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(ALBERS, JOSEF). Albers, Josef. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1964. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good - .. np (10pp), 4 color screenprint illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegantly minimal publication that accompanied legendary abstract artist, Bauhaus design teacher, and Yale University Art department chair Josef Albers' 1964 exhibition of forty "Homage to the Square" paintings held at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery. It reproduces a brief text by the artist as well as four exhibited works in the form of vibrantly colored, unsigned individual screenprints. An internally bright, handsome example with crisp plates showing showing some light wear and soiling to its matte white covers. Inventory Number: 026887

(ALDRIDGE, ALAN) (WARHOL, ANDY). Aldridge, Alan & Andy Warhol. London: Motif Editions, 1970. First Edition. Double Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Film Poster. Near Fine.. One 30 x 20" paper sheet printed black and white offset, recto only, 1 b&w illustration. This is the iconic poster designed by the late, great British illustrator Alan Aldridge to promote the 1970 screening of "Chelsea Girls" at the Drury Lane Arts Laboratory. Filmed by Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey from a treatment by Ronnie Tavel on location inside Manhattan's fabled Chelsea Hotel, the film received upon its 1966 release an X certificate from the British Board of Film Censors, meaning it was unable to be theatrically released in the UK. It took another three years before the full three and a half hour split-screen version of "Chelsea Girls" - featuring Factory Superstars Nico, Brigid Berlin, Ondine, Gerard Malanga, Eric Emerson, Mary Woronov, Mario Montez, Ingrid Superstar, and International Velvet - would receive a London premiere. A bright, most handsome flat example of the 1970 Motif Editions London first commercially-produced version of the poster showing the tiniest bit of creasing at the lower left corner along with some unobtrusive handling indentations that can be seen in raking light. Inventory Number: 026863

(AMOK). Swezey, Stuart & Brian King, Editors. Los Angeles. 1986-2000.: Amok. First Editions. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine or Better.. 32 + 52 + 100 + 374 + 476 + 562pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Before there was an internet for such things, if one wanted to investigate Serial Killers, The Illuminati, Alien Autopsies, Conspiracy Theories, Mind Control, Tiki Exoticism, Bondage and Domination, Sensory Deprivation, and any manner of transgressive topics, the Amok shop on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles was your veritable Library of Alexandria. Starting as a modest storefront bookstore, Amok branched out in the eighties and nineties to become a far reaching mail-order empire where one could find the most obscure books, pamphlets, tracts, screeds, video tapes, cassettes, and the like on anything from Survival Research Laboratory to Ed Gein to MK-ULTRA. Their five highly informative - and sought after - catalogues of wares referred to as "Dispatches" were published in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1999. Additionally, an anthology of writings on Autoerotic Fatalities, Trepanation, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Cargo Cult, NSK, Self-Mutilation Amputee Fetish, Infrasound, and Psych-Our was issued in 1995 as the "Amok Journal: Sensurround Edition." The first four installments are on newsprint, and show just a bit of age-toning to their textblocks. Number four is the uncommon first printing with the monochrome cover reproduction of one of artist Jim Shaw's thrift store paintings. All are first printings but for the fifth installment, which is the second printing from 2000. A most handsome, truly rare complete set of the five "Dispatches" plus the "Amok Journal" featuring nearly two thousand pages that illuminate and explore the darkest reaches of mankind - and beyond - each of which is additionally SIGNED in black ink by Amok editor and publisher, Stuart Swezey. Inventory Number: 026691

(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: 026555

(ANKH). Cropsey, Charles & Ed Lange, Editors. Los Angeles. 1966 + 1967.: Elysium Inc., Publishers. First Editions. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Nudist Periodical. Fine.. 70 + 70 + 66 + 66pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published by Los Angeles' last great nudist haven, The Elysium Institute, "Ankh" is arguably the most awesome of all the under the counter Hippie psychedelic magazines of the late sixties. Full-frontally illustrated throughout with photographs of well adjusted, hirsute sun worshippers in their teens and twenties (including the always photogenic Michelle Angelo) by the likes of Ed Lange, Walter Chappell, William Rotsler, and Russell Gay, the reader can all but smell the suntan lotion and Patchouli oil. Included are pictorials on communes, nudist colonies, and light shows along with articles such as "Sex in The Sun", "Group Therapy in the Nude" "What Hath God / LSD / God Wrought?", "Thoreau: The First Hippie", and the two-part "Barry McGuire (!) on Sex". A bright, spectacularly well-preserved run of the first four issues of this obscure crowd pleaser. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 026483

