Edward Ruscha

Every Building On The Sunset Strip

1966

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Description

A signed first edition of Ruscha's photobook Every Building On The Sunset Strip.

  • Edward Ruscha (American).
  • (Los Angeles): Edward Ruscha, 1966.
  • Signed by Ruscha along bottom edge of slipcase.
  • Accordion-fold printed recto only and mounted in printed wrappers, housed in original silver Mylar foil-covered slipcase with intact original plain white paper band.


Signed first edition, second issue of this quintessentially Los Angeles book, and one of the great photobooks of all time – with the original wrap-around band intact.


"Not only the most physically ambitious of Ruscha's books, but the most flamboyant." — Parr & Badger


Ruscha's fourth book captures the Sunset Strip at a particular moment in time. A monumental and continuous accordion-fold scroll that opens to more than 25 feet, Ruscha documents — as the title suggests — the entirety of the Strip, with even numbered addresses running along the top the page and odd facing opposite along the bottom. "The effect is less like the fluid cinematic pan […] than a series of jolting jump cuts […] a ragged progression of gas stations, motels, apartment houses, parking lots, strip-malls, and honky-tonk signage" (Parr 182).

Provenance

From the collection of longtime MIT Press editor Roger Conover, who published several books by and about Ruscha.

Condition Report

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Spine lightly creased, with some unobtrusive glue offsetting to cover folds from slipcase, as common.

Faintest crease to lower corner of last page.

Light chipping and toning to edges of paper band.

Dimensions

Height: 7 inches / 17.78 cm
Width: 5.5 inches / 13.97 cm

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed, Dust Jacket

Language

English

Subject

Art, Architecture, Design, Visual Art, Photographs, Photography, Americana, Architecture and Design, Architecture, Autographed and Signed Material, Modern first editions

SKU

D7QJ4

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