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(SMITHSON, ALINE). Smithson, Aline. Foreword by Karen Sinsheimer. Introduction by Paula Tognarelli. Toronto, CANADA: The Magenta Foundation, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 216pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w, full edge gilt. "Self & Others - Portrait as Autobiography" is a near-twenty year culmination of portrait photographs captured by award-winning photographer, writer, and educator Aline Smithson. It begins with her earliest black and white silver gelatin prints in which she photographs the world around her considering the poignancy of childhood and the pathos of aging and relationships. The book continues with her hand-painted photographs - including her defining series - "Arrangement in Green and Black: Portrait of the Photographer's Mother" - where she combines humor and family to create a universal expression of motherhood. The book is completed by her most recent color projects that revisit beauty, the essence of childhood, and an examination of created realities. Aline brings a background in painting and fashion to her images, but at the heart of her work is her ability to recognize the inner self of her subjects. The photographer considers all her portraits a reflection of herself and the stories she wants to tell, and in that way, has created a visual language that is her own unique autobiography". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2015 first edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Aline Smithson 2015" in the year of publication in black marker on the title page at Arcana with a packet of postcards by the photographer laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-926856-06-6 Inventory Number: 025519

(BEE, OLIVIA). Bee, Olivia & Tavi Gevinson. New York: Aperture, 2015. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 136pp, 73 color illustrations, full edge silver gilt. Designed by Nitework. "Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom, and adventure. Her first book, "Kids in Love" showcases two bodies of photographic work. "Enveloped in a Dream" is the series that first brought Bee recognition as a teenager. It offers a visual diary of girlhood friendship and the exploration of self, showcasing the photographer's unique ability to convey the bittersweet nostalgia of adolescence on the brink of adulthood and new possibilities. The second body of work, "Kids in Love", is drawn from recent work and continues Bee's chronicle of her circle of friends and new loves, capturing both the pleasures and terrors of the fleeting passage of romanticized youth. "Rookie" editor and Bee's frequent collaborator and model, Tavi Gevinson writes about the role of Bee's photographs as social currency in today's image-driven world". A brand new, most handsome example of the first printing of this charming edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by Olivia Bee with drawings of two hearts in silver marker and Tavi Gevinson in black ink on the title page. 1-59711-345-X Inventory Number: 025493

(SAMMALLAHTI, PENTTI). Demos, John & Mario Peliti, Editors. Preface by Finn Thrane. London & Santa Monica, CA: Dewi Lewis Publishing & Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2012. First Edition 1/45 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 256pp, 200 illustrations in duotone and color. Text in English. With a biography and bibliography. Published in 2012, "Here Far Away" is the exquisitely beautifully produced book that is the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of renowned Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2013 first printing issued by the Peter Fetterman Gallery as a "Collectors' Edition" limited to forty-five copies of the first English language edition of the book BOLDLY SIGNED "Pentti Sammallahti" in black ink on the title page accompanied by an archivally matted original photograph housed in the publisher's NUMBERED (34/45) cloth solander box with an inset pictorial pastedown as well as a UNIQUE SIGNATURE by the photographer in white ink on the front. Produced in an edition of fifteen copies with one of three different images, this contains the 8 x 10" gelatin silver print entitled "Pyhajarvi, Finland (Horse and Barn)" which has been SIGNED AND DATED "Pentti Sammallahti 1982" in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-907893-26-1 Inventory Number: 025486

(SAMMALLAHTI, PENTTI). Demos, John & Mario Peliti, Editors. Preface by Finn Thrane. London & Santa Monica, CA: Dewi Lewis Publishing & Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2012. First Edition #3/45 Deluxe. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 256pp, 200 illustrations in duotone and color. Text in English. With a biography and bibliography. Published in 2012, "Here Far Away" is the exquisitely beautifully produced book that is the most comprehensive survey to date on the work of renowned Finnish photographer Pentti Sammallahti. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2013 first printing issued by the Peter Fetterman Gallery as a "Collectors' Edition" limited to forty-five copies of the first English language edition of the book BOLDLY SIGNED "Pentti Sammallahti" in black ink on the title page accompanied by an archivally matted original photograph housed in the publisher's NUMBERED (3/45) cloth solander box with an inset pictorial pastedown as well as a UNIQUE SIGNATURE by the photographer in white ink on the front. Produced in an edition of fifteen copies with one of three different images, this contains the 8 x 10" gelatin silver print entitled "Two Birds on Branch" which has been TITLED, SIGNED AND DATED "t.p.l'a / Pentti Sammallahti 2002" in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-907893-26-1 Inventory Number: 025484

