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(FRANCIS, SAM). Francis, Sam. Los Angeles: Felix Landau Gallery, 1969. First Edition. Small Square 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (28pp), 26 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist. This is the slender twenty-eight page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1969 Felix Landau Gallery exhibition of twenty-six paintings on canvas and paper executed between 1963 and 1969 by the noted Las Angeles abstract master Sam Francis. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing some light soiling and patination to its matte white wrappers. Inventory Number: 026781

(FRANCIS, SAM). Francis, Sam. NP. ND (1973).: Self-Published. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine./No Jackets - As Issued.. np (36pp), no illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Printed offset without illustrations, this charming little self-published collection of brief aphorisms by the late, great Sam Francis precedes the 1986 Lapis Press edition by over a decade. A bright, most handsome unique example of this exceedingly uncommon true first printing issued hors commerce without dust jacket to be given by the artist to his friends additionally BEARING A BOLD SELF PORTRAIT DRAWING INITIALED AND DATED "S.F. / '73" in black ink on the front cover. Inventory Number: 025572

(FRANCIS, SAM). Francis, Sam. New York. ND (1957).: Martha Jackson Gallery. First Edition. Small Folio. Printed Paper. Exhibition Poster. Near Fine.. One 13 ½ x 9 ¾" sheet printed offset recto only in black, white and purple, 1 illustration. This is the striking poster published in conjunction with Sam Francis' second ever American one-man exhibition held at New York's Martha Jackson Gallery between November 25th and December 20th 1957. A most handsome, flat and unmailed example of this uncommon, lovely ephemeral object showing the slightest bit of age-toning. Inventory Number: 007749

(FRANCIS, SAM). Hulten, Pontus. Stockholm, SWEDEN: Heland Wetterling Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (10pp), 8 color illustrations + color cover. Text in English. With a biography. This is the slender ten page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1987 Heland Wetterling Gallery exhibition of nine recent paintings by Sam Francis. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 021353

(FRANCIS, SAM). Malmberg, Roxana Pirovano. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Galerie Proarta, 1994. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 72pp, 24 color and 7 b&w illustrations. Text in German. With a biography, exhibition history, bibliography and filmography. This is the substantial catalogue published in conjunction with a 1994 memorial exhibition of works by noted abstract artist Sam Francis held at Zurich's Galerie Proarta. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 021257

(FRANCIS, SAM) (NOISE). Maeght, Adrien & Aki Kuroda, Editors. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1989. First Edition. Small Folio. Illustrated Wrappers. Art Journal. Near Fine.. np (62pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French. This is the tenth installment of Maeght Editeur's beautifully produced, short-lived contemporary art and literary journal, "Noise". It features contributions on or by Philippe Sollers, Georges Jeanclos, Stephane Mallarme, Pierre Nivollet (illustrated with eight original full-color lithographs), Marcelin Pleynet, Pierre Buraglio (illustrated with eight original two-color lithographs), Jacqueline Risset, Annik Blyau, and Dante. Its cover is an original color lithograph by Sam Francis. A handsome example showing just a bit of overall wear and handling. ISSN 0765-121-X Inventory Number: 018563

(FRANCIS, SAM). Ooka, Makoto, Yoshiaki Tono & Mamoru Yonekura. Tokyo: Ogawa Art Foundation & Yayoi Gallery, 1987. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Jacket, Slipcased. Artist Monograph. Fine./Fine.. np (112pp), 40 color illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With an exhibition checklist, biography and exhibition history. This beautifully produced, substantial catalogue was published in conjunction with a 1987 Japanese retrospective of forty works drawn from the Idemitsu collection in Tokyo by noted abstract artist Sam Francis executed between 1948 and 1981. A brand new, most handsome example in the publisher's unprinted glassine jacket and die-cut cardboard slipcase with pastedown, as issued. Inventory Number: 020517

