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

(JOHNSON, JOE). Johnson, Joe. NP (San Francisco, CA). ND (Circa Late 1960s).: Self-Published. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Paper. Greeting Cards. Near Fine.. Three individual 8 ½ x 11" heavy paper sheets printed photo-offset rectos only, machine-folded vertically in half to make 8 ½ x 5 ½", 3 b&w illustrations. Joe Johnson was an early and prominent member of San Francisco's burgeoning LGBTQ community of the 1960s. While primarily known as the creator of the pioneering underground gay comics "Miss Thing" and "Big Dick", Johnson was additionally an accomplished artist and illustrator who at various times in the sixties and seventies produced fine art prints and greeting cards featuring male model studies. These were lo-fi ventures most likely sold under the counter, by word of mouth, and discreet mail order. This is a group of three individual cards issued by the artist each depicting a young male nude - all full frontal - reproduced by photo-offset on heavy, textured paper stock. A handsome group of these exceedingly uncommon vintage ephemeral items without envelopes each showing a bit of mild soiling. Inventory Number: 026945

(JOHNSON, JOE). Johnson, Joe. NP (San Francisco, CA). ND (1967).: Self-Published. First Edition. Folio. Loose Prints in a Portfolio. Print Portfolio. Fine.. Eight individual 17 ½ x 11" heavy paper sheets printed photo-offset rectos only, 8 b&w illustrations. Joe Johnson was an early and prominent member of San Francisco's burgeoning LGBTQ community of the 1960s. While primarily known as the creator of the pioneering underground gay comics "Miss Thing" and "Big Dick", Johnson was additionally an accomplished artist and illustrator who at various times in the sixties and seventies produced fine art prints and greeting cards featuring male model studies. These were lo-fi ventures most likely sold under the counter, by word of mouth, and discreet mail order. This is a set of eight of these prints issued in 1967 by the artist each depicting a young male nude - six full frontal - reproduced by photo-offset on cream colored, heavy woven paper stock housed in a plain red textured paper portfolio. We acquired from a single source several variants of this set, with none bearing any form of labeling or printed documentation; just the plates with or without the portfolio. The prints were issued without a signature in the plate, but Johnson signed some in pencil, and even hand-colored a few in a flesh-colored watercolor. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item with each print additionally SIGNED "Joe Johnson" in pencil in the publisher's unprinted paper portfolio. Inventory Number: 026944

(JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PASADENA). Junior League of Pasadena. Pasadena, CA: Junior League of Pasadena, 1927. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Good.. np (110 + 6pp), profusely illustrated in sepia tone. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published at the height of The Roaring Twenties, this is the heavily illustrated program for the 1927 fundraising "Frolic" presented by the Junior League of Pasadena. Reflecting both the status of its blue-blooded members of Southern California's elite and the look of The Jazz Age, this is a fascinating early "advertorial" in which the wives and daughters of Pasadena's toniest families are photographed flapperishly styled and posed admiring of the wares of its paid advertisers. Featured in the highly staged portraits - primarily by Ray Huff-Richter's studio - are the likes of silent-era star Colleen Moore, Mmes. Donald and Stuart O'Melveny, Hancock Banning, Stephen W. Royce, Stanley Robinson, Franklin Baldwin, Miss Marion Williams, and scores of others. Amongst the more than one hundred businesses touting their wares in support of the Junior League are The Biltmore, Ambassador, Alexandria, Fairmont, Flintridge, and Huntington hotels; May Company, Barker Bros., Hales, and Crown Emporium department stores; E.F Hutton, Bond & Goodwin & Tucker, Wilcox Drake & Co., The House of Rollins, E.A. Pierce & Co., and Francis P. Graves & Company brokerages; Richfield and Union Oil companies; Roland E Coate and Florence Yoch & Lucile Council, Architects; The Hal Roach Studios, Vroman's Books, The Pig 'N Whistle restaurant, and many of the local luxury car dealerships. Additionally bound in with a silk tie is the detailed six page program for the December 6th, 1927 "Topics of the Day" benefit theatrical Frolic - "with a book and original lyrics to popular tunes by Madeline Blackmore and Charles Crouch" - featuring a bevy of Junior League of Pasadena beauties of all ages joined by Mrs. Forrest Tucker as "Miss America!" An internally most presentable example of this exceptionally uncommon item - not a single copy appears in either OCLC WorldCat or the holdings of the Los Angeles Public Library - starting to pull from the wrappers at the staples showing a dent at the head of the spine, notable wear and creasing, some dampstaining, and minor paper loss along the extremities of its illustrated pale blue cardstock covers. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 026727

