Arcana:

(ARTFORUM). Sandback, Amy Baker, Editor. Ann Arbor, MI: U.M.I. Research Press, 1984. First Edition. Square 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fine/Good +. 342pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Roger Gorman and Mary Beath. Beginning with an Ed Kienholz review at the Ferus Gallery from its June 1962 inaugural issue, this is an amazing compendium of articles and reviews culled from the first twenty-one years of the noted art periodical "Artforum" featuring contributions by the stellar likes of Kate Steinitz, Henry T. Hopkins, Don Factor, Robert Pincus-Witten, Dennis Adrian, John Coplans, Hilton Kramer, Harold Rosenberg, Henry Geldzahler, John Cage, Walter Hopps, Ed Ruscha, Allan Kaprow, Robert Rosenblum, Dan Flavin, Sam Wagstaff, Billy Kluver, Lucy R. Lippard, Robert Rosenblum, Roger Shattuck, Ad Reinhardt, Mel Bochner, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Barbara Rose, Manny Farber, Michael Fried, Robert Morris, Philip Leider, Hollis Frampton, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Lawrence Alloway, Barbara Kruger, Jane Livingston, Lizzie Borden, Kenneth Baker, Laurie Anderson, Agnes Martin, Cindy Nemser, Sidney Tillim, Annette Michelson, Rosalind Krauss, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Roberta Smith, Peter Plagens, Peter Schjeldahl, j. Hoberman, Hal Foster, Richard Flood, Carter Ratcliff, Stuart Morgan, Max Kozloff, Donald Kuspit, Dan Graham, Walter De Maria, Komar & Melamid, Edit De Ak, Lawrence Weiner, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, Anselm Kiefer, Thomas McEvilley, Louise Bourgeois, Ingrid Sischy, and too many more to list. An internally most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition whose dust jacket shows some overall light wear, handling and scuffing. 0-8357-1536-1 Inventory Number: 014028

(ARTSCHWAGER, RICHARD). Armstrong, Richard. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in Association with W.W. Norton, 1988. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 166pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Anita Meyer. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with the massive 1998 Richard Artschwager retrospective that traveled from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art. It reproduces each of the one hundred and twelve exhibited paintings and sculptures executed by the pioneering late New York artist between 1962 and 1987. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Richard Artschwager" in black ink on the front pastedown. 0-393-02596-9 Inventory Number: 021823

(BROODTHAERS, MARCEL) (OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. First Edition Thus. 8vo. Debossed Buckram. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 212pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a bibliography. The forty-second installment of "October" from Fall 1987 was a special monographic issue devoted to Marcel Broodthaers that quickly sold out. Given the issue's importance, MIT chose to reprint it the following year as a trade publication minus the extraneous editorial content and advertisements. The contents of this version are Untitled Poem, Azure, Questions of Painting, Selections from Pense-Bete, Investigating Dreamland, Gare au defi: Pop Art, Jim Dine, and the Influence of Rene Magritte, To be bien pensant...or not to be. To be blind, An Interview by the Film Journal Trepied, Ten Thousand Francs Reward, and A Portfolio of Photographs - all by Marcel Broodthaers; Look! Books in Plaster! - Dieter Schwarz; Open Letters, Industrial Poems - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh; The Exhibition at the MTL Gallery in Brussels - Anne Rorimer; The Figures - Dirk Snauwaert; Section des Figures: The Eagle from the Oligocene to the Present - Rainer Borgemeister; Eagle/Pipe/Urinal - Michael Oppitz; Recourse to the Letter - Birgit Pelzer; "Pauvre Belgique: An Asterisk in History" - Yves Gevaert; DÉCOR: A Conquest by Marcel Broodthaers - Marcel Broodthaers; and Bibliography - Marie-Pascale Gildemyn. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon hardbound edition of this important document perfect for the Broodthaers completeist issued without a dust jacket. 0-262-02281-8 Inventory Number: 020748

