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HELMUT NEWTON: WORLD WITHOUT MEN - DELUXE SLIPCASED EDITION SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1984. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. An internally most handsome example of the unnumbered deluxe edition in silver gilt-debossed cloth issued without dust jacket BOLDLY SIGNED "Helmut Newton" in violet ink on the rear colophon, as issued, bearing a minor indentation across the spine along with a thin liquid stain along a small portion of the top edge of the front cover. Its matching slipcase shows some light soiling and discoloration along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. 0-937950-13-0 Inventory Number: 022568
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JOSH PETHERICK: LISPERING
(PETHERICK, JOSH). Petherick, Josh. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Nieves, 2005. First Edition. 12mo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New.. np (14pp), profusely illustrated in color and monochrome. This is the slender fourteen page artist's book cum catalogue published in conjunction with Melbourne-based illustrator Josh Petherick's exhibition entitled "In Celebration of Just Getting By" held at colette in Paris, May 30th to July 2nd, 2005. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item. 3-905714-02-7 Inventory Number: 022565
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ARI MARCOPOULOS: WHAT'S HAPPENING? - SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(MARCOPOULOS, ARI). Marcopoulos, Ari & Alanna Heiss. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Nieves, 2007. First Edition 1/150. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New.. np (22pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "What's Happening?" is "Zine Master of the World" Ari Marcopoulos' slender little artist's book of black and white photographs of the natural world taken between late 2006 and early 2007 - though there is a single image of two skateboarders pictured here at the rear. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item published by Nieves in an edition of one hundred and fifty NUMBERED (77/150) copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ari Marcopoulos" in black ink on the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 022556
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JILL GREENBERG: END TIMES
(GREENBERG, JILL). Greenberg, Jill. NP (Los Angeles). ND (2006).: Paul Kopeikin Gallery. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Gilt-Debossed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (60pp), 28 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "End Times" is Los Angeles-based photographer Jill Greenberg's charming, terrifying compendium of highly stylized, flash-saturated color portraits of young children caught in a moment of tearful sobbing. The tiny sitters were given a lollipop in the studio which was then taken away - resulting in these hysterically theatrical images. A pristine unnumbered example of the exceedingly uncommon 2006 first edition limited to one thousand copies. Inventory Number: 022547
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JILL GREENBERG: END TIMES
(GREENBERG, JILL). Greenberg, Jill. NP (Los Angeles). ND (2006).: Paul Kopeikin Gallery. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Gilt-Debossed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (60pp), 28 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "End Times" is Los Angeles-based photographer Jill Greenberg's charming, terrifying compendium of highly stylized, flash-saturated color portraits of young children caught in a moment of tearful sobbing. The tiny sitters were given a lollipop in the studio which was then taken away - resulting in these hysterically theatrical images. A pristine numbered example (677/1000) of the exceedingly uncommon 2006 first edition limited to one thousand copies. Inventory Number: 022546
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AKIRA MATSUMOTO: 1960-1990 - LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH A SIGNED SILKSCREEN PRINT
(MATSUMOTO, AKIRA). Matsumoto, Akira, Tsunehisa Hiruma, Masayoshi Homma & Makoto Nakamura. Tokyo: Gyarari Natsuhiko, 1991. First Edition #281/600 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 Nakamura along with a catalogue raisonné of works executed between 1960 and 1990. A most handsome example of the uncommon deluxe edition limited to six hundred copies NUMBERED (281/600) and additionally SIGNED in Japanese by the artist in black ink on the title page housed in the publisher's gilt-debossed slipcase with the ORIGINAL COLOR SILKSCREEN PRINT "Arrangement (Inversion S 15)" SIGNED AND NUMBERED (281/600) in pencil laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 022524
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VISIONAIRE NO. 13: SEVEN DEADLY SINS (WINTER 1994-95)
