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(DEMETRIOS, EAMES). Demetrios, Eames. Los Angeles: Kcymaerxthaere, 2017. First Edition 1/1415. Stout Small 4to + 8vo. Decorative Ring Binder + Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Books. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. 792pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Eames Demetrios, Tim McQuaide, Simona Szabados, and Cyrus Hawkes.

"Kcymaerxthaere: The Story So Far… (Folio 1)" is a limited edition compendium documenting the first one hundred and thirty-eight Kcymaerxthaere installations, as well as a few in progress. The Folio is a two volume set organizing the markers and historical sites in story order. Volume I begins with a visual overture. After that you'll find images and text for each of the markers and historical sites as they are installed in twenty-seven countries arranged in order of the unfolding story. Great for browsing and exploring. In the next part, you can take in the stories as words alone for ease of that special flow of reading. The folio also includes appendices and indices as well as an extensive glossary of over six hundred Kcymaerxthaereal words in myriad languages and even Kcy writing systems. Volume II is a handy portable version of the stories told as well as the text from the markers so far - sized perfectly for the plane or bedtime reading. Together, the two books that make up this Folio are definitely the most complete Kcymaerxthaere-related publication to date. A brand new, pristine example of this mind-bending two volume set limited to one thousand, four hundred and fifteen overall examples - most not for sale - NUMBERED AND SIGNED by author, artist, and Geographer-at-Large Eames Demetrios.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Kcymaerxthaere: The Story So Far… (Folio 1)" will be signed Saturday, March 3rd and shipped starting on Tuesday, March 5th. Inventory Number: E000EDKTSSF

(DIJKSTRA, RINEKE). Visser, Helene & Urs Stahel. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS & Munchen, GERMANY: The Stedelijk Museum & Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 2005. First Edition #23/100 Deluxe. Large 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 160pp, 69 color illustrations. Text in English and German. Designed by Lambert und Lambert. With a biography, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the lovely hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a major 2004 European Museum retrospective of the engaging color portraits of Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra that was circulated by Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. A brand new, pristine example of the Schirmer/Mosel Verlag "Collectors Edition" limited to one hundred copies issued in a pale grey linen slipcase accompanied by an identical chemise containing the archivally mounted and matted 9 ¼ x 7"" color C-print "Chlopy, Poland, July 29, 1995" BOLDLY NUMBERED (23/100) AND SIGNED "Rineke Dijkstra / June 29, 2005" in pencil on the verso, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8296-0151-4 Inventory Number: 024759

(DINE, JIM). Dine, Jim & Neil Curry. London: Enitharmon Editions Ltd., 1993. First Edition 1/75 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Illustrated Book. As New.. 64pp, with an individual signed lithograph, a lithographic frontispiece and four photogravures bound into the book. Beautifully illustrated by Jim Dine, this is the deluxe edition of author Neil Curry's colloquial version of the closing books of Homer's Odyssey in which he has "scrubbed the story free from all its side-tracks and digressions so as to leave clear one thread of Odysseus's final journey: from the shores of Ithaca to the marriage-bed where he is finally reunited with Penelope". It is hand-printed in 14 point Monotype Baskerville on Canaletto 160gsm (fine) and bound and slipcased by The Fine Bindery. Jim Dine's signed original 12 ½ x 9 ¾" etching of "The Head of Homer" (contained loose in a wallet in the slipcase) was printed on 300gsm Hahnemuhle at the Spring Street Workshop in New York. The lithographic frontispiece and four photogravures bound into the book all reproduce drawings made by the artist in 1987-8 from Greek and Roman statuary at the Glyptotek in Munich, and were printed in London by Pauper's Press and Hope Sufferance Press. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to seventy-five copies SIGNED by the author, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-870612-09-4 Inventory Number: 013858