(CLAXTON, WILLIAM) (GERNREICH, RUDI). Moffitt, Peggy & William Claxton. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1999. First Edition Thus. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Fashion Monograph. Fine/Fine. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. A labor of love by Peggy Moffitt and husband William Claxton, this is the coolest tribute to Los Angeles' visionary fashion designer - the man that brought us see-through, unisex garb, the topless swimsuit, and so much more! Moffitt was Gernreich's frequent model, collaborator, and muse. Claxton, best known for his Jazz and Hollywood work was also the primary photographer of the designer's collections for almost two decades; virtually all of the images here were taken by him. If you really want to know who made sixties fashion mod, op, pop and groovy, check this extraordinary book out. A most handsome example of the 1999 first Taschen edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "William Claxton" in black ink on the title page. 3-8228-7197-4 Inventory Number: 022022

(DINE, JIM). Dine, Jim & Constance W. Glenn. New York: Icon Editions - Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1979. First Edition, Second Printing. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. VG -.. 94pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the beautifully illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 1979 Long Beach Museum exhibition that was the first large-scale survey of Pop Art master Jim Dine's figurative pastels. A most presentable example of the second printing of the first edition showing just a bit of foxing to the front and rear endpapers. It has been priced accordingly. 0-06-430102-8 Inventory Number: 024005

(DINE, JIM). Dine, Jim & Constance W. Glenn. New York: Icon Editions - Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1979. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 94pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the beautifully illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 1979 Long Beach Museum exhibition that was the first large-scale survey of Pop Art master Jim Dine's figurative pastels. A handsome example of the first printing of the first edition showing a diagonal soft crease through the upper foredge corner of the rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. 0-06-430102-8 Inventory Number: 018003

(FAHLSTROM, OYVIND). Borja-Villel, Manuel J., Jean-Francois Chevrier, Immanuel Wallerstein, Octavi Rofes & Suely Rolnik. Barcelona, SPAIN & North Adams, MA: Museu D'Art Contemporani De Barcelona (MACBA) & Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MassMoCA), 2000. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 368pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the extensive catalogue published in conjunction with the massive 2000 Museu D'Art Contemporani De Barcelona Oyvind Fahlstrom retrospective that subsequently traveled to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and Newcastle's BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Filled with essays, and copiously illustrating virtually every work known to exist, it is the most comprehensive reference to date on the influential Swedish Pop practitioner who died in 1976 at the age of forty-eight. A pristine copy of the English language first edition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-9700738-3-6 Inventory Number: 020643

(FAHLSTROM, OYVIND). Hulten, Pontus, Oyvind Fahlstrom, Ilmar Laaban, Billy Kluver & Ragnar Von Holten. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 110pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the extensive catalogue published in conjunction with the comprehensive 1980 Oyvind Fahlstrom retrospective held at Stockholm's Moderna Museet that subsequently traveled to Paris' Centre Georges Pompidou. Copiously illustrated, it is also filled with numerous texts written by the influential Swedish Pop practitioner who died in 1976 at the age of forty-eight. A most presentable copy of the French language edition of this uncommon document showing some light wear and rubbing to the wrappers as well as a diagonal soft crease at the upper foredge corner of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. 2-85850-040-1 Inventory Number: 016826

(GRIEGER, SCOTT). Grieger, Scott. NP (Los Angeles): Self-Published, 1970. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Artist's Book. Very Good +.. Fifteen individual 7 ½ x 10 ¼" plates printed offset recto only, 15 b&w illustrations. Self-published in 1970, "Impersonations" is Los Angeles-based artist Scott Grieger's wildly hilarious, photographically illustrated artist's book of send-ups of iconic works by many of the then-prevailing luminaries of Pop, Conceptual and Minimal Art. Using the photographic studio and some darkroom magic, the hirsute Grieger clad in jeans, desert boots, and a white t-shirt substitutes himself for artworks ranging from a Barnett Newman "zip" to one of Robert Irwin's illuminated disc paintings. The fifteen artists receiving these wry homages are Ronald Bladen, Tony DeLap, Robert Grosvenor, Irwin, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Ernest Trova. The "Impersonations" photographs were subsequently shown in MoMA's landmark 1970 Conceptual Art exhibition "Information", the 1972 Whitney Annual, "Los Angeles '72" at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, and were the subject of a 2007 retrospective with catalogue at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. The work fits in nicely with parallel body-centric photographic excursions by the likes of Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden and Vito Acconci - albeit with a more overt tongue in cheek approach. A bright, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon - only five copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - and underappreciated gem whose glossy white printed paper portfolio shows some typical creasing along the edges along with a slight stain at the upper right corner of the rear panel. Inventory Number: 022630

