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(MERZ, MARIO). Merz, Mario, Fumio Nanjo, Germano Celant & Demosthenes Davvetas. Nagoya, JAPAN: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 92pp, 7 color and 26 b&w illustrations + cover. Texts in Japanese, English, Italian and French. With an exhibition history and bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1984 Institute of Contemporary Arts, Nagoya Mario Merz retrospective - the first major Japanese exhibition of works by the late Italian Arte Povera pioneer. A most presentable example of this uncommon item showing a bit of overall light wear and handling. Inventory Number: 020259

(RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN). Ruppersberg, Allen. NP (Santa Monica, CA): Allen Ruppersberg, 2010. First Editions 1/300. Large Square 4to. 12" Vinyl LPs in Jackets. Artist's Multiple. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Two 12", two-sided vinyl 33 1/3 rpm long playing phonograph records in printed paper over cardboard sleeves, each with color cover artwork and an offset b&w printed insert. Designed by Allen Ruppersberg. Limited to three hundred copies each, these are the first two installments of Allen Ruppersberg's ongoing project that subjectively assays the documentary history of Post-War American popular music and music graphics. Each LP has a cover designed by the artist and contains a playlist of fifteen tracks culled from "78 and 45 rpms guaranteed to be found at random in flea markets, antique malls, and junk shops". Volume one features primarily R&B fare (etc.). A pristine set - unsigned and unnumbered, as issued - of both of these sure to be short-lived collector's items for both art and record-geeks alike! Inventory Number: 020211

(HUTTE, AXEL). Hutte, Axel. Berlin & Koln, GERMANY: Holzwarth Publications & Galerie Max Hetzler, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 24pp, 11 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth. Published in conjunction with a 2002 exhibition at Berlin's Galerie Max Hetzler, this lovely hardbound catalogue presents eleven gatefold color images taken by Axel Hutte during 2001 of a lush and verdant European landscape. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item. 3-935567-06-5 Inventory Number: 020206

(HEATH, DAVE). Heath, Dave. Foreword by Hugh Edwards. With Brief Texts by James Baldwin, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Wright Morris, Rainer Maria Rilke, Matthew Arnold, Robert Louis Stevenson, Stephen Crane & Hermann Hesse. Culpepper, VA & New York: A Community Press Publication Distributed By Horizon Press, 1965. First Edition. 4to. Cloth. Photography Monograph. Near Fine./No Jacket. np, 83 duotone illustrations. Designed by Dave Heath. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. From Hugh Edwards' foreword: "A Dialogue With Solitude is a self-portrait in which the artist himself never really appears, but is revealed and interpreted by every detail. From the beginning of the sequence to its end, the viewer accompanies his unseen guide, out of darkness and troubled sleep, on a pilgrimage through an unpredictable environment where contradiction seems to be the only law. It is a solitude crowded with human beings, all of whom he recognizes and understands, but with whom he can make no exchange other than the gestures of an almost mechanical ritual. Along the way are pauses, marked by poetic quotations". Beginning with the Philadelphia native's tour of duty during the Korean war, "Dialogue"'s dark, murky images capture ten years of winding through an America seen through the shadows of Barnum, Sartre and Camus. With resonances of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lisette Model and Ed Van Der Elsken, Dave Heath's landmark book was a truly an innovative work upon its unheralded 1965 appearance, and remains one of the highlights of Post-war photographic literature. A bright, handsome example of the uncommon first edition (cited on page 104 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and page 43 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter") lacking its fragile dust jacket and showing a very slight crimp to the tips of the boards at the lower foredge corners. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 020200

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Nearly thirty years after the 1971 Lustrum Press publication of this landmark book, Larry Clark's taboo breaking "Tulsa" is once again available. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", this was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, this book forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. The 1971 Lustrum Press first edition is cited on page 260 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 272-73 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 25 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 208-09 of "The Book of 101 Books". This example is from the Grove Press 2000 limited slipcased edition of two hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by Larry Clark, with a SIGNED 8 x 10" black and white photographic print (of an image that is not reproduced in the book) laid in. A brand new, pristine example in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 0-8021-1678-7 Inventory Number: 020125

