Paris: Published by the editor, 1938. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 132pp. Original pictorial wrappers by Pierre Bonnard, housed in paper-covered, illustrated box. Lavish in design and challenging in content, this spectacular issue of "Verve," the renown French quarterly review of arts and letters, is dedicated mainly to Islam and the... More
NP: Allan Kaprow, 1975. First edition. Softcover. 4to. Original white wraps with black lettering on cover. 4 unpaginated pp. displaying b/w facsimile photographs of Allan Kaprow taken by Alvin Comiter. All illustrations are accompanied by text. The photographs display Kaprow running, sweating and using saliva to cool his body down... More
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 174 (20) pp. Original brown corrugated paper wraps with orange lettering on cover and spine. Profusely illustrated with b/w reproductions of artwork and photographs, newspaper articles, typed and handwritten documents. Includes contributions by Alan Kaprow, John Baldessari and John Nicolaidis... More
![Tales of the Los Angeles Parks [SIGNED]. Leo Politi.](/pictures/thumb/18107.jpg?v=1439339831)
Palm Desert, CA: Best-West Publications, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated (40 pp.). Mottled green cloth with gold lettering on cover. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Original full-page 12 inch multicolor watercolor of flowers and butterfly (image available upon request) signed and dated: "Leo Politi... More
![Augenreise [SIGNED, WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH BY THE ARTIST]. Heinz Trökes.](/pictures/thumb/34502.jpg?v=1434442198)
Berlin: Rembrandt Verlag, 1968. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/200. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original black cloth with artist's name and book title laid onto front cover. Signed by artist (Tröckes) with doodle and initials MM above doodle (for Michael Montfort, Bukowski's photographer) on free endpaper. Six color and six b/w original screenprints on... More
Baden, Switzerland: Kodoji Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. Signed in pencil by author on free back endpaper opposite imprint. Folio. Unpaginated. Original quarter cloth over heavy illustrated cardboard. Designed by Louisa Gagliardi and Winfried Heininger this beautifully produced book features extraordinary color photographs of snow sculptures, many of them fold-outs... More
![Kippenberger. Der Künstler und seine Familien [SIGNED BY AUTHOR]. Susanne Kippenberger.](/pictures/thumb/35263.jpg?v=1470268282)
Berlin: Berlin Verlag, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Susanne Kippenberger, Los Angeles, 23. 8. 2011. Octavo. 575 (1)pp. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over red cloth with white and gray lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Silver ribbon marker. The Enfant Terrible of German art in the late 20th century here... More
Los Angeles: MOCA, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto Square. 16 leaves. Original color photo-illustrated padded boards with white lettering on cover. Transmission LA: AV Club was a 17 day festival at the MOCA Geffen Contemporary in Los Angeles. At the helm of this "grown up theme park" was Mike D.... More
Los Angeles: NP, 1969. First edition. Softcover. Octavo Oblong. 29 leaves. Original spiral bound stiff wraps with handwritten lettering on cover. 23 pieces (leaves) of photographic plates of late sixties Los Angeles environment. Motives listed at end of publcation. First artist book by Allen Ruppersberg, one of the first generation... More
Paris: Bievres, 1973. Softcover. Portfolio. Stiff wraps with illustrated dust wrapper seated in original cardboard silk-lined slipcase. Staining, scuffing and rubbing to slipcase. Original b/w photograph of Pierre Lelong at work. Great classic work by the Greek philosopher Ovid, on love, translated into French by Andre Berry. Portfolio contains 4... More
New York: A.R.T. Press, 1992. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 64pp. Original decorative wrappers. An Interview of Mike Kelley, artist, by John Miller profusely illustrated with numerous color and b/w plates of his art work (Birdhouses, chicken brooders, yarn dolls, playbills, etc.) Kelley's work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage... More
NP: Matej Andraz Vogrincic, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Dedicated and signed by artist on text page at rear. Oblong Quarto. Unpaginated, 32pp. Original photo-illustrated boards. Photo-illustrated endpapers. The Slovenian artist Matej Andraz Vogrincic is known for his site-specific work in urban and natural environments. Moon Plain, one of his Australian... More
