World Food Books' programme is largely produced on Kulin Nation land. We acknowledge the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the first and continuing custodians of this land, and pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.
World Food Books is an arts and special interests bookshop in Naarm / Melbourne. Founded in 2010, World Food Books is devoted to the presentation of a rotating, hand-selection of international art, design, literary and counterculture publications with an emphasis on the anti-traditional, the experimental, the avant-garde, the heretic, the marginal.
Presenting new titles alongside rare and out-of-print books, catalogues and journals spanning the fields of modern and contemporary art, design, photography, illustration, film, literature, poetry, cultural theory, philosophy, sexuality, popular and underground culture in its many radical forms, World Food Books wishes to encourage adventurous, thoughtful and open-minded reading, looking, writing, and exchange of publishing and ideas, both current and historical.
As well as our bookshop, located in Melbourne's historical Nicholas Building, all of our inventory is available internationally via our online mail-order service.
World Food Books semi-regularly co-ordinates "Occasions", a programme of exhibits and events at the bookshop and in partnership with other hosts (such as museums and art galleries) that develop out of the activities, relationships and content of the bookshop itself.
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Sell your books any day of the week. You can drop them off and return later. If you have a lot of books, we can visit your Sydney home.
We buy books that we feel we can resell. We offer about 25 % of the price we expect to get when we sell them, or 30% in store credit. We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels.
Philadelphia Wireman
03 August - 01 September, 2018
World Food Books is proud to announce our next Occasion, the first presentation of sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman in Australia.
The Philadelphia Wireman sculptures were found abandoned in an alley off Philadelphia’s South Street on trash night in 1982. Their discovery in a rapidly-changing neighbourhood undergoing extensive renovation, compounded with the failure of all attempts to locate the artist, suggests that the works may have been discarded after the maker’s death. Dubbed the "Philadelphia Wireman" during the first exhibition of this work, in 1985, the maker’s name, age, ethnicity, and even gender remain uncertain. The entire collection totals approximately 1200 pieces, all intricately bound together with tightly-wound heavy-gauge wire (along with a few small, abstract marker drawings, reminiscent both of Mark Tobey and J.B. Murry). The dense construction of the work, despite a modest range of scale and materials, is singularly obsessive and disciplined in design: a wire armature or exoskeleton firmly binds a bricolage of found objects including plastic, glass, food packaging, umbrella parts, tape, rubber, batteries, pens, leather, reflectors, nuts and bolts, nails, foil, coins, toys, watches, eyeglasses, tools, and jewellery.
Heavy with associations—anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and socio-cultural responses to wrapped detritus—the totemic sculptures by Philadelphia Wireman have been discussed in the context of work created to fulfil the shamanistic needs of alternative religions in American culture. Curators, collectors, and critics have variously compared certain pieces to sculpture from Classical antiquity, Native American medicine bundles, African-American memory jugs, and African fetish objects. Reflecting the artist’s prolific and incredibly focused scavenging impulse, and despite—or perhaps enhanced by—their anonymity, these enigmatic objects function as urban artefacts and arbiters of power, though their origin and purpose is unknown. Philadelphia Wireman, whatever their identity, possessed an astonishing ability to isolate and communicate the concepts of power and energy through the selection and transformation of ordinary materials. Over the course of the past two decades, this collection has come to be regarded as an important discovery in the field of self-taught art and vernacular art.
Presented in collaboration with Fleisher-Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, and Robert Heald, Wellington.
Susan Te Kahurangi King
02 February - 10 March, 2018
Susan Te Kahurangi King (24 February 1951 - ) has been a confident and prolific artist since she was a young child, drawing with readily available materials - pencils, ballpoint pens and felt-tip markers, on whatever paper is at hand. Between the ages of four and six Susan slowly ceased verbal communication. Her grandparents William and Myrtle Murphy had developed a special bond with Susan so they took on caring responsibilities for extended periods. Myrtle began informally archiving her work, carefully collecting and storing the drawings and compiling scrapbooks. No drawing was insignificant; every scrap of paper was kept. The King family are now the custodians of a vast collection containing over 7000 individual works, from tiny scraps of paper through to 5 meter long rolls.