(FRANCIS, SAM). Pudelko, Christoph. Bonn, GERMANY: Galerie Pudelko, 1993. First Edition. 12mo. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (48pp), 20 color illustrations. Text in German. This is the small format catalogue published in conjunction with a Galerie Pudelko exhibition at Art Basel 1993 of twenty works on paper produced by noted abstract artist Sam Francis between 1954 and 1990. A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 021043

(FRANCIS, SAM). Selz, Gabrielle. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2021. First Edition. 8vo. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Biography. As New/As New. 0-520-31071-3

392pp, 22 b&w and 11 color photos illustrations. "Light on Fire" is the first comprehensive biography of Sam Francis, one of the most important American abstract artists of the twentieth century. Based on Gabrielle Selz’s unprecedented access to Francis' files, as well as private correspondence and hundreds of interviews, this book traces the extraordinary and ultimately tragic journey of a complex and charismatic artist who first learned to paint as a former air-corps pilot encased for three years in a full-body cast. While still a young man, Francis saw his color-saturated paintings fetch the highest prices of any living artist. His restless desire resulted in five marriages and homes on three continents; his entrepreneurial spirit led to founding a museum, a publishing company, a reforestation program and several nonprofit organizations. "Light on Fire" captures the art, life, personality, and talent of a man whom the art historian and museum director William C. Agee described as a rare artist participating in the “visionary reconstruction of art history,” defying creative boundaries among the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. With settings from World War II San Francisco to postwar Paris, New York, Tokyo, and Los Angeles, Selz crafts an intimate portrait of a man who sought to resolve in art the contradictions he couldn’t resolve in life." A brand new, most handsome example of the first edition of this engaging study.

Inventory Number: E211024SFLOF

(FRANCIS, SAM). Selz, Peter, Susan Einstein & Jan Butterfield. New York. 1975 (1982).: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated. Second Revised Edition (First Thus). Large Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 296pp, 82 color and 135 b&w illustrations. With a biography and bibliography. This is the revised edition of the first comprehensive monograph on the late American abstract artist Sam Francis. A brand new, pristine example of the preferred 1982 version that includes a well illustrated thirty-two page supplemental essay on his graphic work not found in the first issue additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For Connie, love + kisses, Sam" to his close friend and author of the catalogue raisonné of his graphic work Connie Lembark in black ink on the half title page. 0-8109-0928-6 Inventory Number: 019222

(FRANCIS, SAM). Silverman, Manny, Pontus Hulten & Robert Shapazian. Los Angeles: Manny Silverman Gallery, 1987. First Edition. Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (20pp), 8 color and 14 b&w illustrations. With a chronology. This is the slender twenty page catalogue issued in conjunction with the 1987 inaugural exhibition of the Manny Silverman Gallery featuring twenty-two paintings on paper by Sam Francis ostensibly executed between 1959 and 1964 that raised quite a few art world eyebrows due to the highly controversial dating by the artist of these works. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 021881

(FRANK, JONA). Frank, Jona & Bruce Weber. Heidelberg, GERMANY: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

84pp, 43 color illustrations. Text in English. "In the Fall of 2010, photographer Jona Frank began to make portraits at an amateur boxing club just outside of Liverpool in a suburb called Ellesmere Port. All the boys tried to act tough for the camera, and Frank was reminded of a line from the Arcade Fire song Rococo: "They seem wild, but they are so tame". In the song they are singing about going downtown and watching the modern kids. It made Frank think about how these boys, in this town, are in their life. For them, everything is present. This is their 21st Century, their right now, but their faces evoke the past. Many of them, shirtless and sweaty, their hands covered with big, puffy, colorful gloves, look timeless, but the truth is they are like any adolescent who is trying on a role and attempting to find their place. Like the suburb of Liverpool where these photos were made, boxing has a foot in the past while grasping its contemporary purpose. Frank’s photographs provide a record of a sport and a community whose presence is slowly fading. Bruce Weber states in the books preface "Although some of the most gentlemanly people I have ever met are boxers, for Jona to go into a boxing gym as a woman is a very rare thing. I used to visit a gym out in Las Vegas called Johnny Tocco’s that had a sign which read "No Women Allowed." But Jona’s boxers let her have this experience. They wanted to share their moment of glory with her, and she in turn made heroes of them in her photographs. These pictures will be placed on the mantles and the walls in their homes. People will take notice. Their hard work will matter. Some people might confuse the realism of Jona’s work with a certain anti-romanticism. But she’s just bending the ideal by holding true to the photographer’s mantra keep your eyes open and be true to your heart."

