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BALTZ, Lewis

The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California

New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics (1974). First Edition. Square quarto. 960 copies printed. Fifty-one uniform black and white images of suburban indus-trial buildings, shot in a minimalist style, with the third picture, "Industrial Structure During Painting," looking eerily like a Mondrian. A book celebrated for its intentional boring beauty, and one of the high-lights of the New Topographics movement in Ameri-can photography. (Roth 228-229, Open Book 298-299; Auer 576). Fine in a fine jacket, a little toned at the edges as usual. Crisp copy.

€ 2000.00

BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Zurich: Edition Bischofberger (1985). First Edition. Square quarto. Number 177 of 1000 numbered copies; SIGNED by Basquiat. An exquisite hardcover catalogue of Basquiat's paintings and collages issued in conjunction with an exhibition at Gallery Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, January 19 - February 16, 1985. 12 full-page color illustrations, including one gatefold. It is believed that while 1000 copies were printed, fewer than half were actually signed by Basquiat. Fine in a fine jacket with a tiny edge crease at one flap.

€ 2500.00

BEARD, Peter Hill

The End of the Game

New York: Viking (1965). First Edition. Quarto. A fine presentation copy, INSCRIBED by Beard to noted British book dealer Chas Sawyer: "December 7, '67 / To Mr. Sawyer with all best wishes / and salaams from the lake Rudolf Olympic / tryout (and also many thanks for / locating so much of the Africana now in / my collection) / as ever, Peter Beard / P.O. 4191 Nairobi." Beard has augmented his inscrip-tion with an original drawing of a crocodile chasing a swimmer. Laid into the book is a small vintage gelatin print sent to Sawyer as a New Year's card, annotated on the rear of the photograph, and enclosed in the original mailing envelope, sent from New York in 1971, with a small drawing on the front of the envelope. (Roth 170-171, Open Book 208-209, Auer 448). While Beard has become known for his elaborate paintings in later books, important copies of this title are rare. Top corners and the top edge of the text block are bumped, else near fine in a lovely, near fine jacket.

€ 6500.00

BIERMANN, Aenne

60 Fotos / 60 Photos / 60 Photographies

Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann (1930). First Edition. Small thin quarto. The second and last book in Franz Roh's Fototek Series. Trilingual text. Designed by Jan Tschichold. A highlight of the New Vision movement of photography. (Auer 152). Near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers and scarce red belly band.

€ 1500.00

BLOSSFELDT, Karl

Wundergarten der Natur

Neue Bilddokumente Schöner Pflanzenformen. Berlin: Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft (1932). First Edition. Quarto. With 120 full-page gravure plates of plants, in which Blossfeldt turns a typology of nature into art. (Open Book 106-107). Cloth lightly foxed, with foxing at the rear pastedown and endpaper, else near fine in a near fine jacket, foxed a bit at the verso, with a bit of restoration to repair three small tears at the spine heel and bottom edge of the jacket, as well as bit of seam-less restoration to a very shallow chip at the head of the spine. Very nice copy a book that is nearly impossible to find in fine condition.

€ 2500.00

(BRASSAÏ). MILLER, Henry

Quiet Days in Clichy

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. First Edition. Small octavo. Illustrated with Brassaï's luminous photographs of nighttime Paris printed in rich gravure. Near fine in distinctive wrappers with French flaps designed by T. Tajiri. Lovely copy.

€ 1500.00

BROHM, Joachim

Kray

Oberhausen: Plit Verlag (1995). First Edition. Oblong quarto. Number 95 of 800 press-numbered copies. One of the only books of the era to pick up on the new color move-ment in German photography, combining the Dusseldorf aesthetic (Brohm studied privately with Michael Schmidt, and is not considered a Becher student per se), with the color sensibility of Shore, Sternfeld, and to a lesser and later extent, Soth. Whatever the historical antecedents, Kray has the feel of a more personalized, downscaled and unadulterated Gursky. Hint of soiling, else fine in boards with the title stamped in silver.

A modern rarity: at least half of the print run of 800 was inadvertently thrown out.

€ 1750.00

EL LISSITZKY& Il'ia Erenburg

Moi Parizh / My Paris

Moscow: Izobrazitel'noe Iskusstvo, 1933. First Edition. Small oblong quarto. With the great rare Lissitzky photomontage dust jacket. Incredible Erenburg images of the poor, homeless, drunk, and dispossessed of Paris. More in line with George Orwell than the other iconic Paris photobooks, and printed on cheap paper that accentuates the proletarian leanings of the photographer. Near fine in a good jacket with a few small chips to the front panel, and one larger chip to the back panel. The verso of the jacket has been reinforced with tape along some of the edges, and the chips have been mended with archival paper. The dustwrapper is legendarily scarce.

