Setting Free the Bears
by IRVING, John
New York: Random House, 1968. Cloth-backed red boards with gilt lettering to spine and light red topstain; near fine. In unclipped, illustrated jacket, with Irving's portrait to rear panel; minor edge-wear and slight toning, but overall near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. A fresh copy of Irving's first published work; a rebellious romp leading to the liberation of the animals at the Vienna zoo.
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The Pension Grillparzer
by IRVING, John
Logan, Iowa: The Perfection Form Company, 1980. Staple-bound illustrated wrappers; fine.. First Edition. Octavo booklet. A spin-off publication, first appearing within the narrative of Irving's The World According to Garp (1978).
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Hiroshima Now
by ISHIGURO, Kenji and Tadanori Yokoo
Tokyo: Shinya Soshosha, 1970. Boards and top page edges lightly foxed, else close to near fine in a near fine jacket with the instantly recognizable photograph of a plane's landing gear with a gray Hiroshima spread out in the distance.. First Edition. Square quarto. Essay in English by Tadanori Yokoo; "comment" by Hideo Nakai. Black and white images of late-sixties Hiroshima, mostly dispassionate street scenes and snippets of daily life, with a few medical zingers interspersed throughout. Sometimes... Read More
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Oneness
by ISHIGURO, Kenji
Tokyo: Nobel Shobo, 1992. Fine in plain card wrappers in the almost fine jacket with light foxing only at the verso of the spine, publisher's uncommon brown obi (lightly worn).. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED by Ishiguro, best-known for his Aperture-referenced book, Hiroshima Now. A collection of black and white images, mostly people, organized into loose themes which gives this unassuming book a disturbing feel. Under the radar in the west.
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Leisurely Chabo and Unruly Mack (Signed First Edition)
by ISHIGAME, Yasuo
Tokyo: Asunaro Shobo, 1974. Boards bowed (as usual), else near fine in a near fine jacket.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED and inscribed by Ishigame in Japanese. 31 full bleed gravure photographs of babies and toddlers with text in Japanese on the accompanying page. Ishigame spent his entire career on this subject, and surely must rank as one of the greatest photographer's of children of all-time. Despite heightened awareness of Japanese photography in the West, Ishigame remains largely... Read More
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Futarikko Banzai (Signed First Edition)
by ISHIGAME, Yasuo
[Tokyo]: Kodorno Bayasha, 1965. Date from the year of publication penned on the rear endpaper, else near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Small octavo. SIGNED by Ishigame. Early book by this Japanese photographer known for his images of children. Unlike later books which can have a melancholy tone, this little gem is more upbeat with action shots of toddlers in varying states of play or repose. Unheralded artist little known or collected in the west. OCLC loacates... Read More
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Black and White (Signed)
by CHRISTO and Jeanne-Claude
London: Annely Juda Fine Art, 2000. Some scuffing to illustrated wrappers, else near fine.. First Edition. Small quarto. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at London's Annely Juda gallery (Mar. 2 - Apri. 8, 2000). This copy SIGNED in brown crayon to title page. Illustrated throughout after photographs and facsimiles.
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Le Monde Photographié: Collection of 8 Volumes
by JEUNESSE, Auguste, A. Legallais, J. Lingay, J. Renaudin, Guilio Rinaldini, J. de Rocourt, and M. de Rocourt
Paris: Philippart, Libraire-Éditeur, 1863–1864. Books uniformly very good in printed wrappers, with edgewear along the spine, chips to the edges, and some creasing and tearing to the internal pages.. First Editions. Octavos. A collection of eight volumes in the Le Monde Photographié series, dedicated to various European sites and cities. Includes 1: Le Palais de Versailles by A. Jeunesse, 2: La Ville de Bordeaux by J. Renaudin, 5: Italie: Saint-Pierre de Rome by Giulio Rinaldini, 6: Italie: La... Read More
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Chris Johanson (Signed)
by JOHANSON, Chris and Aaron Rose
New York: Deitch Projects, 2004. Some minor shelf-wear to the edges, else fine in illustrated wrappers.. Frist Edition. Square octavo. SIGNED by Johanson with a peace sign drawing and dated 2007. Features color reproductions of Johanson's paintings with details and installation shots, with a text by Aaron Rose titled "The Beauty and the Blemish." A charming little catalogue.
