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(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

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Clearwater, Bonnie, Editor. Miami Beach, FL & Los Angeles: Grassfield Press in Association with Shoshana Wayne Gallery, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 128pp, 57 b&w illustrations. This scholarly yet engaging bit of Duchampiana was published in conjunction with a 1991 exhibition and seminar on the Dada master, his interaction with, and influences on the City of the Angels. The contributors to this handsomely illustrated tome are Francis Naumann, Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, Dickran Tashjian, Walter Hopps and Robert Pincus. A most handsome example of the clothbound edition in the royal blue dust jacket additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To ... / Best Wishes / Bonnie Clearwater / Los Angeles 1991" in black ink on the title page to a noted Los Angeles art collector by the editor in the year of publication. 0-9628514-0-X Inventory Number: 024727

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(RICHTER, HANS). Richter, Hans. New York: Films International of America, 1947. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Film Monograph. Near Fine.. np (28pp), 30 b&w illustrations. Cover Illustration by Max Ernst. Layout by Frederick Kiesler. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the promotional program for renowned Dada/Surrealist artist/director Hans Richter's 1947 film "Dreams That Money Can Buy". This unique project consisted of Richter soliciting dream scenarios from Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Fernand Leger, and Man Ray, then weaving these into a cinematic narrative with the musical collaboration of Louis Applebaum, Paul Bowles, David Diamond, John Cage, John Latouche, Libby Holman, Josh White, and Darius Milhaud! Ernst and Julien Levy appeared in the film as actors. Other contributors to this item include Richter, John Cage, Man Ray, Charles Hulbeck - aka Richard Huelsenbeck, Siegfried Kracauer, Andre Breton, Louis Applebaum, Dorothea Tanning, and James Johnson Sweeney. A handsome example (cited on page 101 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter") of the black ink on green cover stock variant of this uncommon item showing a couple of soft creases along the spine. Inventory Number: 024216

(WOOD, BEATRICE). Wood, Beatrice. Los Angeles: MGM Press, 1992. First Edition 1/99 Deluxe. 4to. Tied Illustrated Wrappers. Illustrated Book. Fine.. np (24pp), 12 hand colored and 1 b&w illustration + hand colored cover. "Touching Certain Things" is a girlish memoir authored and illustrated in 1992 by the late, great "Mama of the Dadas", Beatrice Wood. Primarily renown for her ceramic sculpture, lusterware vessels, and dalliance with Marcel Duchamp, this gossamer bit of erotica recounts a youthful Ms. Wood and actress pal Helen Freeman's trip to Europe to hear Jiddu Krishnamurti speak, and the amorous hijinks that ensued. From the deluxe edition of ninety-nine copies only, it contains twelve illustrations by the author, each of which (and the front cover as well) has been hand colored by her in pencil. A brand new, pristine example of this rarity that has been SIGNED, NUMBERED AND DATED by Beatrice Wood in black ink at the rear colophon, as issued. 0-9620574-5-2 Inventory Number: 017047

Cohen, Arthur A. & Trevor Winkfield. New York. ND (circa 1976).: Ex Libris. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Bookseller's Catalogue. Very Good.. np (152pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. New York's Arthur Cohen was the premier purveyor of books and ephemera on twentieth century Modern Art movements for nearly twenty years. Ex Libris' copiously researched, scholarly, illustrated catalogues stood as unparalleled bibliographic tools at a time when there was a paucity of available reference to the documentary literature of the modernist avant-gardes. Catalogue number three features nine hundred and eighty-five fully described and indexed original works, photographs, posters, books, periodicals, pamphlets, and printed ephemera on the subjects of Guillaume Apollinaire, Architecture, Expressionism, Illustrated Books and Livres de Peintre, Alfred Jarry, Periodicals and Annuals, Photographs and Photogravures (including a large collection of plates from "Camera Work"), Photography and Film, and Surrealism. And while at the time of its 1976 publication the prices here seemed astronomical, some forty years later they are finally downright bargains! A handsome example of this uncommon reference showing a bit of light sunning to the covers along with its title added discreetly in ink to the spine. Inventory Number: 015159

