Notes on the Development of a Show (Sonnabend, New York; January 15-29, 1972) / Notes Toward Performing a Gallery Space (Signed with Announcement Card)
by ACCONCI, Vito
Hamburg: Edition Leeber Hossmann / New York: Sonnabend, 1972-1973. Minor edge-wear to illustrated wrappers; near fine. With 6 OCLC records located in North America. Accompanied by original 1972 Sonnabend announcement (5 x 9 in.), illustrated after a selection of the research photographs that appear in the book.. Limited Edition. Oblong octavo. No. 35 of 250 copies; SIGNED by Acconci. While Seedbed is arguably known as Vito Acconci's signature work, its context is often overlooked, being but one of a... Read More
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Couturier Dreams (Signed Limited Edition)
by ADAMS, Katherine
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2005. Fine in a fine jacket, with brown clothbound slipcase.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED and numbered by Adams. Number 34 / 100 slipcased copies. 40 collaged images created by removing Polaroid photographs from the paper backing and placing them into baths of water, remounting them onto watercolor paper, and shaping them into silhouettes. The result is playful, yet sensual and elegant.
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Commercial Residential: Landscapes Along the Colorado Front Range, 1968-1972
by ADAMS, Robert
New York: PPP Editions, 2003. Fine in a fine jacket, plain black slipcase (only issued for the deluxe edition).. Deluxe Edition. Small oblong octavo. Number 40 of 50 numbered copies; SIGNED by Adams. 40 black and white images shot at the same time as Adams's landmark vision of suburban sprawl, The New West, published in 1974, but omitted from that book.
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Soft & Loose (Signed with Painted Cover)
by ADIAN, Justin
Fulton Ryder: New York, 2014. Fine in illustrated white wrappers, with elongated flaps.. First Edition. Unique Copy. Octavo. A fully-illustrated survey of Justin Adian's sculptural paintings, involving poured and cut enamel; published by Richard Prince's Fulton Ryder imprint. One of only 350 copies; this copy unique, with Adian over-painting the front cover with thick gold enamel paint. SIGNED and dated by Adian to front flap.
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Fort Worth (Signed)
by ADIAN, Justin
New York: Skarstedt, 2015. Hint of soiling to the covers, else near fine in cream wrappers with french-flaps.. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Justin Adian. Catalogue from the artist's second solo show at Skarstedt Gallery. 20 reproductions of Adian's cushion-like geometric soft sculptures tipped in. Essay by Dave Hickey.
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Disco Night Sept 11 (Signed)
by AGTMAEL, Peter Van
New York: Red Hook Editions, 2014. A fine copy in cloth boards, with color image affixed to front panel.. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED by the photographer to the title page. A haunting collection of photographs shot during the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each image includes a caption written by Van Agtmael.
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Wild Style! A Message from New York Ghetto South Bronx
by AHEARN, Charlie and Kazu KUZUI
Tokyo: JICC, 1983. Shallow crease to front cover, else near fine in illustrated wrappers with minor rubbing. Scarce, even in Japan.. First Edition. Small quarto. Japanese publication documenting the cultural context and background for Charlie Ahearn's hip-hop film Wild Style, which was released in Japan in 1983. Thoroughly illustrated, with sections on graffiti (including photos from Fun Gallery exhibitions), break-dancing, street fashion, and DJs/MCs. Most text in Japanese, with a few English-language translations, including a statement from Ahearn.... Read More
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Wild Style: "Hip Hop" From N.Y. / Hip-Hop-Rap Music in New York
by AHEARN, Charlie (Director) and Fred Braithwaite (Fab 5 Freddy)
Tokyo: JICC, 1983. Staple-bound booklet in illustrated wrappers in fine condition, as is audio cassette. The plastic folder/enclosure has a split to the seam of the back panel, else near fine. This copy with the original obi. Scarce, with single OCLC record located (Cornell).. First Edition. Octavo-sized booklet (60 pp.) and audio cassette in plastic housing. Promotional publication—and sub-cultural primer—issued to coincide with the Japanese release of the 1983 hip-hop film Wild Style and the accompanying tour of... Read More
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Josef Albers: 4 September bis 4. Oktober 1970 (with Screenprint)
by ALBERS, Josef
Düsseldorf: Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Grabbeplatz, 1970. Minor rubbing to illustrated wrappers; near fine. Screenprint fine.. First Edition. Square octavo. Catalogue published on the occasion of a Josef Albers exhibition in Düsseldorf (Sep. 4 - Oct. 4, 1970). Contents: 63, [3] pages; illustrated throughout, with some colour. Accompanied by loose screenprint (7.5 inches square).
