Throughout his career, the renown American sculptor Richard Serra has kept a large number of notebooks and sketchbooks which by now fill an entire library in his studio. Contained within them are delicate sketches of his travels, of landscapes, architecture and of other ideas, some of which the artist developed into mature sculptures and drawings. Serra has personally selected ten of his sketchbooks, two of which he made in Iceland in 1989 and a very recent one from Qatar, which are reproduced here in facsimile. Machu Picchu steps, Peru, 1972 8.4 × 10.6 in. / 21.3 × 27 cm 44 pages Leatherbound hardcover Afangar, Videy Island, Iceland, 1989 6 × 4 in. / 14.6 × 9.4 cm 152 pages Leatherbound hardcover Basalt columns: Svartifoss, Iceland, 1989 10.5 × 14 in. / 25 × 33 cm 32 pages Halfbound hardcover Saqqara pyramid, Egypt, 1990 8.3 × 10.8 in. / 21 × 27.5 cm 44 pages Halfbound hardcover Schunnemonk Fork, Storm King Art Center, 1991 12.5 × 14.4 in. / 31.8 × 36.5 cm 88 pages Clothbound hardcover Snake Eyes and Boxcars, Geyserville, CA, 1993 8.1 × 10.6 in. / 20.6 × 27 cm 136 pages Leatherbound hardcover Wake, 2003 9.8 × 12.2 in. / 25 × 31 cm 48 pages Softcover Torqued Ellipses, Guggeneheim Bilbao, Spain, 2005 12.5 × 14.4 in. / 31.8 × 36.5 cm 52 pages Clothbound hardcover Promenade, Grand Palais, Paris, 2008 13.8 × 8.3 in. / 35.1 × 21 cm 84 pages Softcover EastWest/WestEast, Qatar, 2014 4 × 5 in. / 9.5 × 12.5 cm 84 pages Leatherbound Ten Facsimile books housed together in a wooden crate 15.1 × 11.6 × 7.9 in. / 38.5 × 29.5 × 20 cm Limited edition of 1,000 boxed sets signed and numbered by the artist.

Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938. Since the 1960s he has exhibited extensively throughout the world. In addition, Serra has created a number of sitespecific sculptures in public and private venues in both North America and Europe. Serra's books at Steidl include Sculpture 1985-1998 (1999), The Matter of Time (2005), The Tuhirangi Contour (2005) and Notebooks (2011). He lives in New York and Nova Scotia.