(KAPROW, ALLAN). Kaprow. Allan. NP (Valencia, CA): Self-Published, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Very Good.. np (4pp), 10 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Self-published by the artist in 1975, "Routine" is the photographically illustrated artist's book documenting three December 1973 "activities" by the renowned late Happenings and Performance artist Allan Kaprow. An internally most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item (cited as entry sixteen on pages 66-67 of Giorgio Maffei's "Allan Kaprow: A Bibliography") additionally BOLDLY INSCRIBED "For Sherry & Mel / Allan" in red ink on the front cover showing some soiling and typical minor age-patination to its white wrappers. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 024998

(KAPROW, ALLAN). Kaprow. Allan & Barbara Berman. Preface by James T. Demetrion. Pasadena, CA: Pasadena Art Museum, 1967. First Edition. 4to. Spiral-Bound Boards. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 56pp, profusely illustrated in b&w gravure. With an exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the exceedingly cool catalogue published in conjunction with the first major museum survey of the work of the renowned late Happenings and Performance artist Allan Kaprow. Published in 1967, the retrospective travelled from the Pasadena Art Museum to St. Louis' Washington University and The University of Texas, Austin. It includes copious photographic documentation, a transcribed interview between the artist and Barbara Berman, and the announcement for Kaprow's happening "Fluids" that was performed throughout Southern California in conjunction with the exhibition. A most handsome example of this uncommon spiral-bound document limited to one thousand, two hundred unnumbered copies showing some typical minor age-patination to the boards and preliminaries. Inventory Number: 025826

(KEATON, DIANE). Keaton, Diane & D.J. Waldie. Photographed by Lisa Romerein. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2017. 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. As New/As New. 272pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w.

“At once a style guide, an inspirational tome, and a how-to volume on creating one’s home, “The House That Pinterest Built” will serve as a go-to reference for all those seeking to spur their own creativity as they embark on the creation of home. When Diane Keaton decided that she wanted to build her own home from the ground up, she took the advice of her dear friend, film director Nancy Meyers, and took to the boards of Pinterest to find inspiration. There she discovered the practical and the fantastical, elements and styles long adored and ones that she never knew she was drawn to. Keaton’s dream house was officially under way and this book that resulted is a compelling account of her that house, from idea to realization in brick, stone, and wood.

Filled with ideas that reveal a personal yet engaging aesthetic, this volume includes compelling photos from Keaton’s past homes and those she admires, as well as a multitude of details from every corner of those spaces and objects that excite and inspire the house designer and dreamer—dramatic staircases and magical light fixtures, film stills and book covers, pottery and art—drawn from the visual treasure trove known as Pinterest and Keaton’s private collection, as she creates and designs her newest house

“If you want to explore. If you love to see. If you’re looking to look; this book is an example of a home made from the gifts of other people’s addictive yearnings for the perfect home, with the perfect landscape and the perfect interior. It illustrates my choices of your choices. Who knows, you might find one of your pins here. You might smile. You might shake your head and say, ‘This isn’t what I had in mind.’ You might think: ‘Hey that’s my kitchen. She copied my kitchen.’ But the truth is, as much as I tried, I could never entirely recreate the light filled photograph of a kitchen that led the way to the journey that brought me here. No one can.” – Diane Keaton”


. 978-0847860005 Inventory Number: E000DKP

(KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley Mike. Los Angeles: Art Resources Transfer Inc., 1992. First Edition. Oblong 12mo. Printed Postcard. Performance Announcement. As New.. One 4 ¼ x 5 ¾" glossy cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, 1 b&w illustration. This is the postcard announcement published in conjunction with the June 29th and 30th, 1992 American premiere of Mike Kelley's collaborative performance piece with close friends Anita Pace and Stephen Prina entitled "Beat of the Traps" at the Gindi Auditorium of Los Angeles' University of Judaism. Unveiled earlier in the month in Vienna, it consisted of actor Alan Abelew and dancers Anita Pace and Carl Buckley interacting with musical accompaniment by drummers M.B. Gordy and Jonathan Norton alongside guitar and vocals by Stephen Prina. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon ephemeral item perfect for the Mike Kelley completeist. Inventory Number: 027383