(HOMMA, TAKASHI). Homma, Takashi. NP (Zurich, SWITZERLAND): Nieves, 2006. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (32pp), profusely illustrated in color + color covers. Text in English. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Tokyo and My Daughter" is the slender, charming 2006 book of photographs by Takashi Homma of his daughter, apartment, and Tokyo environs. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to fifty numbered copies BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A SMALL DRAWING OF THE SUN by Takashi Homma in silver marker on the rear cover with a 6 x 8 ¾" SIGNED AND NUMBERED color photograph of an interior image that does not appear in the book laid in, as issued. 3-905714-10-8 Inventory Number: 020115

(HIRST, DAMIEN). Hirst, Damien & Norman Rosenthal. London: Gagosian Gallery, 2005. First Edition. 8vo. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np (52pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Giampietro+Smith. This is the elegant catalogue published in conjunction with Damien Hirst's 2005 London exhibition show entitled "The Bilotti Paintings" that featured eight new large works on canvas (with butterflies embedded) relating to the apostles Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. It also reproduces several of W. Harry Rogers' images from the 1862 edition of "Emblems of Christian Life" (from the Writings of the Fathers and the Old English Poets). A brand new, pristine example whose dust jacket reproduces a detail from the Hirst painting "John" on the verso still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-17-0 Inventory Number: 020014

(PARKETT). Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1988. 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 seventeenth issue of this influential Swiss visual arts quarterly showing some light creasing and wear to the wrappers. It has been priced accordingly. 3-907509-67-6 Inventory Number: 020000

(FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Maria. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2004. First Edition. Square 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 192 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills. "Like most fathers, Lee Friedlander has made photographs of his wife and children throughout their lives together. Unlike most fathers, Friedlander happens to be one of the greatest living photographers. In "Family", Friedlander departs from his well-known terrain of the open road and the city street, focusing instead on his wife, Maria, his children and (later) his grandchildren. The result is an intimate narrative of a family's complex life, from 1958 to the present. The subjects are natural and unaffected in front of the ever-present lens, and the pictures make it clear that Friedlander's camera was a constant presence in the home, a natural extension of the artist himself. Over and over Friedlander recognized in an instant things that were precious and universal, yet specific to his own situation. Friedlander has done us a great honor by publishing these images. The inventive design of "Family" enhances the integrity of Friedlander's family album". A most handsome example. 1-881337-18-9 Inventory Number: 019983

(THERRIEN, ROBERT). Rowell, Margit. Madrid, SPAIN: Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, 1991. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 64pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Spanish and English. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the elegantly produced catalogue published in conjunction with Los Angeles-based sculptor Robert Therrien's 1991 Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia retrospective. It contains reproductions of each of the sixty-six pieces exhibited as well as a transcribed interview with the artist by Margit Rowell. A handsome example. 84-7483-779-0 Inventory Number: 019979

(PHOTOGRAPHY AT THE CORCORAN). Livingston, Jane & Roy Slade. Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art. First Editions. Square 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Photography Monographs. Near Fine. or Better. np (each circa 24pp), profusely illustrated. With an exhibition checklist, bibliography, biography and exhibition history. This is the boxed set of slender 8 x 8" catalogues issued in conjunction with fifteen one-person photographic exhibitions held at Washington DC's Corcoran Gallery of Art between 1976 and 1980. These include all eight documents from the historic 1976 Bicentennial project "The Nation's Capital in Photographs" ("Lewis Baltz: Maryland", "Joe Cameron: The Extended Mall", Robert Cumming, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, John R. Gossage: The Better Neighborhoods of Greater Washington", Jan Groover, and Anthony Hernandez) along with "The Historic Photographs of Addison N. Scurlock" (1976), "Frank Di Perna: Color Photographs", "Sally Mann / The Lewis Law Photographs", "Mike Mitchell: Other Lights" (1977), Jerry Burchard, "Arnold Kramer / Interior Views" (1978), and Helen Levitt (1980). A most handsome group - each individual example is Near Fine or better - whose printed silver paper-over-boards slipcase shows some notable overall wear and rubbing. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019949

(APERTURE) (SOMMER, FREDERICK). White, Minor, Editor. Rochester, NY: Aperture Inc., 1962. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Periodical. Very Good -.. 42pp, 30 duotone illustrations + rear cover. Designed by Frederick Sommer. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This fortieth installment of Aperture from 1962 is designed and edited by, and devoted entirely to the writings and images of Frederick Sommer. The very first monograph on his work, it contains a portfolio of twenty-nine beautifully reproduced full page photographs by the venerable late American proponent of the Surrealist image. An internally bright, most handsome example of this surprisingly uncommon item (cited on pages 162-163 of "The Book of 101 Books") showing some faint spotting to the glossy white surface of the front cover. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019948

