some los angeles apartments, ed ruscha

Book Description: January 1970, 1970. Trade Paperback. Book Condition: Used - Very Good. Second edition, 1970. 1/3000. Book itself in fine condition; original glassine dust jacket toned front and spint.; rough at top, and a 1 1/2 x 1/2 inch chip missing from top back of dust jacket. Bookseller Inventory # 20110306137904

Book Description: Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, 1970. Soft cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1965/1970. Second edition (1970; originally published 1965 in an edition of 700 unnumbered copies). Soft cover. White matt wrappers with title printed in lime green on cover and spine, with glassine dust jacket. Photographs, artist's book concept and design by Ed Ruscha. Unpaginated (48 pp.), with 34 black and white illustrations printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles. 7 x 5-1/16 inches. This second edition was limited to 3000 copies. [Originally published in 1965 in an edition of 700 copies.] CONDITION: Fine in Near Fine original glassine dust jacket (slight wear and a faint stain to the glassine dust jacket, else Fine). [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).] Produced with the same deadpan style that characterized his previous artist's books, "Twentysix Gasoline Stations" and "Various Small Fires and Milk," this book presents a distinctly American typological study of the ubiquitous post-war Los Angeles apartment buildings, here identified in the titles only by their addresses. In some cases, imposing minimalist structures dwarf the surrounding landscape; in other instances, superficial, faux-exotic themes pathetically exude a desperate attempt to create some sort of oasis for residents amid the sprawling city. Bookseller Inventory # 108537

Book Description: Anderson, Ritchie, & Simon, Los Angeles, 1970. 48 nn. Seiten mit Schwarzweissabbildungen. Eines von 3000 Exemplaren der 2. Auflage von 1970. Sprache: de Gewicht in Gramm: 550 8°. OKarton. Von guter bis sehr guter Erhaltung. Bookseller Inventory # 8401