(ANP QUARTERLY) (KAWS) (TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed, Brendan Fowler & Aaron Rose, Editors. Costa Mesa, CA: RVCA, 2008. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Tabloid Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published as part of Costa Mesa based surf and skate clothing company RVCA's "Artist Network Program", ANP Quarterly was a wonderfully irreverent, informative labor of love on the part of editorial troika Ed Templeton, Aaron Rose and Brendan Fowler. This installment from 2008 contains an in-depth interview with cover icon KAWS - as photographed by Terry Richardson - as well as features on or by Hope Gallery, Tony Cederteg, Providence's Dirt Palace, Gary Trinh's photo-essay on giant Bonsai trees, Tauba Auerbach, Kenneth Anger, Joshua Ploeg, Emma Reeves, and a RVCA x Cinelli artist-decorated bike exhibition. A brand new, most handsome example of this graphically striking cultural journal that was distributed hors commerce on an irregular basis in a rather haphazard fashion and not offered commercially for sale. Inventory Number: 026858

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

(BACON, FRANCIS). Bacon, Francis. New York, London, Rome & Hong Kong. 2007-2014.: Rizzoli International Publications, 1983. First Edition. Oblong Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Publisher's Promotional Poster. Fine. One 30 x 22" heavy paper sheet printed color offset recto only, 1 color illustration. This is the hors commerce - not commercially for sale - promotional poster produced by Rizzoli International Publications in conjunction with Michel Leiris' insightful 1983 monograph surveying the painted work of noted twentieth century master Francis Bacon. A bright, most handsome example of this striking uncommon ephemeral item. Inventory Number: 026615

(BANKSY). Pairon, Marc. Aartselaar, BELGIUM: Charles Catteau Foundation, 2020. First Edition. 22 x 29 cm. Hardcover. Artist Monograph. New.


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(BARNEY, MATTHEW). Spector, Nancy, Neville Wakefield & Matthew Barney. Preface by Thomas Krens. New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2002. First Edition. Stout 4to. Cloth in Vinyl Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 528pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by J. Abbott Miller and Roy Brooks, Pentagram Design. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history, bibliography and filmography. Published in conjunction with a comprehensive 2002 exhibition at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, this massive catalogue copiously documents the five installments that comprise Matthew Barney's epic film cycle cum opera "The Cremaster Cycle" that were originally presented by the Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporaine, Artangel and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, the Kunsthalle Wien and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main and Barbara Gladstone Gallery, the Walker Art Center, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between 1995 and 2002. Beautifully designed and illustrated, it features essays by Nancy Spector and Neville Wakefield, a Cremaster "Glossary", complete production credits, and "Personal Perspectives" from several Cremaster contributors including Ursula Andress, Tony Morgan, Richard Serra, Norman Mailer, and Jonathan Bepler. A bright, most handsome example of the first hardbound printing in the publisher's printed vinyl dust jacket. 0-8109-6935-1 Inventory Number: 026877

(BASQUIAT, JEAN-MICHEL). Hoffman, Fred. New York: Enrico Navarra Gallery, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 256pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat" is the authoritative, copiously illustrated 2017 monograph on the late, great New York artist published by his longtime gallerist, Enrico Navarra. It was authored by noted Basquiat scholar Fred Hoffman, who was a friend, confidant, and print publisher to the artist during his brief but stellar career; and who has written several significant catalogue essays for exhibitions over the past several decades. A brand new, most handsome example of this important document. 2-911596-53-6 Inventory Number: 026900

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). Berman, Wallace. Larkspur, CA: Self-Published, 1961. First Edition 1/200. 8vo. Chipboard Portfolio. Artist's Periodical. Good.. np, 18 individual inserts printed offset on cardstock or paper housed a printed paper pocket, 11 monochrome illustrations + front cover. This seventh installment of "Semina" - Wallace Berman's legendary, and legendarily scarce handmade literary and art periodical - is subtitled "Aleph". Published in Larkspur in 1961, unlike its predecessors that anthologized work from the movers and shakers of the West Coast Beat scene, this number is entirely devoted entirely to contributions by Berman himself. It is comprised of eighteen loose reproductions of photographs, drawings, and text - many of which combine these elements. A complete, internally handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to two hundred unnumbered copies. The eleven photographic reproductions on cardstock are bright and fresh, while several of the text pieces printed on matte paper show typical minor soiling, offsetting, and age-toning. The printed white pocket into which these are gathered is still securely affixed to the inside rear cover. Externally, the title pastedown on the front cover shows some mild rubbing and foxing, and the brittle, highly acidic chipboard covers have light overall wear, age-toning, and soiling. More notably, the covers have separated cleanly along the length of the spine, and there are two triangular chips of paper loss along the bottom edge - one on the rear at the heel of the spine, and a tiny one at the foredge front corner. Both detached fragments are present, and we have decided to let the next owner deal with their preferences for any paper restoration. All in all, this is a most presentable copy of a truly remarkable Wallace Berman item that looks far nicer in hand than it describes that has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026125

