Georg Baselitz
by BASELITZ, Georg
Cologne: Michael Werner, 1995. Near fine in yellow wrappers.. First Edition. Quarto. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at Galerie Michael Werner, 11 November - 22 December 1995. 10 color plates with text in German. One of the best series by Baselitz.
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New York Beat: Jean-Michel Basquiat in Downtown 81
by (BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel) and Glenn O'Brien
Tokyo: Petit Grand Publishing, Inc., 2001. Minor abrasion to papered boards, as typical, else a near fine copy in fine jacket, with publisher's printed obi.. First edition. Quarto. This copy INSCRIBED by Glenn O'Brien to half-title page. Handsome publication documenting the production of Downtown 81, director Edo Bertoglio's vibrant depiction of New York's Downtown scene, featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat as semi-biographical protagonist. With text by Glenn O'Brien and photographs by Bertoglio and Fiorucci stylist Maripol. Verso of jacket forms... Read More
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Painting Now: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, David Salle, Salomé, Julian Schnabel
by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel, Francesco Clemente, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, et al.
Nagoya, Japan: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1984. Close to near fine, with minor toning to glossy wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed, but nonetheless uncommon, with a half dozen OCLC records located in North America.. First Edition. Small quarto. A lively catalogue of contemporary painting, published for a group show at Akira Ikeda's Nagoya gallery (Mar. 5 - 31, 1984). Reproducing works from Basquiat, Chia, Clemente, Cucchi, Salle, Salomé, and Schnabel. This was Basquiat's second exhibition with Ikeda, after... Read More
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Collaborations: Jean-Michel Basquiat & Andy Warhol
by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel and Andy Warhol
Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1986. Fine in printed cream wraps.. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition of five collaborative works between Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat (Sep. 8 - 30, 1986). Contents: 16 pages. One of 1000 copies.
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The East Village Scene
by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel, Futura, Keith Haring, David Wojnarowicz, et al.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. Minor rubbing to wrappers, with contemporary price stickers to front and rear covers and chip to rear wrapper; better than very good.. First Edition. Square octavo. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (Oct. 12 - Dec. 2, 1984), this catalogue offers early documentation of the New York art scene that would produce some of the most influential artists of the era: Jean-Michel Basquiat,... Read More
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Basquiat (Inscribed)
by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel and Tony Shafrazi
New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1999. Fine in a fine illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Large quarto. Edition of 5000 copies. SIGNED by Shafrazi with a lengthy inscription to Diego Cortez: "To My Friend Diego, Who was there so early, a young warrior prince who saw it all and help make it all so much more meaningful and significant for us all. Forever with love and admiration - Tony Shafrazi New York April 26, 2001." Beautifully produced monograph on... Read More
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Post-Graffiti
by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel, Crash, Daze, Keith Haring, Lee Quinones, Rammellzee, Kenny Scharf, et al.
New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1983. Minor edge-wear to illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Thin quarto. Catalogue for the exhibition "Post-Graffiti" at Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (Dec. 1 - 31, 1983). An important early catalogue marking the transposition of graffiti from the streets of New York to the white cube of the gallery, featuring images of works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Daze, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, Angel Ortiz, and Kenny Scharf, among other artists. With introductory texts... Read More
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Collaborations: Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat
by BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel, Andy Warhol, and Keith Haring
London: Mayor Rowan Gallery, 1988. Some rubbing to illustrated wrappers; near fine. Uncommon.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Published on the occasion of a multi-gallery London exhibition mounted just a few months after Basquiat's death (Nov. 21, 1988 - Jan. 21, 1989). Contents: 22 leaves, mostly color plates, reproducing 17 of the more than 150 collaborative paintings by Basquiat and Warhol (1983-1985). This catalogue further notable for an insightful text from Keith Haring, who describes the conversational nature of these... Read More
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Aus Der Distanz
by BECHER, Bernd and Hilla, Adreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, et al.
Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, 1991. Slight tap to front top corner, light fading to extremities, a touch of rubbing to covers, else near fine in paper-covered boards. 1992 price sticker from Hayward Gallery, London, on back cover (easily removable).. First Edition. Quarto. Published in conjunction with the exhibition Photographien von Bernd und Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Axel Hutte, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich, held at Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, June 22 – August 4, 1991. With an... Read More
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Happy Days: A Play in Two Acts
by BECKETT, Samuel
London: Faber & Faber, 1962. Fine copy in red cloth boards, in unclipped illustrated jacket with minor rubbing and some scuffing to rear panel, thus close to near fine. A handsome copy.. First British Edition. Octavo. With jacket design featuring photograph from the first performance of the play—Beckett's first since Endgame—at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre in 1961, directed by Alan Schneider.
