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(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1995. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Contemporary Art Periodicals. As New.. ca 200pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. A brand new, pristine example of the forty-third issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-907509-93-5 Inventory Number: 023941

(DIBBETS, JAN). Dibbets, Jan. New York: Multiples, Inc., 1970. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Folded Poster. Artist's Multiple. Near Fine.. One 19 ½ x 25 ½" sheet printed offset recto only, neatly folded in quarters, as issued. This artist's multiple cum poster was Dutch Conceptual practitioner Jan Dibbets' contribution to the Multiples, Inc. "Artists and Photographs" portfolio of 1970. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item offered here individually. 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: 023930

(GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. London & Koln, GERMANY: Enitharmon Editions Ltd. & Walther Konig, 2012. Second Edition (First Thus 1/2000). 8vo. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artists' Book. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 85 b&w illustrations. First published in 1971 in an edition limited to six hundred copies, "Side by Side" was the very first artists' book by British conceptual duo, "the sculptors" Gilbert & George. It contains three chapters entitled "With Us in the Nature", "A Glimpse Into the Abstract World", and "The Reality in Our Living" which alternate pages of text and illustration and that "together represent a contemporary sculpture novel". A brand new, pristine example of the 2012 Enitharmon Editions Ltd. facsimile edition limited to two thousand copies each with unique covers hand-marbled linen by the artists NUMBERED (#1990/2000) AND SIGNED "Gilbert & George" in purple ink, as issued. 3-86335-268-8 Inventory Number: 023898

(WATERSTON, DARREN). Weissman, Benjamin. Poetry By Amy Gerstler. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2001. First Edition 1/2250. 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. np, 63 color illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. Published in 2001 by St. Ann's Press, this exquisitely beautifully designed and printed book was the first comprehensive monograph on Los Angeles-based painter Darren Waterston. A brand new, most handsome example of this elegant document still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 0-967-1744-6-5 Inventory Number: 023874

(REGGAE AND AFRICAN BEAT, THE). Smith, C.C. & Roger Steffens, Editors. Los Angeles: Bongo Productions, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Music Periodical. Fine.. 90pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Cover image of Bob Marley. "Reggae Beat and African Beat" is the magazine that grew out of deejays Smith, Hank Holmes and Roger Steffens' early eighties weekly KCRW show "The Reggae Beat". This 1994 (Volume 13, #3) installment is their thirteenth annual "collectors edition" issue devoted to Bob Marley and The Wailers that includes contributions on or by Steffens, Cindy Breakspeare, Bruce Talamon, Glen Adams, Gilly Gilbert, Cedella Booker, Wanda Coleman. Also featured is "Reggae Sunsplash 94" Also featured are regular columns "Reggae Update", "African Music", and more along with loads of informative record reviews, playlists, and advertisements. A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 023873

(OCTOBER). Copjec, Joan, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss & Annette Michelson, Editors. Cambridge, MA & New York: MIT Press for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Near 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 special thematic issue devoted to film books include: Philosophy and/as Film and/as if Philosophy - Arthur C. Danto; Reading Hitchcock - Fredric Jameson; The Anxiety of the Influencing Machine - Joan Copjec; Documenting the Left - Stuart Liebman; The Formalist's Dreyer - Nick Browne; Address to the Heathen - Noel Carroll. A handsome example showing just a bit of light wear and soiling. 0-262-76013-4 Inventory Number: 023864

(WATERSTON, DARREN). Burton, Tim & Carmine Iannaccone. Los Angeles: Kohn Turner Gallery, 2000. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (32pp), 13 color illustrations + cover. Designed by Michael Kohn. This lovely catalogue (that includes some stream of consciousness prose by noted director Tim Burton) was issued in conjunction with a 2000 exhibition of new works on wood panels by painter Darren Waterston at his longtime Los Angeles gallery. A pristine example. 1-880086-06-9 Inventory Number: 023828

