Austin: Encino Press, 1968. Inscribed at time of publication: "For Dirk Peter with friendship Larry." Dirk Pieter van Nouhuys was the sophisticated Dutch father of Larry's and my mutual friend, the writer Dirk Holmsland van Nouhuys. Both Larry and I held Dirk the Elder in high regard. Dirk the Younger..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1959. Mounted color frontispiece + 179 illustrations (6 in color & mounted). [vi] + 192 pp. The final color plate "Coeurs Volants," is a die-cut heart in blue and red measuring 23 cm in both directions. Text in original French. The book was designed by Marcel Duchamp..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1952 (1st pub. 1951). INSCRIBED: "To Martha and Walter affectionately, John. He came ever in the re-ward of the fashion; and sung those tunes to the overscutched huswifes that he heard the carmen whistle, and swore that they were his fancies or his good-nights. King Henry..... More
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Metz, 1996. Photographs, diagrams, tables. 175 pp. Blue dustjacket over plain card covers. 30 x 22 cm. A detailed view of the cycling designs and studies of Genzling, architect, mathematics professor, and artist. Repair from inside at the top edge of the dustjacket spine; otherwise, fine..... More
[Los Angeles: [the artist], 1969. Third edition, printed in 1969 by the Cunningham Press, Alhambra, California. 3000 copies, after 500 of the second edition (1967) and 400 numbered copies of the first edition (1962). Ruscha's first book—it all began here. White paper covers with title in red. 26 black-and-white plates..... More
Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1971. This is a multiple printed by photo-offset in gray on stiff, white, die-cut drawing stock. It includes: a mounting board 49.7 x 42.1 cm / 19 x 16-1/2 inches; a highly abstracted version of Mickey Mouse’s head with ears 15.2 cm / 6 inches in..... More
Ostfilden-Ruit, Austria: Hatje Cantz / Los Angeles, MAK Center, 2004. Approx. 122 plates & ills. (27 color & 5 double-spread). Unpaginated [approx. 140 pp.] Plain white covers with clear plastic jacket, with title and decoration printed on the verso. 25.4 x 20 cm. The text includes several writings by Klein..... More
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969. Approximately 200 plates & ills. (some doublespread). 61 + [2] pp. Decorated paper covers. 26.5 x 21.5 cm. Texts by James Monte, Marcia Tucker, and Steve Reich. A key early compilation of Conceptualism in the connected visual, aural, and moving arts. Includes..... More
Valencia, CA: California Institute of the Arts, 2012. A memorial catalogue, December 7, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. 5 plates & 1 plan. [16] pp. Pale gray paper covers printed in black. 28 x 21.6 cm. Remembrances by 18 colleagues, including Benjamin Buchloh, Dan Graham, Stanley Grinstein, Elsa Longhauser, and Allen..... More
Newport Beach, California: Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1978. 12 b/w plates + [24] pp. White paper covers. 21.1 x 27.7 cm (oversquare). This grouping of drawings by three remarkable artists was curated by Betty Trumbull. Essays by Lucy R. Lippard, Channa Horwitz, and Joyce Cutler Shaw. Agnes Denes' work involves..... More
New York: World View Publishers, 1965. Proof. Flat, unfolded & untrimmed in a single sheet of red-orange paper comprising 4 pp. 43.2 x 86.4 cm / 17 x 34 in. Illustrations, plans, projections. Contents, Appendices1-5: 1, Soviet prefabricated building system; 2, Maciunas' prefabricated building system; 3, Buckminster Fuller's Geodesic Dome;..... More
NYC & LA: Works, 1972. Artist's book. "Except for what you are reading on this page, this book has no words or printed images. It is as the title suggests a book of sounds. The pages in sequence make a quiet drama of subtle noises. "By turning, fumbling and rustling..... More