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Pontiac (Special Edition)
by JOHANSSON, Gerry
London: MACK / Stockholm: GunGallery, 2010. A fine copy in gray cloth boards, with inset images to front and rear panels. Photograph (9.5 x 7 inches, with wide margins) also fine. All elements housed in numbered cardboard slipcase.. Special Edition. Octavo. Swedish photographer Gerry Johansson's post-industrial portrait of Pontiac, Michigan—the final iteration of his eighteen year American project—with his topographic images introduced by a page of somber socio-economic statistics. This being number 69 of 100 SIGNED Special Edition... Read More
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Daniel Johnston (Cahiers de Dessins Contemporains. Numéro 1)
by JOHNSTON, Daniel
[Paris]: Arts Factory Éditions, 2007. Minor rubbing to illustrated wrappers; near fine. Uncommon, with single OCLC record located.. First Edition. Octavo. Fully-illustrated, with 32 color reproductions of Daniel Johnston's transgressive marker drawings.
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Message to Our Folks
by JOHNSON, Rashid
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2012. Slight bump to top corner of gold-foil boards; near fine. In fine example of printed jute jacket.. First Editon. Quarto. The first issue in the MCA's monograph series on emerging artists, commemorating Rashid Johnson's first solo museum exhibition (Apr. 14 - Aug. 5, 2012), which then traveled to the Miami Art Museum (Sep. 6 - Nov. 18) and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Jun. - Sep., 2013). Thoroughly illustrated in... Read More
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Rashid Johnson: Anxious Men
by JOHNSON, Rashid and Cheryl Johnson-Odim
New York: The Drawing Center, 2015. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers.. Published on the occasion of Rashid Johnson's site-specific installation at The Drawing Center (Oct. 20–Dec. 20, 2015), curated by Claire Gilman. Illustrated with reproductions of Johnson's soap-and-wax-on-tile portraits of "anxious men," which are accompanied by poetic texts from his mother, Cheryl Johnson-Odim.
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Negro Artists: An Illustrated Review of their Achievements
by JOHNSON, Sargent Claude, Richmond Barthé, Various Others
New York: Harmon Foundation, 1935. Some minor scuffing to illustrated wrappers, with chip to top corner of rear panel; thus close to near fine.. First Edition. Slim octavo. A review of Black artists from the Harmon Foundation, published to coincide with an exhibition of works by Malvin Gray Johnson, Richmond Barthé, and Sargent Claude Johnson, organized in cooperation with Delphic Studios (Apr. 22 - May 4, 1935). A series of b&w reproductions of the exhibited artists' works are... Read More
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Archive of 25 Paper Plates
by JONES, M. Henry
New York: Snakemonkey Studio, N.d.. Some plates worn and stained; overall very good example of working notes.. Archive of 25 pizzeria style paper plates, featuring manuscript notes from legendary underground East Village animator M. Henry Jones, as identified by an opening shot crediting his long-running "Snakemonkey Studios." The prodigious ball point drawings and notations throughout refer variously to the garage rock band The Fleshtones, a long time Jones collaborator, as well as lists describing various props and illustrations... Read More
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Finnegans Wake
by JOYCE, James
New York: The Viking Press, 1939. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine and turquoise topstain; minor scuffing to textblock edges, else near fine. In unclipped typographic jacket, with some scuffing and light creasing at edges, with minor chipping to lower edge of front panel; thus close to near fine. A pleasing copy.. First American Edition. Thick octavo. The final state of Joyce's long-gestating "Work in Progress," published in the same year as... Read More
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Tales Told of Shem and Shaun: Three Fragments from Work in Progress
by JOYCE, James and Constantin Brancusi
Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1929. Faint offsetting to rear panel of white wrappers, else near fine. With publisher's slipcase, faced with gold foil; some rubbing, with split to lower edge; better than very good.. Limited Edition. Octavo. This copy numbered as 188 of 500; printed on Holland van Gelder Zonen paper. With Brancusi's etched (abstract) portrait of Joyce as frontispiece. The second book-length fragment from what would become Finnegan's Wake, after Anna Livia Plurabelle (1928).
