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(NAZ, DAVE). Naz, Dave. Los Angeles, CA: Dave Naz, BOD, 2024. First Edition One of 100 Copies. 11 x 8 1/2", 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Erotic Photography Monograph. New.. 24pp, 27 b&w illustrations. "Rope Marks" is a slender 2024 collection of black and white bondage-related images by the noted Los Angeles-based erotic photographer Dave Naz. The riggers at work here are Damon Pierce, Mikal Binds, Aiden Star, and Gemini Lorelei. The models and adult actors pictured within include Belladonna, Ash Hollywood, Aidra Fox, Bree Daniels, Dana DeArmond, James Darling, and several more. A brand new, most handsome example of this self-published, quickly out of print item limited to one hundred copies additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Dave Naz 2024" in black ink on the inside front cover. Inventory Number: I00240114

(NAZ, DAVE). Naz, Dave. Los Angeles, CA: Dave Naz, BOD, 2024. First Edition One of 100 Copies. 8 x 5", 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Erotic Photography Monograph. New.. 54pp, 43 color illustrations + color covers. "Legs & Nylons" is a slender 2024 collection of color lingerie, hosiery, and leg show-related images by the noted Los Angeles-based erotic photographer Dave Naz. The notable models and adult actresses pictured within include Adriana Sage, Aria Giovanni, Audrey Hollander, Belladonna, Brea Bennett, Jelena Jensen, Tanya James, and several more. A brand new, most handsome example of this self-published, sure to sell out quickly item limited to one hundred copies additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Dave Naz 2024" in black ink on the rear colophon. Inventory Number: I000240624

(NAZ, DAVE). Naz, Dave. Introduction by Tony Mitchell. Bonn, GERMANY: Goliath Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2002. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 160pp, 150 illustrations in color and b&w. Text in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. With a biography and exhibition history. "Lust Circus" is Los Angeles-based photographer Dave Naz' first full-length survey of vibrant fetish, hosiery and lingerie images. One of the most prolific purveyors of sophisticated contemporary photographic erotica, his subjects are always up to the task, and the models here include Lydia Lunch, Julie Strain, Emily Marilyn. Jasmine Kross, Simone White, Selene Luna, and many, many more. A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED AND DATED by Dave Naz in black ink on the title page. 3-9807602-7-8 Inventory Number: 020036

(NETTO, DAVID). Netto, David & Mita Bland. New York: Vendome Press, I00231104. 2023. First Edition. 12 x 10", 320 pages. Cloth in Illustrated Dust Jacket. Design Monograph. New/New. 978-0-86565-392-4

Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, November 14th.

“For more than a decade, David Netto has been profiling the leading lights of the design world in lively, illuminating articles for numerous publications. Now, at long last, he turns his erudite eye and rapier wit to his own work as an interior and architectural designer. Featuring some twenty projects, ranging from city apartments and country houses to seaside and mountain getaways, David Netto reveals an eclectic aesthetic that brings to modernism a touch of warmth and personality and to traditionalism a jolt of energy and a dash of the exotic. Extensively photographed, with delightful watercolor illustrations by interiors artist Mita Bland, the book is as enlightening to read as it is inspiring to look at”.

A brand new, most handsome example of this exquisitely produced, comprehensive survey of Mr. Netto's deft design work additionally signed by the author.

Inventory Number: E000DN

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Lagerfeld, Karl. New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1982. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition history. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1982, "Big Nudes" was the highly eroticized follow-up to Helmut Newton' taboo-breaking "White Women" and "Sleepless Nights". It features an essay by the esteemed Karl Lagerfeld along with stark black and white images of strong women engaging in decadent acts. A most handsome example of the 1982 first edition (cited on page 204 of "From Fair to Fine 3") additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... / Helmut Newton" in black ink across 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. 0-937950-02-5 Inventory Number: 024335

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. A most handsome example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... / Better a world / with women / and without / men / Helmut" in blue ink across the title page showing discreet ownership stamps in ink on the front pastedown and half title page along with a bit of wear and some tiny closed tears to the extremities of the dust jacket. 0-937950-06-8 Inventory Number: 025926

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1984. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. A brand new, most handsome example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... / Helmut Newton" in black ink across 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. 0-937950-06-8 Inventory Number: 024333

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1984. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. An internally most handsome example of the unnumbered deluxe edition in silver gilt-debossed cloth issued without dust jacket BOLDLY SIGNED "Helmut Newton" in violet ink on the rear colophon, as issued, bearing a minor indentation across the spine along with a thin liquid stain along a small portion of the top edge of the front cover. Its matching slipcase shows some light soiling and discoloration along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. 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. 0-937950-13-0 Inventory Number: 022568

(NICKS, DEWEY). Nicks, Dewey. Introduction by Brad Dunning. Santa Barbara, CA: T. Adler Books, 2018. First Edition. Oblong Small 4to. Pictorial Boards in Plastic Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. American photographer Dewey Nicks roared into the 1990s magazine world by filling his shoots with fascinating people and a vibe of boundless energy and nonstop fun. Publications such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, W and Vanity Fair kept Nicks moving seamlessly between celebrity, fashion and advertising assignments, his portfolio amassing a who's who of iconic women, including Cindy Crawford, Natalie Portman, Sofia Coppola, Patricia Arquette, Shalom Harlow and Cher, to name only a few.

