Jean Paul Goude & Grace Jones. Jungle Fever.

Goude, Jean-Paul; Jones, Grace. Jungle Fever. New York: Xavier Moreau, 1981. First Edition. 4to, 148pp. Black boards in photographic dustwrapper. Un Price-clipped. More images available on request. Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Classic visual biography, essential for fans of either Goude or Jones. Full of photographs, collages, sketches, costumes, anecdotes. Mainly features his work with Grace (Arabesque, Samurai, On Your Knees, Demolotion, One Man Show etc.) which is all amazing. But- also has alot of work from the early-mid seventies which is outstanding. Very nice!

Raf Simons. The Fourth Sex.

Simons, Raf; Bonami, Francesco. The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes. Milan: Charta/Pitti, 2003. First Edition. 4to, 440pp. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. More images available on request. Near Fine. Softcover.

Really great and hugely exhaustive tome on teenagers, or 'The Fourth Sex'. Superb Contributions from a huge number of guests (Dead or Alive) including Cocteau, Lynch, Nabokov, J.G. Ballard, David Bowie, Larry Clark, Rudi Gernreich, Bernhard Willhelm etc. Chocked with so many superb images collected by Simons and Bonami. Rather like a huge visual research project, and very Simons-y. Texts are also notably good.

Anna Piaggi / Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion journal.

Lagerfeld, Karl; Piaggi, Ann. Karl Lagerfeld: A Fashion journal. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986. First Edition. 4to, 224pp. Red cloth in black dustwrapper. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. More images available on request. Fine in VG+ dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Full of sketches by the kaiser. With Mugler, Chloe, Chanel, Patou, Balmain etc. Also a few great pictures from the seventies, and some good texts, but the main focus in his drawings, great stuff.

10 Women by Peter Lindbergh.

Lindbergh, Peter; Lagerfeld, Karl; Moss, Kate; Crawford, Cindy; Schiffer, Claudia; Valletta, Amber; Evangelista, Linda et al. 10 Women by Peter Lindbergh. Munich: Schirmer Mosel, 1996. Revised Edition. 4to, 124pp. Printed boards as issued. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in English. Preface by Karl Lagerfeld. Rear board a little creased, cover and contents fine. More images available on request. Near Fine. Hardcover.

Very 90's and very amazing. the 10 women in question are: Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cincy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Kirsten McMenamy, Kate Moss, Tatjana Patitz, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington, and Amber Valletta. About 10 pages dedicated to each, which comprise amazing and iconic shots by Lindbergh in full bleed contrasty and grainy Black & White. Phenomenal. Nicer than the earlier softcover issue and really essential for fans of Lindbergh or any of the above. Much underrated.

Levi's Denim Art Contest Catalogue of Winners 1974

Collective. Levi's Denim Art Contest Catalogue of Winners. California: Square Books, 1974. First Edition. Square 8vo, 48pp. Printed wraps. Text in English. More images available on request. Near Fine. Softcover.

Amazing books of user submitted slides of customised denim. Great and individual work, very much of its time. Some of the images were later used in 'American Denim'. Rather ethereal, and far better than any style sourcebook by miles.

Corinne Day Diary

Hamburg: Kruse Verlag, 2000. First Edition. 4to, Unpaginated. Black photographic boards as issued. Numerous Colour plates. A little bumping to corners, else near fine. With tipped in card, inscribed by Day. More images available on request. VG+. Hardcover.

Her visual diary. Raw document by the great, and sadly deceased Corinne Day. Arguably more famous for photographic Kate, and introducing the 'waif' look/heroin chic that kick started the nineties. Her diary is a very intimate and quite brutal portrait of her and her friends shooting brown/going to parties/hanging around/visiting family etc. She has been compared to Nan Goldin, and this book could also very much sit with the work of Larry Clark. Its very powerful stuff, told in a very straightforward, everyday way. One of the most important British photobooks of the last 25 years.

Biba Newspaper 1973.

Biba; Hulanicki, Barbara; Wedge, James. Biba Newspaper. London: Biba, 1973 (September). First Edition. 32x43cm, 16pp. Newsprint. Sepia plates. Edges a little browned, but complete and in a very good condition. More images available on request. VG+.

Promotional paper. Excellent and fun contents comprising a complete guide to the decadant 'Big Biba' on Kensington High Street. A very good guide to the ethos and style of Biba. The James Wedge poster is particularly beautiful.

Sarah Moon. Improbable Memories.

Moon, Sarah. Souvenirs Improbables (Improbable Memories). Paris: Delpire, 1981. First Edition. Oblong 4to, 120pp. Dark green boards in photographic dustwrapper. Beautifully printed in Switzerland. With 94 colour plates. More images available on request. Fine in Fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

One of the greats. Surveys her work from the Seventies. So what we get is 94 plates of hazy, dreamy and nostalgic works for clients such as Biba and Cacharel (brilliant), to editorials for the likes of Harpers Bizarre, Nova and Vogue, and lots of private and calendar work. The surprise here is the Cacharel work, surreal and full of humour, but still extremely elegant. An amazing book.