(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1994. First Edition 1/1500. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Fashion Quarterly. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 7 booklets housed in a die cut, gilt-debossed printed cardstock slipcase, each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Gregory Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Published in an edition of one thousand, five hundred numbered copies, this is the thirteenth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. The contributors to this elegantly designed issue on the theme of the "Seven Deadly Sins" are Inez Van Lamsweerde, Veronica Webb, Isaac Mizrahi, Jean Paul Goude (Envy), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Frank DeCaro, Ruben Toledo, Roxanne Lowit (Gluttony), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Barbara Kruger (Greed), Mary Ellen Mark (Lust), Mario Testino (Pride), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Francois Berthoud (Sloth), and James Nachtwey, Mario Sorrenti (Wrath). A pristine individually numbered example (34/1500) of this uncommon issue. Inventory Number: 022515
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SUEHIRO MARUO: MARUOGRAPH - II
(MARUO, SUEHIRO). Maruo, Suehiro, Suehiro Tanemura, Hiroshi Aramata & Masatoshi Nagase. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np, 86 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in Japanese. Designed by Milky Asobe and Hiromi Abe (Atelier Peyotl). This is the second of Treville's beautifully designed and printed hardbound anthologies of drawings by noted Manga illustrator Suehiro Maruo. A frequent contributor to the legendary underground magazine "Garo", Maruo's work is filled with images of violence, eroticism, and anguish in the style of Muzan-e. A most handsome example of the 1996 first printing. 4-8457-1090-0 Inventory Number: 022512
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LEON LEVINSTEIN
(LEVINSTEIN, LEON). Gee, Helen. New York: Photofind Gallery, Inc., 1990. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 16pp, 19 duotone illustrations + covers. Published in conjunction with a 1990 exhibition at Howard Greenberg's Photofind Gallery, this slender yet elegant sixteen page catalogue is the first significant publication on Leon Levinstein - the then-unsung member of "The New York School of Photography". It reproduces twenty of Levinstein's stark images of the Big Apple's streets and denizens of the fifties and sixties along with an essay by Limelight gallerist and colleague Helen Gee. A most handsome copy of this exceedingly uncommon document with the gallery's pricelist and opening announcement laid in. Inventory Number: 022511
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THROUGH PREHENSILE EYES: SEEING THE ART OF ROBT. WILLIAMS - DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION
(WILLIAMS, ROBT.). Williams, Robert. Introduction by Meg Linton. San Francisco: Last Gasp of San Francisco, 2005. First Edition 1/300 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 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, pristine example of the 2005 first deluxe numbered hardbound edition of four hundred copies with the publisher's numbered bookplate featuring a caricature of the artist SIGNED by Robert Williams in black ink affixed to the front inside cover still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 0-86719-637-8 Inventory Number: 022508
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THE PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTOR: THE NEWSLETTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART AND INVESTMENT: VOLUME I, NO. 1 (OCTOBER 15, 1980) - VOLUME V, NO. 9 (SEPTEMBER 15, 1984) - A NEAR COMPLETE SET OF THE FIRST FORTY-FIVE ISSUES
(PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTOR, THE). Persky, Robert S., Editor. New York. 1980-1984.: The Photograph Collector's Newsletter Ltd.. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Newsletter. Near Fine or Better.. Each 8-16pp, no illustrations. "The Photograph Collector: The Newsletter of Photography as Art and Investment" is the slender yet highly important monthly compendium of news of photographic gallery sales and exhibitions, Museum acquisitions, auctions, edition and portfolio releases, and book reviews first published in 1980 that continues to this day. This run is comprised of forty-five of the first forty-six issues (it is lacking only Volume II, No. 2 - October 15, 1980), and is a deeply insightful reference to the evolution of the modern photographic marketplace at the beginning of the eighties. A most handsome, well preserved set whose individual numbers have been hole-punched and stored in a vintage National black vinyl three-ring binder that contains an additional twenty ephemeral items and enclosures from the publisher (including "The State of New York Multiples Disclosure Law" pamphlet and several "Marketreach©" listings of photographs for sale) laid into its front pocket. ISSN 0271-0838 Inventory Number: 022502
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ASYLUM: PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAG ALVENG - AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY
