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A Few Palm Trees

Ruscha, Ed

(Hollywood, California). Heavy Industry Publications. 1971
A very good copy of Ed Ruscha's artist book 'A Few Palm Trees'.

From the first edition limited to 3,900 copies; no further editions were issued.

'A Few Palm Trees has a solid black cover with no lettering and contains fourteen stripped photos of palm trees printed in black ink on a white background succeeded by sixteen blank spreads. Above the caption for the first palm tree is this helpful statement: Camera facing west on all photos.' (Clive Philpot).

[Engberg & Phillpot B13].
[32 leaves]. 8vo. (178 x 140 mm). Title with copyright verso and 14 black-and-white photographic illustrations of palm trees on right-hand page, left-hand facing page with the tree's location in Los Angeles, the first with printed details of camera orientation, the remaining pages blank as issued. Original publisher's glossy black wrappers.
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