The scrapbooks and diaries reveal Myrtle to be a woman of great patience and compassion, seeking to understand a child who was not always behaving as expected. She encouraged Susan to be observant, to explore her environment and absorb all the sights and sounds. Myrtle would show Susan’s drawings to friends and people in her community that she had dealings with, such as shopkeepers and postal workers, but this was not simply a case of a grandmother’s bias. She recognised that Susan had developed a sophisticated and unique visual language and sincerely believed that her art deserved serious attention.
This was an unorthodox attitude for the time. To provide some context, Jean Dubuffet coined the term Art Brut in 1945 to describe work created by self-taught artists – specifically residents of psychiatric institutions and those he considered to be visionaries or eccentrics. In 1972 Roger Cardinal extended this concept by adopting the term Outsider Art to describe work made by non-academically trained artists operating outside of mainstream art networks through choice or circumstance. Susan was born in Te Aroha, New Zealand in 1951, far from the artistic hubs of Paris and London that Dubuffet and Cardinal operated in. That Myrtle fêted Susan as a self-taught artist who deserved to be taken seriously shows how progressive her attitudes were.
Susan’s parents Doug and Dawn were also progressive. Over the years they had consulted numerous health practitioners about Susan’s condition, as the medical establishment could not provide an explanation as to why she had lapsed into silence. Dawn educated herself in the field of homeopathy and went on to treat all twelve of her children using these principles – basing prescriptions on her observations of their physical, mental and emotional state.
Doug was a linguist with an interest in philosophy who devoted what little spare time he had to studying Maori language and culture. To some extent their willingness to explore the fringes of the mainstream made them outsiders too but it was their commitment to living with integrity and their respect for individuality that ensured Susan’s creativity was always encouraged.
Even though Susan’s family supported her artistic pursuits, some staff in schools and hospitals saw it as an impediment to her assimilation into the community and discouraged it in a variety of ways. Her family was not always aware of this and therefore did not fully understand why Susan stopped drawing in the early 1990s. However, rather than dwell on the challenges that Susan faced in pursuit of her artistic practice, they prefer to highlight her achievements. In 2008 Susan began drawing again in earnest, after an almost 20 year interruption, and her work is now shown in galleries around the world.
Susan grew up without television and has been heavily influenced by the comics she read as a child. She is absolutely fearless in the appropriation of recognizable characters, such as Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse, in her work. She twists their limbs, contorts their faces, compresses them together, blends them into complex patterned backgrounds - always imbuing them with an incredible energy. Although Susan often used pop culture characters in her work they are not naive or childlike. These are drawings by a brilliant self-taught artist who has been creating exceptional work for decades without an audience in mind.
Mladen Stilinović
"Various Works 1986 - 1999"
02 February 16 - September 10, 2016
Various works 1986 - 1999, from two houses, from the collections of John Nixon, Sue Cramer, Kerrie Poliness, Peter Haffenden and Phoebe Haffenden.
Including: Geometry of Cakes (various shelves), 1993; Poor People’s Law (black and white plate), 1993; White Absence (glasses, ruler, set square, silver spoon, silver ladel with skin photograph and wooden cubes), 1990-1996; Exploitation of the Dead (grey and red star painting, wooden painting, black spoon with red table, red plate), 1984-1990; Money and Zeros (zero tie, paintings made for friends in Australia (Sue, John, Kerrie), numbers painting), 1991-1992; Words - Slogans (various t-shirts) - “they talk about the death of art...help! someone is trying to kill me”, “my sweet little lamb”, “work is a disease - Karl Marx”; Various artist books, catalogues, monographs, videos; Poster from exhibition Insulting Anarchy; "Circular" Croatian - Australian edition; Artist book by Vlado Martek (Dostoyevsky); more.
