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Lot 97
Sale 6370 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Nov 26, 2025
Lots Close
Dec 11, 2025
Timed Online / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$260
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Lot Description
[Art] [Ruscha, Ed] Monte, James. Billy Al Bengston
Los Angeles: Toyo Press for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (1968). First edition (one of 2,500 copies). Oblong 8vo. Original screw and hex nut-bound flocked sandpaper wrappers, felt lettering pieces on front wrapper, designed by Ed Ruscha, library label on lower front wrapper; original pink ribbon; library ink stamp on front blank transparent sheet; library ink stamp and mounted library labels on verso of final leaf; abrasion from removed label on inner rear wrapper.
Scarce Ed Ruscha-designed sandpaper covered catalogue for the Los Angeles County Museum of Arts solo exhibition for Billy Al Bengston, held from November 26, 1968-January 12, 1969.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.