(DRUKS, RENATE) (NIN, ANAIS). Nin, Anais & Renate Druks. NP (Malibu, CA): Concentric Circle Press, 1979. First Edition #15/100 Deluxe. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedowns. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, 3 b&w and 9 tipped color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The late Malibu-based, Viennese expatriate artist Renate Druks was among many things a confidante and occasional muse to legendary literary figure Anais Nin. In 1979, Druks self-published Nin's memoir of their friendship illustrated with nine tipped-in reproductions of her ethereal paintings in the vein of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo along with a cover collage. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first - and only - hardbound Concentric Circle Press edition limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (15/100) AND SIGNED "Renate Druks" in black ink on the verso of the title page, as issued. 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. LC 79-53873 Inventory Number: 026669

(DURANT, SAM). Ketchum-Heap of Birds, Shanna. Foreword by Jeffrey Keuogh. Boston: Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, 2007. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 76pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a bibliography. This is the detailed catalogue issued in conjunction with the historically-themed 2007 exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Sam Durant held at the Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art entitled "Scenes from the Pilgrim Story: Myths, Massacres, and Monuments". A most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Sam Durant" in black ink on the title page. 0-9771419-3-4 Inventory Number: 019461

(DWECK, MICHAEL). Dweck, Michael & Christopher Sweet. NP (New York): Ditch Plains Press, 2008. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (160pp), 65 tritone and 36 color illustrations. Designed by Jeremy Miller. "Mermaids" is Michael Dweck's knockout, lavishly produced follow-up to "the End": in which "drawing inspiration from his teenage years spent by the beach on Long Island, Michael Dweck set out to photographically capture the vanishing surf culture of Montauk, a sleepy fishing village that in the 1970s became a heaven for East Coast surfers". For his second book, the photographer "explores the theme of the female nude submerged in water, and celebrates the modern mermaid, as represented by beautiful young women who appear very much at home in the water". A brand new, pristine example of this stunning tome from the edition of one hundred copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Michael Dweck housed in a debossed black linen solander box containing the SIGNED AND NUMBERED 8 x 10" chromogenic color print "Mermaid 37, Miami 2007". 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. 0-9818465-0-5 Inventory Number: 016736

(EDSON, RICHARD). Edson, Richard. New York: Artvoices Art Books, I00230930, 2023. First Printing. 10 x 7 1/2". Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 979-8986841304

Inventory Number: E000REYZLJ

(EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Morris, Willie & William Eggleston. Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 159pp, profusely illustrated in color. "In Faulkner's Mississippi, William Faulkner's life and work are revisited through the poetic mastery of Willie Morris, who brings to the subject a rare perspective - as both an aficionado of Faulkner's work and a native son of Mississippi. Of the many great biographies of Faulkner, Faulkner's Mississippi is the only portrait of the writer by another writer, touching on the fears, the frailties, and the courage of a man who chose to live in a land that loved and reviled him all in the same breath". A most handsome example of what is also one of the photographer's most haunting books additionally SIGNED "William Eggleston" in black ink on the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-8487-1052-5 Inventory Number: 021838

(EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Wagner, Bruce & William Eggleston. Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1999. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Square 4to. Cloth in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 101pp, 45 color illustrations. Published in 1999, "2 1/4" is a beautifully designed and printed survey of Southern gentleman with a camera William Eggleston's color work with the 2 ¼ x 2 ¼ inch negative format. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe signed edition of fifty SIGNED AND NUMBERED copies accompanied by a signed 11 x 11" matted color dye-transfer print SIGNED AND NUMBERED inside a debossed cloth-over-boards clamshell box. 0-944092-70-5 Inventory Number: 026446

(ELENGA, HENK) (HARD WERKEN). Elenga, Henk, Jan Middendorp, Lewis MacAdams & Erik Beenker. Los Angeles: Hard Werken, 1990. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 16mo. Linen Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 24pp, 17 duotone illustrations. This sweet little item was designed and self-published by noted Dutch graphic/product designer Henk Elenga while he ran Hard Werken's Los Angeles desk during the late eighties and early nineties. It was originally issued in conjunction with a 1990 exhibition of his photographs at the Torch Gallery in Amsterdam. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe edition limited to two hundred copies with an original 4 x 5" black and white photograph SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Henk Elenga laid in a velour pocket inside the front cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 016922