Thanks to Mladen Stilinović and Branka Stipančić.
Jonathan Walker
Always Will Need To Wear Winter Shirt Blue + Ochre Small Check Pattern
21 August - 21 September, 2015
Untitled
I am not a great reader of poetry but I always return to the work of Melbourne poet, Vincent Buckley (1925- 1988). Perhaps I find his most tantalising piece to be not a finished poem but a fragment left on a scrap of paper discovered on his desk after the poet’s death.
The poetry gathers like oil
In the word-core, and spreads
It has its music meet,
Its music is in movement.
This fragment is more the shell left behind from a volatile thought than a finished poem. I find the last two lines honest but awkward whereas the first two lines work like an arrow. Most likely he could not find a resolution so it was left. Still, in its present form, it remains an eloquent testimony to the ultimate failure of a medium to express mobile thought and sensation, in Buckley’s case, through verbal language. It’s an important matter because this is something all artists have to deal with regardless of the medium.
I have never written a poem, however, I am forever copying fragments from books on paper scraps in a vain effort to fix certain notions in my head. At first, they function as bookmarks that are sometimes returned to when I open the book. But before long, as they accumulate, they fall out littering the table interspersed with A4 photocopies, bills, books and medications.
To return to Buckley’s fragment, the first two lines very much evoke how I paint nowadays. As you age, detail diminishes and patches of light become more luminous and float. I feel the most honest way of dealing with this is by smearing the oil paint on the canvas with the fingers and working close-up, blind. Only if the patches coalesce into an approaching image can the work gain a life.
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Jonathan Walker was born in Melbourne, Australia and brought up on a dairy farm in Gippsland. In the 1970’s he studied painting at RMIT and won the Harold Wright Scholarship to the British Museum, London. During the 1980’s he exhibited at Pinacotheca Gallery, Richmond and had work shown at the NGV and Heidi City Art Gallery. Over the same period he designed the cover for the “Epigenesi” LP by Giancarlo Toniutti, Italy and conducted a mail exchange work with Achim Wollscheid, Germany. The work with artists through the post resulted in an article published in the bicentenary issue of Art and Australia 1988. He showed in artist run spaces such as WestSpace in the 90’s and 2000’s, and until 2012, taught painting at Victoria University, which is where we (Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford) as organisers of the exhibition, among many others, had the privilege of being his student.
Walker’s knowledge was imparted to students through the careful selection of music, literature, and artists found in books that he himself had ordered for the library. Walker’s strategy was the generosity of sharing his vast knowledge with references specific to each student and their context.
Walker’s paintings share a similar focus and intimacy.
This exhibition presents a small selection of recent paintings alongside a publication that includes Walker’s writing. Observational and analytical, Walker’s work is a type of material notation — the time of day, colour and how it is blended, the both specific and fleeting location of a reflection on lino or the question of whether a chair leg should be included in a painting.
Please join us on Friday August 21 between 6-8pm to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
Curated by Colleen Ahern and Lisa Radford.
B. Wurtz
Curated by Nic Tammens
March 26 - April 4, 2015
B.Wurtz works from a basement studio in his home on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
This local fact is attested to by the plastic shopping bags and newsprint circulars that appear in his work. As formal objects, they don’t make loud claims about their origins but nonetheless transmit street addresses and places of business from the bottom of this long thin island. Like plenty of artists, Wurtz is affected by what is local and what is consumed. His work is underpinned by this ethic. It often speaks from a neighborhood or reads like the contents of a hamper:
“BLACK PLUMS $1.29 lb.”
“Food Bazaar”
“USDA Whole Pork Shoulder Picnic 99c lb.”
“RITE AID Pharmacy, with us it’s personal.”
“H. Brickman & Sons.”
“Sweet Yams 59c lb."