Nicks recently found a forgotten box buried deep in his archive with thousands of Polaroids from his 1990s photo sessions. These one-of-a-kind favorites saved from hundreds of shoots, both private and assigned, offer an intimate portrait into Nicks' life, friends and work. The immediacy of Polaroids combined with the natural fading of the physical print after decades in a shoebox makes each of these images singularly unique and tangibly genuine. Nicks was so smitten with this time capsule of images that he immediately shared them with his frequent collaborator, book designer and publisher Tom Adler, and this beautifully produced book was born.

A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED WITH A DRAWING OF A HEART by the photographer at Arcana in black ink on the title page. 978-1942884347 Inventory Number: E000DNPW

(O'HERLIHY, LORCAN), O'Herlihy, Lorcan & Greg Goldin. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, I00241112. 2024. First Edition. 10 1//2 x 8", 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. New/New. 978-0-8478-9952-4

PLEASE NOTE: LORCAN O'HERLIHY AND GREG GOLDIN WILL BE SIGNING COPIES OF "BUILDING IN PLACE" AT ARCANA SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16th. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY BELOW FOR IN-STORE PICKUP OR TO SHIP AFTER NOVEMBER 19th.

"Founded in 1994 by Lorcan O’Herlihy, FAIA, LOHA has been recognized with over 100 awards, including the AIA CC Distinguished Practice Award; the Architect’s Newspaper’s Best of Practice, Best North American Firm Award; the 2021 AIA Los Angeles Gold Medal; and AIA Los Angeles Firm of the Year Award. In 2018 LOHA was awarded the status of #1 Design Firm in the US by Architect Magazine."

"Greg Goldin is co-author of Atlas of Never Built Architecture (2024) and was co-curator of the exhibition Never Built Los Angeles, which premiered at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, in July 2013. For more than a decade, he was the architecture critic at Los Angeles magazine. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Record, the Architect’s Newspaper, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and dozens of other magazines."

Inventory Number: E00LOHABIP

(OLDENBURG, CLAES). Oldenburg, Claes. NP (New York). ND (1959).: Self-Published at Judson Church. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. Fine.. np (8pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. This is Claes Oldenburg's self-published eight page artist's book cum program of whimsical "Ray Gun Poems" drawings reproduced on blue and yellow paper issued in conjunction with the landmark January 1960 exhibition of the artist's "The Street" environment at New York's Judson Church. A spectacularly bright, well-preserved example of this exceedingly uncommon item (entry 6.2 on page 58 of Richard Axsom and David Platzker's "Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg - A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996") - only a single copy in the MoMA reference library is cited in OCLC WorldCat - additionally INITIALED "CO" as is ofttimes Oldenburg's practice in pencil at the lower foredge corner of the inside rear cover. This is NOT to be confused with the 1973 Moore College of Art exhibition catalogue with the same title. Inventory Number: 027133

(OLDENBURG, CLAES). Oldenburg, Claes & Martin Friedman. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 1975. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. 10pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a chronology and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1975 Walker Art Center survey of six thematic bodies of work - "The Geometric Mouse", "Three Way Plug", "Fagends", "Clothespin", "Typewriter Eraser", and "Standing Mitt with Ball" - by noted Pop practitioner Claes Oldenburg. A most handsome example with the Walker's loose twelve page exhibition checklist laid in additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Claes Oldenburg" in black ink across the front free endpaper showing the tiniest bit of wear to the front cover. LC 75-7702 Inventory Number: 025791

(OLDENBURG, CLAES) (VAN BRUGGEN, COOSJE) (GEHRY, FRANK O.). Celant, Germano, Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen & Frank O. Gehry. Milano, ITALY: Edizioni Electa S.p.a., 1986. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Artists Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 230pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. With a bibliography. This is the detailed monograph written by noted art historian Germano Celant documenting Claes Oldenburg, Coosje Van Bruggen, and Frank O. Gehry's collaborative theater cum performance piece "Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife)" that premiered at the 1984 Venice Biennale. The partcipants included, Oldenburg, Van Bruggen, Gehry, Celant, Pontus Hulten, John Miller, and much of Gehry's family. A bright, most handsome example of the paperbound Electa English language edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Claes O" in black ink across the title page with a two page Solomon R. Guggenheim press release.regarding their upcoming December 1986 exhibition of the "Knife Ship" from "Il Corso del Coltello" additionally laid in. Inventory Number: 025790

