• artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • accordion
  • slipcase
  • black-and-white
  • 17.8 x 14.3 cm. [closed] ; 17.8 x 760.7 cm. [extended]
  • 1 continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued sections
  • edition size 1000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Every Building on the Sunset Strip

[First Edition / First Printing]

Edward Ruscha

True first edition of Edward Ruscha's classic book documenting, literally, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, in Los Angeles. Shows every address on the north and south side of the street moving from east to the west towards the Pacific Ocean. Documents a very specific time and place in the history of both artists' books and Los Angeles. Reference: "The Works of Edward Ruscha," Hudson Hills Press, New York, in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982, pp. 169. No. B4 in Siri Engberg and Clive Phillpot, "Edward Ruscha : Edition 1959-1999, Catalogue Raisonné," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Distributed Art Publishers, New York, NY, 1999, pp. 123.

Los Angeles, CA : Edward Ruscha, 1966
$3,000.00 US
Condition:  Good / Very Good. Mild wear to slipcase, with wear mostly at the mouth edges. Spine of book has soft vertical folds, and there is traces of glue stains along vertical edges near spine as typical for this book (transfer from tape used to bind mylar to the slipcase. Pages of book are fine, and last page has additional 2 1/2 inches of unprinted paper indicating this is a true first printing of this book.
[Object # 14933]