Recent Arrivals from Harper's Books, Inc.

Goslar: Edition Mönchehaus-Museum, 1988. Near fine copy, in stapled illustrated wrappers. Scarce, with only 4 OCLC records located in North America.. First Edition. Artist's book published on the occasion of Gerhard Richter being awarded the 1988 Goslarer Kaiserring. Contents: [24] pages, with commemorative text from Dieter Honisch (in German), illustrated after 10 of Richter's out-of-focus photographs of Goslar,… Read more about this item

Mostly Southern California, 1963-1978. Uniformly fine to near fine in printed wrappers, with original glassines where called-for. These volumes each housed in custom plexiglass cases, allowing for wall-mounted display.. Few contemporary artists have incorporated the book into their practice quite like Ed Ruscha. As the recent MoMA retrospective (Ed Ruscha / Now Then) so brilliantly displayed, the book… Read more about this item

Paris: Éditions Jeanne Walter, 1931. Trace foxing to the top edge of textblock, else a beautiful, close to fine copy. In plain wrappers, enclosed by the distinctive French-fold jacket that boasts the masterful superimposition of smokestacks over stone colonnade; also close to fine. Housed in custom cloth slipcase with a matching lettered chemise. A memorable copy of this consensus… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratif, 1930. Minimal foxing to edges of some plates (8.75 x 6.25 in., sheet), but otherwise an exemplary copy in the original portfolio, with cloth ties; close to fine. Printed label to front panel shows marginal foxing, with a contemporary ownership inscription (1931). Housed in a custom cloth clamshell case, with leather lettering piece to… Read more about this item

New York: Thea Westreich / Cologne: Gisella [sic] Capitain, 1989. This is a remarkably fine copy, with only a hint of scuffing to the plain black papered boards-and still accompanied by the publishers' original box, featuring a typescript Thea Westreich label to the front panel, identifying this as one of Wool's proofs. An astounding copy of one of the most… Read more about this item

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. This copy bumped to top of spine, with thumb-soling to vellum and some dusting to textblock edges. Overall: a close to near fine copy with remarkably crisp interior and firm hinges. Accompanied by the publisher's original patterned slipcase-now increasingly uncommon-with printed Bodley Head label affixed to front panel; no. 10 of 100… Read more about this item

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Graphic Arts, 1995. A fine copy in cream cloth boards, with publisher's plexiglass slipcase; all elements housed within the scarce foam-lined mailing box, with titles printed directly to front panel. Box lightly worn with a few small stains, but well-preserved. A beautiful copy of an evocation of mid-90s L.A. by two of its foremost artists..… Read more about this item

Praha: E. Beaufort, [1930]. Orange cloth boards with printed label to front panel; save for some bowing to boards and tight binding, a near fine copy. In a remarkably sharp copy of the rare photo-illustrated jacket, with only minor scuffing to rear panel; fine. Housed in custom cloth clamshell case with leather lettering piece. An exquisite copy.. First… Read more about this item

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973. Modest edge-wear to glossy illustrated wrappers; about near fine.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Catalogue for an early Ruth Asawa retrospective at SFMOMA (Jun. 29 - Aug. 19, 1973). With thoughtful biography provided by guest curator Gerald Nordland, who worked closely with Asawa in organizing the exhibition. This copy SIGNED by… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press, 1941. Edges very faintly spotted, offsetting to endpapers as common; a pleasing near fine copy in a very close to near fine jacket, lightly soiled with a hint of edgewear.. First Edition. Octavo. Woolf's posthumous final novel, with jacket designed by Vanessa Bell.

Milano: Federico Motta Editore, 1990. A fine copy in black boards. Unclipped illustrated jacket with marginal toning, near fine.. First Italian Edition. Quarto. "I'm merely exploring souls and cities." One of WIlliam Klein's great city photobooks, documenting the passions that inhabited Turin, as one of the host cities for the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The Italian national team… Read more about this item

New York / Chicago : Harry N. Abrams / Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. A fine copy in orange cloth boards in a fine illustrated jacket.. First Edition. Thick quarto (398 pages). An impressive monograph published on the occasion of the Westermann retrospective that originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Jun. 30 - Sept. 23, 2001), before… Read more about this item

Basel / Boston: Birkhäuser, 1987. A fine copy in illustrated cloth boards.. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Oblong folio. Comprehensive documentation of the major projects of Louis Kahn, with reproductions of hundreds of sketches, renderings, and photographs, mostly in black-and-white. Edited by Sharad Jhaveri and Heinz Ronner. Includes a transcript of Kahn's 1969 lecture "Silence and Light.

Köln: Galerie Michael Werner, 1981/1984. Faint foldlines, else fine; both announcements accompanied by original postmarked envelopes with corresponding exhibition details printed to their fronts.. Two similarly composed announcement flyers, printed red and blue, respectively, on buff sheets (8.25 x 11.75 inches). These group shows-Arbeiten auf Papier (May 2 - 30, 1981) and Arbeiten von Baselitz, Broodthaers, Byars, Immendorf,… Read more about this item

Roma: L'Attico, 1968. Some scuffing to rear panel, with minor bump to upper corner. Uncommon, with only a single OCLC record located (Berlin).. First Edition. Catalogue produced for Simone Forti's first European performance at Fabio Sargentini's Galleria L'Attico in Rome; considered a turning point in the development of avant-garde exhibition practices in Europe. Contents: [20] pages, illustrated after… Read more about this item

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. Spine labels rubbed as usual, else a near fine set in linen-backed boards. In black linen-backed slipcase, with glossy title label; some scuffing and minor pulling to cloth, else near fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Four volumes in slipcase. The definitive work on Pollock, spanning 26 years and comprised of 1096 separate entries… Read more about this item

Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 1990. Envelope (5.5 x 8 inches) post-marked and addressed to Galerie Paul Sties in Kronberg. Minor creasing to envelope, else near fine.. Another conceptual invitation from James Lee Byars, with vernissage details for this Houston exhibition (The Perfect Thought, Sep. 8 - Oct. 28) printed directly to the front of the envelope, in embossed… Read more about this item

Viersen: Galerie Kunst Parterre, 1992. Plain black wrappers, with bright glossy jacket; near fine, save for bump to top of edge-block. Scarce, with no OCLC records located in North America.. First Edition. Slim quarto. A scarce catalogue featuring extensive photo documentation of Keith Haring's 1988 Tokyo Pop Shop, as shot by Tseng Kwong Chi. Published on the occasion… Read more about this item

New York: Grove Press, 1966. Light scratches to blue cloth boards, thus near fine, in unclipped illustrated jacket with minor edge-wear, also near fine.. First Edition. Octavo. Autobiographical adventure from Jack Kerouac-i.e. Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac-exploring his family's roots in France.

Roma: Galleria La Tartaruga, 1959. Save for pinholes to upper corners, a fine copy of this scarce announcement, with no OCLC records located.. Boldly designed, screenprinted poster (11.75 x 13.5 in.) for Robert Rauschenberg's first solo exhibition in Europe, at Rome's Galleria La Tartaruga (opening May 30, 1959). With brief artist biography printed to the verso of this Dada-inspired… Read more about this item