Publisher: Harry N. Abrams | First Edition 1973
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket | 280 pages

Grandma Moses by Otto Kallir is the definitive large-format monograph on the beloved American folk artist. This richly produced volume offers a comprehensive overview of Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses’s life and work, featuring over 300 illustrations, including 135 tipped-in color plates. Written by her longtime dealer and champion Otto Kallir, the book combines biography, critical analysis, and visual documentation to celebrate Moses’s vivid depictions of rural American life.

First edition — an essential and beautifully produced collector’s item, long out-of-print.

Publisher: Scalo | First Edition 1999
Format: Hardcover | 200 pages

Rebecca Horn: Tailleur du Coeur is a richly illustrated monograph exploring the poetic and surreal world of German artist Rebecca Horn. Published by Scalo in 1999, this first edition delves into Horn’s wide-ranging practice—sculpture, performance, film, and installation—through striking visuals and reflective texts. Centered around the recurring motif of the body as both instrument and metaphor, the book presents works that are at once sensual, mechanical, and dreamlike.

First edition — out-of-print and a key title for collectors of avant-garde and conceptual art.

Publisher: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | First Edition 1996

Format: Softcover | 112 pages

Sarah Lucas (1996) is the first major monograph on the provocative British artist, published in conjunction with her solo exhibition at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. This early and influential volume captures Lucas’s raw, confrontational approach to sculpture, photography, and installation, often exploring themes of gender, sexuality, and British identity through wit and absurdity. Featuring full-color reproductions and critical essays, the book documents key works from the 1990s, including her use of everyday objects to challenge cultural taboos.

First edition — rare and highly collectible, marking a pivotal moment in Lucas’s career.

Publisher: Lehmann Maupin | First Edition 2016
Format: Hardcover | 96 pages

Tracey Emin Stone Love is an intimate and emotionally charged publication showcasing the artist’s continued exploration of love, desire, and vulnerability. Released in conjunction with her 2016 exhibitions at Lehmann Maupin (New York) and White Cube (London), the book features a poignant selection of works on paper, neons, and sculptures. Through minimal yet expressive forms, Emin lays bare the complexities of human connection and longing, with a rawness that has become her signature.

First edition — now scarce and prized among collectors

Publisher: Aperture | 2005 Edition
Format: Softcover | 192 pages

Living with the Enemy by photojournalist Donna Ferrato is a groundbreaking and unflinching exploration of domestic violence in America. First published in 1991, this Aperture edition from 2005 presents Ferrato's raw, intimate photographs and testimonies that expose the hidden realities of abuse within the home. Captured over a decade, the images challenge societal silence and force a confrontation with the brutal dynamics of power, control, and survival.

A landmark work in documentary photography and feminist activism, Living with the Enemy remains a powerful visual and social document.

Out-of-print and highly sought after.

Publisher: Ajax Press | First Edition 2010
Format: Hardcover | 96 pages

Donald Baechler & Wes Lang: Skulls and Shit is a captivating exploration of the shared fascination with mortality and pop culture between two generation-spanning artists. This striking volume originates from their 2006 dual exhibition in Stockholm, curated around the potent symbolism of the skull across their practices. It offers rich reproductions of drawings, paintings, and mixed-media pieces, all reflecting on how the skull permeates American iconography, from hair-metal bands to fashion and adult media .

Long out-of-print and hard to find

Publisher: New Museum First Edition 2017
Format: Softcover with French flaps | 152 pages

Kaari Upson: Good Thing You Are Not Alone is the definitive monograph on one of the most psychologically intense and genre-defying artists of the 21st century. Published on the occasion of Upson’s first New York museum survey at the New Museum in 2017, this volume offers a comprehensive view of her singular and haunting practice spanning drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and video.

At the center of Upson’s work is her exploration of memory, identity, and the American psyche. Her most iconic series, including The Larry Project and The House, delve into constructed personal histories, suburban trauma, and familial decay. Using silicone, latex, graphite, and found objects, Upson’s sculptures and drawings operate like unearthed psychological artifacts seductive, grotesque, and emotionally raw.

The book features essays by exhibition curator Margot Norton, writer Lars Bang Larsen, and art historian Jamieson Webster, alongside a conversation between the artist and curator Heinz Peter Schwerfel. Richly illustrated with full-color plates and archival material, this catalog serves as both a tribute and an essential resource on Upson’s profoundly affecting work.