€ 10,500.00

COBURN, Alvin Langdon

Men of Mark

London / New York: Duckworth & Co. / Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. First Edition. Quarto. With 33 tipped-in tissue-guarded photogravures of various famous artists and writers, including George Bernard Shaw, Henri Matisse, Mark Twain, William Butler Yeats, and H.G. Wells, among many others. Coburn oversaw the pulling of the gravures himself. Corners a little bumped, endpapers and tissue-guards toned, otherwise a fresh, near fine copy in a nice example of the rare dust jacket, complete and unrestored, with a few small edge tears.

€ 12,500.00

EL LISSITZKY

Russland: Die Rekonstruktion der

Architektur in der Sowjetunion

Vienna: Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., 1930. First Edition. Quarto. Volume I in the series "Neues Bauen in Der Welt" edited by Joseph Gant-ner. With 104 illustrations, including many highly avant-garde photographs of modern Russian architecture. Lightly chipped at the spine ends and a bit around the edges, else a bright, very good copy in photo-illustrated integral wrappers

with French flaps. Completely unrestored.

€ 1750.00

NEUTRA, Richard J

Amerika: Die Stilbildung Des Neuen Bauens in Den Vereinigten Staaten

Vienna: Verlag von Anton Schroll & Co., 1930. First Edition. Quarto. Volume II in the series "Neues Bauen in Der Welt" edited by Joseph Gantner. With 260 illustrations. Architectural and industrial pho-tographs taken by Neutra during his visits to America in the mid twenties. Very minor archival restoration; just about near fine in photo-illustrated integral wrappers with French flaps (El Lissitzky designed the cover image.)

€ 1750.00

GOSSAGE, John

LAMF: Like a Motherfucker / Three Days in Berlin

N.p.: Self-published (1987). Limited Edition. Octavo. Number 57 of 100 numbered copies; SIGNED by Gossage. Tipped in is a small brown cutout saying 'Three Days in Berlin 1987," and an envelope Gossage sent to himself from Berlin, postmarked in 1990. (The other copy of this book I handled lacked these inserts, but was dated in 1990.) Comprised of 28 gelatin silver prints tipped on to archival mounts, with no two copies of the edition alike. Gossage's ethereal photographs of pre-unification Berlin. Fine copy in blue boards, fine original dust jacket fashioned from a contemporary Berlin newspaper (very light wear), original glassine overlay, also fine.

€ 3750.00

GOSSAGE, John

The Pond

Millerton: Aperture (1985). First Edition. Quarto. Denise Simes' enigmatic essay that mentions neither photographer nor book only heightens the unease of Gossage's riveting monotone images. One of the seminal photobooks of the latter part of the century. (Parr / Badger, v2, 37-38). Fine in a fine jacket with a hint of wear at the edges, still sealed in the pub-lisher's shrinkwrap.

€ 750.00

GRAZDA, Edward

On the Bowery

New York: Edward Grazda (2001). An original maquette. Small oblong quarto, spiral bound. Executed in an edition of two copies, SIGNED by the photographer, consisting of 61 silver gelatin prints of Grazda's images of the Bowery taken in 1971, and printed in 2001. A great document of a New York neighbor-hood now populated by vastly different characters than the ones Grazda photographed in the early 70s. No text. Hint of light edge wear, else fine in spiral-bound wrappers with the photographer's name and the title of the book stenciled on.

€ 10,500.00

(HARING, Keith)

Keith Haring

New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1982. First Edition. Square spiral-bound quarto. 2000 copies printed. SIGNED by Haring to a Swedish collector with a wonderful original self-portrait superimposed over Haring's photograph and dated 1982. Includes a foreword by publisher Tony Shafrazi, as well as text by Keith Haring, Jeffrey Deitch, Robert Pincus-Witten, and David Shapiro. Designed by Dan Friedman. With photographs of Haring's subway drawings by Tseng Kwong Chi. Fine copy in the distinctive illus-trated spiral bound wrappers.

