L E A D A P R O N L E A D A P R O N 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 8454 MELROSE PLACE LOS ANGELES CA 90069 8454 MELROSE PLACE LOS ANGELES CA 90069 O 323 782 1888 F 323 782 1883 M 914 400 3908 O 323 782 1888 F 323 782 1883 M 914 400 3908 [email protected] | LEADAPRON.NET [email protected] | LEADAPRON.NET L E A D A P R O N L E A D A P R O N 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 8454 MELROSE PLACE LOS ANGELES CA 90069 8454 MELROSE PLACE LOS ANGELES CA 90069 O 323 782 1888 F 323 782 1883 M 914 400 3908 O 323 782 1888 F 323 782 1883 M 914 400 3908 [email protected] | LEADAPRON.NET [email protected] | LEADAPRON.NET L E A D A P R O N L E A D A P R O N 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.