was the author of several collections of poetry and criticism, and appeared in ARTnews, Art in America, and many more. Formerly a professor of liberal arts at the San Francisco Art Institute, he was born in New York in 1939, and died in June 2016. Since When: A Memoir in Pieces gathers the ephemera of a life well lived, a collage of bold-face names such as John Cage, Allen Ginsburg, and Marilyn Monroe, parties, exhibitions, and literary history from a man who could write “of [Truman Capote's Black and White] ball, which I attended as my mother’s escort, I have little recollection” and reminisce about imagining himself as a character from Tolstoy while tripping on acid at Woodstock. Gentle, witty, and eternally generous, this is Bill, and a particular moment in American history, at its best.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of Bill Berkson's "Since When: A Memoir in Pieces" will be signed by some combination of participants at the event on Saturday, December 1st, and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 4th.


978-1-56689-529-3 Inventory Number: E000BBSW

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (CATERPILLAR). Eshleman, Clayton. Sherman Oaks, CA: Clayton Eshleman, 1971. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Literary Journal. Near Fine.. 128pp, 12 b&w illustrations. Cover Design by Wallace Berman. This seventeenth installment of Clayton Eshleman's literary magazine "Caterpillar" features textual contributions by Philip Lamantia, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, David Bromige, Daphne Marlatt, Tenney Nathanson, Jerome Rothenberg, Laurence Weisberg, Thomas Meyer, Hugh Seidman, Brian McInerney, George Stanley, Diane Wakoski, Kenneth Irby, Eshleman, and Gary Snyder; and most notably a front cover artwork by Wallace Berman. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing a bit of mild soiling and age-toning to the rear cover. Inventory Number: 025337

(BERMAN, WALLACE). Cowles Gallery Staff, Charles. New York: Charles Cowles Gallery, 1982. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Announcement. As New.. One 8 1/2 x 11 1/2" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, neatly folded in half to make 4pp, 1 b&w illustration. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the announcement published in conjunction with a posthumous 1982 Charles Cowles Gallery exhibition of thirty-nine works by the legendary Los Angeles beat artist Wallace Berman. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event with the gallery's vintage price list laid in. Inventory Number: 025867

(BERMAN, WALLACE). Glicksman, Hal, Walter Hopps, Robert Duncan & David Meltzer. Los Angeles: Fellows of Contemporary Art & Otis Art Institute Gallery, 1978. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 118pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Designed by Jerry McMillan. This is the comprehensive catalogue on the work of the beloved pioneering Los Angeles beat, collage, and assemblage artist Wallace Berman published in conjunction with a posthumous 1978 retrospective exhibition sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art and the Otis Art Institute Gallery that traveled to The Fort Worth Art Museum, University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, and the Seattle Art Museum. A most handsome example of this important document showing some soft creasing to the bottom foredge tips of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. LC 78-70599 Inventory Number: 025866

(BERMAN, WALLACE). Herms, George. Los Angeles: Timothea Stewart Gallery, 1977. First Edition. Folio. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (4pp), no illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender, oversized four page brochure cum catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 exhibition of seventy-three works by Wallace Berman. Held at the Timothea Stewart Gallery on La Cienega the year after the legendary Los Angeles beat artist's untimely passing, it features a brief essay by Berman's close friend and colleague George Herms. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 025336

(BERMAN, WALLACE). McKenna, Kristine & David Meltzer. London: Camden Arts Centre, 2008. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. np (12pp), 5 color illustrations + b&w covers. This is the slender twelve page brochure published in conjunction with a 2008 British exhibition of works by the legendary Los Angeles beat artist entitled "All is Personal: The Art of Wallace Berman". It features an essay by Kristine McKenna along with a brief text by poet David Meltzer. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item (number thirty-four in the Camden Arts Centre's "file notes" series) that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 023737

(BERMAN, WALLACE). Perkoff, Stuart Z.. Los Angeles: The Red Hill Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Poetry Monograph. Near Fine.. np (32pp), no illustrations. Cover designed by Wallace Berman. Published in 1973, "Alphabet" is the thirty-two page collection of twenty-two poems (one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet) by Venice Beach literary figure Stuart Z. Perkoff. An ex-con and substance abuser, it appeared in the last year of Perkoff's tumultuous life, and features a beautiful collaged front cover image by legendary Los Angeles beat artist Wallace Berman. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. LC 73-91380 Inventory Number: 020423