A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED "Jona Frank" in ink on the title page.

978-3868286328 Inventory Number: E000JFTMK

(GEHRY, FRANK O.). Gehry, Frank, Rosemarie Haag Bletter, Coosje Van Bruggen, Mildred Friedman, Joseph Giovannini, Thomas S. Hines & Pilar Viladas. Foreword by Henry N. Cobb. New York & Minneapolis, MN: Rizzoli International Publications & The Walker Art Center, 1986. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. Fine/Fine. 216pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Ferguson. This is the nicely appointed catalogue published in conjunction with the Walker Art Museum's substantial 1986 survey exhibition of the work of internationally famed architect Frank Gehry. A bright, most handsome example of the first hardbound edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To Frank Pierson / F O Gehry" in black ink on the half title page. The late Mr. Pierson was a renowned Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "Dog Day Afternoon (along with the Academy-nominated "Cat Ballou" and "Cool Hand Luke"), director, and President of both the Writers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 0-8478-0741-X Inventory Number: 025788

(GERSTLER, AMY) (LIFFEY, ANYA). Gerstler, Amy. Los Angeles: Illuminati, 1984. First Edition 1/200. Tall 12mo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Prose Monograph. Very Good.. np (24pp), no illustrations. Cover Illustration by Anya Liffey. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "White Marriage & Recovery" is an early collection of two prose works by the noted Los Angeles poet and art critic Amy Gerstler. A handsome example of this uncommon item from the first edition limited to two hundred copies showing some typical browning to the endpapers due to the publisher's less than judicious choice of non-archival glue - with artist Anya Liffey's unique finger-painting in white on the front cover in immaculate shape. 0-89807-104-6 Inventory Number: 012695

(GETTY MUSEUM DEPARTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE J. PAUL). Naef, Weston J., Gordon Baldwin, Virginia Dodier, Thomas Weston Fels, Mikka Gee, Michael Hargraves, Eugenia Parry Janis, Judith Keller, Ben Lifson, Katherine Ware, Brett Abbott, Anne Lacoste, et al.. Malibu & Los Angeles, CA. 1986-2008.: The J. Paul Getty Museum. First Editions. 8vo. Pictorial Cardstock Wrappers. Exhibition Brochures. Very Good - or Better.. This is a collection of sixty-two of the informative brochures issued by the J. Paul Getty Museum between 1986 and 2008 to accompany exhibitions curated by its Department of Photographs. These are beautifully printed keepsakes - typically duotone on coated, heavy stock - that were never made commercially available for sale, with most representing the only published documentation for each show. The format of this series is for the most part one cardstock sheet printed recto and verso, neatly folded in fourths as issued to make 8 pages - typically with five illustrations. The monographic publications are on Eugene Atget (2 different), Brassai, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Julia Margaret Cameron (3 different), Edgar Degas, William Eggleston, P.H. Emerson, Walker Evans (2 different), Roger Fenton, Lady Clementina Hawarden, Hill and Adamson, Graciela Iturbide, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Gustave Le Gray, Man Ray, Lisette Model, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Eliot Porter, Alexander Rodchenko, August Sander (2 different), Frederick Sommer, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Edmund Teske (2 different), Carleton Watkins (2 different), Weegee, and Edward Weston (2 different). The survey exhibitions are "After the Manner of Women: Photographs by Kasebier, Cunningham, and Ullman", "Antiquity and Photography: Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites", The Art of The Daguerreotype", "Capturing Time: A Celebration of Photography:, "Experimental Photography: Discovery & Invention", "Experimental Photography: The First Golden Age 1851-1889", "Experimental Photography: The Machine Age", "Experimental Photography: The New Subjectivity", "Experimental Photography: The Painter-Photographer", "The Eye of Sam Wagstaff", "The Flowering of Early French Photography", "Grave Testimony: Photographs of the Civil War", "...Images that yet / Fresh images beget... Photographing Art", "Little Pictures", "Nadar + Warhol: Paris + New York", "Neither Speech Nor Language: Photography and the Written Word", "Palette of Light: Handcrafted Photographs, 1898-1914", "Photographers of Genius at the Getty", "Procession to the Fallen Gods: Photography in Nineteenth Century Egypt", "Public Spaces / Private Spaces", "Rare States and Unusual Subjects: Photographs by Paul Strand, Andre Kertesz, and Man Ray", "Strange Days: Photographs From The Sixties by Winogrand, Eggleston, and Arbus:", "Walls of Algiers", "Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection", and "Women on the Edge: Twenty Photographers in Europe, 1919-1939". A most handsome set of these ephemeral items - all in at least Very Good minus condition, with most being Near Fine or Fine. Inventory Number: 027076