(BLUNK, J.B.). Blunk, J.B., Lucy R. Lippard, Louise Allison Cort, Fariba Bogzaran, Mariah Nielson, Rita Lawrence, Alyssa Ballard & Rick Yoshimoto. Mariah Nielson & Abake, Editors. Inverness, CA: Blunk Books, 2020. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Boards. Decorative Arts Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 228pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Born in 1926 in Kansas, James Blain Blunk was a California-based sculptor who worked primarily with wood and clay. Following a period of apprenticeship in Japan, Blunk settled near the Marin County town of Inverness, California, where he built his own studio, and developed a lifelong friendship with the painter Gordon Onslow Ford. This is the first publication to explore the entire oeuvre of JB Blunk, with previously unseen examples of his work in stone, clay, painting and jewelry. The design beautifully combines archival images of Blunk's work in situ and at his home and his studio, with color plates of newly photographed pieces. In an essay, Lucy R. Lippard discusses Blunk's reverence for ancient art and places, while Smithsonian Curator of Ceramics Louise Allison Cort details Blunk's formative years in Japan. Glenn Adamson, Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, contributes an essay that explores the essence of Blunk himself along with his artwork." A brand new, most handsome example of the already unavailable 2020 first edition of this vital document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-907908-55-2 Inventory Number: 026890

(BLUNK, J.B.). Noguchi, Isamu & Edith R. Wyle. Los Angeles: Craft and Folk Art Museum, 1978. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Decorative Arts Monograph. Near Fine.. 20pp, 23 monochrome illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, chronology, exhibition history and collections listing. Issued in conjunction with a comprehensive 1978 survey exhibition held at Los Angeles' Craft and Folk Art Museum, this is the very first monographic publication on the late iconoclastic Northern California sculptor and decorative artist James Blain Blunk. It includes an appreciation by Isamu Noguchi along with illustrations of twenty-four of the one hundred and fourteen objects shown. His organic forms - many hewn from single blocks of wood - look as fresh today as they did when this was published, and makes clear that Blunk's rediscovery by Blum & Poe gallery in 2010 was just a matter of time A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon document for which only a single copy is cited in OCLC WorldCat. Inventory Number: 026791

(BORTHWICK, MARK). Borthwick, Mark. NP. ND (2001): NP (Mark Borthwick). First Edition #20/100. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Fashion Monograph. Fine.. np (64pp), illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Whats Bummer" is Mark Borthwick's 2001 self-published 'zine cum artist's book of writings, thoughts, and observations both typeset and in his characteristic stylized handwriting. A bright white, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item - there is not currently an entry for the title in OCLC WorldCat - limited to one hundred NUMBERED (20/100) copies accompanied by a loose 3 ¼ x 4 ¼" color photograph SIGNED AND DATED "MB / 01", as issued. Inventory Number: 026486

(BOWIE, DAVID) (ROCK, MICK). Rock, Mick. London: Mick Rock Studio, 1972. First Printing. 4to. Silver Gelatin Photograph. Fine.. One 8 x 10" black and white silver gelatin photographic print on semi-gloss, single-weight paper. This is a vintage photograph by Mick Rock of the late, great David Bowie onstage at London's Rainbow Theatre in August 1972 - the shows during which the iconic performer premiered "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars". He is pictured naked from waist up holding a microphone and staring heavenward while trousers from one of the bodysuits Freddie Burretti designed for Bowie's Ziggy persona. This print bears a "Photography by MICK ROCK" studio stamp in red ink on the verso, and was acquired by me personally from the renowned photographer in October 1972 when he was in Los Angeles documenting Bowie's two shows at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 026898

