New York: Grolier Club, 1907. 300 copies. A near-fine copy with slipcase. Ed. by Baron Roger Portalis. Translated by Carolyn Shipman. 14 splended hors-texte plates of bindings in colors and gold. xlv + 386 pp. Half-blue morocco and boards with gilt titling. Untrimmed deckle edges on the leading edge and..... More
Paris: Adolphe Delahays, 1854. 21.8 x 13.2 cm. iv, 576 pages. Later half-morocco and marbled boards; light foxing to a few leaves; pencil underlining on a few pages; else exceptionally bright. **Freitag 8512. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,1924. 500 copies. Describes 126 pieces with small, accompanying photographs. xlviii + 92 pp. Orange-tan yapped.paper covers with raised gilt title on front cover and spine. 21.5 x 31.5 cm. Overlapping covers chipped at top front and other small tears and blemishes; backstrip worn; right..... More
Hammelburg, Germany, 1947. PLEASE CONTACT ME DIRECTLY BEFORE PLACING AN ORDER. This item is offered on behalf of a non-profit, and a buyer will make payment to the owner. “Civilian Internment: Enclosure 6. Hammelburg, 1945/46." An album of 61 captioned snapshots taken in the camp during 1945/46 and assembled in..... More
[Los Angeles? The artist? 1969?]. Artist's book, SIGNED. 23 photographs of scenes and settings around L.A. [29 leaves, including front and rear blanks.] White cover with white plastic spiral binding. 15.9 x 20.5 cm. As new. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
[L.A.? The artist? 1970?] Artist's book, INSCRIBED. 600 copies. 24 photographs juxtapose sterile hotel rooms in Los Angeles with messier indoor and oudoor scenes, e.g., a hilltop path overhung by a tree marked X, an action painting of Heinz ketchup on a white tablecloth, a deposit of 2 or 3..... More
[Los Angeles: the artist], 1968. American distributor: Wittenborn and Company (sticker on last page). First printing (2400 copies). Ruscha's 8th book. Title & copyright pages & 10 color plates + 52 blank pages, as issued. 18.1 x 14 cm. Title in black on white, uncoated cover stock. Tiny nick out..... More
[Los Angeles: the artist], 1965 [1970]. American distributor: Wittenborn and Company (sticker inside rear cover). Second edition. 3000 copies (following 700 copies printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles). Ruscha's 3rd book. White paper covers with title in light green. 34 black-and-white illustrations on [44] pp. 17.9 x 14.1..... More
![Item #69001.2 Artforum, volume V [5], number 1, September 1966. Surrealism issue, with cover...](/pictures/thumb/69001.2.jpg?v=1634194622)
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1966. The justifiably famous Surrealism issue of Artforum magazine with its great cover by Ed Ruscha. It sold out three weeks after publication. Articles by the following writers: Max Kozloff, Lucy R. Lippard, Ronald Hunt, Robert Rosenblum, Toby Mussman, Roger Shattuck, William Rubin, Whitney Halstead, Kurt von..... More
![Item #69001.5 Artforum, volume V [5], number 1, September 1966. Surrealism issue, with cover...](/pictures/thumb/69001.5.jpg?v=1659769922)
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1966. The justifiably famous Surrealism issue of Artforum magazine with its great cover by Ed Ruscha. It sold out three weeks after publication. Articles by the following writers: Max Kozloff, Lucy R. Lippard, Ronald Hunt, Robert Rosenblum, Toby Mussman, Roger Shattuck, William Rubin, Whitney Halstead, Kurt von..... More
Los Angeles: Artforum, 1967. Ed Ruscha's characteristically witty wedding announcement shows him asleep in a large, rumpled bed with two coeds. The full-page photo by Jerry McMillan is on p. 7 of this issue. The contents include: Gothic parallels, by Sidney Tillim; Olitski and shape, by Michael Fried; Manet at..... More
Artspace: Albuquerque, NM, 1990. Cover by Ed Ruscha, with article by Dave Hickey, "Ed Ruscha: the song of the giant egress" (pp. 28-31). Profusely illustrated. 68 pp. 27.6 x 21.4 cm. Other articles on Paul Schimmel, Linda Ridgway, Connie Hatch, Elliott Norquist, Michael McMillen, Hans Burkhardt, Constance De Jong, Judie..... More