(SUTNAR, LADISLAV). Sutnar, Ladislav. New York: Arts Inc., 1953. First Edition. Oblong 4to. 1/4 Buckram Over Boards. Design Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Ladislav Sutnar. This is the pioneering Czechoslovakian-born, New York-based graphic designer Ladislav Sutnar's stylish survey on what was at the time a rather unexplored subject - modernist design in post-war product packaging. Filled with examples from the world of fashion as well as the supermarket and hardware store, it contains work by such design icons such as Saul Bass, Lester Beall, Alexey Brodovitch, Donald Deskey, Alexander Liberman, Raymond Loewy, Paul Rand, the author himself, and many, many more. A handsome example of the silver buckram over orange boards variant binding lacking its dust jacket and showing a tiny dent to the tips at the lower foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. LC 53-11450 Inventory Number: 019919

(BEUYS, JOSEPH). Beuys, Joseph. London: Anthony d'Offay Gallery, 1981. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), 123 duotone illustrations. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1981 exhibition of a 1975 series of Joseph Beuys drawings on calendar pages entitled "Words Which Can Hear" held at London's Anthony D'Offay Gallery. A pristine example of the uncommon deluxe hardbound edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies BOLDLY NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Joseph Beuys in brown ink at the rear, as issued. Inventory Number: 019917

(GUSTON, PHILIP). Coplans, John. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1980. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine./Near Fine.. np (24pp), 8 duotone and 2 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition history. Published in 1980, this is the first of three slender, elegantly produced Gemini G.E.L. prospectuses for lithographs (eight this time) created by the revered late Abstract Expressionist turned quirky representational artist Philip Guston just prior to his untimely passing. A handsome example. Inventory Number: 019863

(HOLLINGSWORTH, DENNIS). Myers, Terry, Marilu Knode & Carmine Iannacone. Los Angeles: Bennett Roberts Fine Art, 1995. First Edition 1/1000. 12mo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (28pp), 12 color illustrations. Designed by Jane Hart. Published in conjunction with a 1995 gallery exhibition of recent paintings on wood panel, this is the very first catalogue devoted to the work of noted Los Angeles-based abstract artist Dennis Hollingsworth. A most handsome example of this uncommon item with the publisher's compliments card stating the edition number laid in. Inventory Number: 019859

(KERTESZ, ANDRE). Cartier-Bresson, Henri, Harold Riley, Mark Haworth-Booth, Lady Marina Vaisey, Weston J. Naef, Colin Ford & Charles Harbutt. Manchester, ENGLAND: Andre Kertesz and The Manchester Collection, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 188pp, 297 duotone illustrations. With a biography. This is an extremely well-illustrated catalogue in the form of a festschrift published in honor of Andre Kertesz' 90th birthday that documents the collection of his own photographic prints donated to the United Kingdom's National Museum of Photography in Bradford. In addition to reproducing nearly three hundred images, it includes textual contributions by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harold Riley, Mark Haworth-Booth, Lady Marina Vaisey, Weston J. Naef, Colin Ford, and Charles Harbutt. A most handsome example of the uncommon hardbound edition bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "For ... / May 1 - 1985 / Andre Kertesz" in blue ink in the photographer's inimitable shaky script on the title page. Inventory Number: 019828

(BEUYS, JOSEPH). de Vree, Paul & Sarenco, Editors. Brescia, ITALY: Lotta Poetica, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Periodical. Fine.. np (24pp), 23 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. Text in Italian. Cover Designed by Joseph Beuys, This forty-sixth installment of Paul de Vree's prescient seventies art and literature periodical "Lotta Poetica" (Poetry War) is a special monographic issue devoted to Joseph Beuys. It features a cover and title page designed by the artist that is accompanied by Caroline Tisdall's photographic documentation of the 1974 piece "Three Pots Action in the Poor House". A bright, most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Joseph Beuys" in pencil on the front cover. Inventory Number: 019826

(FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig.. Los Angeles: James Fee, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (50pp), 23 duotone plates. Designed by SoS Los Angeles / Susan Silton. This beautifully printed, self-published catalogue was the first publication by the late, great Los Angeles photographer James Fee. It presents twenty-three dark and disturbing images of a haunting road trip across an unpopulated, dystopian America. A most handsome example of the ultra-limited deluxe edition bound in black linen over debossed boards with a 5 x 5 ¼" SIGNED original silver gelatin photograph laid down on the front cover additionally bearing the extraordinary SIGNED PRESENTATION "Jean Paul, Thank you so much for everything. You really came through for me on this project. Best, James Fee 9-19-94" in black ink on the first preliminary. This is to Jean-Paul Nataf of the Bremik Press, who is credited as the book's printer and is thanked in the author's printed acknowledgements. 0-964-0494-0-6 Inventory Number: 019818

(SHAYLOR, ANDREW). Shaylor, Andrew. Foreword by Sonny Barger. London: Merrell Publishers Limited, 2005. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. 4to. Full-Leather in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 200 duotone and 100 color illustrations. Designed by Maggi Smith. "Photographer Andrew Shaylor has been given unique and long-term access to the secret world of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. Over three hundred stunning photographs reveal the rich diversity of the HAMC, including events, members' motorcycles (always Harley Davidsons), clubhouses, portraits, and a multitude of details that uniquely define their culture. It contains a specially commissioned foreword by American legend Sonny Barger". Limited to one thousand copies only, this deluxe edition is hardbound in full black leather that shows a debossed Hells Angels insignia, and is SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Andrew Shaylor. It is housed in a debossed oversized black leather clamshell box that contains a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 12 x 9 ½" black and white silver print of the image "Kenny, HAMC, Tyne and Wear" - the cover image of the trade edition of this book. A brand new, pristine example in the publisher's unopened printed cardboard shipping carton, as issued. 1858943167 Inventory Number: 019813

(PENCK, A.R.). Penck, A.R.. Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS: Groninger Museum, 1979. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Good.. np, profusely illustrated in monochrome. Text in German. Limited to five hundred copies only, this is an artist's book published in conjunction with a 1979 Groninger Museum exhibition by A.R. Penck. It appears to be facsimile reproductions of a selection of drawings and texts from the German artist's notebooks and sketchbooks. A presentable copy only showing some overall wear and handling that includes slight dents through two of the corners of the textblock. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019765

Roth, Marissa. Marquand Books. Cloth in Slipcase. New.

Infinite Light: A Photographic Meditation on Tibet by Marissa Roth with a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Marquand Books. "A visual poem of seventy-two color photographs of her impressions of Tibet, arranged in a continuous sequence reflecting the colors of Tibetan prayer flags. The photographs were shot with some of the last available Kodachrome film, producing deep saturated color. Limited to an edition of 400, each slipcased book is signed and numbered by the artist. Says Roth, ‘This project is my love letter to Tibet. It is the reflection of my inner and outer journeys to this land and a very personal impressionistic view of what it feels like to be in Tibet. It is also a social and political statement and another cry for awareness about what is being irrevocably lost.’”

Please note, the cost of this book includes $15 for insured domestic shipping.

Inventory Number: 01975

(REGGAE AND AFRICAN BEAT, THE). Smith, C.C. & Roger Steffens, Editors. Los Angeles: Bongo Productions, 1985. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Music Periodical. Fine.. 50pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Cover image of Bob Marley. C.C. Smith's Los Angeles-based "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 June 1985 installment is their third annual "collectors edition" issue devoted to Bob Marley and The Wailers that includes contributions on or by Steffens, Timothy White, Jeff Walker, and "Jamfest 85". Also featured are regular columns "Reggae Movement", "African Music", and more along with loads of informative record reviews, playlists, and advertisements. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 019744

(GURSKY, ANDREAS). Gursky, Andreas, Veit Gorner & Annelie Lutgens. Wolfsburg & Ostfildern, GERMANY: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg & Hatje/Cantz, 1998. First Edition. Oblong Folio. Pictorial Boards. Catalogue Raisonné. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Gerard Hadders, BLH. Text in English and German. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published in conjunction with a 1998 retrospective at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (that subsequently traveled to the Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Serpentine Gallery, London, Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Castello di Rivoli, and the Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon), this elegantly designed, oversized hardbound volume is a full catalogue raisonné reproducing each of Andreas Gursky's large-scale photographic works executed between January 1994 and December 1997. A most handsome example still bearing the publisher's printed wraparound band along with the text booklet in parallel English and German laid in, as issued. 3-89322-355-X Inventory Number: 019743

