RUSCHA, Edward. Edward Ruscha--Young Artist, A Book Accompanying the Exhibition of Prints, Drawings and Books. Unpaginated catalogue [approximately 250 pp.] Illustrated with over 80 black & white and monochrome illustrations. 16mo, bound in original light green boards. 1972.
This catalogue from a Ruscha retrospective in 1972 features a catalogue raisonne of.....
Item nr. 164523
Price: $2,500.00
RUSCHA, EDWARD. Nine Swimming Pools and Broken Glass. Unpaginated artist's book with 10 color plates. 8vo, wraps, in a new cloth folding box. 1968.
First edition Ruscha documents variety of southern California swimming pools. Ruscha does not identify the location of the pools as he had earlier with his gas stations.....
Item nr. 164403
Price: $1,750.00
LEWITT, Sol. Piramidi. 10 lithographs, each 222 × 680 mm, in publisher's cardboard box, preserved in a new cloth folding box. Turin: Marco Noire Editore, 1986.
This stunning set of lithographs recall the splendid wall drawings of pyramids that the artist conceived of between 1985 and 1994. These consisted of floor.....
Item nr. 169582
Price: $8,500.00
WALKER, Kara. Freedom: A Fable by Kara Walker. Unpaginated "pop-up" book with text. 4to, bound in publisher's boards. In a new maroon cloth folding box. [N.P.]: Peter Norton Christmas Project, 1997.
An early and exciting artist book by Kara Walker produced by the Norton Family as their annual Christmas gift to.....
Item nr. 167273
Price: $7,500.00
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JOHNS, Jasper. Fizzles. By Samuel Beckett. Unpaginated. Illustrated with a total of 34 original illustrations, including lift-ground aquatints, dry-point etchings, and soft-ground etchings by Johns, printed by Crommelynck in Paris. Small folio, 333 x 253 mm, bound in original plain wrappers, laid into.....
Item nr. 170435
Price: $50,000.00
LALANNE, François-Xavier. Bestaire Ordinaire; Bestaire Necessaire; Bestaire Legendaire. 3 Volumes. Illustrated by François-Xavier Lalanne with 36 prints using a different technique such as aquatint, etching or lithography. Folio. 380 x 285 mm, loose in publisher's wrappers and slipcase. Paris: Les Presses de Serendip, 2003-2006.
An immaculate set of the three fabulous.....
Item nr. 169033
Price: $25,000.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Early Auden. By W.H. Auden. Illustrated title-page and 10 accordion-folded panels of translucent paper wrapped around white bristol paper containing colour aquatints by Richard Tuttle. Folio, 350 x 215 mm, bound in smooth white vellum-covered boards, tan reversed calf spine in a new green cloth folding box. San.....
Item nr. 167358
Price: $12,500.00
Walker, Kara. KARA WALKER. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in colour and b&w. Large 4to, cloth. Chicago, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1997.
This copy 1/1000 with gold leaf on cover. A recent recipient of the MacArthur Genius Award, Kara Walker engages various racial and historical issues in her silhouetted.....
Item nr. 164610
Price: $475.00
BOOM, Irma. Presént. By Niklas Maak. 8vo., bound in publisher's printed wrappers, preserved in the original neon green shrink wrap all in a new grey cloth folding box with a yellow label. Paris: Renault, 2016
Irma Boom succeeded in following up her magnificent 1996 Think Book with another tour de force.....
Item nr. 169998
Price: $3,500.00
CELMINS, Vija. The View. Poems by Czeslaw Milosz. Unpaginated. Illustrated with four mezzotints by Celmins. Tall 4to., 377 x 280 mm, bound in original publisher's black morocco spine, grey paper over boards in matching slipcase. Uncut. New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.
Considered to be.....
Item nr. 169440
Price: $18,500.00
DIEBENKORN, Richard. Poems of W.B. Yeats. Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. xxv, [3], 171, [2] pp. 4to, 260 x 205 mm, bound in half red morocco over green cloth, in a green and red slipcase. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990.
Limited edition of 426 copies. Yeats's poems, printed with.....
Item nr. 164400
Price: $3,850.00
KIRKEBY, Per. Bemerkungen ueber die Farben. By Ludwig Wittgenstein. Illustrated with 4 Prints on Japon paper by Per Kirkeby. Folio, bound in publisher's cloth-backed boards by Christian Zwang in the original slipcase. Muenster: Kleinheinrich, 1998.
A handsome illustrated book by the Danish artist, Per Kirkeby, whose work is influenced by the.....
Item nr. 168466
Price: $2,500.00
Monchengladbach. Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg. RICHARD TUTTLE. 128 pages with numerous color and b&w illustrations. Oblong 8vo, wrappers and cardboard slipcase. 1985.
A fine copy of the deluxe version of this catalog. One of 150 copies containing an original phototype, initialed and numbered, laid in. The catalog is also signed and numbered.....