(BOWIE, DAVID) (ROCK, MICK). Rock, Mick. London: Mick Rock Studio, 1972. First Printing. 4to. Silver Gelatin Photograph. Fine.. One 8 x 10" black and white silver gelatin photographic print on glossy, single-weight paper. This is a vintage photograph by Mick Rock of the late, great David Bowie onstage at London's Rainbow Theatre in August 1972 - the shows during which the iconic performer premiered "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars". He is pictured wearing one of several quilted bodysuits Freddie Burretti designed for Bowie's Ziggy persona with closed eyes playing an acoustic twelve-string guitar. This print bears a "Photography by MICK ROCK" studio stamp in red ink on the verso, and was acquired by me personally from the renowned photographer in October 1972 when he was in Los Angeles documenting Bowie's two shows at The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 026897

(BRAVO, MANUEL ALVAREZ). Bravo, Manuel Alvarez & Juan Garcia Ponce. Miguel Cervantes, Editor. Mexico City, MEXICO: Departmento de Publicaciones, Comite Organizador De Los Juegos De La XIX, 1968. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Very Good -./No Jacket - As Issued. 114pp, 84 b&w and 3 color illustrations. Text in Spanish, English and French. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the substantial hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the 1968 exhibition "Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Photographies / Photographs / Fotografias 1928 - 1968" that was held as part of the cultural programming for the games of the XIX Olympiad held in Mexico City. The show consisted of two hundred and fifty images by the venerable photographer, eighty-seven of which are reproduced here in gravure. An internally most handsome example of the - and only - edition of this uncommon and important document additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "Para el senor / Jim Bullowa, dese an dole (?) un / feliz ano 1971 / M. Alvarez Bravo. / Coyoacan decembre de 1970" in blue ink across page 5 along with "El prefacio y la seleccione de poesia, / por Juan Garcia Ponce; el retrato por Miguel Cervantes. / Pag. 51 L'oiseau... esta puesto al reves / Asparicion.. fuera de registro el / duotuno (?) / 85 Dice: Tehuantepec, Chiapas, / Oaxaca / dese decio" across the title page in the same blue ink. Additionally laid in is a torn scrap of butcher paper bearing Bravo's name, return address, and "libros / books" written in the photographer's hand. There is a mild dent to the textblock at the head of the spine, and the edges of the pages show some soiling and a bit of spotting along the top. The white glazed boards show overall light soiling and age-toning along with some notable pitting and a bit of surface wear to the rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026734

(BRODOVITCH, ALEXEY). Brodovitch, Alexey & Edwin Denby. New York: J.J. Augustin, Publisher, 1945. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. Very Good -/Facsimile Dust Jacket. 144pp, 104 illustrations in b&w gravure. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Designed by Alexey Brodovitch. "Ballet" is renowned late graphic designer Alexey Brodovitch's iconic 1945 book of photographic vignettes capturing eleven performances by The Ballets Russes between 1935 and 1937. Noted for the innovative-at-the-time use of murky shadows and blurred dancers bathed in light, these arresting images of the likes of principals Leonide Massine, Tamara Toumanova, Irina Baronova, and more are accompanied by New York poet and dance critic Edwin Denby's brief but cogent text. An internally bright, handsome example of the first and only edition of this uncommon classic (cited on pages 240-241 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I, pages 136-137 of The Hassleblad Center's "The Open Book: A History of the Photographic Book from 1878 to the Present", and pages 110-113 of "The Book of 101 Books") showing a bit of typical light age-toning to the pages, a slight dent through the lower foredge corner, wear to the top of the spine, and a previous owner's name in ink on the front pastedown. It's highly sulfurous chipboard covers are lightly browned, spotted, and a bit worn. The book's striking, notoriously fragile original paper dust jacket designed by Brodovitch is lacking, but has been replaced with a facsimile jacket meticulously executed by Woonsocket, Rhode Island's esteemed Dragonfly Bindery. It is housed in the Bindery's lavish custom brown cloth-over-boards clamshell presentation box with pastedowns reproducing the "Ballet" logo on the front cover and spine. All in all, this is a sharp, internally solid copy of one of the most lauded post-war American photography books aided by the addition of its jacket and presentation box that looks far nicer in hand than it describes. Inventory Number: 026050

