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Yoko My Love Nobuyoshi Araki Candlestick Point

Lewis Baltz Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo, 1978. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto 8.5 x 8.25”.

Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. Yoko My Love is the seventh book in the Asahi Sonorama series of photobooks. The subject is Yoko Aoki, Arakiʼs Min Gallery, Tokyo and Aperture, New York, 1989. First edition. wife from 1971 until her untimely death in 1990. At the couples wedding Oblong folio 10.75 x 13.75”. Hardbound with black cardboard reception a slide show of nude photographs of Yoko was presented. She later slipcase. INSCRIBED to Robert Sobieszek by Lewis Baltz. Sobieszek commented that her relatives were dead silent, not knowing how to re-act, was the director of photography at the Los Angeles County Museum with the exception of one person who became ill. Condition: Small cut to rear of Art from 1990 to 2005. "Baltz's pictures are monolithic in the sense part of crown; very tiny spot of green ink to lower text block; else Fine. that they make southern California, where he grew up, literally two- dimensional and abstract. The unbroken surfaces that Baltz has 850 depicted have--in the photograph--anyway--a kind of purity as pattern often quite beautiful."--Michel Frizot, The New History of Photography, p. 656. Condition: A few small blemishes and light rubbing to bottom edge of slipcase; Book is Fine. SOLD

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings

Jean-Michel Basquiat Complete two-volume set A Different Kind of Order (Arbeiten 1962-1984) Authors include Richard Marshall, Jean-Louis Prat, Bruno Bischofberger, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien Tony Shafrazi, Johnny Depp, Enrico Navarra plus others John Baldessari Edited by Rainer Fuchs Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, 2000. Third Edition. Quarto 11.75 x 10”. Two hardbound volumes in pictorial wrapped boards with slipcase. This is an Lifeʼs Balance (Works 84-04) extremely comprehensive catalogue raisonné of works on canvas and wood Kunsthaus Graz done between 1980 to 1988. Condition: Top right front corner of one volume John Baldessari is a bit roughed; rear top corner lightly tapped; else a very bright copy. Edited by Walther König, Köln SOLD

Verlag der Buchandlung Walther König, Köln, 2005. First Edition. Quarto 11 x 8.75”. Two soft bound volumes in stiff illustrated wrappers enclosed in pictorial slipcase (shown). This set was published for the collaborative retrospective by Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Kunsthaus Graz. The MUMOK part

of the exhibition and publication focuses on the early and mid-career

works, while the Kunsthaus Graz studies the later works; 1984 was chosen as the dividing line as it marks a caesura in Baldessariʼs œuvre, it is also the point when he gradually began to re-enter the European field of gravity. Condition: Different Kind of Order has two tiny dings one at the heel and another on the spine; slipcase has very faint wrinkle to rear; else a very bright copy. 1500

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Rayʼs a Laugh The End of the Game Richard Billingham Peter Beard Scalo, Zürich, 1996. First Edition. Quarto 11.25 x 8.5”. Hardbound in paper The Viking Press, New York, 1965. True First Edition. Quarto 11 x 8.25". covered boards with illustrated dust jacket. Billinghamʼs brutally honest Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. "The End of the Game, focusing on the photographs of his family were originally taken to be used as reference for his end of an era, tries to suggest the shape of things to come: an elephant paintings. ʼMy father Raymond is a chronic alcoholic. He doesnʼt like going outside reaching for the last branch on a tree, a vestigial giraffe plodding out of the and mostly drinks homebrew. My mother Elizabeth hardly drinks but she does picture, its legs lost in a mirage."--Peter Beard. Condition: Jacket is faintly smoke a lot. She likes pets and things that are decorative. They married in 1970 sunned on the spine, has some light edge wear with two closed tears neatly and I was born soon after. My younger brother Jason was taken into care when repaired on the verso; front crown tip lightly tapped; cloth to bottom edge has he was 11 but is now back with Ray and Liz again. Recently he became a father. slight separation; else a bright copy. Ray says Jason is unruly. Jason says Rayʼs a laugh but doesnʼt want to be like 650 him.ʼ Robert Frank writes on the jacket of being able to ʻsee and hear what goes on between the frames. No room for judgment or morality… reality and no pretenceʼ. Cited in Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol.2, pg. 304-5 Condition: Light shelf wear to jacket with a few faint creases; heel has a very light tap; else a bright copy. 450

The Routes of Passion: Mexico 1960ʼs – 1970ʼs Stress & Density Antonio Caballero Peter Beard Toluca Project, Paris, 2005. Limited Edition of 50 hand numbered copies with an Museums Betriebs Gesellschaft mbH, Wien and KunstHausWien, Vienna, 1999. original silver print. Quarto 10.5 x 7.75”; print measures 4x4”. Hardbound in First Edition. Quarto 9.75 x 6.75". Hardbound with one plate tipped into each the pictorial wrapped boards. In the years between 1963 to 1978 Antonio Caballero front and back covers, no dust jacket as issued. “In a world where a million people made no less than five hundred soap opera like photo novellas, on which he was are being added every four days, 400 to 500 million people are already starving to producer, director, and photographer. This book culls together Caballeroʼs best death every year. That is sick. And we won't even talk about it. We are pushing images from that time period. Condition: Heel is lightly tapped; very light rubbing wildlife out of its habitat. There is no more time to play, there is no more space to to extreme corners; else a very bright copy. play. The game has come to an end, the wildlife is domesticated, out of and 850 surrounded by national parks and it is doomed to human influence, human pressure, human manipulation, human horror. We're living in a disintegrating world, and people are not making the right calls about it. We're entering the age of density and stress from overcrowding and squeezing". --Peter Beard. Condition: Fine. 750