(KELLEY, MIKE). Kelley Mike. Koln, GERMANY: Galerie Jablonka, 1995. First Edition 1/400. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 15 color and 1 b&w illustration. Designed by Kuhle und Mozer. Text in English and German. With a protective clear acetate dustwapper. This is the jaunty catalogue published in conjunction with the noted late Los Angeles-based artist Mike Kelley's 1995 exhibition of thirteen paintings on shaped wood held at his longtime German representative, Galerie Jablonka. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of wear and rubbing to its covers with a TLS from Jochen Link on gallery stationery dated September 21, 1995 detailing the exhibition's remaining available works and pricing to a well-known art dealer additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 026867

(KELLEY, MIKE) (WEST, FRANZ). Pontegnie, Ann, Mike Kelley, Franz West & Andreas Reitner Raabe. Brussels, BELGIUM & Wien, Austria: OneTwoThree & Pakesch & Schlebrugge, 2001. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Artists Monograph. Fine.. 84pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and French. Designed by Hans Wiegand (Flat Mountain Press). This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a jointly conceived exhibition of like-minded works by Mike Kelley and Franz West held in 2001 at the OneTwoThree space in Brussels. Included are previously unpublished texts, interviews, and the documentation of the artists' collaborative performance piece "To Be Read Aloud". A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item. 3-85160-014-2 Inventory Number: 024525

(KENNA, MICHAEL). Johnstone Mark. Foreword by Robert Lassam. Tokyo. 1987 (1990).: Gallery Min. Second Edition. Large Square 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (86pp), 38 duotone illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With a biography, exhibition history and collections listing. Published in conjunction with his first one person exhibition at noted eighties Tokyo photography space Gallery Min, this austere publication is Michael Kenna's first substantive monograph. A most handsome example of the 1990 second edition (whose 1987 first edition is cited on page 64 of "From Fair to Fine 2"). 4-906265-14-6 Inventory Number: 020800

(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael. Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2009. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (20pp), 14 duotone illustrations. Michael Kenna's "Heiden Hotel" is the fifty-sixth installment in Nazraeli Press' estimable series of One Picture Books. Limited to five hundred SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies, it contains an original 3 ½ x 4 7/8" silver gelatin print of the Heiden Hotel - a Catskill's resort where the young Mr. Kenna worked as a summer exchange student in 1976 and has returned to repeatedly until its sad demise in 2008 - tipped in at the rear of the book, as issued. A brand new, pristine example of this lovely item. 1-59005-255-2 Inventory Number: 016959

(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kenna, Michael, Peter C. Bunnell & Ruth Bernhard.. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First American Edition. Small Square Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (172pp), 130 duotone illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. With a biography, exhibition history, bibliography, and collections listing. Still a defining reference to the work of celebrated British photographer Michael Kenna, this beautifully redesigned and reprinted monograph features images from his "The Rouge", "Desert de Retz", and "Elkhorn Slough" series along with twenty years of moody European landscapes. A brand new, pristine example of the 2002 first printing of the first American edition BOLDLY SIGNED by Michael Kenna in black ink across the title page. 1-59005-019-3 Inventory Number: 022949

(KENNA, MICHAEL). Kollins, Lee R. & Michael Kenna. Introduction by Ellen Sharp. Santa Monica, CA: RAM Publications, 1995. First Edition. Large 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 116pp, 50 b&w plates, illustrated endpapers. Designed by Claudia J. Vernia. With an exhibition history and bibliography. Published in conjunction with the 1995 touring exhibition "Industrial Revelations; The Rouge and Other Sites", this lovely hardbound catalogue is renowned photographer Michael Kenna's darkly brooding essay on the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge Plant in Detroit. A most handsome example of the first RAM Publications edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Michael Kenna / Jan 96" in black ink on the title page showing a couple of tiny nicks along the spine of the dust jacket. 0-9630785-3-4 Inventory Number: 025637

(KETCHUM, ROBERT GLENN). Johnstone, Mark. Tokyo: Gallery Min, 1987. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. This is the beautifully designed and printed catalogue published in conjunction with Robert Glenn Ketchum's 1987 retrospective exhibition that traveled from Tokyo's Gallery Min to Yonkers' Hudson River Museum. This features work from the "Tongass", "Twilight", "Winters", "Sandstone", "Order From Chaos" and "The Hudson River and the Highlands" series. A most handsome example. 4-906265-09-2 Inventory Number: 005894