(ALVENG, DAG). Alveng, Dag & Susan Kismaric. Oslo, NORWAY: Koks Forlag & Preus Fotomuseum, 1986. First Edition 1/400. 4to. Boards in Printed Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Good. np (60pp), 26 duotone illustrations. Designed by Per Maning. Text in English and Norwegian. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Asylum" is noted Oslo-based photographer Dag Alveng's haunting look at a Norwegian Mental Institution as evidenced by its interiors and objects - devoid of its residents. It features beautifully reproduced black and white plates whose halftone negatives were prepared by the esteemed Richard Benson. An internally bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1986 first edition (cited on page 298 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") limited to four hundred unnumbered copies bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "For Holly / Love, Dag" in ink on the title page whose notoriously fragile printed vellum dust jacket shows chips, closed tears, and paper loss to the front panel, and has adhered in spots to the glue-impregnated covers along the front and rear panels, as is typical. The inscription is to the much-loved late New York collector-turned-gallerist Holly Solomon, who gave the photographer his second US exhibition in 1993, and from whose library we acquired this significant tome directly. Inventory Number: 022501
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ASYLUM: PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAG ALVENG
(ALVENG, DAG). Alveng, Dag & Susan Kismaric. Oslo, NORWAY: Koks Forlag & Preus Fotomuseum, 1986. First Edition 1/400. 4to. Boards in Printed Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Very Good. np (60pp), 26 duotone illustrations. Designed by Per Maning. Text in English and Norwegian. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Asylum" is noted Oslo-based photographer Dag Alveng's haunting look at a Norwegian Mental Institution as evidenced by its interiors and objects - devoid of its residents. It features beautifully reproduced black and white plates whose halftone negatives were prepared by the esteemed Richard Benson. An internally bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1986 first edition (cited on page 298 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") limited to four hundred unnumbered copies whose notoriously fragile printed vellum dust jacket shows a few slight chips, ripples and closed tears, and has adhered in spots to the glue-impregnated covers along the spine and rear panel, as is typical. The striking front cover image of an empty seating arrangement in the forest is unimpaired. Inventory Number: 022500
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DANNY LYON: KNAVE OF HEARTS - LIMITED SIGNED BOXED EDITION WITH A SIGNED BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH
(LYON, DANNY). Lyon, Danny. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 148pp, 64 color illustrations. Designed by Guy Russell. "Knave of Hearts" is a visual memoir in which Danny Lyon recounts his adventures as a photographer. It is illustrated with color photo-montages and unpublished pictures from his three classic photodocumentary works: "The Bikeriders", "Conversations with the Dead", and "The Destruction of Lower Manhattan". The auto-biographical text tells the Lyon family's history, beginning with the 1905 revolution in Russia, and covers the unrest of 1960s America and the social radicalism of New Mexico in the 1970s. In words and photographs Lyon memorializes the friends, family, and adventures of his life". A brand new, pristine unopened example (cited on page 242 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") of the uncommon 1999 extra-deluxe Twin Palms first edition of fifty copies numbered 1 through 50 (10/200) BOLDLY SIGNED by the photographer in black ink on the rear colophon accompanied by a 12 x 10" matted black and white photograph of a montage of images from "Conversations with the Dead" SIGNED "Danny Lyon" in pencil along with his "Bleak Beauty" stamp in red ink on the verso housed in the publisher's debossed cloth clamshell box, as issued. Deluxe copies numbered 51-200 are signed and slipcased. 0-944092-64-0 Inventory Number: 022496
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ANDY WARHOL: DRAWINGS 1950S - 1980S
(WARHOL, ANDY). Fremont, Vincent, Peter Brant, Eric C. Shiner & Jane Holzer. New York & Los Angeles: L&M Arts, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (8pp), 16 color illustrations + color covers. With a partial exhibition checklist. This is the elegantly designed brochure cum catalogue published in conjunction with L&M Arts' exhibition of over one hundred Andy Warhol works on paper executed between 1950 and 1986 at Art Basel Miami 2011. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 022494
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DIETER ROTH: GESAMMELTE WERKE BAND 36 - 96 PICCADILLIES (POSTKARTEN VON WERKEN 1968--77 / POSTCARDS OF WORKS 1968-77) - DELUXE LIMITED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH AN ORIGINAL "SPEEDY DRAWING"