(MISRACH, RICHARD). Misrach, Richard & Susan Sontag. New York: Aperture Inc., 1992. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. 95pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Roger Gorman. This beautifully designed and printed book collects three bodies of work from Richard Misrach's "Desert Cantos" series accompanied by Susan Sontag's work of short fiction entitled "The View From the Ark". The photographs of Southwestern desert areas include the decaying remains of Utah's Wendover Air Base, wherein 1945 "bomb components were modified, assembled, and flight-tested for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings"; county designated dead-animal pits in the West filled with the mummified and decaying carcasses of cattle and horses; and a startling series of images of the bullet-riddled pages of two "Playboy" magazines that had been used for target practice found by the photographer at a Nevada Nuclear Test site. It also includes a transcribed 1992 interview with the photographer by Melissa Harris. A most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Richard Misrach" in black ink on the half title page showing a small remainder mark on the bottom edge of the textblock at the heel of the spine. 0-89381-519-5 Inventory Number: 019741

(SUGIMOTO, HIROSHI). Sugimoto, Hiroshi & Kozo Fujimoto. Tokyo: Rikuyosha Co. Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 168pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Rie Shimoda. With a biography and exhibition history. This is the exquisite hardbound catalogue produced as the documentation of a 2003 Hiroshi Sugimoto exhibition entitled "L'Histoire de L'Histoire". For it, the renowned photographer selected objects and sites of Japanese cultural and historical importance, photographed them, and then installed these images along with older works (the dioramas, seascapes and portraits) in a Tokyo gallery curated by the luxury goods concern Hermes. The resulting work is unlike any of Sugimoto's previous books, and hauntingly beautiful. A brand new, most handsome example. 4-89737-498-7 Inventory Number: 019731

. Princeton Architectural Press, 2015. Wrappers. New.

“One of the greatest graphic designers of the twentieth century—called by Picasso ‘the Leonardo of our time'--Italian artist and designer Bruno Munari considered the book the best medium to communicate his visual ideas, showcase his art, and convey his creative spirit. Primarily produced in large quantities for the general public, his more-than-sixty publications—from design manuals and manifestos to visionary tactile children's books—displayed all the beauty and technical ingenuity of works of art.
Munari's Books, the first English-language monograph to focus on his remarkable achievements in publishing, examines in detail his seventy-year legacy in print, from his pioneering work as a graphic designer and collaborations with major publishers to his experimental visual projects and innovative contributions to the fields of painting, sculpture, design, photography, and teaching. Featuring critical essays and a wealth of color illustrations, this long-overdue monograph is a visually rich introduction to Munari's remarkably multifaceted career.”

Inventory Number: 01973

. Vitra Design Museum. Wrappers. New. 9783945852002

“Making Africa takes a fresh look at African design. For the first time, we have a book that focuses on creative accomplishments on the continent, without being obsessed with the usual tropes of recycling, humanitarian design or traditional crafts. Instead, Making Africa shows a new generation of designers who use their work as a tool for economic, political and social change and therefore also to create a new future for the continent. Their creative output defies all definitions of genres – crossing over classical fields such as furniture design, product design and typography to encompass digital media, art, photography, architecture and film. A large section of the catalogue is dedicated to documenting work by over 120 protagonists of Africa’s new creative epoch – including Cyrus Kabiru, Cheick Diallo, Mário Macilau, Francis Kéré, David Adjaye, Kunlé Adeyemi, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Robin Rhode, Alaforu Sikoki, Selly Raby Kan and many more. The historical and theoretical background is explored in essays and discussions with Okwui Enwezor, Koyo Kouoh, Edgar Pieterse and Amelie Klein, among others. These are complemented by statements from around 70 other experts from Africa, who met at interviews and think tanks in cities such as Cape Town, Johannesburg, Lagos, Dakar, Nairobi and Cairo. This is a book about the future of Africa and about a new, more open way of understanding design – which means it is also a book about what design can achieve in the 21st century.”