(KNIGHT, JOHN). Knight, John, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh & Alexander Alberro. Foreword by Beatrice Stern. Mountainville, NY: Storm King Art Center, 2001. First Edition 1/1300. 8vo. Stapled Die-Cut Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 36pp, 12 b&w and 8 color illustrations. Designed by Katy Homans. This is one of the series of slender catalogues produced to document John Knight's exhibitions and public projects over the past thirty-five years. Austerely designed in a serial format of white, often die-cut wrappers, this installment documents Knight's 2001 outdoor Storm King Art Center installation entitled "87º". "John Knight’s work, 87°, draws the viewer’s focus off the Art Center’s property to an industrial object in its viewshed: the shapely water tower of the former Star Expansion Company. From a telescope on a newly constructed viewing platform, a visual line is drawn obliquely across the allée of trees in the center’s south fields to the upper portion of the water tower, about a mile away. Looking beyond Storm King, the work highlights the institutions relationship to its larger sociopolitical context, including its role within evolving regional land-use systems. Focusing on these overlooked aspects of contextual relevance, it adds meaning to a key element of Storm King’s success: the value of a well-placed lookout." A bright, most handsome example. Inventory Number: 026578

(KONOWIECKI, KOVI). Konowiecki, Kovi. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, I00210727, 2021. First Edition. 11 x 9", 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. New/New. 144pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Kovi Konowiecki and Morgan Crowcroft-Brown. "As the title of Kovi Konowiecki’s debut monograph – and in its place, another – reminds us, we are always and forever subject to the twin certitudes of transience and change. As is the artist, who has moved back and forth between California, Mexico, Europe, and the Middle East, all of which places are part of the fabric of this sprawling, unscripted book. Here we are confronted with the geographical and emotional margins of society and the mind: the external and internal boundaries that inhibit both human movement and human potential. The photographs portray individuals and communities that exist in a liminal space between belonging and abandonment, many of which exert feelings of desolation.But what might seem on the surface political is made intensely personal through Konowiecki’s purposeful reliance on emotional connections in the pictures rather than specific relationships of place or subject. As he says, this work comes as a “happy accident, inspired by the frequent travels that nourished a sharp eye for the liminal types of communities to which I am drawn: people I have met in my wanderings, passersby in the street, a horse trained in a small Arab village, and untended gardens.” The “unscripted” nature of the work has an impact on the form of the book, in particular in the variety of genres and colors, from landscape photography to portraiture and from black and white to color. The various forms of expression serve as ways to materialize the ideas at the core of the project and to break down barriers or restrictions within the photographic medium." A brand new, most handsome example of this now out of print gem additionall SIGNED "Kovi Konowiecki" in black ink on the colophon page at rear. 978-0999829882 Inventory Number: I00210723

(KROLL, ERIC). Kroll, Eric. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, German and French. With a bibliography. "Beauty Parade" is famed fetish photographer Eric Kroll's second full-length Taschen tome. It is filled with a vast array of his typically sexy young female models engaged in all manner of transgressive poses utilizing undergarments, latex, leather, restraints, bondage-wear and just plain skin. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED by Eric Kroll in black ink on the first preliminary. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-8601-7 Inventory Number: 019825

(KROLL, ERIC). Kroll, Eric. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1997. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (64pp), 30 color illustrations. This is Taschen Postcard book number ninety-five, containing thirty bound (yet easily detached and ready to mail) postcard images by famed fetish photographer Eric Kroll distilled from his second full-length Taschen tome, "Beauty Parade". A most handsome, completely intact copy BOLDLY SIGNED by Kroll in black ink on the title page. 3-8228-8519-3 Inventory Number: 012845

(KUHN, MONA). Kuhn, Mona. Göttingen, GERMANY: Steidl, 2004. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 108pp, 33 duotone and 20 color illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Steidl Design. "The people in Mona Kuhn's photographs are nude but not naked. Completely relaxed before the camera, they give the impression that nothing could clothe them better than their own skin. With a unique style, Kuhn's intimate photographs of both young and old are sensual compositions of skin and wrinkles, light and shadow, gestures and gazes. She creates tautly composed images and balance sharply rendered portraits against blurred backgrounds to lure the eye and provoke the imagination". This is Brazilian born, California based photographer Mona Kuhn's extraordinary second book of portraits and nudes. Coming from a background that included time as an assistant to Jock Sturges, she has formed her own unique documentary approach that is an ongoing study of youth, nature, and the beauty of the unguarded human body. A brand new, most handsome example of the 2004 Steidl first printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Mona Kuhn" in black ink across the entire title page. 3-86521-008-2 Inventory Number: 026972

(LEVICK, MELBA). Mendoza, Ruben G. Photographs by Melba Levick. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2023. First Edition. 9 x 10". Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architectural Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 978-0-8478-9914-2