(OLDENBURG, CLAES) (VAN BRUGGEN, COOSJE). Oldenburg, Claes & Coosje Van Bruggen. Essays by Susan P. Casteras, Vincent Scully, Gerhard Storck, Richard Cork & Donald Judd. New York: The Monacelli Press, Inc., 1994. First Edition 1/250 Deluxe. Large 4to. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Catalogue Raisonné. As New/As New. 584pp, 420 color and 94 b&w illustrations. This is the catalogue raisonné through 1993 of the large scale and public works executed by Pop Art master Claes Oldenburg with his wife and collaborator Coosje Van Bruggen. A brand new, most handsome example (entry number two hundred and fifty-three in Richard Axsom and David Platzker's "Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters, and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg - A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-1996") from the deluxe edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies NUMBERED (200/250) AND BOLDLY SIGNED by both Oldenburg and Van Bruggen in pencil on the rear colophon containing the 11 ¼ x 8 ¼" color lithograph entitled "Sketch for a Sculpture in the Form of a Dress Collar and Tie, with Stud" (a preliminary study for their monumental project to be installed in front of Frank O. Gehry's Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2005) SIGNED AND DATED "C.O. '94", AND NUMBERED (200/250) in pencil on the recto laid in a paper portfolio, in the publisher's slipcase, 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. 1885254040 Inventory Number: 024089

(OPIE, CATHERINE). Opie, Catherine & Douglas Fogle, et al.. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Self Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. 56pp, 9 color and 8 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed by Linda Byrne and Andrew Blauvelt. With a biography and exhibition checklist. This is the austere catalogue published in conjunction with the 2002 Walker Art Center exhibition "Catherine Opie: Skyways and Icehouses". It contains the Los Angeles-based photographer's black and white panoramic images of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Skyway systems along with her color work documenting Minnesota's eclectic hand built structures used to protect ice fishermen as they ply their sport during the harsh Midwestern winters. A most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Catherine Opie" in black ink on the title page in the publisher's printed obi. 0-935640-72-X Inventory Number: 023108

(OPPENHEIM ARCHITECTURE). Oppenheim, Chad, Val K. Warke, Antón García-Abri & Mark Jarzombek.. Miami, FL: Tra Publishing, 2019. First Edition. 4to. As New.. Architecture Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued..

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Spirit of Place" will be signed by Mr. Oppenheim for Arcana on Wednesday, February 26th and shipped starting February 27th.

236,,120 illustrations in color and b&w. “For thousands of years, civilization has constructed its buildings on the land. We prefer to construct our buildings with the land, where architecture recedes and becomes a frame,” writes Chad Oppenheim. These words are the theme of "Spirit of Place", the first monograph of the work of Oppenheim Architecture. Through passion and sensitivity towards man and nature, the firm creates monumental yet silent work that invokes a site’s inherent power. The book, with one hundred and twenty stunning photographs and minimal text, features seven of the firm’s projects, ranging in scale and location from homes in the Bahamas and Aspen to a resort in the Jordanian desert. The projects are categorized by each site’s predominant natural element: dune, desert, stream, river, sea, canyon, and peninsula. The images, like the architecture, focus on and celebrate the natural world, illustrating Oppenheim’s design philosophy that “form follows feeling.” The volume includes text by Chad Oppenheim, Val K. Warke, Antón García-Abril, and Mark Jarzombek. A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED by architect Chad Oppenheim.

978-1-7322978-2-1 Inventory Number: E000COSOP

(PALEARI, FABIO) (DOHERTY, PETE). Paleari, Fabio & Robert Montgomery. Bologna, ITALY: Grafiche Damiani, 2007. First Edition 1/400 Deluxe. 4to. Boards in Wooden Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (272pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Juan Gallego. "Any follower of the international tabloids is well-acquainted with rocker Pete Doherty, the former Libertines front man who is now quite famous for his on-again, off-again love affairs with supermodel Kate Moss and crack cocaine. After getting kicked out of the influential aforementioned British post-punk band for his over-the-top-drug use, Doherty started the band Babyshambles in 2005. Though fringe elements of Doherty's incendiary story have been well documented by unauthorized paparazzi, the authorized, inside view has never been available until now. In "I Won't Give Up", Italian photographer and documentary filmmaker Fabio Paleari follows Doherty from 2004-2006; onstage, backstage, while partying, and throughout the vicissitudes of his relationship with Moss". Hedi Slimane's Doherty tome "London: Birth of a Cult" came and went in a flash, so you won't want to miss this gritty expose! A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to four hundred copies housed in the publisher's sliding wooden box accompanied by a 12 x 9 ½" black and white print on baritate paper of the book's cover image "Pete" SIGNED, NUMBERED AND TITLED by Fabio Paleari in black ink on the verso still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, 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. 88-6208-028-X Inventory Number: 014373

