David by the Pool at The Back Room, Provincetown (1976); portrait of David Armstrong by fellow Boston School photographer Nan Goldin. Large cibachrome print, flush-mounted in artist's frame. From an edition of 25; see number 5 below, as well as our current bookshop presentation "Dialogue with Youth: Goldin, Kippenberger, Morrisroe, Sidibé, and Snow."

Harper's Books: June Selections

A late-monthly list of books, ephemera, and prints relating to art, photography, and subculture. Click the links for additional images and purchasing options. To browse similar materials, visit our Chelsea bookshop at 504 W. 22nd St., but please note our Summer Hours: closed on July 4 and 5, in observance of the holiday weekend, and shifting to a Tuesday through Friday schedule (11am–6pm) as of July 7. Our East Hampton location, with a refreshed display of books, will be open daily throughout the Summer (10am–6pm) ☀

1. BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Painting

Tokyo: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1983. First Edition. Thin quarto. Published on the occasion of Jean-Michel Basquiat's first Japanese exhibition, at Tokyo's Akira Ikeda Gallery (Nov. 14 - Dec. 10, 1983). Illustrated after reproductions of 7 works (four in color), and a b&w frontispiece portrait. Concluding with text by Maki Kuwayama, printed in both English and Japanese, insightfully positioning Basquiat's "new sensibility" within a broader techno-social context. Marginal fading to white printed wrappers; near fine.

$1500.00

2. BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Basquiat: 2 March to 23 March 1985

New York: Mary Boone / Michael Werner, 1985. First Edition. Slim quarto. Exhibition catalogue for a NYC show co-organized by Mary Boone and Michael Werner, in collaboration with Bruno Bischofberger (Mar. 2 - Mar. 23, 1985). Illustrated by 5 color reproductions and a b&w frontispiece portrait, shot by Richard Leslie Schulman. Introduced by an essay from Robert Farris Thompson ("Activating Heaven: The Incantatory Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat"): "The art of Basquiat leads modern painting to a new intensity. He transforms paint into incantation, print into a mode of meditation. His colors frequently take on initiatory force." A fine copy in printed wrappers.

$1000.00

3. BASQUIAT, Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Drawings (Signed)

Zurich: Edition Bischofberger and Boone, 1985. First Edition. Oblong folio. Copy 898 of 1000 copies, hand-numbered and SIGNED by Basquiat in blue ink to colophon. An elegant bookwork, co-published by Bruno Bischofberger and Mary Boone, reproducing 32 complex drawings executed by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the Winter of 1982/83; originally measuring 22.5 x 30 inches, with a combination of acrylic, oil crayon, pastel, colour crayon, charcoal, and pencil on paper. Introduced by James Van Der Zee's iconic throned portrait of Basquiat. A fine copy in plain cloth boards; minor blemish to laminate of inner flaps, else in a near fine illustrated jacket.

$8500.00

4. FOSSO, Samuel

Group of 6 Original Autoportraits

Bangui, Central African Republic, 1972–1996. A remarkable collection of six vintage photographs, surveying the broad range of Samuel Fosso's performative approach to self-portraiture. Included in this group: arguably his first "autoportrait" (1972), in which he appropriated a portrait of his 10 year old self, as captured by a Cameroonian photographer, through the wistful application of lettraset text: "Ya pas de present sans passé." Also: a pair of his un-common Autoportrait doubles (1985, 1987) where he employs camera tricks to twin himself with uncanny effect. As well as an unusually honest self-portrait from 1996, posing openly with his Krokus photographic enlarger. Each of the photographs matted in wooden frames (averaging 9 x 7.5 inches) and accompanied by supporting (facsimile) documents detailing their 1997 acquisition by a Paris photo dealer, with a letter from Fosso stating: "Je certifie que les 36 tirages que je vous envoyer ont ete relise à l'époque des mes prises des vues dans mon laboratoire de Bangui en Rep. Centr. Africain par moi. Il n'existent qu'en un seul exemplaire et ce sont les seuls dont je dispose." Details: (i) Portrait de Samuel Fosso, âgé de 10 ans... (1972). Gelatin silver print (4.75 x 3 in., visible), signed and stamped to verso and titled to supplemental sheet; (ii) Autoportrait double (1985). Gelatin silver print (6.75 x 4.75 in., visible), signed to verso and titled to supplemental sheet; (iii) Autoportrait double (1987). Gelatin silver print (4.25 x 3 inches, visible), signed and stamped to verso and titled to supplemental sheet; (iv) Autoportrait (1988). Gelatin silver print (5 x 3 in., visible), signed to verso and titled to supplemental sheet; (v) Autoportrait (1989). Gelatin silver print (4.25 x 2.75 in.), signed and stamped to verso and titled to supplemental sheet; and (vi) Autoportrait (1996). Gelatin silver print (4.75 x 2.5 in., visible), signed and stamped to verso and titled to supplemental sheet. Some surface wear visible to a few of the prints; not yet inspected outside of frames.

