Titles starting with V from Harper's Books, Inc.

Novib: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker,. 1983.. First Edition. Quarto. Photographer Koen Wessing's images of Latin America in the 1970s and 80s. Dutch text by Eduardo Galeano. Fine in photo- illustrated wrappers. ... more information

[Udine]: Art & Edizioni Delle Arte Grafiche Friulane,. 1995.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED by Guidi. With 98 four-color plates, including 47 color, 45 black and white, and 6 sepia-toned photographs. On some images, the photographer's markings on the print have been retained in reproduction. A retrospective of Italian misery, especially the images in color. This is not Lake Como, or a sunny day in Venice. (Parr / Badger, v2, 80). Fine in white wrappers in a near fine paper jacket, very lightl... more information

Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha,. 1965.. First Edition. Small octavo. One of 400 copies. The second of Ruscha's artist's books, printed by Anderson, Ritchie and Simon. After Twentysix Gasoline Stations and Dutch Details, the scarcest title in the series. Fifteen images of fire, all tinted yellow, finished off with a glass of milk. Matches, blowtorches, and a zippo, deconstructed as part of a grand conceptual game: as relevant now as it was revolutionary at the time. (Parr / Badger, v2, 140; Open Book 198... more information

Salzburg: Otto Muller Verlag. (1954).. Seventh Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by the photographer. 256 b&w photographs of Austrian art and architecture. German text. Fine in fine jacket. ... more information

New York: Harry N. Abrams,. (1971).. Deluxe Edition. Large square quarto. Number 20 of 165 copies numbered and SIGNED by Vasarley, and one of 65 copies in English (there are also 65 in German, and 15 in French). With two original serigraphs bound into the rear of the book. The definitive monograph on Vasarley, whose abstract geometric painting had wide influence on art and commercial design. A few preliminary pages are loose (a problem apparently endemic to this title, as all copies I have seen share this f... more information

Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha. (1971).. First Edition. Quarto. Images and text by Ishikawa. Riveting images that rival the best documentary work of the Vietnam War. The Japanese photographers who covered the war (Ishikawa, Kyochi Sawada, Keisaburo Shimamoto) have been woefully under appreciated in the Western photographic world. Just about fine in wrappers with the original publisher's thin acetate jacket. ... more information

1961.. Vintage silver gelatin print on carte postale, 3 5/16 X 5 5/16, of the famous Ginsberg image of the Beat "convention" in Tangier, Morocco, 1961, reproduced exactly in the Twelvetrees monograph, p. 36. (Many 80s and 90s prints are variants.) Printed in Morocco on carte postale and sent by mail to Marilyn Meeske of Olympia Press with a Tangier postmark dated 1961. Heavily annotated by Ginsberbg, including handwritten identification on the front of the card of all the figures (Orlovsky, Burrou... more information