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A compilation of Hurles' rough and tumble nude male photography, taken primarily in the 1970s and 1980s, his models were often ex-convicts, hustlers, drifters, and addicts. Hurles died in April of 2023 at the age of 78. Text and design by Rex. Images in black and white. Out of print. Must be 18 or older to purchase.
Condition: Fine, now in a custom-made mylar jacket.
Item #1570
A scarce relatively early official title in English (1910) on the forestry of Japan produced by the country's Department of Agriculture & Commerce at its Bureau of Forestry. With 12 black and white collotype photographs of various forest scenes and tree specimens. From the collection of W.B. Chase, who was a music critic and editor at the New York Times and the New York Sun during the years 1896-1935. His obituary notes travels in Japan and China, and a love of books. With a folded an typed letter laid-in, dated.....
Item #1554
No. 393 in a special limited numbered edition of 1,000 copies of Hans Bellmer's surrealist/erotic drawings, published in 1967 by Grove Press.
Condition: Very Good, lacking dust jacket; bumps to covers at lower corners not affecting interior pages; paperboard slipcase in rough shape with chips/bumps and separation along edges.
Item #1606
The rare first printing for Museum trustees of the exhibition catalog for the important Machine Art exhibit of 1934, which took place at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. With section headings such as "Industrial Units," "Household and Office Equipment," and "Kitchenware," the exhibit of these objects was somewhat shocking to audiences in an art museum environment. The exhibit was one of the earliest museum presentations of industrial design as a serious area of artistic activity. Curator Philip Johnson also employed a groundbreaking presentation for the exhibition. He took.....
Item #1595
The second printing (with light blue endpapers) of Lenore Kandel's book of four erotic (some might say pornographic) poems that was censored when it first was released, with copies confiscated by the police from City Lights Books in SF. Kandel was also one of the speakers at the famous Human Be-In in Golden Gate Park during 1967's "Summer of Love"
Condition: Fine.
Item #1266
Pamphlet Architecture issue 14 by Ken Kaplan and Ted Krueger, also know as K/K Research and Development. They state "Dogmatic gas is wafting up from the cracks of this semi-soft-cheese civilization. When mixed with your corporate ration of oxygen, it lulls the brain into delusions of informed citizenship...You must mutate to survive!". The issue goes on to depict their sculptures and constructions called "analogs" to deal with this dsytopian state of affairs. It also documents their installation produced for the sculpture park known as Art Park, among other works and.....
Item #1559
An exhibition catalog for Kaprow's "Yard" exhibit at Hauser & Wirth, New York in the Fall of 2009. The environment "Yard" was first made for the backyard of the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York, in 1961 for the important "Environments - Situations - Spaces" exhibition. With black and white illustrations and a 12 blue duotone pages. Many image were selected from the Allan Kaprow Estate workfile on the original 1961 "Yard" exhibition. With the 2009 heavy cardstock, letterpressed exhibition announcement card laid in. Out of print. In a custom-made.....
Item #273
Number 440 of an edition of 500. Signed and numbered color Lambda print by Kempenaers laid in. Text is in English and Dutch. Includes a long sequence of photographs of the enormous rock formation printed on a cardboard concertina fold.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #307
The 1905 first Dodge Publishing Co. edition of The Rubáiyát with a wonderful deco cover and stylized color deco introduction page. This edition with sepia-toned photogravure illustrations by Adelaide Leeson (1875-1931), printed on delicate tissue pages. Leeson was a California artist and photographer (born in Coos Bay, Oregon) and was one of the first to use photography to illustrate literary works. She also hand-worked her negatives to achieve the images she wanted, being a pioneer of this technique. Leeson enlisted then well-known California literary figures, including Charles Keeler, Joaquin Miller.....
Item #1475
German language edition of a monograph on the Danish artist's sculptural work. In a protective mylar dust jacket cover.
Condition: Near Fine, edges of dust jacket are rubbed.
Item #305
Book-length catalog from the American sculptor's 1984 Malmö Konsthall exhibit of large-scale steel and kinetic works. Some photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg. Text in English and Swedish. With a silver-printed and die-punched cover in a custom-made protective mylar dust jacket.
Condition: Near Fine, slight rubbing to edges of wraps.
Item #306
Exhibition catalog for an exhibit at RubinSpangle Gallery, NY from March 16-April 13, 1991 in cooperation with the Leo Castelli Gallery. The exhibition consisted of three works: "Function, 1970," "Ten Partial Descriptions, 1979," and "(A Grammatical Remark), 1988". With tipped-in plates of the works. Essay by Jan Avgikos. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #384
The autobiography of this avant-garde artist who admitted herself to a psychiatric hospital in Tokyo in the 1970s, where she has been living, by choice, ever since. She continues to create work on a regular basis. First English edition translated by Ralph McCarthy. Out of print and uncommon in hardcover.
Condition: Fine, like new.
Item #1423
A wonderfully reproduced facsimile of the journal/album given by Le Corbusier to his friend and client Raoul La Roche, which included original drawings and watercolors of Venice, plus still lifes and notes on Corbusier's urban planning themes. Produced in collaboration with the Fondation Le Corbusier of Paris in a numbered edition of only 300 copies, this is number 236. The hardcover facsimile album is accompanied by a small paperback second volume containing critical texts and an essay by the scholar Stanislaus von Moos, as well as a transcription of the.....