Inventory Number: E000MLCSF

(LEVICK, MELBA). Woods, Douglas & Melba Levick. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2014. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 240pp, profusely illustrated in color. "The masterpieces of small-house living featured here will serve as inspiration to those who struggle with the challenges presented by contemporary life in petite-size homes. "Dreaming Small" is a celebration of jewel-box homes, each marked by a sense of style that marries eclecticism, practicality, beauty, and livability. From quintessential bungalows and classic casas to Tudor fantasies, these delightful abodes are models of rich diversity and inspired living. In brilliant new photography, the book explores the possibilities that exist in these mostly unpublished gems by legendary architects Irving Gill, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Craig Ellwood, and Paul R. Williams, among others. The houses, each under two thousand square feet, are examples of what is possible in the small home and offer the reader a colorful palette of ideas from which to artfully transform spaces into comfortable, contemporary living". A brand new, pristine example of the 2014 first printing of this charming survey of intimate Southern California interiors additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by author Douglas Woods and photographer Melba Levick in black ink on the title page. 0-8478-4231-2 Inventory Number: 023138

(LEVINTHAL, DAVID) (ELLROY, JAMES). Ellroy, James & David Levinthal. Paris: Coromandel Express, 1998. First Edition 1/55. Small Square Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, with six Cibachrome prints and one hand-painted gelatin silver print. Text in English and French. Designed by Olivier Andreotti and Penelope Monnet. "My Mother's Killer" is the luxe 1998 Coromandel Express collaborative interpretation of the events surrounding the unsolved 1958 Los Angeles murder of James Ellroy's mother Geneva as recreated by noted photographer David Levinthal in a series of stylized miniature tableaux. It features a highly graphic bi-lingual presentation of Ellroy's text juxtaposed across six tri-fold leaves - each of which contains an archivally housed 11 ½ x 10 ½" color Cibachrome print. The publisher's chemise contains a seventh print - a 7 ¾ x 9 ¾" hand-painted gelatin silver photograph SIGNED AND DATED "David Levinthal 1988/1998" in black ink on the verso. These are all housed in a printed slipcase. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition limited to fifty-five copies BOLDLY SIGNED by Ellroy and Levinthal in pencil on the colophon with a Coromandel Express 1998 New Year's card cum publisher's announcement laid in. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025053

(LICHER, BRUCE). Licher, Bruce. Foreword by Kurt Braun. Afterword by Gary Todd. Los Angeles: Independent Project Records, 1989. First Edition 1/300. Square 4to. Letterpress Printed Wrappers. Vinyl LPs + Loose Contents. As New/As New. np (42pp) + two 10" vinyl LPs with loose printed matter housed in a hand letterpress printed chipboard jacket. Art Direction and Design by Bruce Licher. This is the lavishly designed and printed compilation of the earliest recordings by noted Los Angeles-based musician, graphic designer and printer Bruce Licher issued in conjunction the 1989 Independent Project Press exhibition entitled "Bruce Licher: The Ten Year Retrospective" held at the Hallway Gallery. It contains two 10" vinyl discs featuring Licher's solo endeavors along with works by Neef, Them Rhythm Ants, Tunneltones, 1/2 "Bridge", Africa Corps, Savage Republic, "Bridge", and Final Republic, along with a detailed booklet of notes, a portfolio of ten 8 ½ x 10" reproductions of performance flyers from 1980-1982, and a glassine envelope filled with reprints of selected letterpress items, as issued. A brand new, pristine unplayed numbered example (048/300) from an edition of three hundred copies of Independent Project Records release IP 024/025 in its elegant hand letterpress printed package SIGNED "Bruce Licher" in black ink on the front cover still in its original plastic sleeve. Laid into the package is an additional SIGNED hand written one page letter in red ink from Bruce Licher bearing an IPR stamp effusively thanking two record industry colleagues for their support of the project. Inventory Number: 022817