(GRIEGER, SCOTT). Grieger, Scott. NP (Los Angeles): Self-Published, 1970. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Artist's Book. Very Good -.. Fifteen individual 7 ½ x 10 ¼" plates printed offset recto only, 15 b&w illustrations. Self-published in 1970, "Impersonations" is Los Angeles-based artist Scott Grieger's wildly hilarious, photographically illustrated artist's book of send-ups of iconic works by many of the then-prevailing luminaries of Pop, Conceptual and Minimal Art. Using the photographic studio and some darkroom magic, the hirsute Grieger clad in jeans, desert boots, and a white t-shirt substitutes himself for artworks ranging from a Barnett Newman "zip" to one of Robert Irwin's illuminated disc paintings. The fifteen artists receiving these wry homages are Ronald Bladen, Tony DeLap, Robert Grosvenor, Irwin, Les Levine, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Robert Morris, Newman, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, George Rickey, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson, and Ernest Trova. The "Impersonations" photographs were subsequently shown in MoMA's landmark 1970 Conceptual Art exhibition "Information", the 1972 Whitney Annual, "Los Angeles '72" at New York's Sidney Janis Gallery, and were the subject of a 2007 retrospective with catalogue at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University. The work fits in nicely with parallel body-centric photographic excursions by the likes of Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden and Vito Acconci - albeit with a more overt tongue in cheek approach. A bright, handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon - only five copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - and underappreciated gem whose plates all show four tiny puncture marks at the upper left-hand corner due to two removed staples, and whose glossy white printed paper portfolio shows some typical minor creasing along the edges along with a few small spots on the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020015

(GRIEGER, SCOTT). Grieger, Scott & Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1971. First Edition. 12mo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. One continuous 7 ½ x 11 ½" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, folded neatly in half to make 4pp, 1 b&w illustration. With an exhibition checklist. This is the slender four page brochure published in conjunction with a 1971 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ahmanson Gallery exhibition of five recent "combination" works by Scott Grieger. Expanding on his earlier "Impersonations" series, the Los Angeles-based artist takes aim here at prevailing luminaries and tropes of Pop, Conceptual and Minimal Art with five works that marry the iconic imagery of Frank Stella with Donald Judd, Robert Morris with Larry Poons, Morris Louis with Sol LeWitt, Barnett Newman with Frank Stella, and Jasper Johns with Donald Judd to amusing effect. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral item - only two copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 024815

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Ammann, Jean-Christophe. Salzburg, AUSTRIA & Dusseldorf, GERMANY: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac & Galerie Hans Mayer, 1988. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 39 duotone illustrations. Text in English and German. With a filmography, exhibition history and bibliography. Issued in conjunction with a 1988 touring European exhibition, this beautifully designed and printed catalogue was the second publication of Dennis Hopper's photographic work. It contains great shots of primarily the art, music, and film scenes in Sixties Los Angeles including eighteen not included in his previous volume - "Out of the Sixties". It includes images of the Civil Rights movement, bikers, and street scenes as well as portraits of Peter Fonda, Paul Newman, John Wayne and Dean Martin, Ike and Tina Turner, Joan Baez, Larry Bell, Bruce Conner, Teri Garr and Toni Basil, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Ed Kienholz, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, Allan Kaprow, Jean Tinguely, and more. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound first edition in pictorial boards (that shares the same ISBN as the paperback version) showing a mild crimp to the upper foredge tips along with just a bit of rubbing to the covers. It has been priced accordingly. 3-85562--015-6 Inventory Number: 025803