(CAPA, CORNELL). Whelan, Richard. Introduction by Peter Fetterman. Afterword by Cornell Capa. Santa Monica, CA: Peter Fetterman Gallery, 2002. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, 27 duotone illustrations. "Cornell Capa the photographer has long been overshadowed by Cornell Capa the founder and director of the International Center of Photography, New York, and by Cornell Capa the brother of Robert Capa. This beautiful clothbound book filled with twenty-seven of his most intelligent, compassionate, formally striking images promises to bring the photographer his due. He once told "Camera" magazine, "Single photographs are not what I do best. My most effective work is groups of photographs which hang together and tell stories." Nevertheless, the pictures included here sum up and transcend those stories. Imbued with the very essence of the specific situations or person that they portray, yet simultaneously resonant with universal human experience, they mark Cornell Capa as what he called a "concerned photographer" - one who is passionately dedicated to doing work that will contribute to the understanding and well-being of humanity". A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe 2002 first printing issued by the Peter Fetterman Gallery limited to fifty copies NUMBERED (38/50) AND SIGNED "Cornell Capa" accompanied by a cloth chemise containing the matted 7 ½ x 5 ¼ silver print entitled "Bolshoi Ballet School" similarly NUMBERED (38/50) AND SIGNED on the verso housed in the publisher's silver gilt-stamped slipcase still in its original shrinkwrap. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9712765-0-1 Inventory Number: 025483

Baldwin, Gordon. Malibu, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochure. Near Fine.. One 8 ¾ x 32" cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8pp, 4 duotone illustrations. This is the slender eight page brochure produced to accompany "Fame and Photography"; a 1993 exhibition of prints by Nadar, Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen and Man Ray drawn from the J. Paul Getty Museum Department of Photography's vast holdings. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 025459

(BRODERSON, MORRIS). Seldis, Henry J.. South Pasadena, CA: Nutshell Press, 1961. First Edition. Folio. Loose Plates in a Portfolio. Artist Monograph. Good +.. Ten individual 12 ¾ x 9 ¾" sheets printed recto only, 10 b&w illustrations. With a biography, exhibition history and collections listing. Issued in 1961, this is one of the very few monographic publications on Morris Broderson - one of the major figures in Los Angeles' active figurative art scene of the fifties and sixties. It beautifully reproduces ten monochrome drawings as loose plates (suitable for framing) that show the artist firmly in the debt of Rico Lebrun. These are accompanied by a short essay by Henry J. Seldis, and housed in a printed paper portfolio. An internally handsome example of this uncommon item whose printed portfolio shows some mild creasing, age-toning, light soiling, a few short closed tears, and a separation along the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 025457

(STERLING, JOSEPH). Sterling, Joseph. Introduction by David Travis. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2005. First Edition 1/5000. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 136pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Dmitri Levas. "From 1959 to 1964 Joseph Sterling photographed teenagers - mostly in and around Chicago - hanging out after school, at drive-ins, in fast cars. As Sterling himself defined it, "the world of the adolescent is totally interlaced within itself and incapable of freeing itself . . . It whirls, rolls, and engulfs what it is allowed to engulf." During that bridging period between postwar peace and prewar upheaval, Sterling was a student himself at Moholy-Nagy's Institute of Design in Chicago, where he studied photography under Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer with classmates Yasuhiro Ishimoto and Ray Metzker. Along with an essay by David Travis, Curator of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago since 1972, "The Age of Adolescence" collects more than one hundred images of a time that's both historically important and emotionally resonant, one in which, as Sterling says, "opportunity is revealed and must be exploited". A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Joseph Sterling / 12-1-05" in the year of publication black ink on the half title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9727788-5-3 Inventory Number: 025456