Item nr. 164640
Price: $375.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Two Chairs, Two Benches and a Table. 16 unnumbered pages. Oblong 8vo., bound in publisher's wrappers. Florence: Galleria Victoria Miro, [1990].
Catalogue of a five piece set of furniture designed by Richard Tuttle to be seen as a final refinement of crate furniture either in Santa Fe style, or.....
Item nr. 164638
Price: $25.00
TUTTLE, Richard. Charge to Exist. 2 cardboard sheets, one with collaged letters, one with a screenprint. Folio, 350 x 230 mm., ringbound in printed cardboard slipcase and new cloth box. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum, 1992.
A fine copy of this typical example of Tuttle's work as a book artist, consisting of two grey.....
Item nr. 164525
Price: $1,250.00
MILHAZES, Beatriz. Coisa Linda. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 34 hand-printed screen prints and a unique collage. 4to., bound in original decorated blue and gold cloth, yellow paper spine in a yellow cloth slipcase. New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
The first book published in "Contemporary Editions" by.....
Item nr. 166723
Price: $8,500.00
DUNHAM, Carroll. Shadows. Ten original full sheet drypoints, with justification, title-leaf, and tissue interleaves. Oblong folio, 350 x 584 mm., the whole enclosed in publisher's cloth chemise and titled clamshell box. West Islip, New York: Universal Limited Art Editions, Inc., 1989.
One of two copies designated as printer's proofs, in addition.....
Item nr. 168503
Price: $12,500.00
SASSON, Renee. Esmaltes. With text by Walmir Ayala. Containing six different enameled pieces by Sasson, each on a linen mount signed and numbered on the verso by the artist, with a small paper pamphlet containing Ayala's poem. 4to., 215 x 215 mm, housed in publisher's linen chemise and slipcase. Sao.....
Item nr. 168169
Price: $3,500.00
CORNELL, Joseph. Maria. 6 unpaginated leaves with printed text, with one decorative headpiece. Small 8vo, 143 x 107 mm., bound in original printed wrappers, in a new cloth folding box. New York: Salamander Editions, 1954.
An immaculate copy of this rare artist's book which was privately printed by Cornell, and given.....
Item nr. 167348
Price: $4,850.00
CLEMENTE, Francesco. The Departure of the Argonaut. By Alberto Savinio. [102] ff. With 49 photolithographs, 46 in color and 3 in black on cream paper. Elephant folio, loose in original wrappers and beige linen box designed by Rudolph Rieser. London: Petersburg Press, 1986.
Clemente's images are extraordinary and elevate this work.....
Item nr. 165729
Price: $15,000.00
CRAIG-MARTIN, Michael. Book. Illustrated with 20 colour screen prints and 2 loose signed screen prints. Oblong folio, bound in publisher's grey cloth in a matching clamshell box. London: Alan Cristea Gallery & Ridinghouse Editions, 1997.
Book is renowned British contemporary artist Michael Craig-Martin's oversized artist's book consisting of twenty full page.....
Item nr. 164409
Price: $2,750.00
KIPPENBERGER, Martin. Hotel-Hotel. 494 pp. Illustrated with 245 reproductions. 4to., bound in original wrappers in a new cloth box. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 1992.
This is the first volume of Kippenberger's trilogy Hotel-Hotel, Hotel-Hotel-Hotel and No Drawing No Cry. The books each consist of collections of drawings Kippenbergerer made.....
Item nr. 164181
Price: $2,250.00
GERZSO, Gunther. The Besieged/El Sitiado. By Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger. With an etching by Gunther Gerzso. 4to., cloth covered board in cloth covered slipcase. San Francisco: Limestone Press, 1989.
Gunther Gerzso has created a stunning frontispiece color etching for Octavio Paz's poem. Printed in letterpress, Paz's poem is presented.....
Item nr. 164076
Price: $2,000.00
TUERLINCKX, Joelle. One Printed Page 2. Contains "the Biggest Surface on Earth Scale 1:1." A computer generated image on paper, diameter 270 mm. Matted in publisher's cardboard portfolio. New York: Library Council of the Museum of Modern Art, 2004.
In her films, sculptures, public projects, and extensive publications, the Belgian Conceptual.....
Item nr. 162917
Price: $475.00
BERNHARD, Thomas, et al. Fotografie, Fotoinsenierung, Fotoinstallation, Fotoobjeket. Klandestin. Unpaginated. Illustrated with photographs throughout. Oblong 4to., ring bound in original boards. Wuppertal: 1991.
An interesting catalog for the second exhibition by the Gruppe Klandestin, a photography collective founded in 1990, with photographers Herlinde Grueter, Andrea Hold-Ferneck, Thorsten Hoven and Inken Meyn.....
Item nr. 161852
Price: $495.00