Search Results: colored people by ruscha edward

By the Author, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Good. 7x6x0. First edition. yellow wraps. 16 full colour photographs of cacti, succulents and palm trees. Blank pages to rear as published. The boook has some light spotting to page edges and covers with light shelf wear to edges of covers and spine. This book in now way relates to race.

Los Angeles: Self-Published, 1972. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. Octavo: [64] p. with 15 photographic images. Original yellow paper wrappers, with printed black titles. Just a hint of toning along the extremities; else very good or better. "In this first and only edition, Ruscha indirectly addresses the discourse around the term "colored people" by paradoxically depicting no literal persons anywhere. Instead, the first half of the book consists of fifteen offset color photos of cacti, succulents, palms, banana trees, and other desert vegetation, stripped of context and suspended against immaculate white. Completely blank, the glue-bound book's remainder is further devoid of even these estranged specimens. Much can be read into this prickly publication in terms of (in)visibility, metaphor, alienation, representation, absence, and so on" (Printed Matter).

n.p.: Self Published, 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Very good/Very good. 12mo (18 cm), pp. unpaginated [64]. Yellow wraps with black titling. 4000 copies printed. Fifteen full color photographs of various cacti, succulents and palm trees, but no people, of any race. Final 16 leaves are intentionally blank. Bookseller sticker from Wittenborn and Company on title page. Soiling and staining to wraps, else fine. [Hickey, Dave and Peter Plagens. The Works of Edward Rusha, #142]

Los Angeles: Self-published, 1972. Light scuff at spine edge, else near fine in printed yellow wrappers.. First Edition. Small octavo. Color photographs of cacti, printed in an edition of 4065 copies.

1972. Soft Cover. Good +. Bright yellow wrappers with black titles on front cover, very light wear to edges, slight sunning to spine, book body clean and tight.

Los Angeles: Heavy Industry. Fine with no dust jacket. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. First edition. Fine in yellow printed wrappers with black title. (7" X 5 1/2") (unpaginated/64pp. ) 15 color plates. 4065 copies printed. Color images of cacti. ; 5 1/2" X 7"; 64 pages .