Dal Vero
by STEINBERG, Saul. John Hollander
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1983. Fine in blue cloth boards with white paper spine and silver manuscript title lettering, in fine publisher's original linen clamshell box. Scarce.. Limited Edition. Quarto. One of 140 copies. Volume 1 in the Whitney Artist and Writers Series. SIGNED by the author and artist on the colophon page. The book opens with a beautiful bound-in intaglio print on thick deckled paper of a woman with a... Read More
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American Prospects
by STERNFELD, Joel
New York: Times Books, 1987. Minor toning to margins of color plates, else a near fine copy in cloth boards. Minor fading to margins of photo-illustrated jacket, with modest edge-wear; close to near fine.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Expanding upon Stephen Shore's Uncommon Places, Sternfeld here turns seemingly banal landscapes into sublime American archetypes. (Roth 260-261).
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Spaces
by STOKES, Telfer
London: Weproductions, 1974. Faint toning to spine and a hint of rubbing to extremities, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. An artist's book, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, third in a series Stokes did with Weproductions.
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Untitled, Fitchburg Library (Original Signed Photograph)
by STOLLER, Ezra
1951. Photograph in near fine condition, with soiling and edgewear to the board.. Original 10 1/2 X 13 1/2 inch print by Ezra Stoller mounted onto a 14 X 14 inch board; SIGNED by the photographer. Representative of Stoller's interest in monuments of modern architecture, this image depicts the Fitchburg Library in Massachusetts, designed by architect Carl Koch. Presumably used for publication purposes, the board has several pencil notations written on both sides, with the photographer's stamp and... Read More
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México en Movimiento / Mexico on the Move
by STOPPELMAN, Francis and Salvador Novo
Leiden: Nederlandse Rotogravure Maatschappij, 1970. Light bump at the spine heel, else near fine in a near fine jacket, a bit edgeworn, complete in the publisher's printed acetate overlay, chipped at the head of the spine.. First Edition. Quarto. Photographs by Dutch photographer Francis Stoppelman, with introductory text in Spanish and English by Salvador Novo. Numerous gravure illustrations of late sixties Mexico, with a few color spreads interspersed. Stoppelman's images of modernization and industry are the strongest in... Read More
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Lord Malquist & Mr. Moon (Signed)
by STOPPARD, Tom
London: Anthony Blond, 1966. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Some tape ghosting to endpapers, along with ink ownership signature, thus close to near fine. With bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. In unclipped, illustrated jacket, with original laminate; near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. A copy of Stoppard's first novel, SIGNED in black marker to title page.
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Poste Restante
by STROMHOLM, Christer
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Soners Forlag, 1967. Tiniest of bumps at the spine, else near fine in a near fine jacket, lightly rubbed at the rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box.. First Edition. Square quarto. An amazing assortment juxtaposed images, effectively tying together all the photographic motifs of the time as Europe emerged completely from the postwar era and ushered in the sixties. Like Ed van der Elsken, Stromholm was an inveterate traveler; the title of... Read More
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Studies for Warhols' Marilyns, Beuys' Actions and Objects, Duchamps' Etc. Including Film (Inscribed)
by STURTEVANT, [Elaine]
Syracuse, NY: Everson Museum of Art, 1973. Save for bump to lower margin, a near fine copy; remarkably bright.. First Edition. Quarto. A brilliant artist's catalogue from Sturtevant (i.e. Elaine Frances Horan), published on the occasion of her first museum show in the United States (Everson Museum of Art, Nov. 16 - Dec. 12, 1973). Sturtevant's conceit for the catalogue, realized by Judson Rosebush, was to simulate poor xerographic copies of her exhibited appropriations of Warhol, Beuys, and... Read More
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Sea of Buddha
by SUGIMOTO, Hiroshi
New York: Sonnabend Sundell Editions, 1997. A fine copy, accordion-bound in brushed aluminum boards, similar to its sister publications Time Exposed (1991) and Theaters (2000). Minor scuffing to silken slipcase, else near fine. An impressive construction.. Limited Edition; no. 329 of 1000 copies. Quarto-sized leporello. Artist's book from Hiroshi Sugimoto, featuring an unfolding sequence of his photographs from the Sanjūsangen-dō temple in Kyoto, with its thousand statues of Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion. Multiplied by the 1000 copies in this edition,... Read More
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Visual Design in Action (Promotional Exhibition Pamphlet)
by SUTNAR, Ladislav
Cincinnati / Hamilton: The Contemporary Arts Center and Champion Papers Inc., 1961. Near fine in stapled wrappers.. First Edition. Thin quarto. 16pp. Pamphlet promoting the traveling exhibition and book devoted to the work of Ladislav Sutnar. Black and white reproductions, with elaborate graphic design on multiple paper stocks.
