Ed Ruscha - Every Building on the Sunset Strip - 1966

FIRST EDITION 54-panel accordion-fold book with continuous photographic illustrations at top and bottom depicting south and north sides respectively of the Sunset Strip, from Schwabs Pharmacy on the east to the Jaguar agency on the west. In white board slipcase covered with reflective Mylar. 1000 copies of the first edition printed, according to a letter in accompanying archive from the artist dated October 8, 1966. Later printings often are erroneously offered as the first. The last page is the important identifying point. The first state has a final half-page verso showing the end of the Jaguar building and the adjacent street. In later copies, the final page is the preceding full recto with the Jaguar building cropped at its western end. Engberg B4. stainign on spine and no box.