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Forma di Donna (The Form of Woman) Richard Cerf: Photographies Carla Cerati Richard Cerf Text by d'Yves Aubry (all text in French) Mazzotta/Fotografia, Milan, 1978. First edition. Square Quarto 10.75 x 10.75”. Paperback stiff illustrated wrappers. “Forma di Donna is a collection of rather Editions Natiris, Paris, 1982. First Edition. Octavo 8.25 x 8.75". tradition nude studies in which Carla Cerati --already well known for a report Hardbound plate tipped into front board, no dust jacket as issued. Erotic on the shocking conditions in Italian mental institutions-- took her inspiration photographs with dark surreal twist, with obvious nods to Hans Bellmer from the work of Bill Brandt to photograph womenʼs bodies as if she were and Man Ray. Condition: Binding is a little loose; else a very bright copy. dealing with elements of landscape; a breast becomes a sand dune; a

stomach, the incline of a high plateau; the curve of a rib cage, the outline of a hill.” Alessandro Bertolotti, The Books of Nudes, pg. 250-1. Condition: Wraps 200 have a hint of edge wear; pages are light toned towards edges; else a very nice copy. 500

I Travestiti (The Transvestites) Lisetta Carmi Punk Picasso Text by Elvio Fachinelli and Lisetta Carmi Larry Clark

Essedi Editrici, Rome, 1972. First Edition. Quarto 12.5 x 9.5”. Hardbound in AKA Editions, New York, 2003. First Edition, limited to 1000 signed and numbered illustrated paper covered boards. SIGNED by Lisetta Carmi in Milan on 24 copies. Thick Quarto 11x 8.5”. Stiff illustrated wrappers with plain cardboard June 1977. “Unlike other books on the same subject, this is a serious study, slipcase. SIGNED by Larry Clark in green pen on the colophon. From the an attempt to understand and empathize with the social and sexual publisher: Larry Clarkʼs opus Punk Picasso…displays in scrapbook format a loose phenomenon of the transvestites, and Carmiʼs pictures are objective yet chronological overview of the celebrated artistʼs provocative career. The material intimate. Carmi made these pictures between 1965 and 1971 [in] the old presented ranges from family snapshots (his American Indian great grandfather, Jewish quarter of Genoa, which had become a ghetto for both transvestites his father playing golf, a portrait of his mother as a professional photographer with and transsexuals. [T]he book is both sociologically and photographically Rollei and flash in hand, Clark with his sonʼs soccer team); unpublished images interesting, an eloquent plea, made by a real woman, for society to from Tulsa and 42nd St.; photographs from the set of his first film Kids and his understand these ʼotherʼ women, trapped in the wrong bodies.” Parr & new film Ken Park; clippings from reviews of exhibitions and films; Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. I pg.228. Condition: Spine is slightly correspondence; transcribed stories; Roger Maris ephemera; portraits of sunned; a few faint scratches to front board; some surface wear to boards; skateboarders; River Phoenix (images appropriated from Teen Magazines); thin split at spine on back cover, binding is still tight; else a bright copy. Clarkʼs lover Tiffany and their dog Snappy; Page Six from the New York Post headlining: Larry Clark stands up for U.S.; and reproductions of phonograph SOLD records that act as soundtrack to the visual narrative. Punk Picasso gathers together scraps of evidence that chart the life of the artist and his creations, which in Clarkʼs case, are inseparably entwined. Condition: Fine.

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Tulsa Larry Clark Korekuta / Collector Oniroku Dan & Takashi Yamaguchi Self Published, 1979. First Hardcover Edition (True First was only issued in softcover and was published in 1971 by Lustrum). Quarto 12.25 x 9.5". Hardbound in dark gray Haga-shoten, Tokyo, 1971. First Edition. Quarto 10.75 x 8.75”. cloth with illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED to Robert Sobieszek by Larry Clark. Hardbound with dust jacket & original acetate, folding illustrated Inscription: ʻTo Bob Sobieszek / Many thanks for the your help. / -Larry Clark / 1983ʼ. chemise (shown), and red cardboard slipcase (not shown). “Unlike The Bikeriders, which found a mainstream publisher, Tulsa was brought out by Bondage film stills shot by Takashi Yamaguchi for a film by arguably the best of the small American photobook publishers of the 1970ʼs, Ralph Oniroku Dan. This an extremely unusual, wonderfully produced, Gibsonʼs Lustrum Press. Clarkʼs photo-diary, containing gritty, graphic depictions of and uncommon book with numerous images of boys and girls in local teenagers shooting up, playing with guns and having sex, was an instant bondage, in a seemingly remote location. The plot appears to success de scandale. Its success amongst the photographic community was due center around the Korekuta (collector), collecting slaves for his largely to its perceived authenticity. Clark lived with these kids, did drugs with them, sadistic sexual appetites, which in one scene includes threatening slept with them and included himself in the photographs. It was a true photo-diary, a young girl with a chicken. Fine with Fine slipcase; cardboard turning the documentary mode around. Instead of it being a view from the outside – chemise has small abrasion to inside. from above – here was an authentic view from the inside. Following the publication of SOLD Tulsa, Clark even went to jail for a time, which served to enhance the bookʼs street cred. --Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 1,pg. 260. Condition: Some light creasing and wear along edges of jacket; crown and heel a little pushed; else a very nice copy. 1500 Apples and Cigarettes Roe Ethridge Drum: Et Sted i Irland (Drum: A Place in Ireland) Krass Clement Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, 2006. First Edition. Quarto 11.75 x 9.75". Hardbound in gray cloth with plate tipped into front board, no dust jacket as issued. "It's the same image whether it's Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 1996. First Edition. Oblong Quarto 9.75 x 12. illustrating a text or has a caption, on the walls or on a bus stop. I Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Krass Clement. “The like the fact that photography is ubiquitous and polymorphic, that most notable thing about Drum is not that the bulk of the book was it can be for the specialist or the dilettante or sometimes both at photographed in a single evening with only three rolls of film, but that it is, the same time." Roe Ethridge. Condition: Near Fine. Some very nevertheless, so good. The evening in question was spent in a pub in minor surface wear. Drum in rural Ireland and Clement concentrated on one principal character – a hunched, weather beaten old man, who sits alone with his 200 drink, apparently lost in his own thoughts while the life of the pub goes on unheedingly around him. We have all seen that man in a pub somewhere, and the book is entirely contemporary in sentiment – a biting comment on community, the outsider, alienation and the terrors of being alone.” – Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2, pg. 81. Condition: Jacket has hint of shelf wear; else a Fine copy. SOLD

