Ed Ruscha: Every Building on the Sunset Strip (First Printing)
Published by Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, 1966
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 2001
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 8,250.00
Quantity: 1 available
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First edition, first printing. Soft cover. White matt wrappers, with title printed in silver on cover and spine, no dust jacket as issued; with silver paper-covered cardstock slipcase. Photographs, artist's book concept and design by Ed Ruscha. Unpaginated accordion-fold, with numerous black and white panoramic plates printed as if one continuous photograph across the upper and lower sections of all of the pages. 7-1/16 x 5-5/8 inches (approximately 27 feet fully-extended). This first issue was limited to 1000 copies (with the extra 2-inch flap at the end of the last folded page, which was the result of the printer's miscalculation). [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2006).]. Fine (Minor glue residue near edge, from slipcase glue, else Mint) in Fine Mylar slipcase (slight rubbing to the mylar). Ed Ruscha took the photographs contained in this publication with a motorized Nikon camera mounted to the back of a pick-up truck. This allowed him to photograph every building on Sunset Boulevard (between Crescent Heights Boulevard in Hollywood and Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills), while driving -- first down one side of the street and then the other. The pictures were then pasted in order, the individual buildings were labeled with their respective addresses, and presented with the north side of the street at the top of the page, with the south side of the street inverted and aligned below it.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Ed Ruscha: Every Building on the Sunset Strip (First Printing)
- Author
- RUSCHA, Ed (Edward)
- Publisher
- Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 1966
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- No dust jacket as issued
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Artists' Books, Los Angeles/California, Rare Acquisitions, Typologies
Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller
Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since February 22, 2001
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