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (PRINCE, RICHARD). McKenna, Kristine & Richard Prince. Introduction by Michael Kohn. Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Xiaoqing Wang, Green Dragon Office. With an exhibition checklist. "The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, Wallace Berman for example, its applications were much more nuanced. This approach to "girlie magazine" imagery and its polar opposite - the impulse to decommodify sexuality - can both be found in the photographs, paintings and books of Richard Prince, an artist whose fondness for the era of Berman is well-known. "She" traces these overlaps and sympathies with reproductions of previously unseen works by Berman and new images from Prince's "Girlfriends" and "de Kooning" series. Also included is an interview with Prince and editor Kristine McKenna, whose ongoing work on Wallace Berman and his contemporaries continues to yield exciting discoveries". A brand new, pristine example (catalogue entry 59 in "Bibliotheque d'un Amateur: Richard Prince's Publications 1981-2012") of this beautiful hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2009 Los Angeles gallery exhibition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-880086-20-4 Inventory Number: 021100

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). Berman, Wallace & George Herms. Venice, CA: Love Press (George Herms), 1992. First Edition Thus 1/300. Small 4to. Loose Booklets in a Box. Artists' Books. As New./No Jackets - As Issued.. np, nine individual facsimile reproductions of "Semina" magazine plus a loose colophon laid into a box. Truly a labor of Love, this meticulous facsimile recreation of Wallace Berman's legendary - and legendarily scarce - handmade literary and art anthology from the late '50s through early '60s took four years to bring to fruition. Its stellar list of Beat-inflected contributors include Berman first and foremost, along with John Altoon, Antonin Arthaud, Charles Brittin, Charles Bukowski, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau, Allen Ginsberg, Marion Grogan, Walter Hopps, Larry Jordan, Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, David Meltzer, Stuart Perkoff, John Weiners, and many others. This edition has been painstakingly printed and assembled in the manner of the originals utilizing handset letterpress on scraps of colored paper, photos, pastedowns, etc. The project was edited and overseen by Berman's close friend and fellow assemblage artist George Herms at his Love Press. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1992 extraordinary facsimile reprint authorized by the artist's Estate limited to three hundred copies NUMBERED (109/300) AND SIGNED by George Herms on the colophon, laid into the publisher's printed chipboard box, as issued. Inventory Number: 025655

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). Kugelberg, Johan & Wallace Berman. New York: Boo-Hooray Gallery, 2014. First Edition 1/700. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 174pp, profusely illustrated in color. "Wallace Berman was the quintessential artist of the Californian counterculture - connecting the disparate artistic, literary, music, and film scenes of Los Angeles and San Francisco with his pioneering mail-art magazine Semina. Hand-printed on a tabletop at Berman's house in editions ranging from 150 to 350 copies, it was sent through the mail to his friends, its contributors, and to those he admired. Its nine issues between 1955 and 1964 contain original works by the likes of John Altoon, Charles Brittin, William Burroughs, Cameron, Jean Cocteau, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Robert Duncan, Llyn Foulkes, Ralph Gibson, Allen Ginsberg, George Herms, Dennis Hopper, Walter Hopps, Jess, Michael McClure, Taylor Mead, Henry Miller, Jack Smith, Dean Stockwell, Russell Tamblyn, Edmund Teske, John Wieners, Berman himself, and many, many more. With its loose-leaf poetry, collages, and photography, Semina has become a defining document of its period. Published in collaboration with the Berman family and the artist's gallerist Michael Kohn, "Art is Love is God" reproduces in full color every component of every issue of the magazine along with a booklet of annotations and texts by Johan Kugelberg, Adam Davis, Tosh Berman, Shirley Berman, and Philip Aarons". A brand new, most handsome example of the unavailable first trade edition of this elegant publication limited to seven hundred unnumbered copies with the publisher's errata slip laid in. 1-938265-18-1 Inventory Number: 024227