(CALLE, SOPHIE). Calle, Sophie. New York, London, Rome & Hong Kong. 2007-2014.: Thea Westreich, 1991. First Edition #117/230. 4to. Decorative Boards, Boxed. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 18 b&w illustrations. Text in French and English. The most visually spectacular of her artist's books to date, "La Fille Du Docteur" is yet another exploration of the part autobiographical, part fictional personae of Sophie Calle. The work consists of sixteen facsimile cards of congratulation (purportedly) from colleagues of the artist's father upon the announcement of her birth. This was traditional amongst the French medical profession, and Calle's father was a physician. Or was he? Each of these cards is housed in a glassine envelope that faces a sequential photographic image printed on vellum of the artist performing a drunken striptease. These images conclude with the naked, comatose Sophie (who "will be a source of joy to her parents") sprawled in a heap. The book is bound as a faux leopard-skin album, which is in turn housed in a paper covered, chipboard box with a printed label. A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon 1991 first - and only - Thea Westreich edition (cited on pages 166-167 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and pages 352-353 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book") limited to two hundred and thirty copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED (117/230) in black ink on the publisher's label of limitation affixed to the final leaf, as issued. Inventory Number: 026681

(CASEY, BERNIE). Casey, Bernie. NP (Los Angeles): Self-Published, 1977. First Edition #14/130. Folio. Framed Lithographic Print. Artist's Multiple. Fine.. One 20 x 15" sheet of textured heavy art paper printed lithographically in colors, recto only. "Neighbors" is a 1977 lithograph by the noted late Los Angeles-based African-American artist, poet, and actor Bernie Casey. An All-American athlete at Bowling Green State University, Casey went on to a standout NFL career as a wide-receiver with the Los Angeles Rams. Following his retirement, he focused on his visual artwork as well as well as featured roles in such varied cinematic fare as "Cleopatra Jones", Black Gunn", "Hit Man", the James Bond film "Never Say Never", and "Revenge of the Nerds." A bright, most handsome example housed in a contemporaneous aluminum sectional frame with a glass face NUMBERED (#14/130), SIGNED "Bernie Casey", and DATED "77" by the artist in pencil along the lower margin, as issued. Inventory Number: 026267

(CASH FOR YOUR WARHOL). Cash For Your Warhol, dba Geoff Hargadon. NP (Boston, MA): Cash For Your Warhol, 2019. #5/10 Deluxe. Oblong Folio. Silkscreened Plastic Sign. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 12 x 18" corrugated plastic sheet silkscreened with ink, recto only. Originally spawned from the fallout of 2008's Global Economic downturn, "Cash For Your Warhol" is Boston-based Geoff Hargadon's take on art-as-commodity, an ongoing reference to financial crisis and the ubiquitous signage that responds to it. Introduced in 2009, his CFYW signs are screen-printed on corrugated plastic, mirroring the same materials and design principles used by the anonymous forces trying to profit on misfortune in order to acquire your house, car, and diabetic test strips. Hargadon's works bear an ever-evolving variety of wry phrases commingling the realms of art and finance. They are typically posted in the dead of night in the public sphere in proximity to Art exhibitions or Fairs, and gone by the next day: their temporal presence memorialized as hundreds of images posted to social media. A brand new, pristine example of the rare editioned version of ten copies only meant for sale in galleries acquired directly from the artist bearing the text "CASH for your WARHOL / Our prices are insane / (617) 553-1103" in blue ink on a white substrate BOLDLY SIGNED, ANNOTATED "CFYW Crazy Eddie", NUMBERED 5/10, AND DATED 2019 in black marker along the bottom edge of the verso, as issued. Inventory Number: 026231

(CASH FOR YOUR WARHOL). Cash For Your Warhol, dba Geoff Hargadon. NP (Boston, MA): Cash For Your Warhol, 2016. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. Oblong Folio. Silkscreened Plastic Sign. Artist's Multiple. As New. One 12 x 18" corrugated plastic sheet silkscreened with ink, recto only. Originally spawned from the fallout of 2008's Global Economic downturn, "Cash For Your Warhol" is Boston-based Geoff Hargadon's take on art-as-commodity, an ongoing reference to financial crisis and the ubiquitous signage that responds to it. Introduced in 2009, his CFYW signs are screen-printed on corrugated plastic, mirroring the same materials and design principles used by the anonymous forces trying to profit on misfortune in order to acquire your house, car, and diabetic test strips. Hargadon's works bear an ever-evolving variety of wry phrases commingling the realms of art and finance. They are typically posted in the dead of night in the public sphere in proximity to Art exhibitions or Fairs, and gone by the next day: their temporal presence memorialized as hundreds of images posted to social media. A brand new, pristine example acquired directly from the artist bearing the text "CASH for your WARHOL / From Canada - call collect! / (617) 553-1103" in red and blue ink on a white substrate BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED 2016 in black marker along the bottom edge of the verso, as issued. Inventory Number: 026217