Casciani, Stefano, Giannino Malossi, Carlo Romano & Nigel Whiteley. Giannino Malossi, Editor. Milan, ITALY: Electa Editrice, 1990. First English Language Edition. Stout 8vo. Illustrated Boards in Slipcase. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. 210 + 158pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Italo Lupi. This is a totally amazing two volume publication documenting the new art, architecture, cinema, design, fashion, music and popular culture in Europe (with the primary focus on Britain) during the Swingin' Sixties! Issued in conjunction with a 1990 Italian exhibition, everyone who was anyone is here including The Mods, The Rockers, The Situationists, Richard Hamilton and The Independent Group, The Beatles, The Who, Allen Jones, Peter Blake, David Hockney, Roy Lichtenstein, Joe Colombo, Archigram, Stanley Kubrick, The Fool, Pierre Cardin, Ungaro, Paco Rabanne, Mary Quant, and many, many, more. A pristine, still shrinkwrapped set along with the exhibition commissioned documentary "The Sixties in Moving Images" on video cassette housed in the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase, 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. 88-435-3269-3 Inventory Number: 023825

(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1989. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Contemporary Art Periodical. Very Good,. ca 200pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. A handsome example of the unavailable twentieth issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly showing some light wear and handling. 3-907509-70-6 Inventory Number: 023818

(WILLOUGHBY, BOB) (HEPBURN, AUDREY). Willoughby, Bob. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2010. First Edition 0313/1000. Folio. Boards in a Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 282pp, profusely illustrated in black & white. Text in English, German and French. "In his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby took iconic photos of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian-born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured. "She took my hand like...well a princess, and dazzled me with that smile that God designed to melt mortal men's hearts," he recalls. As Hepburn's career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in "Roman Holiday", Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing her working and home life. His historic, perfectionist, tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn's beauty and elegance, as she progresses from her debut to her career high of "My Fair Lady" in 1963. Willoughby's studies, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life, comprise one of photography's great platonic love affairs and an unrivalled record of one of the 20th century's touchstone beauties". A pristine example of this extraordinary volume - a must-have for the Audrey completeist that sold out upon publication - limited to one thousand copies in a decorative clamshell box SIGNED AND NUMBERED (0313/1000) by the late Bob Willoughby, unopened in the publisher's shrinkwrapped printed shipping carton, as issued. 3-8365-1889-9 Inventory Number: 023815

(OLAF, ERWIN). Olaf, Erwin. Introduction by Theo Van Gogh. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: Focus Cahier, 1990. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 24pp, 19 duotone illustrations. Text in Dutch. "Blacks" is the second monographic collection of photographs by the Dutch master of dislocation Erwin Olaf. Somewhere between the baroque mythology of Pierre et Gilles and the physical grotesquery of Joel-Peter Witkin, these seventeen dark (in every sense) portraits are lusciously reproduced here for your voyeuristic pleasure. "Blacks" also features an introduction by the noted Dutch filmmaker and social critic Theo van Gogh, who was assassinated by an Islamic extremist while riding his bicycle to work in Amsterdam in 2004. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 90-72216-51-2 Inventory Number: 023810

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin. Introduction by Marvin Heiferman. Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2000. First Edition. 12mo. Padded Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (120pp), 48 color illustrations. Designed by Dewi Lewis Publishing. "For the last few years, when Martin Parr has traveled on assignment he has had his picture taken by a local studio photographer, or street photographer, or in a photo booth. The result is a wonderfully varied portfolio of portraits ranging from elaborate studio sets reminiscent of the heyday of the Victorian studio photographer, through to digitally manipulated images of Parr as Mr. Universe, and images which have been horrendously re-touched in the studio's efforts to flatter Parr and make him appear twenty years younger. As with all Parr's projects the book is not only hilarious but also raises broader issues of identity and self, questioning the whole notion of the photographic portrait". What can we say? - More Martin than you can shake a stick at! A pristine example (cited on page 249 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Martin Parr 2002" in black ink on the title page. 1-899235-72-8 Inventory Number: 023806

(HUEBLER, DOUGLAS). Onorato, Ronald J.. La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1988. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 52pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist, biography and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1988 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art survey of fifty-one works executed between 1968 and 1988 by the witty late Conceptual practitioner Douglas Huebler. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing a bit of wear and rubbing to the covers along with a slight curl to the upper foredge corner of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. 0-934418-30-6 Inventory Number: 023791

(BERNHARD, RUTH). Williams, Ginny. Santa Fe, NM: Tallgrass Press, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (95pp), 43 tritone illustrations. This is the lavish catalogue published in conjunction with the 1993 exhibition "Ruth Bernhard: A Retrospective from the Ginny Williams Collection" at the Denver Art Museum and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. A superbly printed selection of Bernhard's seminal modernist work (including many of the famous female nudes) is represented here, interspersed with quotations from the photographer about her inspirations and her creative process. A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon hardbound edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ruth Bernhard" in her unmistakable calligraphic hand in black fountain pen on the title page. 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. 1-881138-04-6 Inventory Number: 023786