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). McKenna, Kristine, Michael Duncan, Stephen Fredman & Raymond Foye. Foreword by Elsa Longhauser. New York & Santa Monica, CA: D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers) & Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 384pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Stuart Smith, Green Dragon Office. With a chronology and exhibition checklist. "The quintessential visual artist of the Beat era, Wallace Berman (1926-1976) remains one of the best kept secrets of the late 20th century. A crucial figure in California's postwar underground, Berman was a catalyst who traveled through many different worlds, transferring ideas and dreams from one circle to the next. His larger community is the subject of "Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle", the hardbound catalogue to a traveling exhibition organized by the Santa Monica Museum of Art including previously unexhibited works by fifty-two artists. Anchoring this publication is "Semina", a free-form art and poetry journal that Berman published in nine issues between 1955 and 1964. Although privately made and distributed to a mere handful of friends and sympathizers, it was a brilliant compendium of the most interesting artists and poets of its time. Showcasing the individuals who came to define a still potent strand of post-war beat counter-culture, Semina Culture subtly outlines the energies, values, and foibles of this fascinating circle. Also reproduced here are works by various artists and writers who appear in Berman's own photographs - many of which were recently developed from vintage negatives and will be seen here for the first time. Edited by Michael Duncan and Kristine McKenna, it includes paintings and drawings by Cameron, John Altoon, Jay DeFeo, Bruce Conner and Joan Brown; collages and assemblages by Robert Alexander, Stuart Perkoff, John Reed, George Herms and Jess; poetry by Robert Duncan, David Meltzer, Philip Lamantia and John Wieners; and photographs by Charles Brittin, Walter Hopps and Patricia Jordan". A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon 2005 first edition of this beautifully designed, extraordinary document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-933045-10-8 Inventory Number: 023223

(BLAKE, WILLIAM). Blake, William, David Bindman, Barbara Bryant, Robert Essick, Geoffrey Keynes, Bo Lindberg, Charles Ryskamp & John Commander. David Bindman, Editor. London: The William Blake Trust, 1987. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. Folio. Leather over Boards, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jackets - As Issued. 148pp + np, profusely illustrated in collotype. Published in 1987 by the William Blake Trust, this lavish two volume undertaking is devoted solely to William Blake's "Illustrations of the Book of Job". The first volume combines a facsimile reprint in collotype of the 1826 first edition as well as additional plates reproducing scores of variant illustrations related to Blake's spectacular work. It includes "an introduction and plate-by-plate commentary by Bo Lindberg". The second volume is subtitled "The Engravings and Related Material, with Essays, Catalogue of States and Printings, Commentary on the Plates, and Documentary Record by David Bindman, Barbara Bryant, Robert Essick, Geoffrey Keynes, and Bo Lindberg. Edited by David Bindman". In addition, it contains an introduction by Charles Ryskamp, and a preface by Bindman and John Commander. It is a scholarly work that illuminates virtually all aspects of the creation and subsequent history of this epic illustrated book. According to the colophon, "Plates and illustrations printed in the collotype process by The Trianon Press, Paris under the supervision of the late Arnold Fawcus. Typesetting by Ronset of Darwen, Lancashire. Printing, binding and case-making by Smith Settle of Otley, Yorkshire. Printed on Arches pure rag papers made for the edition. Edited, designed and produced by John Commander". The text volume is bound in ¼ Morocco over hand marbled boards with a gilt-stamped spine and leather front cover pastedown. The plate volume contains twenty-three signatures gathered in a ¼ Morocco over boards chemise with a letterpress front cover pastedown. The chemise is housed in a ¼ Morocco over hand marbled boards solander box with a gilt-stamped spine and leather front cover pastedown. A brand new, exceptionally handsome example of this uncommon item from the standard edition limited to two hundred and fifty NUMBERED (61/250) copies in the publisher's Morocco over cloth fitted presentation case. Inventory Number: 025540

(BOTERO, FERNANDO). Botero, Fernando. Introduction by Carlos Fuentes. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 2003. First Edition. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Botero: Women" is the beautifully produced 2003 hardbound monograph featuring an introduction by the late Latin American literary titan Carlos Fuentes accompanied by reproductions of over one hundred and fifty works on canvas and paper depicting the fairer gender as rendered by the renowned Colombian-born artist Fernando Botero between 1968 and 2002. A most handsome example featuring the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To ... / Botero 2003." in the year of publication in black marker on the half title page. 0-8478-2555-8 Inventory Number: 024531

(BRAQUE, GEORGES) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Braque, Georges & Pierre Reverdy. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1951. Second Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 17 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a monographic edition of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) is a tribute to the renowned Georges Braque. It contains color lithographs after Georges Braque, Jean Bazaine, Marc Chagall, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, and Joan Miro. A bright, most handsome example of the second edition of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 022335