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The Americans Flowers and Trees Robert Frank Lee Friedlander Introduction by Jack Kerouac Haywire Press, New York, 1981. First edition. Folio 15 x 12”. Hardbound in Pantheon Books, New York, 1986. First Pantheon Edition (True first purple cloth-covered outer boards with title stamped in black on cover, with American Edition published in 1959 by Grove Press). Quarto 8.5 x 9.5". green cloth-covered interior boards enclosing spiral-bound sheets, no dust Softcover in stiff illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Robert Frank on the title jacket as issued. SIGNED by Lee Friedlander. This gorgeously reproduced page. "[The Americans] paved the way for three decades of photographs book departs from Friedlander's better known subjects to focus on his pictorial exploring the personal poetics of lived experience. Many memorable photographs of flowers and trees. The photographs themselves nonetheless photobooks have been derived from this mass of material. None has been bear the signature style of this American master. Condition: Front green cloth more memorable, more influential, nor more fully realized than Frank's paste-down has some wrinkles most likely from a flaw in the binding process; masterpiece." Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol.1, pg. 247. else a very bright copy of the book. Condition: Tiny stain to top edge of front cover; wraps are faintly toned; 1750 front cover has slight crease along spine; some minor surface wear; else a nice copy. 1500

The American Monument Lee Friedlander

Eakins Press, New York, 1976. First edition. Oblong folio 12 x In Boksburg 17”. Green cloth stamped in gilt and black, three screws David Goldblatt fastening plates to boards. “The American Monument is almost maniacally inclusive, rounding up everything from Plymouth The Gallery Press, Cape Town, 1982. First Edition. Quarto 11.25 x 11.5”. Rock to a plaque commemorating the Pony Express in Salt Hardbound in black cloth with illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by David Lake City and treating them with the same nonchalance. The Goldblatt. “David Goldblatt is an intensely political photographer who, by doggedness of Friedlander's quest is at once astounding and focusing more on the cultural landscape of his homeland rather than on the hilarious...History stalks the landscape at every turn." --Vince more overtly political, has provided one of the broadest and most objective of Aletti, The Book of 101 Books, pg. 236-7. Condition: Fine. records of the years of apartheid and the birth of the new South Africa. ʻBlacks are not a part of this town,ʼ Goldblatt writes. ʻThey serve it, trade with it, SOLD receive charity from it, and are ruled, rewarded and punished by its precepts.ʼ The photographs are similar to this statement, apparently dispassionate but cunningly observed, relying on an accumulation of everyday details to build up a picture of a society based so determinedly on white values that it could be a small town in the American Midwest.” Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2, pg. 114-5. Condition: Corners lightly tapped; spine is slightly cocked; jacket has a few spots of light rubbing, especially at corners; else a bright copy.

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David Goldblatt Photographs 1984-1993 Goodman Gallery Editions, Johannesburg, 2004. First Edition Limited Andreas Gursky to 500 copies of these only 200 were issued with a dust jacket. Folio Edited by Zdenek Felix 15 x 14. Hardbound with dust jacket. Truly marvelous black & white Text by Rudolf Schmitz reproductions printed in five colors (or tones of gray) on uncoated paper. "The book contains close-ups of bodies — hands, legs, feet, Schirmer Art Books, Munich, 1994. First Edition. Quarto 10.5 x 8.25”. necks, and so on — and derives from the days when he worked for Hardbound no dust jacket as issued. Catalogue published in conjunction his father, who was a men's outfitter [tailor]. 'The outfitting skills have with Gurskyʼs 1994 exhibitions in Hamburg and Amsterdam. This book rusted,' he explains in the book's introduction, 'but that awareness of compromises a rather extensive collection of some of Gurskyʼs earlier the body, of its proportions, size and build and what is declared in work. Condition: Light shelf wear to boards; else a very bright copy; some stance, clothing and ornamentation, has become sharper and broader of the pages have a faint rippling near the top. — I am as conscious of these things in women as I am in men.' He is SOLD also conscious of how these details, in providing sociological clues — about diet, health, economic circumstances — feed into the political. In an apparently formalist book, consisting of semi-abstract photographs, the details are always made to talk, and we are asked to compare and contrast lives, between well-off and poor, between

black and white." --Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2 pg.114-5. Condition: Shelf wear to bottom edge of boards; else a very

bright copy. Lime Works 1500 Naoya Hatakeyama

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency Synergy, Inc., Tokyo, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto 11.75 x Nan Goldin 9.75". Softcover stiff illustrated wrappers. From the publisher: "Lime Works contains images which are moving for the ways in which they Aperture, New York, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Octavo transcend the reality of their subject matter, large limestone processing 10.5 x 9.25”. Hardbound in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. plants and quarries [scattered at thirty sites in Japan, from Hokkaido to SIGNED by Nan Goldin with brief inscription on the title page, on the Okinawa]. Renowned Japanese photographer Hatakeyama evokes the copyright page Goldin has written an unfinished thought. “[Goldin] site as the landscape is torn asunder for industrial use. The result is a examines the limitations of sanctioned gender roles and the surprisingly eerie work, composed of rusting lots, polluted waters, and conflicting, often violent nature of sexual relationships amongst her upturned stone." Condition: Lower text block is darkened by the shelf; friends and lovers. Her view is profoundly pessimistic, yet she also else Fine. admits the illogical pull of the biological imperative in her introduction 750 to the book: “I often fear that men and women are irrevocably strangers to each other, irreconcilably unsuited, almost as if they were from different planets. But there is an intense need for coupling in spite of it all. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, like most great photobooks, is an honest, troubling, passionate, deeply poetic mirror held up to our times.” Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History vol. 2, pg. 39. Condition: Priced clipped jacket has some light edge wear near extremities; lower rear corner has small area where the image