Tokyo-to Bijutsukan, 1984. Profusely illustrated (including 32 color plates). 205 pp. Stiff brick-colored paper covers. 24 x 22 cm. Saito was one of the pioneers of abstract painting in Japan and joined the Avant-Garde Western Painting Research Institute in 1933. This retrospective includes 98 works between 1978 and 1984. The..... More
Tokyo: Meiji-Shobo, [1941, per OCLC]. 220/300 copies, distributed for sale, signed by the author and with his red chop mark. The publisher distributed fifty more as gifts. 50 examples mounted on loose sheets of handmade, laid paper with deckle edges, as issued; plus booklet of 11 single leaves bound loosely..... More
San Francisco Art Association, 1915. 64 hors-texte plates in fine-grained sepia half-tone & 6 small illustrations and one plan in the text. [6] pp. advertisements + viii pp. + plates + 112 pp. Stiff, light brown paper covers.. 22.7 x 15 cm. Lists 7025 works of art in 120 galleries..... More
San Francisco Chronicle; [prob. 1966]. Announcing the Sixth Annual World Championship Domino Tournament, sponsored by the San Francisco Chronicle in the Domino Rooms of the San Francisco Commercial Club, Saturday, February 18, 1967. Single sheet of thick laid paper printed in black and gray. 35.5 x 27.9 cm. Folded crosswise..... More
San Francisco: Paul Elder, 1915. 2 vols. Vellum & bds., top edges gilt, 27.7 x 20.2 cm. 192 plates + xviii + 485 pp. **Copy no. 491 of 1000. Chapters by various hands, including several on leading U.S. painters, one each on the art of 12 contributing countries, and an..... More
New York: Creative Time, 1995. Inscribed by Hope Sandrow and with a duplicate postcard bearing a long, personal note from her. An envelope and flap made of single-sided corrugated cardboard (about 17 x 20 cm) contains 16 (i.e., 17) color postcards 15.2 x 10 cm (oversquare) + 13 grayish-tan sheets..... More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, 2019. 25 copies signed by the publisher. 20 illustrations (8 in color). [43] pp. Stiff, decorated paper covers, with dustjackete of handmade paper. 21.6 x 13.8 cm. 2 copies: 16/30, dark-green paper with gilt decoration; 17/30, dark-blue with gilt decoration. Please specify the copy preferred. Roman Jakobson..... More
Paris: Alyscamps Press, in association with Michael Neal, Cayeux-sur-Mer, France, 2018. No. 23 of 25 copies signed by the publisher. 21 illustrations. 41 + [21] pp. Stiff, decorated paper covers. 21.6 x 13.4 cm. "These poems were written as a response to lines by Artaud contained in his Cahiers de..... More
Valencia, CA: Feminist Art Program. California Institute of the Arts, 1975. Profusely illustrated in b/w. 136 pp. Paper covers decorated with photographs of all 18 artists in the book. 21.6 x 14.2 cm. The second half of the book contains letters from 71 artists, including Eleanor Antin, Lynda Benglis, Joan..... More
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, (1995). 9 illustrations. xxii + 186 pp. Black cloth with dustjacket. 25.3 x 17.3 cm. Essays on art, film, and writing. Fine/fine. **Free domestic shipping with direct order. More
New Paltz, NY: Documentext, 1979. Profusely illustrated. 281 + [7] pp. Cloth with dustjacket. 21.4 x 25.3 cm (oversquare). First edition of 2000 copies in cloth. Edited by Bruce McPherson. Boldly inscribed on blank preceding the title page: "For Aldis & Maria— Dear friends, with admiration love & thanks. Carolee..... More
New York: United Features Syndicate, 1963-1969. 280 Page proofs of daily Peanuts strips. Large bound volume, printed 6 to a page on one side of tabloid newsprint—a total of 1680 strips from Schulz’s classic period. The collection starts November 4–9, 1963, and ends September 15–20, 1969. There are gaps of..... More
La Jolla, CA: Laurence McGilvery, 1989. Approximately 16 plates + 128 pp.; paper covers.; 28 x 21.5 cm (standard US letter size). **500 copies. Indexes over 8900 works of art from 98 catalogues. Contains indexes of owners, sponsors of exhibitions, and printers. New. Our own publication. ISBN 0-910938-97-0. More