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Charger Index in White and Six Colors
by [SUTNAR, Ladislav, designer]
Hamilton: Champion Papers, c. 1950s. Near fine in printed wrappers.. First Edition. Pamphlet, stapled. Promotional booklet containing technical specifications, and color paper stock samples. Apparently designed by Ladislav Sutnar using his radically minimal information architecture tools and techniques. Sutnar had along relationship with Champion Papers of Hamilton, Ohio; he credits the quality of their "Kromekote" papers in the credits of his design classic "Visual Design in Action." Champion in turn sponsored an exhibition that opened in Hamilton to... Read More
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How to Show Telephone Numbers on Letterheads
by SUTNAR, Ladislav
New York: Bell Systems, c. early 1960s. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Thin quarto, stapled. Sixteen page publication from Bell Systems designed by Ladislav Sutnar demonstrating various layout and typographic standards for display of the newly developed area code on business letterhead.
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Mont Sainte Victoire (Signed Limited Edition with Print)
by SUZUKI, Risaku
Tucson: Nazraeli Press / JGS, 2004. Fine in a fine jacket, still in publisher's shrinkwrap, housed with print in a close to fine cloth slipcase with a few spots of rubbing. Print is in fine, excellent condition.. Limited edition. Large oblong quarto. Deluxe edition with SIGNED and dated original print, number 30 of 50 copies. A series of Japanese photographer Risaku Suzuki's colorful images of the Mont-Sainte Victoire in France and the surrounding landscape, best known as a... Read More
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The Face of Minnesota
by SZARKOWSKI, John
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958. Near fine in a good jacket, price-clipped, with a large chip from the rear panel and several other tears and smaller chips. Underrated book in the American canon.. First Edition. Small quarto. A fine presentation copy, SIGNED by Szarkowski and briefly INSCRIBED to photographer Arnold Crane. Szarkowski's images of 1950s Minnesota in commemoration of the state's centennial anniversary (which provided a convenient excuse for a good photobook). Includes 179 black and white... Read More
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Skulpturer
by TAJIRI, Shinkichi
Malmö: Lunds Konsthall, 1971. First and last page lightly worn, else near fine in screwbound wrappers.. First Edition. Duodecimo, bound with single plastic screw-post. Innovative artists' book made in conjunction with exhibition at Lunds Konsthall, Malmö, during October, 1971. Functions as flip book, animating photographs of Tajiri blowing up a balloon alongside Swedish text. Reverse direction, contains hundreds of black and white photographs of Tajiri and his artworks alongside English captions. Tajiri was a Japanese-American artist who resided... Read More
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Document Waishoku Bunka / Document Obscene Culture
by TAKANO, Hiroshi
Tokyo: Hama Shobo, 1982. Fine in plain black wrappers and near fine photo-illustrated orange jacket, lightly sunned at the spine, lacking the rare obi.. First Edition. Quarto. Early eighties photographs of Tokyo prostitutes, with small sections reserved for drug addicts, yakuza in the act of being tattooed, abortion, and even kabuki! No copies in OCLC.
