Man, Myth, and Magic (Graffiti-Signed)
by SNOW, Dash
New York: Self-published, circa 2005. Loose folded sheets, lacking original binding band. Minor creasing to wrappers; near fine. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Octavo. An early photozine from Dash Snow; distinguished as one of his more sustained works of portraiture. With dozens of Polaroids and collage works focused on the mythical presence of Hassan (Jerrold) Heiserman; a lifelong bohemian who once fascinated Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and was then living in Alphabet City's legendary... Read More
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Nest (with Cover Letter from Jeffrey Deitch)
by SNOW, Dash and Dan Colen
New York: Deitch Projects, 2008. Minor scuffing to cloth boards; near fine.. First Edition. Thick quarto. Fully illustrated artist's book documenting Dash Snow and Dan Colen's legendary nest installation at Deitch Projects (Jul 26 - Aug. 18, 2007), with list of collaborators printed at rear. This copy accompanied by a desktop-printed letter on embossed letterhead, initialed by Deitch, introducing the project to a collector, while adding a bit of extra texture: "The installation also served as a 'nest'... Read More
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My Mind Has Finally Accepted That It Is Right. Volume One (Inscribed)
by SNOW, Dash
New York: Self-published, 2005. Loose folded sheets, lacking the original binding band, with minor rubbing to spine-fold; close to fine. An early association copy; scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Octavo. Hand-numbered as copy 22 of 25 and INSCRIBED by Snow to title page: "For King Solomon. From the Snowman. 2005 August 05." One of Dash Snow's first photozines, exhibiting 97 of his most recent Polaroids; "the pictures in this were taken in may and june... Read More
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Nest by Dan & Dash (Exhibition Poster)
by SNOW, Dash and Dan Colen
New York: Deitch Projects, 2007. Faint foldlines; near fine.. Broadside (14 x 17.25 inches) fully-illustrated after photograph by Snow. Exhibition poster for Dash Snow and Dan Colen's infamous Nest installation/Happening at Jeffrey Deitch (Jul. 26 - Aug. 18, 2007), with Snow's pregnant partner Jade Berreau lying naked atop two-thousand torn phonebooks; Dash and Jade's daughter Secret was born the night before the opening.
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Broken Bottle! Broken Dreams! (Hand-Numbered)
by SNOW, Dash
New York: Self-published, circa 2005. A fine copy, save for minor scuffing to the self-wrappers, composed with a stunning cover design. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Octavo. Hand-numbered in black marker to rear cover (21/25). An early example of Dash Snow's neo-Dada aesthetic; perhaps most effective when he approached the photocopy bed as his canvas (cf. Zine Masters of the Universe). With Broken Bottle! Broken Dreams!, Snow collages the libertine Polaroids through which he chronicled... Read More
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Do You Wana Die Tonite Bitch? Or, A Slice of Americana
by SNOW, Dash and Patrick O'Dell
New York: Self-published, circa 2005. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers; fine. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Octavo. A collaborative photozine between Dash Snow and Patrick O'Dell—capturing a slice of nihilistic, post-9/11 Americana. Opens with a triptych of images from one of Snow's early hotel-room nests. Self-wrappers; 32 pages of color xerography.
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Oceana
by SOKOLOW, Leslie
Santa Monica: Wellswood Press, 2004. The print is matted and housed in a special folder; the book is bound in brown cloth with an image mounted on the front cover; both housed in a matching brown slipcase.. Limited Edition. Quarto. 33 duotone plates of ocean scenes. One of 50 SIGNED copies issued with an original 8 X 10 signed silver gelatin print.