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Dangling Man (Signed)
by BELLOW, Saul
New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944. Olive boards with red-stamped design; some discoloration to cloth and rounding to corners; close to near fine. In unclipped jacket, with wear at corners and minor discoloration to front panel; close to near fine. Housed in quarter-leather slipcase, with cloth pull-tab chemise.. First Edition. Octavo. A charming copy of Bellow's first book, neatly SIGNED to title page.
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X4 (Signed Limited Edition with Print)
by BENGE, Harvey
Auckland: FAQEditions, 2009. Print and all books uniformly fine, housed in publisher's printed cardboard shipping box, near fine.. Limited edition. Octavos. SIGNED, dated 2009, and numbered 5 of 20 copies by Benge on publisher's cardboard box. A deluxe set of four books of the New Zealander's color street photography, with a SIGNED print of the same number included. Includes: Text Book, Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar, China Story, and I Look at You You Look at... Read More
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A Short History of Photography (Signed Limited Edition with Print)
by BENGE, Harvey and Gerry Badger
Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2007. Fine in paper-covered boards, housed in a near fine red cloth slipcase.. Limited edition. Quarto. Number 6 of an edition of 25 copies, SIGNED and dated 2008 by Benge, with a corresponding signed original c-print laid in. An anthology of Benge's photography, all selected for evoking different influential photographers, from Adams and Araki to Wall and Wegman. With text by Gerry Badger.
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Proceedings Seminar on the Computer Industry for Security Analysts, November 19, 1964
by BERKELEY, Edmund C, Dick H. Brandon, and Patrick J. McGovern
Newtonville, MA: International Data Corporation, 1965. Near fine in printed vinyl binder.. First Edition. Quarto sheets in three-ring binder. Advertisement for Honda laid in. Proceedings of an early commercially oriented computer conference, held on November 19th, 1964 in Newtonville, Massachusetts. The notebooks describe a wide range of computer equipment and applications. Speakers included computer science pioneer and antinuclear activist Edmund C. Berkeley, known for having designed "Simon", the first "personal computer" in 1950. In January, 1963, Berkeley was... Read More
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Saluti & Baci (with Four Signed Screenprints)
by BERTINI, Gianni and Luigi Cavallo
Milano: GL Editore, 1988. Some minor creasing to red portfolio wrappers, else near fine. Prints are bright and clean, with minor rounding to some corners; also near fine. Scarce, with only 2 OCLC records located (Yale and Paris-Doucet).. First Edition. Portfolio, featuring 4 vibrant litho-serigraphs (16 inches square), each hand-numbered and SIGNED by Bertini to versos in pencil. Accompanied by 8 pp. interview, in Italian, printed in loose folio gatherings and hand-numbered as 79 of 120 trade copies.... Read More
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Round about Midnight (Signed Deluxe Edition with Four Prints)
by BERTINI, Gianni and Henri Kréa
Alès, France: PAB, 1961. Text (12 pp.) and prints housed in white portfolio with titles; very minor rubbing to covers, else fine. Original glassine. Scarce, with only a single OCLC record located (Yale).. Deluxe Edition. Octavo. Another elegant publication from the atelier of Pierre André Benoit, featuring a sparse poem from the French-Algerian writer and anti-colonial activist Henri Kréa. Illustrated by a jazz-inspired engraving from Gianni Bertini, presumably riffing-off the Miles Davis resonance of Kréa's title. This deluxe... Read More
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Festival de Fort Boyard: Dream Machines (Exhibition Poster, Signed)
by BERTINI, Gianni and Brion Gysin
Paris, 1967. Fold-lines from mailing and some offsetting, with postmarks to verso. Archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexiglass (28.75 x 23 inches).. Screenprint to heavy paper (26.75 x 21 inches). One of seven posters designed by Gianni Bertini and Henri Chopin to promote their absurd—and wholly fictitious—Fort Boyard arts festival; with a programme of avant-garde public art from the likes of Brion Gysin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Mimmo Rotella, and Gil Wolman purportedly installed on... Read More
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Fondazione per la Rinascita dell'Agricoltura (Announcement Cards)
by BEUYS, Joseph
Pescara, Italy: Lurcrezia De Domizio / Free International University, 1978. Minor rubbing at edges; near fine.. Two postcard announcements (4 x 5.75 inches) promoting an FIU discussion between Joseph Beuys and the economic artist Vitantonio Russo on the subject of land reform. With rectos fully-illustrated after black-and-white photographs from Beuys' actions the previous year at documenta 6, as captured by Buby Durini. (The twin posters, with matching photographs, also available).