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You Laugh An Ugly Laugh (Signed with Drawing)
by R. Tal
Cologne: Dumont, 2009. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED T.R inside of a humorous line drawing in pen, depicting a happy little phallic character smoking a cigarette. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Tũbingen. Text in English and German. Also included is a folded poster from the exhibition.
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Kita Betonamu no Shogen / Testimony of North Vietnam
by TAMURA, Shigeru
Tokyo: Shin-Nihonshuppan, 1967. Light wear and toning, hint of tape residue to back cover, small chip to spine foot, slight pulling at bottom staple; very good in photo-illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Small quarto. A book documenting the effects of war on the North Vietnamese people. Winner of the Japan Photo Critics Society Special Award in 1967. One of several great little-known Japanese photobooks documenting the Vietnam war.
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A Portrait of Keiichi Tanaami
by TANAAMI, Keiichi
Tokyo: Keiichi Tanaami Design Office, 1966. Minor scuffing to illustrated laminate boards; close to fine. Green variant, complete with illustrated obi. Uncommon, with only 2 OCLC records located.. First Edition. Quarto. Graphic novella (32 pp.). A romantic self-portrait from Tanaami, one of the leading post-War pop artists in Japan; reminiscent of many of Frans Masereel's wordless narratives.
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Juergen Teller: Handbags (Inscribed)
by TELLER, Juergen
Göttingen: Steidl, 2019. A fine copy in printed cloth boards, in matching jacket with very minor toning; near fine.. First Edition. Thick quarto (608 pp.). Boldly INSCRIBED by Teller to title page. An impressive compendium of 600 fashion photographs from Juergen Teller, in which the models share the spotlight with their handbags: "I began photographing fashion about thirty years ago and slowly, over the years, the handbags started to creep into my pictures. Nowadays it seems like in every... Read More
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Empty Plastic Echoes Reverberating Through Time
by TEMPLETON, Ed
Antwerp: Tim Van Laere Gallery, 2006. Minor rubbing to photo-illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. Artist's catalogue published to coincide with Ed Templeton's exhibition at Tim Van Laere Gallery in Antwerp (Dec. 7, 2006 - Jan. 2, 2007); a compendium of Templeton's drawings, paintings, and captioned photographs. Accompanied by a short text from Stijn Huijts ("Templeton's Time Machine"), printed in both Dutch and English, reflecting on Templeton's "cloud images" and his affinities with 15th century painters like... Read More
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Vikadin and Other Pain Killers (Signed)
by TEMPLETON, Ed
Alleged Press / Genetic Bomb Publications, 1998. Illustrated self-wrappers; fine. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.. First Edition. Zine. SIGNED and hand-numbered to rear cover as no. 13 of 80 copies. A debaucherous xerographic collage of photographs, drawings, detritus, and poetry from "beautiful loser" Ed Templeton; hand-distributed to friends.
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Make-Up Girls / N/E/S/W
by TEMPLETON, Ed. Clint Woodside
Los Angeles: Dead Beat Club, 2012. Some minor shelf wear else fine in side-stapled illustrated wrappers.. Limited Edition. One of 400 copies. 60pp. Color Xerox artist zine. Split Zine Between Ed Templeton & Clint Woodside. Halfway through, the book becomes inverted, to signify the changing of artists. Scarce.
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Mesa Verde
by THERRIEN, Robert and Evan S. Connell
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992. Fine and housed in a purple cloth box with a vellum label on spine. Very minor fading to the box. What appears at first to be water damage to the front and back covers is actually a feature of the book's unique quality, occurring from the watercolor interacting with the vellum.. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarto. Number 3 of 150; one of the 105 copies that were... Read More
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Recent Works by Wayne Thiebaud (Inscribed)
by THIEBAUD, Wayne
Sacramento: E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, 1970. Minor curling to side-stapled illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Thiebaud to title page ("for Mildred"), with small heart. Black and white reproductions of Thiebaud's works printed on heavy paper, with a vivid color illustration of his painting Tie Tray (1969) on the cover.
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