[New York]: John Weber Gallery,1976. 16 pp.with 8 paired captions and complex examples of the three types (though it is hardly "all" their possible combinations). Glossy white paper covers printed in black. 20.4 cm square. Near fine, with slight signs of handling and the name stamp of the previous owner..... More
Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions des Massons, 1974. 52 diagrams on 56 pp. List on p. [3]: "190 combinations of all arcs and lines." Glossy white paper covers printed in black. 20.4 cm square. Covers yellowed, as usual and the elegant signature of the previous owner on the inside front cover. **Free..... More
London: Lisson Gallery,1974. Artist's book. 48 pp.with 23 paired descriptions and examples comprising a manual of straight lines of differing lengths, angles, and positions, with the descriptions on the versos of the pages and the examples on the facing rectos: e.g., at random, "a line from the midpoint of the..... More
Ephemera. Three small sheets of offwhite paper, printed in the following style: "Lawrence Weiner | 1970 | Left of center | Under responsibility and collection of H. & N. Daled." Herman and Nicole Daled had close relationships with several artists, notably Marcel Broodthaers, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Niele Toroni..... More
New York, NY: Marian Goodman Gallery, 2017. Single sheet of coated paper printed one side in orange, blue, and red, with buff background. Approximately 68.6 cm / 27 in. square, folded in ninths to approximately 23 cm / 9 in. square. Alfred MacAdam writes in Art News for April 12..... More
NYC: Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, 1991. B/w portrait & 8 color plates printed one side on very stiff paper, with facing descriptions, plus 4 pp. of biography, collections, and bibliography. Stiff, off-white paper covers printed in black. 28 x 21.5 cm. This copy belonged to my late friend Joan Hugo, the..... More
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966. 24 plates (8 in color). [48] pp. Stiff paper covers with full-page color plate. 20.4 x 21.7 cm. The Natzlers were the most civilized people I have ever met. They fled Vienna in 1938 during the Nazi takeover, after they already had become..... More
[USA]: Bulfinch Press; Little, Brown & Co., 1990. 104 full-page, black-and-white photographs, including endpaper and dustjacket illustrations. Unpaginated; [197] pp. on heavy, calendered, uncoated stock. Off-white cloth printed in white, with mint dustjacket protected in Mylar cover by the original retailer. 29.5 x 20 cm. Text: "Gold day by Reynolds..... More
St. Petersbourg: Expédition pour la Confection des Papiers d État, 1905. Illustrations by Aleksei Viktorovich Shchusev (1873-1949), Petr Petrovich Pokryshkin (1870-1922) and A. Minenko. Broadsheet, approx. 76 x 56 cm / 30 x 22 inches. [9] pp. with 3 ills. in text (2 color) + 18 plates (12 color &..... More
New Orleans: Glade Gallery, 1965. Original serigraph in yellow, red, black, and white on art paper. Folded in eight for mailing. 64 x 45.3 cm / 25 x 18-1/4 inches. One panel on the verso is stamped, boldly hand-addressed to The Nexus, and postmarked in New Orleans on May 23..... More
Santa Ana [? Probably Orange], California: Purcell Art Gallery, Chapman College, February 21 - March 16, 1968. Poster. Offset lithograph in black on thin, metallic silver paper. 43 x 55.9 cm / 16.9 x 22 in. Verso blank. Folded in four. A two-man show, curated by artist Harold Gregor, then..... More
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La Jolla, California: University of California, San Diego, Art Gallery, [1968]. Poster. Offset lithograph printed in black with light blue sky on uncoated white paper. 46.5 cm x 59.7 cm / 18.3 in x 23.5 in. John Baldessari designed this subtly witty poster for a 1968 group show of artists..... More
New York: Praeger, for Whitney Museum, 1961. 97 plates & illustrations. 120 pp. Orange cloth with dustjacket. 30.5 x 23.5 cm. Includes the following 7 pieces of correspondence. The first two items were clipped to the flyleaf of the book with a note to Joe and Evelyn (Isaacson, presumably). The..... More
