Contemporary Art Auction to Benefit El Bohio (Auction Catalogue)
by KRUGER, Barbara (cover), Vito Accconci, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Andy Warhol, et al.
New York, 1985. Some edgewear to illustrated wrappers and crease to top corner of first page; better than very good. Uncommon.. First Edition. Small quarto. Catalogue for an art auction organized to benefit the Lower East Side cultural hub El Bohio (Sep. 15, 1985), with original cover design commissioned from Barbara Kruger and foreword by Gary Indiana. Contents illustrated with color reproductions of 56 donated works, along with their estimates—from the likes of Vito Acconci, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lynda... Read More
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Eau de Cologne II
by KRUGER, Barbara, Rosemarie Troeckl, Monika Sprüth, et al.
Köln: Monika Sprüth Galerie, 1987. Some creasing to illustrated wrappers, with minor tear to top of rear panel; better than very good. Uncommon.. First Edition. Folio. Second of three issues of Monika Sprüth's Eau de Cologne serial, drawing art historical attention to both historical and contemporary women artists. For this issue—published to coincide with an exhibition of the same name at Sprüth's Cologne gallery (Nov. 13 - 29)—Barbara Kruger designed the covers, with Rosemarie Troeckl contributing the endpaper... Read More
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Picture/Readings (Signed)
by KRUGER, Barbara
Self-published, 1978. Some scuffing to blue printed wrappers, with minor curling; close to near fine. A sharp copy of a bookwork that's prone to wear; quite uncommon signed.. First Edition. Oblong octavo. SIGNED by Kruger to the front end-paper. First artist's book from Barbara Kruger, having yet to pivot to her trademark paste-up aesthetic. Here, Kruger pairs 22 short narratives with enigmatic black-and-white photographs of architectural exteriors, in the style of Walker Evans; rather than condense her images... Read More
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Pictures and Promises: A Display of Advertisings, Slogans, and Interventions (Exhibition Poster)
by KRUGER, Barbara
New York: The Kitchen, 1981. A fine copy, hinged in white lacquer frame (24 x 21 inches). NB: Additional shipping costs will be calculated after checkout.. Offset poster (20 x 17 inches) boldly-printed in Barbara Kruger's trademark white-on-red, for the exhibition she curated at The Kitchen (Jan. 8 - Feb. 5, 1981). Exploring the tendency towards the artistic appropriation of advertising, Kruger drew together works by Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, and Jenny Holzer.
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Tänk som vi / Tala som vi / Alka som vi... (Public Art Campaign)
by KRUGER, Barbara
Malmo Konsthall, 1994. A fine copy of the reduced version of this print; archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame (30.75 x 42.5 inches). NB: Additional shipping costs will be calculated after checkout.. Offset poster (27.5 x 39.5 inches). With its exhibition hall closed for renovations, the Malmö Konsthall commissioned Barbara Kruger to design her first Scandinavian billboard project, to be installed in over fifty locations throughout Sweden (March - April, 1994). Seizing upon the theme of crowd psychology, Kruger... Read More
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Le Valois
by KRULL, Germaine and Gerard de Nerval (text)
Paris: Fermin, Didot & Cie, 1930. Text block separating and front cover a little faded; almost very good in printed wrappers.. First Edition. Tall quarto. A collection of Germaine Krull's dreamy landscapes and rural scenes. Printed in a rich silver-gray gravure. With text by Gerard de Nerval.
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Études de Nu
by KRULL, Germaine
Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratif, 1930. Minimal foxing to edges of some plates (8.75 x 6.25 in., sheet), but otherwise an exemplary copy in the original portfolio, with cloth ties; close to fine. Printed label to front panel shows marginal foxing, with a contemporary ownership inscription (1931). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case, with leather lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Large octavo. Cloth-backed portfolio, featuring 24 arresting photo-engraved plates. Two years after her modernist masterpiece Métal,... Read More
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Barbara Kruger: March 3 to April 3 (Announcement Card)
by KUGER, Barbara
Los Angeles: Larry Gagosian, [1982]. Minor scuffing; near fine.. Announcement card (4.25 x 5.5 inches) from Barbara Kruger's first West Coast solo exhibition, at Larry Gagosian's Los Angeles gallery (Mar. 3 - Apr. 3, 1982). Fully-illustrated to recto after one of her photomontage works—Untitled (Your comfort is my silence)—with her now-iconic red border framing the exhibition details to verso.