(VISIONAIRE). Edited By Gan, Stephen, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos. Text By Glenn O'Brien.. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2000. First Edition 1/6000. 4to. Fashion Quarterly. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp) + 16 six-sided pictorial blocks housed in a Lucite case. Published in an edition of six thousand copies, this is the thirtieth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. Issued in conjunction with the Louis Vuitton Cup Trials to determine the finalists for the 2000 America's Cup yacht race, Visionaire assembled teams of artists, photographers and image makers from the seven participating countries. Six contributors each from the U.S., Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland produced an image that occupies one side of each of the enclosed blocks; the sixteen cubes placed in the correct configuration form one of the six different images. The six Japanese contributors represented here are Yoshitomo Nara, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Homma, Syd Mead, Daisuke Nakayama, and Miwa Yanagi. These cubes, along with a booklet of all forty-two images are packaged inside a silk-screened Lucite case created for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. The closure for this case is a spherical compass on a leather thong, so you'll never get lost while trying to solve the puzzles inside. A most handsome individually numbered example (#2662) of the Japan edition inside the publisher's unprinted protective cardboard shipping box, as issued. 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. 1-888645-27-X Inventory Number: 023774

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2000. First Edition 1/6000. 4to. Loose Contents in a Box. Fashion Quarterly. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp) + 16 six-sided pictorial blocks housed in a Lucite case. Published in an edition of six thousand copies, this is the thirtieth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. Issued in conjunction with the Louis Vuitton Cup Trials to determine the finalists for the 2000 America's Cup yacht race, Visionaire assembled teams of artists, photographers and image makers from the seven participating countries. Six contributors each from the U.S., Australia, France, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland produced an image that occupies one side of each of the enclosed blocks; the sixteen cubes placed in the correct configuration form one of the six different images. The six Spanish contributors represented here are Ruben Toledo, Pedro Almodovar, Juan Gatti, Jordi Labanda, Miquel Barcelo, and Layla D'Angelo. These cubes, along with a booklet of all forty-two images are packaged inside a silk-screened Lucite case created for Visionaire by Louis Vuitton. The closure for this case is a spherical nautical compass on a leather thong, so you'll never get lost while trying to solve the puzzles inside. A brand new, most handsome individually numbered example of the Spain edition inside the publisher's unprinted protective cardboard shipping box, as issued. 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. 1-888645-28-8 Inventory Number: 023773

(SEARCH & DESTROY). Vale, V., Editor. San Francisco: Search & Destroy, 1978. First Edition. Folio. Tabloid Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. As New.. 24pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. "Search & Destroy" was V. Vale's short-lived, highly revered late seventies 'zine notable for its coverage of the Bay Area punk and transgressive cultural movements that was the precursor to RE/Search. This fifth installment from 1978 includes contributions on or by The Sex Pistols, The Screamers, Nico, Helen Wheels, Suicide, The Masque and Mabuhay Gardens, Crime, Crisis, The Nuns, The Dils, Talking Heads, The Dickies, Devo, Bruce Conner, and great period advertisements. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon and important document neatly folded in half, as issued. Inventory Number: 023771

(SERRA, RICHARD). Serra, Richard. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1981. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. np (24pp), 23 duotone illustrations + cover. Designed by Coy, Los Angeles. This is one of Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L.'s lovely print/multiple prospectuses detailing the publication of twelve lithographs and three paintstick on aluminum multiples by Richard Serra produced between 1980 and 1981. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing light wear, age-toning, and soiling to its white covers with the publisher's price list laid in. Inventory Number: 023750

(DERAIN, ANDRE). Cincinnati Art Museum Staff. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1930. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Good -.. np (36pp), 21 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1930 Cincinnati Art Museum exhibition of forty-six paintings executed between 1913 and 1929 by the renowned French pioneer of the Fauve movement, Andre Derain. An internally handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item whose wrappers show some overall wear, discoloration, and chipping to the extremities of the spine along with oxidation to the staples that has stained the pages just a bit at the gutter. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 023741

