santa monica ca the lapis press (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Dust jacket in a Brodart cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Printing. 152pps. Photos, illustrations, maps. Like new; a clean, unread copy with a smooth spine and tight binding.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Softcover in pictorial wraps. First softcover edition. SIGNED and warmly inscribed by author. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. 8vo. 55 pp.

91 pp.; 20 x 20 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Originally published across three issues of Artforum in 1976, this volume brings these critical essays together in a single housing that includes an introduction by Thomas McEvilley and an afterword by O'Doherty. Good / Very Good. Yellowing and light scratching of covers with rubbing of cover edges. Contents clean and unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated (98 pp.), 42 illustrations in color with 7 fold-outs in color. Minor scuffing and wear to the illustrated boards and edge. A few minor smudges found to the edge of one or two pages. Text by Jean-François Lyotard, beautifully illustrated by Sam Francis. Decorative endpapers. Translation from the French by Geoffrey Bennington.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Soft cover. Very good. 90 pp. B&W plates.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket. First Edition Thus 1/600. np (36pp), no illustrations. Designed and printed by Jaime Robles. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Printed by hand letterpress without illustrations, this charming little collection of brief aphorisms by the late, great Sam Francis is one of the very first publications of the artist's own Lapis Press. While the colophon calls for six hundred copies, we know from the publisher that the vast majority of the print run was never jacketed, signed, nor distributed. An internally bright, most handsome example lacking the dust jacket and showing some mild soiling to its matte white wrappers. It has been priced accordingly. Artist's Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Author (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition Limited to 600 copies , Plain paper soft cover in a tan paper dust jacket. This copy is signed by Sam Francis the artist ( June 25, 1923 - Nov. 4, 1984 ) on the last page . A very scarce book of poetry by this artist. Condition : Near Fine. Very light corner bumps. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.