John D Green. Birds of Britain.

Green, John D. Birds of Britain. London: Bodley Head, 1967. First Edition. Folio. 128pp (unpaginated). Red boards in photographic dustwrapper. Very minor wear to head and tail of spine, a little tape residue and grubbiness to endpapers. Much better than usually seen. More images available on request. VG+ in VG+ dust-jacket. Hardcover.

A stellar and rather lavish who's who of the 60's. Very beautiful and huge photographs for the most part unpublished elsewhere, and featuring amongst others: Charlotte Rampling, Pattie Boyd, Susannah York, Ingrid Boulting, Julie Christie, Sarah Miles, Jane Asher, Quant, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Barry, Lady Curzon, Jean Shrimpton's younger sister Chrissie etc. etc. Very well put together a la Veronese, Haskins etc. Amazing.

Katsu Naito. West Side Rendezvous.

Naito, Katsu. West Side Rendezvous. London: Wild Life Press, 2011. First Edition. 8vo, Unpaginated. Black wraps in photographic dustwrapper. Text in English. One of 500 copies. More images available on request. Fine in Fine dust-jacket. Softcover.

Great book, from the press release- "A collection of photographs by Katsu Naito, documenting the transvestite and transexual street-walkers of New York's Meatpacking District in the early 1990s. The 45 images, largely portraits, intimately capture the unexpected beauty of the subject's day-to-day lives. Naito does not pass judgement, rather observes, and it is evident that he is trusted by his subjects. Street-walkers of all races and backgrounds, each with a different story to tell, are photographed in their immediate environment, the empty streets of "West Side" New York." A future classic

Hedi Slimane: Costa da Caparica. 1989.

Slimane, Hedi. Costa da Caparica. Alcoitao Cascais: Ellipse Foundation, 2007. First Edition. Small 4to, 32pp, Printed wraps, numerous Black & White plates.. More images available on request. Near Fine. Softcover.

So- a very interesting one here, made when he was 21, a lovely photobook very much in the vein of Bruce Weber. His main focus here is men and boys, on the beach, enjoying themselves. Essential for Slimane or Slimane era Dior Homme fan. Great.

Ed Van Der Elsken / Eye Love You

Bussem. Van Holkema & Warendorf. 1977. First Edition. 4to, 176pp. Printed boards as issued. Numerous Colour plates. Text in Dutch. More images available on request.. Hardcover.. Book: VG+. .

One of Elsken's more famous works. Amsterdam, Hippies, Communes, Tribes, Gypsies, India, Africa, its all there. Superb travelogue. 

Veruschka. Trans-Figurations.

Lehndorff, Vera (Veruschka); Trulzsch, Holger; Sontag, Susan (Introduction). 'Veruschka' Trans-Figurations. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. First Edition. 4to. 160pp. Printed wraps. Teal boards in photographic dustwrapper. Numerous colour plates. Tight, clean, no inscriptions. More images available on request. Fine in Fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Killer work by the great Veruschka. yes, she was in Blow-Up, modelled in pretty much every issue of Vogue, was one of THE faces etc. etc. but- before all that, she studied painting in Hamburg. She met Trulzsch, a painter, in 1970, and here is the result. A superb collaborative work exploring body and landscape, and mainly featuring of course, Veruschka. Paintings by her, pictures of her (most of the book), body paintings, landscapes, surreal interior shots. Difficult to describe, like nothing else, but really quite special.

Helmut Newton. White Women.

Newton, Helmut; Garner, Philippe. White Women. New York: Stonehill, 1976. First Edition, Second Printing. 4to. Unpaginated. Grey cloth in photographic dustwrapper. Profusely illustrated in colour. 107 plates. More images available on request. Near Fine in Near Fine dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Helmut Newton's first book full of excellent, classic work. Featuring Paloma Picasso, Veruschka, Elsa Peretti, Karl Lagerfeld, David Hockney, Charlotte Rampling and others. Fans of 'The Cod' will also be pleased to find her in plate 50 and credited as 'fashion editor and model'. A superb book.

Helmut Newton / Sleepless Nights

Newton, Helmut. Sleepless Nights. New York: Congreve, 1978. First Edition. 4to, 152pp, Black cloth in photographic dustwrapper. More images available on request. VG+ in VG+ dust-jacket. Hardcover.

Second book from Newton, full of his famous, now classic work. Features YSL, Balenciaga, Prosthetic limbs, Mannequins, Horsewhips, Patti Hansen, Warhol and Paloma Picasso. Completists will also be pleased to find 5 photographs that were made by Newton for Faye Dunaway when she played a fashion photographer in the film "The Eyes of Laura Mars". Great stuff.

Mode Avantgarde Issue 1

Larsen, Gunnar; Grieken, Anthony Van. Mode Avantgarde 1. London: Dorienwood Ltd., 1978. First Edition. 4to, 160pp. Printed wraps. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Text in English. More images available on request. Near Fine. Softcover.