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Albers: Zwei Supraporten
by ALBERS, Josef
Münster: Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1973. Marginal toning to illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Booklet documenting the process behind Josef Albers' sculptural intervention to the entrance of the Landesmuseum in Münster. Illustrated with reproductions of his preparatory drawings and installation views, including large glossy fold-out at rear (imaged here with inevitable glare); accompanied by 5 pp. artist's statement.
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Gray Instrumentation II (Prospectus)
by ALBERS, Josef
Bedford Village, NY: Tyler Workshop Ltd., 1975. A fine copy with illustrated covers; some offsetting to screenprint, thus close to near fine.. Bifolium prospectus for one of the final projects that Josef Albers supervised before his death in March 1976; a portfolio of 12 hand-printed screenprints, in an edition of 36 copies, plus proofs. This prospectus illustrated with a miniature handprinted screen of Gray Instrumentation II-l (4.5 x 4.75 inch print; 8 x 8 in. sheet), tipped-onto interior... Read More
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The Yale Literary Magazine: International Edition, 1958
by ALBERS, Josef
New Haven: Yale University, 1958. Tiny spot of discoloration to the margin of one of the screenprints, else fine in French-fold wrappers. Sharp and clean. Rare.. First Edition. Octavo. Literary magazine with a 12-page section devoted to the artist: "The Lit's salute to Albers." Includes a short poem by Albers, an interview, 2 pages of geometric line drawings, and 2 tipped-in Homage to the Square screenprints. The covers and Albers section are printed on white paper; the rest... Read More
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Okinawa Photo Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., 1964–65]. Photographs in uniformly nice condition, internally near fine, album is edgeworn with splits at the plastic covering the spiral binding, else very good in illustrated boards.. Unique photo album from the Vietnam War era, dating between 1964 and 1965, housed in an illustrated Okinawa album. Includes 105 mostly black-and-white prints, measuring approximately 5 1/2 X 2 1/2 inches. Images depict a group of young recruits stationed at a field camp in Okinawa, Japan, with a... Read More
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Memory of South Vietnam Photo Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., c. 1965–1970]. Very good in illustrated spiral-bound covers.. Unique photo album of a field camp in Southeast Asia, between 1965 and 1970. Includes 22 7 X 5 inch black-and-white and sepia-tone photographs, and 8 10 X 8 inch prints, mostly adhered to the album's cardstock pages and covered by clear mylar sheets. Images depict young recruits in military training, with several candid shots of soldiers on the base and three images of rural civilian life, presumably... Read More
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Vietnam Photo Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., n.d.]. Several images missing, with the mounts present; tissue guards creased and ripped; images generally well-preserved (printed on Agfa paper). Very good overall in illustrated cloth backed spiral-bound boards.. Unique photo album, 10 X 14 1/2 inches, including approximately 120 black-and-white mounted snapshots from a serviceman's tour during the Vietnam War, with tissue guards separating the pages. Features images of American military and Vietnamese civilian life, with photographs of cities, the countryside, a relocation center, medical... Read More
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Saigon Photo Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., 1966]. Near fine in spiral-bound blind-stamped printed boards.. Unique Vietnam era photo album, featuring vernacular snapshots of an American officer's personal life in the city of Saigon. Comprises 64 3 1/2 X 2 1/2 inch black-and-white prints, with 2 additional prints in color, housed in a Polaroid "De Luxe Album" in individual cascading small-format sleeves. Images include portraits, party snapshots, and cityscapes of Saigon's crowded streets. The album's original owner has written brief descriptive captions for... Read More
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Reichsbahn Bauamt Salzburg 1927
by [Original Photographic Album]
Germany, 1927. Fine in string-bound batik boards.. Original photographic album. String-bound oblong quarto. A document of the construction of a section of the Reichsbahn (German railway), near Salzburg, Austria, in 1927. With 93 gelatin silver prints of vaying sizes, all numbered and captioned by hand, two hand-colored. Gripping images of Germany's industrial rise between the wars, with 15 great shots of a rail-service vehicle plunging off a bridge.