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Frederick Sommer: 1939-1962, Photographs (Hardcover Edition)
by SOMMER, Frederick
(N.p.): Aperture, Inc., 1962. Bookplate to front pastedown. Faint toning to page margins, with slight pulling at head of spine (a problem endemic to this title) and minor discoloration to white boards. Overall close to near fine.. First Edition. Small quarto. Frederick Sommer's first book, entirely designed by him. Scarce issue in cloth, the first hardcover book ever published by Aperture, more commonly encountered in wrappers as issue 10:4 of Aperture Magazine. By some reputable accounts as few... Read More
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The Constellations That Surround Us: The Conjunction of General Aesthetics and Poetic Logic in an Artist's Life
by SOMMER, Frederick; Edward Weston
Toronto: Lumiere Press, 1992. A fine copy in linen-backed boards.. Limited Edition. Octavo. Hand-numbered as 49 of 200 copies. Aesthetic musings from Frederick Sommer, derived from interviews between he and Michael Torosian, who also designed and printed the book. Illustrated with four tipped-in gelatin silver prints from copy negatives; the frontispiece being a portrait of Sommer by Edward Weston, the other three by Sommer. Number 6 in the Lumiere Press' Homage Series.
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All Children Are Embassadors / Alle Kinder sind Botschafter (Signed First Edition)
by SOMMER, Frederick
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 1992. Fine in dos-á-dos stamped boards with slightly creased slipcase, else near fine.. Limited edition. Oblong octavo. SIGNED by Sommer. An edition of 2000 copies. A collection of 30 color and black-and-white photos, collages, and clichés verres, paired with text by Sommer in both English and German.
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On Photography (Association Copy)
by SONTAG, Susan
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977. Gray cloth boards; first few pages appear to have been affected by smoke, thus only very good. In unclipped, illustrated jacket, with minor toning, else near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. This copy warmly INSCRIBED By Sontag to front endpaper in the year of publication: "For dearest Lizzie, / with all my love / and admiration for / your beautiful soul / and genius as a / writer- / Susan / Oct.... Read More
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Styles of Radical Will (Inscribed)
by SONTAG, Susan
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Some fading to edges of blue cloth boards, with some discoloration to blue topstain, else near fine. In unclipped, typographic jacket, with some fading and minor scuffing to rear panel, else near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. INSCRIBED by Sontag to front endpaper: "For Peter Wood / Susan Sontag / May 1979.
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The Way We Live Now (Deluxe Edition with Hand-Painted Jacket)
by SONTAG, Susan and Howard Hodgkin
London: Karsten Schubert, 1991. A fine copy, with original tissues protecting jacket; accompanied by original cardboard box with printed label to front panel hand-numbered as 103 of 200.. Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Copy number 103 of 200, from a total edition of 243, SIGNED by both Sontag and Hodgkin to colophon. In this striking edition, Sontag's short story addressing the AIDS crisis in New York—first published in The New Yorker in 1986—is accompanied by six colored aquatints from British... Read More
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LBM Dispatch #2: Upstate
by SOTH, Alec and Brad Zellar
Saint Paul: Little Brown Mushroom, (2012). Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers, still in the publisher's plastic bag; print also fine. Housed in a folder, with an original black-and-white photograph mounted on the front board.. Deluxe Edition. Tall quarto. Limited edition of 100 numbered copies, issued with a 15 X 11 1/2 inch SIGNED and numbered print by Alec Soth. Additionally SIGNED by Soth and Brad Zellar and dated in the year of publication on the front cover. The second... Read More
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The Last Days of W (Handmade Maquette with Extra-Illustrated Special Edition)
by SOTH, Alec
[Saint Paul. MN]: Little Brown Mushroom, 2008. All elements fine and housed in custom half-leather slipcase with linen chemise. An exceptional artifact from Soth's creative process, for the first DIY publication from his Little Brown Mushroom.. Folio. Handmade maquette used in the production of Alec Soth's elegiac The Last Days of W (2008), in which the photographer revisited images that he'd captured during the two Presidential terms of George W. Bush; "a panoramic look at a country exhausted... Read More
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Farbenlehre
by SOTH, Alec