layer of jacket is rubbed off, no paper loss; small closed tear at crown

that has been neatly repaired on the verso; light rubbing to extreme

corners of book; crown and heal are a little pushed; else a very bright

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Mnemosyne Bill Henson

Scalo, Zurich, 2005. First edition. Thick quarto 10 x 12”. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. From the publisher: After the international success of Lux et Vogue's Book of Houses, Gardens, People Nox Scalo is proud and excited to announce the definitive mid-life retrospective Photographs by Horst book on Australian artist Bill Henson. The book combines all groups of work that Text by Valentine Lawford Henson has created up to the present: from his early Ballet pictures (1974), to his Foreword by Diana Vreeland body and nude portraits (1977–1986), from his photographs of street-crowds (1979–1982) to his Baroque Triptychs (1983–84), from his fantastic combinations Viking Press, New York, 1968. First Edition. Quarto 12.75 x 9.5". Hardbound of pictures taken in the Australian Suburbs and Egypt (1985/86) to his Los in beige cloth with illustrated dust jacket. From the jacket copy: The houses Angeles and New York nightscapes of (1987–88), from his famous Cut-Out and rooms, furniture and collections, gardens and daily lives of some of the collages shown at the centenary Venice Biennale in 1995, to the portraits of most interesting people in America and Europe are here presented in over adolescents and his magical color compositions for the Paris Opera (1990/91), two hundred beautiful colour photographs by Horst, with informative text by and, most recently, a haunting selection of his images of children adrift in the Valentine Lawford. Condition: Small stains to last free end paper; clipped wilderness of night (1997 – 2004), many of these appearing for the first time. jacket has some faint stains to verso that do not bleed through; a few wrinkles Condition: Faint surface wear to dust jacket; else a very bright copy. in the laminate; else a very bright copy of book usually found in very poor 650 condition. SOLD

Bill Henson: Photographs Bill Henson Introduction by David Malouf Endless Night Introduction to 'Untitled 1983-84' by Michael Heyward Miyako Ishiuchi

Picador, Sydney, 1988. First Edition. Small Folio 14.25 x 10.25". Hardbound with Asahi Sonorama, Tokyo, 1981. First Edition. Quarto 10.75 x illustrated dust jacket. Wonderfully produced production that includes two of 8.25”. Softcover stiff illustrated wrappers with cardboard Hensonʼs early bodies of work Untitled Sequence 1979 and Untitled 1983-84. slipcase. Ishiuchiʼs third book, Endless Night, is a nocturnal Condition: Light rubbing to extreme corners; a few small indentations to the rear study of the many buildings that were used as houses of board; else a very bright copy. prostitution in the former red light districts of Japan. In 1958 a SOLD law was passed that made prostitution illegal, and many of the brothels were torn down in the midst of rapid urban transformation, the few that remained were converted into apartment houses or inns. Ishiuchi traveled across the country from 1978 to 1980 photographing these buildings at night. Her eyes lurk through these empty spaces, often focusing in on the small details of a room; a crack in a ceiling, a grease stained wall, the ornamentation around a window or door and although no people ever appear in her photographs their presence is felt through out the book. These rooms have the trapped sadness of a prison, filled with the boredom, angst and impatience of an endless, sleepless night. Condition: Lower right corner of book is slightly bent, affects covers and pages; slipcase has faint scratch and light surface

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Narcotic Photographic Document Sex Objects: An American Photodocumentary Kazuo Kenmochi Eric Kroll Inoue Shoten, Tokyo, 1963. First Edition. Quarto 10.5 Addison House, Danbury, New Hampshire, 1977. First Edition. x 7.5". Hardbound in white cloth with illustrated dust Quarto 10.75 x 7.5”. Softcover stiff illustrated wrappers. SIGNED jacket and cardboard slipcase. Believed to be Kazuo in black ink by Eric Kroll on the first page, with a framed vintage Kenmochiʼs first book it precedes Larry Clark's gelatin silver print (pictured), Signed in pencil on the verso. Sex masterpiece on drug addiction Tulsa by nearly a Objects is Krollʼs American Odyssey; Kroll crisscrossed the decade. It is a riveting document of Tokyo's country photographing and interviewing numerous sex workers, underground drug culture, following the entire nude models, strippers, and prostitutes. He was given a $5,000 process from production to addiction and the societal grant from the New York Council on the Arts, which stirred up consequences of drug use. Condition: Slipcase some controversy upon the books release. The print is a vintage shows an expected amount of shelf wear but it is very work print that was made for the book. Print is on 11 x 14” paper; clean otherwise; jacket has a small crease to one image size 8 x 12”; frame 14.5 x 18”. Condition: Wrappers have corner; white boards have a few minor spots of soiling; else a very bright copy of an uncommon some light rubbing and wear to edges; else a bright copy of a book. notoriously fragile book. Print is Fine. 2000

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Tokio (Tokyo) William Klein Foreword by Richard Friedenthal (in German)

Die Zeit Bücher, Hamburg, 1964. First German Edition. Folio 14 x 10.25”. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. Tokyo is Kleinʼs fourth book in his series of city books, which included Life is Good and Good for You in New York (1956), Rome (1959) and Moscow (1964); they are considered four of the greatest photobooks of the twentieth century, and have had immeasurable influence on photographers and book designers alike. Condition: Jacket has two closed tears and a crease along top edge; some light wear along edges; bottom edge of boards very light rubbing; else a nice copy. SOLD

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Show Me! A Picture Book of Sex for Children and Parents Hotel-Hotel Photographs and captions by Will McBride. Martin Kippenberger Explanatory text by Dr. Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt.

Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1995. First Edition limited St. Martin's Press, New York, 1975. First Edition. Small folio 13 x to 950 numbered copies, this being no. 76. Quarto 11.75 x 8.25”. 9.75”. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. “It is highly unlikely that Softcover stiff light blue wrappers. SIGNED by Martin Kippenberger. this book could be published today, and certainly not in the United Hotel-Hotel is the first book in the trilogy of Martin Kippenbergerʼs classic States, for although censorship barriers have been lowered in many artist books. The first two compile hundreds of his “Hotel Drawings”; areas, a current sphere of concern is the issue of pedophilia and child drawings the artist executed on various Hotelsʼ stationary. The last in the abuse. The incessantly cheerful tone – beloved of sex manuals the series No Drawing No Cry was published posthumously and is simply world over- successfully eliminates the darker side of sex here, but in hotel stationary without any drawings, a poignant end to the series. spite of this, and the clear efforts to expunge it of any undertone of Condition: Wrappers have some light toning to edges and spine; flaps of pornography, something troubling remains, which may have as much the French fold lightly creased; else a bright copy. to do with our current attitudes towards the representation of children 4500 and sexuality as the content of the book itself.” Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History vol. 2, pg. 26-7. Condition: Crown and top front corner lightly bumped; extremities are a little rubbed; jacket has some edge wear, a few small tears, and some faint soiling; else a very nice copy.

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Hotel Hotel Hotel Martin Kippenberger

Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 1995. First Edition limited to 500 numbered copies, this copy has not been numbered and is presumed to be an AP copy. Quarto 11.75 x 8.25". Softcover stiff orange Enrique Metinides wrappers. Hotel Hotel Hotel is the second book in the trilogy of Martin Enrique Metinides Kippenbergerʼs classic artist books. The first two compile hundreds of his Text by Geoff Dyer, Néstor García Canclini, and Gabriel Kuri. “Hotel Drawings”; drawings the artist executed on various Hotelsʼ stationary. The last in the series No Drawing No Cry was published Riding House, London, 2003. First Edition. Oblong Quarto 11 x 9.5". posthumously and is simply hotel stationary without any drawings, a Text in English and Spanish. Hardbound in pictorial boards, no dust poignant end to the series. Condition: First page has a very faint stain; jacket as issued. The best and rather uncommon title on the Mexican first seven pages have very light crease at the extreme left edge; heel is photojournalist Enrique Metinides, who some call the Mexican very slightly tapped; else a very bright copy. Weegee, the book focuses on man made disasters car crashes, plane SOLD crashes, drownings, shootings etc. with an emphasis on the more gory details. Condition: Heel is very slightly pushed; tiny ding to bottom edge of front board; else a Fine copy. SOLD

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Case History Wenn ich ein Deutscher ware… Boris Mikhailov Boris Mihailov (Mikhailov), Sergej Solonskij, Sergej Bratkov

Scalo, Zurich, 1999. First Edition. Thick Quarto 9.5 x 7”. Hardbound with Verlag der Kunst Dresden, Basel, 1995. First Edition. Small Octavo 6.25 x 4". illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by Boris Mikhailov. Case History continues the Softcover stiff printed wrappers. SIGNED by Boris Mikhailov. Unusual artist work Mikhailov started with By the Ground and At Dusk. It was initially going to book that seems to be a sort of photo-pulp novel, a loose narrative centered have been pink-toned to complement the brown- and blue-toned series, around Nazis and their sexual past-times, which includes copulating with symbolizing a ʻrosyʼ future for post-Soviet Ukraine, but the social reality he found humans and animals. The artist himself appears in many of the photographs. after returning from a year away brought about a change of heart and the decision Condition: Near Fine, label ghost to rear cover; little shelf wear, else bright to shoot in color. In the previous series Mikhailov discreetly photographed on the clean copy. street, in Case History he focuses on the increased number of bomzhes, 500 homeless people without any social support, and gets uncomfortably close and personal. This aspect has made the book controversial, attracting disapprobation both for its subject matter and for Mikhailovʼs treatment of it. Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2, pg. 309. Condition: A Fine copy.

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Drucksache N.F.4 Boris Michailow (Mikhailov)

Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000. First Edition. Quarto 9.25 x 6". Softcover stiff Television 1975-1976 illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Boris Mikhailov. Laid out in the vein of a Masao Mochizuki scrapbook or photo-diary, many of the photographs have been hand colored or drawn over with colored markers, most have hand-written notations in Russian SNAP-Sha with Yugensha, Tokyo, 2001. First Edition. Square Folio 14.75 x beneath. It is a very playful book showing the more lighthearted side of Mikhailov. 14.75”. Hardbound in black cloth with cardboard slipcase. SIGNED by Masao All text, other than the notations, is in German. Condition: Microscopic edge wear Mochizuki. Mochizuki modified a 6x6 camera to make 35 separate exposures along the bottom wrappers; else a very bright copy. on a single frame of film; he then sat in a darkened room and photographed 350 his television for one year, capturing many of the major news events that happened between 1975 to 1976. Television is a meditation on the endless river of images that televisions produce every second. The layout of the book exaggerates this bombardment of images by filling the pages with dozens of small images, attempting to overwhelm the viewer, much like a television. Condition: Slipcase has a few very minor imperfections; book is Fine.

