Heldfond Book Gallery Fine and Rare Books Marin County


	California Arts & Architecture - Six Early Issues. 1936 - 1939
	Maisel, David. A Body Of Work - A Privately Printed Collection of Photgraphic Prints by David Maisel. Sausalito. Privately Produced by the Artist. 2000. 6 volumes. Oblong Folios. 16.5" x 11". Sumptuously bound in half cloth and gold silk brocade over boards. Screw clasp album-type removable pages. Each volume housed in burgundy cloth and felt lined slipcase. An imposing, un-published catalogue of work designed and produced privately by Maisel, these large portfolios present a stunning compilation of images created for commercial assignments and personal projects. The six volumes comprising this collection consists of : Vol. 1 - A Body of Work. 51 Prints. 60pps. Various themes. Vol. 2 - The World of Princess Rainbow Sparkle. 43 Prints. 47pps. Children. Vol. 3 - A Place On Earth. 42 Prints. 59pps. Landscapes. Vol. 4 - Body and Soul. 42 Prints. 51pps. Images of Athletics. Vol. 5 - A Body of Work. 57 Prints. 67pps. Various themes. Vol. 6 - A Body of Work. 61 Prints. 65pps. Various themes. Prints are either full page at 15" x 10.5" or centered at 9.5" x 7". Perhaps a half-dozen are two-page panoramas along with several other contact sheet displays and various vignettes. Additional, stylized printed comments by the artist. These are original Water Color Prints on heavy matte board, cold mounted onto 70lb. paper to facilitate album style viewing. Some images are duplicated throughout the six Folios. David Maisel is an Award winning and Honored artist, widely regarded as being amongst the most influential figures in contemporary American photography. Maisel's photographs, multi-media projects, and public installations have been exhibited internationally to great acclaim. His artwork is represented in major public and private collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Princeton University Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Portland Museum of Art, George Eastman House, Microsoft Corporation…among many others. Additionally, Maisel has produced commercial campaigns for many of the world's largest companies including: Nike, Pacific Bell, Reebok, St. Paul Insurance, Bugle Boy, Norwegian Cruise Lines. His work has been printed in most of the major photographic journals including : Communication Arts, Graphis, Aperture, Archive and PDN. He was recently the recipient of an Artist/Scholar Residency at the Getty Research Institute in Fall 2007. Various innocuous, occasional wear to some edges of Folios and/or Slipcases. A Fine, immaculate set. Truly a rare, one-of-a-kind collection of published and unpublished original prints by one of America's most prominent contemporary Photographers. 8526 $7200.00
	Maisel, David. The Lake Project - Original Studio Dummy . Sausalito. Introduction by Diana Gaston and a poem by Mark Strand. c. 2003. 61pps. Square Folio.14" x 14".Spiral bound pictorial boards with different image which appears on published book to Front Cover. Illustrated with 34 ( 8 more than the Published Edition ) original digital outputted colour Prints on heavy Matte stock. Unique, pre-production mock-up of the Artist's critically acclaimed work. This Dummy presents the plates to be used in the final publication - printed on heavy matte board-cold mounted with repositionable adhesive onto 70Lb (116gsm) Beinfang Raritan paper. Also included are the text slugs by Diana Gaston and Mark Strand which were also used in the Published work. Many plate caption slugs also included on rectos. Plates in this volume are of 2 types. Full page prints, which occupy the entire 14" x 14" mount. To facilitate accurate aspect ratio, these prints have been bi-mounted onto the full backing page with one large portion of the print at 12.5" x 14" and a smaller strip running to page edge at 1.50" x 14". There are 16 of such plates in this copy. The remaining 18 prints are un-paneled and center mounted at 11" x 11". Maisel's The Lake Project focuses on aerial images made at the site of Owens Lake, the site of a formerly 200 square-mile lake in California on the eastern side of the Sierra Mountains. Maisel photographed the Owens Lake area extensively on two separate occasions-in September 2001 and in June 2002, capturing hallucinatory scenes of color and texture that nearly conceal the fact that they are aerial views. Beginning in 1913, the Owens River was diverted into the Owens Valley Aqueduct, to bring water to Los Angeles. By 1926, the lake had been depleted, exposing vast mineral flats and transforming a fertile valley into an arid stretch of land. For decades, fierce winds have dislodged microscopic particles from the lakebed, creating carcinogenic dust storms. Indeed, the lakebed has become the highest source of particulate matter pollution in the United States, emitting some 300,000 tons annually of cadmium, chromium, arsenic and other materials. The concentration of minerals in the remaining water of Owens Lake is so artificially high that blooms of microscopic bacterial organisms result, turning the liquid a deep, bloody