$35,000.00

5. GOLDIN, Nan

David by the Pool at The Back Room, Provincetown

Provincetown, MA, 1976. Large cibachrome print (39.5 x 26.75 inches), flush-mounted in artist's frame (41 x 28.5 inches). An early work from Nan Goldin, capturing her friend and fellow Boston School photographer David Armstrong lounging by the pool at The Back Room, where Goldin would also capture Cookie Mueller in a dance floor embrace. From an edition of 25; hand-titled and numbered in pencil to frame's verso. One of four Goldin prints currently on view at our Chelsea bookshop, along with a selection of other youth-focused portraits from Mark Morrisroe and Malick Sidibé.

$30,000.00

6. GOLDIN, Nan

Misty in Sheridan Square, NYC

New York, 1991. Large cibachrome print (30 x 40 inches), flush mounted in artist's frame (28.5 x 41 inches). One of Nan Goldin's iconic images of Misty, captured at the 1991 NYC Pride Parade. SIGNED and hand-titled by Goldin to label affixed to verso; identified as artist's proof (AP 2).

$30,000.00

7. GROSVENOR, Robert

16 Pictures (Special Edition, Extra Illustrated)

New York: Karma, 2017. Special Edition. Quarto. One of 8 unnumbered copies of this publication of Robert Grosvenor's sculptural photographs, each extra-illustrated with unique combinations of hand-trimmed photographs affixed to front endpapers; SIGNED and dated by Grosvenor. A fine copy in illustrated boards.

$1250.00

8. HAMMONS, David

Rousing the Rubble

New York: The Institute for Contemporary Art / Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1991. First Edition. Quarto. Published following the David Hammons retrospective at The Institute for Contemporary Art (P.S.1), curated by Tom Finkelpearl (Dec. 16, 1990 - Feb. 10, 1991). One of the first monographs dedicated to Hammons' inimitable practice, illustrated after photographs by Dawoud Bey and Bruce Talamon, with accompanying texts from Finkelpearl, Steve Cannon, Kellie Jones, and an introduction by ICA Director Alanna Heiss. A fine copy in cloth boards, in a fine illustrated jacket.

$750.00

9. HIP HOP / Eric Orr, Keith Haring, Seen, Various Others

Max: SE2. [Rappin' Max Robot, Issue 2]

Bronx, NY: Self-published, 1986. First Edition. Broadsheet (11 x 17 inches) folded thrice into panels of 5.75 in. square. Second print appearance of Rappin' Max Robot, a character who first appeared through the chalk drawings of frequent Keith Haring collaborator Eric Orr; the first issue, published in a traditional format, is credited as the first hip-hop comic book. Featured here, a 26 panel comic narrative from Orr ("You Don't Really Wanna Battle") in which Max is challenged to a battle with Kool Kev'. Rear panel illustrated after an advertisement for Haring's Pop Shop, which had opened a few months prior. Close to fine copy; scarce, with single OCLC record located (Cornell).

$850.00

10. JOHNSTON, Daniel

Daniel Johnston (Cahiers de Dessins Contemporains. Numéro 1)

Paris: Arts Factory Éditions, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. Fully-illustrated with 32 color reproductions of Daniel Johnston's transgressive marker drawings. Minor rubbing to illustrated wrappers; near fine. Uncommon, with single OCLC record located.

