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(CORBUSIER, LE) (JEANNERET-GRIS, CHARLES EDOUARD). Le Corbusier. H. Allen Brooks, Editor. THE LE CORBUSIER ARCHIVE: VOLUMES 1-32 (LACKING ONE SINGLE VOLUME). New York & Paris. 1982-1984: Garland Publishing in Collaboration with the Fondation Le Corbusier, First Editions 1/250. 4to. Debossed Linen Over Boards. Architecture Monograph. Near Fine (But Incomplete)/No Jackets - As Issued. circa 680pp each, profusely illustrated in b&w. This is a set of thirty-one of the thirty-two volumes comprising "The Le Corbusier Archive" - Garland Publishing's extraordinary one-time only collaboration with the Fondation Le Corbusier in Paris to produce a fully annotated compendium of the over thirty-two thousand drawings housed in the French archives of the legendary architect. Spread throughout the set are seventeen essays on Corbu by Reyner Banham, Tim Benton, Alan Colquhoun, Charles Correa, Norma Evenson, Kenneth Frampton, Michael Graves, Daniele Pauly, Vincent Scully, Peter Serenyi, Jerry… Leer más

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. FLIPPING, KICKING, HOWLING, ROLLING, SITTING, STANDING, CLIMBING, TELLING. Signed and Numbered by the Artist with 8 Etchings. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1988. First Edition 1/35. Elephant Folio. Full Leather in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np (28pp), 1 letterpress colophon + title page, 8 color etchings. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Flipping, Kicking, Howling, Rolling, Sitting, Standing, Climbing, Telling" is the oversized, extraordinarily luxe artist's book published in 1988 by Sam Francis' Lapis Press containing eight original etchings by Edward Ruscha. Each "silhouette" image was pulled by master printer Jacob Samuel at The Litho Shop on a 20 x 16" sheet of Rives BFK paper. The title and colophon pages are printed by hand-letterpress, and along with the etchings, four blank preliminaries, and endpapers have been hand-bound by Klaus Ullrich S. Rotzscher in an exquisite debossed, full… Leer más

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. FLIPPING, KICKING, HOWLING, ROLLING, SITTING, STANDING, CLIMBING, TELLING. Signed and Numbered by the Artist with 8 Etchings. Los Angeles: The Lapis Press, 1988. First Edition 1/35. Elephant Folio. Full Leather in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Very Good/No Jacket - As Issued. np (28pp), 1 letterpress colophon + title page, 8 color etchings. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Flipping, Kicking, Howling, Rolling, Sitting, Standing, Climbing, Telling" is the oversized, extraordinarily luxe artist's book published in 1988 by Sam Francis' Lapis Press containing eight original etchings by Edward Ruscha. Each "silhouette" image was pulled by master printer Jacob Samuel at The Litho Shop on a 20 x 16" sheet of Rives BFK paper. The title and colophon pages are printed by hand-letterpress, and along with the etchings, four blank preliminaries, and endpapers have been hand-bound by Klaus Ullrich S. Rotzscher in an exquisite debossed,… Leer más

(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Josh Bayer (AKA "Sketchy") & Michael Gira. RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES. Lawndale & Hermosa Beach, CA, etc. 1978-2015.: SST Publications, Superflux Publications, Galerie Metropol, Illuminati, Galerie Krinzinger, Parkett, Ooga Booga, Nieves & Innen, Contemporary Fine Arts & David Zwirner Books, First Edition. 8vo + 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Books. Very Good. or Better. np (most circa 28pp), each profusely illustrated in b&w. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. This is a collection of fifty-one primarily early artist's books cum 'zines - mostly self-published between 1978 and 2006 via SST and Superflux Publications - by the esteemed Southern California native, Raymond Pettibon. Listed by title in chronological order of publication preceded in parentheses by their entry number in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A… Leer más

(PICASSO, PABLO) (VERVE). Picasso, Pablo & Jaime Sabartes. E. Teriade, Editor. VERVE REVUE ARTISTIQUE ET LITTERAIRE VOLUME V, NUMEROS 19 ET 20 (VOL. 5, #19 ET 20): COULEUR DE PICASSO - PEINTURES ET DESSINS DE PICASSO - WITH A BOLDLY SIGNED COLOR DRAWING BY PABLO PICASSO. 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… Leer más