(GINSBERG, ALLEN) (SNYDER, GARY). Ginsberg, Allen, Gary Snyder, Peter Orlovsky & Nanao Sakaki. Nevada County, CA. ND (circa 1975): Nevada City Taxpayers Association. First Edition. Folio. Printed Poster. Poetry Reading Poster. Near Fine.. One 14 x 8 ½" sheet of goldenrod bond paper printed offset recto only, one illustration. This is the poster for a September 14th - assumed to be 1975 - benefit reading by poets Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Nanao Sakaki held at the American Victorian Museum in Nevada City, California. Entitled "True Gold is of the Heart" in a nod to the locale's Gold Rush heritage, the four appeared in support of the San Juan Ridge Taxpayers Association. "The roots of the Taxpayers Association go back to 1972 when a few dozen local residents founded the San Juan Ridge Study Group to explore issues of community concern. Meetings focused on county planning and building department policies, permits and code requirements for owner/builders; fire preparedness; forestry practices; and involvement with the Ridge's public schools. In 1975 the group founded the SJRTA, whose membership includes residents and non-resident landowners of the San Juan Ridge and other concerned citizens." Both Snyder and Ginsberg maintained residences nearby, and were supporters of the Association and its ideals. A most handsome example of this informally designed, inexpensively produced item that notes the "added attractions!" of Orlovsky and Sakaki to the bill rubber stamped in ink additionally SIGNED "Gary Snyder", "Allen Ginsberg", "Peter Orlovsky", and "Nanao Sakaki" in black and red inks on the evening of the event across the face. Inventory Number: 027320

(GOLDBERG, JIM). Goldberg, Jim. London, UK: MACK Books, I00231004. 2023. First Edition. 13 1/2 X 10 1/2", Large 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New./New.. 360pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Jim Goldberg. 978-1-912339-77-8

A brand new, most handsome example of the 2023 MACK first printing of this spectacular undertaking aditionally SIGNED "Jim Goldberg" in ink.

Inventory Number: E000JGCAG

(GOLDBERG, JIM). Goldberg, Jim. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2013. First New and Revised Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. "From 1977 to 1985, Jim Goldberg photographed the wealthy and destitute of San Francisco, creating a visual document that has since become a landmark work. Through the combination of text and photographs, "Rich and Poor"'s mass appeal was instantly recognizable. In 1984 the series was exhibited alongside Robert Adams and Joel Sternfeld in the "Three Americans" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and was published the following year by Random House. Out of print since 1985, "Rich and Poor" has been completely redesigned and expanded by the artist for this Steidl edition. Available for the first time in hardcover, it builds upon the classic combination of photographs and handwriting and adds a surplus of vintage material and contemporary photographs that have never been published or exhibited. The photographs in "Rich and Poor" constitute a gripping portrait of America during the 1970s and 80s that remains just as relevant today." A brand new, most handsome example of the greatly revised and expanded 2013 Steidl hardbound edition of this gem (whose 1985 first edition is cited on pages 250-251 of "The Book of 101 Books" and page 231 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jim Goldberg / 2014" WITH A TAPED DOWN PHOTOGRAPH from "Raised by Wolves" hand-bordered in gold ink on the title page by the Magnum photographer at our shop. 3-86930-688-2 Inventory Number: 026424