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100 Jaren Emmanuel Smeets Steen-Boek-Offsetdrukkerij en Cartonnagefabriek Weert, Hofleverancier
by [Dutch Company Book]. Preface by Henri Kuijpers
Weert: Emmauuel Streets Steendrukkerji, 1930. Small splash bottom front cover, light spotting to pastdowns and endpapers; a very good copy, internally quite nice, in string-bound wrappers.. First Edition. Quarto. Company book for Emmanuel Smeets Steen, with many tipped-in examples of the company's graphic design and advertisements spanning 100 years. Preface by Henri Kuijpers. OCLC lists five copies, all in Holland.
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Theory of Evolution
by KURI, Yoji
[Tokyo: Self-published, c. 1972]. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Square octavo. SIGNED by Yoji Kuri: No. 8 of his series COO.20. Kuri is a well-known Japanese cartoonist, independent filmmaker, and pioneer of Japanese animation. This artists' book features a collection of 22 humorously dark cartoons depicting a violent history of evolutionary procreation. Exceptional book, not known in the West. No copies in OCLC.
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The Room Flip Book, Coo 11
by KURI, Yoji
Tokyo: Salon de Coo, N.d.. Fine in printed wrappers.. Unknown edition. Oblong duodecimo. Japanese edition of what appears to be the first flip-book published by Yoji Kuri in his Salon de Coo series of artist books; this book is identified as COO11, FLIP1, Cartoon6. The flip-book animates a room filled with Kuri's surreal and sometimes erotic cartoon figures seemingly melting in and out the walls.
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Sex Machine....
by KURI, Yoji
[Tokyo: Self-published, c. 1972]. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Square octavo. SIGNED by Yoji Kuri: No. 6 of his series COO.18. Kuri is a well-known Japanese cartoonist, independent filmmaker, and pioneer of Japanese animation. This artists' book features a collection of 22 humorous cartoons depicting surrealist imagery of human sexuality. Exceptional book, not known in the West. No copies in OCLC.
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Les Aventures de Miss Liberty (3 Volumes, All Published)
by LAGARRIGUE, Jean
Paris: Editions de Lion Jérôme, 1974. Minor scuffing to illustrated self-wrappers; near fine. Scarce, with only two records located in OCLC worldwide; both incomplete.. First Editions. Quarto. A three volume underground comic from Jean Lagarrigue, in which the Statue of Liberty leaves her station—aroused by young lovers and beckoned up the East River by saxophone strains—only to be pursued by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger from their command center in the sixth wing of the Pentagon. The final... Read More
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The Mechanism (Signed)
by LANGE, Marten
London: Mack, 2017. Near fine in illustrated paper boards.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by Lange to the title page. Black and white urban photographs in the New Topographics style, with of focus on surveillance and architectural details.
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Fire Flies: As Transmitted by William Larson (Signed First Edition)
by LARSON, William
Philadelphia: Gravity Press, 1976. Tiny spot of water damage visible on bottom corner of first ten pages, with warping to wrappers; very good.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, "To Jeff from William Larson on 10/23/70 at 4:26 pm." Revelatory collection of digitally generated images created by William Larson between 1969-1976. Gitterman Gallery's 2015 retrospective of the series explained the process, "Larson used a Graphic Sciences DEX 1 Teleprinter, a sophisticated early fax machine, which converted pictures,... Read More
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Diary of a Century (Presentation Copy with Correspondence and Ephemera)
by LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri and Richard Avedon
New York: Viking Press, 1970. A fine copy in blind-stamped brown cloth boards. In debossed golden jacket, with minor scuffing and edge-wear; near fine. All elements housed in custom cloth clamshell case with leather lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Large quarto. Retrospective of the photography of Jacuqes Henri Lartigue, edited by Richard Avedon. This copy INSCRIBED to title page by Lartigue to Evelyne and Howard Daitz, New York City photography dealers/collectors. Accompanied by two illustrated manuscript letters... Read More
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Diary of a Century (Inscribed)
by LARTIGUE, Jacques Henri
New York: Viking Press, 1970. Blind-stamped brown cloth boards with minor rubbing, else near fine. In debossed golden jacket, with minor shelf-wear, else near fine.. First Edition. Large quarto. Edited by Richard Avedon and designed by Bea Feitler; Avedon's afterword is beautifully written. This copy INSCRIBED by Lartigue to title page: "Pour Catherine / avec l'amitie / de J. H. Lartigue.
