Holland House (Photogravure from Coburn's New York)
by COBURN, Alvin Langdon
London: Duckworth & Co. / New York: Brentano's, 1910. Fine condition.. Hand-pulled photogravure (8.5 x 6 inches), recuperated from a broken edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn's striking 1910 publication New York, which was deaccessioned from the George Eastman House collection, with their stamp and pencil markings on the verso.
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The Metropolitan Tower (Photogravure from Coburn's New York)
by COBURN, Alvin Langdon
London: Duckworth & Co. / New York: Brentano's, 1910. Fine condition.. Hand-pulled photogravure (8.25 x 3.75 inches), recuperated from a broken edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn's striking 1910 publication New York, which was deaccessioned from the George Eastman House collection, with their stamp and pencil markings on the verso.
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The Singer Building, Noon (Photogravure from Coburn's New York)
by COBURN, Alvin Langdon
London: Duckworth & Co. / New York: Brentano's, 1910. Fine condition.. Hand-pulled photogravure (9 x 2.5 inches), recuperated from a broken edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn's striking 1910 publication New York, which was deaccessioned from the George Eastman House collection, with their stamp and pencil markings on the verso.
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The Knickerbocker Trust Company (Photogravure from Coburn's New York)
by COBURN, Alvin Langdon
London: Duckworth & Co. / New York: Brentano's, 1910. Fine condition.. Hand-pulled photogravure (8.5 x 6.5 inches), recuperated from a broken edition of Alvin Langdon Coburn's striking 1910 publication New York, which was deaccessioned from the George Eastman House collection, with their stamp and pencil markings on the verso.
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Slayer Psychic (Signed)
by COLEN, Dan
New York: Karma, 2015. Near fine in wrappers.. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. SIGNED by Colen in black marker below a "Slayer Psychic" drawing. Published on the occasion of the exhibition in Denmark at the Herning Museum of Art in 2015. A conceptual artists book in which Colen has juxtaposed photographs of a rock being mined for his sculpture "Slayer Rock", alongside text from a conversation Colen had with a professional psychic.
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A Real Bronx Cheer (Deluxe Edition with Drawing)
by COLEN, Dan, Ron Delsener, and Matt Kenny
New York: Fulton Ryder, 2012. Fine in a fine jacket.. Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Unstated edition of 22 unique copies (from a total trade edition of 1000 copies) with an original drawing by Dan Colen and Matt Kenny to the front endpaper. A significant collaboration between two artists and a music impresario, featuring Colen's sculptures of cement-filled whoopie cushions, Kenny's collaborative cartoon drawings of an inflatable God, and Delsener's Richard Prince-esque captions. Book design by Brendan Dugan.
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The Long Count (Signed)
by COLEN, Dan
New York: Karma, 2014. Near fine in yellow paper wrappers with some sun fading to the spine.. Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. SIGNED in black marker by Colen, below a comic drawing of a cigarette butt. Published on the occasion of Colen's 2014 exhibition at the Walter de Maria Building in New York's East Village. Colen begins this clever artist book by making a personal connection to de Maria, Scooby-Doo, and the Mayan Calendar, followed by documentation... Read More
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Double Award (Artist's Ephemera)
by CONNER, Bruce and Kristine Stiles (performer)
San Francisco: Self-published, [1981]. Handbill in fine condition, with purple handstamp to verso: "For deposit only to the account of Bruce Conner.. Handbill (3 x 6 inches), printed recto-only to textured paper. On February 5, 1981, Bruce Conner appeared before the American Arbitration Association to seek restitution from the Braunstein/Quay Gallery for failure to pay him for works sold, as well as for damages suffered to consigned works from improper storage. The arbitrator awarded Conner on both counts.... Read More
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Book One
by CONNER, Bruce
[San Francisco]: Self-published, 1970. A fine copy, save for small stain to colophon, in handmade portfolio by Schuberth Bindery, with gilt titles to front panel and cloth tie. With only a single OCLC record discovered; complete suites are uncommon in the trade.. Limited Edition. Slim quarto. Edition of 90. Suite of 15 offset lithographs printed on Rives BFK paper (10.75 x 7.75 inches, sheet); each SIGNED, titled, and hand-numbered by Conner as 1/90. Just as with his Mandala... Read More
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Deep Springs (Signed)
by CONTIS, Sam
London: MACK, 2017. Fine in photo-illustrated boards.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED in black ink to the colophon. "The images in Sam Contis's Deep Springs were made in a remote desert valley east of the Sierra Nevada. The work centres on a small, all-male liberal arts college, founded in 1917 by the educational pioneer L. L. Nunn" - MACK.
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The Pressure to Paint (Exhibition Catalogue)
by CORTEZ, Diego (curator), Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and Various Others
New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1982. Bright yellow wrappers with minor edge-wear and blind impression to front panel, else near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition of New Painting curated by Diego Cortez at Marlborough Gallery, New York (Jun. 4 - Jul. 9, 1982). "The politics of the New Painting is direct. People want image and color; after the quasi-cybernetic hardware-software Network hook-ups of the 70s (gadgets as concepts), artists are again working with... Read More
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Pensėe
by CRAVEN, Ann
New York: Karma, 2013. Fine in purple cloth boards.. Limited Edition. Quarto. Number 203 of 500 hand-numbered copies. A beautiful catalogue dedicated to Ann Craven's meditation on the pansy flower, with 91 watercolors reproduced in color. The works were originally painted during Craven's residency in Reims, France (Sep. 2007 - Jun. 2008).