(ERIZKU, AWOL). Erizku, Awol, Ashley James, Doreen St. Felix, Urs Fischer & Antwaun Sargent. Foreword by Ishmael Reed. New York: Aperture and The Momentary, I00230705. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 9 1/2". Cloth in Illustrated Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 9781597115469

300pp, 168 illustrations in color and b&w. "Working across photography, film, video, painting, and installation, Awol Erizku's work references and re-imagines African-American and African visual culture, from hip hop vernacular to Nefertiti, while nodding to traditions of spirituality and Surrealism. This comprehensive monograph spans the artist’s career, blending his studio practice with his work as an in-demand editorial photographer working regularly for the New Yorker, New York magazine, Time, and GQ, among others, and features his conceptual portraits of Black cultural icons such as Solange, Amanda Gorman, and Michael B. Jordan. As Erizku recently told the New York Times, “It’s important for me to create confident, powerful, downright regal images of Black people.”

Featuring essays by critically acclaimed author Ishmael Reed, curator Ashley James, and writer Doreen St. Félix, and interviews with the artist by Urs Fischer and Antwaun Sargent, Mystic Parallax is a luminous and arresting testament to the artist’s tremendous power and originality."
 

A brand new, most handsome example of this spectacularly designed and produced first monograph additionally signed "Awol Erizku" in ink on the front pastedown.

Inventory Number: E000AEMP

(ESHLEMAN, CLAYTON). Eshleman, Clayton. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. 8vo. Letterpress Printed Wrappers. Very Good -.. 147pp, no illustrations. "Coils" is the second Black Sparrow Press collection of poems by Clayton Eshleman. An internally handsome example addtionally bearing the SIGNED INSCRIPTIONS "for Gordon + Virginia - Warmest Wishes - Clayton 1977." and "1977 Birthday. A blue sky on May 1" from the poet's wife Caryl showing a bit of soiling and toning of the cream colored wrappers. Gordon Wagner was a prominent Los Angeles assemblage artist, and a friend of the poet. Inventory Number: 003743

(FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig. Los Angeles: Farmani & Fee, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. 30pp, 22 color plates. In the body of work pictured here, the noted late, Los Angeles-based photographer James Fee beautifully captured the nude with his characteristic experimental manipulations of the photographic printing process. A most handsome example additionally SIGNED "James Fee" in ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 012055

(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. 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. 0-964-0494-0-6 Inventory Number: 019818

(FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig & James Fee. Los Angeles: James Fee, 1994. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -.. np (50pp), 23 duotone plates. Designed by SoS Los Angeles / Susan Silton. This beautifully printed, self-published catalogue was the first publication by 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 presentable example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "James Fee" in black ink on the front free endpaper showing a couple of slight bends to the covers and textblock. It has been priced accordingly. 0-964-0494-0-6 Inventory Number: 013278

(FEE, JAMES). Krull, Craig & Keiji Okuhira. Los Angeles: Farmani & Fee, 1996. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np (56pp), 25 duotone plates. Text in English and Japanese. Limited to one thousand copies, this beautifully printed, self-published catalogue presents the late Los Angeles-based photographer James Fee's second installment of moody images of an unpopulated, dystopian homeland first seen in his "Photographs of America". A most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally SIGNED "James Fee" in black ink on the front endpaper. 0-964-0494-1-4 Inventory Number: 011604

(FERRINGTON GUITARS). Schell, Orville. Preface by Linda Ronstadt. New York: HarperCollins Publishers & Callaway Editions, 1992. First Edition. Tall 4to. Jacketed Boards in Guitar Case. Musical Instrument Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. 122pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Nancy Skolos and Thomas Weddell. Originally published in 1992, "Ferrington Guitars" is a survey of the work of master guitar designer and builder Danny Ferrington. Based in Santa Monica, CA, he has created instruments for many of the world's great musicians including Elvis Costello, Pete Townsend, Richard Thompson, Jackson Browne, Kurt Cobain, Ry Cooder, David Lindley, Henry Kaiser, and many more. This unusually designed, comprehensive compilation of his work examines in detail dozens of custom made stringed instruments along with a twenty track audio CD featuring contributions - many original - by Costello, Thompson, Cooder, Lindley, Kaiser, David Hidalgo, Reeves Gabrels, J.J. Cale, Neil Finn, Albert Lee, Don Was, and nine more. A most handsome example of the deluxe first "Collectors Edition" SIGNED "Danny Ferrington" in blue ink on the half title page housed in a blue plush-lined locking guitar road case with CD, key, and yellow Farrington Guitars thin pick, as issued. The case's brass-plated hardware shows some mild oxidation and pitting, but all in all this is a sharp copy of this desirable book object. 0-06-016935-4 Inventory Number: 025786