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Dennis, Michael McClure & Walter Hopps. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1986. First Edition 1/4000. 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Very Good. np, profusely illustrated in gravure. Designed by Jack Woody. With a filmography and exhibition history. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the new Hollywood. Issued in 1986 in gravure with the typically austere and lovely Twelvetrees Press aesthetic, "Out of the Sixties" was the first published collection of Hopper's photographs. Divided into "Artists and Collectors", "Hollywood", "Music", "Civil Rights March, Selma to Montgomery", "Mexico", and "The Scene", it is a tour de force view of the clash of the old and the new in sixties culture! An internally most handsome example of the first edition limited to four thousand unnumbered copies showing two short closed tears near the spine of the dust jacket. It has been priced accordingly. 0-942642-25-2 Inventory Number: 024194

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Dennis, Michael McClure & Walter Hopps. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1986. First Edition 1/4000. 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in gravure. Designed by Jack Woody. With a filmography and exhibition history. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the new Hollywood. Issued in 1986 in gravure with the typically austere and lovely Twelvetrees Press aesthetic, "Out of the Sixties" was the first published collection of Hopper's photographs. Divided into "Artists and Collectors", "Hollywood", "Music", "Civil Rights March, Selma to Montgomery", "Mexico", and "The Scene", it is a tour de force view of the clash of the old and the new in sixties culture! A most handsome example of the first edition limited to four thousand unnumbered copies. 0-942642-25-2 Inventory Number: 023098

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Dennis, Michael McClure & Walter Hopps. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1986. First Edition 1/4000. 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in gravure. Designed by Jack Woody. With a filmography and exhibition history. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the new Hollywood. Issued in 1986 with gravure plates and the typically austere and lovely Twelvetrees Press aesthetic, "Out of the Sixties" was the first published collection of Hopper's photographs. Divided into "Artists and Collectors", "Hollywood", "Music", "Civil Rights March, Selma to Montgomery", "Mexico", and "The Scene", it is a tour de force view of the clash of the old and the new in sixties culture! A bright, most handsome example of the first edition limited to four thousand unnumbered copies additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To the Woelffers / all of my Love of art to you / Dennis Hopper" in the year of publication in black ink below the photographer's introductory text accompanied by a post card announcement for the book's 11/5/86 publication party at West Hollywood's Book Soup. This was acquired by us directly from the library of the late, great Los Angeles artist and educator Emerson Woelffer who was a good friend and something of a mentor to the younger Dennis Hopper. 0-942642-25-2 Inventory Number: 021094

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Marin. Introduction by Brooke Hayward. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2001. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, 129 b&w illustrations. Designed by Dmitri Levas. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the New Hollywood. Published in 2001 by the late, great Greybull Press, "1712 North Crescent Heights" is the beautifully designed and printed successor to Hopper's "Out of the Sixties". Compiled by Dennis and Brooke Hayward's daughter Marin, it provides an incredible glimpse into the art, music, film and fashion scenes of Sixties L.A. as documented by a very talented observer. Candid photographs of the Hopper home and family are accompanied by portraits of Peter Fonda, Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda, Teri Garr and Toni Basil, Dianne Baker, Tuesday Weld, Bill Cosby, Sandy Dennis and George Segal, Steve McQueen, Bob Rafelson, The Buffalo Springfield, The Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Phil and Ronnie Spector, Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, Peggy Moffitt, Rudi Gernreich and Leon Bing, Bruce Conner, Irving Blum and Jasper Johns, Virginia Dwan, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Judd Marmor, and even 1967's "Riot on Sunset Strip". A brand new, most handsome example of this perennial must-have tome for any cultured bedside or coffee table. 0-9672366-5-7 Inventory Number: 025992

