Harper's Books, ABAA

Second Edition. Octavo. Foreword by Edsel Williams. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (Aug. 18 - Oct. 1, 2000). Illustrated with 15 black and white photographs from Sherman's "Bus Riders" series, followed by 17 black and white photographs from her "Murder Mystery People;" the photographs were shot in 1976 but not printed until 2000 for this exhibition. Mounted to the rear of the book is a compact disc entitled "The Cindy Sessions" by The Glove Compartment (AKA Gian Carlo Feleppa). Fine in photo illustrated boards; sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Condition: Fine in wrappers. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to 2000 copies: 1000 in wrappers with a dust jacket by Terry Richardson, and 1000 clothbound copies with a jacket photographed by Richard Prince. With three vignettes from Frey's novel set to Terry Richardson's photographs of Los Angeles. Includes the first American appearance of Frey's story "Wives," which was omitted from the American Edition. A tipped-in image announces each section of the book. People will talk about Richardson's humorous images of breastfeeding MILFs brandishing rifles, but it is his aerial bw shots of the L.A. highway system that turn this cool collaboration into a finely honed and executed photobook.

First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Edition of 1000 copies. Published in conjunction with Elizabeth Peyton and Nick Mauss's two-person show at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (East Hampton, NY, Aug. 1 - Sep. 14, 2005). Never distributed publicly. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Edition of 100 copies. SIGNED by the artist. Thirty-two pages of color images and full spreads of Matthew King's paintings and sculptures. Published in conjunction with his first solo show at Harper's Books from April 18 through June 2, 2015. Fine in stapled illustrated wrappers. Signed.

First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. 96pp. The first in-depth publication on the work of JJ Manford. Profusely illustrated with over 70 reproductions of his recent and most notable paintings, with an essay titled, "JJ Manford: in Living Color," by Gilles Heno-Coe. New in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Limited to 1000 copies. Published on the occasion of Gossage's exhibition at Harper's Books, East Hampton (Aug. 18 - Oct. 1, 2012). A collection of color photographs shot in and around Tokyo. While Gossage's trademark celebration of the banal is certainly on display here, the photographer charts new territory with shots of Tokyo street scenes, skyscapes and tissue boxes. Gray papered boards in minimalist jacket. As new; still in shrinkwrap.

Matthew Barney (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Published to coincide with Matthew Barney's film Drawing Restraint 9, the ninth installment of his ongoing Drawing Restraint series. Features color film stills and drawings, inspired by the movie's central themes of whaling, the Japanese tea ceremony, and the Shinto religion. Fine in blind-stamped boards. No dust jacket, as issued.

Deluxe Edition. Quarto. One of 26 lettered copies, SIGNED by Matt Weber and issued with a signed 8 X 10 inch print. A series of 18 black-and-white photographs of celebratory New Yorkers in Times Square on election night 2008, mostly taken after the announcement of Barack Obama's victory. Published on the occasion of Weber's exhibition at Harper's Books, East Hampton, June 6 ? August 7, 2009. Fine in photo-illustrated spiral-bound wrappers. Signed.

First Edition. First Edition. Thin quarto. Limited to 1000 copies; never publicly distributed. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "New Work by Jack Pierson" held at Glenn Horowitz Bookseller (East Hampton, NY; Aug. 18 - Sep. 25, 2001), curated by Edsel Williams. With 25 full-page color photographs (some double-spread), and a one-page excerpt from a book in progress by Eileen Myles. Utopian juxtapositions of twinks and palm trees. Fine in photo-illustrated wrappers with French flaps.

Condition: New in publishers shrink-wrap. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Allie McGhee: Banana Moon Horn. This book celebrates Detroit-based artist Allie McGhee and his signature approach to abstraction.

