november-books

Monday, 25 July 2016

Biba Catalogue (Complete set) + Biba Newspaper

London. Biba. Various, Late 60's. First Edition. 6 x Narrow Folio, 16pp. 36x18cm. Printed wraps. Tabloid, 16pp, newsprint. Text in English. Sepia plates. A little creased with minor wear to edges. Softcover.. Book: VG+. .

It doesn't get much better than this- a complete set of 6 Biba mail order catalogues from the late 60s plus the Biba Newspaper which was handed out at the opening of 'Big Biba' in 1973. Catalogues comprise 2 by Hans Feurer, 1 by Sarah Moon, 1 by Harri Peccinotti, 1 by Helmut Newton and 1 by Donald Silverstein. All very very beautiful. A contender for the greatest printed artefact of sixties fashion. Nothing short of incredible, and impossibly scarce to see as a complete set. Amazing.

Penny Slinger An Exorcism

London. Villiers/Empty Eye. 1977. First edition. Oblong 4to, 148pp. Black boards with gilt in photographic dustwrap. Numerous Black & White and Duotone plates. One discreet closed tear to dustwrapper. Hardback.. Book: Fine. Dustwrap: Near Fine.

Powerful, haunting and surreal collages from London born Slinger. Very new wave (late seventies/early eighties not 50s), echoes of Ken Russell, Helmut Newton. Her work is dark, menacing and beautiful. Slinger has been the subject of contemporary re readings of 70s fine art practices, in particular with regard to second wave feminism, and has been included in various retrospectives and group shows internationally. This- her second book, titled An Exorcism is a 'unique, powerful, and compelling Photo Romance' and a "grotesque and militant contribution" with a "loud message about silence." As the author herself notes, 'the images and accompanying captions present a record of the unravelling of the Self from dualistic limitations and the projections of others.'

Paolo Roversi Angeli

Paris. Camera Obscura. 1993. First edition. 4to. 32pp. Loose leave photogravure sheets printed in monotone, in beige wrappers. 12 silver gelatin plates. Text in Italian. Slipcase a little worn, book perfect. No 160 of 375 copies numbered by Roversi. Softcover.. Book: Fine. Dustwrap: VG+.

Very beautiful first solo book by Roversi. Inspired by his many travels in India and the Middle East, and mixed with some of his early and personal work.

Nick Latzoni All The Young Dudes

Clifton NJ. Lower Third Enterprises. ca 1976. First Edition. Folio, 20pp. Printed wraps. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Softcover.. Book: Near Fine. .

Joey Ramone cover alert! Latzoni's 'all the young dudes' is a true mystery, with only 2 issues reputedly published, though the cover states no.6, and there is another issue with vol.2 no.1 on the cover. Rumour has it that Latzoni made up the numbers to make the magazine look larger than it was, though this is unsubstantiated. Either way, a brilliant, and scarce publication, with no institutional holdings. There's no text, just gig photographs of the Ramones, Blondie, New York Dolls, Television and the like, all seem to be unpublished elsewhere making it a somewhat raw diary of early punk rock in the U.S.

Jean Michel Basquiat Amateur Bout

New York. Vrej Baghoomian, Inc. 1989. First Edition. 8vo, Unpaginated (ca 48pp). Printed boards as issued. Text in English. One of 1000 numbered copies. Hardcover.. Book: Fine. .

Facsimile edition of a composition notebook by Basquiat, Designed by Malanga, and published shortly after Basquiat's death.

A Magazine Curated by... No.1 - Martin Margiela

Antwerp. Modenatie. 2004. First Edition. 4to, 206pp. Printed wraps. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Softcover.. Book: VG+. .

So- the first issue of second wave magazine curated by.. and it really is brilliant. Rammed full of images and collaborations, with very good texts. Contributions from Bless, Marina Faust, Mark Borthwick etc. Quite individual in terms of content, and of course essential for the Margiela fan.

Gianni Castagnoli 80's Xerochromes

Milan. Franco Maria Ricci. 1979. First Edition. Square Folio, 60pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Colour plates. Text in English, Italian and French.

Super 1979 work created with an early colour photocopy machine. Pop goes new wave! Very beautiful, and with some brilliant texts.