(BRAQUE, GEORGES) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Braque, Georges, Rene Char, Jacques Kober, Henri Maldiney, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Grenier, Georges Limbour & Jacques Dupin. Paris. 1947, 1950, 1952, 1954 & 1956.: Maeght Editeur. First Edition Thus. Folio. Wrappers Bound in Cloth. Artist Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. np + np + np + np + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a compilation of five issues of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Georges Braque. Bound by Maeght in brown cloth-over-boards with debossed white lettering in 1956, it collects the complete contents of DLM numbers 4 (Juin 1947): "Braque", 25-26 (Janvier 1950): "G. Braque", 48-49 (Juin-Julliet 1952): "G. Braque", 71-72 (Decembre 1954-Janvier 1955): "G. Braque: Theogoni d'Hesiode", and 85-86 (Avril-Mai 1956): "Braque". An otherwise bright, most handsome example whose contents are complete and intact first printings with the wrappers bound in that contain in total twelve original color lithographs showing some sunning to the cloth primarily along the spine. In addition, the top inch of its spine has broken off and is not present. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024991

(BROWN, CECILY). Homes, A.M. Introduction by Robert Evren. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2000. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New.. 76pp, 27 color illustrations. Designed by Dan Miller Design. This is the elegant catalogue produced in conjunction with the 2000 Gagosian London exhibition of British painter Cecily Brown - her first one-person show at the gallery. Each of her twenty-seven large-scale works shown is reproduced along with A.M. Homes' essay "Motion Pictures". A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item in its wrappers printed with metallic ink still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-880154-36-6 Inventory Number: 014715

(BURLIUK, DAVID). Dreier, Katherine S. Foreword by Duncan Phillips. Mary Burliuk, Editor. New York: The Société Anonyme and Color and Rhyme, 1944. First Edition. Small 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Good +.. xvi, 182pp, 53 b&w illustrations. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Compiled by the Société Anonyme's Katherine S. Dreier and Marcel Duchamp with assistance from Nicholas and Mary Burliuk, this comprehensive 1944 publication was for more than fifty years the major monograph on David Davidovich Burliuk - the Kharkov-born founding father of Russian Futurism. A prolific painter, poet, critic, and publisher, Burliuk started the literary group Hylea, was a participant in the pioneering 1910 "Jack of Diamonds" exhibition in Moscow, and a member of "Der Blaue Reiter" group. In 1922, he emigrated to the United States where he continued his artistic output until his passing in 1967. A most presentable example of the paperbound first edition of this uncommon item showing overall wear, handling, and soiling along with a small patch of surface paper abrasion along the top edge of the rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 024453

(BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.). Burroughs, William S.. New York: Lococo Mulder, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Linen Boards with Pastedown. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 7 color and 1 b&w illustration + front cover. This elegant William S. Burroughs artist book cum object contains seven color screenprint reproductions (one for each sin) of "shotgun paintings" interleaved with brief texts by the noted Beat literary figure turned artist. Its frontispiece is a Robert Mapplethorpe image of Burroughs wielding a shotgun, and features a unique sheet of red pellet-riddled balsa wood veneer affixed to the black linen-covered front cover, as issued. A most handsome example of the unnumbered 1991 first Lococo Mulder trade edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "William S. Burroughs" in black ink across the title page. Inventory Number: 014646

(CARNWATH, SQUEAK). Tsujimoto, Karen & John Yau. Oakland & San Francisco, CA: Oakland Museum of California & Pomegranate Books, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 160pp, profusely Illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology, bibliography, exhibition history, and exhibition checklist. This is the comprehensive catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2009 Oakland Museum of California retropsective exhibition of eighty-one paintings executed by the popular Bay Area artist Squeak Carnwath between 1979 and 2008. A brand new, most handsome example of the first printing of the uncommon hardbound edition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-7649-4888-1 Inventory Number: 025964

(CERVENKA, EXENE). Cervenka, Exene. Preface by Kristine McKenna. Santa Monica, CA: Perceval Press, 2006. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 50pp, profusely illustrated in color. Hot off of Viggo Mortensen's Perceval Press, this is a visually arresting book of legendary X vocalist and poet Exene Cervenka's artwork! "Exene Cervenka's provocative collages, which have garnered high praise in recent New York and Los Angeles gallery shows, are accompanied in this volume by a preface from Kristine McKenna. There is, in McKenna's words, "an ineffable melancholy that permeates" Cervenka's art, and a "haunting power to evoke a childhood lost." In the work represented, you will find a "scent of longing and nostalgia... It is invariably tempered with the essential spirit of her art, which is tender and lyrical. In the end, each piece she's made is a valentine to a fragile America that's disappearing before our very eyes, and an homage to the indomitable persistence of beauty". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2006 first edition. 0-9763009-2-3 Inventory Number: 019193

