Hardcover, 127 pgs. 7 1/4 × 9 3/4 inches (18.5 × 24.5 cm). Sealed, new. 

Featuring a cache of paintings, drawings, photographs, and archival material from the period during which Jean-Michel Basquiat shared an apartment in New York's East Village with his friend Alexis Adler, Basquiat before Basquiat: East 12th Street 1979-1980 provides rare insight into the Basquiat's creative life at a time that shaped his artistic practice. The publication includes an essay by MCA Denver curator Nora Burnett Abrams and texts and personal remembrances by friends of the artist, including Adler, Sara Driver, Malu Halasa, Michael Holman, jennifer jazz, Bud Kliment, Darryl Pinckney, Felice Rosser, Luc Sante, and Sur Rodney Sur.

Also included is a large postcard from Anthology Film Archives created for programming surrounding the screening of Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017), a documentary directed by Sara Driver that explores the pre-fame life of the artist in late 1970s NYC.