(PANAR, ED). Panar, Ed. Los Angeles, CA: Deadbeat Club Press, 2018. First Edition. 8v0. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. In "In The Vicinity", Ed Panar navigates a remote corner of Mendocino County, an area located within the Emerald Triangle, also known as the heart of California’s cannabis culture. Hidden under the cover of densely forested mountain sides, foothills and valleys, the cannabis plant is leading the way and being tended to: cultivated and revered for its potent economic, psychotropic, and mythological values. We find ourselves in the midst of a secretive world where clandestine operations take place behind rambling fence lines, locked gates, and dusty dirt roads in an ever shifting gray area of legalization, self-sufficiency and raw capitalistic impulses. The plant itself—the primary star of the scene—remains elusive in this Edenic rural atmosphere, where some of the most productive outdoor cultivation of this multi-billion dollar cash crop is occurring just out of sight.

The photographs in In The Vicinity were made between 2007 and 2017, during the sunset chapter of a distinctly Wild West era of this thriving industry. Struck by the natural beauty of the sparsely populated, rugged terrain against the psychedelic blending of the seasons, Panar set out to describe the outwardly idyllic terroir of endless sun-soaked ridges rolling beneath snow capped mountains that provide the dramatic backdrop and ideal conditions for outdoor growing of the cannabis plant. We have the feeling of being inside a cloistered farming community, though we are kept at a respectful distance. Just beneath our noses—sometimes quite literally, like catching a hint of the distinctive sweet skunky fragrance in the wind— we find traces of the timeless pursuit of seeking the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, even as the slow and uneven path away from prohibition enters a new phase of uncertainty, especially for small producers and farmers.

The quiet clarity of Panar’s photographs—landscape, still life, details and the occasional nonhuman observer— provide an open ended invitation to consider not only an area within and along the edges of this industry, but also the gray areas of photographic representation and its ability to provide “documentary” insight into something as elusive and enigmatic as the allure of this mythical plant and the emerging modern cannabis economy.

Mr. Panar will be signing books at Arcana on October 13th - orders will ship on Tuesday, October 16th. Inventory Number: E000EPITV

(PARR, MARTIN) (GOSSAGE, JOHN). Obvious & Ordinary aka Martin Parr & John Gossage. NP (Chicago & London). ND (2007).: NP (Stephen Daiter Gallery & Rocket Gallery). First Edition 1/1500. 4to. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (72pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Limited to one thousand, five hundred copies only, this playful tome attempted to anonymously document noted photographers Martin Parr (British, color, obvious) and John Gossage's (American, black and white, ordinary) 2006 road trip to Memphis to visit William Eggleston. Charming, cheerful and revealing, it resides comfortably alongside such revered American travelogues as Robert Frank's "The Americans", Steven Shore's "Uncommon Places", and Jeffrey Brouws' "Highway". A brand new, pristine example additionally bearing Parr and Gossage's "Obvious" and "Ordinary" rubber stamps (due to the nature of the project they have decided to "stamp" rather than actually sign any of the copies) in black ink on the title page. Inventory Number: 015990

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003. First Edition 1/500. 12mo. Printed Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (16pp), 7 color illustrations. Martin Parr's "7 Communist Still Lifes" is the seventeenth title in Nazraeli Press' series of "One Picture Books". Limited to five hundred copies only, each example of this edition is signed and numbered, containing an original 2 7/8 x 4 ½" color print (whose image is the interior of a closet in Druskininkai, Lithuania) tipped in at the rear of the book. For his first book in the series, the redoubtable Martin Parr has captured mundane color examples of just what the title promises. 1-59005-051-7 Inventory Number: 018903

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin. Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (160pp), 160 color illustrations. Dewi Lewis Publishing. Welcome to the fin-de-siecle as acidly surveyed in Martin Parr's full-page, hyper-intensely colored close up shots of food, flesh, and fashion. A most handsome copy of the 1999 first edition (cited on pages 382-383 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", 35 of "From Fair to Fine 3", and as catalogue raisonné entry number 10 for Martin Parr in Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum: Photobook") additionally SIGNED "Martin Parr" in black ink on the bubblegum image of the front pastedown. 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. 1-899235-07-8 Inventory Number: 014205

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin & Gerry Badger. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2000. First Edition. 8vo. Boards in Pictorial Dustjacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. np (144pp), 133 color illustrations. Designed by Kwame Edwards. Shot between 1995 and 1999, this is yet another charming volume of Martin Parr's colorful, witty commentary on British life and social mores. A most handsome copy of the first Phaidon hardbound edition (cited on page 247 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally SIGNED "Martin Parr" in black ink on the title page whose dust jacket shows some typical rippling to the laminate on the interior flaps. 0-7148-3991-4 Inventory Number: 014204