€ 3250.00

HEATH, Dave

A Dialogue With Solitude

New York: Community Press, 1965. First Edition. Quarto. Heath's first and only major monograph, rescued from the scrap heap of obscurity by Michael Torosian's brilliant reissue in 2000. Prior to the resurrection, Dialogue was probably the greatest unknown American photobook, and Heath, while revered amongst photographers for his emotional and technical brilliance, had yet to become widely collected. The bridge in American photography between Robert Frank and Larry Clark, and one of the most gripping American photobooks ever published. (Parr / Badger, v2, 104; Auer 444). Fine in a near fine jacket with a small sticker over the printed price, a few tiny edge nicks, and minimal loss at the bottom flap folds.

€ 2000.00

HUJAR, Peter

Portraits in Life and Death

New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. First Edition. Square quarto. The rare cloth issue of Hujar's haunt-ing first book. Introduction by Susan Sontag. Twenty-nine portraits of Hujar's Lower East Side friends, William Burroughs among them, followed by twelve portraits of semi-preserved 19th century Sicilians found in the catacombs of a Palermo church. Near fine in a bright, near fine jacket with two small edge tears that have been neatly repaired at the verso.

€ 1500.00

HINE, Lewis

Men At Work: Photographic Studies of Modern Men and Machines

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First Edition. Small quarto. Hine's iconic images of the construction of the Empire State Building are the highlights of this book originally intended for children. (Open Book 108-109; Auer 187). Near fine in a very good jacket with small chips at the back panel, spine, and bottom edges, as well as two closed edge tears to the back panel, and a bit of rubbing to the printing of the spine. Only the third copy I have seen in jacket in ten years.

€ 9500.00

New Topographics:Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape

Rochester: International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House (1975). First Edition. Small oblong quarto. 2500 copies printed. The exhibition catalogue for the landmark New Topographics show at George Eastman House in 1975. With images by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore (in color), and Henry Wessel, Jr. The importance of this catalogue cannot be understated. It was the first time the photographers of the New Topographics school were published together, and it is the bridge in photo literature between Ed Ruscha, honored in the introduction, and the later work of the Becher students, including Gursky, Struth, Ruff, etc. Near fine in printed wrappers as issued.

€ 1000.00

(New Topographics)Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Stephen Shore et al

LANGE, Dorothea & Paul Schuster Taylor

An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1939). First Edition. Quarto. The most important documentary FSA pho-tobook, and one of the iconic depression-era texts in any genre. (Parr/ Badger, v1,142-43; Roth 102-103; Open Book 132-133). Near fine in an almost near fine second issue jacket with a tiny chip at the top of the front panel. Nice copy of a book prone to wear.

€ 1500.00

LEVITT, Helen

A Way of Seeing

New York: Viking (1965). First Edition. Oblong quarto. Essay by James Agee. SIGNED by Levitt. One of the quintessential New York photobooks, and a consensus highspot of 20th century photographic literature. (Parr / Badger, v1, 252-253; Roth 178-179; Open Book 214-215; Auer 447). Near fine in a near fine price-clipped jacket.

€ 3000.00

LEWITT, Sol

Autobiography

New York / Boston: Multiples Inc. / Michael K. Torf, 1980. First Edition. Square quarto. Lewitt's best known book, a catalogue of his personal items, including several shots of his library, with one mouth watering page showing multiple copies of his own limited editions! (Parr / Badger, v2, 155; Open Book 322-323; Auer 624). Fine in printed wrappers in a fine jacket. Mint copy, as new.

€ 1500.00

LEWITT, Sol

Brick Wall

New York: Tanglewood Press Inc., 1977. First Edition. Quarto. 32 pages, with 30 full-page black and white gravure images of a brick wall, shot on the same day, but in different light. No text. Lewitt's scarcest regularly published book, and arguably his best. Near fine in printed wrappers.

€ 1750.00

LIFANOVA, Liliya

Untitled

(Rolled Raw Linen, Various Weights, Dipped in Multi-Colored Paint), 2011. Linen and acrylic on board, 8 X 10 inches.

€ 1500.00

LIFANOVA, Liliya

Untitled

(Rolled Raw Linen, Gold Leaf), 2011. Linen and liquid gold leaf on board, 7 7/8 X 5 3/4 inches.

€ 1250.00

LYON, Danny

The Bikeriders

New York: Macmillan (1968). First Edition. Small quarto. The scarce cloth issue of Danny Lyon's first book; SIGNED by Lyon. One of the iconic American photobooks of the sixties. For this proj-ect, Lyon photographed and ultimately joined the Chicago Outlaws, a motorcycle racing club more interested in the emerging American biker culture than in winning on the track. Interestingly, many of the images in the book were originally shot in color, but financial limitations of the publisher necessitated publishing in black and white. (Parr / Badger, v1, 256; Roth 190-191; Open Book 236-237). Crisp and fine without the ubiquitous remainder dot, in a bright, near fine jacket with a short closed tear at the top of the front panel and light wear at the spine ends.

