Chanel : Le Journal D'une Montre

Edition : First / Paris / Chanel / ca 1987 / Softcover. / Fine
Folio, 52pp. Black & White plates. Housed in printed card presentation box.

Deluxe one off publication, designed and art directed by Egoiste's Wisniak and Morillon. Aside of Bourdin's 16 page contribution theres Ines de la Fressange, Sagan, Serge Bramly, an interview with a watch, Caroline de Monaco. Bourdin's work is stunning, seldom seen and extremely well art directed.

Jim Jarmusch, Masayoshi Sukita / Mystery Train

Edition : First / Tokyo / Mystery Train Inc. / 1989 / Softcover. / VG+
Square 8vo, Unpaginated (ca 80pp). Printed wraps. Colour plates. Text in English and Japanese.

Described by Jarmusch as a family album this is an all star book from a visually very striking piece of work. Steve Buscemi, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Elizabeth Bracco, Youki Kudoh star in Jarmusch's portmanteau masterpiece. As beautiful as the film.

Studio Alchimia / Architetture Sussurranti

Edition : First / Milan / Alchimia Editore / 1981 / Softcover. / VG+
Small 4to. Unpaginated (ca 48pp). Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Italian. Only one institutional holding and a small number of known private copies.

Branzi, UFO, Sotsass, Guerriero et al. with manifesto's, collages, photographs, drawings and cut ups. Brilliant and inventive work and an incredibly scarce artefact.

Search & Destroy complete run (1-11)

Edition : First / San Francisco / Search & Destroy / 1977-1979 / Softcover. / VG+
4to, 11 volumes. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in English. A little edgewear and toning.

The best punk zine ever. Started with two $100 loans from Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Allan Ginsberg. The U.S. scene, far from being a poor impersonation of the British movement, soon developed an energy and talent of its own, which was documented in its own home-grown magazine, "Search and Destroy", edited by V. Vale between 1977 and 1979. Sums up the more intelligent end of the movement. Featuring Patti Smith, Vivienne Westwood, Nico, the Buzzcocks, the Clash, the Cramps, Siousxie, the Damned, Captain Beefheart, Throbbing Gristle, Devo, Iggy Pop, Cabaret Voltaire, the Dead Kennedys, and the Ramones, alongside writers and filmmakers such as William Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, John Waters, Russ Meyer and David Lynch. An amazing and complete overview of the U.S. Punk/New Wave scene in its infancy, as well as being an important link between the beat movement and punk.

Issey Miyake : East Meets West

Edition : First / Tokyo / Sanyo Shokai / 1978 / Softcover. / Near Fine
Folio, 214pp. Printed wraps with Obi band as issued. Numerous full bleed colour plates. Text in English and Japanese.

Brilliant survey of Miyake's works form the 70's, contributions from Guy Bourdin, Avedon, Bailey, Shinoyama, Peccinotti. Text by Vreeland. Split into 3 sections: Man and his Cloth, The Form of Cloth and Witness of time. Full of big, full bleed shots of amazing work that is lesser known today.

David Hicks on...

Edition : First / London / Britwell Books / 1972 / Hardcover. / Near Fine / VG+
4to. 3 volumes. Unpaginated (ca 180pp each). Cloth in printed dustwrappers. Colour and Black & White plates. Split to bottom of slipcase.

Hicks has a hardened habit of applying a softer shade of modernism to period spaces, with excellent results. His main tools seem to be colour and pattern design. The 3 volume set shows application of his ideas in a variety of spaces and his ideas about surface, volume and history. Scarce as a set.

Facade no.1-14 + 15 (complete run)

Edition : First / Paris / Agence Quality / 1976-1983 / Softcover / VG+
30x35cm. 15 volumes (a 13th issue was not published due to superstition) 20pp, issues 2-5 40pp, issue 6-14 60pp. Numerous colour and Black & White plates. Bright and complete. Text in French. Covers rubbed to spines with the odd closed tear on some issues, overally bright and complete.

Any single issue of facade is difficult- a complete run a near impossibility. Facade was set up in 1976 by Alain Benoist under the art direction of Phillippe Morrillon. It's intention was to be a Parisian version of 'Interview', though through personal connections and a great sense of ireverence the magazine turned out to be something quite different. By accident or design Facade turned out to be a diary of the underground Paris jet-set from 1976-1983, the cover of issue 1 is shot by Pierre and Gilles. The list of contributors and interviewees are a real who's who- Warhol himself, Edwige of Mathematiques Modernes and Le Palace, Deneuve, Salvador Dali, Jacno, Sophia Loren, Francois Hardy, Gainsbourg- and the articles are superb, a mix of gossip from Le Palace and Les Bains to the musings of Karl Lagerfeld. A time capsule of the cross pollination of Fashion, Music and Society.