(GOLDBERG, JIM). Goldberg, Jim. Gottingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2013. First New and Revised Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. "From 1977 to 1985, Jim Goldberg photographed the wealthy and destitute of San Francisco, creating a visual document that has since become a landmark work. Through the combination of text and photographs, "Rich and Poor"'s mass appeal was instantly recognizable. In 1984 the series was exhibited alongside Robert Adams and Joel Sternfeld in the "Three Americans" exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and was published the following year by Random House. Out of print since 1985, "Rich and Poor" has been completely redesigned and expanded by the artist for this Steidl edition. Available for the first time in hardcover, it builds upon the classic combination of photographs and handwriting and adds a surplus of vintage material and contemporary photographs that have never been published or exhibited. The photographs in "Rich and Poor" constitute a gripping portrait of America during the 1970s and 80s that remains just as relevant today." A brand new, most handsome example of the greatly revised and expanded 2013 Steidl hardbound edition of this gem (whose 1985 first edition is cited on pages 250-251 of "The Book of 101 Books" and page 231 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Jim Goldberg / 2014" WITH A TAPED DOWN PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED "Bapdapa - 65" in blue marker and hand-bordered in gold ink on the title page by the Magnum photographer at our shop. 3-86930-688-2 Inventory Number: 026389

(GOLDSTEIN, JACK). Goldstein, Jack. Pomona, CA. ND (1971): Pomona College Art Gallery. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Postcard. Exhibition Announcement. Near Fine.. One 8 ¾ x 6 ¾" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, 1 b&w illustration. This is the announcement produced in conjunction with Jack Goldstein's January 1971 exhibition of recent work held at the Pomona College Art Gallery - the late, great artist's very first one person show. A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral item depicting a Minimalist wooden sculpture very much in the vein of Carl Andre showing two tiny pinholes through the card. Inventory Number: 026466

(GOLDSTEIN, JACK). Lebredt, Gordon. Foreword by Fiona McLeod. Edinburgh, SCOTLAND: Fruitmarket Gallery, 1988. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. 48pp, 16 color illustrations. With a chronology and exhibition history. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1988 survey exhibition of sixteen large format paintings from the eighties by Jack Goldstein held at Edinburgh's Fruitmarket Gallery. An internally most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of light wear to the covers and a slight diagonal dent through the head of the spine. 0-947912-21-5 Inventory Number: 025917

(GOODE, JOE AKA BUENO, JOSE). Goode, Joe. Jerry Sohn, Editor. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1990. First Edition 1/38. Folio. Silk Over Boards in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (32pp), 12 color etchings. "Water" is Joe Goode's - credited as Jose Bueno - exquisite 1990 limited edition book from The Lapis Press consisting of twelve color etchings of abstracted water executed by master printer Jacob Samuel on handmade paper at Sam Francis' Litho Shop. The title page and colophon were typeset and printed by hand letterpress by Les Ferriss, with its striking Royal Blue silk binding and grey slipcase by Ulli Rotzscher. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition limited to thirty-eight copies NUMBERED (38/38) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Joe Goode" in pencil on the title page showing just a bit of age-toning to the spine of the book and some light wear to the slipcase. Inventory Number: 025577

(GOODE, JOE). Goode, Joe. Santa Monica, CA: Jacob Samuel, 1987. First Edition 1/8. 4to. Linen Over Boards, Slipcased. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (36pp), 12 white ground aquatints. Designed by Joe Goode and Jacob Samuel. "Storm Trees" is the supremely beautiful first book of the press of Santa Monica-based master printer Jacob Samuel. It is a collaboration with renowned Los Angeles (by way of Oklahoma with Ed Ruscha) artist Joe Goode featuring twelve gorgeous abstract aquatints printed at Sam Francis' Litho Shop on vintage Whitman Fine paper, bound in debossed green linen-over-boards, and housed in a blue linen slipcase. The title page and colophon were typeset and printed using a hand letterpress by Les Ferriss, with the hand-binding by Klaus-Ullrich S. Rotzscher. A brand new, most handsome example of the first product of Edition Jacob Samuel - one of only eight bound copies (with an additional two composed of loose sheets issued as artist's proofs) - BOLDLY NUMBERED (6/8) AND SIGNED "Joe Goode" in blue ink at the rear colophon, as issued, showing some trivial scuffing to its slipcase. Inventory Number: 024545