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1996. First Edition 1/2500. Small 4to. Leather and Fabric Portfolio. Fashion Quarterly. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, loose plates laid into a Louis Vuitton printed leather and fabric portfolio, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Greg Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Published in an edition of two thousand, five hundred copies, this is the sixteenth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. Dubbed the "Fashion Special", it is perhaps the most highly prized issue of all. It features forty-five fashion spreads from the Fall - Winter 1996 collections as seen by many of the world's most notable editorial photographers and illustrators - all packaged within an elegant fabric-lined leather portfolio case with a wood and shoelace closure made exclusively for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. The contents include Alexander McQueen as captured by Steven Klein, Azzedine Alaia by Jean Paul Goude, Comme Des Garcons by Craig McDean and M/M, Daryl K by Inez Von Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Elsa Peretti by Miles Aldridge, Geoffrey Beene by Mario Sorrenti, Gucci by Hiroshi Tanabe, Helmut Lang by Nan Goldin, Hussein Chalayan by Juergen Teller, Isaac Mizrahi by Larry Fink, Isabel Toledo by Ruven Afanador, Jean Colonna and Patricia Field by Ellen Von Unwerth, John Bartlett by Terry Richardson, Marc Jacobs by Jack Pierson, Shunichiro Arakawa by Hiromix, Viktor + Rolf by Viktor + Rolf, Vivienne Westwood by Ruben Toledo, Yves Saint Laurent by Mario Testino, and many, many more. Visionaire's own price for this quickly out-of-print back issue is $5,000.00 - when available. A brand new, pristine NUMBERED (2368/2500) example of this beautiful and desirable object acquired directly from Visionaire whose contents are still shrinkwrapped with the publisher's printed obi in its original unprinted shipping carton. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025439

(STELLA, FRANK). Leider, Philip. Fort Worth, TX: The Fort Worth Museum of Art, 1978. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 136pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed By Edward Ruscha. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 Frank Stella survey circulated by The Fort Worth Museum of Art. Designed by Ed Ruscha, it reproduces each of the twenty-six exhibited works in color. A most handsome example. LC 77-23703 Inventory Number: 025437

(CORNELL, JOSEPH). Starr, Sandra Leonard & Takashi Hiraide. Tokyo: Shigeru Yokota Inc., 2003. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Loose Contents in a Portfolio. Artist Monograph. As New.. np, 5 color & 1 b&w illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the slender yet elegant document consisting of loose enclosures housed in a printed paper portfolio published in conjunction with a posthumous 2003 Tokyo gallery exhibition of Joseph Cornell's box constructions, collages, and publications. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to five hundred NUMBERED (466/500) copies. Inventory Number: 025429

(SMITH, ALEXIS). Smith, Alexis & Edgar Allan Poe. NP (Los Angeles?). ND.: Self-Published. First Edition. 24mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Livre D'Artiste. Fine.. np (32pp), 16 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is noted Los Angeles-based artist Alexis Smith's charming, charmingly tiny - 3 x 2 ¼" - self-published mid-seventies livre d'artiste cum artist book that cryptically illustrates Edgar Allan Poe's short poem "Alone". A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon gem. Inventory Number: 025408

(DWECK, MICHAEL). Dweck, Michael & Rusty Drumm. New York: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 2004. First Edition 1/5000. Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 200pp, 201 duotone and 15 color illustrations. Designed by Jeremy Miller. "Published in 2004, Michael Dweck's first major photographic work portrays the old New York fishing community of Montauk and its surfing subculture. "The End: Montauk, N.Y." is an American version of the Arcadian vision. Blending nostalgia, fantasy, and documentation, these striking photographs from the dunes of its secret surfing haunts present a paradisiacal narrative about summer and youth; portraying a compelling portrait of a place in time and a way of life at once fading and being reinvented with each new season. Fueled by its groundbreaking narrative form, and now-iconic images like the cover's nude, "Sonya", the first printing became an instant classic". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon 2004 Harry N. Abrams first printing of this stunning tome limited to five thousand copies still in the publisher's printed vellum cover band. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8109-5008-1 Inventory Number: 025405

