May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 334

Price Realized: $ 10,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 9,000 - $ 12,000
RUSCHA, EDWARD.
Twentysix Gasoline Stations.

Illustrated with reproductions of Ruscha's photographs of gas stations on the West coast and in the Southwest. 8vo, printed wrappers, original glassine dust jacket, slightly soiled; in the rare original boards slipcase, joints partially split. Hasseblad 198. first edition, one of 400 numbered copies. the slipcase issued with only 50 of these.
(Alhambra, California): Self-published "A National Excelsior Publication" (Printed by The Cunningham Press), 1963

Additional Details

From a Private Collector's Library, New York. This title and the following lots were purchased from Galerie Heiner Friedrich (Munich), in 1970.