(CALLE, SOPHIE). Calle, Sophie. SOPHIE CALLE: LA FILLE DU DOCTEUR (THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER) - DELUXE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. New York, London, Rome & Hong Kong. 2007-2014.: Thea Westreich, 1991. First Edition #117/230. 4to. Decorative Boards, Boxed. Artist's Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 18 b&w illustrations. Text in French and English. The most visually spectacular of her artist's books to date, "La Fille Du Docteur" is yet another exploration of the part autobiographical, part fictional personae of Sophie Calle. The work consists of sixteen facsimile cards of congratulation (purportedly) from colleagues of the artist's father upon the announcement of her birth. This was traditional amongst the French medical profession, and Calle's father was a physician. Or was he? Each of these cards is housed in a glassine envelope that faces a sequential photographic image printed on vellum of the artist performing a drunken striptease. These images conclude with… Leer más

(ROLLING STONES, THE). Golden, Ruell, David Dalton, Waldemar Januszczak & Luc Sante. Foreword by President Bill Clinton. THE ROLLING STONES: COLLECTORS EDITION LIMITED TO ONE THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES SIGNED BY MICK JAGGER, KEITH RICHARDS, CHARLIE WATTS AND RONNIE WOOD. Köln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2019. First Edition #451/1600. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Music Monograph. As New/As New. 518pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. With a Rolling Stones timeline, discography, and photographers' biographies. "The kind of fame and success The Rolling Stones have achieved in their fifty-years-and-counting career is without parallel. With their bluesy rock 'n' roll and mesmerizing off and onstage presence, the Stones redefined the music of the 1960s and 1970s, and paved the way for rock as we know it today. They also set the standard for how a rock band should look and behave. Produced in close collaboration with the band, this… Leer más

(EGGLESTON, WILLIAM). Wagner, Bruce & William Eggleston. WILLIAM EGGLESTON: 2 1/4 - DELUXE SIGNED EDITION WITH A COLOR DYE TRANSFER PRINT LIMITED TO FIFTY COPIES. Signed by the Photographer, with a Color Photograp. 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

(MILLS, JOSEPH). Mills, Joseph. JOSEPH MILLS: THE LOVES OF THE POETS - DELUXE BOXED, SIGNED EDITION LIMITED TO TEN COPIES ILLUSTRATED ENTIRELY WITH ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Signed by the Photographer with Color Photographs. Tucson, AZ & Washington, DC: Nazraeli Press, Hemphill Fine Arts & JGS (Joy of Giving Something), 2002. First Edition 1/10 Deluxe. Large Folio. Ostrich over Velvet Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. np (32pp), 26 color illustrations. "The Loves of the Poets", featuring Joseph Mills' beautifully raw, disturbingly seductive collages, is a work of art unto itself. This gorgeous artist's book published in 2002 by Nazraeli Press, Hemphill Fine Arts, and Joy of Giving Something features twenty-six collages that seem to be on the verge of complete revelation but time and again leave the viewer on a suspended note. The success of these images, in the words of photographic historian and curator Anne Tucker, "lies in the fact that they are anchored in… Leer más

(CHILDS RESTAURANT). Pruitt & Brown Architects. CHILDS NEW YORK RESTAURANT: A GROUP OF THREE LAVISHLY PRODUCED 1930 PROJECT DOCUMENTATION ALBUMS FROM PRUITT & BROWN ARCHITECTS. New York: Pruitt & Brown Architects, 1930. First Editions. Folio. Gilt-Stamped Buckram. Architecture Monographs. Near Fine/No Jackets - As Issued. 36pp + 48pp + 72pp, each profusely illustrated with original 7 ¼ x 9 ½" photographs and contemporary publication clippings. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. This is a group of three unique, lavishly hand-assembled 14 x 12 ½" project documentation books produced in 1930 by Pruitt & Brown Architects to showcase their design work for recently opened showpieces for the Childs Restaurant chain. Founded in New York in the 1880s, Childs became one of the first national dining chains, with over one hundred venues at its height. The firm's ownership changed hands just as the US slipped into the Great Depression, and Childs… Leer más