Condition: New in blue cloth boards. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Essay by Andrew Renton, titled ?Faith in Motion: Tanya Ling and her Line? that explores the relationship between Ling?s work, the eternal and infinite. Documents the work of Tanya Ling from the late 1980s when she graduated from St. Martin?s School of Art (CSM), London until her solo show, ?Let it come to me? at Harper?s, East Hampton, New York in 2021. Images of artwork and ephemera from every period and place are juxtaposed throughout, inviting the reader to make connections and join the dots between works created on a journey that has traversed the fashion and art worlds. Tear sheets, invitation cards and announcements, fashion drawings, photos from shows and of installations, articles, features, commissioned works, sculptures, assemblage, paintings, prints and screen grabs from her Instagram feed are punctuated by three sections dedicated to her celebrated series of Line Paintings and a fourth section that feature Constellation Paintings shown with Harper?s last year. The book offers a deep dive into the artist?s oeuvre and her backstory; detailing a career of creative enterprise that Tanya began as a married St. Martin?s graduate with a baby in Paris before becoming a designer, gallerist, illustrator and artist.

Condition: Near fine in wrappers. Magazine. Special issue on Bruce Weber, includes comprehensive bibliography to his books and catalogs.

First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. One of 700 copies. An ingenuous artist's book from painter Guy Yanai, synthesizing the PDFs created by his studio to accompany his eight international COVID-era exhibitions (2020-2023). As an elegant archive of the 91 paintings exhibited during this cycle?as well as of the attendant anxieties from this precarious artworld period?the book elevates the utilitarian PDF format to artistic standing, while offering something of a Proustian transformation to the gallery sales kit. Contents: 216 pages, illustrated after full-color reproductions of the artworks, along with studio and installation shots;accompanied by original artist's statements and exhibition reflections. Elegantly designed by Aurore Chauve; printed in Italy by Golinelli. Featured galleries: Praz Delavallade (Paris and Los Angeles), Galerie Conrads (Düsseldorf), Miles McEnery (New York), König (Berlin), Seojung Art (Seoul), and Harper's (Los Angeles). Foil-printed yellow wrappers with flaps; new.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Tall quarto. Limited to 1000 copies. Essay by Kazuo Kitai, translated from the Japanese by Hiroshi Masaki. Designed by John Gossage, with an interview between Gossage and the publisher, Harper Levine. Published on the occasion of Kitai's first American exhibition, August 18 - October 1, 2012, at Harper's Books, East Hampton. A collection of Kitai's previously unpublished protest images shot in 1968 Tokyo at the height of the student rebellion. John Gossage delivers a brilliant design, juxtaposing photographs from the Barricade series with scanned images from Kitai's first book, Resistance. Fine copy in black cloth boards in photo-illustrated jacket; as new, in publisher's shrinkwrap.

First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. An artist's book, profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs, third in a series Stokes did with Weproductions. Faint toning to spine and a hint of rubbing to extremities, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.

First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. SIGNED and dated 2002 by Tyson on the title page. Survey of Tyson's systematic, expressionistic drawings, completed between 1994 and 2002. Generously illustrated with color reproductions of Tyson's drawings, often concerned with the direct representation. Close to fine in stamped blue wrappers. Signed.

First Edition. First Edition. Tall quarto. Edition of 1000 copies. With 16 color reproductions of Gustafson's ethereal pastels of swans, including one lovely gatefold. Printed in conjunction with an exhibition of the same work at John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York, 10 December 2009 to 23 January 2010. Fine in blindstamped gray boards. Pretty book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Black and white documentary style photographs of Japan taken by Ihei Kimura. Fine in card wrappers, photo-illustrated jacket, and printed obi.

First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Artists' book by Richard Phillips, issued by the Swiss media conglomerate Ringier as their 2006 annual report. Designed by Phillips and based on a 1930s German monograph on Medieval sculptor Tilman Riemenschneider, the book features simple gold-debossed boards and Gothic font. With eleven black-and-white reproductions of Phillips's drawings at the end. Text in German. Fine in gold-debossed cloth boards. No dust jacket, as issued.

A small booklet, 4 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches, published in conjunction with the exhibitions held at The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, September 23 ? December 22, 1995, and CRG, New York City, October 28 ? November 25, 1995. Blank white covers with an essay by Julie Ault interspersed between variously colored blank pages. Includes an announcement card for the CRG exhibition and opening reception, laid in. Fine in side-stapled white wrappers.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Thick quarto. A catalogue of Lenné's drawings, selected and annotated by Harri Günther and Sibylle Harksen. Small smudge to bottom corner of text block, else fine in a near fine jacket.