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Bruce Nauman: Catalogue Raisonné London / Honcon Bruce Nauman Shinro Ohtake Essays by Neal Benezra, Kathy Halbreich, Paul Schimmel, and Robert Storr UCA: Uwajima Contemporary Art, 2006. Second Edition. Octavo 7 x 5”. Softcover stiff illustrated wrappers, included are two folded posters, and an Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1994. First Edition, the hardcover essay by the artist laid, all contained in illustrated cardboard clamshell box. edition was published in a very limited run that went out of print SIGNED in kanji on the front of the box by Shinro Ohtake. London/Honcon is immediately. Quarto 12 x 9.5”. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. an artist book made in 1980 when the Artist lived for a short time in London The defining volume on Bruce Nauman, it accompanied the first and Honcon (near Hong Kong). Ohtake would spend his evenings in London exhibition of Naumanʼs work in an American museum since 1972. An sketching people in the park, he discovered that people live at different speeds extensive catalogue that features illustrated entries for over 500 and the best way to catch those speeds in drawings was to disengage his works in various mediums including neon, film, video, performance, vision, and draw without looking at the pencil or paper. At the end of this period and photographic pieces, plus a complete exhibition history, he had filled four small notebooks and three sketchbooks with drawings, from bibliography, and chronology. Condition: Very faint soiling to lower which he edited to make this book. Ohtake wrote in 1986, reflecting on that text block; tiny ding to bottom edge of front board. time in his life, he was struck by the simple notion that paper and pencil are SOLD truly the greatest inventions of humanity. 750

Adult Comedy Action Drama Richard Prince

Scalo, Zürich, 1995. First Edition. Quarto 11.75 x 8”. Hardcover with dust jacket. “Adult Comedy Action Drama is a kind of self-portrait of the artist as individual consumer. Or one might think of it as landscape photography, where the landscape is Port Glasgow consumerism. Pick one from here and one from there: you can have anything you Mark Neville want, as long as it is either adult, comedy, action, or drama. Though the pictures range from studio shots and lots of joke paintings to shots of friends and family and Self Published, 2004. First Edition. Oblong Quarto 9.75 x 12". even a few landscapes, most of them record purchases or possessions – Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. Neville spent a year commodities of one kind or another, often arranged into fetching still lifes. In Adult documenting Port Glasgow and its people and produced Port Comedy Action Drama, Richard Prince, always the classicist, revisits a central Glasgow as something of a public art project for the town. The book concern of art from the beginning of easel painting: the display of constitutive was then delivered as a gift to each resident by the local boys football possessions.” --David Levi Strauss, The Book of 101 Books, pg. 274-5. Condition: team. Reactions were mixed, some thought it an accurate portrait of a Trace rubbing to bottom edge of book; else a very bright copy. town in hard times, and others felt it showed the town in a negative 450 light. In one extreme reaction the Protestant residents of one street burned their copies of the book in protest of a perceived pro-Catholic bias in the imagery. Condition: The four corners of the book are very lightly bumped; else a very bright copy. SOLD

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ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: A RETROSPECTIVE Fotografien 1979-Huete Robert Rauschenberg Thomas Ruff Curated by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson Edited by Matthias Winzen Essays by Trisha Brown, Ruth E. Fine, Billy Klüver with Julie Martin, With Essays by Per Boym, Ute Eskildsen, Valeria Lieberman, and Matthias Rosalind Krauss, Steve Paxton, Nancy Spector, Charles F. Stuckey. Winzen.

Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997. First Edition. Thick quarto 12 x 10". Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, 2001. Deluxe Limited Edition Hard bound with dust jacket. SIGNED by Robert Rauschenberg. From the no. 9 of 100, SIGNED on the first free end paper in pencil by Thomas Ruff, jacket copy: This lavishly illustrated monograph addresses the full scope comes with original color photograph, framed, SIGNED on the verso. Quarto and complexity of Rauschenbergʼs work. Accompanying a major traveling 13.25 x 10”. Hardbound in paper covered boards with illustrated dust jacket retrospective organized by Walter Hopps and Susan Davidson, this and cloth slipcase. All text in German. This the first complete catalogue of catalogue is the definitive source on the artist, and it shows, for the first time Ruffʼs photographic work from 1979 to 2001, which includes the very in one volume, Rauschenbergʼs development of particular motifs over the controversial Nudes series. Condition: Light shelf wear to slipcase; two tiny course of his career. Included are essays by the curators, scholars, and dots on front board; trace wear to bottom edge of boards; else a bright copy. collaborators, all giving their own unique insights into Rauschenbergʼs work. SOLD An exhaustive chronology with scores of documentary photographs, examines the artistʼs life and career. Completing the book are exhibition and performance histories and a bibliography. Condition: Trace shelf wear to bottom edge of boards; else a very bright copy.

1500 Nudes Photographs by Thomas Ruff Rio Cidade Maravilhosa Short story by Michael Houellebecq Terry Richardson

Schirmer / Mosel, Munich, 2003. Deluxe limited edition of 100 numbered Diesel, 2008. Published on the occasion of the opening of the Diesel store in copies, this being 27, with an original type c print SIGNED on the verso and Rio de Janeiro, the book was given to the first x number of customers at the presented in cloth folio, book and folio contained in grey cloth slipcase. opening. First Edition, limited to 1000 copies. Small Folio 14 x 10". Hardbound Quarto 11.75 x 8.75". Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. From the with illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED twice by Terry Richardson, once in pen publisher: Ruff, known for his deadpan portraits and gorgeous views of the on the title page and once in sharpie on the colophon, both signatures have night sky and architecture, is one of Germany's leading contemporary the his usual ʻxxxʼ, with the colophon signature having an additional T smiley artist/photographers. Among his recent work is an exploration of the Internet, face, draw by Richardson. Shot entirely with a simple Yashica T4, point and that parallel visual universe teeming with sexuality of every flavor and variety. shoot camera, the photographs have Richardsonʼs signature raw, snapshot He gathers, from that virtual playground, erotic and often pornographic aesthetic. Half naked girls, and boys, night clubs, strip clubs, a day at the photographs that he subsequently manipulates in his computer, making beach, welcome to the permanent vacation that is Terryʼs World, only this beautiful and disturbing artwork from visual material that, for better or worse, time itʼs in Rio de Janeiro. Condition: Crown tips have very slight bump; spine is probably more abundant than any other type of image in our world today. a little cocked (as per usual with this book); else a bright copy. Condition: Fine. 2000 450