(HOPPER, DENNIS). Hopper, Marin. Introduction by Brooke Hayward. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2001. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np, 129 b&w illustrations. Designed by Dmitri Levas. Dennis Hopper was the young man with a camera in the right place at the right time in the New Hollywood. Published in 2001 by the late, great Greybull Press, "1712 North Crescent Heights" is the beautifully designed and printed successor to Hopper's "Out of the Sixties". Compiled by Dennis and Brooke Hayward's daughter Marin, it provides an incredible glimpse into the art, music, film and fashion scenes of Sixties L.A. as documented by a very talented observer. Candid photographs of the Hopper home and family are accompanied by portraits of Peter Fonda, Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda, Teri Garr and Toni Basil, Dianne Baker, Tuesday Weld, Bill Cosby, Sandy Dennis and George Segal, Steve McQueen, Bob Rafelson, The Buffalo Springfield, The Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Phil and Ronnie Spector, Ike and Tina Turner, James Brown, Peggy Moffitt, Rudi Gernreich and Leon Bing, Bruce Conner, Irving Blum and Jasper Johns, Virginia Dwan, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Judd Marmor, and even 1967's "Riot on Sunset Strip". Virtually all of the images in this must-have for any cultured bedside or coffee table are previously unpublished! A most handsome example from the deluxe edition of one hundred copies containing the 14 x 11" black and white photographic print "Love In Twins at 1712...1966" SIGNED AND NUMBERED (63/100) by Dennis Hopper in pencil on the verso in the publisher's orange linen clamshell box that shows just a bit of light wear and soiling. 0-9672366-5-7 Inventory Number: 021901

(JOHNS, JASPER).. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1978. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 12mo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Checklist. Fine.. 12pp, 10 b&w + color cover. This is the slender twelve page checklist cum exhibition brochure containing the details of the one hundred and thirty works exhibited at the 1978 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art showing of the massive Whitney Museum circulated Jasper Johns mid-career retrospective. A brand new, most handsome example of this ephemeral item that is supplemental to, but not to be confused with the actual exhibition catalogue authored by Michael Crichton. Inventory Number: 013015

(JOHNS, JASPER). Gemini G.E. L. Staff. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1975. First Edition. 12mo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Print Prospectus. Very Good.. np (28pp), 2 color and 14 b&w illustrations + cover. Designed by John M. Coy. This is one of Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L.'s lovely little print/multiple prospectuses announcing the 1975 publication of several Jasper Johns lithographs based on his four-panel painting "Untitled 1972". A most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024801

(KOSUTH, JOSEPH). DaRosa, Raquel, Clegg & Guttmann, Braco Dimitrievic, Cornelia Lauf, Paul Magriel & John C. Welchman. Cornelia Lauf, Editor. New York: Josh Bear Gallery, 1989. First Edition. 12mo. Die-Cut Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np, no illustrations. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1989 Josh Bear Gallery exhibition for the benefit of New York's Squat Theatre, the noted Conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth designed this elegant catalogue cum artist's book with a die-cut front cover printed on onionskin pages using typography much in the manner of his text-based wall pieces of the period. Curated by his wife Cornelia Lauf, the contemporary artists featured were Alan Belcher, Werner Buttner, Sarah Charlesworth, Braco Dimitrievic, Lili Dujourie, Clegg & Guttmann, Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Glenn O'Brien, Claes Oldenburg, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Eran Shaerf, Wolfgang Staehle, Haim Steinbach, and Jon Tower, alongside "older masters" "Anonymous", Ben Austrian, Charles Thomas Bale, Nicholas Alden Brooks, George Henry Hall, William Michael Harnett, Gasparo Lopez, John Peto, Henri Robbe, and Tobias Stranover. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 013276