(BOURGEOIS, LOUISE). Gorovoy, Jerry. New York: Bellport Press, 1986. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (24pp), profusely illustrated in monochrome. Designed by John Cheim, Jerry Gorovoy & Thomas Whitridge. This is the elegantly designed, beautifully printed 1986 catalogue published by John Cheim's Bellport Press on the sculptural work of Louise Bourgeois. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "to Neil / Polen. / Best wishes / L." in the artist's spidery script in black ink on the title page. Neil Polen was the imposingly tall, shaven-headed New York art scene regular that used to attend virtually all the major gallery and museum openings in the eighties and nineties, approach the evening's artist(s) with an array of books and catalogues to sign, then offer the inscribed treasures for sale from his semi-permanent table in front of Dean & DeLuca in Soho. We obtained this directly from the late, great Mr. Polen prior to his passing. Inventory Number: 025400

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

(NOVIKOV, TIMUR). Novikov, Timur, Olesya Turkina & Victor Mazin. Moscow & Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Avant Garde Moscow & the Stedelijk Museum, 1993. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 72 + 52pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Russian. Designed by Anna Brochet. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is an elaborately designed exhibition catalogue cum artist's book published in conjunction with a 1993 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presentation of recent pieces by Russian contemporary artist Timur Novikov. Bound into a heavy, gilt-embossed grey chipboard cover is one bi-lingual catalogue printed on butcher paper featuring writings by the artist as well as Victor Mazin and Olesya Turkina, and another containing color reproductions of the exhibited works. A bright, most handsome example of the first edition limited to one thousand unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 025389

(GOBER, ROBERT). Simon, Joan & Catherine David. Paris: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 88pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. With an exhibition checklist, history, bibliography and biography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a comprehensive 1991 Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume exhibition in Paris of sculptural and installation works by idiosyncratic American artist Robert Gober that later traveled to Spain's Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia. A brand new, most handsome example. 2-908901-04-8 Inventory Number: 025387

(BRAVO, CLAUDIO). March, David. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 32pp, 28 color illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, biography, collections listing and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 Marlborough Gallery exhibition of twenty-nine photo-realist paintings and pastels by renowned Chilean-born, Moroccan-based artist Claudio Bravo. A most handsome example. 0-89797-055-1 Inventory Number: 025382

(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond & Nelson Tarpenny. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 2000. First Edition 1/2000. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (232pp), 153 monochrome illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Thinking of You" is Raymond Pettibon's hefty artist book cum catalogue comprised solely of Phallus drawings with text published in conjunction with the renowned artist's 1999 exhibition held at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago. The images are reproduced one to a page - rectos only - with the occasional reproduction on the verso of student papers Mr. Pettibon seemed to be grading as part of teaching duties at Los Angeles Harbor College in the eighties. A bright, most handsome example (entry number one hundred and eight in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978 - 98") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Raymond Pettibon" in black ink on the title page which the artist has then altered by drawing in different faces in the four letters O in the printed title. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-941548-38-4 Inventory Number: 025381

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd & Katya Tylevich. Amsterdam & Eindhoven, THE NETHERLANDS: Galerie Alex Daniels - Reflex Amsterdam, 2015. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Alex Daniels and Todd Hido. Published in conjunction with a 2015 Amsterdam gallery exhibition, "Khrystyna's World" is Todd Hido's paean to his persona-shifting, frequently lingerie-clad collaborator of the past decade - model Khrystyna Kazakova. With a nod to Andrew Wyeth's iconic "Christina's World", this exquisite hardbound volume uniquely captures grey winter skies, suburban alienation, the erotic gaze, and a fluffy white Persian cat. A brand new, pristine example of the unavailable first printing limited to five hundred unnumbered copies acquired directly from the photographer additionally BOLDLY SIGNED 'Todd Hido" in silver ink on the title page. 90-71848-22-1 Inventory Number: 025378

(WOOD, JONAS). Holte, Michael Ned, Ana Vejzovic Sharp & Jonas Wood. New York, Los Angeles & Brooklyn: Anton Kern, David Kordansky & PictureBox, 2012. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Familiar. This is the nicely appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition of work by the noted Los Angeles-based artist Jonas Wood. It features an essay by Michael Ned Holte, a transcribed interview between the artist and Ana Vejzovic Sharp, and scores of color illustrations. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2012 first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jonas Wood / 2015" INCORPORATING A DRAWING OF A BASKETBALL as the 0 of the date in black marker on the title page. 0-9837199-3-4 Inventory Number: 025359

