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BALTZ, Lewis. Candlestick Point. Gallery Min and Aperture, Tokyo and New York, 1989.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 10 x 13 inches, oblong. Black-and-white and color images, some folding. Original black boards, printed paper label on front cover; original matching open-faced slipcase. First edition, signed "Cheers! Lewis Baltz" on the title-page. Published to coincide with the exhibition held 13 May to 2 July 1989. Text by Gus Blaisdell (in English and Japanese). Some light hazing to the boards, generally fine
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$544.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed in pencil on the first page by Baltz. Hardcover. Black faux leather-covered boards with matte gray tipped-in title plate on cover and printed in gray on spine, no dust jacket as issued; contained in a black cardboard slipcase with matte gray title plate on front and spine. Photographs by Lewis Baltz. Essay (in English and Japanese) by Gus Blaisdell. Designed by Hiroshi Osaka. Unpaginated (136 pp., including 8 two-page gatefolds), with 12 four-color and 72 duotone plates beautifully printed on heavy matte paper by Mitsumura Printing Company, Ltd., Japan. 10-1/2 x 13-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Lewis Baltz: Candlestick Point" at Gallery Min, Tokyo (May 12 -- July 2, 1989). Out of print. Scarce. Near Fine (bumps to the lower right corner of boards; crimping of page edges; minor shelf wear) in Near Fine slipcase (small bumps to top and bottom; minor shelf wear and 2 areas where surface of paper may have been removed by tape or stickers, revealing the matte black paper layer beneath). A continuation of Baltz's "New Topographics" investigation of the industrial wasteland at San Francisco's Candlestick Point. In wide-angle and close-up views, Baltz lays bare what we'd rather not see, while at the same time luring the viewer with the perverse pleasures of his images, here echoed by the sensuous pleasure of the book itself. Signed by Author.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. Number 22 of only 45 copies. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Gallery Min in Tokyo. Essay by Gus Blaisdell in English and Japanese. A collection of color plates and duotone images. All images taken in and the Candlestick Point area in San Francisco, California. A near fine copy in a very near fine cardboard slipcase with some minor wear. No dust jacket as issued. Includes a tipped in page saying that this is part of a "collector's edition consists of forty-five signed and numbered copies from the artist's archives. Signed by Baltz.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Photography - Baltz, Lewis. Candlestick Point. Gallery Min, Tokyo and New York, 1989.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Early monograph by Baltz. No text. This copy INSCRIBED by Baltz. A near fine hardbound copy in slipcase which shows just a little wear. Signed by Author.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.