€ 2750.00

Man Ray

Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934 Paris

Hartford and (New York) / Paris: James Thrall Soby (Random House) / Cahiers d'Art (1934). Second Edition with the replaced title page. Spiral-bound quarto. Text in French and English. Illustrated with 104 photographs printed in a lush gravure, divided into five sections, and comprising many of Man Ray's iconic images, with nineteen rayographs. (Roth 80-81). Tiny areas of tape residue to the endpapers, tiny edge creases, else a bright, near fine copy in the distinctive photo-illustrated spiral-bound wrappers. Lovely copy.

€ 3750.00

NERUDA, Pablo

España en el Corazon:Himno a Las Glorias del Pueblo en la Guerra

(1936-1937)

Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Ercilla, 1937. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to 2000 copies. Neruda's Spanish Civil War poetry set to 16 photomontages by Chilean photographer Pedro Olmos. Wrappers rubbed, worn, and nicked at the yapped edges; a very good copy in original wrappers and scarce thus. Most copies are either second editions, or have been rebound. This copy purchased from a leading Buenos Aires dealer who has been in busi-ness for over 40 years. The only copy he has handled in original wrappers.

€ 6000.00

McGINLEY, Ryan

Ryan McGinley

New York: Index Books (2002). First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by McGinley with a small drawing of a heart and the quip: "stay gold". The photographer's influential second book, following the self-published The Kids are Alright. McGinley's candid images of his friends and their cultural milieu have become 21st century icons. Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.

€ 1250.00

MUNKACSI, Martin

Nudes by Munkacsi

New York: Greenberg, 1951. First Edition. Quarto. Introduction by John Rawlings. Dust jacket designed by Alexey Brodovitch. Lovely gravure images of nudes. Important and under collected book. (Auer 341). Bumped at the spine heel and tapped at two corners, else a particularly fresh near fine copy in a near fine jacket with light wear at the spine ends. Despite the small flaws, this is this nicest copy I have seen of this lovely book.

€ 850.00

MORIYAMA, Daido

Shashin yo Sayonara / Bye, Bye Photography, Dear

Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha (1972). First Edition. Small quarto. The photographer's third book: a mas-terpiece of Japanese photography, and the book that best illustrates the conceptual ideals and vision of the Provoke photographers. Here Moriyama pushes the boundaries of the medium: assembling images from a variety of sources, placing them in a tumultu-ous and discordant anti-sequence, and assaulting the viewer with full-page grainy, blurry, and some-times indecipherable pictures. (Parr / Badger, v1, 298; Roth 218; Open Book 290; Auer 543). Very tiny stain to the bottom edges of the pages, else near fine in printed wrappers with no separation of the images and text block as is often the case, in an almost near fine jacket, no tears or repairs, but with a few light surface stains, a bit of even soiling, and a tiny abrasion. A respectable copy of this great Provoke document.

€ 4000.00

Tokyo: Hogashoten (1972). First Edition. Quarto. Pictures of the seamy underside of life in Okinawa, shot in the style popularized by the Provoke photographers, with a section each printed on green and blue paper. Unlike the overtly political Okinawa protest books, Nagahama focuses more on the American soldiers and their extracurricular activities outside the military zone. One of the best unreferenced Japanese books of the era. Near fine in wrappers in the distinctive near fine jacket, publisher's red obi (worn, with one flap detached). The first copy I have seen with obi.

€ 1500.00

NAGAHAMA, Osamu

Atsuhu nagai yoru no shima / A Hot and Long Night in Okinawa

NAKAHIRA, Takuma

Kitarubeki Kotoba no Tameni / For a Language to Come

Tokyo: Fudosha (1970). First Edition. Quarto. Nakahira was one of the founders of the Provoke movement of Japanese photography and literature. His blurred, distorted, dark, and depressing pictures capture the reality of a postindustrial Japan hurtling out of control. The use of bleeds and double page spreads adds a cinematic freneticism to the work. (Parr / Badger, v1, 292-293; Auer 524). Light vertical crease at the spine, else �ne in wrappers in a near �ne jacket, lightly rubbed along the edges and spine, and foxed at the verso of the spine (noticeable on the front); housed in the distinctive bullet slipcase (a little wear and age-toning). Nice copy of a book that has become the scarcest of the Provoke mono-graphs.

