Edition : First / Barcelona / Dronte / 1977 / Softcover. / VG+
Small 4to, Unpaginated (ca 120pp). Printed wraps as issued. Text in Spanish. Numerous colour plates.
More
amazing things in unexpected places. Riera (yes him), Bourboulon and co
shoot a regular nudi book (but a very good one)- in Ibiza- this means
exiled Germans, a few street shots, nudists and beaches. Surely one of
the rarest books in the nudes genre, but extra special for Riera's
island contribution, and the involvement of the local jet set.
Edition : First / Melbourne / Young Women's Christian Association of Australia / 1975 / Softcover. / VG+
4to, 160pp. Printed wraps as issued. Numerous Black & White plates.
Scarce overview of seventies womanhood in Australia, published for
international womens year. Includes work from Jerrems, Ellis and a host
of lesser know names.
Edition : First / New York / NY Rocker / 1978 / Softcover / VG+
30x35cm, 28pp. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in English. Loss to rear cover.
First and only issue of the scarce New York Rocker Pix. Stunning art
direction- one of the most striking publications from the post punk
period.
Edition : First / Tokyo / Bijitshu Shuppan Sha / 1970 / Hardcover. / Near Fine / Near Fine
Folio, 94pp. Vinyl boards in printed card slipcase. Poster and record
entitled 'music for living' laid in. Colour and Black & White
plates. Text in English and Japanese.
Tomic work by Kurokawa published in the same year as Osaka expo '70.
Kurokawa pioneered the theory of metabolic architecture, where a city
can be seen as a living, breathing entity that behaves like a living
organism and requires architecture to reflect it's states of evolution
and flux. Kurokawa exemplified his theories in Capsule- the pavillion he
designed for expo 70, which is detailed here along with domestic work,
seattle civic centre, town plans and offices. Echoes similar theories to
some of Archigram's work, though Kurokawa's work was actually built-
and also pre-empts ideas later used in the back to land movement and
geodesic architecture.
Edition : First / Tokyo / Miki Shuppan / 1971 / Softcover / VG+
Small 4to, Unpaginated (ca 250pp). Printed wraps as issued. Numerous
Black & White plates. Text in Japanese. A little rubbing with one
small split to the spine. Complete and bright otherwise.
Araki's first commercially available book. Cited in The Open
book. Still very cut and paste and Xeroxy, his first book is much more
playful and less violent than the work he is known for today. Araki
constantly had problems with the censors and Oh Nippon! was no
exception. Mikuo Nakamura developed a creative mise en page that split
the rejected images into sections which could be easily reassembled by
folding opposing pages together across multiple spreads. Beautiful and
very well designed.