(FETTERMAN, PETER). Fetterman, Peter. ACC Art Books, I00220809, 2022. First Edition. 8 x 9 inches, 256 Pages. Hardcover. Photography Survey. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-1788841221

Inventory Number: I00220602

(FLYNT, LARRY) (DE NIRO, ROBERT). Flynt, Larry. Los Angeles: Hustler, 1983. First Edition. 4to. Typed Letter Signed (TLS). Fine.. One 10 ¼ x 7 ¼" sheet of gilt-debossed letterhead typewritten recto only, folded horizontally in thirds for mailing, no illustrations. This is a single page, six paragraph letter on HUSTLER letterhead from the noted late American publisher and freedom of the press advocate Larry Flynt to Robert De Niro attempting to secure the legendary actor's services "to direct a photo shooting for... a continuing series HUSTLER is launching which depicts sexual fantasies by top celebrities." Dated August 12, 1983, it offers "In return for your participation, HUSTLER will pay you $10,000.00 plus expenses." The letter was sent to Mr. Robert DeNiro (sic) in care of his longtime agent Harry J. Ufland, but whether or not there was a response on his behalf, no such pictorial ever appeared. A brand new, most handsome example of this unique document SIGNED "Larry Flynt" in black ink. Inventory Number: 026923

(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. 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. 0-8109-0928-6 Inventory Number: 019222

(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

(FUCHS, ERNST). Fuchs, Ernst. Salzburg, AUSTRIA: Residenz Verlag, 1970. First Edition Thus #5/200 Deluxe. 4to. Decorated Cloth in Jacket. Artist Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 212pp, 106 illustrations in b&w. Text in English. Designed by Walter Pichler. "Architectura Caelestis" - subtitled "Images of the Hidden Prime of Styles" is Viennese School of Fantastic Realism member Ernst Fuchs' treatise on the significance and influence of arcane mathematics in Architectural form over the centuries. A striking production, it is illustrated by the author in black and white and bears a similarity to the self-published works of Stanislav Szukalski. A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1970 Residenz Verlag deluxe slipcased edition limited to two hundred NUMBERED (5/200) copies containing two beautiful etchings NUMBERED (5/200) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Ernst Fuchs" in pencil bound in housed in the publisher's royal blue cloth-over-boards slipcase decorated with a gilt-stamped reproduction of a drawing. The book and jacket are lovely while the cloth-over-boards slipcase shows a bit of wear along with some fraying at the joints. Inventory Number: 026585

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

(FULFORD, JASON). Fulford, Jason & Adam Gilders. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2006. First Edition 1/6 Deluxe. 4to. Boards with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Following his two awesome J&L books "Crushed" and "Sunbird", Jason Fulford has arranged his third collection of photographs published by The Ice Plant into eight distinct chapters. Together they can be read as a game, a series of essays, an abstract visual narrative, or all of the above. The work in "Raising Frogs for $ $ $" was selected from his personal archive, and was taken in various countries between 1997 and 2005. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe edition limited to six copies only produced exclusively for sale at "Art LA 2007" SIGNED "Jason Fulford" in red ink on the title page accompanied by the SIGNED AND DATED 10 x 8" color print "Seoul 2003", which is also reproduced in the book. 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. 0-9776481-1-7 Inventory Number: 018846

