A Few Palm Trees.

8vo. (178 x 140 mm). [32 leaves]. Title with copyright verso and 14 black-and-white photographic illustrations of palm trees on right-hand page, left-hand facing page with the tree's location in Los Angeles, the first with printed details of camera orientation, the remaining pages blank as issued. Original publisher's glossy black wrappers. A very good copy of Ed Ruscha's artist book 'A Few Palm Trees'. From the first edition limited to 3,900 copies; no further editions were issued. 'A Few Palm Trees has a solid black cover with no lettering and contains fourteen stripped photos of palm trees printed in black ink on a white background succeeded by sixteen blank spreads. Above the caption for the first palm tree is this helpful statement: "Camera facing west on all photos."' (Clive Philpot). [Engberg & Phillpot B13].