FLIPPING, KICKING, HOWLING, ROLLING, SITTING, STANDING, CLIMBING, TELLING

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward

Published by The Lapis Press, Los Angeles, 1988

About this Item

np (28pp), 1 letterpress colophon + title page, 8 color etchings. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Flipping, Kicking, Howling, Rolling, Sitting, Standing, Climbing, Telling" is the oversized, extraordinarily luxe artist's book published in 1988 by Sam Francis' Lapis Press containing eight original etchings by Edward Ruscha. Each "silhouette" image was pulled by master printer Jacob Samuel at The Litho Shop on a 20 x 16" sheet of Rives BFK paper. The title and colophon pages are printed by hand-letterpress, and along with the etchings, four blank preliminaries, and endpapers have been hand-bound by Klaus Ullrich S. Rotzscher in an exquisite debossed, full dark green smooth calfskin. The book is housed in a stylish matching calf and linen slipcase. A most handsome example of the first and only printing (print entries 149-156 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999") of this exquisite, exceedingly uncommon volume - only two copies are currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - BOLDLY NUMBERED (19/35) AND SIGNED "Ed Ruscha 1988" in pencil on the rear colophon, as issued. This is accompanied by a pristine example of the hors commerce 20 x 16" Lapis Press promotional broadside cum print for the book featuring a colored etching by Ruscha of the letter "B" (entry M-59 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999") that was issued in an edition of forty numbered but unsigned copies.

Seller Inventory # 013966

Bibliographic Details

• Title: FLIPPING, KICKING, HOWLING, ROLLING, SITTING, STANDING, CLIMBING, TELLING
• Publisher: The Lapis Press, Los Angeles
• Publication Date: 1988
• Binding: Full Leather in Slipcase
• Edition: First Edition 1/35.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - As Issued
• Signed: Signed and Numbered by the Artist with 8 Etchings
• Book Type: Artist's Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Edward Ruscha
  • Artists' Books
  • Original Art
  • Signed Books
  • Sam Francis and The Lapis Press
  • Limited Editions
  • Artist Monographs
  • California Artists and Arts
  • Graphics + Multiples