Search Results: Titles starting with N from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

First Edition, First Printing. 48 pp. photographically illustrated book printed on coated stock, some images in color. Oblong small 4to. One of 2500 copies. Internally fine, slight odor, perhaps of old tobacco. Stiff wraps with tiny blemish to front cover and ¼ in. diameter tea-colored stain on the rear else very good. [55]
Exhibition catalog for the watershed photography exhibition at George Eastman House, featuring works by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel, Jr. Curator William Jenkins acknowledges Ed Ruscha's formidable influence on the field of photography in 1970s in his introduction, which also cites brief texts by Nixon, Baltz, Deal and Adams. Contains 24 black and white images from the exhibition and three images by Shore in color. A desirable copy of this scarce work.

86 pp. Sunday magazine supplement. Small folio (approximately 10.25 × 12.5 inches) Very good overall ; handling marks and curling at the corners. Ilustrated wrappers. [1624]
Includes the seminal 11-page cover story on Basquiat, written by Cathleen McGuigan. "Since I was seventeen, I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix," he remarks, in McGuigan's story. "I had a romantic feeling of how people had become famous. Even when I didn't think my stuff was that good, I'd have faith." In the eyes of some observers, the piece helped cement Basquiat's reputation in the firmament of the 1980s New York art world. A scarce and sought after ephemeron.

257 pp. text in Japanese. 12mo. Sanrio SF catalog laid in. Very good. Stiff wraps, illus. d.j. and obi. [1205]
A nice copy of the Japanese first edition of Nova Express, notable for its delirious cover art by avant-garde cartoonist Yoji Kuri.