(LICHER, BRUCE). Licher, Bruce & Karen Nielsen Licher. Aurora, NY: P22 Type Foundry, 2019. First Edition. Large Square 4to. Letterpress Illustrated Boards. Music Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 1000+ illustrations in color and b&w. Art Direction and Design by Bruce Licher and Jim Greishaber. "Bruce Licher is a musician, artist, and designer who founded Independent Project Press. After learning the art of letterpress printing at Los Angeles' famed Women's Graphic Center at the beginning of 1982, his initial projects centered around creating album covers, postcards, and promotional stamps for his band Savage Republic. It didn't take long before he was producing work for other Los Angeles underground music groups, along with a growing number of clients in the Los Angeles design community. In addition to packaging and releasing music on his own record label, Independent Project Records, Independent Project Press has produced elegant and creative pieces of letterpress-printed ephemera for the likes of REM, Stereolab, and Camper Van Beethoven. Licher was nominated twice for a Grammy Award for his album packaging, and has been credited with starting the trend in letterpress-printed CD and record packaging using industrial-style chipboard. His work has been featured in two major design exhibitions at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City. Published by P22 Type Foundry Publication, "Savage Impressions" is the first extensive monograph on Bruce Licher's Independent Project Records & Press. Beautifully designed and lavishly produced, the book is a profound reminder of the value of the hand-made and how it can interface with the mass produced." A brand new, most handsome example of this exciting document limited to six hundred and fifty copies - already almost entirely subscribed - additionally SIGNED by authors Bruce Licher and Karen Nielsen Licher in ink on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-9631082-6-3 Inventory Number: 027225

(LOU, LIZA). Julia Bryan-Wilson and Cathleen Chaffee and Glenn Adamson and Elisabeth Sherman, Contributions by Carrie Mae Weems. Designed by Conny Purtill.. Rizzoli Electa, I00221004. 2022. 9 x 11-3/4, 296 pages. Hardcover. Art Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor.

Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work.

In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of Lou’s singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of the work. 9780847870752 Inventory Number: I00221004

(LOVE). Richardson, Noble. NP (Los Angeles, CA). ND (1967): Noble Richardson. First Edition. Double Elephant Folio. Painted Construction Paper. Original Fan Art. Very Good.. One 28 x 22" heavy construction paper sheet hand painted with tempera and colored marker recto only. This is an amazing unique vintage fan art poster produced by the beloved late Twentynine Palms-based artist Noble Richardson to celebrate the 1967 appearance of Arthur Lee's Love at Santa Monica teen hotspot, The Cheetah. Then a nineteen year old student at Los Angeles' Mt. San Antonio College, Richardson created this vibrant piece utilizing tempera and colored markers employing lettering inspired by the burgeoning San Francisco psychedelic poster scene. The actual concert was promoted by popular LA top 40 "Boss Radio" station 93 KHJ disc jockey "Humble Harve" Miller, and presented headliners Love preceded by Iron Butterfly, and The Chambers Brothers (misspelled here as "Chamber Bros."). The Cheetah was located next to Santa Monica's POP (Pacific Ocean Park) Amusement Park and had a distinctive logo featuring a bright pink Cheetah with the face and breasts of a young woman, a copy of which has been collaged to the lower left corner. A most presentable example of this one-of-a-kind original artwork showing some minor creases, a dozen pinholes, and some minor water spotting across its face. This was acquired directly from Noble Richardson prior to his passing in 2021. Inventory Number: 027308

(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. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-932499-64-3 Inventory Number: 019521

(MALLEY, ALIA). Malley, Alia. Los Angeles: Sam Lee Gallery & Alia Malley, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. Oblong 4to. Debossed Cloth. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (32pp), 13 color illustrations. This is the hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with Los Angeles-based Alia Malley's 2011 Sam Lee Gallery solo exhibition of thirteen recent large scale color landscape photographs. A brand new, pristine example of this exceptionally lovely publication limited to one thousand copies only additionally SIGNEDa"Alia Malley" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 020495

(MALLEY, ALIA). Malley, Alia & Sam Lee. Los Angeles: Sam Lee Gallery, 2010. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (12pp), 7 color illustrations. With a biography and exhibition history. Published in conjunction with her 2010 Sam Lee Gallery solo exhibition, this slender yet elegant twelve page catalogue gorgeously illustrates Los Angeles photographer Alia Malley's current body of work - large scale, muted color images of the pastoral local exurban landscape that rest somewhere between Joel Sternfeld, Robert Adams and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. A brand new, pristine example of her first publication limited to five hundred numbered copes additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Alia Malley" in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 021933