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin. Introduction by Ian McEwan. London: Jonathan Cape, 1993. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 60 color and 1 b&w illustration. "Home and Abroad has been edited from all the color photographs of Martin Parr. Beginning with the ideal home and family, the book follows a Martin Parr guided tour - a shopping spree, a trip to the seaside, theme-park culture, invented history, and Safari Parks. From Britain, Parr joins tourists at the Eiffel Tower and in Middle-Eastern bazaars. By the time he has reached McDonalds in Moscow, we realize that the culture he has depicted so unsparingly stretches around the globe". This was the first major collection in book form of the photographer's wry commentary on British life and social mores, which has continued for over thirty years, becoming increasingly global in nature. A most handsome copy of the 1993 Jonathan Cape paperbound first edition (cited on page 247 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally SIGNED "Martin Parr" in black ink on the half-title page. 0-224-03876-1 Inventory Number: 017297

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin. Introduction by Marvin Heiferman. Stockport, UK: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2000. First Edition. 12mo. Padded Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (120pp), 48 color illustrations. Designed by Dewi Lewis Publishing. "For the last few years, when Martin Parr has traveled on assignment he has had his picture taken by a local studio photographer, or street photographer, or in a photo booth. The result is a wonderfully varied portfolio of portraits ranging from elaborate studio sets reminiscent of the heyday of the Victorian studio photographer, through to digitally manipulated images of Parr as Mr. Universe, and images which have been horrendously re-touched in the studio's efforts to flatter Parr and make him appear twenty years younger. As with all Parr's projects the book is not only hilarious but also raises broader issues of identity and self, questioning the whole notion of the photographic portrait". What can we say? - More Martin than you can shake a stick at! A pristine example (cited on page 249 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Martin Parr 2002" in black ink on the title page. 1-899235-72-8 Inventory Number: 023806

(PARR, MARTIN). Parr, Martin & Robert Chesshyre. London: Cornerhouse Publications, 1989. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, 61 color illustrations. Designed by Peter Browne. Martin Parr's fourth book, "The Cost of Living" is the lauded Magnum photographer's typically wry observation of Britain's Thatcher-inspired upwardly mobile middle classes, or as Parr has dubbed them here, the "Comfortable Class". A most handsome example of the 1989 first edition (cited on page 248 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally SIGNED "Martin Parr" in black ink on the half-title page. 0-948797-55-X Inventory Number: 017298

(PARR, MARTIN). Williams, Val.. London: Phaidon Press Ltd., 2002. First Edition. Small Oblong Folio. 1/4 Linen Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 352pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a comprehensive bibliography and exhibition history. This is a massive, cheerfully obsessive tome documenting Parr's life and career; revealing insights into his influences and attitudes as well as assessing his importance within the worlds of art and photography. Parr's wry commentary on British life and social mores has continued for over thirty years, becoming increasingly global in nature. Images presented here from previous bodies of the Magnum photographer's work and publications include "A Fair Day", "Bad Weather", "Home Sweet Home", "Autoportrait", "The Last Resort", "The Cost of Living", "Signs of the Times" and "Think of England"; in addition to many as yet uncollected in book form. A brand new, pristine example of the 2002 first Phaidon hardbound edition (cited on page 249 of Fred Ritchin and Carole Naggar's "Magnum Photobook: A Catalogue Raisonné") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Martin Parr" 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 - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-7148-3990-6 Inventory Number: 014167

(PATTERSON, CHRISTIAN). Patterson, Christian, Luc Sante & Karen Irvine. London: MACK, 2011. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (168pp) + np (14pp), 98 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Christian Patterson. "Redheaded Peckerwood is a work with a tragic underlying narrative - the story of nineteen year old Charles Starkweather and fourteen year old Caril Ann Fugate who murdered ten people, including Fugate's family, during a three day killing spree across Nebraska to the point of their capture in Douglas, Wyoming. From a technical perspective, the photographs incorporate and reference the techniques of photojournalism, forensic photography, image appropriation, reenactment and documentary landscape photography. On a conceptual level, they deal with a charged landscape and play with a photographic representation and truth as the work deconstructs a pre-existing narrative. "Redheaded Peckerwood" also utilizes and plays with a pre-existing archive of material, deliberately mixing fact and fiction, past and present, myth and reality as it presents, expands and re-presents the various facts and theories surrounding this story. While photographs are the heart of this work, they are the complemented and informed by documents and objects that belonged to the killers and their victims - including a map, poem, confession letter, stuffed animal, hood ornament and various other items. In several cases, these materials are discoveries first made by the artist and presented here for the first time. The images record places and things central to the story, depict ideas inspired by it, and capture other moments and discoveries along the way". The Starkweather and Fugate killings inspired the films "The Sadist (1963)", "Badlands (1973)", "Murder in the Heartland (2003)", "Kalifornia (1993)", "Natural Born Killers (1994)", and "Starkweather (2004)". A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon 2011 first MACK edition (cited on pages 279 and 309 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III") additionally SIGNED "Christian Patterson" in black ink on the title page with the publisher's fourteen page staple-bound newsprint booklet 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. 1-907946-14-4 Inventory Number: 024752