Inventory Number: 01972

(GRAHAM, ROBERT). Gemini G.E.L.. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Print Prospectus. Fine.. One 9 ½ x 13" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, neatly folded in half as issued to make 4pp, 2 b&w illustrations. This is one of Los Angeles-based Gemini G.E.L.'s print/multiple prospectuses announcing the publication of Robert Graham's seven 1974 "Untitled" screenprints. A most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item with the publisher's card announcing prices and availability laid in, as issued. Inventory Number: 019706

(MANGOLD, ROBERT). Carrier, David. New York: PaceWildenstein, 1995. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good -.. 38pp, 23 color and 1 b&w illustration + cover. Designed by Tomoko Makiura and Paul Pollard. With an exhibition checklist. This is the stylish catalogue published in conjunction with a 1995 PaceWildenstein exhibition of fourteen recent paintings and studies by Minimalist icon Robert Mangold from his "Curved Plane / Figure" series. A most presentable copy from the library of an art consultant that annotated it in pencil throughout with the gallery's asking prices and the client(s) that either bought or reserved pieces, showing a soft crease through a portion of the upper foredge tip. It has been priced accordingly. 1-878283-54-5 Inventory Number: 019704

Restany, Pierre, Jo Verbrugghen & John Bultinck. St.-Lievens-Houtem, BELGIUM. ND (Circa 1961).: NP. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Art Monograph. Very Good -.. 20pp, 9 b&w illustrations. Text in French and Dutch. This mysterious twenty page tract on "Le Nouveau Realisme" bears "Overdruk uit 'Cyanuur' Dorp 80, St.-Lievens-Houtem" on the front cover as its only publication information. Judging from citations in the text, it appears to have been issued in 1961. It contains three brief written contributions: Pierre Restany's "Le Nouveau Realisme et le Bapteme de L'Objet" in French, Jo Verbrugghen's "Tinguely" in Dutch, and John Bultinck's "Het 'Nouveau Realisme' of Armoe Troef", also in Dutch. It features nine black and white reproductions of works and/or portraits of Cesar, Raymond Hains, Mimmo Rotella, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Niki de Saint Phalle. A most presentable copy of this uncommon item showing a bit of wear, soiling and offsetting to the wrappers along with a mild soft crease through the lower foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019703

(MANGOLD, ROBERT). Danoff, I. Michael & Mark Stevens. Akron, OH & New York: Akron Art Museum & Paula Cooper Gallery, 1984. First Edition 1/3000. Square 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 24pp, 15 b&w and 5 color illustrations + color cover. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1984 traveling retrospective circulated by the Akron Art Museum of thirty-seven paintings and works on paper executed by Robert Mangold between 1969 and 1984. It includes installation shots of several of the pioneering Minimalist's earlier gallery exhibitions. A handsome copy. Inventory Number: 019685

(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 additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Al Ruppersberg" in black ink on the table of contents still in the publisher's packaging. 3-03764-064-2 Inventory Number: 019622

(RUPPERSBERG, ALLEN). Groos, Ulrike, Ann Goldstein, Judith E. Vida-Spence, Wolfgang Zumdick & Allen Ruppersberg. Dusseldorf & Koln, GERMANY: Kunsthalle Dusseldorf & Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2006. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 232pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Silke Fahnert and Uwe Koch. Text in English. With an exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. This is the wonderfully informative and copiously illustrated catalogue published in conjunction with a 2006 traveling European retrospective of work by Allen Ruppersberg. Featuring texts by Ulrike Groos, Ann Goldstein, Judith E. Vida-Spence, Wolfgang Zumdick, and the artist himself, it is the most comprehensive documentation to date of the four decades of literate, humor-inflected output by this Los Angeles-based Conceptualist. A brand new, pristine example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Al Ruppersberg" in black ink on the title page. 3-86560-029-8 Inventory Number: 019621

(SCHNABEL, JULIAN). Schnabel, Julian & Louise Neri. Beverly Hills, CA: Gagosian Gallery, 2008. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New./As New.. np (42pp) 18 b&w and 16 color illustrations. Designed by Goto Design. With an exhibition checklist. This is the lovely catalogue published in conjunction with a 2008 Gagosian Gallery exhibition that reproduces each of the sixteen exhibited "Christ's Last Day" paintings by noted artist/director Julian Schnabel. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap 1-932598-70-7 Inventory Number: 019595

