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Ruscha, Edward.. Various Small Fires. By the author, (Los Angeles), 1970.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon;12mo, original printed paper wraps, glassine jacket. Second edition, limited to 3,000 copies, after a 1964 edition of 400. Illustrated with 15 sepia-toned photographs. Chips to jacket top edge and a 1.5" closed tear back top edge near spine.

Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.

Ruscha, Edward. VARIOUS SMALL FIRES. (Anderson, Ritchie & Simon), (Los Angeles), 1970.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Signed second edition of Ruscha's second artist's book, an enigmatic series of controlled burns in the human landscape. The fifteen yellow-tinted fires of VARIOUS SMALL FIRES are man-made, mostly domesticated and indoors, mostly under control: a gas stove, a welder's torch, a cigarette lighter, a cigar - with just a few blurred, unidentifiable snapshots of flames on a sidewalk, by a car, in the dark, whose purpose and safety are unknown. Ruscha stressed the subject if what is important, not the photographer: "I went to a stock photograph place and looked for pictures of fires, there were none. It is not important who took the photos, it is a matter of convenience, purely" (quoted in Coplans). One of Ruscha's most confounding books, it is uncommon signed. 7'' x 5.5''. Original black and white printed wrappers. Edition of 3000 unnumbered copies. 16 photographs. [48] pages. Signed by Ruscha in pencil on front free endpaper. PROVENANCE: From the collection of longtime MIT Press editor Roger Conover, who published several books by and about Ruscha. Minor edgewear.

Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Ruscha, Ed (Edward). Various Small Fires and Milk [SIGNED - 1970 2ND EDITION 1/700 COPIES]. Self Published, 1970.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: SIGNED COPY Los Angeles: copyright Ed Ruscha, printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1970. Softcover with glassine dust jacket. Second Edition limited to only 700 unnumbered copies. 12mo. Unpaginated (48pp) with 16 b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1964, "Various Small Fires and Milk" is Edward Ruscha's second photographically illustrated artist book-a humorous cataloguing of flames and a glass of milk. Elegantly SIGNED by Ed Ruscha to the fep. Cited in B2 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999"; pp 198-201 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book"; and p. 140 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II". BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine glassine jacket showing light toning, slight rubbing and soiling with a hints or wear to margins. Overall a nice, clean, collectible copy, especially so when SIGNED by Ruscha.

Seller: Studio Books, Thornwood, NY, U.S.A.