(LEVINTHAL, DAVID) (ELLROY, JAMES). Ellroy, James & David Levinthal. MY MOTHER'S KILLER - DELUXE SIGNED SLIPCASED EDITION WITH SEVEN SIGNED ORIGINAL DAVID LEVINTHAL PHOTOGRAPHS. Signed by the Author and Photographer. Paris: Coromandel Express, 1998. First Edition 1/55. Small Square Folio. Loose Contents in a Box. Illustrated Book. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, with six Cibachrome prints and one hand-painted gelatin silver print. Text in English and French. Designed by Olivier Andreotti and Penelope Monnet. "My Mother's Killer" is the luxe 1998 Coromandel Express collaborative interpretation of the events surrounding the unsolved 1958 Los Angeles murder of James Ellroy's mother Geneva as recreated by noted photographer David Levinthal in a series of stylized miniature tableaux. It features a highly graphic bi-lingual presentation of Ellroy's text juxtaposed across six tri-fold leaves - each of which contains an archivally housed 11 ½ x 10 ½" color… Leer más

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP - SIGNED BY EDWARD RUSCHA. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles. 1966 (1970).: Self-Published, Second Printing 1/5000. 8vo. Leporello Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. One continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments extending to 296 ½" in length housed in a white paper and silver Mylar-over-cardboard slipcase. "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" is Ed Ruscha's innovative 1966 photographic study that pictures sequentially each architectural facade on both the North and South sides of the fabled Sunset Strip from 8101 - the still extant Jaguar dealership - to 9156 - the late, great Schwab's Pharmacy. Pandora's Box lives! A spectacularly bright white, most handsome example of the 1970 second printing (entry B4 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999", and whose 1966 edition is cited on pages 142-143 of Martin Parr and… Leer más

(GOODE, JOE AKA BUENO, JOSE). Goode, Joe. Jerry Sohn, Editor. JOE GOODE / JOSE BUENO: WATER - WITH TWELVE ORIGINAL ETCHINGS. 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… Leer más

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (SEMINA). Berman, Wallace. SEMINA 7 (ALEPH / A GESTURE INVOLVING PHOTOGRAPHS, DRAWINGS & TEXT BY WALLACE BERMAN) . Larkspur, CA: Self-Published, 1961. First Edition 1/200. 8vo. Chipboard Portfolio. Artist's Periodical. Good. np, 18 individual inserts printed offset on cardstock or paper housed a printed paper pocket, 11 monochrome illustrations + front cover. This seventh installment of "Semina" - Wallace Berman's legendary, and legendarily scarce handmade literary and art periodical - is subtitled "Aleph". Published in Larkspur in 1961, unlike its predecessors that anthologized work from the movers and shakers of the West Coast Beat scene, this number is entirely devoted entirely to contributions by Berman himself. It is comprised of eighteen loose reproductions of photographs, drawings, and text - many of which combine these elements. A complete, internally handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to two hundred unnumbered copies.… Leer más

(PRINCE, RICHARD). Prince, Richard. RICHARD PRINCE: WAR PICTURES - THE "UNCORRECTED PROOF" EDITION OF THE ARTIST'S FIRST BOOK LIMITED TO ONE HUNDRED COPIES. New York, London, Rome & Hong Kong. 2007-2014.: Artists Space, 1980. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Printed Wrappers. Artist's Book. Near Fine. np (12pp), no illustrations. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Modestly duplicated and completely devoid of imagery, "War Pictures" is art and book world éminence grise Richard Prince's twelve page pamphlet of texts published in conjunction with his February 1980 exhibition at Manhattan's Artists Space. It is Prince's very first monographic publication - preceding his "Menthol Wars" by four months, and the first installment in his "War / Menthol / Pictures" trilogy. A most handsome example (artist's book entry 1 in "Bibliotheque d'un Amateur: Richard Prince's Publications 1981-2012") of the exceedingly… Leer más