(JOHNSON, RAY). Wilson, William S., Charles Stuckey, Ellen Levy & Frances Beatty. New York. 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 & 2011.: Richard L. Feigen & Co.. First Editions. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monographs. Fine.. np (14pp) + np (14pp) + np (14pp) + np (22pp) + 22pp, each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With chronologies. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. This is a set of the monographic catalogues issued in conjunction with the five Richard L. Feigen & Co. exhibitions of work from the Estate of Ray Johnson held between 2006 and 2011. They are titled "Ray Johnson: En Rapport" (2006), "Ray Johnson: The Early Years" (2007), "Ray Johnson: Challenging Rectangles" (2008), "Dear Ray Johnson" (2010), and "Ray Johnson: What's in a Name?" (2011), and feature texts about the Fluxus and Correspondence Art titan by William S. Wilson, Charles Stuckey, and Ellen Levy. A brand new, most handsome set of the five. Inventory Number: 025345

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

Veigas, Jose, Cristina Vives, Adolfo V. Nodal, Valia Garzon & Dannys Montes De Oca. Los Angeles: California / International Arts Foundation, 2002. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Art Monograph. Fine/Fine. 576pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With biographies, exhibition histories, bibliography and accompanying CD-ROM which contains artist biographies. "Memoria: Cuban Art of the 20th Century" is the first comprehensive publication on Twentieth Century Cuban art. For the first time, more than four hundred and fifty major Cuban artists from 1902 to the present are unified in this reference. Along with painting and sculpture, it includes the work of primitive or naive artists, together with engraving, photography, graphic design, comic drawings, ceramics, illustrations, installation and performance art. "Memoria" includes a compilation of the most significant critical writing and historical texts about Cuban art by authors from around the world, considering the effect of economic, cultural, social and political phenomena on Cuban art. Reproductions of artists' works - with critical commentary - are featured, along with an extensive bibliography including one thousand references for publications on Cuban art. There is also a chronology of nearly one hundred major exhibitions of Cuban art in the Twentieth Century, with a descriptive and analytical account of each exhibition and its participants. "Memoria" features never before seen photographs of exhibitions, artists, posters, catalogues and exhibition-related ephemera. It contains a CD-ROM which contains a comprehensive biographical listing of Cuban artists. The extensive information in this volume will be indispensable to those with an interest in Cuban art; it is supported by the valuable collection of material in the Jose Veigas Archive of Cuban Art in Havana, considered to be the single most comprehensive repository of information on Cuban artists and one of Cuba's most precious cultural treasures. Where there has been division and scattered sources of information, "Memoria" unifies biographical material and references for each artist, including those who have developed their artistic careers outside Cuba". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon English language edition. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-917571-11-8 Inventory Number: 025319

(CASSANDRE, A.M.) (DEBERNY ET PEIGNOT). Cassandre, A.M. Maximilien Vox, Editor. Paris. 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931 & 1933.: Fonderies Deberny et Peignot. First Editions. 4to. Loose Contents in Wrappers. Graphic Design Monographs. Very Good. or Better. np + np + np + np + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. Deberny et Peignot were perhaps the premier modernist type foundry in Art Deco period Paris. Their designer of choice was the renowned French illustrator A.M. Cassandre. To promote Deberny et Peignot's typefaces, the firm published the lavish "Divertissements Typographiques" on an annual basis between 1928 and 1933 - skipping 1932. Thematically entitled "Travaux De Ville", "Publicite", "Edition", "Europe et le Studio", and "Pharoaon", each installment contains several stylish Cassandre-designed components laid into a graphically striking heavy paper portfolio. A bright, exceptionally well-preserved complete set of all five Fonderies Deberny et Peignot editions showing the occasional bit of minor wear, soiling, and age-toning. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value- we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025314

(MULL, MARTIN). Lumpkin, Libby, Gail Levin & Tina Yapelli. Las Vegas, NV: Las Vegas Art Museum, 2006. First Edition. Small Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 120pp, profusely illustrated in color. With a chronology, exhibition history and exhibition checklist. This is the beautifully illustrated, comprehensive retrospective catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2006 traveling Museum exhibition of forty-four paintings on canvas executed between 1984 and 2006 by the supremely multi-talented Mr. Mull. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition additionally SIGNED "Martin Mull" in black ink on the front pastedown with the announcement for the Las Vegas Art Museum opening laid in. 0-9774861-1-7 Inventory Number: 025308