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Dravosburg Merchants Baseball Team Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., c. 1940s]. Near fine in string-bound illustrated boards.. Unique album documenting the Dravosburg Merchants baseball team, containing 68 original black-and-white photographs, 58 newspaper clippings, 2 letters, and 1 card adhered to the pages. Includes mostly 3 1/2 X 3 1/2 inch prints, depicting baseball players and tournaments, accompanied by the album creator's handwritten captions. While the photographs were mostly taken in and around Pittsburgh, there is also a series of images of Okinawa, presumably taken while... Read More
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Chu Lai Vietnam Photo Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., 1966–1967]. Several pages ripped, else very good in hand-painted boards, with a long horizontal crack across the rear board.. Unique Vietnam War era photo album, created by an unknown American soldier stationed at the Chu Lai Marine Corps base. Features 118 color and black-and-white photographs in a range of formats, mostly 3 1/2 X 2 1/2 inches, with a few larger prints. Images include a mixture of portraits, Vietnam landscapes, and army scenes, adhered to the... Read More
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Vietnam Photo Album
by [Original Photographic Album]
[N.p.: n.p., n.d.]. Near fine in leather boards; photographs uniformly well-preserved with the color shots fading; rear page of the album is missing its prints.. Unique Vietnam War era photo album, centered on the experiences of an American solider before and during the war. Includes 55 original prints, most captioned, documenting the soldier's life at home and stationed in Vietnam, with several images of his childhood and adolescence in the US, alongside self-portraits by himself and with other... Read More
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Arte di Frontiera: New York Graffiti / Quattordio Graffiti (Deluxe Edition)
by ALINOVI, Francesca (curator), Jean-Michel Basquiat, Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Crash, Lee Quiñones, Daze, Lady Pink, Rammellzee, et al.
Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta, 1984. Near fine in near fine dust jackets; matching slipcase with very light soiling to the gray cloth, else near fine. Uncommon in the deluxe edition.. Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Two hardcover volumes in matching slipcase. Published to accompany an influential group show of American graffiti artists that traveled through Italy, this monograph features essays from curator Francesca Alinovi and gallerist Tony Shafrazi (printed in both Italian and English), a hip hop glossary, and mostly-color reproductions... Read More
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Arte di Frontiera: New York Graffiti
by ALINOVI, Francesca
Milano: Gabriele Mazzotta, 1984. Minor edgewear to photo-illustrated wrappers; near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Trade version of this influential catalogue, published to commemorate a traveling exhibition of American graffiti art in Italy, a year after the shocking murder of its dynamic curator, Francesca Alinovi. "While in America as in Europe the triumph of tradition and fine painting is being celebrated, out comes the gurgling current of the underground like an impetuous, boiling hot spring. Avant-garde art is not... Read More
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Fotografias: Tercera Exposición de la Sociedad de Arte Moderno, Mexico, julio de 1945
by ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel and Diego Rivera
Mexico City: Sociedad de Arte Moderno, 1945. Printed wrappers with light wear along edges and lightly age-toned, with slight bump to top of text-block; thus close to near fine. Housed in black cloth clamshell case with lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of Álvarez Bravo's influential 1945 exhibition, which explored the quality of "Mexicanidad" and helped set the agenda for a generation of Latin American photography. (Parr / Badger, v2). Contents: 93, [3]... Read More
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Arte Nuevo, Boletin de la Asociación Arte Nuevo, Issue 2
by ALVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel (editor)
Buenos Aires: Asociación Arte Nuevo, 1956. Neat split to the cover paper at the top 1.5 inches and bottom .5 inch of the spine, else close to near fine in printed wrappers.. First Editon. Quarto, stapled. Journal documenting modern art and design, including a translated essay by Paul Klee and essays by Hans Fischer, Martín Blazsko, and others. Illustrated with black and white photography. Spanish text.
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Arte Nuevo, Boletin de la Asociación Arte Nuevo, Issue 4
by ALVAREZ BRAVO, Manuel (editor)
Buenos Aires: Asociación Arte Nuevo, 1957. Close to near fine in printed wrappers.. First Editon. Quarto, stapled. Journal documenting modern art and design, including a review by Germaine Derbecq of work exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, and a review of sculptures by Pettoruti. Also includes survey of modernist playground design. Illustrated with black and white photography. Spanish text.
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