(FUSCO, PAUL). Fusco, Paul & Norman Mailer. London: Magnum Photos & Umbrage Editions, 1999. First Edition 1/350. Oblong 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (138pp), 63 color illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's coffin was put on a train twenty cars long in New York and taken slowly to Washington, D.C. for burial in the Arlington Memorial Cemetery. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for Look, was on that train, and the pictures he took of people who lined the tracks along the way fill this moving book. These emotional photographs, many never-before-seen, remember the urgency and tragedy of Bobby Kennedy's assassination and the moving farewell from hundreds of thousands of people who stood patiently in the searing heat along roadsides down the east coast to watch his funeral train pass slowly by just as Abraham Lincoln's had one hundred and three years before". A bright, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1999 Magnum Photos true first edition (cited on pages 46-47 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II" and pages 118-119 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") of this supremely moving volume limited to three hundred and fifty copies in wrappers printed on a Xerox Docucolor 100 Digital Color Press (with one of nine different front covers) NUMBERED (067/350) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Paul Fusco" in silver marker on the title page. An announcement for the 2001 Leica Gallery New York exhibition of Kennedy images by Paul Fusco and Jacques Lowe has been laid in. 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: 022366

(FUSS, ADAM). Fuss Adam. NP (New York): Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., 1998. First Edition 1/200. 4to. Silk Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine. np (30pp), 7 color illustrations. Designed by Adam Fuss and Andrew Roth. Typography by Jerry Kelly. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to two hundred copies only, this mysterious, exquisitely produced artist's book contains six images by Adam Fuss of butterfly chrysalides as well as a very dark portrait of the esteemed student of eastern thought, William Segal. A most handsome copy BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED by the photographer in red ink on the rear colophon, as issued. Inventory Number: 017068

(GANZER, JIM). Ganzer,Jim, Larry Bell & Jim Fitzpatrick. Ventura, CA: Indoek, I00240427. 2024. First Edition of 500 Numbered Copies. 16 1/4 x 10 3/4", Folio. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. New. 96pp, profusely illustreated in b&w. Designed by ITAL/C.

"Born in 1945 in Illinois, Jim Ganzer is now widely known as a Malibu surf legend and an underground LA icon. He and his group of surf friends inspired the 1978 film, Big Wednesday, written and directed by John Milius. When the Coen brothers were developing The Big Lebowski, Milius introduced them to Ganzer, who influenced Jeff Bridges’s famous character, The Dude. A graduate of Chouinard Art Institute, Jim Ganzer emerged as an artist when the surf and skate culture-inspired world was not yet a billion-dollar industry, but an afterthought in a mostly hardware-focused segment. He became the voice of the subculture in the ’80s for inventing cult garments under the brand, Jimmy’Z, combining form with function. Ganzer collaborated with Ed Ruscha on several works, such as “Brave Men Run in My Family” and “Sea of Desire” and also starred in Ruscha’s film, Miracle. He has shown his art in many esteemed group and solo exhibits in California and all over the world since 1971. “Life Lived” is a collection of Jim Ganzer’s black & white photography from the 1960s through the 1980s, his ink drawings, and furniture." A brand new, most handsome example of this fabulous new publication on this renowned local artist and innovator's contribution to Southern Californa culture limited to five hundred copies additionally SIGNED by Jim Ganzer.

Inventory Number: E000JGLL

(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

(GILBERT & GEORGE). Gilbert & George. London, Cologne, GERMANY & New York: Art For All & Konig Brothers, 1972. First Edition 1/600. 8vo. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Artists' Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 176pp, 85 b&w illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Limited to six hundred copies, the beautifully bound "Side by Side" is the very first artists' book by British conceptual duo, "the sculptors" Gilbert & George. It contains three chapters entitled "With Us in the Nature", "A Glimpse Into the Abstract World", and "The Reality in Our Living" which alternate pages of text and illustration and that "together represent a contemporary sculpture novel". A brand new, most handsome example in lovely hand-marbled boards of the 1972 first edition of this exceedingly uncommon item SIGNED "Gilbert & George" in red on the foreword AND NUMBERED (No. 85 of 600) on the inside rear cover, as issued. Inventory Number: 025705

