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Witkin, Joel-Peter.. GODS OF EARTH AND HEAVEN.. Twelvetrees Press: Altadina, CA, 1989.
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Description: Mostly photos, 13.25 x 10.25, cloth, unpag, upper right corners bumped else nice in dw. FIRST ED, SIGNED BY WITKIN ON TITLE PAGE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Witkin, Joel-Peter. Gods of Earth and Heaven. Twelvetrees Pr, 1989.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: signed by Witkin on back page; signature obtained by bookseller; dust jacket has some bumps and wrinkles and a sticker residue; disturbing, brilliant, highly unusual photographs of dead people and other transgressive images; shocking material
Seller: Affordably Rare, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Witkin, Joel-Peter. Gods Of Earth And Heaven. Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, 1989.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Unpaginated. 33 x 25.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 56 of 100 signed by Witkin on the dedication leaf, "To my mother who gave me life." Contents are images in black and white and color photographs printed recto only on high gloss stock. The "Afterworld" of some twelve leaves plus and a few images. The explanatory text discusses "A perverse, morbid and dynamic eroticism (I use these terms descriptively) underlies all the imagery of desecration, contact with the agonized and the dead and the excremental." Orig. black cloth, front cover lettered in gilt. Fine in fine matching slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed to an important figure in contemporary photography (please inquire). Limited slipcased edition of 100 copies. Hardcover. Fine black cloth-covered boards, with title stamped in gilt on spine and cross design stamped in silver on front cover, with black end papers and printed dust jacket. Contained in a matching black cloth-covered slipcase. Photographs and drawings by Joel-Peter Witkin. Essays by Gus Blaisdell and John Yau, Afterword by Joel-Peter Witkin. Includes exhibition history and bibliography. 124 pp. with 52 two- and four-color plates on a matte coated paper stock. 13-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. This first edition was limited to 5000 hardbound copies. Out of print. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (light surface indentations, wear to the extremities, and small areas of delamination). From the publisher: "The work is as controversial as ever. cadavers, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. The ten years work included in this collection were not reproduced in our first book of the artist's work." Signed by Author.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.