Publisher: Hatje Cantz | First Edition 2002

Format: Two hardcover volumes in slipcase with 28-page liner booklet & postcard | 402 pages

Richard Prince: Paintings / Photographs is a landmark publication that traces the provocative and genre-defying work of one of America’s most influential contemporary artists. Presented as a deluxe slipcased edition, this set includes two hardcover volumes one focused on painting, the other on photography accompanied by a bilingual liner booklet with critical essays and a complete exhibition history. In addition it comes with a Richard Prince post-card (shown in photo)

Spanning from 1977 to 2001, the book showcases Prince’s groundbreaking practice of appropriation. It includes his early rephotographed advertisements and biker imagery, the iconic Marlboro cowboys, “joke” paintings, and works that blur the line between lowbrow media and high art. By merging text, photography, and painting, Prince redefined the boundaries of authorship and originality.

Designed in close collaboration with the artist and released to coincide with major European exhibitions in Basel, Zurich, and Wolfsburg, this publication stands as one of the most comprehensive and ambitious presentations of Prince’s career.

Long out-of-print and impossible to find with original slipcase.

Publisher: Scalo Verlag / Art Gallery of New South Wales

Format: Hardcover with dust jacket | 2005 | 504 pages

Bill Henson: Mnemosyne is a landmark monograph that spans over three decades of work by one of Australia’s most compelling and mysterious photographers. This richly produced volume presents more than 400 photographs, including Henson’s iconic images of youth, his nocturnal cityscapes, shadowy landscapes, and cinematic tableaux that blur the line between painting and photography.

Published to coincide with Henson’s 2005 retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the book features critical essays by writers such as Judy Annear, Peter Schjeldahl, David Malouf, and Dennis Cooper, as well as an interview by art critic Sebastian Smee. Together, the images and texts explore themes of memory, beauty, vulnerability, and the elusive space between innocence and experience central to Henson’s enduring artistic vision.

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Helmut Newton Autobiography is a compelling and candid memoir by the legendary fashion photographer Helmut Newton, first published in 2003 by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd. This first edition hardcover offers an unfiltered look into Newton's life, career, and the artistry behind his iconic photographs.

The autobiography has been praised for its engaging narrative and the intimate look it provides into Newton's life and creative process. It is considered an essential for anyone interested in the history of fashion photography.

Henry Miller’s groundbreaking novel, Tropic of Cancer, originally published in 1934, breaks traditional literary norms and offers an unfiltered, vivid exploration of life and sexuality. This 1961 edition by Grove Press is a significant publication as it marks the re-release of the novel in the United States after being banned for obscenity for many years.

Upon its initial release, Tropic of Cancer was both celebrated for its literary merit and criticized for its explicit content. The 1961 Grove Press edition played a crucial role in the fight against literary censorship, eventually leading to the Supreme Court’s decision to lift the ban on the book in the United States.

This 1961 edition of Tropic of Cancer not only delivers a classic, unrestrained narrative but also stands as a historical artifact in the context of American literary freedom. It is a must-have for collectors, literature enthusiasts, and those interested in the history of censorship.

Evidence: The Art of Candy Jernigan is a captivating book that showcases the unique and innovative works of the late artist Candy Jernigan. Known for her meticulous collection of everyday items and transforming them into thought-provoking art, Jernigan's work offers a witty and transformative vision of the mundane. This book includes a poignant introduction by Chuck Close and features Jernigan's collages, photographs, and assemblages, revealing her fierce and funny creative spirit. A must-have for art enthusiasts and collectors, this book is a testament to Jernigan's one-of-a-kind talent and her dedication to documenting life as she found it

Ukrainian-born Boris Mikhailov is one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. He has explored the position of the individual within the historical mechanisms of public ideology, touching on such subjects as Ukraine under Soviet rule, the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe, and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union. Although deeply rooted in a historical context, Mikhailov’s work also incorporates profoundly engaging and personal narratives of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging, and death.

Boris Mikhailov
Drucksache N.F.4
Edition: First Edition (Signed)
Book Condition: Good
Publisher: Richter Verlag, 2000 #richterverlag
ISBN: 3933807212

First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Signed. Published by Richter, 2000. Octavo. Blue pictorial wraps with French flaps. Book has minor shelf wear. Text is in German. Scarce copy. 88 pages

Photographer Tim Barber shares his subtly beautiful observations in this series from Untitled Photographs. Spanning 15 years of his career.

Publisher by OHWOW 2011, Signed

Hardcover, 11 1/4 by 8 3/4 inches, 80 pages, three pages text, full page illustrations. Covers have slight edgewear. Pages are clean