(LAING, GERALD). Laing, Gerald. New York. ND (circa 1968).: On First (Gerald Laing & Bert Stern). First Edition. 4to. Printed Paper Plate in a Box. Artist's Multiple. Fine.. One 10 ¼" diameter paper plate screenprinted with lavender ink on white. This is one of four striking paper plate designs conceived by noted British Pop Artist Gerald Laing for the groovy late sixties New York boutique, On First. Located on First Avenue at 61st in Manhattan, the shop was the brainchild of noted fashion and advertising photographer Bert Stern who opened it with the idea of commissioning stylish-yet-inexpensive objects for the home and wardrobe from artists and fashion designers. The store was ultimately short-lived - closing its doors after little more than a year - leaving most of these plates neither distributed, nor seen again. A most handsome example of the lavender biomorphic circle variant of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral multiple (entry 68 in Lyndsey Ingram and Rupert Halliwell's "Gerald Laing: Prints & Multiples - A Catalogue Raisonné") beautifully presented in a 12 x 12 x 4" archival Artservices sixties-style Plexiglas display box / frame that can be hung on a wall or laid flat on a table. Inventory Number: 024864

(LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Coplans, John & Roy Lichtenstein. Acknowledgments by James Demetrion. Pasadena, CA & Minneapolis, MN: Pasadena Art Museum & Walker Art Center, 1967. First Edition 1/1700. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 64pp, 40 b&w and 9 color illustrations. Cover Designed by Roy Lichtenstein. With an exhibition checklist, biography, bibliography and exhibition history. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the stylish catalogue published in conjunction with the comprehensive 1967 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition that travelled from the Pasadena Art Museum's substantial to the Walker Art Center - the artist's first Museum retrospective. With a cover painted by Lichtenstein to resemble a student composition notebook, it features an essay by curator John Coplans, a transcribed interview with the artist, and dozens of reproductions of what have since become Pop Art masterpieces. A handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand, seven hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 024790

(LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Gemini G.E.L. Staff. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1970. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Print Prospectus. Near Fine.. np (4pp), 2 color illustrations. This is one of Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L.'s little print/multiple prospectuses announcing the publication of Roy Lichtenstein's two 1970 Art Deco-inflected sculptures in brass and wood entitled "Untitled Head I" and "Untitled Head II". A handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item. Inventory Number: 024906

(LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Kaprow, Allan. Valencia, CA: The California Institute of the Arts, 1977. First Edition 1/5000. Tall 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 112pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Louis Danziger. This is a nicely designed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition held at The California Institute of the Arts. It contains copious reproductions of paintings and preparatory works on paper along with photographs of the noted Pop artist at work and play in his Southampton studio. A handsome example showing some wear minor wear and surface abrasions at the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. LC 77-308 Inventory Number: 022865

(LICHTENSTEIN, ROY). Kaprow, Allan. Valencia, CA: The California Institute of the Arts, 1977. First Edition 1/5000. Tall 8vo. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 112pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Louis Danziger. This is a nicely designed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1977 Roy Lichtenstein exhibition held at The California Institute of the Arts. It contains copious reproductions of paintings and preparatory works on paper along with photographs of the noted Pop artist at work and play in his Southampton studio. A most handsome example showing just a bit of light wear along the spine. LC 77-308 Inventory Number: 022864

(LICHTENSTEIN, ROY) (PICASSO, PABLO). Geldzahler, Henry. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 1988. First Edition. 4to. 1/4 Tape Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (24pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Dan Miller Design. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with the 1988 Gagosian Gallery New York exhibition of five of Roy Lichtenstein's paintings after Pablo Picasso executed between 1962 and 1964. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 021767

(LINDNER, RICHARD) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Lord, James. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1977. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. Folio. Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Fine. 24pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French, with an English summary. 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 Richard Lindner's 1977 exhibition of paintings and watercolors. An internally bright, pristine example of the deluxe slipcased edition printed on Velin de Rives limited to one hundred and fifty copies NUMBERED (39/150) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "R Lindner" in pencil on the rear colophon housed in the publisher's purple paper-over-boards chemise and slipcase with printed pastedown. The magazine itself is in spectacular condition, the chemise bears mild sunning along the spine, while the slipcase shows light wear and similar mild sunning. Inventory Number: 024984

