Joel-Peter Witkin, Gods of Earth and Heaven [SIGNED 1989 1ST EDITION]

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SIGNED COPY - Twelvetrees Press, 1989. Hardcover in printed dust jacket. First Edition (stated), First Printing. 13-1/4 x 10-1/4 inches. 124 pages with 52 two-and four-color plates on a matte coated paper stock. Photographs and drawings by Joel-Peter Witkin. Essays by Gus Blaisdell and John Yau, Afterword by Joel-Peter Witkin. Includes exhibition history and bibliography.From the publisher: "The work is as controversial as ever...cadavers, transsexuals and animals are carefully arranged to create a mythology that could originate only in the imagination of this singular artist. The ten years work included in this collection were not reproduced in our first book of the artist's work. SIGNED by Joel-Peter Witkin on the limitation page at the end of the book, BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean copy in a Near Fine dust jacket showing light overall rubbing with areas of delamination that are common for this jacket.