(DAVIDSON, BRUCE). Davidson, Bruce. Foreword by U.S. Congressman John Lewis. Introduction by Deborah Willis. West Hollywood, CA: St. Ann's Press, 2002. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Large Square 4to. Cloth w/Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (172pp), 144 tritone illustrations. Designed by Paul McMenamin at SPINE. Photographed during the height of the American Civil Rights struggle (with most of these images uncollected in book form until this undertaking), Bruce Davidson's moving portraits of social change from the rural South to the streets of Harlem and Chicago are a revelation some forty years later. Pictured here are the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, the Freedom Riders, National Guardsmen, Cracker lawmen, Klansmen, and the African-American populace undergoing their "Time of Change". A brand new, pristine example of the Deluxe edition of the 2002 first St. Ann's Press (cited on page 223 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") limited to one hundred slipcased copies SIGNED with an original 10 x 8" SIGNED AND NUMBERED gelatin silver print of "Mother Brown" by Bruce Davidson. 0-9713681-2-0 Inventory Number: 019576

(SANNES, SANNE). Sannes, Sanne, Jim Hughes & Louwrien Wijers. South Brunswick, NJ & New York: A.S. Barnes and Co., Inc., 1972. First American Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine./Good +.. np (200pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "The Face of Love" is one of the lesser-known yet still classic books of erotic imagery from the sixties. It is a compilation of the dark, grainy nudes of both women and couples by the Dutch photographer Sanne Sannes, who was tragically killed in 1967 in an automobile accident at the age of thirty. Like his "Sex a Go Go", this was a posthumously published (in 1972), and it includes appreciative essays by Jim Hughes and Louwrien Wijers. A most handsome copy of the book itself whose neatly price-clipped dust jacket shows light overall wear, rubbing and soiling, some creasing and minor paper loss at the extremities, and a diagonal closed tear to the front panel starting at the spine. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 019559

(SHAUGHNESSY, R.J.). Shaughnessy, R.J.. Los Angeles: R.J. Shaughnessy, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 4to. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), 37 illustrations in duotone. Designed by Christian Cervantes. "Your Golden Opportunity is Comeing Very Soon" is Los Angeles-based photographer R.J. Shaughnessy's follow up to his must-have first book - "Deathcamp". Shot in stark black and white, it captures the flawed details of his decaying metropolis illuminated with a flash in the dead of night. No wasted partygoers here, just riveting images of bent poles, torn chain-link fences, crumbling cinderblock barriers and the like. A most handsome example of this intriguing, already unavailable work limited to five hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by R.J. Shaughnessy in black marker on the rear colophon, as issued. 0-9792748-4-2 Inventory Number: 019547

Lehuard, Raoul. Arnouville, FRANCE: Arts D'Afrique Noir, 1980. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. African Art Monograph. Fine/Fine. 268pp, 139 b&w illustrations. Text in French. With a bibliography. Published as part of the "Arts D'Afrique Noir" monographs, this substantial volume by noted African art historian Raoul Lehuard is a comprehensive stylistic study of the wood and metal fetish figures of the Kongo and Nkonde peoples of Southern Zaire. A most handsome example of this uncommon, authoritative reference. Inventory Number: 019528

(LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANCOIS). Lyotard, Jean Francois. Bruce Boone, Translator. Venice, CA: Lapis Press, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Clamshell Box. Art Theory Monograph. As New/As New. 64pp, illustrated in b&w. Designed by Robert Shapazian and Patrick Dooley. Originally issued as "Le Mur du Pacifique" by Editions Galilee in 1979, "Pacific Wall" is the first English language edition of renowned French theoretician Jean-Francois Lyotard's anthology of nine essays on "the Western". It is an elaborately designed reinvisioning published in 1990 by Sam Francis' Lapis Press that includes gatefold illustrations of Ed Kienholz' "Five Card Stud" and the downtown Los Angeles freeway system. One of only a handful of presentation copies produced hors commerce for the press and contributors, it consists of the book in its fragile unprinted yellow acetate jacket with printed acetate wraparound title band housed in a crimson linen-over-boards clamshell box with a gilt-debossed spine. A brand new, pristine example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For King Henry, our own, Love from the editor - Robert Shapazian" and "+ the Publisher Sam Francis" for Henry Hopkins in purple ink on page 60 whose box shows some very light wear and soiling. The late Henry T. Hopkins was a pioneering California-based museum director, art historian and gallerist from whom we acquired this directly prior to his passing. 0-932499-64-3 Inventory Number: 019521