6 Decades Books. six hands and a cheese sandwich… ”Our theory is that Six Hands was very likely created while Fisher was in London for an exhibition of his work at the Nigel Greenwood Gallery, where several months earlier Ruscha had himself exhibited. Ruscha’s show, entitled Books by Ed Ruscha, was accompanied by a celebrated poster in which Ruscha is seen lying on his back, his arms folded, blanketed head to toe by copies of eleven artists’ books that he had then published–a rather mysterious statement in itself, to which Fisher’s book is an even more inscrutable rejoinder.” And a few more including John Baldesseri, Robert Rauschenberg and Adrian Piper.
Jeff Hirsch. (Ken Kesey, Sylvia Plath, Billy Baldwin, W.H. Auden, Michael Blumenthal, Joel Oppenheimer, Myra Sklarew)
Peter Harrington. Portraits of Pilots. “50 superb original silhouette portraits of distinguished RAF pilots from Britain and the Commonwealth, all signed by the sitter and the artist, Michael Pierce, together with his embossed stamp.” (7500GBP). And more including John Howlett, Norman Mailer, Ian Fleming, Rubáiyát, Shakespeare, Blake, William Duncan, Catullus, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant.
William Reese. Drawings of California. “The John Howell-Kenneth Hill copy of what is likely a preliminary issue of Edward Vischer’s album of photographs of his drawings of California landscape.” ($22,500). Pacific Coast Scenery. “The first copy of this extraordinary Western photographic rarity that we have handled. OCLC records just three institutional copies, at UCLA, the Huntington Library, and the DeGolyer Library at SMU. There is an additional copy at Yale.” –William Reese ($70,000). Scenes along the Mississippi. “The best series of western city views published prior to the Civil War, and they are a superb source for early images of life on the Mississippi… One of the greatest and rarest American view books, with a distinguished provenance, in original condition.” ($120,000).