(MANDEL, MIKE). Mandel, Mike. Santa Cruz, CA: Self-Published, 1975. First Editions. 16mo. Printed Trading Cards. Artist's Multiples. Near Fine or Better.. One hundred and thirty-five 3 ½ x 2 ½" cardstock sheets printed offset recto and verso, 134 b&w illustrations. In 3 x 3 archival plastic protective sheets housed in a three-ring binder. This is a full set of Mike Mandel's iconic, self-published 1975 "Photographer Baseball Trading Cards." Included are the following, often switch-hitting luminaries from the seventies photographic scene: 1. Bob Flick, 2. Joel Meyerowitz, 3. Van Deren Coke, 4. Joe Deal, 5. Ron Walker, 6. Lee Witkin, 7. Al Sweetman, 8. Don Drowty, 9. Ellen Brooks, 10. Dennis Hearne, 11. Elaine Mayes, 12. Bart Parker, 13. Larry Sultan, 14. Ed West, 15. Arthur Siegel, 16. Leonard Freed, 17. Margery Mann, 18. Harry Callahan, 19. Gary Metz, 20. Peter Gowland, 21. Ansel Adams, 22. Ed Ruscha, 23. Grace Mayer, 24. Mike Mandel, 25. Harold Allen, 26. Laura Gilpin, 27. Hank Smith, 28. Anne Tucker, 29. Phil Perkis, 30. Michael Simon, 31. Bill Owens, 32. Manuel Bravo, 33. Nathan Lyons, 34. Bill Arnold, 35. Jim Hajicek, 36. Les Krims, 37. Joyce Neimanas, 38. Judy Dater, 39. Al Coleman, 40. Ira Nowinski, 41. Jack Welpott, 42. Linda Parry, 43. Burke Uzzle, 44. Jim Dow, 45. Dave Freund, 46. Todd Walker, 47. Catherine Jansen, 48. Eva Rubinstein, 49. Eddie Sievers, 50. Minor White, 51. Michael Becotte, 52. Fred McDarrah, 53. Richard Link, 54. Betty Hahn, 55. Nick Hlobeczy, 56. Bob Cumming, 57. Ken Josephson, 58. Naomi Savage, 59. John Divola, 60. Tom Barrow, 61. Carl Chiarenza, 62. Bea Nettles, 63. Roger Mertin, 64. John Benson, 65. Cal Kowal, 66. Aaron Siskind, 67. R. von Sternberg, 68. Paige Pinnell, 69. Arthur Tress, 70. Jacob Deschin, 71. Linda Connor, 72. Don Blumberg, 73. Jim Alinder, 74. Harold Jones, 75. M.J. Walker, 76. Bill Parker, 77. Al Woolpert, 78. Duke Baltz, 79. Gus Kayafas, 80. Duane Michals, 81. Darryl Curran, 82. Arnold Newman, 83. Geoff Winningham, 84. Paul Vanderbilt, 85. Anne Noggle, 86. Timo Pajunen, 87. Edmund Teske, 88. Imogen Cunningham, 89. Andy Anderson, 90. Bill Larson, 91. Pete Bunnell, 92. Robert Doherty, 93. Joe Jachna, 94. Oscar Bailey, 95. Jerry Uelsmann, 96. Art Sinsabaugh, 97. Charles Roitz, 98. Doug Stewart, 99. Chuck Swedlund, 100. Bill Edwards, 101. Bobby Heinecken, 102. Micha Bar-Am, 103. Beaumont Newhall, 104. Wynn Bullock, 105. Jerry McMillan, 106. John Schulze, 107. Neal Slavin, 108. Lee Rice, 109. Joan Lyons, 110. Bill Jenkins, 111. Fred Sommer, 112. Barbara Crane, 113. Emmet Gowin, 114. Barbara Morgan, 115. Mark Power, 116. Cornell Capa, 117. Lionel Suntop, 118. Bunny Yeager, 119. Doug Prince, 120. Eileen Cowin, 121. Eve Sonneman, 122. Reg Heron, 123. Scott Hyde, 124. Conrad Pressma, 125. John Szarkowski, 126. Bill Eggleston, 127. Mike Bishop, 128. Bob Fichter, 129. Liliane DeCock, 130. Tom Porett, 131. Arnold Crane, 132. Arnold Gassan, 133. Elliott Erwitt, and 134. Len Gittleman. Card 135 is a full trading card checklist. A bright, most handsome complete set of the 1975 seminal editions all in Near Fine condition or better in 3 x 3 archival protective plastic sheets housed in a three-ring binder. Inventory Number: 027412