$250.00

11. KOONS, Jeff

Jeff Koons: A Retrospective (Signed with Drawing)

New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2014. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of the ambitious retrospective of Jeff Koons' work, which traveled from the Whitney (Jun. 27 - Oct. 19, 2014) to the Pompidou (Nov. 26 - Apr. 27, 2015) and Guggenheim Bilbao (Jun. 5 - Sep. 27). This copy SINGED by Koons to half-title page, with an impressively rendered full-page floral drawing, dated April 20, 2016. Contents divided into a series of richly-illustrated thematic chapters (e.g. inflatables, luxury and degradation, banality, Hulk Elvis, antiquity); a lengthy essay by Scott Rothkopf ("No limits") is accompanied by additional texts from Scott Rothkopf, Antonio Damasio, Jeffrey Deitch, Isabelle Graw, Achim Hochdörfer, Michelle Kuo, Rachel Kushner, Pamela M. Lee, and Alexander Nagel. A fine copy in illustrated cloth boards, in fine jacket with embossed floral illustration to front panel.

$2500.00

12. LICHTENSTEIN, Roy

Modern Art Poster (Variant)

[New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1967]. Screenprint (8 x 10.75 inches). Variant of the signed edition of 300 screenprints published by Leo Castelli Gallery in 1967; this version unsigned with trimmed borders and blank verso. The same composition, printed offset, was used for an announcement card for a late 1967 exhibition at the The Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. (RLCR 1340). Some corner creasing, with minor scuffing, but still a vibrant print; close to near fine.

$1500.00

13. MAJERUS, Michel

If We Are Dead, So It Is (Multiple)

Köln: Kölnischer Kunstverein / Dornbracht Installation Project, 2000. Multiple. Oversized sticker (9.75 x 16.5 inches) published on the occasion of Michel Majerus' exhibition at the Kölnischer Kunstverein (Oct. 28 - Dec. 22, 2000); faithfully reproducing his legendary skate-ramp sculpture at a scale of 1:100. Exhibition details printed to verso backing, along with instructions on how to transform the sticker into a miniature skate ramp via application to cardboard base. Fine.

$500.00

14. MORRISROE, Mark

[Self Portrait with Tattoo]

[1982]. Original Polaroid (4.25 x 3.25 inches) with characteristic distressing. One of Mark Morrisroe's more iconic self-portraits, eventually reproduced via photogravure in a 1996 portfolio published by Pat Hearn Gallery and Renaissance Press. With estate stamp to verso, signed by Hearn and identified as Polaroid #115. One of six Morrisroe Polaroids presently on view at our Chelsea bookshop, as part of the presentation "Dialogue with Youth: Goldin, Kippenberger, Morrisroe, Sidibé, and Snow."

$10,000.00

15. PETTIBON, Raymond

Are Your Motives Pure? Paymond Pettibon: Surfers, 1984-2014 (Signed)

New York: Venus Over Manhattan, 2014. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of Raymond Pettibon's surfer-inspired works on paper at Venus Over Manhattan (Apr. 3 - May 17, 2014). This copy SIGNED by Pettibon in silver marker to front panel of illustrated jacket. Illustrated with color reproductions and details of 49 exhibited works, along with process photographs of Pettibon's original mural at the gallery; accompanied by text from Carlo McCormick ("Waveform: Riding the Sublime to the Song of the Sea"). Fine copy in fully illustrated wrappers. In illustrated jacket with minor bump to lower spine; near fine.

$500.00

16. PEYTON, Elizabeth

Prince Eagle: An Artist's Book by Elizabeth Peyton (Deluxe Edition)

New York: powerHouse Books / Thea Westreich, 2001. Deluxe Edition. Small quarto in publisher's clamshell box. Number 11 of 35 copies, SIGNED and hand-numbered by Peyton, with accompanying gold-stamped print—also signed and numbered—housed in clamshell's front sleeve. A book of obsessive portraiture from Elizabeth Peyton, whose lifelong fascination with Napoleon Bonaparte (i.e. Prince Eagle) bore fruit when she encountered his twenty-first century doppelgänger Tony; his likeness endlessly reproduced by Peyton via painting, drawing, and photography. Save for some minor scuffing to gold leaf on print, all elements fine.

