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Catalog for a 1976 exhibition in Rome by Italian artist Sandro Martini, who is still working today. With a dust jacket over a cardboard cover, black and white illustrations, one fold-out photograph and one tipped-in color plate. Signed by Martini in pencil on the title page. Text in Italian.
Condition: Very Good, dust jacket has some wrinkling and .5" loss to one corner plus a few small tears at some edges - now protected by a jacket cover.
Item #701
From Carlquist's "Natural Man" series capturing the male nude in the natural environment, with many of the photographs taken in the unusual garden at his Hope Ranch home, as well as near Joshua Tree, Big Sur, and the Sierra. Most of Carlquist's models were uncircumcised. Photos in black and white. Signed and numbered edition: No. 216 of 2,000 copies. Signed by Carlquist in bold sharpie on the title page. Carlquist was a educator, botanist, and Guggenheim Fellow, and taught at Claremont Graduate School, Pomona College and UC Santa Barbara. He.....
Item #1581
From Carlquist's "Natural Man" series capturing the male nude in the natural environment, with many of the photographs taken in the unusual garden at his Hope Ranch home, as well as near Joshua Tree, Big Sur, and the Sierra. Most of Carlquist's models were uncircumcised. Photos in black and white. Signed and numbered edition: No. 350 of 2,000 copies. Signed by Carlquist in bold sharpie on the title page. Carlquist was a educator, botanist, and Guggenheim Fellow, and taught at Claremont Graduate School, Pomona College and UC Santa Barbara. He.....
Item #1582
A catalogue raisonné of the graphic and printed works of Henry Moore, inscribed with a drawing by the British sculptor. Covering the years 1931-1972, this is volume one of at least four volumes documenting Moore's graphic works, with the other volumes covering the period from 1973-1984. Inscribed to "Julie" on the half-title page with the inscription stating that it was signed in Much Hadam, England on October 22, 1979, where the artist's studio was located. With a drawing in pen by the Moore under the inscription (see photos). The artist's.....
Item #1484
Originally published in 1928, this is the 1975 Golden Anniversary Edition of Manly P. Halls' The Secret Teachings of All Ages, in a signed and numbered edition of 2,000 copies. This is copy number 581. Hall was an influential leader of the metaphysical movement sweeping the United States during the 1930s. The Secret Teachings of All Ages challenged assumptions about Western society's spiritual roots and provided a new view of contemporary spirituality. Hall had traveled throughout Europe and Asia and studied the customs and religions of the people in various.....
Item #1628
A mid-century classic and the signature work on urban planning by Ludwig Hilberseimer, who taught at the Bauhaus institute in Dessau before emigrating to the USA to avoid persecution under the Nazi regime. Signed by him and dated 1944 on the title page. Hilberseimer was also the Director of Urban development for the City of Chicago. He was a friend and colleague of Mies van der Rohe, and together they designed the Lafayette Park urban redevelopment project in Detroit. Van der Rohe contributes the introduction to this book. Hilberseimer's work.....
Item #1622
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 1912 edition of what is considered to be the first English-language novel published in the United States by a Japanese writer. The text first appeared in 1901 serialized in two parts in Illustrated Monthly and was first published in book form in 1902 by Frederick A. Stokes. Marketed as the authentic diary of a young Japanese girl visiting the states, it was actually written by the prominent (male) Japanese author of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism Yonejir (Yone) Noguchi, also the father of the famous contemporary sculptor Isamu Noguchi.....
Item #1556
The 1920 second printing of 500 copies by Orientalia of Yone Noguchi's "Seen & Unseen, or Monologues of an Homeless Snail." Signed by Noguchi and with his chop opposite the title page. The book of verse was first published in 1897 and written by Noguchi as a young man in the San Francisco Bay area. Noguchi is the father of the contemporary sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The handsome historiated initials (the flourished letters at beginning of a verse) and the cover decoration were designed by Gelett Burgess. From the collection of.....
Item #1555
The handsome numbered and signed edition (by Editor Richard Morgan) of Patchen's Lost Plays. No. 32 of 100, handbound by Emily Payne. No dust jacket as issued.
Condition: Fine.
Item #173
Lloyd Reynolds developed the Weathergram as a way for his students to make small, beautiful things and as a way to share their calligraphy. A Weathergram is a piece of kraft paper with a short verse (also known as a Weathergram) written in italic calligraphy. The Weathergram is hung outdoors in trees. Sometimes the first letter was written in vermillion (red) and/or with a larger pen for emphasis. In his introduction, Reynolds states: "The Weathergram is a very short poem of about ten words - or less" and "The weathergram.....
Item #1618
In October of 2004, Tom Sachs and Van Neistat toured the Alps by motorcycle and made this publication documenting their journey with hand-drawn maps and appendices listing various information, including a calendar, crashes, expenses, dinner seating and exhibition charts, travel restrictions, and their meals, ranked. Signed in an edition of only 25 copies, this #6 of 25. Color copied onto heavy paper stock. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item #1113
Truitt's moving journal and writings on being a mother, woman, and artist is considered one of the classic artist memoirs. Inscribed by Truitt (and also appears for be regifted by the recipient, see photo). Uncommon in hardcover, and even more so signed.
Condition: Near Fine, light wear to dust jacket.
Item #1598