(PENN, IRVING). Penn, Irving, Alexandra Arrowsmith & Nicola Majocchi. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. & Callaway Editions, Inc., 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 300pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. With a work chronology. "Passage" is the monumental 1991 survey of Irving Penn's extraordinary career as a portrait, still life, and fashion photographer. Produced by Nicholas Callaway with photographic supervision by Richard Benson, it beautifully collects and reproduces more than fifty years of his visionary work - primarily in conjunction with Vogue magazine. A brand new, most handsome example of this landmark publication additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Irving Penn / 1991." in the year of publication inside a circular cartouche in black ink on the half title page. 0-679-40491-0 Inventory Number: 025776

(PENN, IRVING). Penn, Irving, Alexandra Arrowsmith & Nicola Majocchi. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. & Callaway Editions, Inc., 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Fine. 300pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. With a work chronology. "Passage" is the monumental 1991 survey of Irving Penn's extraordinary career as a portrait, still life, and fashion photographer. Produced by Nicholas Callaway with photographic supervision by Richard Benson, it beautifully collects and reproduces more than fifty years of his visionary work - primarily in conjunction with Vogue magazine. A handsome example of this landmark publication additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Irving Penn" in the year of publication inside a circular cartouche in black ink on the half title page showing some slight waviness and a minor dampstain to the last thirty pages along the foredge of the textblock. Additionally, this bears the ink ownership stamp on the front pastedown of the noted late Los Angeles-based photographer James Fee, from whom we acquired it directly. 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. 0-679-40491-0 Inventory Number: 017500

(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond & Nelson Tarpenny. Chicago: The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 2000. First Edition 1/2000. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (232pp), 153 monochrome illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Thinking of You" is Raymond Pettibon's hefty artist book cum catalogue comprised solely of Phallus drawings with text published in conjunction with the renowned artist's 1999 exhibition held at The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago. The images are reproduced one to a page - rectos only - with the occasional reproduction on the verso of student papers Mr. Pettibon seemed to be grading as part of teaching duties at Los Angeles Harbor College in the eighties. A bright, most handsome example (entry number one hundred and eight in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978 - 98") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Raymond Pettibon" in black ink on the title page which the artist has then altered by drawing in different faces in the four letters O in the printed title. 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. 0-941548-38-4 Inventory Number: 025381

(PICASSO, PABLO) (VERVE). Picasso, Pablo & Jaime Sabartes. E. Teriade, Editor. Paris: Editions De La Revue Verve, 1948. First Edition. Small Folio. Wrappers Over Boards. Artist Monograph. Near Fine./Very Good -.. np (82pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover by Pablo Picasso. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This combined nineteenth and twentieth number of Teriade's legendary artistic review "Verve" is a monograph devoted solely to the work of Pablo Picasso. Realized under the direction of Teriade, it features front and rear covers specially designed by the artist for the project with the master printers Draeger Freres creating the then-state of the art heliogravure images in black and white and tipped color plates. Included are texts by both Picasso and Jaime Sabartes as well as reproductions of paintings, drawings, sketchbooks, letters, and more. An internally most handsome example of this lovely and fragile item additionally BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A DRAWING of flowers by Picasso in blue crayon across the entire "Antipolis 1946" page. It's striking color lithographic covers shows some wear, soiling, creasing, and adhesive ghosting along with some discreet professional reinforcement of the spine on the verso. The drawing and signature have been examined and vetted for us by a noted gallerist specializing in the work of Picasso, and we fully guarantee this item's authenticity. Inventory Number: 027393

(PILDAS, AVE). Campany, David & Ave Pildas. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, 2022. First Edition 1/20 Copies Deluxe. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-04-5

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Pildas will be signing copies of "Star Struck" at Arcana Saturday, October 8th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, October 11th.

"Hollywood Boulevard, Walk of Fame, 1970s. You were there, with your camera, with your love of life and people. It seems you turned the sidewalk into a little stage, and everyone came for a momentary audition. Some wanted to be famous, some were ok with a walk-on part, most were just happy to see you.”

So writes David Campany of the pictures in Star Struck, the first monograph from the legendary Ave Pildas in more than forty years. These photographs were made between 1972 and 1975 in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm.

In Pildas’s generous and gentle view, everyone is an A-list celebrity. And he should know! Those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and the Velvet Underground. Pildas brings the same joyous discipline to regular folks on the street as he did to his well-known work for DownBeat magazine and Capitol Records.
 

In the end, the most beautiful and beguiling thing about Star Struck is that you’re not sure if the title refers to the people whom Ave Pildas encountered on Hollywood Boulevard, or to the photographer himself. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe slipcased edition of this charming volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to twenty copies only accompanied by a signed and numbered 8 ½ x 11" archival pigment print of one of the book's images additionally SIGNED by Ave Pildas in ink.