(FRIEDLANDER, LEE). Friedlander, Lee & Leslie George Katz. With a brief text by Walt Whitman. LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE AMERICAN MONUMENT - BOXED SPECIAL EDITION WITH A SIGNED SILVER GELATIN PRINT. With an Original Signed and Numbered Photograph. New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. First Edition 1/150 Deluxe. Oblong Folio. Cloth with Leather Spine. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (78pp), 213 b&w gravure illustrations. "The American Monument" is Lee Friedlander's groundbreaking portfolio of striking images of statues and memorials taken across the United States during the early seventies. Uniquely bound in baby blue cloth-over-boards with sumptuous printing by The Meriden Gravure Company from half-tone negatives made by Richard Benson, it certainly ranks among the great American photography books of the Twentieth Century. A brand new, pristine example of the exceedingly uncommon "Special Edition" of this impressive tome (cited on pages 310-311… Leer más

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP - SIGNED BY EDWARD RUSCHA. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles. 1966 (1970).: Self-Published, Second Printing 1/5000. 8vo. Leporello Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. One continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments extending to 296 ½" in length housed in a white paper and silver Mylar-over-cardboard slipcase. "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" is Ed Ruscha's innovative 1966 photographic study that pictures sequentially each architectural facade on both the North and South sides of the fabled Sunset Strip from 8101 - the still extant Jaguar dealership - to 9156 - the late, great Schwab's Pharmacy. Pandora's Box lives! A bright white, most handsome example of the 1970 second printing (entry B4 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999", and whose 1966 edition is cited on pages 142-143 of Martin Parr and Gerry… Leer más

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP - SIGNED BY EDWARD RUSCHA. Signed by the Artist. Los Angeles. 1966 (1970).: Self-Published, Second Printing 1/5000. 8vo. Leporello Wrappers in Slipcase. Artist's Book. Near Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. One continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments extending to 296 ½" in length housed in a white paper and silver Mylar-over-cardboard slipcase. "Every Building on the Sunset Strip" is Ed Ruscha's innovative 1966 photographic study that pictures sequentially each architectural facade on both the North and South sides of the fabled Sunset Strip from 8101 - the still extant Jaguar dealership - to 9156 - the late, great Schwab's Pharmacy. Pandora's Box lives! A bright white, most handsome example of the 1970 second printing (entry B4 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999", and whose 1966 edition is cited on pages 142-143 of Martin Parr and Gerry… Leer más

(TCHERNIKHOV, IAKOV aka YAKOV CHERNIKOV). Tchernikhov, Iakov Georgievich & Erikh Fedorovich Gollerbakh. KONSTRUKTSIIA ARKHITEKTURNYKH I MASHINNYKH FORM / CONSTRUCTIONS DES FORMES D'ARCHITECTURE ET DES MACHINES / KONSTRUKTION DER ARCHITEKTUR UND MASCHINENFORMEN (THE CONSTRUCTION OF ARCHITECTURAL AND MACHINE FORMS). Leningrad, RUSSIA: Leningradskogo ob-va arkhitektorov (Leningrad Society of Architects), 1931. First Edition 1/5150. 4to. Printed Boards. Architecture Monograph. Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 214pp, profusely illustrated in black and white. Text in Cyrillic Russian. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The is the second of the three visually striking books written and illustrated by the pioneering Russian modernist architect Iakov Tchernikhov - better known in the west as Yakov Chernikov - published in Leningrad between 1927 and 1933. It features an introduction to Constructivism by Erikh Fedorovich Gollerbakh, two hundred and seventy-eight graphic text illustrations… Leer más

(MAJERUS, MICHEL). Majerus, Michel. SUPERMALBUCH - AN ARTWORK IN BOOK FORM BY MICHEL MAJERUS. NP: Self-Published, 1993. First Edition Hors Serie. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Multiple. Fine. np (76pp), 75 b&w illustrations - thirty-two of which have been additionally uniquely hand colored. Designed by Michel Majerus. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Supermalbuch" is late Belgian artist Michel Majerus' self-published 1993 decidedly not-for-children coloring book. It reproduces seventy-five crudely drawn depictions of genitalia, masturbation, underage sex, bestiality, and other scatological delights. Produced in a signed and numbered edition of fifty printed paperbound books, it is unclear how many of these were ever actually distributed, and the Estate of Michel Majerus has classified "Supermalbuch" as a unique artwork rather than simply a publication by the artist. A bright, most handsome hors serie example of this exceedingly uncommon item - not a… Leer más