(HUEBLER, DOUGLAS). Huebler, Douglas & Arthur Rose. Introduction by Julia Brown. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1986. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 28pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Linda Norlen. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the 1986 catalogue documenting ten works from Douglas Huebler's charming, typically wry "Crocodile Tears" series commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. These installments - "brief fictions re-sounding from the proposal in Variable Piece #70: 1971 to photographically document the existence of everyone alive" - originally appeared in print in 1984 as comic strips reproduced in the pages of the LA Weekly. An internally most handsome example of this uncommon item showing a bit of light overall wear, rubbing, and soiling to its covers. Inventory Number: 023723

(BLAKE, JEREMY). Blake, Jeremy, Tim Griffin & Dike Blair. Los Angeles: Works on Paper, Inc., 2001. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Patricia Moritz. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the engaging catalogue cum artist's book published in conjunction with a 2001 Works on Paper, Inc. exhibition of drawings from Jeremy Blake's "The Fourty (sic) Million Dollar Beatnik" project. It takes the form of a miniature (6 ¾ x 5 ½") screenplay - down to the green card covers with brass brad binding - reproducing the artist's whimsical texts and images that are reminiscent of a high school journal along with brief essays by Tim Griffin and Dike Blair. A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only three copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - limited to five hundred unnumbered copies. Inventory Number: 023720

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nordland, Gerald R.. Chicago, IL: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1984. First Edition. Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 16pp, 8 b&w illustrations + color cover. With a biography, exhibition history and exhibition checklist. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1984 Arts Club of Chicago retrospective of twenty-nine works on paper by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 023717

(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1989. First Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Contemporary Art Periodical. Very Good./OUT OF PRINT. ca. 200pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. A handsome example of the nineteenth issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly. 3-907509-69-2 Inventory Number: 023703

(JOHNSON, JAY MARK). Finch, Christopher, Shana Nys Dambrot & Jay Mark Johnson. Venice, CA: Venice Family Clinic & Jay Mark Johnson, 2010. First Edition. Oblong Narrow 4to. Linen Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hsuan-ying Chou and Jay Mark Johnson with Lorraine Wild and Victor Hu, Green Dragon Office. This lavishly produced volume is the first monograph on the space-time photography of Jay Mark Johnson. "Coming across Jay Mark Johnson's photographs for the first time, a viewer may well be reminded of the photo finish images used to determine winners at track meets, horse races, and other sporting events. In Johnson's work, as in photo finish imagery, people, animals and moving objects are frozen against a background that has been dissolved by the camera into horizontal bands of color stretching from edge to edge of the picture plane. This similarity is no accident, since both Johnson and the photo finish cameraman employ the same technology - slit-scan photography. As utilized by both, slit-scan is used to capture movement as it unfolds in time. In emulsion-based photography, the technology involves an actual slit moving continuously past the film, exposing a sliver at a time to create an image that "freezes" motion. With the highly sophisticated digital camera that Johnson employs, the same effect is achieved with a "virtual" electronic slit, a single pixel in breadth that scans the subject (which, like a race, is in fact an "event"). In either case, all of the movement that occurs in front of the lens is synthesized into a single image. The resulting photographs capture, in a graphic way, the event that takes place during that period, so that in Johnson's pictures a person may appear more than once in the same image (having overtaken the tracking movement of the slit), and objects become subject to an exaggerated form of the photographic phenomenon known as "focal-plane shutter distortion". A brand new, pristine example of the limited slipcased edition of this amazing book of color time and motion studies taken in and around Venice California additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jay Mark Johnson 2014" in black ink on the title page still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 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. Inventory Number: 023696

Hulten, Pontus, Editor. Introduction by V. M. Polevoi. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Very Good.. 580pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover by Roman Cieslewicz. With an exhibition checklist, artist biographies and bibliographies. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the massive catalogue published in conjunction with Pontus Hulten's landmark 1979 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition that traced the interaction between the artistic capitals of Paris and Moscow during the first third of the Twentieth Century. In addition to a dazzling array of works by over one hundred artists, it includes informative textual contributions and essays. A handsome example of the 1979 Pompidou French language edition bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For Melinda and De Wain with my very best greetings from your Pontus" from curator Pontus Hulten in black ink on the half title page showing some overall light wear, handling and soiling. De Wain is the noted Los Angeles-based Light and Space artist De Wain Valentine, and Melinda (sic) is his former partner and gallerist Malinda Wyatt, from whom we acquired this directly. 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. 2-85850-002-9 Inventory Number: 023630