(ROTH, DIETER) aka (ROT, DITER). Roth, Dieter & Richard Hamilton. Introduction by Dieter Schwarz. Hansjorg Mayer & Dieter Roth, Editors. Stuttgart, GERMANY & London: Edition Hansjorg Mayer & Eaton House Publishers, Ltd., 1977. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. Small 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/Fine. np, 96 color illustrations. Text in German and English. Issued in 1977 as the thirty-sixth volume of Edition Hansjorg Mayer's ambitious project of documenting the prolific artist book output of Dieter Roth, "96 Piccadillies" reproduces each of ninety-six commercial picture postcards of London's historic Piccadilly Circus altered during the seventies by Roth - some in conjunction with his frequent collaborator, Richard Hamilton. A most handsome example of this uncommon item from the deluxe slipcased edition limited to two hundred unnumbered copies (entry number I.3 cited on pages 210-211 of Dirk Dobke's "Dieter Roth in Print: Artist's Books / Kunstlerbucher") each with AN ORIGINAL "SPEEDY DRAWING" entitled "Selfportrait as Piccadilly-Eros" SIGNED AND DATED "D R 1978" in pencil laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 022481
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© KEITH HARING 1985 (COLORING BOOK)
(HARING, KEITH). Haring, Keith. NP (New York). ND (circa 1986).: NP. First Edition Thus. Large Square 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (20pp), 20 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Distributed in small quantities by Keith Haring's Pop Shop in the mid-eighties, this charming untitled artist's book is commonly referred to as the "Coloring Book". It reproduces twenty whimsical full page drawings in thick black line against white backgrounds meant to be filled in with crayons by artsier members of the younger East Village set. A bright white, most handsome never-colored-in example of this exceedingly uncommon item - NOT to be confused with the Haring's earlier coloring book included in his 1982 Tony Shafrazi catalogue, or the more widely distributed "Keith Haring's Fun Book!!" from 1985. Inventory Number: 022479
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ALLEN RUPPERSBERG: YOU AND ME OR THE ART OF GIVE AND TAKE (GUEST INFORMANT)
(RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN). Ruppersberg, Allen, Constance Lewallen, Greil Marcus, John Slyce, Tim Griffin, Margaret Sundell & Frederic Paul. Foreword by Elsa Longhauser. Santa Monica, CA & Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Santa Monica Museum of Art & JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag, AG, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Spiral Bound Pictorial Boards. Artist's Book. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.. np (192pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Allen Ruppersberg. Text in English. With a biography and exhibition checklist. This is the cleverly designed, copiously illustrated, and highly thought-provoking artist's book cum catalogue published in conjunction with the 2009 Santa Monica Museum of Art survey of work by Allen Ruppersberg entitled "You and Me or the Art of Give and Take". Featuring contributions by curator Constance Lewallen, Greil Marcus, John Slyce, Tim Griffin, Margaret Sundell, Frederic Paul, Elsa Longhauser, and the artist himself, it takes the form of a spiral bound 1956 Mark Hopkins Hotel "Guest Informant" guidebook to California that has been radically altered by Ruppersberg to document the exhibited works - both new and old. A brand new, pristine example of this quickly out print gem still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-03764-064-2 Inventory Number: 022473
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MARINO MARINI: CATALOGUE RAISONNÉ OF THE GRAPHIC WORKS (ENGRAVINGS AND LITHOGRAPHS) 1919-1980
(MARINI, MARINO). Guastalla, Giorgio & Guido. Preface by Mario De Micheli. Introduction by Marina Marini. Rome, ITALY & Los Angeles, CA: Graphis Arte Editions & Leslie Sacks Editions, 1993. First English Language Edition 1/1000. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Catalogue Raisonné. Near Fine/Near Fine. 278pp, profusely illustrated in duotone, b&w and color. Text in English. With a biography, collections listing, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the hardbound catalogue raisonné of the graphic work of the renowned twentieth century Italian artist Marino Marini, Published in 1993, it contains fully illustrated and annotated entries for three hundred and eighty-four engravings, lithographs and graphic works for illustrated books executed between 1919 and 1980. An internally most handsome copy of the English language edition limited to one thousand unnumbered copies showing a single closed tear and crease at the bottom edge of the front panel of the dust jacket. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022461
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TERRI WEIFENBACH: ANOTHER SUMMER - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION
(WEIFENBACH, TERRI). Weifenbach, Terri. NP (Tokyo): The Thunderstorm Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Debossed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (88pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Green Dragon Office and Terri Weifenbach. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. In "Another Summer" Terri Weifenbach departs from matters of the garden and pollination to intimately document a family summer vacation on a lake. A pristine copy of this exceedingly uncommon sweet little volume limited to five hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED (254/500) in pencil on the rear colophon, as issued. 0-9841944-0-1 Inventory Number: 022447
