Every Building On The Sunset Strip.

8vo. (181 x 144 mm). pp. 52, comprised of a single narrow accordian-folded sheet. Printed title, copyright and 2 continuous strips of monochrome illustrations from photographs, across top and bottom of a folded sheet (nine conjoined sheets with the additional small folded flap at the end of the book at 9176 and 9171 Sunset Boulevard) in leporello format; total size: 181 x 7455 mm. Original publisher's printed wrappers, title in silver to front cover and spine, original reflective silver slipcase. The first edition first issue, signed by Ruscha on the title, of this famous and important leporello artist book. From the edition limited to 1000 copies, complete with the small folded flap at the end of the book (at 9176 and 9171 Sunset Boulevard); this copy signed on the title page by Ruscha. 'The Sunset Strip satisfied one of Ruscha's early ambitions: 'In Oklahoma City, I delivered newspapers riding along on my bicycle with my dog . I dreamed about making a model of all the houses on that route, a tiny but detailed model that I could study like an architect standing over a table and plotting a city". As a result of his subsequent fascination with the Sunset Strip, this unrealized youthful ides resurfaced in a different form. The accordion-fold structure of the book was an appropriate format for Ruscha's intended depiction of the famous Hollywood thoroughfare as a series of two-dimensional storefront facades, like those of a Western town'. (Clive Phillpot). [Engberg & Phillpot B4; Roth pp. 182 - 185].…