Most of the work in this exhibition was made while the artist was in residence at Dieu Donne, a workshop dedicated to paper craft in Midtown. Here Wurtz fabricated assemblages with paper and objects that are relatively lightweight, with the intention that they would be easily transportable to Australia. This consideration isn’t absolute in Wurtz’s work, but was prescriptive for making the current exhibition light and cheap. Packed in two boxes, these works were sent from a USPS post office on the Lower East Side and delivered to North Melbourne by Australia Post.
Wurtz appears courtesy of Metro Pictures, New York.
Thanks to Rob Halverson, Joshua Petherick, Sari de Mallory, Matt Hinkley, Helen Johnson, Fayen d'Evie, Ask Kilmartin, Lisa Radon, Ellena Savage, Yale Union, and "Elizabeth".
John Nixon
"Archive"
December 15 - January 20, 2014
The presentation of John Nixon's archive offered a rare showcase of this extensive collection of the artist's own publications, catalogues, posters, ephemera, editions and more, from the mid 1980s onwards, alongside a selection of his artworks.
Organized by John Nixon, Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley.
"Habitat"
at Minerva, Sydney (organised by Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley)
November 15 - December 20, 2014
Lupo Borgonovo, Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley,
Lewis Fidock, HR Giger, Piero Gilardi, Veit Laurent Kurz,
Cinzia Ruggeri, Michael E. Smith, Lucie Stahl, Daniel Weil, Wols
Press Release:
“...It contained seven objects. The slender fluted bone, surely formed for flight, surely from the wing of some large bird. Three archaic circuitboards, faced with mazes of gold. A smooth white sphere of baked clay. An age-blackened fragment of lace. A fingerlength segment of what she assumed was bone from a human wrist, grayish white, inset smoothly with the silicon shaft of a small instrument that must once have ridden flush with the surface of the skin - but the thing’s face was seared and blackened.”
William Gibson, “Count Zero”, 1986
"Autumn Projects Archive"
Curated by Liza Vasiliou
March 6 - March 15, 2014
World Food Books, in conjunction with the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival 2014, presented the Autumn Projects archive, consisting of a selection of early examples in Australian fashion with a particular interest in collecting designers and labels from the period beginning in the 1980’s, who significantly influenced the discourse of Australian Fashion.
Curated by Liza Vasiliou, the exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view pieces by designers Anthea Crawford, Barbara Vandenberg, Geoff Liddell and labels CR Australia, Covers, Jag along with early experimental collage pieces by Prue Acton and Sally Browne’s ‘Fragments’ collection, suspended throughout the functioning World Food Books shop in Melbourne.
H.B. Peace
presented by CENTRE FOR STYLE
November 14, 2013
"Hey Blinky, you say chic, I say same"
Anon 2013
H.B. Peace is a clothing collaboration between great friends Blake Barns and Hugh Egan Westland. Their pieces explore the divergences between 'character’ and ‘personality’ in garments....etc
Special Thanks to Joshua Petherick and Matt Hinkley of WFB and Gillian Mears
and a Very Special Thank you to Audrey Thomas Hayes for her shoe collaboration.
Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley
"Aesthetic Suicide"
May 10 - June 8, 2013
The first of our occasional exhibitions in the World Food Books office/shop space in Melbourne, "Aesthetic Suicide" presented a body of new and older works together by artists Janet Burchill & Jennifer McCamley, including videos, prints, a wall work, and publications.
During shop open hours videos played every hour, on the hour.
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1988, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 29 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Middlesex Polytechnic / UK
$66.00 - In stock -
Block magazine was founded in 1979 by a small group of lecturers at Middlesex Polytechnic and ran for eleven years. Block was a hugely influential journal in the developing fields of Visual and Cultural Studies. Edited by Jon Bird, Barry Curtis, Melinda Mash, Tim Putnam, George Robertson and Lisa Tickner, Block “attempted to address the problem of the social, economic and ideological dimensions of the arts in society, and offered a challenge to a conventional understanding of art history.” Block featured important conceptual artists and contemporary cultural theorists including Terry Atkinson, Lucy Lippard, Mary Kelly, Art & Language, Allen Jones, John Berger, Susan Hiller, Martha Rosler, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Conrad Atkinson, Terry Smith, amongst others. Despite the small scale of its operation, the magazine had a wide distribution in art colleges and was avidly read by lecturers looking for ways to incorporate new theoretical, often Marxist, anarchist, feminist, situationist, poststructuralist, perspectives into their teaching.