Item #1429
An artist book from the London-born, New York-based artist presenting his altered washcloth assemblages. Printed as black-and-white photocopies on green, blue, grey and pink colored paper corresponding to the color of the work itself. Out of print.
Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
Item #943
Catalog No. 50 from the pioneering bookseller Steven Leiber, referencing Dan Graham's Schema (1966). Leiber was a Bay Area bookseller who championed artists' ephemera as works in themselves, and whose catalogs became collectible for cleverly paying homage to historic contemporary artist publications. Artists ephemera, movements, and publications listed in the catalog (with prices) include items by Vito Acconci, Bas Jan Ader, Aspen Magazine, Matthew Barney, Marcel Broodthaers, Chris Burden, Ulises Carrion, Don Celender, Dada, Fluxus, Marcel Duchamp, Roni Horn, Donald Judd, Ray Johnson, Martin Kippenberger, Barbara Kruger, Sol Lewitt, Richard.....
Item #1593
Catalog No. 52, the scarce final catalog in an edition of only 150 copies, from the pioneering bookseller Steven Leiber featuring the elegant bookwork of Barbara and Gabrielle Schmidt-Heins. Leiber was a Bay Area bookseller who championed artists' ephemera as works in themselves, and whose catalogs became collectible for cleverly paying homage to historic contemporary artist publications.
Condition: Near Fine, two tiny corner bumps top right and lower left near spine of front cover; light edgewear.
Item #1594
Beloved Bay-Area poet Bill Berkson's copy of Lucy Lippard's "Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972" with his notes and comments in the margins. A key anthology and timeline of the conceptual and earth art movements, and a nice association copy. Berkson died in San Francisco in 2016.
Condition: Very Good-, heavy wear, chips and areas of loss to dust jacket with fading to spine of DJ; light fading to red cloth boards; small amount of fraying to cloth at base of spine; as noted.....
Item #1601
A collection of 35 monographs and publications on Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), spanning the long career of this iconic American architect and designer. Including rare and out-of-print early books and publications, plus contemporary retrospective exhibition monographs, single-issue dedicated or feature magazine publications, and a small collection of ephemera, including Taliesen items. An instant FLW Library! The collection includes: • Frank Lloyd Wright: On Architecture (Grosset & Dunlap, 1941 paperback) • Frank Lloyd Wright: The Natural House (Horizon Press, 1954 hardcover) • Monona Basin Project: Schematic Master Plan for the City.....
Item #1250
The first edition, first printing of Sally Mann's important and controversial photobook, Immediate Family, in fine condition. The book and photographs sparked a wide-ranging debate on children, sexuality, motherhood and contemporary mores. Mann's photographs showed her children in their rural setting among nature, free from restrictions and the rules and codes of adult life. Luc Sante in The New Republic called it "one of the great photography books of our time". A key photobook of the 20th Century.
Condition: Near Fine, faint toning/yellow around edges of interior pages as is.....
Item #1587
From the foreward: "During the past several years, six young architects, drawn from around the United States, have been meeting in their Manhattan studios to exhange ideas about architecture - attempting to hammer out a vision, rather than merely another version of it." The six architects are Neil Denari, Ted Krueger, Ken Kaplan, Chris Scholz, Peter Plau and Wes Jones. Images in black and white. Pamphlet Architecture was initated in 1977 as an independent vehicle to criticize, question, and exchange views. Each issue is assembled by an individual author/architect.
Condition.....
Item #1560
A collection of 49 issues (in 35 publications) of the influential film journal Film Culture, known for exploring avant-garde cinema in depth. The magazine was founded and edited by Jonas Mekas (1922-2019), also the founder of the Anthology Film Archives and considered to be the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. Fluxus artist George Maciunas did the layout for select issues, such as Nos. 15 to 23 and No. 30 in this collection. A total of 79 issues of Film Culture were published between 1954 and 1996. A special issue #80 on Barbara Rubin.....
Item #1342
An issue of David Moe's "Love Lights Erotic Art Newspaper" which featured poetry and illustrations against a background of neon printing. Including poems by Jack Hirschman and others, and with an ad on the cover for the "First Annual San Francisco Poetry Festival" in November of 1976.
Condition: Very Good, toning to news print.
Item #1268
The first issue with articles on Jerry Hall (on the cover, photographed by Sølve Sundsbø), Kylie Minogue, London clubkids, an homage to Yves Klein, Michéle Lamy, Gareth Pugh, photos by Nick Waplington, illustrations by Julie Verhoven and more. Due to size and weight, Priority Mail shipping within the US is an additional $5.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #964
The third issue, focusing on Britain, with Jordan Dunn on the cover, photographed by Miles Aldridge. Other photography by Ellen Von Unwerth, Martin Parr, Adrien Pinault, Sarah McRory, Doug Inglish and others. With articles on Joan Collins, Georgia May Jagger, Amir Khan, Daphne Guinness, Christian Louboutin, The Gossip, Carsten Höller, Gemma Collins and more. Due to size and weight, Priority Mail shipping within the US is an additional $5.
Condition: Near Fine, very light edgewear.
Item #966