(CASTEEL, JORDAN). Casteel, Jordan, Massimiliano Gioni. Dawoud Bey, Lauren Haynes, Amanda Hunt & Thelma Golden. Foreword by Lisa Phillips. New York: New Museum, 2020. First Edition. Small Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 410pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "This is the nicely appointed catalogue published in conjunction with artist Jordan Casteel’s first solo museum exhibition in New York. It surveys forty large-scale paintings from throughout her career, including works from the celebrated series "Visible Man" (2013-14) and "Nights in Harlem" (2017), along with recent cropped "subway paintings" and portraits of her students at Rutgers University-Newark. Whether depicting former classmates from Yale, nude and in serene repose; street vendors near her home in Harlem; anonymous New Yorkers huddled on the subway; or her own students, posed largely in domestic interiors among their personal belongings, she explores how both public and private spheres can serve as frames for an inner life. This generously illustrated, oversized publication is the first comprehensive monographic publication on Casteel’s work, and includes texts by Dawoud Bey, Amanda Hunt and Lauren Haynes as well as conversations conducted with the artist by Massimiliano Gioni and Thelma Golden." A brand new, most handsome example of this lovely, already out of print document. Inventory Number: 026896

(CATLETT, ELIZABETH). Lewis, Samella & Elizabeth Catlett. Foreword by Maxine Waters. Claremont, CA: Hancraft Studios, 1984. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/Near Fine. 194pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Robert Biddle. With a biography and bibliography. This is the lavishly produced 1984 monograph cum catalogue raisonné of the graphic work by the noted late African-American artist Elizabeth Catlett. Still the most comprehensive document of her printed work to date, it features a significant text by Samella Lewis with contributions by the artist along with scores of previously unpublished images. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon deluxe hardbound edition of this important publication limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (131/1000)  AND SIGNED "E Catlett" in silver ink on the front pastedown showing a bit of light wear and creasing to the dust jacket. Laid in is Catlett's graphically striking 9 ½ x 7 1/8" linoleum block print from 1983 entitled "Survivor" that is TITLED, NUMBERED, SIGNED, AND DATED "Survivor / 131/1000 / E Catlett '83" in pencil along the bottom margin, as issued. The sheet shows some light foxing along the top and right edges that in no way affects the print image. While the limitation states that one thousand of these deluxe versions were produced, its relative scarcity in the marketplace seems to indicate that only a portion were actually distributed, and it is increasingly unusual to find copies of the print still paired with the book. Additionally laid in is the publisher's "A Note on the Production on The Art of Elizabeth Catlett" brochure. 0-941248-06-2 Inventory Number: 025300

(CHRISTO). Javacheff, Christo. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Exhibition Poster. Fine.. One 33 ½ x 22 ½" kraft paper sheet printed offset recto only, machine folded in eighths and flattened, 1 b&w illustration. This is the poster issued by the Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with their 1968 exhibition "Christo Wraps the Museum: Scale Models, Photomontages, and Drawings for a Non-Event". The show presented preparatory materials generated for the artist's proposed wrapping of MoMA - a project that was ultimately abandoned due to safety and liability concerns. States the Museum's contemporaneous press release ""As an artist functioning more in the realm of 'events' than in that of painting and sculpture, it is not surprising that Christo should have dreamed that it was time to wrap up the Museum , and for that matter the trees, the sculptures, and even some of the spectators in its garden. The Museum staff found this a potentially lively and poetically strange project. But the more practical heads of the fire department, police department, and insurance agencies prevailed. Nevertheless, we felt that our public would enjoy seeing the models, photomontages, and drawings that Christo had prepared as sketches for this event, an event that was to have signaled the closing of the exhibition "Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage". A brand new, most handsome example of this graphically striking object we acquired directly from its original owner - a significant Los Angeles collector who became good friends with artist - for whom it was additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Christo 68" in orange crayon - that originally came folded, as issued, and has been subsequently flattened. The poster is accompanied by a Fine condition, unsigned example of the uncommon accompanying fourteen page MoMA exhibition catalogue. Inventory Number: 026503

