Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller - Old and Rare Books

A Few Palm Trees [SIGNED]

Ruscha, Edward

Los Angeles: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Artist book on white 80lb Vicksburg Vellum text paper. Printed by G.R. Huttner Lithography, Burbank, CA.

1/3900 unnumbered copies. Octavo ((7 x 5 1/2). 64pp. Original glossy stiff black wraps. Signed Ed Ruscha on front free endpaper. Verso of title page stating Ruscha copyright and publisher, Heavy Industy Publications, with Hollywood P.O. Box address. The following twenty-eight pages contain b/w photolithographic imagery of palm trees in various locations of los Angeles, with palm trees depicted on the right, exact locations of the trees on facing pages throughout. Pages following images are blank as issued.

"Los Angeles’s palms have long inspired its artists, from David Hockney’s sunlit paintings to Ed Ruscha’s photographs, including his 1971 artist’s book A Few Palm Trees." (Allison C.Meier, 2018). Ed Ruscha had considered making a book called Seventeen Hollywood Palm Trees, before producing this book. However, the project was never realized and evolved into A Few Palm Trees. Light wear along edges of wraps and lightly rubbed. Very good condition. Item #55640

Price: $1,750.00