(CHRISTIAN, ANTON). Christian, Anton. With texts by H.C. Artmann, Suzanne Bloom, Helmut Eisendle, Erich Fried, Hans Haid, Ed Hill, Felix Mitterer, Ezra Pound, Alexander Schwarz, Turi Werkner, and "funf Sagen aus dem Reich der Fanes". Innsbruck, AUSTRIA: Haymon Verlag, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine (But Incomplete)/Fine. 167pp, 110 color and duotone illustrations. Text in German. This is the beautifully designed and printed 1989 monograph on the work of Anton Christian - Viennese figurative painter of the tortured and bizarre. A brand new, most handsome example from an unstated SIGNED AND NUMBERED edition issued with a loose print laid into a sleeve at the front of the book, but with this example LACKING the print. It has been priced accordingly. 3-85218-050-3 Inventory Number: 005063

(CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS. Cicero, Marcus Tullius. NP (Alpignano, ITALY): Officina Tallone, 1984. First Thus 1/150 Deluxe. 12mo. Printed Wrappers in Slipcase. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 188pp, hand printed by letterpress, no illustrations. Text in Latin. "Laelius de Amicitia" is Roman statesman and author Marcus Tullius Cicero's classic second century B.C. treatise on friendship. This lovely 1984 typographic version of was set by hand and printed by the esteemed Officina Tallone Tipographi - one of Italy's most renowned fine printers. A most handsome example in glassine dustwrapper of this luxe volume limited to a mere one hundred copies showing only the most minute age toning to the publisher's printed chemise and slipcase. Inventory Number: 016436

(CLAMPITT, AMY). Clampitt, Amy. New York: The Reed Foundation Poetry Chapbook Series & The DIA Art Foundation, 1988. First Edition 1/350. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Poetry Chapbook. Near Fine.. 32pp, no illustrations. Designed by Jean Foos. Published in conjunction with a 1988 reading at New York's DIA Art Foundation, this seventh volume in The Reed Foundation Poetry Chapbook Series "Readings in Contemporary Poetry" is devoted to nine short works by Amy Clampitt. A handsome example of this compact chapbook limited to three hundred and fifty copies. 0-944521-10-X Inventory Number: 012701

(CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). Clemente, Francesco & Robert Creeley. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (14pp), 5 color illustrations. Designed by Step Graphics. Limited to one thousand copies, this is the slender fourteen page catalogue published in conjunction with Francesco Clemente's 1994 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition that reproduces five of the artist's pigment on canvas works amongst short poems by Robert Creeley. A most handsome example showing a tiny dent to the upper foredge tip of the external paper portfolio. Inventory Number: 021355

(CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). Clemente, Francesco & Robert Creeley. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 7 duotone illustrations. Designed by Leslie Miller, The Grenfell Press. This is the slender twenty-four page catalogue published in conjunction with Francesco Clemente's 1993 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition that combines seven reproductions of the artist's large scale pigment on canvas paintings accompanied by seven brief poems by Robert Creeley. A handsome example. Inventory Number: 015556

(CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). McClure, Michael. Introduction by Dieter Koepplin. New York: Gagosian Gallery & Rizzoli International Publications, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 122pp, 14 color illustrations. Designed by Jose Conde. With an exhibition history and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the 1991 Francesco Clemente exhibition entitled "Testa Coda" held at Gagosian Gallery New York. It features an essay as well as an interview with the artist by notable West Coast literary figure Michael McClure. An otherwise most handsome example showing some barely noticeable rippling to a portion of the textblock at the lower foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. 0-8478-1469-6 Inventory Number: 024236

(CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). McClure, Michael. Introduction by Dieter Koepplin. New York: Gagosian Gallery & Rizzoli International Publications, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 122pp, 14 color illustrations. Designed by Jose Conde. With an exhibition history and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with the 1991 Francesco Clemente exhibition entitled "Testa Coda" held at Gagosian Gallery New York. It features an essay as well as an interview with the artist by notable West Coast literary figure Michael McClure. A most handsome example bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For .... Some Words & Pictures XXX Michael" from author McClure in gold marker on the title page. 0-8478-1469-6 Inventory Number: 020439

(CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). Rushdie, Salman. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Tall 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 42pp, 14 color illustrations. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the elegantly designed catalogue featuring an essay by literary lion Salman Rushdie published in conjunction with a 2005 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of self portraits by Francesco Clemente. A brand new, most handsome example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-24-3 Inventory Number: 022237