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VISIONAIRE NO. 24: LIGHT (TOM FORD FOR GUCCI)
(VISIONAIRE) (FORD, TOM) (GUCCI). Ford, Tom, Stephen Gan, Cecilia Dean & James Kaliardos, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1996. First Edition 1/3300. Oblong 4to. Plexiglas Box. Fashion Quarterly. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. np (24 loose transparencies), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Tom Ford. Limited to three thousand, three hundred copies, Visionaire No. 24: "Light" is one of the most highly prized issues of everyone's favorite deluxe fashion quarterly. For it "Visionaire teamed up with fashion luminary Tom Ford and Gucci on an issue devoted to the theme - Light. This was our most ambitious project to date in terms of content and production. There was a conscious effort on the parts of both Visionaire and Ford to steer clear of fashion and to focus on what we considered to be fine-art images. It introduced a new cast of contributors to the Visionaire fold: artists such as Sam Taylor-Wood, Andreas Gursky, and Christopher Bucklow; art director Peter Saville; animator Hayao Miyazaki; and architect Toyo Ito". The transparencies are housed in an elegant 5 ½ x 15 x 2 ½" sliding black Lucite case affixed with a silver plaque that contains a Lumigraphics light-emitting sheet operating on ten AAA batteries. A brand new, most handsome numbered example (1678/3300) in perfect working order with batteries included of this beautiful object with the transparencies unopened in the publisher's shrinkwrap housed in Visionaire's black, foam-lined packing carton, as issued. Inventory Number: 022369
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RFK FUNERAL TRAIN - THE LIMITED FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY PAUL FUSCO
(FUSCO, PAUL). Fusco, Paul & Norman Mailer. London: Magnum Photos & Umbrage Editions, 1999. First Edition 1/350. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (138pp), 63 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's coffin was put on a train twenty cars long in New York and taken slowly to Washington, D.C. for burial in the Arlington Memorial Cemetery. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for Look, was on that train, and the pictures he took of people who lined the tracks along the way fill this moving book. These emotional photographs, many never-before-seen, remember the urgency and tragedy of Bobby Kennedy's assassination and the moving farewell from hundreds of thousands of people who stood patiently in the searing heat along roadsides down the east coast to watch his funeral train pass slowly by just as Abraham Lincoln's had one hundred and three years before". A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1999 Magnum Photos true first edition (cited on pages 46-47 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and pages 118-119 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") of this supremely moving volume limited to three hundred and fifty copies in wrappers printed on a Xerox Docucolor 100 Digital Color Press (with one of nine different front covers) NUMBERED (067/350) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Paul Fusco" in silver marker on the title page. An announcement for the 2001 Leica Gallery New York exhibition of Kennedy images by Paul Fusco and Jacques Lowe has been laid in. Inventory Number: 022366
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OCTOBER 73: ART/ THEORY/ CRITICISM/ POLITICS - SUMMER 1995
(OCTOBER). Krauss, Rosalind, Annette Michelson, Yve-Alain Bois, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Hal Foster, Denis Hollier, Silvia Kolbowski & Mignon Nixon, Editors. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Journals, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Journal. Very Good.. 137pp, 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; The City as Dreamworld and Catastrophe - Susan Buck-Morss; Recasting the Public Sphere - Peter Uwe Hohendahl; Not Reconciled - Judith Barry; The Haunted Museum: Institutional Critique and Publicity - Frazer Ward; The Will to Motorization: Cinema, Highways, and Modernity - Edward Dimendberg. A handsome copy showing just a bit of light handling and the remnants of its bar code sticker on the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. 0162-2879 Inventory Number: 022360
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DERRIERE LE MIROIR (DLM) NO. 14-15 + 29-30 + 57-58-59 + 87-88-89: MIRO - WITH THIRTY-FOUR COLOR LITHOGRAPHS