(MATSUMOTO, AKIRA). Matsumoto, Akira, Tsunehisa Hiruma, Masayoshi Homma & Makoto Nakamura. Tokyo: Gyarari Natsuhiko, 1991. First Edition 1/600 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 312pp, 358 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in Japanese and English. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the beautifully printed 1991 monograph on the noted Japanese Pop-turned-Abstract artist Akira Matsumoto. It contains essays by Tsunehisa Hiruma, Masayoshi Homma, and Makoto Nakamuraa along with a catalogue raisonné of works executed between 1960 and 1990. A most handsome numbered example (281/600) of the deluxe edition limited to six hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED by the artist in black ink on the title page with the SIGNED AND NUMBERED ORIGINAL COLOR SILKSCREEN PRINT "Arrangement (Inversion S 15)" laid in, in the publisher's gilt-debossed slipcase, as issued. Inventory Number: 022524

(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). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Good +.. 120pp, 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: Andy Warhol, or The Machine Perfected - Thierry de Duve; The Aesthetic Transformation of the Image of the Unimaginable - Gertrud Koch; Anselm Kiefer: The Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth - Andreas Huyssen; Fatal Attractions: Leni Riefenstahl's The Blue Light - Eric Rentschler; Contribution to Points of Reference 38/88 - Hans Haacke; The Monument is Invisible, the Sign Visible - Werner Fenz; A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 - Benjamin H. D. Buchloh. A handsome example showing a slight dent through the textblock at the upper foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. 0-262-75198-4 Inventory Number: 021663

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Annette Michelson & Terri L. Cafaro, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1989. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near Fine.. 142pp, 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: Mourning and Militancy - Douglas Crimp; Flaming Closets - Michael Moon; Kant with Sade - Jacques Lacan; From Breton to Dali: the Adventures of Automatism - Laurent Jenny; A Conversation with October - The V-Girls (Martha Baer, Erin Cramer, Jessica Chalmers, Andrea Fraser, Marianne Weems). A most handsome copy. 0-262-75201-8 Inventory Number: 021661

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 166pp, 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: Drawing Blanks: Notes on Andy Warhol's Late Works - Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Flou: Rayographs and the Dada Automatic - Susan Laxton, Speak, Painting: Word and Device in Early Johns - Harry Cooper, From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht's Events and the Conceptual Turn in Art of the 1960s - Julia Robinson, "It has to do with the theater": Bruce Conner's Ratbastards - Kevin Hatch, Remarks on Abstraction - Hubert Damisch, and In Memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) - Rosalind Krauss. A most handsome example. 0-262-75277-8 Inventory Number: 023562

(OLDENBURG, CLAES). Oldenburg, Claes & Barbara Rose. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1968. First Edition. 8vo. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Print Prospectus. Near Fine.. np (4pp) + 25 individual plates printed offset recto only, laid into an illustrated envelope, 12 color illustrations. This is one of Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L.'s lovely little print/multiple prospectuses announcing the publication of Claes Oldenburg's print portfolio of proposed monuments from 1968 entitled "Notes". It contains each of the twelve original works individually reproduced in miniature facsimile along with descriptive text by the legendary Pop artist. A bright, handsome example of this charming item showing some light soiling and creasing to its portfolio. Inventory Number: 022777

(OLDENBURG, CLAES). Oldenburg, Claes & Martin Friedman. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 10pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1975 Walker Art Center survey of six thematic bodies of work - "The Geometric Mouse", "Three Way Plug", "Fagends", "Clothespin", "Typewriter Eraser", and "Standing Mitt with Ball" - by noted Pop practitioner Claes Oldenburg. A most handsome example with the Walker's loose twelve page exhibition checklist laid in additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Claes Oldenburg" in black ink across the front free endpaper showing the tiniest bit of wear to the front cover. LC 75-7702 Inventory Number: 025791