€ 5500.00

NASH, Paul

Fertile Image

London: Faber and Faber (1951). First Edition. Small quarto. 64 black and white plates. Mostly studies of the natural world by this artist best known for his painting. Edited by Margaret Nash with an intro-duction by James Laver. Posthumous publication. (Parr / Badger, v2, 139). Former owner's signature and date, offsetting to the endpapers, else near fine in a near fine jacket, bright, but with a little offset-ting at the verso and a bit of edgewear. Unaccountably scarce in jacket.

€ 1000.00

PRINCE, Richard

Richard Prince

New York: Barbara Gladstone (1988). First Edition. Quarto. A catalogue / artist's book pub-lished in conjunction with an exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in 1988. Although predated by several publications, this was the first artist's book that Prince designed himself, and is the first example of a Prince's unique style of book making which continues to reshape the art world over twenty years hence. Sunned at the thin spine, else near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers.

€ 750.00

PRINCE, Richard

8 X 10

London: Sadie Coles HQ (1999). First Edition. Quarto. Letter "Q" of 26 lettered copies, SIGNED by the artist. Ten original 8 X 10 rephotographs of celebrity stills, seven in color, that Prince has fictitiously inscribed from the celebrities to himself. (Only the "originals" are actually inscribed, the rephotographs give only the illusion of being inscribed, but this is undoubtedly the intent of the artist.) The highlight is an airbrushed Pamela Anderson, her white-painted toes spilling out of her shoes. While cannibalized prints from this collec-tion surface at auction, the complete book is uncommon. Tiny spot to the rear cover, else fine in gilt stamped clasp bound red boards, with the images enclosed back to back in archival sleeves and bound in as issued.

€ 10,500.00

RICHTER, Hans

Filmgenger von Heute - Filmfreunde von MorgenBerlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G.M.B.H., 1929. First Edition. Small quarto. A companion volume to Werner Graff's Es Kommt der Neue Fotograf, this influential study of experimental film was published to coincide with the 1929 Film und Foto exhibition in Stuttgart. Illustrated with numerous photographs, film stills, and filmstrips, with photographic repro-ductions by many of the important avant-garde artists of the era, including Man Ray, Duchamp, Leger, and Richter himself. A sharp, near fine copy in a very good example of the scarce and fragile jacket, trimmed at the top and bottom edges, with several small tears at the spine ends and flap folds, some reinforced by tape at the verso, but complete and bright overall.

€ 2250.00

SPAANS, Peter

Works of a City

[The Netherlands]: Privately published, 1983. Limited Edition artist's book. Oblong quarto. Number 4 of 85 numbered copies SIGNED by Spaans and dated in the year of publication. The Dutch photographer's first book, a collection of silk-screened photographic images and montages of New York, some fold-out. Text mostly in Dutch. The first copy I have seen of this excellent pub-lication. Near fine in white boards sans jacket as issued.

€ 2000.00

ROH, Franz &Jan Tschichold

Foto-auge / Oeil et Photo / Photo-Eye

Stuttgart: Fritz Wedekind (1929). First Edition. Quarto. Original publisher's bellyband laid in. The de facto catalogue of the FiFo show in Stuttgart, 1929, reproducing work from the exhibition by Man Ray, Weston, Atget, Renger-Patzsch, Moholy-Nagy, etc., and ushering in the modernist move-ment in Photography. With Franz Roh's trilingual essay. (Parr / Badger, v.1, 98-99; Open Book 82-83; Auer 140). Small split at the bottom edge, else near fine in photo-illustrated wrappers with the spine bright and fresh. The unblemished bellyband is laid into the book and exceptionally rare: this is the first example I have seen.

€ 6000.00

WARHOL, Andy & Bob Colacello

Andy Warhol's Exposures

New York: Andy Warhol Books / Grosset & Dunlap (1979). First Edition. The "silver" edition. One of about 50 copies produced from a projected edition of 1000. SIGNED by Andy Warhol. With silver edges, and slipcase. Fine in a fine jacket, publisher's black slipcase.

€ 4000.00

WESTON, Edward

50 Photographs

New York: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce (1947). First Edition. Quarto. Number 1434 of 1500 numbered copies initialed by Weston. Designed by Merle Armitage. An American classic: Weston chose the 50 images himself. (Roth 128-129, Open Book 150-151). Trace foxing to the page edges, a few spots of foxing to some pages, binding a bit slack as usual else near fine copy in an almost fine jacket, lightly toned at the spine and edges, with a single short edge tear. Excellent copy.

€ 3750.00