(MIRO, JOAN) (DERRIERE LE MIROIR). Miro, Joan, Jacques Dupin & Rene Char. Paris. 1948, 1950, 1953 & 1956.: Maeght Editeur. First Edition Thus. Folio. Wrappers Bound in Cloth. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np + np + np + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This is a compilation of four issues of Maeght's legendary periodical "Derriere Le Miroir" (featuring the great artists and writers of the 20th Century) devoted solely to Joan Miro. Bound by Maeght in dark blue cloth-over-boards with debossed white lettering in 1956, it collects the complete contents of DLM numbers 14-15 (Novembre - Decembre 1948): "Joan Miro"; 29-30 (Mai - Juin 1950): "Miro"; 57-58-59 (Juin - Julliet - Aout 1953): "Miro"; and 87-88-89 (Juin - Julliet - Aout 1956): "Miro Artigas". An internally spectacularly bright, most handsome example whose contents are complete and intact first printings with the wrappers bound in that contain in total thirty-four original color lithographs. Inventory Number: 022340
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RICHARD TUTTLE
(TUTTLE, RICHARD). Tucker, Marcia & Hal Glicksman. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art & Otis Art Institute, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 92pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Joseph Bourke Del Valle. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. These is the informative catalogue documenting the substantial 1975 Richard Tuttle retrospective that traveled from the Whitney Museum of American Art to Los Angeles' Otis Art Institute. Published after the exhibition debuted in New York, it contains critical writings by curator Marcia Tucker on the Minimalist pioneer along with reproductions of the works exhibited, reviews of the Whitney installation, and more. A most handsome example of this uncommon item. 0-87427-020-0 Inventory Number: 022322
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PIERO MANZONI: WORKS 1957-1961
(MANZONI, PIERO). Codognato, Mario. London: Karsten Schubert Ltd., 1989. First Edition 1/800. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 16pp, 13 b&w illustrations. Designed by Tamar Burchill. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 London gallery survey of works executed by the late Italian Conceptual artist Piero Manzoni between 1957 and 1961. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to eight hundred unnumbered copies. 1-870590-10-4 Inventory Number: 022317
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IDA APPLEBROOG: A PERFORMANCE: THE END (FROM BLUE BOOKS)
(APPLEBROOG, IDA). Applebroog, Ida. NP (New York): Self-Published, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine.. np (20pp), 7 monochrome illustrations. "A Performance: The End" is seventh and final artist book printed in blue ink on heavy stock that comprises Ida Applebroog's 1981 series entitled "Blue Books". A handsome example offered individually additionally bearing the SIGNED AND DATED INSCRIPTION "End of magnum opus, Ida Applebroog 1982" in pencil under the volume's final illustration showing some light handling creases along the spine. Inventory Number: 022308
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THE MUSIC OF DAWN: RECENT PAINTINGS BY CECIL COLLINS
(COLLINS, CECIL). Anderson, William. Foreword by Anthony d'Offay. London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery & Coracle Press, 1988. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Very Good.. np, 6 color illustrations + cover. This is the slender, elegant catalogue of metaphysical imagery-laden paintings published in conjunction with a 1988 Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London exhibition to celebrate the "shaman/guru" artist Cecil Collins' eightieth birthday. A most handsome copy. 0-947564-17-9 Inventory Number: 022267
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NOBUYOSHI ARAKI: RYU U SE KI / RYUUSEKI (HYSTERIC NO. 10)
(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Osamu Wataya, Toshio Shiratani & Takayuki Ishii. Tokyo: Hysteric Glamour, 1999. First Edition. Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Published as the tenth installment of Nobuhiko Kitamura's "Hysteric" monographs, this massive, beautifully printed Nobuyoshi Araki book surveys in black and white the architecture, facades, and modes of transportation of a densely populated urban Japanese neighborhood. A bright white, handsome example (entry number 255 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania") showing a slight crimp through a portion of the lower foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022265
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YONKERS (YONKERS: THE TERRACE CITY)
Whiteman, J.A.. New York: J.A. Whiteman, 1901. First Thus. Oblong 12mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Civic History. Good.. np (48pp), 30 b&w illustrations + cover. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Yonkers" is a tiny yet engaging bit of Westchester County civic-boosterism written (and most-likely published) by J.A. Whiteman - author and publisher of the 1887 Adirondacks rarity "Lake George Camp and Canoe-Chats...". Its jaunty text details a glowing history and projection of growth for "The Terrace City" nestled between the Bronx and Hudson rivers, supplemented with photographs documenting its many architectural achievements. Included are commissioned turn of the century views of the Park Hill Country Club, Hotel Wynnstay, Hollywood Inn, Hotel Hendrik Hudson, Statesman Building, Culver's Department Store, Getty Square, Amackassin Club, Van Cortlandt Manor House, "Greystone Residence", "Duncraggan" residence of Wm. F. Cochran, Esq., "Overhill" residence of Edwin K. Martin, Esq., St. Mary's Roman Catholic, First Reformed, St. Andrew's Memorial and First Methodist churches, and many more. An internally most handsome example of this little-known - not a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - gem showing overall light wear to its cheerful yellow wrappers, age-appropriate oxidation of the staples, and some pronounced soiling and creasing to the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 022262