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Hulten, Pontus & Dan Cameron. With an Interview by Bernard Blistene. Barcelona, SPAIN: Fundacio Caixa De Pensions, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 148pp, 51 color and 30 b&w illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and filmography. Text in Spanish and Catalan. This is the beautifully designed catalogue published in conjunction with a comprehensive 1990 traveling Museum retrospective of paintings by Edward Ruscha. Each of the fifty-one works exhibited is reproduced in color. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 84-7664-269-5 Inventory Number: 023619

(PIERSON, JACK). Pierson, Jack. San Francisco: Jack Hanley Gallery, 1992. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good.. np (32pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Jack Pierson. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in conjunction with a 1992 San Francisco gallery exhibition, this compact catalogue cum artist's book features Jack Pierson's handwritten, resonant textual fragments and phrases in throughout - the only photograph reproduced is of a flattened Marlboro pack. A most presentable example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies showing some light creasing and rubbing along its spine. Inventory Number: 023617

(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, George Baker, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, David Joselit, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Mignon Nixon, Malcolm Turvey & Adam Lehner, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 2010. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Fine.. 152pp, 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: Roundtable: The Global Before Globalization - Barry Flood, David Joselit, Alexander Nagel, Alessandra Russo, Eugene Wang, Christopher Wood, and Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Wake, Vestige, Survival: Sustainability and the Politics of the Trace in Allora and Calzadilla's Land Mark - Yates McKee, A Spectral Universality: Mona Hatoum's Biopolitics of Abstraction - Jaleh Mansoor, Wild Shanghai Grass - Molly Nesbit, Maison Tropicale: A Conversation with Manthia Diawara - Judith Rodenbeck, The Objective Case: A Review of Objectivity - D. Graham Burnett, and Index: Numbers 130-133 (Fall 2009-Summer 2010). A most handsome example. 0-262-75283-2 Inventory Number: 023563

(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

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

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. With a Poem by Raymond Carver. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2006. First Edition 1/2000. Large Oblong 4to. Embossed Paper Over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

76pp, 27 color and 8 b&w illustrations. Published in 2006, this beautifully designed and printed volume is photographer Todd Hido's fifth book - featuring haunting views of nature, the roadside, and melancholy women in melancholy interiors. The sole text is Raymond Carver's poem "Energy", reproduced at the rear. A brand new, pristine example of the 2006 first Nazraeli Press printing limited to two thousand unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Todd Hido" in black ink on the title page. 9781590051764 Inventory Number: 023541

(ABELES, KIM). Abeles, Kim & Karen Moss. Los Angeles & Santa Monica, CA: Fellows of Contemporary Art & Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition Thus. Small 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 90pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Spanish. Designed by Susan Silton. With an exhibition checklist. Published in conjunction with a 1993 traveling Museum retrospective, this nicely designed, informative catalogue is the most comprehensive reference to date on noted Los Angeles contemporary artist Kim Abeles. A bright, most handsome example of the uncommon softbound Spanish language edition issued for a Mexican venue. Inventory Number: 023512

Hulten, Pontus, Editor. Introduction by Jean-Claude Groshens. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Good +.. 528pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover by Roman Cieslewicz. With an exhibition checklist and a chronology (1937-1957). This is the massive catalogue published in conjunction with Pontus Hulten's landmark 1981 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition that traced Parisian artistic and cultural innovations from the onset of World War II through to the Space Age. In addition to a dazzling array of works by over one hundred and fifty artists, it includes informative textual contributions and essays. An internally most handsome example of the 1981 Centre Georges Pompidou edition showing some very light dampstaining along the top and bottom edges along with a flattened slight vertical wave through the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. 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. 2-85850-091-6 Inventory Number: 023510

Hulten, Pontus, Editor. Introduction by Jean-Claude Groshens. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1981. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine.. 528pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover by Roman Cieslewicz. With an exhibition checklist and a chronology (1937-1957). This is the massive catalogue published in conjunction with Pontus Hulten's landmark 1981 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition that traced Parisian artistic and cultural innovations from the onset of World War II through to the Space Age. In addition to a dazzling array of works by over one hundred and fifty artists, it includes informative textual contributions and essays. A most handsome example of the 1981 Centre Georges Pompidou 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. 2-85850-091-6 Inventory Number: 023509

