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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 industrial 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 highlights of the New Topographics movement in American photography. (Roth 228-229, Open Book 298299; 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 inscription 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 seamless 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 pressnumbered copies. One of the only books of the era to pick up on the new color movement 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
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
& 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
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 Gantner. 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 photographs 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
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 publisher's shrinkwrap.
€ 750.00
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
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 neighborhood 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 illustrated 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 haunting 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)
Robert Adams, Lewis
Baltz, Bernd and Hilla
Becher, Stephen Shore
et al
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
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 photobook, 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
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
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
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 project, 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 spiralbound 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 business 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 selfpublished 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 masterpiece 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 tumultuous and discordant anti-sequence, and assaulting
the viewer with full-page grainy, blurry, and sometimes 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
NAGAHAMA, Osamu
Atsuhu nagai yoru no shima /
A Hot and Long Night in Okinawa
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
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 fine in wrappers in a near fine 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 monographs.
€ 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 introduction 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 offsetting 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 published 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 collection 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 Morgen
Berlin: 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 reproductions 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 publication. 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 movement 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