Corbett, John & Josiah McElheny. Chicago: Corbett vs. Dempsey Modern Art & Uncommon Objects, 2013. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Monograph. Fine.. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Sonnenzimmer. "In 1913, the year that the Armory Show hit Chicago, an anonymous local artist gathered every newspaper clipping from the infamous Art Institute exhibition into a sensational handmade document. "Freak Art Scrapbook" presents this folk ledger of the key showcase of American and European art in the early 20th century, a collection of witty and vitriolic snippets, much of it dripping with satire as nearly an entire city took to lampooning modern art. Lovingly reproduced in all its bilious, acidic yellow, sporting pre-jazz cartoons that snicker repeatedly at Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending A Staircase," the scrapbook in fact turns out to be a complex and many layered artifact, not only a register of the Midwestern response to modernism, but a fascinating glimpse of the central arguments about populism and the vanguard". A brand new, most handsome example of this fortuitously discovered, invaluable document lovingly reproduced by Chicago's estimable Corbett vs. Dempsey Modern Art & Uncommon Objects on the hundredth anniversary of The Armory Show. 0-9884492-8-5 Inventory Number: 022881

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

Mahsun, Carol Anne Runyon. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1987. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. 152pp, 22 b&w illustrations. With a bibliography. Issued as the twenty-third installment of U.M.I. Research Press' "Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism", this scholarly monograph presents an in-depth examination of the critical response to the Pop Art movement of the sixties, primarily within the context of its New York practitioners. The principal artists covered are Jim Dine, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Allan Kaprow, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Tom Wesselmann, and of course, Andy Warhol, while the critics under discussion include Lawrence Alloway, Mario Amaya, Rainer Crone, Umberto Eco, Michael Fried, Henry Geldzahler, Clement Greenberg, Max Kozloff, Hilton Kramer, Lucy Lippard, Barbara Rose, Harold Rosenberg, Alan Solomon, and Susan Sontag. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition. 0-8357-1809-3 Inventory Number: 013000

Neri, Louise. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 72pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the hardbound catalogue issued in conjunction with the summer 2009 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of figurative works by Richard Artschwager, Marcel Duchamp, Richard Hamilton, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mapplethorpe, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Carlo Mollino, Eadweard Muybridge, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Man Ray, Gerhard Richter, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-96-0 Inventory Number: 018519

Page, Suzanne, Claude Gintz, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Charles Harrison, Gabriele Guercio, Seth Siegelaub & Robert C. Morgan. Paris: Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, 1989. First Edition (Second Printing) 1/1700. 4to. Printed Stiff Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine.. 260pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in French and English. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. This the catalogue of the extensive 1989 international survey exhibition of Conceptual Art held at the Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris. It features texts by Suzanne Page, Claude Gintz, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Charles Harrison, Gabriele Guercio, Seth Siegelaub, and Robert C. Morgan. The artists included are Giovanni Anselmo, Art & Language, Michael Asher, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Mel Bochner, Alighiero e Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Stanley Brouwn, Daniel Buren, Victor Burgin, Andre Cadere, Hanne Darboven, Jan Dibbets, Marcel Duchamp, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Jasper Johns, On Kawara, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Piero Manzoni, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Roman Opalka, Adrian Piper, Emilio Prini, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Robert Smithson, Bernar Venet, Lawrence Weiner, and Ian Wilson. A handsome example of the uncommon first printing of this important document showing some light overall wear and soiling to its white wrappers. 2-85346-071-1 Inventory Number: 025391

Tancock, John. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Crash Bound Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Eugene Feldman. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the innovatively designed and bound catalogue published in conjunction with the first large-scale Museum exhibition of contemporary artists' multiples from the 1960s. Artists with work reproduced here include Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Bruno Munari, Victor Vasarely, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucio Fontana, Hundertwasser, Jim Dine, Richard Artschwager, Arman, Enrico Baj, John Cage, Max Bill, Max Ernst, Hans Haacke, Douglas Huebler, Allen Jones, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot(h), George Segal, Ernest Trova, and many others. A bright, most handsome complete and intact example in the publisher's printed band of an item that is notoriously hard to find in nice condition showing some typical minor wear and sunning along with a slight soft crease at the lower foredge corner of the rear cover. Inventory Number: 024017

Tancock, John. Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971. First Edition. 8vo. Crash Bound Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued. np, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Eugene Feldman. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the innovatively designed and bound catalogue published in conjunction with the first large-scale Museum exhibition of contemporary artists' multiples from the 1960s. Artists with work reproduced here include Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Bruno Munari, Victor Vasarely, Roy Lichtenstein, Lucio Fontana, Hundertwasser, Jim Dine, Richard Artschwager, Arman, Enrico Baj, John Cage, Max Bill, Max Ernst, Hans Haacke, Douglas Huebler, Allen Jones, Fernand Leger, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg, Dennis Oppenheim, Dieter Rot(h), George Segal, Ernest Trova, and many others. A handsome complete and intact example of an item that is notoriously hard to find in nice condition with a tiny tear to the paper around the snap-closure on the rear cover showing some typical minor sunning as well as lacking the publisher's printed band. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 021419