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Baumzertifikat: Joseph Beuys, 7000 Eichen in Kassel
by BEUYS, Joseph and Wenzel
Kassel: Free International University, 1986. Certificate housed in original handmade mailing envelope; red construction paper branded with FIU address. Uncommon documentation of this landmark project, with single OCLC record located (SFMoMA).. Large commemorative certificate (16.5 x 10.75 inches), featuring a mounted facsimile of a Beuys drawing (3.5 in. square); SIGNED and dated by Wenzel Beuys in ink (18.6.1986), with red FIU hand-stamp. A retroactive certificate from Joseph Beuys' landmark 7000 Eichen action; this one commemorating the donation of... Read More
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Street Portraits (Signed)
by BEY, Dawoud
London: MACK, 2021. Fine in embossed cloth boards with black-and-white images affixed to both front and rear panels.. First Edition. Quarto. 120pp. SIGNED by the photographer to a slip bound at rear. Between 1988 and 1991, Bey traveled around American cities shooting intimate portraits of Black communities; the participants were given a small black-and-white Polaroid as a gift. Illustrated with 70 reproductions, followed by a poetic afterword by Greg Tate. An important early series from one of the most... Read More
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Huma Bhabha
by BHABHA, Huma
New York: Salon 94, 2015. A fine copy in illustrated boards; in publisher's shrinkwrap.. First Edition. Quarto. Monograph on the work of Huma Bhabha, published on the occasion of her 2015 exhibition at Salon 94. Illustrated with close to 250 color images, after reproductions, details, and installation views; accompanied by texts from David Levi Strauss and Jeanne Greeburg Rohatyn, as well as a poem from Seamus Heaney ("The Grauballe Man").
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Back to the Wall (Announcement Card)
by BICKERTON, Ashley
New York: Sonnabend, 1996. Minor bump to top corner; near fine.. Announcement card (4.5 x 6.5 inches) for a Sonnabend exhibition (New York, May 4 - Jun. 1, 1996), with humorous text and borders printed to recto in reflective gilt, referencing Cat Stevens' name change. With exhibition details printed to verso. A return to painting for Bickerton, who later referred to this as "one of the angriest shows I've done—and that's when I work the best.
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Hardy Annual
by WATFORD SCHOOL OF ART. Graham Pow and John Wells (design and binding)
Watford, England: Watford School of Art / Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1969. Light foxing to the text block, and some scratching and wear to the mounted tin covers, else very good in cloth wrappers.. Limited edition. Quarto. Number 100 of an edition of 100 copies. Includes copies of works by Richard Buckley, Ian Burton Elliott, Frank Challenger, Veronica Loveless, Hansjörg Mayer, Graham Pow, Kathryn Wallbridge, Cilla Weeks, and John Wells, printed with a Rotaprint R 70. Covers are original... Read More
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You Can't Win
by BLACK, Jack
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1926. Red cloth boards with bright gilt lettering to front panel and spine. Ownership inscription to front endpaper, with minor spotting to margins of pp. 305-11, else a near fine copy. With a pleasing, unsophisticated copy of the scarce jacket; a damaged section to upper portion of spine and large chip to foot, but still very good. Housed in custom half-leather slipcase with pull-tab chemise, with gilt lettering to spine.. First Edition. Octavo.... Read More
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Art d'Aujourd'hui. Série 4, numéro 2, mars 1953
by BLOC, André (editor)
Paris: Editions de l'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, 1953. Some rubbing to staple-bound wrappers, with minor crease to corner, else near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Cover designed after an original gouache by Poliakoff. Texts include essay from Herbert Read on the psychology of British art. This copy absent the hors-texte print from Ben Nicholson.
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