Condition: Fine in a fine jacket. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Monograph devoted to Alexey Brodovitch's significant contributions to American design, with emphasis on his legacy as the art director of Harper's Bazaar. Features 340 illustrations in color and black and white, including work by Brodovitch's collaborators and mentees Richard Avedon, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Irving Penn, among others. The first volume of the Masters of American Design series.

First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. The debut book from Austyn Weiner, published to document her "Morning Wood" exhibition at Harper's Apartment (New York, May 13 ? June 26, 2021). Showcasing Weiner?s visual art and performative practice as it evolved in response to the solitude of the 2020 pandemic?including paintings, works on paper, auto-correspondence, and a video installation compiled from her virtual quarantine diary on Instagram stories. Thoroughly illustrated in color. One of 750 trade copies, in addition to a Special Edition of 26 hand-numbered copies with unique artworks painted by Weiner on the covers. New in publisher's shrink-wrap.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Small quarto. A fine presentation copy, SIGNED by Szarkowski and briefly INSCRIBED to photographer Arnold Crane. Szarkowski's images of 1950s Minnesota in commemoration of the state's centennial anniversary (which provided a convenient excuse for a good photobook). Includes 179 black and white photographs and 24 color plates, with accompanying text by Szarkowski and others. Near fine in a good jacket, price-clipped, with a large chip from the rear panel and several other tears and smaller chips. Underrated book in the American canon. Signed.

First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. Monograph on the work of Huma Bhabha, published on the occasion of her 2015 exhibition at Salon 94. Illustrated with close to 250 color images, after reproductions, details, and installation views; accompanied by texts from David Levi Strauss and Jeanne Greeburg Rohatyn, as well as a poem from Seamus Heaney ("The Grauballe Man"). A fine copy in illustrated boards; in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Published on the occasion of one of Kippenberger's final shows; a retrospective at MAMCO in Geneva (Jan. 30?May 25, 1997). Featuring transcripts of separate conversations Kippenberger held with Daniel Baumann and Jutta Koether. Texts in both French and German. Illustrated after a series of b&w photographs of lamp posts. (Koch 143). Plain stiff wrappers with illustrated jacket; minor scuffing, near fine.

First Edition. First Edition. Square octavo. Exhibition catalogue. Contents: [14] pages, illustrated after black-and-white reproductions. With descriptive catalogue of 26 exhibited works. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers, with rough margin to front panel (as issued); fine.

Condition: Near fine in printed wrappers. First Edition. First Edition. Pamphlet, stapled. Promotional booklet containing technical specifications, and color paper stock samples. Apparently designed by Ladislav Sutnar using his radically minimal information architecture tools and techniques. Sutnar had along relationship with Champion Papers of Hamilton, Ohio; he credits the quality of their "Kromekote" papers in the credits of his design classic "Visual Design in Action." Champion in turn sponsored an exhibition that opened in Hamilton to accompany publication of the book.

First Edition. First Edition. Octavo. Edition of 2000 copies. Published on the occasion of Prince's exhibition at Jablonka Galerie and Galerie Gisela Capitain, Köln, November 16 ? December 22, 1990. Seminal early artists' book in Prince's career. Fine in wrappers with elongated flaps, sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Terry Richardson (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Quarto. One of 1000 hardcover copies, featuring a dust jacket photographed and designed by Richard Prince. This artist's book, published by JMc & GHB Editions, served as a supplement to James Frey's 2008 publication with Harper Collins (Bright Shiny Morning), with three vignettes from his novel accompanied by Terry Richardson's photographs of Los Angeles. One of the vignettes, Wives, was too racy for Harper Collins; Richardson has illustrated it here with images of breastfeeding MILFs brandishing rifles, holding trophies, and lounging in hot tubs?but it's his black-and-white aerial shots of the LA freeway system that turns this collaboration into a finely tuned photobook. Silken cloth boards with photo-illustrated jacket; fine.