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ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE 1970 – 1983. 1983.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 May 2020 01:29:48 +0000

Edinburgh: Stills Gallery, 1983 21 x 10cm, 1pp. Announcement card with a b/w portrait of the young Mapplethorpe and gallery details. Fine.

CLAES OLDENBURG AND COOSJE VAN BRUGGEN. 1996. PUBLICITY SHOT BY ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. 1996.

paul robertson — Fri, 08 May 2020 01:28:36 +0000

London: Hayward Gallery, 1996 25.5 x 20.5cm, b/w photograph taken of the two artists by Robert Mapplethorpe for publicity use by newspapers and journals. VG+.

SET FREE. 1978.

paul robertson — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 13:12:04 +0000

USA: Arista Records, 1978 Twelve inch single record with three tracks from Easter. Printed paper sleeve with images by Robert Mapplethorpe. Some wear and grubbiness to sleeve.

HORSES. 1975. ARTY 122.

paul robertson — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 19:57:09 +0000

UK: Arista records, 1975 Standard LP in original printed sleeve (with Mapplethorpe photograph of the songwriter). Vintage record and one of the greatest LPs ever released. Wear to cover and some marks. LP without visible damage. The catalogue number here is ARTY 122 which makes it the first UK release.

PHOTOGRAPHS. 1978. ARTIST’S FIFTH EXHIBITION & FIRST CATALOGUE.

paul robertson — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:39:08 +0000

Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1978 28 x 21.5cm, 16pp plus card covers. This is the first exhibition catalog published for Mapplethorpe for his 5th ever exhibition. There are b/w portraits produced from 1975-77 including a nude Patti Smith, and images of David Hockney, Arnold Schwarzenegger and others. This example is VG but the inner staples have rusted a little. Very scarce.

ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. 1988.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 23:59:51 +0000

NYC: Whitney Museum,1988

30.5 x 24.5cm, 216pp. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition of this catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Whitney. Essays by Richard Marshall, Richard Howard, and Ingrid Sischy and illustrated throughout. Fine.

FLOWERS. 1983.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:42:51 +0000

Tokyo, Watari Gallery, 1983

26 x 2cm, 42pp plus pictorial card covers. Exhibition catalogue with seventeen photographs in black and white. With "introducing note" by Sam Wagstaff. Slight marks on cover else VG.

TEN BY TEN. 1996. SOFTCOVER.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:40:32 +0000

Munchen: Schirmer / Mosel, 1996

26 x 23 cm. 152pp. Pictorial soft card covers: a later reprinting of the original book displaying 70 images of flowers. Fine.

BLACK BOOK. FIRST EDITION. 1986.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:37:21 +0000

NYC: St. Martin's Press, 1986

29.5 x 29.5cm, 92pp. Boards with pictorial dj. First Edition, first printing of this Mapplethorpe's breakthrough collection of all-black male nudes with 96 formally arranged black bodies. Fine.

AUTOPORTRAIT. 2001.

paul robertson — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 21:21:09 +0000

Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2001. 26 x 21cm, 60pp. original boards with printed dustjacket. First edition although posthumous printing of sixty-five of Mapplethorpe's Polaroid self portraits, many previously unpublished. The images are often pornographic and sado-masochistic. Near fine.