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Bibun The Face of Love Kishin Shinoyama Sanne Sannes Asahi Shuppansha, Tokyo, 1984. First Edition. Octavo 6.75 x 4.25”. Softcover stiff A.S. Barnes and Co., Cranberry, New Jersey, 1972. First Edition. Quarto 11.25 x illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Kishin Shinoyama in Kanji on the inside of the front 8.5". Hardbound in lavender cloth with illustrated dust jacket. The Face of Love, wrapper. Photographs of Reiko Nakamuraʼs reaction to having her armpit fingered. published five years after Sannesʼ untimely death at the age of thirty, is a swirling The images of her face appear on the left with the images of the actual fingering abstraction of womenʼs faces and bodies, at times a pleasurable dream of beauty appearing on the right. The photographs are sequenced in such a way that the book and at others a nightmare of blurs and shadows, it confirms the artist affirmation can be fanned like a flipbook. Condition: Interior pages are slightly toned; else a Fine that we will remember him “long after his body has been eaten by insects”. He copy. said of the models he photographs that he makes the process very difficult “like SOLD an excursion to the North Pole”, never driving to the location always taking trains and walking, because the ones that struggle through and are still willing to “jump into the river” for him are the ones he needs. “That kind of girl unfortunately you only find very seldom. But they are the ones who become real actresses as soon as you start working.” Condition: Jacket has some edge wear with minor chipping to crown, two closed tears to the rear; board have light rubbing to edges; else a nice copy of a very uncommon book. SOLD

Scavullo Nudes Jeanloup Sieff (portfolio of 12 photographs) Francesco Scavullo Jeanloup Sieff

Harry Abrams, New York, 2000. First Edition. Octavo 8.75 x 6.25”. Hardbound The Society for the Museum of Contemporary Art in glossy pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by Francesco at Gent, Photographic Division, N.D. Folio 20.25 Scavullo; additionally laid into the book is Scavulloʼs death card. From the first x 14”. SIGNED by Jeanloup Sieff. Portfolio of 12 page introduction: Here are photographs that celebrate the body: its curves, its facsimile photographs printed in two-color offset muscles, its power to attract and impress us. Nudity is as much about Eros as with varnish contained in a black paper covered it is about humility and grace, form and gesture. Whether we are looking at a clamshell box with silver inlay to the top. Each ballet dancer or a supermodel, we are looking with the appreciative eye of plate measures 19¼ x 13¼”, with an image size Scavullo, who captures that quality we have come to define as beauty in of 11¾ x 7¾”. With two additional informative everyone he photographs. A turn of the head, a smile, and stretched torsos are plates, one with a photo of Jeanloup and a brief all aspects of the nude as seen in these 100 striking images. Condition: A bio in four languages, the other is an index of the touch of rubbing at the extreme corners; else a very bright copy. images in the portfolio with titles, as well as a 350 brief description about the making and publishing of the portfolio, this plate is signed in blue pen by Jeanloup Sieff. Condition: Box has some scattered wear, evidence of tape, but is still very clean; Plates are Fine. 2500

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Torsi Torses Nus Shades of Time Jeanloup Sieff Annelies Strba

Schirmer/Mosel, München, 1986. First Edition. Quarto 12.75 x 12.25". Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, Switzerland, 1997. First Edition. Quarto 9.75 x 7”. Hardbound with illustrated dust jacket. Sieff published two major monographs Hardbound in paper covered boards, no dust jacket as issued. SIGNED by of nude photography, In Torsi Torses Nus Sieff focuses on the top half of the Annelies Strba. Shades of Time is family album of two girls lives, Sonja and Linda human body, and Derrieres, finds the artist turning the corner with downcast (presumably sisters), as they pass through childhood and become adults with eyes. Stylistically the books could not be more different; Derrieres is shot on children of their own. Strba makes potent use of the disquieting effect of location in available light and the models are usually faceless forms, in Torsi photography to freeze and isolate moments of time, by showing images of these Torses Nus every portrait is meticulously lit in a studio, with many models two girls over the span of twenty years. Condition: A touch of shelf wear to the staring directly into the camera confronting the viewer, each portrait is boards; else a bright copy. accompanied by brief write up about the person in German. Condition: A bit of 350 shelf wear to the bottom edge of boards; first free end paper has a small crease; else a very bright copy. SOLD

Berlin Hedi Slimane

Vännerna Från Place Blanche (The Friends from Place Blanche) Edition 7L, 2003. First Edition. Quarto 11 x 8”. Hardbound in black cloth with cardboard slipcase. From the publisher: For two years Hedi Slimane roamed Christer Strömholm through Berlin's districts, from Wannsee to Warschauer Strasse, from Interview by Johan Ehrenberg Kreuzberg to Alexanderplatz and Karl-Marx-Allee. The result is Berlin, created as a Residency Project for the Kunst-Werk Studio. Slimane lived in the ETC: Förlag, 1983. First Edition. Quarto 9.75 x 9.5”. Hardbound with illustrated German capital from 2000 to 2002 and photographed his surroundings, his dust jacket. In the late 1950s and early 1960s while living in the Pigalle area of friends and the places where he happened to end up. His photographs are Paris, Christer Strömholm became acquainted with the transsexuals who gathered powerful images that make up a wordless account of his travels off the beaten in the Place Blanche. He developed close friendships with many of them and path. Condition: New sealed in publisherʼs shrink-wrap. photographed them over a period of ten years or so. Strömholm lifts the curtain on 750 this secret world and reveals not freaks but human beings with normal human desires and needs. Forcing the viewer to look past the superficial differences of individuals to the core similarities of all people. Condition: Jacket is very slightly toned to spine; heel has a very small area of discoloration; else a very bright copy.

