Künstlerbuch | Artists’ book: Ed Ruscha. Every Building On The Sunset Strip, 1966

Künstlerbuch | Artists’ book: Ed Ruscha. Every Building On The Sunset Strip, 1966

Black offset printing on white paper; folded and glued

17.8 x 14.3 x 1 cm – closed dimensions; 760.7 cm extended

• Edition | 1000
• Exterior | Softcover; white cardboard and silver Mylar slipcase; title printed in silver ink on front and spine; new copies of both editions were banded with a white paper strip that encircled both book and slipcase
• Binding | Accordian-fold
• Pages | 1 continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments
• Inscription | Unsigned and unnumbered
• Printer | Dick de Rusha, Los Angeles
• Publisher | Ed Ruscha
• Comments | Ruscha made a series of editioned photographs based in part on this book in 1995.
• Subsequent Editions | Second printing 1971*, edition of 5000 unsigned and unnumbered; printed by Cinema Center Printing Co., Hollywood; chipboard slipcases made by Hollywood Bindery; covered in silver Mylar. When unfolded, the second edition is 7.3 cm shorter in length than the first because the artist decided to eliminate a small folded flap that was part of the first edition (at 9176 and 9171 Sunset Boulevard). * It is possible that 500 copies were also printed in 1969, Records, however, have been destroyed for this publication.

Künstlerbuch | Artists’ book: Ed Ruscha. Every Building On The Sunset Strip, 1966

Künstlerbuch | Artists’ book: Ed Ruscha. Every Building On The Sunset Strip, 1966

Künstlerbuch | Artists’ book: Ed Ruscha. Every Building On The Sunset Strip, 1966

Pictures and Information are taken from:

Edward Ruscha. EDITIONS 1959-1999 | Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. 1: Prints, Books Misc; Vol. 2: Essays, Entries, Information, Minneapolis 1999.

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