(MANDEL, MIKE) (SULTAN, LARRY). Mandel, Mike & Larry Sultan. Introduction by Sandra S. Phillips. Foreword by Robert F. Forth. New York. 1977 (2003).: D.A.P. (Distributed Art Publishers). First Printing Thus. Small Oblong 4to. Cloth in Printed Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (92pp), 61 duotone and 25 b&w illustrations. Designed by Victor Mingovits. Quite simply one of the most innovative, entertaining and thought-provoking photography books yet published, Mike Mandel and Larry Sultan's 1977 collection of uncaptioned evidentiary images has rightfully gained a legendary status in the thirty-five years since its initial publication. Now, "Evidence" is available once again in its original format, with the addition of a dust jacket, a new essay by SFMoMA curator Sandra Phillips on the book's impact and significance, and a two page layout of eighteen previously unpublished images entitled "Outtakes from Evidence, 1977-2003". A brand new, most handsome example of this wonderful tome (whose 1977 first printing is cited on pages 220-221 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II", pages 314-315 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", and pages 140-141 of "The Book of 101 Books") BOLDLY SIGNED by both Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel in black ink on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-891024-62-0 Inventory Number: 024508

(MANZELLA, TONY). Manzella, Tony. Venice, CA: Verb Editions, 2017. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Pictorial Tabloid Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.
32 pages, four color offset on 17 x 11 1/2" tabloid newsprint

Edition of 1000 designed by David Blankenship for Because

Published by Verb Editions


“Excavating local landscapes. True Image is a photographic representation of our unseen surroundings.” - Tony Manzella
Inventory Number: E000TMTI

(MARCOPOULOS, ARI). Marcopoulos, Ari. Oakland, CA: These Birds Walk (TBW Books), 2006. First Edition #466/500. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Living in the New Rome" is Ari Marcopoulos' solo contribution to TBW Books' very first four volume subscription series from 2006. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item published in an edition of five hundred NUMBERED (466/500) copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Ari Marcopoulos / 2007" in black ink across the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 026841

(MARCOPOULOS, ARI). Marcopoulos, Ari. Oakland, CA: These Birds Walk (TBW Books), 2006. First Edition #099/500. 8vo. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (40pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Living in the New Rome" is Ari Marcopoulos' solo contribution to TBW Books' very first four volume subscription series from 2006. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item published in an edition of five hundred NUMBERED (099/500) copies. Inventory Number: 026840

(MARCOPOULOS, ARI). Marcopoulos, Ari. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Nieves, 2004. First Edition #57/100. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New.. np (26pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "One A Day" is "Zine Master of the World" Ari Marcopoulos' slender 2004 survey of black and white photographs that includes portraits of the likes of The Beastie Boys, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Miles Davis, and others. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item published by Nieves in an edition of one hundred NUMBERED (57/100) copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Ari Marcopoulos / ARI 2004" in the year of publication in black ink across the inside rear cover. Inventory Number: 026839

(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 artist/photographer supreme Ari Marcopoulos' slender little artist's book of black and white views of the natural world 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 a numbered (76/150) edition limited to one hundred and fifty copies. Inventory Number: 023066

(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

(MARTINEZ, ALFREDO RAMOS). Ramirez, Fausto, Xavier Moyssen L. & Israel Cavazos Garza. Monterrey, MEXICO: Museo De Arte Contemporaneo De Monterrey, 1997. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 164pp, 85 color illustrations. Text in English and Spanish. With an exhibition checklist. Published in conjunction with a 1997 Mexican Museum retrospective, this is a beautifully illustrated, comprehensive monograph that traces noted Monterrey born painter Alfredo Ramos Martinez' transition from a European-influenced representational style to his late work of Cubist-inflected native folk imagery created after his move to Los Angeles. A most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 968-6623-33-7 Inventory Number: 021371

(MARTINEZ CELAYA, ENRIQUE). Martinez Celaya, Enrique, Mary Rakow & Matthew Biro. Barcelona, SPAIN: Ediciones Poligrafa, 2013. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 110 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in English and Catalan. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. "Enrique Martinez Celaya is one of the most intriguing and celebrated artists to emerge from the United States in recent years. Trained as artist and physicist, his practice embraces painting, sculpture, photography, and writing. His projects frequently take the form of multi-disciplinary environments that balance images with the immediacy of the material experience. In the first comprehensive study of Martinez Celaya's multifaceted process, Mary Rakow and Matthew Biro illuminate previously unaddressed aspects of the artist’s practice including his tendency to destroy his own work, his materials and approaches towards them, his literary influences, and the changes that led to pivotal moments in his career. "Working Methods" features new photography, archival images, and a number of previously unpublished works. Also included is an interview by Rakow with the artist that reveals his unique practice". A brand new, pristine example additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Enrique Martinez Celaya / 7-19/13" in the year of publication in black ink on the title page. 84-343-1316-2 Inventory Number: 023234