(CLOSE, CHUCK). Close, Chuck. Gottingen, GERMANY: Little Steidl, 2017. First Edition #65/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in a Clamshell Box. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. np (18pp) + np (18pp) + 8pp. Two individually bound 110 ½ x 13 ½" nine-sheet leporellos printed by color offset lithography recto only, 18 color illustrations. Designed by Chuck Close and Nina Holland. "The idea of a book without words had resonance for Chuck Close. As a child, his severe dyslexia stood in the way of reading, making images all the more important. He remembers a visual encyclopedia from his early years and the feeling of being overtaken by the intensity of its pictures. The idea also resonated with his ongoing interest in revealing the process of his work, which he accomplishes largely through visual presentation, using very few words, if any. "Scribble Book" is a self-portrait that emerges step-by-step out of the printing process, one plate and one color at a time. The viewer follows a series of nine individual plate proofs - volume one - along with a corresponding series of nine progressive proofs - volume two. By comparing the plate proofs against the progressives, the viewer may ascertain not only the effect as one color is added to another to create the final nine-color portrait, but also the compositional decisions and careful modifications made by the artist at each stage of the project. A similar work was made with twelve plates and included in the exhibition "Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004 and was an immediate success. "Scribble Book" is presented in this deluxe edition as two accordion-fold books. The first shows the series of plate proofs, and the second the series of progressive proofs, culminating with a nine-color self-portrait. For those seeking a more detailed understanding of the process, these books are accompanied by a separate text in which the artist gives a personal account of his drawing process as recorded through printmaking." A brand new, pristine NUMBERED (65/100) AND SIGNED example of the 2017 first deluxe edition this exquisite undertaking consisting of three volumes in a silkscreened clamshell box limited to one hundred copies. 3-944630-00-9 Inventory Number: 026507

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

(COPPOLA, SOFIA). Coppola, Sofia & Takashi Homma. Tokyo: Magazine House Co., Ltd., 2003. First Japanese Edition. Oblong 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (36pp), 15 color illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by nana. "SC 2003 (Some Pictures) is a slender-yet-charming collection of fifteen intimate color images of friends and family (including mother Eleanor, brother Roman, niece Gia, then-husband Spike Jonze, Kirsten Dunst, Marc Jacobs, Jason Schwartzman, etc.) taken by noted director Sofia Coppola. Published only in Japan, it includes a brief text by her frequent collaborator, photographer Takashi Homma. A most handsome example of this uncommon, sweet little gem. Inventory Number: 026861

(CRUMB, R.). Crumb, Robert.. San Francisco: Modernism, 1990. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Printed Poster. Exhibition Poster. Fine.. One 32 x 17" sheet printed color offset recto only. This is the graphically striking poster published in conjunction with the 1990 R. Crumb exhibition entitled "Cartoons and Drawings 1975-1990" held at San Francisco's Modernism gallery. It reproduces on heavy coated stock the artist's cover for Chicago's Seed underground newspaper featuring Mr. Natural boldly exclaiming "The Whole Universe is Completely Insane!". A most handsome example of this delightful ephemeral item. Inventory Number: 026818

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

(DAVIS, NOAH) (JOSEPH, KAHLIL). Barnes, Maikoio Alley, Helen Molesworth, Henry Taylor & Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker. Seattle, WA: Frye Art Museum, 2016. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Artists Monograph. As New./As New.. 132pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "This catalogue is published by the Frye Art Museum on the occasion of the 2016 exhibition "Young Blood: Noah Davis, Kahlil Joseph, The Underground Museum". Celebrating the life and legacy of painter, curator, and visionary artist Noah Davis (1983-2015), "Young Blood" places Davis' work in the context of an ongoing visual dialogue with his elder brother, artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph. It features essays by Maikoiyo Alley-Barnes, curator of the exhibition; Helen Molesworth, Davis’ friend and fellow artist Henry Taylor, and Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, director emerita of the Frye Art Museum. Containing rich reproductions of the paintings, installations, sculptural, and filmic works in the exhibition, "Young Blood" is a celebration of black culture, spirituality, and creative legacy." A brand new, most handsome example of this important document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9889495-7-1 Inventory Number: 026904

(DE COINTET, GUY). de Cointet, Guy. NP (Los Angeles). ND (1972).: Self-Published. First Edition 1/700. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine.. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "A Captain From Portugal" is the first artist's book published by the late Parisian-born, Los Angeles-based conceptual and performance artist Guy de Cointet. It is comprised of primarily rune-like letterforms of a self-devised language with an example of music, and what appears to be a line of hieroglyphics thrown in. While it bears no publication details - nor in fact any English - it is noted as having been self-published by the artist in 1972 in an edition of seven hundred copies in Frederic Paul's authoritative 2014 Flammarion monograph "Guy de Cointet". A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only four copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - showing a bit of age-toning and soiling to its white wrappers. Inventory Number: 026837