Röbel: Optimal Media, 2011. Fine in blind-stamped photo-illustrated boards in fine photo-illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. A clever company book produced for Optimal Media, a German print and multimedia production facility an hour outside of Berlin. Featuring photographs shot by Alec Soth while visiting the site in November 2010, showcasing the company's various print techniques and papers (as both content and form). Art direction and design by Michael Mack. This copy with two versions of the accompanying booklet... Read More
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Broken Manual (Special Edition)
by SOTH, Alec
Göttingen: Steidl, 2010. Fine in printed wrappers; minor rubbing to the shell-book. Prints also fine.. Special Edition. Quarto. Number 19 of 300 unique copies of Alec Soth's Broken Manual; "an underground instruction manual for those looking to escape their lives," documenting monks, survivalists, hermits, and runaways. In keeping with this clandestine theme, each of the Special Edition copies were housed/hidden in their own unique "shell-books;" in this case, a hollowed-out copy of Asa Briggs' The Nineteenth Century (Thames... Read More
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Pierre Soulages: New Paintings
by SOULAGES, Pierre and Alain Badiou
New York: Dominique Lévy / Galerie Perrotin, 2014. Minor rubbing to boards, illustrated to rear panel after Soulages' portrait; near fine.. First Edition. Small folio. Published on the occasion of the Pierre Soulages exhibition co-organized by Dominique Lévy and Galerie Perrotin (Apr. 24 - Jun. 27, 2014). Well illustrated after reproductions and details of Soulages new cycle of paintings, along with a handful of studio photographs; the catalogue also includes an essay on Soulages from philosopher Alain Badiou... Read More
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Negr
by SOUPAULT, Philippe and Adolf Hoffmeister (cover)
Prague: Aventinum, 1928. Good, with several pages loose, but spine intact; some soiling to covers and light chipping along extremities.. First Edition. Octavo. The Czech edition of surrealist Soupault's 1927 story of a black jazz drummer. Cover by Adolf Hoffmeister. Translated by M. Hoffmeisterova.
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Works of a City (Signed Limited Edition)
by SPAANS, Peter
[The Netherlands]: Privately published, 1983. Near fine in white boards, sans jacket as issued.. Limited Edition artist's book. Oblong quarto. Number 80 of 85 numbered copies SIGNED by Spaans and dated in the year of publication. The Dutch photographer's first book, a collection of silkscreened photographic images and montages of New York, some fold-out. Text mostly in Dutch.
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New York from the Yards (Signed Limited Edition)
by SPAANS, Peter
Den Haag: CIP-Gegevens Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1986. Spine heel lightly bumped, else near fine in thick printed wrappers with integral flaps.. First Edition. Tall square quarto. Limited to 150 copies (of which there are 50 copies in cloth). SIGNED by the photographer in pencil and dated in the year of publication. Promotional postcard and handwritten letter by Spaans (in Dutch) laid in. Text in Dutch by Anneke Oele. Photographically illustrated artist's book with 50 black-and-white images shot from eight... Read More
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Die Vernissage für André Thomkins... (Novelty Announcement)
by SPOERRI, Daniel and André Thomkins
Köln: Art Intermedia, 1969. A remarkably fine copy of an understandably delicate item of ephemera.. Exhibition announcement stamped to oval-shaped paper doily (10.5 x 7 inches). For his friend André Thomkins' exhibition opening at Art Intermedia, Daniel Spoerri staged an Eat Art performance, selling gourmet soup for 3 Marks.
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Martin Kippenberger, Köln 87 (Studio Portrait)
by STAPPERT, Andrea and Martin Kippenberger
Köln, 1987. Framed (26 x 30.5 inches). NB: Additional shipping costs will be calculated after checkout.. Gelatin silver print (19 x 23.5 inches). SIGNED by photographer Andrea Stappert and hand-numbered as no. 6 of 15 to verso. This studio portrait was reproduced for Kippenberger's 1987 exhibition poster for Einfgach geht der Applaus zugrunde.
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Photographs, 1997 - 2017
by STARKEY, Hannah
London: Mack, 2018. Fine in silver stamped blue cloth boards.. First Edition. Quarto. Intro text by Charlotte Cotton followed by a retrospective look at Starkey's moody photographs, ending with a conversation between the photographer and Liz Jobey.
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Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein (Signed Limited Edition)
by STEIN, Gertrude and Thornton Wilder
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1935. Cloth boards with gilt-stamped design; typical discoloration to spine, close to near fine. Housed in original black-papered slipcase, with wear to corners.. Limited Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by both Stein and Wilder to colophon; hand-numbered as copy 33 of 100, with an additional 20 hors commerce. Based on four lectures delivered by Gertrude Stein at the University of Chicago in March 1935, as follow-ups to her 1934 lecture "Poetry and Grammar." With... Read More
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