(GOODE, JOE). Goode, Joe. Jerry Sohn, Editor. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1993. First Edition 1/25. 4to. Handmade Wrappers in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (20pp), 8 monochrome etchings. Designed by Joe Goode. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Nature's Revenge" is the beautiful 1993 Joe Goode limited edition book from The Lapis Press consisting of eight gorgeous monochrome Chine-colle´ etchings of abstracted tornados executed by master printer Jacob Samuel on Hiromi paper at Sam Francis' Litho Shop. The title page and colophon were typeset and printed by hand letterpress by Les Ferriss, and the wrappers are bound and sewn in the Japanese style using unprinted handmade Hiromi paper and housed in a like paper-over-boards slipcase by Klaus-Ullrich S. Rotzscher. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition limited to twenty-five copies NUMBERED (22/25) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Joe Goode" in pencil. Inventory Number: 024163

(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

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

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

(HAGGERTY, MICK). Haggerty, Mick, Gary Panter & Steven Heller. Los Angeles, CA: Mx, I00250201, 2024. First Edition 1/150 Copies. 4to. Illustrated Boards. Graphic Design Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 979-8-89443-487-2

np (300pp), profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Mick Haggerty. "MXWX" - Mick's Works - is a more or less comprehensive compendium of the various visual works imagined and fabricated by Mick Haggerty over the past half century. Moving to Los Angeles from London in 1973, Haggerty quickly established himself as a go-to record industry designer, illustrator, art director, and later music video director. He has won a Grammy for the visual packaging for Supertramp's "Breakfast in America" along with designing iconic covers for David Bowie, The Police, The Electric Light Orchestra, The Go Gos, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Jimi Hendrix, Nazareth, Public Image Ltd., Keith Richards, and many, many more. His editorial illustration includes covers for Time, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, and New West Magazine. This beautifully illustrated tome additionally features contributions by Gary Panter and Steven Heller along with a stunning archive of Mick's personal work - much of which is reproduced here for the very first time. A brand new, pristine example of this lavish production limited to one hundred and fifty hand-numbered copies additionally SIGNED by the artist.

Inventory Number: I00250201

(HAMMERSLEY, FREDERICK). Coke, Van Deren. Venice, CA: L.A. Louver Gallery, 1978. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (12pp), 1 color and 2 b&w illustrations + b&w back cover. With an exhibition checklist, biography and exhibition history. This is the slender twelve page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1978 gallery exhibition of twenty abstract paintings executed during the seventies by Frederick Hammersley - who along with John McLaughlin, Karl Benjamin, and Lorser Feitelson comprised the "Four Abstract Classicists" featured in the ground-breaking 1959 Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition of the same name. A bright white, most handsome example of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 024459

(HAWKINSON, TIM). Harvey, Doug, Philip Monk & Laura Steward Heon. Toronto, CANADA: The Power Plant, 2000. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 80pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hahn Smith Design. With an exhibition checklist, biography, bibliography and exhibition history. This is the comprehensive catalogue issued in conjunction with the 2000 survey exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based multi-media artist Tim Hawkinson that traveled from The Power Plant in Toronto to MASS MoCA. It is filled with sumptuous photographs of his wry sculptures and installations and contains essays by Doug Harvey, Philip Monk, and Laura Steward Heon. A handsome example of this uncommon item. 0-921047-94-0 Inventory Number: 022027

(HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Heinecken, Robert. Los Angeles: NP (Self-Published), 1986. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (16pp), 16 color illustrations. Designed by Robert Shaw. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "1984: A Case Study in Finding an Appropriate TV Newswoman (A CBS Docudrama in Words and Pictures)" is noted late photographer Robert Heinecken's self-published 1986 artist's book that presents screen captures of permutations of video composites of then-contemporary CBS male News anchors Tom Brokaw, Bryant Gumbel, David Hartman, Bill Kurtis, and Steve Baskerville with subordinate female broadcast journalists Diane Sawyer, Jane Pauley, Joan Lunden, Susan Spencer, Jane Wallace, Connie Chung, Maria Shriver, Meredith Viera, Vanessa Williams, Carol Martin, Pat Collins, and Phyllis George in a tart meditation on the rampant gender and power imbalance of the day. Or now. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. LC 86-91872 Inventory Number: 026026

(HEINECKEN, ROBERT). Heinecken, Robert. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.. np (12pp), 12 b&w illustrations. Robert Heinecken's "StudiesNinteenSeventy" is the fourteenth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 5 1/8 x 4" black and white photographic print of a photogram collaged from multiple exposures of men's magazine nudes tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 80 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter" and page 152 of "From Fair to Fine 3") of this uncommon, lovely item. 1-590050-31-2 Inventory Number: 016700

(HERMAN, ROGER). Connors, Matt & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2019. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's polychrome ceramics. It features a brief text by artist Matt Connors, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of nearly two decades worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new, pristine example of this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued. 0-578-50456-1 Inventory Number: E000RHC

(HERMAN, ROGER). Connors, Matt & Roger Herman. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2019. First Edition 1/250. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Artist Monograph. As New.. 426pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Ross McLain / Art Design Office. This is the massive, beautifully illustrated book documenting Roger Herman's polychrome ceramics. It features a brief text by artist Matt Connors, followed by hundreds and hundreds of color images of nearly two decades worth of the noted Los Angeles artist's striking pieces. A brand new, pristine example of the 2019 first printing this comprehensive monograph limited to two hundred and fifty copies SIGNED by the artist in pencil on the title page, as issued. 0-578-50456-1 Inventory Number: 027677

(HERNANDEZ, ANTHONY). Hernandez, Anthony, Jane Livingston & Roy Slade. Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1976. First Edition 1/3000. Square 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np (22pp), 15 b&w illustrations. With an exhibition checklist, bibliography, biography and exhibition history. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender catalogue issued in conjunction with Anthony Hernandez' participation as part of the 1976 Bicentennial project "The Nation's Capital in Photographs". Eight eminent American photographers (Lewis Baltz, Joe Cameron, Robert Cumming, Roy DeCarava, Lee Friedlander, John Gossage, Jan Groover, and Hernandez) were commissioned by The Corcoran Gallery of Art to "spend extended periods in Washington D.C. during 1975-76 to photograph the city, its environs and people, as each was guided by his own vision". The resulting exhibitions ultimately produced eight individual catalogues sampling each artist's photographs. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item additionally SIGNED "Anthony Hernandez" in black ink on the title page. LC 76-19243 Inventory Number: 024228

(HERNANDEZ, ANTHONY). Hernandez, Anthony & Lewis Baltz. Hannover, GERMANY: Sprengel Museum, 1995. First Edition. Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 88pp, 49 color and 1 b&w illustration. Text in English and German. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. Issued in conjunction with a 1995 Sprengel Museum exhibition in recognition of his award of the DG Bank Forderpreis Fotografie, this is the first published survey of Anthony Hernandez' stark color images of the debris left behind at various homeless encampments. It includes a transcribed conversation between the photographer and his longtime friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. A brand new, most handsome example of the first edition (cited on page 173 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III") additionally SIGNED "Anthony Hernandez" in black ink on the title page. 3-89169-095-9 Inventory Number: 023227