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VISIONAIRE NO. 44: KIDROBOT TOYS (RED)
(VISIONAIRE). Edited By Gan, Stephen. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 2004. First Edition 1/2000. Narrow Oblong Folio. Fashion Quarterly. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued. 5 polychrome vinyl figures housed in a red cardboard and plastic case, with a leporello pamphlet laid in. For their forty-fourth issue, Visionaire has partnered with vanguard toy manufacturer Kidrobot to create an original Visionaire soft vinyl figure, then further collaborated with ten world renowned fashion designers to customize that figure into ten different characters. The issue is released in two different sets (one red, one black) limited to two thousand copies each containing five toys, with an accompanying booklet picturing all ten designs. The characters and booklets are packaged inside a molded plastic and cardboard case. This set (red) features the designs by Dolce & Gabbana, Hedi Slimane, Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, Miuccia Prada, and Viktor & Rolf. Kidrobot is the world's premier creator of limited edition art toys designed by world-renowned artists with backgrounds in graffiti and fine art, illustration, graphic and industrial design, and music. A handsome numbered example (0795/2000) whose interior plastic case and figurines are pristine while the publisher's protective cardboard box shows some creasing and dents. 1-888645-46-6 Inventory Number: 022241
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FRANCESCO CLEMENTE: SELF PORTRAITS
(CLEMENTE, FRANCESCO). Rushdie, Salman. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First Edition. Tall 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 42pp, 14 color illustrations. Designed by Dan Miller Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the elegantly designed catalogue featuring an essay by literary lion Salman Rushdie published in conjunction with a 2005 Gagosian Gallery London exhibition of self portraits by Francesco Clemente. A brand new, most handsome example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-24-3 Inventory Number: 022237
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JOSEPH BEUYS: A SERIES OF 90 PAINTINGS (2 SCHAFSKOPFE (LOCH) 1961-1975 PAINTING VERSION 1-90) - LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(BEUYS, JOSEPH). Beuys, Joseph. Munchen, GERMANY: Verlag Schellmann & Kluser, 1976. First Edition 1/500 Deluxe. 4to. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine./Fine.. np (186pp), 90 color illustrations. "A Series of 90 Paintings..." documents Joseph Beuys' body of work subtitled "2 Schafskopfe (Loch)" issued as "unique multiples" by Verlag Schellmann & Kluser in 1976. Painted between 1961 and 1975, these abstracted images of two sheep heads were executed in oil paint and butter on a sheet of BFK Rives paper that had a circular hole torn from it. Each is reproduced here photomechanically as an individual full page blueprint and bound in wrappers. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to five hundred copies SIGNED "Joseph Beuys" in pencil on the title page and NUMBERED by stamp (162/500) in black ink on the rear free endpaper, as issued. Inventory Number: 022234
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KIM ABELES: ENCYCLOPEDIA PERSONA A-Z - A FIFTEEN YEAR SURVEY - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE ARTIST
(ABELES, KIM). Abeles, Kim & Karen Moss. Los Angeles & Santa Monica, CA: Fellows of Contemporary Art & Santa Monica Museum of Art, 1993. First Edition. Small 4to. 1/4 Leather Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 110pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Susan Silton. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. 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 most handsome example additionally bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "Dearest ... - Thank you for your friendship and support. Fondly, Kim Abeles 1993" in the year of publication to a noted Los Angeles gallerist and collector in blue ink underneath the artist's photographic portrait on page 110. 0-911291-22-9 Inventory Number: 022208
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TOM FRIEDMAN, REAM, 2006