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Boyhood Photos of J.H. Lartigue: The Family Album of a Gilded Age
by LARTIGUE, J.H.
Lausanne: Ami Guichard, 1966. Crimped at the head of the spine, else near fine in gilt-stamped burgundy boards with a small oval halftone photograph mounted on as issued.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. 164 tipped-in halftone plates, in the style of a photo album. (Auer 458).
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Occhio Quadrato: 26 Tavole Fotografische
by LATTUADA, Alberto
Milan: Corrente Edizioni, 1941. Stamp to front end paper, noticeable foxing to rear pastedown and endpapers, one plate also foxed; almost a very good copy (creased at the rear wrapper), lacking the dust jacket. OCLC locates no copies.. First Edition. Octavo. Little-known but exceptional book shot during wartime Italy. With 26 spare images printed on rectos only. Photographed in melancholy light and with total stillness. Only its rarity has prevented wider dissemination. Lattuada was best-known as a filmmaker;... Read More
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[Untitled, Black/White]
by LAWLER, Louise and Janelle Reiring
New York: Self-published, 1978. Minor rubbing to spine of illustrated wrappers; near fine. Uncommon.. Artist's book. Duodecimo. One of two intertwined bookworks self-published by Louise Lawler in 1978; Black/White offers a loose adaptation of an unfilmed screenplay from Metro Pictures founder Janelle Reiring, dramatizing the 1917 execution of exotic dancer/alleged spy Mata Hari in France. For both publications, Lawler worked with the same conceit: printing two distinct prices for the edition to the versos of the front covers,... Read More
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Early Black and White (2 Volume Set)
by LEITER, Saul
Steidl, 2014. Minor bumping to corners, else near fine copies in gray cloth boards in near fine photo-illustrated jackets. Some minor edge-wear to photo-illustrated slip-jacket.. First Edition. Oblong octavo. Two volume set. A lush collection of Saul Leiter's black-and-white photography; organized into Interior and Exterior volumes.
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Peter Joseph Lenné: Katalog der Zeichnungen
by LENNÉ, Peter Joseph
Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1993. Small smudge to bottom corner of text block, else fine in a near fine jacket.. First Edition. Thick quarto. A catalogue of Lenné's drawings, selected and annotated by Harri Günther and Sibylle Harksen.
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Do-It-Yourself
by LEWITT, Sol, Jessica Diamond, and Lawrence Weiner
New York: I.C. Editions, 1993. Fine in fine box; lacks pencil.. Unlimited Edition. Loose sheets in box. A do-it-yourself kit containing paper, stencil, overhead transparency, diagrams and and open ended instructions on how to execute three conceptual artworks by Jessica Diamond, Sol Lewitt, and Lawrence Weiner. Published by I.C. Editions via Susan Inglett Gallery and with design by Dan Miller Design, NYC, and printed by Anne Noonan of Soho Letterpress, NYC.
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[Wall Drawing #517] (Manuscript Plan)
by LEWITT, Sol
[1987]. Faint foldlines and minor soiling to left margin; else near fine. With a manuscript note from Higginbotham to verso ("Black 1 bottle / white paper tape / 430"). A rare, behind-the-scenes artifact from LeWitt's conceptual apparatus.. Ballpoint pen drawing on sheet of watercolor paper (5.75 x 9.5 inches). A manuscript plan from Sol LeWitt, complete with color codes and measurements, for what would soon become Wall Drawing #517: Symmetrical Flat-Topped Pyramid with Color Ink Washes Superimposed, with... Read More
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Geometric Figures & Color
by LEWITT, Sol
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979. Bright yellow cloth boards with duotone lettering. Minor discoloration to lower edge of rear board, else near fine. In glossy printed white jacket, with minor scuffing, else also near fine.. First Edition. Square octavo. A handsome copy of the uncommon hardcover issue of this elegant artist's book from Sol LeWitt, offering a series of permutations of primary colors and shapes.
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