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Price: US$357.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 128pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Barbara Martin. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the exhibition catalogue cum artist's book published in conjunction with a 1984 Allen Ruppersberg retrospective that traveled from Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art to New York's New Museum. This deluxe edition is hand bound in decorative boards by Earl Gray and features an artwork/multiple by the wry conceptual artist entitled "Love Me Tender" (which incorporates a primitive electronic "music box" that plays a highly syrupy version of the Elvis Presley classic when opened) bound in. A bright, most handsome example of the first - and only - hardbound edition limited to two hundred and fifty hand-numbered (#218/250) copies whose easily replaced, tiny watch-type battery has run dead after thirty-five years additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Al Ruppersberg" in black ink on the title page still in the publisher's unprinted white paper jacket, as issued.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unnumbered run-off of the Deluxe limited edition of 250 numbered copies. This copy is SIGNED by Allen Ruppersberg & stamped "Black Sparrow Edition" on the colophon. Fine in pictorial boards handbound by Earl Gray in the publisher's plain unprinted dust jacket. (4to. ) (128pp. ) Illustrated in color & black & white. Designed by Barbara Martin & printed by Graham Mackintosh. The small watch-like battery in the "Love Me Tender" portion of the text has expired and could be easily replaced. The 8 (9 1/2" X 5 1/2") black & white photographic prints & the 5 pieces of printed stationary are in place.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.