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Eves If One Thing Matters, Everything Matters Yoshihiro Tatsuki Wolfgang Tillmans

CʼBon Cosmetics, Tokyo, 1970. First Edition. Square Quarto 10.25 x Tate Publishing, London, 2003. Deluxe Limited Edition of 100, SIGNED 10.25”. Hardbound in pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Eves is a by Tillmans on the contents page with an original c-print photograph wonderful collection of 1960s glamour, nude photography by one of the which is SIGNED and numbered 93 of 100 on the verso. Quarto 12 x 9”. Japanese masters of the genre. Tatsuki makes obvious stylistic nods to Hardbound in beige cloth, no jacket as issued, print is contained in paper Bill Brandt, Burt Stern, and Sam Haskins, but his images are much more folio attached to the inside front board. This catalogue raisonné was charged with Eros than the aforementioned photographers. Condition: published to coincide with Tillmanʼs solo exhibition at the Tate Britain. An Boards are slightly bowed with some light rubbing; else a bright copy. onslaught of images organized chronologically with no distinction between different bodies of work, commissioned or personal, as the title implies if SOLD one image matters, they all matter. Condition: A Fine copy. 1500

Teenage Smokers Zokushin (Gods of the Earth) Ed Templeton Hiromi Tsuchida

Alleged Press, New York, 1999. First Edition. Octavo 8.5 x 7”. Softcover Ottos Books, Tokyo, 1976. First Edition. Oblong Quarto 9.75 stiff illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Ed Templeton. Photographs from x 10.5". Hardbound in white cloth with illustrated dust jacket across the globe of teenagers smoking. Ed is himself a straight edge and cardboard slipcase. Tsuchidaʼs fascinating portrait of vegan, meaning he does not smoke, drink, do drugs, eat meat or dairy. rural life in Japan in the 1970s, a time period that saw The tone of the book is that of bemusement tinged with regret that massive changes taking place in Japan and a dramatic shift smoking is such a seductive habit for these and other teenagers. towards a more westernized culture. Zokushin, in retrospect, Condition: As is common with black softcovers the extreme tips of the is a look at a way of life that has all but disappeared. heel and crown are showing a touch of white; else a Fine copy. 750 SOLD

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Landet Utom Sig. Bilder Från Sverige (Country Beside Itself. Shinjuku 1965-1997 Pictures from Sweden.) Katsumi Watanabe Photographs by Lars Tunbjörk Texts by Thomas Tidholm and Göran Greider. Photo Musee/shincho Sha, Tokyo, Japan, 1997. First Edition. Octavo 8 x 6". Softcover stiff wrappers with dust jacket and belly-band. Watanabe made his Journal, Stockholm, 1993. First Edition, Second Printing. Quarto living photographing people on the streets of Tokyo at night. Most of his 11 x 11.5”. Hardbound with four color variants (this being red and subjects were those creatures that own the cities after dark: pimps, green), no jacket as issued. Text in Swedish and English. prostitutes, drag queens, yakuza, and the occasional thrill seeker from the "Tunbjörk's images of 'the good life' in Sweden take in the suburbs. This book represents a large selection of those images made in obligatory shopping malls and car park picnic areas, and the Shinjuku, Tokyo's red light district, between 1965-1997. Condition: Orange ink desultory suburban social activity that pretends to replicate the from belly-band has transferred to first free end paper; front wrapper has very traditional communal life of village or city but instead replicates it slight curl; one corner a bit rubbed; a Near Fine Copy. with a set of bland conventions, usually centered around SOLD conspicuous consumption. The people appear happy, or at least not unhappy, but Tunbjörk is always looking for the odd incongruity or the unusual angle that both energizes the frame and hints at something less satisfactory." Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2, pg. 72. Condition: Faint surface wear to boards; else a very bright copy. 500 Andy Warholʼs Exposures

Andy Warhol

Text by Andy Warhol and Bob Colacello

1999 The Quake: A Frame-by-Frame Record of Taiwan's September 21, 1999 Earthquake Andy Warhol Books / Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1979. First Edition, First Various Photographers Printing. Quarto 11.5 x 9.5”. Hardbound in black cloth with illustrated dust Text by Pen-chi Chou, Cheng-chu Liaon, Cheng-Tsair Jin, jacket. SIGNED by Andy Warhol on the title page with ORIGINAL DRAWING Tsang-sung Chang, Pao-pao Lin, Chih-jen Cheng, Chao-liang OF A HEART beneath the signature. Candid photographs of the New York Shen, aChien-jen Lin, Yun-ko Lin, Chia-ching Hsiao, Li-Hsin social scene in the late 1970s, all shot by Andy Warhol. The endpapers and Kuo, and Chao-kai Hu. paste-downs serve as an index to the photographs. Condition: One corner of book is scuffed affecting the corner of some of the pages; fading to top and

bottom edge of boards; jacket is NOT price-clipped, shows some very light Preparatory Committee for Photo Book Sales to Benefit toning in the whites; else a very nice copy. People Affected by the September 21 1999 Earthquake, 750 Taipei, 1999. First Edition, limited to 3000 numbered copies this being no. 482. Oblong quarto 14.75 x 10.25". Hardbound in pictorial wrapped boards, no dust jacket as issued. Over 100 photographers, both professional and amateur,

contributed images to this very comprehensive photobook on the devastating 7.6 earthquake that struck Taiwan on 21 September 1999, that killed over 2000 people and injured 9000. Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, vol. 2, pg. 123. Condition: Corners are very slightly tapped; tiniest amount of shelf wear to boards; else a bright copy of a very uncommon book. SOLD