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RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES

RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES

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RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES

by (PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Josh Bayer (AKA "Sketchy") & Michael Gira

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(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Josh Bayer (AKA "Sketchy") & Michael Gira. RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES. Lawndale & Hermosa Beach, CA, etc. 1978-2015.: SST Publications, Superflux Publications, Galerie Metropol, Illuminati, Galerie Krinzinger, Parkett, Ooga Booga, Nieves & Innen, Contemporary Fine Arts & David Zwirner Books, First Edition. 8vo + 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Books. Very Good. or Better. np (most circa 28pp), each profusely illustrated in b&w. In protective clear acetate dustwrappers. This is a collection of fifty-one primarily early artist's books cum 'zines - mostly self-published between 1978 and 2006 via SST and Superflux Publications - by the esteemed Southern California native, Raymond Pettibon. Listed by title in chronological order of publication preceded in parentheses by their entry number in Uwe Koch and Roberto Ohrt's "A Catalogue Raisonné of Artists' Books by Raymond Pettibon, 1978-98" (the last seven were issued following the bibliography and so have publication dates instead), they are: (01) "Captive Chains", (04) "Freud's Universe", (05) "My Struggle For Life After Death", (06) "A New Wave of Violence", (08) "Tripping Corpse 2: The Hippie Thing", (09) "Capricious Missives", (10) "Tripping Corpse 3", (11) "Virgin Fears", (12) "The Bible, the Bottle, and the Bomb", (13) "Console, Heal, Or Depict", (15) "Kismet's Account", (16) "Lana", (17) "Tripping Corpse Four", (18) "Tripping Corpse 5", (19) "American Lynch Law", (20) "A Can At The Crossroads", (21) "Cars, TV, Rockets, H-Bomb - - You Name It", (22) "The Express Sex Train", (23) "Exterminating The Eagles", (24) "Jane's Book Of Fighting", (25) "Just Happy To Be Working", (26) "Like Death Valley", (28) "New Wavy Gravy", (29) "New Wavy Gravy 2 (As Opposed to Old Wavy Gravy)", (30) "The Observable World", (31) "Pig Cupid", (32) "Selfishness", (33) "Short Teats, Bloody Milk", (35) "Tripping Corpse 6", (37) "Wein, Weib, Und Gesang", (40) "Meat Offerings", (45) "Thin, Thin Cross", (51) "Meandering on a Riff", (81) "12 O'Clock Shadow", (84) "From a Tower", (92) "Sweet Luther", (94) "The Train-Watcher", (96) "Writ", (97) "The Cloud of Unreading", (98) "The Language of Romantic Thought", (100) "On The Scent (Vavoom)", (101) "One Foot in the Mouth, One Foot on the Shelf", (103) "Up The Threshold", (105) "Untitled (Justly Felt and Brilliantly Said - A Project for Parkett No. 47)", (2001) "Plot Burial By: Josh Bayer (AKA Sketchy), Raymond Pettibon", (2001) "'S Not Fake! 'S Real!", (2006) "As Always And So On", (2009) "The Major Arteries and the Minor Tributes", (2014) "Raymond Pettibon: Selected Works 1982 to 2011", (2015) "Raymond Pettibon + Mike Topp: Born On A Train" - SIGNED by both artists, and (2016) "Dzama / Pettibon" - second expanded edition. A most handsome group - all of which are in at least Very Good condition - of these wryly transgressive, seminal publications. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 021812

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Arcana: Books on the Arts US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
021812
Title
RAYMOND PETTIBON: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY-ONE PRIMARILY EARLY ARTIST'S BOOKS / 'ZINES
Author
(PETTIBON, RAYMOND). Pettibon, Raymond, Nelson Tarpenny, Josh Bayer (AKA "Sketchy") & Michael Gira
Format/Binding
Stapled Illustrated Wrappers
Book Condition
Used - Very Good. or Better.
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
SST Publications, Superflux Publications, Galerie Metropol, Illuminati, Galerie Krinzinger, Parkett, Ooga Booga, Nieves & In
Place of Publication
Lawndale & Hermosa Beach, CA, etc. 1978-2015.
Keywords
Raymond Pettibon, Raymond Ginn, Michael Gira, Nelson Tarpenny, Josh Bayer (aka Sketchy), Tom Brinkmann, Mike Topp, Marcel Dzama, American Contemporary Art, Artist Monograph, Artists Book Books, California Artists and Arts, Comics and Comix, Erotica, Music

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Arcana: Books on the Arts is an open shop located in Culver City, California. Their specialties are Photography, 20th Century Art, Architecture, Design, Fashion & Cinema; Modern Art Ephemera and Exhibition Catalogues; as well as African, Oceanic, PreColumbian and Ethnographic Arts.

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