Hulten, Pontus, Editor. Introduction by Werner Spies. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1978. First French Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Exhibition Catalog. Very Good -./No Jacket - As Issued. 632pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in French. Cover by Roman Cieslewicz. With an exhibition checklist, artist biographies and bibliographies. This is the massive catalogue published in conjunction with Pontus Hulten's landmark 1978 Centre Georges Pompidou exhibition that traced the interaction between the artistic capitals of Paris and Berlin during the first third of the Twentieth Century. In addition to a dazzling array of works by over one hundred artists, it includes informative textual contributions and essays. A most handsome example of the hardbound 1978 Pompidou French language edition showing some light wear and handling, a bit of soiling to the covers, and a mild dent through the upper foredge corner of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. 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. 2-85850-066-5 Inventory Number: 023508

(WATERSTON, DARREN). Waterston, Darren, David Pagel, Jacquelynn Baas & Timothy Anglin Burgard. Milano, ITALY: Edizioni Charta, 2007. First Edition 1/2250. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 128pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Keith Anderson. Text in English. With a biography and bibliography. This is an exquisitely beautiful monograph on Los Angeles-based painter Darren Waterston featuring work produced between 2002 and 2006. A brand new, pristine example. 88-8158-624-X Inventory Number: 023414

(FULFORD, JASON). Fulford, Jason. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS: The Soon Institute / Publishing House, 2010. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (196pp), 109 color illustrations. Text in English. "As photographer Jason Fulford recently learned firsthand, mushrooms have a way of growing and spreading wherever they touch ground. It all started when a friend of Fulford's gave him a box, found at a flea market, full of photos of mushrooms - unassuming pictures taken by an unknown but almost certainly amateur photographer - apparently as notes for some mycological studies. Fulford's art photographs are usually of staid, quasi-mute objects: a smashed Dorito chip overrun with ants, two bronzed doorknobs spooning, the blank back of a street sign. Yet these mushroom images got stuck in Fulford's mind, like a bad song sometimes does, and they started to grow in his own work. "The Mushroom Collector" combines some of the original flea market mushroom pictures with his own images and text about the project. It is a compendium of thoughts, observations, and influences both written and visual that helped shape this charming collection of color images". A most handsome example of the 2010 hardbound first edition of this awesome tome (cited on page 306 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III") limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "Jason Fulford" in black ink across his circular stamp reading "The Pleasures of Chaos" on the verso of the front pastedown with some ephemera 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. 90-810584-2-8 Inventory Number: 023407

(SCHLES, KEN). Schles, Ken. With brief texts by Lewis Mumford, George Orwell, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka & Jean Baudrillard. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1988. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (80pp), 62 b&w gravure illustrations. "Invisible City" is Ken Schles' exceptionally lovely first book published in luscious gravure by Jack Woody's Twelvetrees Press. It is a compendium of urban images of indistinct people and places caught in a moment - often fraught with an air of danger or eroticism - seemingly in the dead of night. A brand new, pristine example of 1988 first edition (cited on page 166 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III) limited to two thousand unnumbered copies. 0-942642-35-X Inventory Number: 023353

(WEBER, BRUCE) (VOGUE ITALIA). Weber, Bruce. With Brief Texts By Woody Guthrie & John Steinbeck. Milan, ITALY: Vogue Italia, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (124pp + covers), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Published separately as the supplement to a 2003 issue of "Vogue Italia", this Bruce Weber film journal was an advance peek at his feature, "A Letter to True". True is True Blue, the photographer's youngest pup, and the movie is a cinematic love letter to Weber's many dogs, as well as Tyson the cat. Mixed in amongst the hundreds of photos revolving around the canine cast here are Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Natalie Portman, Renee Zellweger, Owen Wilson, Charlize Theron, Jude Law, Drew Barrymore, James Franco, Kate Moss, Colin Farrell, Vinnie Jones, Paul Walker, Snoop Dogg, Peter Cincotti, Muhammad Ali, Marianne Faithfull, Sean Penn, "the Boy Who Wanted to Look Like Elizabeth Taylor", and many, many more! A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap along with the issue of Vogue. Inventory Number: 023324

(SUZUKI, RISAKU). Suzuki, Risaku & Hideki Maeda. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2004. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (80pp), 43 color illustrations. With a biography and exhibition history. "Featured in over fifty paintings by Cezanne, the Mont Sainte Victoire in Southern France is familiar even to those who have never been there. A century later, photographer Risaku Suzuki has followed in the great artist’s footsteps, using a quite different medium to depict the landscape on the way". A brand new pristine example of this lovely Nazraeli Press title limited to one thousand copies only still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-59005-085-1 Inventory Number: 023317