(DE COINTET, GUY). de Cointet, Guy. NP (Los Angeles). ND (1973).: Self-Published. First Edition 1/600. 12mo. Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good.. np (75pp). In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is a quirky artist's book published by the late Parisian-born, Los Angeles-based Conceptual and performance artist Guy de Cointet. "Written" in his self-devised, unintelligible language, there are no illustrations, English, nor any publication details to be found here. It is noted as having been issued by the artist in an edition of six hundred copies in 1973 in the bibliography of Frederic Paul's "Guy de Cointet" published by Flammarion in 2014. A most handsome example of this uncommon item - only nine copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "For Peg / Guy de Cointet / Dec 16, '74" in red ink on the front free endpaper showing just a bit of wear and age-toning. Inventory Number: 026500

(DELANEY, BEAUFORD). Canterbury, Patricia Sue, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Ann E. Gibson, Michael D. Plante & Sylvain Briet. Minneapolis, MN: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2004. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 144pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a bibliography and exhibition history. This is the substantive catalogue issued in conjunction with the comprehensive 2004 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts retrospective of paintings by noted African-American artist Beauford Delaney. The most complete document of his work to date, this features dramatic color reproductions of both his early representational images as well as the later abstract work. A brand new, most handsome example. 0-912964-92-8 Inventory Number: 026738

(DRUKS, RENATE) (NIN, ANAIS). Nin, Anais & Renate Druks. NP (Malibu, CA): Concentric Circle Press, 1979. First Edition #15/100. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedowns. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 9 tipped color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The late Malibu-based, Viennese expatriate artist Renate Druks was among many things a confidante and occasional muse to legendary literary figure Anais Nin. In 1979, Druks self-published Nin's memoir of their friendship illustrated with nine tipped-in reproductions of her ethereal paintings in the vein of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo along with a cover collage. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first - and only - hardbound Concentric Circle Press edition limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (15/100) AND SIGNED "Renate Druks" in black ink on the verso of the title page, as issued. LC 79-53873 Inventory Number: 026669

(DUCHAMP, MARCEL). Hopps, Walter, Ulf Linde & Arturo Schwarz. Paris & Milan, ITALY: Le Terrain Vague & Galleria Schwarz, 1964. First Edition. Tall 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 100pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Italian, English and French. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with an important late-career 1964 retrospective exhibition of one hundred and eight readymades, multiples, and editions excecuted by Marcel Duchamp between 1913 and 1964 held at Milan's Galleria Schwarz. A most handsome example of this significant document featuring texts by Walter Hopps, Ulf Linde, and Arturo Schwarz housed in the publisher's unprinted black cardstock slipcase, as issued. Inventory Number: 026824

(EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Wagner, Bruce & William Eggleston. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 101pp, 45 color illustrations. Published in 1999, "2 1/4" is a beautifully designed and printed survey of Southern gentleman with a camera William Eggleston's color work with the 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ inch negative format. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe signed edition of fifty SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies accompanied by a signed 11 x 11" matted color dye-transfer print SIGNED AND NUMBERED inside a debossed cloth-over-boards clamshell box. 0-944092-70-5 Inventory Number: 026446

(ELIASSON, OLAFUR). Eliasson, Olafur. Bnn/filmart Sha, 2020. 19 x 26 cm. Paperback. Artist Monograph. New..
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(FERUS GALLERY). Turnbull, Betty & Walter Hopps. Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Very Good -.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Jerry McMillan. With a complete Ferus Gallery chronology. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This invaluable reference catalogue was produced in conjunction with a 1976 Newport Harbor Art Museum exhibition of sixty-two artworks celebrating Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps' visionary Ferus Gallery. During its ten year run, the gallery was home to such influential California artists as Robert Alexander, John Altoon, Billy Al Bengston, Wallace Berman, Streeter Blair,, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, Llyn Foulkes, Sonia Gechtoff, Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, James Kelly, Edward Kienholz, Frank Lobdell, John Mason, Edward Moses, Richard Pettibone, Kenneth Price, Philip Rich, Arthur Richer, Richards Ruben, Edward Ruscha, Paul Sarkisian, Hassel Smith, and Julius Wasserstein. It was also the site of Los Angeles exhibitions by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Ellsworth Kelly, and Joseph Cornell. The publication reproduces thirty-six of the gallery's highly sought-after announcement posters - many featuring photographs by Dennis Hopper - as well as vintage documentary and installation images. An otherwise tight, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item showing some mild foxing to the edges and extremities of the textblock. Inventory Number: 026617