O : The Maltese falcon / Edward Ruscha. 1997.

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O : The Maltese falcon / Edward Ruscha. 1997.

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The artist has bleached the letter O, in a rectangular shape (12 x 6 cm.) on the back cover. Two labels mounted on back pastedown, inverted. Part of the artist's series of "O books." Cf. Cityscapes, O books / Edward Ruscha (cat. of an exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, May 1997); article by Ellen Berkovitch, ArtForum international, v. 40 (Nov.-Dec. 2001), p. 150. Original t.p. reads: The Maltese falcon / by Dashiell Hammett ; with a new introduction by the author. New York : The Modern Library, [1934] Signed by the artist and dated '97 on free back endpaper (inverted).

1 altered book (ix, 267, [6] p.) ; 17 x 15 x 4 cm.

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Ruscha, Edward

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