Books of Edward Ruscha

Ed Ruscha
HARD LIGHT, 1978
4358-BK

7 x 4 3/4 in. (17.7 x 12.2 cm)

Los Angeles: self-published.
3560 copies. 66 illustrations (1 double spread). [120] pp. Glossy color wrappers. “By Edward Ruscha and Lawrence Weiner.”
Very good condition. 17.7 x 12.2 cm. Engberg B17.
* Signed “Ed Ruscha” and “Lawrence Weiner”

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Ed Ruscha
A Few Palm Trees, 1971
1537

7 x 5 3/8 in. (17.8 x 13.9 cm)

Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications, self-published.
3900 copies. 14 illustrations of Hollywood palm trees with their locations. [34] pp. + 15 blank leaves. Glossy black wrappers.
Very good condition. 17.8 x 13.9 cm. Engberg B13.
* Inscribed “Best wishes Henry and Jan (Butterfield), Ed”

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Ed Ruscha
Dutch Details, 1971
1216

4 1/4 x 15 in. (11 x 38 cm)

Deventer, The Netherlands: Octopus Foundation within the framework of Sonsbeek 71.
Commissioned by the Groninger Museum, Groningen.
3000 copies printed, but most of the edition accidentally destroyed. The most elusive of all of Ruscha’s printed books. The unusual format is a wide overly rectangular book bound along the top long edge with gatefold leaves. The gatefold leaves open up length-wise to make a continuous page nearly 30 inches long (75.8 cm) with 116 illustrations of traditional Dutch buildings and structures. The introduction explains in part that the book “covers the communities of Veendam, Stadskanaal, Musselkanaal, and Ter Apel, The Netherlands. The photographs were taken only at bridge locations and the bridges themselves used as a walkway by the artist to take the pictures with a hand-held Rolleiflex camera.”
Very good condition with a small crease on lower right corner. 11 x 38 cm. Engberg B14.
* Signed “Ed Ruscha”

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Ed Ruscha
Babycakes With Weights, 1970
1507

7 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (18.5 x 15 cm)

Los Angeles: self-published.
1200 copies. 22 illustrations of one baby (the artist’s son, born 1968) and 21 pastries, with their respective weights. [52] pp. Pale blue wrappers with title in light green flocking and bound with pink ribbon.
Mint condition. 18.5 x 15 cm. Engberg B11.
* “with compliments” from author, card laid in

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Ed Ruscha
Various Small Fires, 1970
1533

Los Angeles: self-published (printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon).
400 copies. 16 plates (15 of them—all except “milk”—with tinted background). [48] pp. (the last 9 blank).
White printed wrappers, with glassine cover.
As new, apart from very slight darkening of glassine.
17.9 x 13.9 cm. Engberg B2.
* Inscribed by Ed “give to Henry” written on compliments of author card laid in.

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Ed Ruscha
Crackers, 1969
1539

8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in. (22.2 x 15 cm)

Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publications, self-published.
1650 copies with dust jacket on coated label paper with varnish overprint (total edition 5000). 115 illustrations. [240] pp. Wrappers. Documents an elaborate performance piece involving a very large salad, five gallons of salad dressing, a bed in a Skid Row hotel, a chic, sophisticated, hard-to-get woman, and, finally, a small box of saltines. The players are Larry Bell, Léon Bing, Rudi Gernreich, and Tommy Smothers. Photography by Ken Price, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha. Story by Mason
Williams. Light wear. 22.2 x 15 cm. Engberg B10.
* Inscribed “For Henry down in Texas! Love, Ed”

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Ed Ruscha
Stains, 1969
1422

12 x 10 15/16 in. (30.5 x 27.9 cm)

Hollywood: Heavy Industry Publication, self-published
78 leaves enclosed in a black portfolio, hard cover clamshell box, lined in white silk, with title embossed in silver on the box top and the edge. 75 leaves are animal, vegetable, mineral, and chemical stains hand applied on Eagle Paper Coupon Bond 100% cotton paper; one title sheet is printed black on heavyweight rag paper; one colophon is signed and numbered on white leaf; and one sheet, listing the stains used, is printed black on white leaf. Excellent condition. Signed “Ed Ruscha”. Engberg B9.
Copy no. 12 of 70.

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Ed Ruscha
Business Cards, 1968
982

8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (21.8 x 14.1 cm)

Includes 19 illustrations (including cover photograph). [32] pp. Woodgrain paper wrappers bound with rawhide cord. Original 4 x 5-in. photograph dated Jan 3 1968 mounted on cover. The book documents the artists designing business cards for each other between Dec 27 1967 and Jan 3, 1968. Stapled in: Billy Al Bengston card (M11) designed by Ruscha and Ed Ruscha (Rew-shey) card designed by Bengston. Worn. Engberg B7. Signed by Billy and Ed on cover.

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Ed Ruscha
NINE SWIMMING POOLS AND A BROKEN GLASS, 1968
1538

7 x 5 1/2 in. (18 x 14.2 cm)

Los Angeles: self-published. 2400 copies. 9 color plates (1 double spread). [64] pp. (last 19 and several others blank).
Very slight browning of glassine; otherwise, as new. 18 x 14.2 cm. Engberg B8. * Inscribed “For Henry! Ed Ruscha”

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Ed Ruscha
Royal Road Test, 1967
2294

9 1/4 x 6 1/4 in. (23.8 x 16 cm)

By Mason Williams, Edward Ruscha and Patrick Blackwell.
Los Angeles: self-published.
1000 copies. 36 illustrations (2 double spread). [60] pp. (the last 5 blank). Cream colored wrappers with spiral binding. Documents the defenestration in the desert from a 1963 Buick Le Sabre at 90 m.p.h. of a standard, office-model Royal typewriter.
Minor scuffs on cover otherwise in fine condition.
23.8 x 16 cm. Engberg B6.
* Signed by both Mason Williams and Ed Ruscha

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Ed Ruscha
Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966
1536

7 x 5 1/2 in. (17.9 x 14 cm)

Los Angeles: self-published.
54-panel accordion-fold book with continuous photographic illustrations at top and bottom depicting south and north sides respectively of the Sunset Strip, from Schwab’s Pharmacy on the east to the Jaguar agency on the west. In white board slipcase covered with reflective Mylar.
1000 copies of the first edition printed, according to a letter in accompanying archive from the artist dated October 8, 1966. Later printings often are erroneously offered as the first.
The first state has a final half-page verso showing the end of the Jaguar building and the adjacent street.
In very good condition. 17.9 x 14 cm folded (unfolded, about 7.61 meters or 24.35 feet long). Engberg B4.
* Inscribed “Hey Henry- Best, Ed Ruscha Oct. 66”

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Ed Ruscha
Some Los Angeles Apartments, 1965
1565

7 x 5 1/2 in. (18 x 14.2 cm)

Los Angeles: self-published.
700 copies (printed by Anderson, Ritchie & Simon). 34 plates. [48] pp.
Wrappers, with glassine cover. Glassine faintly tanned at spine; otherwise, as new. 18 x 14.2 cm. Engberg B3.
* Signed “Ed Ruscha”

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