NP: NP, ND. Softcover. 8vo. 20 paginated pages of text with a number of Unpaginated pages with mounted facsimiles of Pastels, b/w facsimile of sketches and color facsimiles of photographs portraying the scenic inspiration for the artwork. Brown wrappers with spiral binding and plastic cover. Book is in very good... More
London: A. & C. Black Ltd. 1928. Hardcover. Cloth boards with pictorial cover. D/j is missing, but half of the front cover of the d/j is present and laid in. Unpaginated. Thackeray's souvenir of a trip to Egypt. Each plate has a short funny story with illustration. Twenty-four tipped-in full... More
New York: Rizzoli, (1980). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 130pp. Silver cloth with black lettering on cover and spine in original illustrated dust jacket. Abstract color and black and white reproductions of Sessa's paintings accompanied by Bradbury's poetic verse. A marriage of artist and visionary science fiction writer conveying yearnings of... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Large Quarto. 321 (1)pp. Original illustrated dustjacket over illustrated cream colored cloth with black lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated double title page. "With ordinary fabric and cord, Christo has wrapped an imposing bundle of work and secured for himself a prominent position... More
Berlin: Heckler und Koch, 2010. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 60, 40 plates. Original gray, respectively white wraps with black lettering on cover and spine. 55 gray scales, acrylic on canvas with additional five plates identified as "image missing" (Abbildung fehlt) in volume one. Volume two display forty layouts with eight... More
Los Angeles: Peter Mendenhall Gallery, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 39 (2)pp. Inscribed to Joan by Douke on front endpaper. Original illustrated paper-covered boards with brown lettering on cover and white on spine. Illustrated fine linen front endpaper. 2 illustrated frontispieces plus half-title. Illustrated with color photography of art objects... More
Winnipeg: PLUG IN Contemporary Art/L'Art Contemporain, 198-1999. Softcover. 8vo. 205 pp. Decorative orange wrappers with b/w facsimile photograph of a man reclining on a bed with a pipe. Plug In is an artist-run center for the production, exhibition and distribution of contemporary art in all media. Book is profusely illustrated... More
Inverness, California: Lapis Press, 1991. First edition. softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original color illustrated wrappers with black lettering on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontispiece. Vivid color illustrations of various artworks by the author, with captions and musings in facsimile handwriting accompanying images. Inscribed by the artist "To Barbara, With all Good... More
Greenwich, Connecticut: Magis Art Publications. New York Graphic Society, (1969). Hardcover. Sm. folio. 273, [2]pp. Black cloth with white lettering on spine in original publisher's cloth slipcase with mounted color illustration on cover. Profusely illustrated work by J. M. Moreno Galvan on contemporary (avant-garde) Spanish painting. With many tipped-in photographic... More
Munich New York: Prestel, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto Oblong. Ca. 128pp. Original pictorial dustjacket over orange cloth. A collection of the contemporary German painter's photographs, sketches and notes assembled like collages and reproductions of her works compiled by the artist, mostly in color. Based on an exhibition at the... More
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 1993. Hardcover. Folio. 461 pp. Bound in original brick red cloth with black lettering to spine. 1415 Color and b&w illustrations. Original dj. Book is in Fine Condition. Entire work filled with lucious photographs of Riera I Arago's sculptures, Graphites on paper, asphalt imprinted on wood, paintings-... More
Lucerne: C. J. Bucher, (1962). Hardcover. 2 volumes. 238pp. 475pp. Decorated paper-covered boards in illustrated paper-covered slipcase. Some rubbing, scuffing and wear on slipcase. Minor rubbing to boards. Two small stains on back cover of Vol. I. The purpose of this book was "to present a broad cross-section of some... More
Mexico: Dupont, 1985. Limited ed. Hardcover. 1/3000. Oblong 8vo. 95pp. Black cloth with silver lettering to cover and spine in original, pictorial dj. Some staining and discoloration to dj. Great work on this exhibition of contemporary fine art in the Museum of Anthopology in Mexico, where some of the most... More