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

(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

"Coming and Going is Jim Goldberg’s unique work of autobiography. Since 1999, Goldberg has been photographing his daily life through all its vicissitudes and returning to his studio to re-imagine and investigate these images through a practice of collage, annotation, montage, and reconstruction for which he has become renowned. This book charts a course through the grief following the death of one’s parents, the life-altering birth of a child, the heartbreak of divorce, and the rediscovery of love. Told using a correspondingly tumultuous blend of singular and combined imagery, personal notes, collages, and ephemera, the book captures the bittersweet realities of an individual life while reflecting on the universal, inescapable comings and goings that shape us and the ways we grow to understand ourselves. Familiar from celebrated works such as Rich and Poor (1985), Raised by Wolves (1995) and Open See (2009), Goldberg’s visual language employs sequence and narrative with a feverish intensity. History, memory, and imagination collide in a vividly material practice to which the influences of fiction and film, and the book form itself, are central. Coming and Going offers a fierce, vulnerable, and at times overwhelming account of a life and a search for the elusive universals of experience – an achievement that constitutes Goldberg’s masterwork and a significant contribution to contemporary bookmaking."

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

(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. 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: 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. 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: 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. 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: 024163

(GOREY, EDWARD). Gorey, Edward. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1979. First Edition. Folio. Spiral-Bound in Slipcase. Theater Monograph. Very Good.. 42pp, 20 monochrome illustrations + cover. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the book of construct-it-yourself miniature sets, characters, and costumes and created by Edward Gorey for the 1978 Broadway theatrical production of Bram Stoker's "Dracula" that premiered with Raul Julia in the title role. A bright, most handsome complete and uncut example of this delightful item additionally SIGNED "Edward Gorey" in the artist's calligraphic script in ink above his crossed-through printed name on the title page - as was his custom with this title - showing an unobtrusive margin of brownish discoloration along the lower edge of the inside rear cover and last few pages. 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: 027407

(GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 1998. First Edition 1/32 Deluxe. 4to. Loose Contents in a Wooden Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. Thirty-seven individual 10 x 8" cardstock sheets, 32 duotone illustrations. John Gossage's "The Things That Animals Care About, And." is a unique book cum object that presents thirty-two views of nature as they might appear from the perspective of an animal. The images are for the most part mundane and undistinguished to the human viewer, but perhaps integral to the daily life and well-being of a different species. Each is presented as a duotone black and white plate affixed to the recto of a matte cream-colored cardstock sheet that has an irregular horizontal pencil line that references perhaps terrain - or the horizon - drawn across it. These are accompanied by one blank sheet, two title pages uniquely lettered by John Gossage, and a hand-letterpressed colophon that are all housed in the publisher's 11 x 9 x 2" ramen wood display box (that doubles as a frame) with a Plexiglas face and sliding wooden closure with Gossage's hand drawn title silkscreened across it. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe first edition limited to thirty-two copies containing an additional 4 ½ x 3 ¾" black and white silver gelatin print of two trees and a cloud that is reproduced in the book mounted on a 10 x 8" sheet of board SIGNED "John Gossage / 12" in pencil on the verso, as issued. 3-923922-53-1 Inventory Number: 025785

(GOSSAGE, JOHN). Gossage, John. NP: Self-Published, 1987. First Edition 1/100. 8vo. Cloth in Newsprint Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (56pp), 27 b&w illustrations. Text in English. John Gossage's self-published "L A M F" contains twenty-seven noir-ish details of some seedier neighborhoods of Berlin and its environs photographed over three days in 1987. These views are presented as individual silver gelatin prints mounted on pages of heavy archival stock, with no two books exactly alike. Each dust jacket is a unique remnant from a German newspaper (this is from "Der Tages Spiegel") stamped L A M F in red ink and enclosed in an acetate dustwrapper. The half title page is hand lettered by the photographer on a scrap of paper tipped to the first preliminary, and there is a unique, sealed hand-written letter from Gossage posted from Berlin to himself in Washington, DC affixed to the third preliminary. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon first and only edition (cited on page 148 of "From Fair to Fine 3") limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (56/100) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "John Gossage" in blue ink, as issued. 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: 022703