this weekend- offprint at tate modern. I found a box of these bad boys so they'll be going out along with a few choice books. #fiorucci #panini

this weekend- offprint at tate modern. I found a box of these bad boys so they'll be going out along with a few choice books. #fiorucci #panini

this weekend- offprint at tate modern. I found a box of these bad boys so they'll be going out along with a few choice books. #fiorucci #panini

stussy 80-15. the 35th anniversary book. #stussy

stussy 80-15. the 35th anniversary book. #stussy

stussy 80-15. the 35th anniversary book. #stussy

ymo in new york- by nan goldin! technodon era. in the shop but not for long. #nangoldin #ymo #yellowmagicorchestra

ymo in new york- by nan goldin! technodon era. in the shop but not for long. #nangoldin #ymo #yellowmagicorchestra

ymo in new york- by nan goldin! technodon era. in the shop but not for long. #nangoldin #ymo #yellowmagicorchestra

that yayoi kusama. from a book in the shop. I haven't got a clue what it's called but it's good and £25. #yayoikusama

yayoi kusama. from a book in the shop. I haven't got a clue what it's called but it's good and £25. #yayoikusama

yayoi kusama. from a book in the shop. I haven't got a clue what it's called but it's good and £25. #yayoikusama

ace. david sims / yohji yamamoto. a/w 1995-1996 book. #davidsims #yohjiyamamoto

ace. david sims / yohji yamamoto. a/w 1995-1996 book. #davidsims #yohjiyamamoto

ace. david sims / yohji yamamoto. a/w 1995-1996 book. #davidsims #yohjiyamamoto

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in womenswear and menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in womenswear and menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in womenswear and menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

my favourite lindbergh. for tokio kumagai 1988 and 1989. women in menswear, and men- also in menswear. #peterlindbergh #tokiokumagai

more roversi / mm magic. never seen this one before, yohji yamamoto s/s 1997. #paoloroversi #mmparis #yohjiyamamoto

more roversi / mm magic. never seen this one before, yohji yamamoto s/s 1997. #paoloroversi #mmparis #yohjiyamamoto

more roversi / mm magic. never seen this one before, yohji yamamoto s/s 1997. #paoloroversi #mmparis #yohjiyamamoto

Wako Book 1-5 / Wolfgang Tillmans

Edition : First / Tokyo / Wako Works of Art / 1999-2014 / Softcover. / VG+ / VG+
5 volumes, 4to, ca 80pp each. Printed wraps in semi transparent wrappers as issued, book 2 published in wraps without dustwrap. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. Each volume printed in an edition of between 1200 and 1500 copies.

Ultra beautiful and quiet collections from Tillmans, who designed and edited them. A combination of still lives, scrap book-esque snapshots, fragments and process work with volumes 3 and 5 published to coincide with Litchler, and Affinity.

Les Images d'Antonioni / Carlo di Carlo

Edition : First / Rome / Cinecitta / 1992 / Softcover. / VG+
4to, Unpaginated (ca 128pp). Printed wraps. Numerous Colour Black & White plates. Text in English and French.

Stunning visual Antonioni monograph, comprising of set stills from almost all of his films, including Blow up, La Notte, L'Avventura and L'Eclisse. Very Monica Vitti heavy, with Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni and Alain Delon along with a who's who of the new wave. The work of Antonioni has always been exercise in elegant and subtle scenography, and the still images here exemplify this in a way that the moving image inherently cannot, making it an essential reference to his work.

Purple Prose no.1 / Elein Fleiss, Olivier Zahm et al.

Edition : First / Paris / Purple Books / 1993 / Softcover. / Near Fine
8vo, 64pp. Printed wraps. Numerous Black & White plates. Text in English and French.

The first issue of Purple Prose, which was more an organ for the personal ideas and tastes of Fleiss. With Kippenberger, Chaude Closky, Henry Bond, Dike Blair, poetry and post modern cultural theory.

Comme Des Garcons Furniture / Rei Kawakubo

Edition : First / Tokyo / Comme des Garcons / 1990 / Softcover. / Near Fine / VG+
4to, 2 volumes. Unpaginated (72pp & 8pp). Printed wraps. Black & White plates. Text in English and Japanese. OCLC traces no copies, though a few are known to exist, with one confirmed institutional holding.

Maybe the hardest to find, and most obscure comme reference- Comme des Garcons furniture was produced in 1990 as a simple book with no text, minimal art direction, and little in the way of explanation. 28 pieces, from No.1 - No.28, produced between 1983 and 1990, presented opposite their sources. Kawakubo's furniture could be seen to be post modern if it were not so minimal, she said herself the chairs had- 'an essence of simplicity and weren't made for your derriere, but for your admiration.' and that "Comme des Garcons furniture can come to its true essence when placed in an environment that is not too pretentious... ...One can enjoy them better when they are placed in, for instance, an entrance hall or hallway where there exists no constraint." Reputedly at the 1988 presentation in Chicago the furniture was to be placed in a large pile in the middle of the room, with more being supplied if the pile was too small. One can only imagine.

Teenage Precinct Shoppers / Nigel Shafran

Edition : First / New York / Dashwood Books / 2013 / Softcover. / VG+
8vo, Unpaginated (60pp). Printed wraps. Numerous Colour and Black & White plates. One of 500 copies. Small closed tear top spine.

The legendary Shafran project gets a proper printing. There are two series of portraits of teenagers combined here, a black and white series shot in Ilford town centre in the suburbs of East London which originally appeared in I-D magazine in 1990 and had an influence on a whole generation of London based photographers in the early nineties for it's stripped down no frills approach to portraiture and fashion. The second color series was shot both in Ilford Town Center and Brent Cross Shopping Centre, a shopping precinct (a British term for mall). As in all Shafran's work none of the details seem trivial. Instead the choices these teenagers make in hair and make-up in clothes and attitude reveal a sense of profundity.