(HERNANDEZ, ANTHONY). Hernandez, Anthony & Ralph Rugoff. Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 2001. First Edition 1/25 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 90pp, 35 color illustrations. With a biography, exhibition checklist, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections listing. "Anthony Hernandez' "Pictures From Rome" (1998-99), made while he was a fellow at the American Academy, makes no reference to any iconic images of that historic city and its famous edifices. Instead, these elegantly disturbing color photographs examine what could be considered a series of unofficial urban monuments composed from the distressed architectural elements and detritus found inside abandoned buildings". Not unlike his recent work of abandoned homeless dwellings, these stark color images find great beauty in the solitude of urban decay. A brand new, pristine example from the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies (issued in numbered editions of twenty-five copies each of four different images) BOLDLY SIGNED "Anthony Hernandez" in black ink on the title page with the 9 ¾ x 9 ¾" SIGNED AND NUMBERED (1/25) color Iris Print "Along The River Tiber" laid in, as issued. 1-889195-45-6 Inventory Number: 023943

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Oakland, CA: B-Sides Box Sets, 2017. First Edition 1/2000. 16mo. Loose Plates in Plexiglas Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 50 loose 2 ½ x 3 ½" cardstock sheets printed offset recto and verso, 47 illustrations in color and b&w. "All photographers have a secret stash of photographs that float on the margins of published existence. Photographs that never quite fit into their current projects or are waiting to become the narrative of their next book or show, but that are too good to be left unused. They persist: the photographers pull them out, year after year, they recognize them as great images that should be shared, but the photos somehow frustratingly defy their years of shuffling into categorization or conventional use. This box set is those photographs, finally liberated from that file labeled "Orphans & Misfits". Todd Hido's second B-Sides Box Set, "Homing In", offers a new glimpse into Hido's highly prolific process and unveils unpublished "House Hunting" photographs, overlooked images of his muse Khrystyna, and brand new work made this year from the original set of David Lynch's "Twin Peaks". A brand new, most handsome example of this charming little set of fifty collector-type trading cards additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Todd Hido" in gold ink on the title card housed in the publisher's Plexiglas box, as issued. 1-5323-5128-3 Inventory Number: 027653

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Oakland, CA & Portland, OR: B-Sides Box Sets & Nazraeli Press, 2014. First Edition 1/500. 16mo. Loose Plates in Plexiglas Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 50 loose 2 ½ x 3 ½" cardstock sheets printed offset recto and verso, 47 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Bob Awfuldish. "All photographers have a secret stash of photographs that float on the margins of published existence. Photographs that never quite fit into their current projects or are waiting to become the narrative of their next book or show, but that are too good to be left unused. They persist: the photographers pull them out, year after year, they recognize them as great images that should be shared, but the photos somehow frustratingly defy their years of shuffling into categorization or conventional use. This box set is those photographs, finally liberated from that file labeled "Orphans & Misfits". Todd Hido's first B-Sides Box Set, "Silver Meadows", is a follow-up publication to the artist's award-winning 2013 monograph "Excerpts from Silver Meadows". Designed to function as a companion to that title as well as a sovereign object in its own right, the selection includes alternate images that didn't make it into the book, as well as variations of images that did. It offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the photographer selects and arranges images in book form. 'Making good and interesting pictures is only half of what it takes to make a memorable visual book,' Hido explains. 'The way one organizes images to create a narrative sequence also plays an important role in creating something that people want to pick up and take home". A brand new, most handsome example of this charming little set of fifty collector-type trading cards additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Todd Hido" in silver ink on the title card housed in the publisher's Plexiglas box, as issued. 1-59005-409-1 Inventory Number: 026720

(HIDO, TODD). Hido, Todd. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 5 color illustrations. Todd Hido's "Crooked Cracked Trees" is the fifty-ninth installment of Nazraeli Press' estimable "One Picture Book" series. Limited to five hundred copies, it contains "four reproductions of watercolor paintings by the students of Mrs. Flores' 08-09 monolingual First Grade class at Lyon Magnet Elementary School, Waukegan, Illinois" along with a 3 ¾ x 4 ¾" color type C photographic print of an actual cracked tree SIGNED AND NUMBERED (18/500) by Todd Hido in ink on the verso tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Todd Hido" in black ink on the title page. 1-59005-292-1 Inventory Number: 023059