Il Messaggio dalla Camera Oscura
by MOLLINO, Carlo
Torino: Pressa la Casa Editrice Chiantore di Torino, 1949. Puncture to rear joint, not affecting contents, with general creasing to illustrated jacket. Includes original wraparound band, with edge-tears, and separation at front joint, but complete. A very good copy, with sound binding, in a very good jacket.. First Edition. Large quarto. Text in Italian. Mollino's important survey of photography from its inception to the date of publication, including reproductions of his own work, alongside photographs by Man Ray,... Read More
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Paris de Nuit
by BRASSAI and Paul Morand
Paris: Edition Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933. Understated bookplate to front endpaper, with a signature to first page that reads "Brassai," but unlikely in the photographer's hand. Light edgewear to spiral-bound illustrated wrappers; a better than very good copy lacking serious defects.. First Edition. Spiral bound quarto, sixty-four gravure plates. The best-known and most iconic of the great Paris photobooks, printed in a deep gravure so tactile it seems almost as if charcoal will rub off on the... Read More
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Imitation (Signed First Edition)
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Tokyo: Taka Ishii Gallery, 1995. Near fine copy in illustrated boards; like most copies, the plain glassine jacket is absent. This copy with folded copy of the Taka Ishii Gallery Newsletter laid-in loose.. First Edition. Quarto. Hand-numbered as 21 of 500 copies. A classic Moriyama photobook, SIGNED and dated by Daido in the year of publication to front endpaper.
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Marrakech
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Super Labo, 2013. Fine copy in white-lettered boards, in fully photo-illustrated sleeve.. First Edition. Narrow quarto. A creatively designed travelogue from Daido Moriyama, fully-illustrated after street scenes from Marrakesh. With two separate booklets of black-and-white spreads bound above/below each other within tall cloth boards, with photo-illustrated endpapers. Book design by award-winning Koichi Hara. One of 500 copies.
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Moriyama Zoo No. 1: Tribute to Daido Moriyama
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Tokyo: Powershovelbooks, 2009. New in the publisher's shrinkwrap.. First Edition. Square quarto in box. Edition of 1000. Includes two vinyl LPs, a CD, 10 prints, and pop-up card in a box. (The item is sealed in shrinkwrap and has not been examined; this description is based on online sources.)
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Daido Moriyama: Auto-Portrait (Signed)
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Tokyo: Match and Company co., Ltd., 2010. Fine in blue cloth boards in a fine cardboard slipcase.. First Edition. Small quarto. SIGNED by Moriyama in silver marker to the front endpaper. #466 of 1000 stamped copies. A collection of Moriyama's self-portraits shot between the 1980s and 2000s, with a text in English by Simon Baker.
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White and Vinegar (Signed)
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Tokyo: Match and Company co., Ltd., 2012. Fine in a fine cardboard slipcase.. First Edition. Quarto. No. 197 of 1200 copies, SIGNED by Moriyama in silver marker to the front end-paper. Black and white alternative process photographs with text by Moriyama describing his process on the facing pages.
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'71 - NY (Signed)
by MORIYAMA, Daido
New York: PPP Editions / Roth Horowitz LLC., 2002. A fine copy in printed wrappers, in near fine die-cut jacket, with minor scuffing. Housed in a printed cardboard slip case; fine.. First Edition. Thick quarto. SIGNED by Moriyama to title page in silver marker. Something of a follow-up index to Daido Moriyama's xerox book Another Country in New York (1974); PPP Editions here assembled the full range of photographs captured during Moriyama's legendary NYC visit with Tadanori Yokoo.... Read More
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Provoke 2
by MORIYAMA, Daido; NAKAHIRA, Takuma; TAKI, Koji
Tokyo: Provoke, 1969. Light rubbing along the spine at the cover edge, otherwise a near fine copy, lacking the rare obi. This copy inscribed to title page, presumably by original owner; dated April 20, 1969.. First Edition. Slim quarto. The second of three issues of the most important photographic periodical ever published in Japan. Volume 2 features the photography of Daido Moriyama and firmly set into motion the ideals and aspirations of the Provoke photographers: namely that traditional... Read More
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Record No. 1–5, Reprinted Edition
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2008. All issues uniformly fine, house in a gray blind-stamped portfolio with a few spots of faint rubbing, else fine.. First Edition thus. Thin stapled quartos. The complete reprinted collection of Moriyama's photomagazine "Kiroku." His scarcest and most sought after publication after "Another Country in New York," Record was originally self-published between 1972 and '73.
