Ed Ruscha, Dutch Details

First edition. Sonsbeek, Stichting Octopus/Octopus Foundation, 1971. 23 pp. of which 10 unfold to double width, with 116 offset printed photographs. 11 x 38 cm. Age toning and two creases on the cardboard frontcover, water spot at top left of the cover (8 x 3.5 cm, also on verso) not impacting the interior. Good copy.

Rare item, one of approx. 200 copies that survived. '[...]most of the edition was accidentally discarded from the warehouse where it had been stored' (Andrew Roth, The Open Book, 2004, p. 198).