(WELLING, JAMES). Welling, James, Sylvia Lavin & Noam M. Elcott. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2010. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 45 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Victor Hu: Green Dragon Office. "From 2006 to 2009, James Welling photographed the Glass House, the landmark architectural estate that Philip Johnson built in New Canaan, Connecticut in 1949. Welling's photos offer a decided departure from the familiar views of the house and grounds. Using digital cameras set on a tripod and holding a variety of filters in front of the lens, he created tinted veils and distortions that transformed the image at the moment of exposure, endowing it with powerful swells of glowing color. As Welling described it, the use of filters enabled his project to become "a laboratory for ideas about transparency, reflectivity and color". This lovely hardbound monograph also includes an essay by Noam M. Elcott as well as a transcribed interview between the photographer and noted architectural historian Sylvia Lavin about the project. A most handsome example of the 2010 Damiani first edition additionally SIGNED "James Welling" in black ink on the rear colophon. 88-6208-161-8 Inventory Number: 025303

(KIPPENBERGER, MARTIN). Kippenberger, Martin. Renate Damsch-Wiehager, Editor. Esslingen & Ostfildern, GERMANY: Villa Merkel (Galerie Der Stadt Esslingen Am Nektar) & Cantz Verlag, 1996. First Edition 1/1900. Small Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in German and English. This is another wry Martin Kippenberger artist's book published in conjunction with his 1996 Villa Merkel exhibition of photographs from the series "16 Years of Beds". A most handsome example (entry number one hundred and forty in Uwe Koch's "Annotated catalogue raisonné of the Books by Martin Kippenberger 1977 - 1997") limited to one thousand, nine hundred unnumbered copies.. 3-89322-900-0 Inventory Number: 025284

(SOTH, ALEC). Soth, Alec, Aaron Schuman & Kate Bush. London: MACK, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Decorative Box. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jackets - As Issued.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lewis Chaplin. "Alec Soth's reputation as one of the leading lights of contemporary photographic practice is largely predicated on the books he has published. This unusual catalogue accompanies a 2015 touring exhibition which uses the four major bodies of work which Soth has published as books since 2004 as the structural basis for both a mid-career retrospective and an investigation of Soth's prescient understanding of the various and distinct applications of photography as a tool for storytelling across diverse media. The title of the exhibition comes from Walt Whitman's poem 1855 "Song of Myself" and references both the pages of his books gathered for consideration, and the notion that his work is also a story about Soth himself. This catalogue is a special object, bringing together an essay by Aaron Schuman spread across twenty-nine large format postcards, an additional card printed with an introduction by Kate Bush - curator of the exhibition and the director of Media Space, London, with mini facsimile versions of Soth's "Sleeping by the Mississippi", "Niagara", "Broken Manual", and "Songbook". A brand new, most handsome example of the now unavailable first edition (cited on page 260 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Alec Soth / 2015" in black ink in the year of publication on the inside front cover of its decorative box. 1-910164-36-4 Inventory Number: 025273

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward, Mason Williams & Patrick Blackwell. Los Angeles. 1967 (1971).: Self-Published. Third Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Spiral Bound Wrappers. Artists' Book. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (60pp), 35 b&w photographs. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. What happens when Ed Ruscha, Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell perform and document a Consumer Reports-style crash test involving a Royal manual typewriter ejected from a 1963 Buick LeSabre traveling at ninety miles per hour along US Highway 91..? "Royal Road Test" - a must-have artists' book for road-trip and Conceptual Art enthusiasts alike! A bright, most handsome example of the 1971 third edition (entry B6 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999" which is also cited on pages 198-201 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book") limited to two thousand unnumbered copies issued without glassine wrapper additionally SIGNED "Edward Ruscha" in black ink on the front free endpaper. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025271

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

Ghez, Susanne, Karen Marta and Stephen Ellis, Glenn O'Brien, Ian Brunskill & Gary Garrels. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 1989. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. As New.. np (32pp), 21 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. Designed by Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool in collaboration with Michael Glass Design, Inc. With an exhibition checklist. This is the engaging, "Windy City"-themed catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago exhibition of then-recent works by the kindred trio of Georg Herold, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool. It features a series of brief-but-lively texts by Susanne Ghez, Karen Marta and Stephen Ellis, Glenn O'Brien, Ian Brunskill, and Gary Garrels along with reproductions of the exhibited pieces that invoke such Chicago icons as Al Capone and Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City Apartments. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 0-941548-18-X Inventory Number: 025245