Its Here. Its Fashionable. Superb first issue of the great Mode Avantgarde- one of the greatest fashion magazines to exist. Starting as they mean to continue, some very very good shoots, interview with Ursula Andress, a very good Sarah Moon-esque shoot of Jean-Louis Scherrer's 1978 collection, couture reports, good russian uniform shoot, interview with Catherine Deneuve and shot by Moon, good parties etc. in short- amazing.

Daido Moriyama. Memories of a Dog.

Moriyama, Daido. Memories of a Dog. Arizona: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First Edition. 8vo, 192pp. Black boards in photographic dustwrapper. Numerous Black & White plates. Clean, tight and bright. Limited to 3000 copies. More images available on request. Fine in VG+ dust-jacket. Softtcover.

Superb first english language collection of essays by Daido Moriyama. Texts serve an essential introduction to the work of Moriyama, the great japanese photographer. 73 plates also show his work, which for those of you who are unfamiliar, is excellent. From the press release- "Daido Moriyama is without question one of Japan's most important contemporary photographers and it is not surprising that this memoir, first published as a series of essays in Asahi Camera twenty-one years ago, is regarded as a classic in photographic literature. In "Memories of a Dog", Moriyama approaches photography through language, and it is difficult to say which is the more evocative medium. His vividly expressive prose is in perfect harmony with the grainy, black and white images that in turn have a poetry all their own. As both reader and viewer one becomes completely absorbed, and photographs that will always be remarkable are given a new, very personal, layer of meaning. This is an eloquent autobiographical account of the artist's progress through life." Highly recommended.

Joseph Szabo - Almost Grown

Szabo's superb first book, serving as a visual inspiration for Sophia Coppola's 'The Virgin Suicides'. Snaps and portraits of Long Island teenagers in the seventies.

Kishin Shinoyama - Nude

The more scarce softcover issue. Brilliant second book that continued the work set out in '28 girls'. In Bertolotti etc. Partially shot in Death Valley. Has many of his most famous images. Rare to see such a fragile item in such a good condition.

Mary Quant - Quant by Quant

Excellent First Edition/First Printing of the classic Quant book. An excellent auto-biography, littered with various unpublished photographs of this important figure of the 60's.

Self Service - Chloe Sevigny Special!

The 'Overly Chloe' issue. Featuring Chloe (about 160 pages) by Sorrenti, Sims, Richardson, Roversi, Rawles, Deckker, Cole and Borthwick. Chocked full of amazing images, and a substantial interview. Other features include a brilliant fashion ABC, Alaia, Andrew Loog Oldham etc.

Yoshiyuki Kohei - Document Park

Interesting and really quite strange project, shot at night on an infrared in Tokyo's Document Park. Cited in Parr and Badger vol.2. “Document Park is a brilliant piece of social documentation, catching perfectly the loneliness, sadness and desperation that so often accompany sexual or human relationships in a big, hard metropolis like Tokyo.”

Stephen Willats - Cha Cha Cha

 

Beautifully put together book by conceptual artist Willats. The Cha Cha was in the back room of Heaven, but punters had to queue through the back entrance on Hungerford Lane. New wave music policy, brutal drag doorstaff, and an incredible clientele. Big with the Blitz kids. The book is full of amazing shots of the regulars plus quotes and stories about local characters. A nice intimate portrait of an important moment in time. 'The Club for people who don't need to pose'.

Vivienne Westwood - No Future - Sex, Seditionaries and the Sex Pistols

 

One of the most comprehensive catalogues of Sex and Seditionaries originals. An excellent reference.

Inez van Lamsweerde - Photographs

Very nice M/M designed catalogue for the Lamsweerde show in 1999/2000. Featuring Hannelore Knuts, Kate Moss and others. Also has the 'Widow' series.

Frank Habitch - Young London Permissive Paradise

The definitive sixties london photobook. Full of now famous images. Packed with faces (Quant, Jagger etc) and locations (Kings Road, Portobello etc). A trophy of the sixties. Essential.

I Will McBride

Tomic autobiogaphy of award winning photographer Will McBride, who, aside from being star photographer for the excellent 'Twen', was also known for his controversial work 'Show Me'. Very visual, pretty comprehensive and full of excellent work.

Dries Van Noten first collection!

The first ever Dries lookbook! 2 loose leaf volumes in card cover. Despite being the earliest book of Noten's work, exemplifies everything that has subsequently come in aesthetic and spirit. At the time, womenswear wasn't being shown, so we have a Stoop shoot, and Stoop also shoots the menswear runway show (which actually looks more like a studio shoot). Both volumes quite beautiful.

Vivienne Westwood - Venus with Severed Leg

Photograph of Vivienne taken in 1975 by William English at the legendary 'Sex' shop on Kings Road. English reprinted the image for his portfolio 'Venus With Severed Leg'.

Maison Martin Margiela: 20: The Exhibition

Great book covering the first 20 years of Margiela. The early work is superb. Lots of unpublished photographs. Recommended.