Every Building on the Sunset Strip
  • artists' book
  • wrappers
  • offset-printed
  • accordion
  • slipcase
  • black-and-white
  • 17.8 x 14.3 cm. [closed] ; 17.8 x 760.7 cm. [extended]
  • 2 vol. : 1 vol. : 1 continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments ; 1 vol. mylar covered slipcase
  • edition size 5000
  • unsigned and unnumbered

Every Building on the Sunset Strip

[First Edition / Second Printing]

Edward Ruscha

Every Building on the Sunset Strip

description

Second printing of the so-called "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. The second printing of the book is indicated by the lack of a 2 1/2 inch span of unprinted paper at the end of the book; the seconding printing terminates with a clean cut at the conclusion of last image. As both the "first printing" and the "second printing" have identical copyright / colophon information the lack of white space at the end of the book is the only indication of which printing is which.

references

No. 4 in "Books by Edward Ruscha" by Edward Ruscha. Munich, Germany : Galerie Heiner Friedrich, 1970.
"International General, Distributing Independently Produced Vanguard Art Books, Catalogues and Information" by Seth Siegelaub. New York, NY : International General, 1971.
"Esthétique du Livre d'Artiste 1960 / 1980" by Anne Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris, France : Jean-Michel Place / Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 1997, pp. 222.

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Every Building on the Sunset Strip [First Edition / First Printing]
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