(FRIEDMAN, TOM). Friedman, Tom. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. Stout Oblong 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (500pp). 500 b&w illustration. Designed by McCall Associates. Published in conjunction with Tom Friedman's 2006 Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills installation/exhibition, "Ream" is a whimsical, brick-like back to back and upside-down artist's flip book of raw, scratchy drawings - think Alexander Calder meets Jad Fair... A most handsome copy. 1-932598-41-3 Inventory Number: 022205
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23 PIECES / A. RUPPERSBERG
(RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN). Ruppersberg, Allen. NP (Los Angeles). ND (1969).: NP (Self Published). First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Spiral Bound Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (58pp), 23 b&w illustrations. Design and photography by Gary Krueger. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "23 Pieces" is Allen Ruppersberg's very first artist book - a charming photographic survey of the late sixties Los Angeles environment that oftentimes finds the artist in the picture. There's Al... A brand new, bright white example of this elusive item showing just a bit of age appropriate soiling and toning to its white wrappers. Inventory Number: 022197
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BILL BURKE: I WANT TO TAKE PICTURE - DELUXE BOXED, SIGNED LIMITED EDITION WITH A BLACK AND WHITE PRINT SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER
(BURKE, BILL). Burke, Bill. Santa Fe, NM. 1987 (2007): Twin Palms Publishers. First Edition Thus 1/35 Deluxe. Folio. Boards in a Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (60pp), profusely illustrated in color and duotone. "In 1982, years after Viet Nam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with The International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border". Published in 1987, "I Want to Take Picture" features black and white images which Burke shot during several trips through Southeast Asia in the early eighties, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. A pristine copy of the deluxe 2007 first Twin Palms printing (whose 1987 first Nexus Press edition is cited on page 19 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 40-41 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", and pages 258-259 of "The Book of 101 Books") limited to thirty-five copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED (#15/35) in a debossed black linen clamshell box with a SIGNED AND NUMBERED BLACK AND WHITE SILVER GELATIN PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT entitled ""KPNLF Fighter With Lake Ampil RPG, Thai Cambodia Border, 1984". 1-931885-63-X Inventory Number: 022181
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LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE AMERICAN MONUMENT
(FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee & Leslie George Katz. With a brief text by Walt Whitman. New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. First Edition 1/2000. Oblong Folio. Cloth Over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (78pp), 213 b&w gravure illustrations. "The American Monument" is Lee Friedlander's groundbreaking portfolio of striking images of statues and memorials taken across the United States during the early seventies. Uniquely bound in gilt-embossed cloth-over-boards with sumptuous printing by The Meriden Gravure Company from half-tone negatives made by Richard Benson, it certainly ranks among the great American photography books of the Twentieth Century. A brand new, pristine example of this impressive tome (cited on pages 310-311 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 28 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", page 35 of "From Fair to Fine", and pages 236-237 of "The Book of 101 Books") still in the publisher's shrinkwrap and cardboard shipping carton showing none of the typical sunning associated with this title. A Fine condition copy of Lee Friedlander's "Fourteen American Monuments" catalogue published by the Eakins Press Foundation has been additionally laid in. 0-87130-045-1 Inventory Number: 022130
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DARREN WATERSTON: REPRESENTING THE INVISIBLE - SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
(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. Fine.. 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 most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED " Darren Waterston" in black marker on the title page. 88-8158-624-X Inventory Number: 022095
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TOM FRIEDMAN
(FRIEDMAN, TOM). Goodeve, Thyrza Nichols, Lawrence Douglas & Alexander George. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2006. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp. profusely illustrated in color (with several fold-out plates). Designed by McCall Associates. With an exhibition checklist, biography and exhibition history. This is the elegantly appointed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Tom Friedman's massive 2006 Beverly Hills Gagosian Gallery installation/exhibition. As always, a sense of wonder and refined wit pervades each one of the artist's thirty three exhibited pieces depicted here. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-41-3 Inventory Number: 022072