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R. Crumb: Sketchbook (First 6 Volumes)
by CRUMB, Robert
Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1992-1997. Uniformly fine copies in cloth-backed illustrated boards.. First six installments from Fantagraphics' long-term commitment to publish Robert Crumb's intimate sketchbooks in faithful facsimile. These first six being: 1964 to Mid '65, (2) Mid 1965 to Early '66; (3) 1966; (4) Late 1966 to Mid '67; (5) Late 1967 & Early '68; and (6) Mid 1968 to Mid '69.
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Zap Comix #13 (Signed by All Contributors)
by CRUMB, Robert, Victor Moscoso, Various Others
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 1994. Stapled wrappers clean and bright; a fine copy.. First Edition. Slim octavo. Number 13 in the underground Zap Comix series, with an impressive list of contributors—Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and Clay Wilson; each of whom have SIGNED this copy over the first two pages. Psychedelic covers designed by Moscoso, in homage to recently deceased Zap Comix comrade Rick Griffin.
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Promethean Enterprises No. 3
by CRUMB, Robert
San Jose, CA: Promethean Enterprises, 1971. Minor bumping to corners of illustrated wrappers; close to fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Illustrated wrappers; staple-bound. With cover illustration from Robert Crumb.
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John Currin
by CURRIN, John
New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2011. A fine copy in silken boards with color image affixed to front panel.. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of a Gagosian exhibition of new paintings from John Currin (Nov. 4 - Dec. 23, 2010). A lush publication, reproducing 46 paintings in full color, with an interview and six short stories by Wells Tower.
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Schönheit des Eislaufs
by CURRY, Manfred
Berlin: Paul Franke Verlag, 1934. Foxing to endpapers, hinges slightly loose, spine faded, else near fine in a photo-illustrated jacket, worn but still in very good condition.. First Edition. Quarto. Features a playful montage of ice skaters in 88 plates of beautiful bluish gravure. With captions in German, French, and English. Text by Curry.
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Doc's Photos (MVSCRA Stock Car Presentation Photo Album and Scrapbook)
by CUTLER, Elvin
[Idaho: n.p., 1980]. Fine in lightly varnished plywood boards, bound with two metal hinges along the spine gutter, with a photograph adhered to the front cover.. Unique vernacular photo album and scrapbook, detailing the small town racing culture of Rupert, Idaho. Extraordinarily lavish in size and execution, the album features photographs by Dr. Elvin Cutler, a photography hobbyist of local notoriety recognized for his images of the Minidoka Speedway, its drivers, and attendees. Includes 89 original color and... Read More
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Diary N.Y.C. February 15 until March 4, 1974
by DARBOVEN, Hanne
New York and Turin: Castelli Graphics and Gian Enzo Sperone, 1974. Some discoloration to cream wrappers and spine, with edgewear to rear wrapper and bump to upper corner. Nonetheless, a pleasing copy of a significant work that's uncommon to the trade.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. Contents: [135] leaves of facsimile manuscript. An early artist book from Hanne Darboven, where she creates an obsessive structure to rework eighteen days of diary time, employing a series of her transformational techniques... Read More
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2=1,2; 1+1=1, 2; etc.
by DARBOVEN, Hanne
Hamburg: Self-published, 1976. One of 200 copies (Bippus 18); remarkably clean, in plain white wrappers with hand-stamped titles to front and rear covers. Very minor spotting to cloth-tape spine, with bumping to margin of rear cover; overall near fine. Scarce, with only 2 OCLC records located in North America (Princeton, Clark).. Thick quarto. With her artist's book 1975, Hanne Darboven began her lifelong project of "writing time"—a sort of existential filibuster where she transcribed lines from the likes... Read More
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Die Regimentstochter (Signed Limited Edition)
by DEAN, Tacita
Göttingen: Steidl, 2005. Fine in printed wrappers, still publisher's glassine.. Limited edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Dean and numbered 887 of an edition of 1000 copies. An artist's book created out of a found collection of German 1940s-era opera programs, purchased at a Berlin flea market. Dean has repurposed the found objects, cutting segments out of the covers to reveal the contents within, in a statement on the politicization of culture during the Third Reich.
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End Zone (Review copy, with press photo)
by DELILLO, Don
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Black cloth boards with silver lettering; near fine. In illustrated, unclipped jacket; some rubbing to edges, else near fine.. First edition of the author’s second book. This review copy accompanied by publisher's review slip—stating publication date of March 27, 1972 and price of $5.95. Along with black-and-white glossy press photo of DeLillo, with brief biographical sheet.
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Players
by DELILLO, Don
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. Near fine copy in cloth-backed boards. In unclipped, illustrated jacket, also near fine.. First Edition. Octavo.
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La Carte d'Après Nature (Signed)
by DEMAND, Thomas and Luigi Ghirri
London: MACK, 2010. Minor bump to fore-edge of fully-illustrated cloth boards; near fine.. First Edition (French version). Quarto. An impressive catalogue published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (Sep. 18, 2010 - Feb. 22, 2011), as curated by Thomas Demand. This copy SIGNED by Demand to title page in black marker. Adopting the title from an arts magazine edited by René Magritte in the 1950s, Demand assembles both writings and... Read More
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans: A Photographic Essay
by DEMORUELLE, Mickey
New Orleans: Self-published, 1972. Crease to lower corner of photo-illustrated wrappers, with general rubbing and edge-wear; a very good copy.. First Edition. Quarto. The second book self-published by Mickey Demoruelle of Mardi Gras street photographs; following his first such publication in 1970. The themes remain the same, as Demoruelle documents the youthful, bacchanalian celebrations on the streets of the French Quarter.
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