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Sunflower (Signed)
by MORIYAMA, Daido
Tokyo: Match and Company co., Ltd., 2011. Fine in a near fine paper slipcase with original price sticker.. Limited Edition. Number 116 of 1000 stamped copies. Skinny quarto. SIGNED by Moriyama in gold marker. A beautiful yet moody compilation of flowers and women, captured in the classic black and white grain that Moryiama is famous for.
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Untitled (Original Polaroid)
by MORRISROE, Mark
[New York], circa 1980. Distressed print, typical of Morrisroe's Polaroids, with crease to lower margin. Hinged in black lacquer frame (9 x 8 inches).. Polaroid print (4.25 x 3.25 inches). A playful portrait from photographer and performance artist Mark Morrisroe, "Boston's first punk" as per his colleague Nan Goldin; with a poster of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John embracing in the background.
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Robert Motherwell: Collages (Proof Exhibition Poster)
by MOTHERWELL, Robert
Köln: Galerie der Spiegel, 1962. Both preserved in fine condition.. Color lithograph to smooth sheet (16.5 x 18.5 in., image; 20 x 26 inches, sheet). A striking proof print, avant la lettre, of the exhibition poster for Robert Motherwell's Collages show at Galerie der Spiegel in Cologne (Apr. 6 - May, 1962). Accompanied by corresponding bifolium announcement card, continuing the color scheme.
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This You Call Civilization
by MUTU, Wangechi and David Moos (editor)
Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 2010. Some marginal toning to pages, else near fine in illustrated boards.. First Edition. Square octavo. Catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Feb. 24 - May 23, 2010), edited by curator David Moos, who also supplies a short essay. Thoroughly-illustrated, mostly color.
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Wangechi Mutu: Artist of the Year 2010: My Dirty Little Heaven
by MUTU, Wangechi
Frankfurt am Main: Deutsche Bank / Hatje Cantz, 2010. Near fine in illustrated boards.. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of an exhibition commemorating Mutu's receipt of the first Artist of the Year award from Deutsche Bank. Fully illustrated in color, with texts published in both English and German.
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Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni / For a Language to Come
by NAKAHIRA, Takuma
Tokyo: Fudosha, 1970. Upper edge of text block lightly bumped, else close to near fine in a very good jacket, rubbed along the edges; distinctive bullet slipcase is lightly soiled, rubbed, and crimped at the opening. A sound, presentable copy of this Provoke masterpiece.. First Edition. Quarto. Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography and literature. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing pictures capture the reality of a postindustrial Japan hurtling out... Read More
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Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni / For a Language to Come
by NAKAHIRA, Takuma
Tokyo: Fudosha, 1970. Former owner's contemporary stamp, with an annotation and some underlining to the Kanji on the last three pages of text; still a fresh, near fine copy in wrappers in an almost near fine jacket, rubbed a bit along the edges, and housed in a very good example of the distinctive bullet slipcase, a bit darkened at the edges, with a faint red ink stamp over the printed label. Despite the defects, a pleasing copy of this... Read More
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Pollock Painting: Photographs by Hans Namuth (Signed)
by NAMUTH, Hans. Jackson Pollock, Barbara Rose
New York: Agrinde Publications Ltd., 1980. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED and inscribed by Namuth to the title page, "To my friend Willy Lerner, December 1980." Edited by Barbara Rose, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of Pollock painting, along with several supporting texts and an interview with Lee Krasner.
