Can Your Monkey Do the Dog (Signed)
by WOOL, Christopher and Josh Smith
Brussels: MFC-Michélle Dider, 2007. Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers, with elongated French flaps.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by both artists in 2010. A collaborative artists' book by Christopher Wool and Josh Smith, consisting of black-and-white photographic reproductions of their paintings. For the series, each artist transformed the other's original paintings using technological means, creating unique, digitally manipulated works as their end result.
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An Autobiography
by WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd
London: Longmans, 1932. Cloth worn through at the spine heel and tips of the bottom boards, else near fine in a very good example of the rare jacket, lightly soiled, faded at the spine, with several small edge tears and tiny chips, but sound and complete.. First Edition. Small square quarto. A document of Frank Lloyd Wright's early career, with a section of photographs at the rear. Uncommon in jacket.
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Aufzeichnungen eines bewaffneten Schankprinzen. Im Exil, 1972-1979 (Signed)
by WÜRTHLE, Michel and Martin Kippenberger
Berlin: Bruno Brunnet Fine Arts, 1994. Minimal rounding to corners of cloth-backed boards with image affixed to front panel; close to fine. Accompanied by original cardstock slipcase.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by Würthle to colophon, and hand-numbered as 367 of 500 copies. Catalogue published for an exhibition of recent ink drawings from Michel Würthle, depicting memorable scenes from his lively EXIL restaurant in Kreuzberg; one of the epicenters of the Berlin art scene (1972-1979). Edited by his close... Read More
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Embauche Au Balkan: 24 elastiche Seiten zum Thema Einstellungsgespräche oder 'The Happy End of Franz Kafka's Amerika.' (Inscribed)
by WÜRTHLE, Michel, and Martin Kippenberger
Hamburg: Meterverlag, 1994. Minor toning to illustrated wrappers; near fine. Uncommon, with no OCLC records located.. First edition. Octavo. One of the cycle of publications produced for Martin Kippenberger’s maximalist exhibition The Happy End of Franz Kafka's “Amerika;” a spy story written by Paris Bar impresario Michel Würthle after he lost a Mau Mau bet to Kippenberger. This copy INSCRIBED by Würthle to title page, and dated in the year of publication: “Für die lieben Kieseritzky von eurem... Read More
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Candy and A Good and Spacious Land
by GOLDBERG Jim and Donovan Wylie
New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 2017. Small dent to the bottom edge of Goldberg's "Candy," else fine in photo-illustrated laminated boards, shrink-wrapped slipcase (opened to make changes to the books).. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Two volumes in slipcase. Special copy, created by the photographers at Paris Photo, 2017. Goldberg has SIGNED and dated his book, pasted two small photographs to the half-title page, and drawn boxes around them. Wylie's book is also signed. A project about New... Read More
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é
by YAMAMOTO, Masao
Tucson: Nazraeli, 2005. Fine in a near fine jacket, slightly toned with 1 inch tear on top front.. Limited edition. Folio. An edition of 2500 copies. 59 intimate color snapshots of landscapes, interiors, and delicate still scenes, with a double gate fold.
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General Life Style in Hong Kong
by YAMASHITA, Masahiko
Tokyo: Libro, 1993. Bottom front corner tapped, else fine in a fine jacket. OCLC locates a single copy at the BNF.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Poetic if bleak documentation of Hong Kong from 1989-1990, shot in the Japanese version of the New Topographics style, with emphasis on over saturation of grays. Broken into five sections: Sites of Construction, Labyrinth, Panorama, Interior, and New Territories. With several tri-folds. An arresting book, previously unknown to me. (Parr / WassinkLundgren, 353).... Read More
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Dawn
by YAMAUCHI, Yu
Tokyo: Akaaka, 2013. Fine in photo-illustrated boards. Second Edition. Quarto. For 600 days Yamauchi got up at dawn to capture these stunning photographs shot near the summit of Mt. Fuji.
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Insecurity
by YANAI, Guy
Marseille: Yundler Brondino Verlag, 2024. Foil-printed yellow wrappers with flaps; new.. First Edition. Quarto. One of 700 copies. An ingenuous artist's book from painter Guy Yanai, synthesizing the PDFs created by his studio to accompany his eight international COVID-era exhibitions (2020-2023). As an elegant archive of the 91 paintings exhibited during this cycle—as well as of the attendant anxieties from this precarious artworld period—the book elevates the utilitarian PDF format to artistic standing, while offering something of a... Read More
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Tadanori Yokoo: All Things in the Universe (Inscribed)
by YOKOO, Tadanori
Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. Minor rubbing to illustrated boards; near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Impressive survey of Tadanori Yokoo's wide body of work since 1965, published on the occasion of an exhibition which traveled from Tokyo's Museum of Contemporary Art (Aug. 10 - Oct. 27, 2002) to the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Nov. 3, 2002 - Jan. 26, 2003). This copy INSCRIBED by Yokoo to front endpaper, with warm dedication. Contents: 318 pages, with... Read More
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Daisuke Yokota: Color Photographs (Signed First Edition)
by YOKOTA, Daisuke
East Hampton / Tokyo: Harper's Books / Flying Books, 2015. Fine, with no jacket, as issued.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by the photographer. Edition of 750, with five sets of 150 copies bearing different color foil stamps (black is out-of-print). Illustrated with 83 images of the artist's abstract color photography, a body of work distinct from the black and white images for which he is known. Through means of darkroom experimentation, Yokota layers sheets of unused large format... Read More
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Tartine (Signed)
by YOKOTA, Daisuke
New York: Session Press, 2015. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Fist Edition. Quarto. One of 500 copies, SIGNED and dated 2015 by the photographer to the front end-paper. A beautiful production featuring full-bleed black and white and color images by Yokota, taking inspiration from the Japanese Mono-ha movement. Includes a folded SIGNED poster.
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My Gypsy! Rose
by YOSHIICHI, Hara
Tokyo: Banseisha, 1980. Fine in card wrappers, and near fine jacket, a little sunned at spine.. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's ephemera laid in. Mostly text-based book, featuring black and white images of women, with some nudes. Compelling images and layout.
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