(WILLIAMS, ROBT.). Williams, Robert. Introduction by Meg Linton. San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Jill Von Hartmann. "Through Prehensile Eyes" is a collection of Robert Williams' fifty-eight then-recent paintings first exhibited at New York's Tony Shafrazi Gallery and subsequently shown in May 2005 at the Ben Maltz Gallery at Los Angeles' Otis College of Art. The images range from the artist's familiar lowbrow and biker culture, stretching deep into a faux science of quantum mechanics leaving the viewer in a world of scientific mindplay. Robert Williams sprang from the custom car culture of Southern California and was one of the original Zap Comix artists. He transcended the constraints of both, mastering oils and forging a career as the preeminent artist among a generation of imagist painters. After singlehandedly becoming the model of Lowbrow Art, Williams has now penetrated the inner sanctum of the fine arts movement. A brand new, most handsome example of the unavailable 2005 first edition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-86719-516-9 Inventory Number: 025229

(RUBINS, NANCY). Rubins, Nancy. Vienna, AUSTRIA: Galerie Krinzinger, 1992. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 16pp, 6 color and 6 b&w illustrations. Text in English. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with four projects the noted sculptor and installation artist sculptor Nancy Rubins presented as part of the 1992 Viennese gallery exhibition of Los Angeles-based artists entitled "LAX". A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of light wear to its covers. Inventory Number: 025223

(RAUSCHENBERG, ROBERT). Alloway, Lawrence. Foreword by Joshua C. Taylor. Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts & Smithsonian Institution, 1976. First Edition. Small 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 218pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With an exhibition checklist. This is the comprehensive catalogue published in conjunction with the 1976 Robert Rauschenberg retrospective held in honor of America's Bicentennial at the National Collection of Fine Arts that subsequently traveled to the Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, and The Art Institute of Chicago. An otherwise most handsome example of the hardbound first printing of this important document showing some light rubbing and sunning to the dust jacket along with the discreet ink ownership stamp of the director of one of Rauschenberg's galleries at the time on the front pastedown. It has been priced accordingly. LC 76-58522 Inventory Number: 025222

(GOLDBERG, MICHAEL). Kertess, Klaus & Saul Ostrow. New York, Los Angeles & Chicago: Lennon Weinberg Inc., Manny Silverman & Thomas McCormick Galleries, 2003. First Edition 1/3000. Small Square 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. np, 18 color and 11 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a touring 2003 gallery exhibition, this is a nicely appointed catalogue documenting eighteen recent paintings on canvas by noted "second generation" American Abstract Expressionist Michael Goldberg. A brand new, most handsome example with the Manny Silverman Gallery announcement additionally laid in. 0-9671013-3-6 Inventory Number: 025215

(FRANCIS, SAM). Agee, William C.. New York & Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 48pp, 14 color illustrations + b&w cover. With a detailed chronology. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 2000 Richard Gray Gallery exhibition of fourteen "edge" paintings on both canvas and paper by Sam Francis executed between 1964 and 1968. A handsome example showing some creasing to the rear foredge corner of the rear cover. It has been priced accordingly. LC 96-079258 Inventory Number: 025214

(FRANCIS, SAM). Agee, William C.. New York & Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 48pp, 14 color illustrations + b&w cover. With a detailed chronology. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 2000 Richard Gray Gallery exhibition of fourteen "edge" paintings on both canvas and paper by Sam Francis executed between 1964 and 1968. A pristine example. LC 96-079258 Inventory Number: 025213

(BROWN, CECILY). Drucker, Johanna. New York & London: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. 4to. 3/4 Linen over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 94pp, 29 color illustrations. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the beautifully appointed hardbound catalogue produced in conjunction with two 2006 exhibitions of recent works by British painter Cecily Brown held at Gagosian's New York and London galleries. Each of the twenty-nine oil on linen canvases shown is reproduced along with Johanna Drucker's essay "Erotic Method". A most handsome example with a Gagosian buckslip INSCRIBED "Best Wishes, Ealan" from gallery director and the book's editor Ealan Wingate laid in. 1-932598-29-4 Inventory Number: 025209

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