Inventory Number: E000APSS-DLX

(PILDAS, AVE). Campany, David & Ave Pildas. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, I00221000. 2022. First Edition 1/750 Copies. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-04-5

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Pildas will be signing copies of "Star Struck" at Arcana Saturday, October 8th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, October 11th.

"Hollywood Boulevard, Walk of Fame, 1970s. You were there, with your camera, with your love of life and people. It seems you turned the sidewalk into a little stage, and everyone came for a momentary audition. Some wanted to be famous, some were ok with a walk-on part, most were just happy to see you.”

So writes David Campany of the pictures in Star Struck, the first monograph from the legendary Ave Pildas in more than forty years. These photographs were made between 1972 and 1975 in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm.

In Pildas' generous and gentle view, everyone is an A-list celebrity. And he should know! Those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and the Velvet Underground. Pildas brings the same joyous discipline to regular folks on the street as he did to his well-known work for DownBeat magazine and Capitol Records.
 

In the end, the most beautiful and beguiling thing about Star Struck is that you’re not sure if the title refers to the people whom Ave Pildas encountered on Hollywood Boulevard, or to the photographer himself. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to seven hundred and fifty copies additionally SIGNED by Ave Pildas in ink.

Inventory Number: E000APSS

(PLATON). Text by Platon, Ko Bo Kyi, Wael Ghonim, Tanya Lokshina, Alina Diaz, Denis Mukwege.. MW Editions, I00240501. 2024. 9.75 x 13.75 in. / 560 pgs . Paperback. Photography Monograph. New. 9798987784501

Platon will be signing copies of "The Defenders" at the UTA Artist Space (403 Foothill Road, Beverly Hills, CA 90210) on Saturday, May 4th, between 2:00 and 4:00 PM following a walkthrough of his exhibition. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will ship the week of May 7th.

Fifteen years of Platon’s visually arresting and often dangerous documentation of human rights movements, from Cairo to the Congo

The celebrated portraitist Platon has spent much of his career photographing the famous and powerful, but he has also traveled the world documenting human rights activists and their quests for justice. The Defenders presents five photo essays spanning 15 years of work on these struggles in Burma, Egypt, Russia, the United States and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In Burma, he took portraits of monks, sex workers, former child soldiers and the controversial political leader Aung San Suu Kyi. He was on the ground in Cairo for several weeks early in 2011, when Egyptians took to the streets and demanded the resignation of Hosni Mubarak. In Russia, he photographed and spoke with dissidents who have battled a slew of oppressive governments. Along the border between the US and Mexico, he documented victims of inhumane immigration policies. Finally, the chapter on the Congo documents the continuing trauma of sexual violence as a weapon of war.

The full-bleed images are accompanied by short texts that contextualize the complex issues in each place, and retell Platon’s own stories of shooting on location. The book also includes a poster.

Inventory Number: E000P

(POLIDORI, ROBERT). Polidori, Robert, Martin C. Pedersen & Criswell Lappin. New York: Metropolis Books, 2004. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 144pp, 93 color illustrations. "Not only is he one of the world's preeminent architectural photographers, Robert Polidori is also - as his popular book "Havana" proved - a master of urban portraiture. The Montreal-born photographer has made haunting studies of bombed-out buildings in Beirut, decaying New York tenements, Versailles rooms in dusty disarray, Brasilia's paean to spare '50s modernism, and, most recently, the abandoned, contaminated cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat. Taken together, they add to his ongoing project: the interpretation of the interrupted urban landscape. This new monograph combines the eye of a celebrated photographer with the distinctive voice of an artist and adventurer. Each breathtaking image (meticulously selected by the photographer from his own personal archive) is accompanied by a compelling first person account, based on interviews conducted by Martin C. Pedersen, executive editor of Metropolis magazine. Polidori tells behind-the-scene stories about the making of his photographs, talks about what makes a building photogenic, how he shoots buildings he doesn't like, his favorite architects, and his love of mosques. "Metropolis" is a look at the world's great cities as seen through the eyes of a sharp social observer, and a great photographer". A pristine copy additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Robert Polidori 2004" in the year of publication 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 - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-891024-98-1 Inventory Number: 014978

(POLIDORI, ROBERT). Polidori, Robert, Tom Jacobi & Jochen Siemens. Hamburg, GERMANY: Stern Spezial Fotografie / Gruner + Jahr AG, 2006. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 94pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. Art Directed by Tom Jacobi. This forty-first installment Stern Magazine's elegantly produced Bibliothek der Fotografie / Spezial Fotografie Portfolios is devoted to one of the world's preeminent architectural chroniclers, Robert Polidori. It is the first overall survey of the Montreal-born photographer's stunning work, including images from his studies of metropolitan sprawl throughout the world, Havana, the Palace at Versailles, and the contaminated cities of Chernobyl and Pripyat. A pristine copy SIGNED AND DATED "Robert Polidori 2007" in black ink on the first preliminary in the publisher's shrinkwrap which has been discreetly sliced open to allow for the signature. 3-570-19549-X Inventory Number: 014981

