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O : The Maltese falcon

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Artifact	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Amer. 1997 10-163	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

Additional Authors

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961.

Description

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

Summary

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).

Alternative Title

"O" : 1997, bleach on book cover, 6-11/16 x 4-5/16 x 3/4" (17 x 11 x 2 cm.) P.97.2[9]

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Genre/Form

Note

On first label mounted on back pastedown: Edward Ruscha : "O" : 1997, bleach on book cover, 6-11/16 x 4-5/16 x 3/4" (17 x 11 x 2 cm.) P.97.2[9]
"This work was painted on a book entitled The Maltese falcon, a 1934 edition"--Second label mounted on back pastedown.

Binding (note)

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1997 10-163

OCLC

645277843

Author

Ruscha, Edward. Artist

Title

O : The Maltese falcon / Edward Ruscha.

Imprint

1997.

Binding

In original publisher's reddish-brown cloth, altered by the artist with bleach.

Added Author

Hammett, Dashiell, 1894-1961. Maltese falcon.

Ruscha, Edward. O books.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Amer. 1997 10-163