Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass
Ruscha, Ed
Hollywood, CA. 1968
A very fine copy of the first book in which Ruscha uses colour photographs: 'Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass.'
From the first edition limited to 2,400 copies.
'Nine Swimming Pools is one of Ruscha's strangest in terms of one's expectations of a book. Most of the pages are blank. And then there is the punch line, the broken drinking glass. This surprising non sequitur drags one into the depths of these true blue pools, which were mostly photographed around Las Vegas, to question the apparently idyllic scenes.' (Clive Phillpot).
[Engberg & Phillpot B8].
From the first edition limited to 2,400 copies.
'Nine Swimming Pools is one of Ruscha's strangest in terms of one's expectations of a book. Most of the pages are blank. And then there is the punch line, the broken drinking glass. This surprising non sequitur drags one into the depths of these true blue pools, which were mostly photographed around Las Vegas, to question the apparently idyllic scenes.' (Clive Phillpot).
[Engberg & Phillpot B8].
[31 leaves]. 8vo. (180 x 140 mm). Printed title in blue, copyright verso and 10 colour photographic illustrations. Original publisher's white printed wrappers, title in black to front cover and spine and with original glassine.
#48537