red. Viewed from the air, vestiges of the lake appear as a river of blood, a microchip, a bisected vein, or a galaxy's map. The forms of environmental disquiet and degradation are here made to function on both a documentary and a metaphorical level, and the aerial perspective enables one to experience the landscape like a vast map of its own undoing. The book, Published in 2004 by the Nazraeli Press, received instant critical acclaim : " As Mr. Maisel renders it, the lake, which has been drained over the last 90 years to green the lawns and ice the whiskies of Los Angeles, looks scourged and flayed...In Mr. Maisel's photos, the vistas are majestic, terrifying, and weirdly beautiful. They seem more intimate than microscopic data, vaster than extraterrestrial space." - The New York Times : Maisel's images of Owens Lake… dispense with the pristine and iconic characteristics of American landscape photography to get at something more terrifying and alien. …Standing before one of his enormous photographs is both an alarming and a strangely seductive experience." - Art Review : " In 26 extraordinary aerial views, Maisel turns the alarming specificity of blood-red streams and scab-like erosions into sprawling, sci-fi abstractions, at once marvelous and appalling, that leave the viewer unmoored, lost in space. Against all odds, Maisel's text is as compelling as his photos: He sees the lake as "a sacred text, in a language we cannot decipher…The lake as loss, the photographs as mourning." -Photograph Magazine The Lake Project was hailed as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of 2004 by the Village Voice and Featured in Aperture Magazine. Despite it's relatively recent publication, the published book is a highly regarded much, sought-after item in the Book Collecting world. Several corners of cover a bit bent. A Very Good copy of this most extraordinary and unique photographic rarity. 8525 $2500.00
	Brainard, Joe. C Comics - Issue Number 1. 1964. Illustrated throughout with cartoons by famed underground artist Joe Brainard. Contributors included John Ashbery, Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Dick Gallup, Barbara Guest, Kenneth Koch, Frank Lima, Jimmy Schuyler, Frank O"Hara,Tony Towle, Ron Padgett and many other notables of the early 60's New York School of Poetry. Only two issues of this magazine were published with this copy being the First Issue which appeared in 1964. $2700.00
	( George Gordon ). Lord Byron. The Gallery of Byron Beauties; Portraits of the Principal Female Characters in Lord Byron's Poems. London. David Bogue. 1864. Illustrated with 39 Superb tissue-guarded full page hand-coloured plates. 4to. 6.5" x 10". Lavishly bound in full blind and black embossed calfskin.Ornate fleural motifs to spine, front and rear covers. Raised bands. Gilt titles. All edges gilded. Covers moderately rubbed. Closed tears afflicting 2 plates which have been professionally repaired.Mild, marginal sporadic foxing, not affecting images. A Very Good copy of the most rare hand-coloured issue. Absolutely charming. 8528 $1250.00
	Ellenshaw, Peter. Ellenshaw Under Glass or "Going to the Matte for Disney". 2003. The very rare First Edition. $800.00
	Hopps, Walter and Davidson, Susan. Robert Rauschenberg- A Retrospective. 1997. A Very Fine, brand new copy, still in original shrink wrap. $500.00
	Man-Fong, Lee. Paintings and Statues from the Collection of President Sukarno of the Republic of Indonesia.1964. $575.00
	(Gustave Dore) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 1886. Magnificently illustrated with full page engravings by Gustave Dore. $1850.00
	(Gustave Dore) Alighieri, Dante. The Inferno. (c. 1885). Illustrated with full page engravings Gustave Dore. The brightest copy we've ever encountered.$300.00
	La Mode Pratique - Issues No. 1- No.52. 1907. 52 issues complete. $1250.00
	Overbeke, Bonaventura Van. Les Restes De L'Ancienne Rome. Amsterdam. Jean Crellius. 1709.
	Spectacular, haunting photographs by Edward Curtis.1909 First Edition. $375.00
	Picasso, Pablo. Picasso 347. 1970. $400.00
	Nash, Joseph. The Mansions of England in the Olden Time; Along with, Views of the Interior and Exterior of Windsor Castle.1839-1849. 1852 Five Elephant Folios. $4500.00
	Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity in California. 1862. $250.00
	Aarons, Slim. A Wonderful Time- An Intimate Portrait of the Good Life.The First Edition. $475.00
	McGrew, Charles B. Italian Doorways. 1929.
	Enciso, Jorge. Sellos Del Antiguo Mexico. 1947. $225.00
	Anthony, Edgar Waterman. A History of Mosaics. 1935. $225.00
	Michener, James and Levine, Jack. Facing East. 1970. 2 portfolios encased in a clamshell box. The Deluxe Limited Edition. Number 63 of 2500 numbered copies. Twice signed by Michener and Levine $450.00
	Selected Proofs from the First and Second Portfolios of Illustrations from Scribner's Monthly and St. Nicholas. 1881. 8445 $300.00

	(Rene-Herbst) Henriot, G. Nouvelles Devantures et Agencempents de Magasins. 1925. First Edition.60 photographic plates of Art Deco Parisian store front facades and interiors.$1250.00