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Fertile Image
by NASH, Paul
London: Faber and Faber, 1951. Former owner's signature and date, offsetting to the endpapers, else near fine in a near fine jacket, bright, but with a little offsetting at the verso and a bit of edgewear. Unaccountably scarce in jacket.. First Edition. Small quarto. 64 black and white plates. Mostly studies of the natural world by this artist best known for his painting. Edited by Margaret Nash with an introduction by James Laver. Posthumous publication. (Parr / Badger,... Read More
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Nevelson at Pace, Four Enameled Aluminum Sculptures
by NEVELSON, Louise
New York: Pace, 1966. Near fine with all movable parts intact near fine.. First Edition. Exhibition announcement for show at Pace Gallery, held from May 7 through June 11, 1966. A pleasingly innovative piece of ephemera; the recto shows an image of a formal French garden with small movable doors which open to reveal images of the four pieces exhibited at the show; a pithy checklist is printed to the verso.
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WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing (Issue 30)
by NEWTON, Helmut, Leonard Koren, John Duncan, et al.
Santa Monica, CA: Wet Enterprises, 1981. Some edge-wear to illustrated wrappers; close to near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Issue 30 (Mar/Apr 1981) of Leonard Koren's deliciously baroque artist's magazine on "gourmet bathing;" blending aesthetics, hygiene, philosophy, photography, and pop culture. This sought-after issue notable for its feature on Helmut Newton—as "photographer of the erotic rich"—and the controversial review by Lewis MacAdams on the necrophilic performance art of John Duncan ("Sex with the Dead: Art or Atrocity?"); a... Read More
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Helmut Newton: Nouvelles images (Inscribed to Ralph Gibson)
by NEWTON, Helmut
Paris: Paris Audiovisuel, 1988. Red cloth boards with die cut window revealing half-title page underneath. Minor stain to blank verso of one page; near fine.. First Edition. Duodecimo. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of new portrait photography from Helmut Newton at Espace Photographique de Paris (Nov. 5, 1988–Jan. 29, 1989). This association copy warmly INSCRIBED by Newton to his contemporary Ralph Gibson: "For my friend and / comrade in arms / against all comers! / Forward... Read More
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New Goose (Association Copy)
by NIEDECKER, Lorine
Prairie City, Illinois: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. Near fine, in tan cloth boards with gilt lettering, in near fine jacket, with minor wear at corners and creasing to top edge of the over-sized jacket. Housed in custom clamshell case, with leather lettering piece to spine. A pleasing association copy of a scarce work.. First Edition. Duodecimo. First book of poetry from Niedecker, which grew out of her work for the WPA Federal Writers' Project. This... Read More
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Area Ephemera Collection
by Area (Nightclub)
New York, 1983–1987. Contents uniformly in near fine to fine condition.. Collection of 120 flyers and posters from New York’s hottest and most inventive nightclub, Area, during the mid-1980s. Although it was a disco, Area was a purely visual, happenings-based venue, where New York's art, music, design, fashion, and literary worlds collided; Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, or Jean-Michel Basquiat might be brushing up against Michael Forbes, David Byrne, or Georgio Armani, and Stephen Saban would be there to... Read More
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You: 405 Drawings
by NOËL, Ann
Berlin: Rainer Verlag, 1982. A fresh copy in illustrated papered boards; fine.. Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Artist's book, press-numbered as 122 of 130 copies and SIGNED by Ann Noël to colophon. Under the title You, Noël illustrates 405 full-page typographical variants of the lowercase letter "i;" an arresting work of concrete/visual poetry, published by Rainer Verlag a few years after Noël and husband Emmett Williams became permanent residents in Berlin. This deluxe edition, issued in a larger format, includes... Read More
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