(OLDENBURG, CLAES). Oldenburg, Claes & Melinda Wortz. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1976. First Edition. 4to. Rolled Printed Sheets. Print Prospectus. Fine.. Two 8 x 48" sheets joined to make a total 8 x 95" scroll printed in black and white offset recto and verso, 11 b&w illustrations. This is one of Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L.'s more unique print/multiple prospectuses announcing the publication of eight lithographs and a black urethane sculptural multiple after Claes Oldenburg's 1976 "The Soft Screw" project. A brand new, pristine example with the publisher's printed band of this exceedingly uncommon item - only six copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - still in its original cardboard Gemini mailing tube with plastic closures. Inventory Number: 024811

(OLDENBURG, CLAES) (VAN BRUGGEN, COOSJE) (GEHRY, FRANK O.). Celant, Germano, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen & Frank O. Gehry. Milano, ITALY: Edizioni Electa S.p.a., 1986. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Artists Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 230pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With a bibliography. This is the detailed monograph written by noted art historian Germano Celant documenting Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen, and Frank O. Gehry's collaborative theater cum performance piece "Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife)" that premiered at the 1984 Venice Biennale. The partcipants included, Oldenburg, Van Bruggen, Gehry, Celant, Pontus Hulten, John Miller, and much of Gehry's family. A bright, most handsome example of the paperbound Electa English language edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Claes O" in black ink across the title page with a two page Solomon R. Guggenheim press release.regarding their upcoming December 1986 exhibition of the "Knife Ship" from "Il Corso del Coltello" additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 025790

(OLDENBURG, CLAES) (VAN BRUGGEN, COOSJE). Oldenberg, Claes & Arne Glimcher. New York: Pace Gallery, 1992. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 109pp, 39 color (20 tipped-in plates) and 20 b&w llustrations, with illustrated endpapers. With an exhibition checklist, biography, chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the lavishly produced catalogue published in conjunction with Claes Oldenburg and Coosje Van Bruggen's first Pace Gallery exhibition in 1992. A most handsome copy. 1-878283-25-1 Inventory Number: 012316

(OLDENBURG, CLAES) (VAN BRUGGEN, COOSJE). Oldenburg, Claes & Coosje Van Bruggen. Essays by Susan P. Casteras, Vincent Scully, Gerhard Storck, Richard Cork & Donald Judd. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 1994. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. Large 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Catalogue Raisonné. As New/As New. 584pp, 420 color and 94 b&w illustrations. This is the catalogue raisonné through 1993 of the large scale and public works executed by Pop Art master Claes Oldenburg with his wife and collaborator Coosje Van Bruggen. A brand new, most handsome example (entry number two hundred and fifty-three in Richard Axsom and David Platzker's "Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg - A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996") from the deluxe edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies NUMBERED (200/250) AND BOLDLY SIGNED by both Oldenburg and Van Bruggen in pencil on the rear colophon containing the 11 ¼ x 8 ¼" color lithograph entitled "Sketch for a Sculpture in the Form of a Dress Collar and Tie, with Stud" (a preliminary study for their monumental project to be installed in front of Frank O. Gehry's Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2005) SIGNED AND DATED "C.O. '94", AND NUMBERED (200/250) in pencil on the recto laid in a paper portfolio, in the publisher's slipcase, as issued. 1885254040 Inventory Number: 024089

(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1987. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Contemporary Art Periodical. Good./OUT OF PRINT. ca. 200pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. A most presentable copy of the twelfth issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly largely devoted to Andy Warhol showing a bit of unobtrusive bubbling to the laminate of the rear cover along with mild rippling to the bottom edge of the last few pages of the textblock due to contact with moisture. It has been priced accordingly. 3-907509-62-5 Inventory Number: 018728

(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 2000. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Contemporary Art Periodical. Fine.. ca 250pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. A brand new, pristine example of the fifty-eighth issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-907582-08-X Inventory Number: 011784