EVERY BUILDING ON THE SUNSET STRIP by Ruscha, Edward - 1966

Los Angeles, California: Edward Ruscha, 1966. Wraps. Near Fine in Very Good slipcase. 18 x 14 cm. 12mo. Black and white panoramic photographic artist book. Accordion style binding bound in wrappers housed in silver foil covered slipcase. Folds-out ot 27 ft. This is one of 5000 copies of the second issue which lacks the extra- 2-inch flap at the end of the last folded page to accommodate the full image. Ruscha was unhappy with this and the image was cropped in this issue. The 4th of Ruscha's 16 self-designed and published artist's books. Slipcase cracked at one fold. There is a vertical crease noticable to the spine. Reference: Andrew Roth - "Book of 101 Books". (pp 182-185).

Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles, 1970. Book. Good. Wrappers with board Slipcase. Inscribed by the Artist. Second Printing. Originally published in 1966 as is stated on the title page, this is one of an unnumbered second printing of 5,000 copies printed in 1970. [INSCRIBED BY THE ARTIST] in ink on the inside front cover: "To Mary Ann / Cheers / Ed Ruscha." There is vertical creasing to the spine, with some light soiling. The white paper bellyband that was present at first issue is missing. There are some cracks and separations at the joints of the silver Mylar covered cardboard slipcase at the opening, and the Mylar is worn and slightly lifting along the edges. Still, the edges and corners of the book are sharp, and aside from the aforementioned artist's inscription, the interior is clean and free of markings. Softbound in white printed stiff paper, this 7 x 5 5/8 inch book opens out accordion-style into a 296 5/8 continuous sheet of pasted and folded sheets of black and white photographic images… Read More

Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1970. First edition, Second printing. Softcover. g+ to vg+. 1/5000. Octavo. Unpaginated. (53), (1)pp. Original white wraps with gray lettering on spine, in its original silver paper-covered slipcase. Signed "Edward Ruscha" in blue pen on the top edge of the slipcase. Iconic accordion folded artist's book containing offset reproductions of two extended panoramic photographic collages of each side of Los Angeles' Sunset Strip between Laurel Canyon and Cory Street. American photographer Ed Ruscha took the photographs contained in this leporello with a motorized Nikon camera mounted to the back of a pickup truck. This allowed him to photograph every building on the Sunset Strip while driving - first down one side of the street and then the other. The pictures were then pasted in order, and the individual buildings were labeled with their respective house numbers. This is the second printing of the first edition, originally published in 1966 (does no include the wrap around at… Read More

(Los Angeles): [Edward Ruscha], 1966. First edition. Near fine.. First edition, second issue of this quintessentially Los Angeles book, and one of the great photobooks of all time - in exceptional condition. Ruscha's fourth book, and arguably his finest, captures the Sunset Strip at a particular moment in time. A monumental and continuous accordion-fold scroll that opens to more than 25 feet, Ruscha documents - as the title suggests - the entirety of the Strip, with even numbered addresses running along the top the page and odd facing opposite along the bottom. "The effect is less like the fluid cinematic pan [...] than a series of jolting jump cuts [...] a ragged progression of gas stations, motels, apartment houses, parking lots, strip-malls, and honky-tonk signage" (Parr 182). A beautiful example of a notoriously fragile production. 7'' x 5.5''. Accordion-fold printed recto only and mounted in printed wrappers. Housed in original silver Mylar foil-covered slipcase. Spine lightly creased, with… Read More

Edward Ruscha, 1966. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. The true first edition with the extra flap in the back, limited to 1,000 though not so stated, 5 3/4 inches x 7 1/8 in., accordion fold reproductions of black and white photographs of the buildings, with their printed addresses; folding out to 27 feet long. White paper card covers with the title: The Sunset Strip, printed in silver on the spine and front cover. Edward Ruscha (b. 1937) is an influential American artist associated with the Pop art movement. In Every Building On The Sunset Strip, Ruscha took continuous photographs for two and one half miles of the buildings along the "Strip" portion of Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California. The photographs were printed in an accordion-fold style book. Ruscha oversaw the design and production of the book, which was part of a new artistic genre of art book. Fine in fine original silver slipcase.

(Los Angeles): Edward Ruscha, 1966. First edition. Near fine in near fine slipcase.. Signed first edition, second issue of this quintessentially Los Angeles book, and one of the great photobooks of all time - with the original wrap-around band intact. Ruscha's fourth book, and arguably his finest, captures the Sunset Strip at a particular moment in time. A monumental and continuous accordion-fold scroll that opens to more than 25 feet, Ruscha documents - as the title suggests - the entirety of the Strip, with even numbered addresses running along the top the page and odd facing opposite along the bottom. "The effect is less like the fluid cinematic pan [...] than a series of jolting jump cuts [...] a ragged progression of gas stations, motels, apartment houses, parking lots, strip-malls, and honky-tonk signage" (Parr 182). A beautiful example of a notoriously fragile production. 7'' x 5.5''. Accordion-fold printed recto only and mounted in printed wrappers. Housed in original silver Mylar… Read More