Andy Warhol (Signed First Edition)
WARHOL, Andy and Rainer Crone
Published by Praeger Publishers, New York, 1970
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 331 pages. The first catalogue raisonne on Warhol. Features text by Rainer Crone. Illustrated throughout primarily in black and white but with some color plates as well. A tight very near fine copy in orange cloth binding and with some tanning to the pages in a very good price clipped dust jacket with a few small tears and the usual separation of the lamination in areas and some other minor wear. Signed and inscribed by Crone on the title page at a later date. Uncommon signed. Seller Inventory # 196819
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Title: Andy Warhol (Signed First Edition)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers, New York
Publication Date: 1970
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: dj
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition.
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I Bought Andy Warhol. First Edition, dust Jacket. Presentation Copy, SIGNED in Full By Polsky. New York, 2003
Published by
Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2003
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First Edition
Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket with the original price on the front flap. Presentation copy, signed in full on the half-title: "Jan. 18, 2004 To . Happy 70th! Hope to see you hanging at MOMA someday! Cheers, Ricahrd Polsky." A nice copy. By Author. Seller Inventory # 009341
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I BOUGHT ANDY WARHOL - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Richard Polsky - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE
Published by
New York City, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2003, 2003
ISBN 10: 0810942712
ISBN 13: 9780810942714
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Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 256 pages. Published in 2003. The author's breakthrough account. One of the best books on collecting and art. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Richard Polsky's "I Bought Andy Warhol". The contemporary "icon of global desire". The title is an allusion to the cult film, "I Shot Andy Warhol" (1996). Richard Polsky has been an art dealer all his adult life. His book is about two things: His quest to own a Warhol and the impact the artist himself has had on the art market. Polsky set aside $100, 000 to acquire a decent Warhol, but over the years, the price kept going up, up, up, way beyond his means. The story of how he finally nabbed his Warhol (it's the one shown on the book's cover), which became the obsessive focus of his life, is self-deprecating and moving. Polsky also shares with the reader the secrets he learned along the way, the principal one being seemingly obvious: That the longer a collector holds on to a good piece, the more he will come out on top. If he is lucky, he will become rich beyond his wildest dreams. The highest price a Warhol has fetched at auction has long since surpassed $100 Million, an unbelievable sum for a still-debated artist. The smart collectors have been those who, despite facing personal setbacks, major cash flow problems, and irresistible offers, nevertheless hold on to their pieces when most reasonable people think they are crazy to do so. Collectors have always had one decisive advantage over dealers: Their goal is to hold on to (and enjoy) their art. Every dealer, no matter how huge, needs to sell in order to stay in business. Dealing is about buying and selling. Collecting is about finding and timing. Polsky cites many examples to prove his point (which, ironically, collectors themselves often forget). Warhol himself stands out as a classic case study. When he gave up his successful career as an advertising "creative", Warhol struggled at first to get his work as an artist accepted, and ended up taking whatever money was offered for his major pieces in order to survive. He sold his "Campbell's Soup Can" silkscreen multiples (there are 32 in all) in 1962 to a prescient (and nasty) collector for $1000. Adding insult to injury, it was paid to him in monthly installments of less than $100 over two years, resulting in lifetime enmity between artist and collector. The collector, banned permanently, held on to the set for thirty-four years before selling it to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in 1996 for $15 Million, a remarkable profit on his $1000 investment. But what would "Campbell's Soup Can" fetch today in the event that it ever became available in the art market? $150 Million. An absolute "must-have" title for Andy Warhol and Richard Polsky collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Richard Polsky. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest artists of the 20th century. A fine copy. ISBN 0810942712. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 22441
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B & Back again). First Edition, Dust Jacket. SIGNED IN FULL By Warhol. New York, 1975
Published by
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York and London, 1975
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Seller: sonalsorises, Los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Edition. Original boards, fine, no writing, no bookplates, in fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. Signed in full on the half-title: "Andy Warhol." "A signed Andy Warhol" sticker on the front of the dust jacket. In excellent condition. By Author. Seller Inventory # 011788
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ANDY WARHOL: AMERICA - Rare Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Double-Signed by Andy Warhol - ONLY DOUBLE-SIGNED COPY ONLINE
Published by
New York City, NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1985, 1985
ISBN 10: 0060154772
ISBN 13: 9780060154776
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Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 224 pages. Published in 1985. Retrospective collection of black-and-white photographs, with accompanying text. Andy Warhol's finest achievement as a photographer and reporter. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original. Most copies were printed as paperbacks only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Andy Warhol and Barbara Richer: Oversize-volume format. Cream cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Andy Warhol. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Andy Warhol's "America". His response to (and implicit rejection of) Robert Frank's "The Americans" (1959). A celebrity-obsessed "take" on the very same America that Robert Frank traversed before him, and found sad and wanting, this is a Warholian celebration in response to Frank's elegy. Like Frank, Warhol travelled the length and breadth of continental USA. His running commentary reflects the "start-stop" journey in gossipy prose. No one considers Andy to be a great writer because he isn't. But no one can deny that his writing is inimitably his alone. That's why Penguin reissued the book as a Modern Classic. "The thing is, if you're a celebrity yourself, everybody expects you to know all the great people, and you don't want to let them down. I've met 80% of the people you'd think I've met, and the other 20%, I'm dying to meet" (Andy Warhol). Warhol was an anomaly of American entertainment/celebrity culture: He was a diehard fan of celebrities who was (as he himself admits) a celebrity. His fans were, by the same token, many of the same celebrities. As this collection shows, his very first act when he met a celebrity was not to shake his or her hand, but, always camera-ready, to take a photograph. So the 80% are all here. An absolute "must-have" title for Andy Warhol collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the DJ Front Cover by Andy Warhol. It is signed directly on the cover itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is very boldly and beautifully signed again on Page 19 in black pen-marker by the artist. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: 99.9% of "signed" Warhols passed off online - especially eBay - are fakes. The discerning collector's eye will know right away an authentic Andy Warhol signature when they see it. This is the inimitable Real Thing. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the greatest artists of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDY WARHOL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0060154772. Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 22879
ANDY WARHOL PRINTS - First edition signed by Andy Warhol
Published by
Abbeville Press, 1985
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First Edition
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Seller: °ART...on paper - 20th Century Art Books, Lugano, Switzerland
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Sq. 8° - 119 pp. First edition in english, with over 390 illustrations (including 344 in color). A fine copy signed by the artist. Andy Warhol ( born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 February 22, 1987) was an American artist, filmmaker, and impresario. Drawing on imagery from advertising, mass media, and celebrity culture, he transformed everyday consumer goods and familiar iconssuch as Campbell's soup cans, Marilyn Monroe, and Brillo Pad boxesinto renowned artworks, establishing himself as a leading figure in the pop art movement. Warhol is widely regarded as the most important American artist of the second half of the 20th century. Born to working-class Rusyn immigrant parents in Pittsburgh, Warhol began his career as a successful commercial illustrator in New York before turning to fine art, where his embrace of mechanical reproduction, silkscreen printing, and serial repetition challenged traditional boundaries between high and low culture. His studio, the Factory, became a hub for avant-garde experimentation, bringing together drag queens, poets, bohemians, musicians, and wealthy patrons. He directed numerous underground filmssuch as Chelsea Girls (1966), Lonesome Cowboys (1968), and Blue Movie (1969)featuring a shifting group of personalities known as Warhol superstars, and he is often credited with popularizing the expression "15 minutes of fame." Warhol also managed the influential rock band the Velvet Underground, who performed at his multimedia happenings, the Exploding Plastic Inevitable (196667). He expressed his queer identity through many of his artworks and films at a time when homosexuality in the United States was heavily stigmatized and legally constrained. After surviving an assassination attempt by radical feminist Valerie Solanas in June 1968, Warhol shifted his attention toward developing the Factory into a more structured business enterprise. He founded Interview magazine and published several books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975) and Popism (1980). During this period, he also expanded into television, hosting the series Fashion (197980), Andy Warhol's TV (198083), and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes (198587). Warhol died of cardiac arrhythmia at the age of 58 following gallbladder surgery in February 1987. Warhol has been described as the "bellwether of the art market", with several of his works ranking among the most expensive paintings ever sold. In 2013, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) (1963) sold for $105 million. In 2022, Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, the highest price ever paid at auction for a work by an American artist. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and documentary films. The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, which holds an extensive permanent collection of his art and archives, is the largest museum in the United States dedicated to a single artist. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 38101
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) First US Edition 1975 SIGNED with sticker
Published by
USA Harcourt, Brace 1975, 1975
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Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975, 1975. Octavo. Original orange cloth-backed yellow boards, spine lettered in white and black, the artist's initials to lower corner of front cover in black, black endpapers. With the dust jacket. A near fine book without inscriptions with some spotting to the top edge. In the near fine wrapper which is clipped and has a little wear to the extremities with a small tear to the head of the spine. First edition, first printing, SIGNED in full by the artist "Andy Warhol" on the half-title. The work, Warhol's loosely written autobiography, was first published earlier the same year. So often, the book is SIGNED by Warhol using initials, making a full signature rare and with the 'A Signed Warhol' sticker to the top of the front panel. Seller Inventory # 20387
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Andy Warhol's Exposures (Signed First Edition)
Published by
Andy Warhol Books / Grossett & Dunlap, New York, 1979
ISBN 10: 0448128500
ISBN 13: 9780448128504
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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 249 pages. Features text by Warhol and Bob Colacello. A collection of 360 black and white photographs by Warhol of his friends and acquaintances many of which were taken at Studio 54. A clean near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket with some edge tears and tape repairs. Signed by Warhol on the edge of the dust jacket. Additionally signed and inscribed by Warhol to prominent art collectors Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson on the half title page with a drawing of a broken heart as well. Association copies of this title are somewhat uncommon. Signed. Seller Inventory # 214232
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol From A To B & Back Again (Signed First Edition)
Published by
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975
ISBN 10: 0151890501
ISBN 13: 9780151890507
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. A memoir of sorts from the pop art icon that was adapted in part from conversations. A tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Warhol with his initials on the half title page and additionally signed and inscribed in full by him and with a drawing of a Campbell's tomato soup can. A better formed and less rushed drawing than usual. Signed. Seller Inventory # 198967