$2500.00

17. RHOADES, Jason

Meccatuna (Neon Transformer Label)

New York: David Zwirner, 2003. Multiple. Large decal/sticker (8.25 in. square), adhered to original backing sheet. From an unnumbered edition produced for Jason Rhoades' baroque 2003 installation at David Zwirner (Sep. 12 - Oct. 25), centered around his absurd neologism MECCATUNA, which he principally defined as "the act of taking a live bluefin tuna on a pilgrimmage to the Holy City of Mecca to circumnavigate the Kabba." The present transformer decal—altered and translated into Arabic—is identified as an integral part of the exhibition in the archived Zwirner press release: along with 5 camel toe bones, 27 eight-count Ivory Snow PeaRoeFoam boxes, 48 cans of Geisha tuna (from the Holy City of Mecca), 85 donkey cart ceramics (mostly made in occupied Japan), 500 neon-tubed vagina euphemisms, and a 2003 Honda XR50 motorcylc; all installed—amongst other cultural debris—around a Lego model of the sacred Kabba, hand-built at 1/3 scale. This copy remarkably well-preserved, and accompanied by the corresponding exhibition announcement card, which reproduces the same decal design to recto.

$750.00

18. RICHTER, Gerhard

Gerhard Richter: Overpainted Photographs

Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008. First Edition. Thick quarto. Published in conjunction with the exhibition that traveled from Museum Morsbroich (Leverkusen, Oct. 17, 2008 - Jan. 18,2009) to Centre de la Photographie Genève (Jan. 29 - Mar. 29, 2009). A beautifully printed catalogue, focued on Richter's lifelong project of merging painting and photography. Features four essays on the subject. Near fine in cloth boards with color image affixed to front panel.

$275.00

19. RUSCHA, Edward

News, Mews, Pews, Brews, Stews & Dues. Six Organic Screenprints by Edward Ruscha (Prospectus)

London: Editions Alecto, 1970. First Edition. Slim quarto (8 pp.). Prospectus for a suite of six "organic" screenprints from Ed Ruscha produced with a series of everyday ingredients depicted on the front cover and itemized in the opening table. E.g. for Stews—photographed as a 2 pp. process centerfold—Ruscha employed tulips, daffodils, tomato paste, cherry pie filling, strawberries, baked beans, and caviar. Introduced by text from Christopher Fox, including a number of interview snippets: "Right now, I am out to explore the medium. It's a playground or a beach, so I'm going to send up as much sand up in the air as I can! I think the next time I'll print with iodine." Bump to lower edge of illustrated wrappers; close to near fine. Uncommon, with 5 OCLC records located in North America.

$450.00

20. SNOW, Dash

Man, Myth, and Magic (Graffiti-Signed)

New York, Self-published, circa 2005. Zine. Illustrated wrappers with 80 pp. of color xerographic contents. Perhaps Dash Snow's most focused bookwork, with dozens of Polaroids and collages focused on a mythical shirtless figure—presumably being the same Hasan to whom the zine is dedicated; shot in mostly non-urban environments. Something like a neo-Romantic portrait. This copy sharply INSCRIBED by Snow to first page, using his graffiti pseudonym (SACE), in reference to his IRAK crew. Some minor creasing to illustrated wrappers; contents loose. Near fine. Scarce, with no OCLC records located.

$6500.00

21. TWOMBLY, Cy

Twombly: Mostra Personale

Roma: Galleria La Tartaruga, 1963. First Edition. Slim quarto (8 pp.). An elegant catalogue published on the occasion of Cy Twombly's third exhibition at Plinio De Martiis' La Tartaruga gallery (opening Mar. 6, 1963). With a series of reproductions punctuated by critical excerpts, from the likes of Frank O'Hara, Emilio Villa, Manfred de la Motte, Gillo Dorfles, and Pierre Restany. Front cover illustrated after a variant drawing of Vengeance of Achilles (1962). Slight bump to corners of illustrated wrappers, with some toning to head of spine; near fine.

$750.00

22. WARHOL, Andy 

Andy Warhol: Trucks (Announcement Booklet)

Bonn: Hans Schüller, 1986. Small portfolio. Announcement booklet for an exhibition of Andy Warhol's Truck series at Hans Schüller's gallery in Bonn (Jul. 3 - Aug 23, 1986). One year prior, for the 20th World Congress of the International Road Transportation Union, the Federal Association of German Public Transport commissioned Warhol to produce a thematic edition, with Warhol electing to commemorate the profane figure of the transport truck in a suite of four colorful screenprints (in an edition of 60). This announcement featuring miniature reproductions of the screenprints (6.75 inches square), housed in a plain white folder with text printed to interior panels. Minor scuffing to portfolio, with some thumb-soiling to black card; close to near fine.

$850.00

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