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Donald Judd: Fifteen Works
by JUDD, Donald
New York: Heiner Friedrich, 1977. Minor toning at spine, but an otherwise bright copy; near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held from March 5 - April 19, 1977. Contents: [96] pages, featuring black-and-white photographs of Judd's exhibited works, along with reproductions of schematics and drawings.
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Straight Information: A Dialogue Series of 13 Separate Evenings (Poster)
by JUDD, Donald, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, et al.
New York: The School of Visual Arts, 1971. Strong fold-lines, but otherwise a remarkably well-preserved copy; near fine.. Lithographic poster (23 x 17 inches) promoting two series of fundraising events for the School of Visual Arts (Feb. - May, 1971 / Oct. 1971 - May 1972), with thirteen evenings headlined by an impressive list of post-War American artists: Carl Andre, Larry Bell, Michael Heizer, Donald Judd, Alan Kaprow, Joseph Kosuth, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg,... Read More
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Lago (Signed)
by JUDE, Ron
London: MACK, 2015. A fine copy in illustrated and embossed cloth boards.. First Edition. Quarto. A collection of 54 full-page color photographs captured by Ron Jude in the California desert of his childhood; a "poetic archaeology" accompanied by soundtrack from Joshua Bonnetta (accessed through MACK's website). This copy SIGNED by Jude to title page.
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Lick Creek Line (Signed)
by JUDE, Ron
London: MACK, 2012. Minor scuffing to illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by Jude to the title page. "Lick Creek Line extends and amplifies Ron Jude's ongoing fascination with the vagaries of photographic empiricism, and the gray area between documentation and fiction. In a sequential narrative punctuated by contrasting moments of violence and beauty, Jude follows the rambling journey of a fur trapper, methodically checking his trap line in a remote area of Idaho in the... Read More
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Tibor Kalman: Perverse Optimist (Signed)
by KALMAN, Tibor
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. Near fine in illustrated boards.. First Edition. Quarto. A stylish monograph reflecting on the career of Tibor Kalman and his design firm M&Co., published shortly before his untimely death; this copy SIGNED by Kalman to title page ("Cheers / Tibor / 99/2"). Opening with a dynamic manifesto from Kalman—articulating his "perverse optimism" for a post-affluent society—and featuring dozens of illustrated campaign studies, including an issue-by-issue commentary on Colors Magazine. Poignantly concluding with... Read More
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Poodles (Signed with Drawing)
by KAMIJO, Susumu
[New York]: Komagata Maru, Marvin Gardens, and Pacific, 2017. Fine in illustrated boards.. First Edition. Quarto. First publication from New York-based artist Susumo Kamjio; featuring 46 color reproductions of his colorful poodle drawings. Edition of 1000 copies; this copy SIGNED by the artist with a striking full-page drawing of a menacing poodle across the front endpapers (dated 2018). Images complemented by a friendly interview between Kamijo and Jonas Wood.
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The Book of Stamps
by KASTNER, Jeffrey and Sina Najafi
Brooklyn: Cabinet Books, 2008. Fine in printed cloth boards. All stamps intact, in fine condition.. First Edition. Quarto. With 15 detachable sheets of artist-designed stamps from: Walead Beshty, Melissa Brown, Melissa Dubbin & Aaron S. Davidson, Spencer Finch, Carl Michael von Hausswolff & Leif Elggren, Jonathan Herder, Mikhail Iliatov, Emily Jacir, Julia Jacquette, Vandana Jain, Sandra Eula Lee, Line Up, Frank Magnotta, Michael Oatman, and David Shrigley.
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The Map (Signed Limited Edition)
by KAWADA, Kikuji
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005. Fine in clothbound boards, and photo-illustrated slipcase.. Limited Edition. Tall octavo. Hand-numbered as 283 of 500 copies; SIGNED by Kawada in Kanji to final page. Reissue of this Japanese classic, published to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the of Hiroshima bombing. Comprised of 190 pages of 2-page gatefolds, fully-illustrated with full-bleed black-and-white plates. Kawada explores—though iron scraps, Lucky Strike boxes, Coca-Cola bottles, and other indicators—the process of overall transformation and recovery in postwar... Read More
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