(POLKE, SIGMAR). Polke, Sigmar & Rainer Speck. Ghent, BELGIUM & Cologne, GERMANY: Snoeck Publishers, 2004. First Edition 1/1000. Folio. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Artist's Book. Fine/Fine. xii + np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Designed by Kuhle und Mozer. Inspired by Ovid's recounting of the Greek myth of Daphne and Apollo, Sigmar Polke has created this massive, exceedingly luxe artist's book comprised of twenty-four chapters of hand-fed, manipulated Xeroxed imagery on heavy paper stock. Utilizing source-imagery ranging from Polke's own drawings, art historical prints, steel engravings, to photographs of Bettie Page and Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and the rest of the Rat Pack from "Ocean's Eleven", "Daphne" is a true tour-de-force of art in the age of mechanical reproduction, with no two copies exactly alike. A brand new, most handsome example of the English language edition limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED AND SIGNED by Sigmar Polke in pencil at the rear colophon, in the publisher's unprinted black paper over boards slipcase, 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. 3-936859-00-0 Inventory Number: 026991

(POLLOCK, JACKSON) (NAMUTH, HANS). Namuth, Hans, Jackson Pollock, Barbara Rose, Rosalind Krauss, Paul Falkenberg, Francis V. O'Conner, William Wright & B.H. Friedman. New York: Agrinde Publications Ltd., 1980. First American Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Near Fine. np (120pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Bea Feitler. "Pollock Painting" is the most complete presentation to date of the late Hans Namuth's myth-making photographs and film stills of Jackson Pollock at work in his and Lee Krasner's East Hampton home and studio during 1950 and 1951. In a series of photo shoots and finally a film also entitled "Pollock Painting", Namuth relentlessly documented the artist mid-creation in innovative ways. The emergence of this work gave birth to Pollock's nickname of "Jack the Dripper", and some believe contributed to the depression and alcoholism that preceded his early death in 1956. The book features scores of these iconic images accompanied by texts from Rosalind Krauss, Paul Falkenberg, Francis V. O'Conner, William Wright, and B.H. Friedman. A most handsome example of the 1980 Agrinde Publications first American hardbound edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "to Connie Lembark / with more wishes than I can say - / Hans Namuth / May 1986." in black ink across the half title page showing some typical minor discoloration to the gutters of the inside covers and a bit of shaking along with the tiniest bit of sunning along the spine. There are traces of some discreet later gluing to the gutters of the textblock to reinforce the bindery's original use of cheap mucilage glue. The late Connie Lembark was a well-known Los Angeles art collector and her printed bookplate is affixed to the inside front. She was the co-author of the catalogue raisonné of prints by her close friend, Sam Francis, and this volume was acquired by us directly from Ms. Lembark prior to her passing. 0-960-10686-3 Inventory Number: 026390

(RABABY, MICHAEL). Rababy, Michael, Mat Gleason & Simon Glickman. Heidelberg, GERMANY: Kehrer Verlag, BOD, 2024. First Edition. 10 1/2 x 9 3/4", 4to. Hardbound. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 160pp, 115 color illustrations. Text in English."CASINOLAND – Tired of Winning" is the result of a thirty year long photography project in which Michael Rababy documents US American gambling culture. Rows of shrill slot machines, glowing billboards, and gaudy splendor appear alongside exhausted faces, tired looks, and lost games. Rababy’s realistic camera view scrutinizes the glamorous appearance of the gleaming gambling halls and exposes their mendacious promises of wealth. The series focuses more on the casino as a capitalist institution as a whole than on the individual gamblers. Michael Rababy is a Lebanese-American documentary photographer, who deals frequently with US American culture and society in his work. He works as a freelance photographer and has photographed for numerous media companies. "CASINOLAND – Tired of Winning" is his fourth book project". 978-3-96900-164-6 Inventory Number: RAB004

(RAINER, YVONNE). Rainer, Yvonne. Halifax, CANADA & New York: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & New York University Press, 1974. First Edition. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Buckram. Dance Monograph. Fine/Good +. 338pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. With a chronology and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, this is the first monograph on the pioneering contemporary New York dancer/choreographer Yvonne Rainer. It contains texts and notes on choreography (often reproduced in facsimile), and photographs documenting her performances between 1961 and 1973. A most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1974 first edition issued in silver gilt-stamped black buckram boards additionally bearing the SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... - in contrition and gratitude - Yvonne May 1997" in black ink on the half title page showing some wear, soiling, short closed tears, and some mild spotting to the dust jacket. Laid in is the six page illustrated brochure cum screening schedule from the Getty Research Institute's 2014 "Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films" program. 0-8147-7360-5 Inventory Number: 026541