Penelope Slinger 50% The Visible Woman (signed limited edition)

London. Narcis Publishing. 1971. First edition. 8vo, Unpaginated (ca120pp). Black boards with gilt in photographic dustwrap in slipcase as issued. Numerous Black & White plates. Book near fine, in like dustwrapper. As is always the case, the silver endpapers eroded somewhat. Number 45 of 50 signed and numbered copies. Hardback.. Book: Near Fine. Dustwrap: Near Fine.

First book from London born Slinger. "The book as a whole constitutes a challenge both to the repressive society whose essence it reveals and to woman themselves. It is a revelation of how little, female phantasy has been explored and how its importance does not lie simply in an up-beat positive discovery of a hidden, better self. Penny Slinger shows that the necessary process of facing feminine sexuality head on is not easy." Laura Mulvey, Spare Rib Magazine, 1971. An early 70's feminist masterpiece.

30 Anni di Vogue Italia

Milan. Conde Nast SPA. 1995. First edition. 4to. Unpaginated (ca 250pp). Black raw edged cloth in folded dustwrap. Numerous Black & White plates.

Killer book compiling 30 years of the best of Vogue Italia. Paolo Roversi, Sarah Moon, Bourdin, Meisel, Lindbergh, Ferri, Klein, Lategan, Unwerth, Rubartelli and so on. Fashion full stop. In a book. Amazing.

20 Anni di Vogue Italia

Milan. Conde Nast SPA. 1984. First edition. 4to. 512pp. Grey cloth in silver dustwrap. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in Italian. Hardcover.. Book: Near Fine. Dustwrap: VG+.

The best work from a who's who of fashion photography from the mid sixties to the early eighties. Meisel, Bob Richardson, Rubartelli, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff, Guy Bourdin, Sarah Moon, Turbeville, Weber, Avedon, Irving Penn and the list goes on. And there's 500 pages of it. Incredibile!

Mark Borthwick 1978

New York. Self Published. 1997. First Edition. 4to, Unpaginated (ca 200pp). Printed wraps. Numerous Black & White plates. Softcover.. Book: VG+. .

Self published. Borthwick's first book. More an artist's book than monograph 1978 sums up everything Mark Borthwick's work is about. Texts, notes, awkward silhouettes, shadows and places.

Larry Clark 1992

New York. Thea Westreich & Gisela Capitain. 1992. First Edition. 4to, 336pp. Stiff printed wraps as issued. One of 1000 copies. First and only edition. A little wear to spine. Softcover.. Book: VG+. .

Larry Clark's best book, and one of his toughest to find, especially in a good condition. No text. Intense portraits and scenarios of violence, masculinity, male sexuality, youth and slacker culture, managing to be both beautiful and extreme in equal measure.

Hal Fischer 18th near Castro St.

San Francisco. NFS Press. 1978. First Edition. Small oblong 8vo, Unpaginated (ca 52pp). Numerous Black & White plates. Softcover.. Book: Near Fine. .

Wonderful little book from Fischer who is better know for his work on gay semiotics (what colour hankerchief goes in what pocket etc.). Here he devoted his talents to a rather cruisy bench on 18th street in San Francisco's gay district (The Castro) for a period of 24 hours, observing who's around and what they're doing. Lovely conceptual project with nice text and super images. Inscribed by Fischer in 1979.

Will Mcbride "R"

Frankfurt. Self Published. 1988. First Edition. Small 8vo. 88pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Text in German. Clean, tight, no bumps.. Softcover.. Book: Fine. .

Ultra beautiful self published effort from McBride- he of Show Me, Zeig Mal. Based on a friend of Mcbride's- Richard Geldmacher, Mcbride presents poetry and a series of photographs, unseen elsewhere, which depict essentially a new wave teenage diary.

"I groaned with pain..." - Sex, Seditionaries and the Sex Pistols

Westwood, Vivienne; McClaren, Malcomb; Stolper, Paul; Wilson, Andrew.

London. Stolper Wilson. 1996. First Edition. Square 4to. 32pp. Only 500 copies. White wraps with Seditionaries 'Tits' to cover. Black & White throughout. . Softcover.. Book: Near Fine. .

Catalogue from the 1996 exhibition of the same name. Featuring Sex and Seditionaries pieces and artworks by Reid from the collections of Westwood, McClaren, Reid and Richmond. A rare piece of Kings Road epherema.