This issue features Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Stuart Hall, Guy Debord, Meaghan Morris, George Robertson, Phil Hayward, John Tagg, and many more.
Very Good copy, light wear/age.
2005, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 208 pages, 20.6 x 18.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
$150.00 - Out of stock
First edition of this incredible out of print Japanese hardcover book collection of record cover artwork from every corner of the imagination. Not just another collection of the historical or award winning, this book, subtitled "A New Design Guide For Graphic Designers", comprises roughly 240 colour reproductions of record sleeves selected by 17 contemporary artists/musicians/designers, mostly from Japan, as their favourite. Those selecting include Åbäke, EYE (Yamantaka Eye), Nagi Noda, Keiji Itō, Masami Akita (Merzbow), Skate Thing, and many more. Spanning everything from private press psych to hip house, this dizzying collection includes sleeves for Frankie Knuckles, Carcass, Renegade Soundwave, The Haters, Roedelius, DJ Screw, Tululah Moon, Family Fodder, The Tubes, György Ligeti, Psychic TV, Pan-Sonic, Liliput, Deskee, Rich Kids on LSD, Snakefinger... A collection you'd never find anywhere else. Includes full index, data, and captions in Japanese under each selection. A must for the lover of one of the purest forms of artistic expression, the record cover.
Fine copy w. dust jacket.
1995, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 20.5 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Grove Press / New York
$200.00 - In stock -
First 1995 edition of the Larry Clark's Kids book, original US edition published by Grove Press in New York to accompany the release of one of the most important movies of the decade. Profusely colour illustrated throughout with iconic full-page film stills, accompanied by the entire film script written by Harmony Korine at 19 years of age.
"If Clark never shoots another picture, he will be a cinematic immortal because of this one film"—Sight and Sound
"Well, i always wanted to make the teenage movie that I felt America never made. The great American teenage movie like the great American novel. That's why I always wanted to do. I remember back in the fifties when I was a kid, and the teenage movies were like City Across The River and Cassavetes was an actor in one and Tony Curtis was in one. And I would see these movies, and I would say, 'Those kids don't look like kids, they're all older people, they're all like grown-ups.' So right away they don't ring true. That's why some of the teenage movies that I do like — Over the Edge — the reason why I liked that movie was that they used kids the right age, they actually used kids. Real kids. I knew my film had to be from the inside, so I called this kid writer I knew through skateboarding, and he came over and I told him what I wanted, and he said, 'I've been waiting all my life to write this,' and he knocked out the screenplay in tree weeks. I think when you see the movie Kids that most of us — not all of us, but most of us — will say, 'Yeah, that's the way we were, that's the way kids are."—Larry Clark
Larry Clark is one of America's most important photographers whose 1971 photo book masterpiece, Tulsa, depicted youth culture in rural America.
Very Good copy, with discolouration to left edge of cover image from sun/storage. No spine or corner damage.
1998, English / French
Softcover, 380 pages, 15.5 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$390.00 - In stock -
Very rare copy of the first issue of Purple. Edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, with Jeff Rian, this wonderful issue features work and words by: Maison Martin Margiela, Zoe Leonard, Mark Borthwick, Jutta Koether, Lee Ranaldo, Dike Blair, Thurston Moore, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mitchell Algus, Rudolf Stingel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Maurizio Cattalan, David Robbins, Antek Walzcak, Karl Holmqvist, Calvin Klein, Takashi Homma, Veronique Branquinho, Laetitia Benat, Jeff Rian, Y's, Anders Edstrom, Tobjorn Rodland, Doug Aitken, Comme des Garcons, Nathaniel Goldberg, Helmut Lang, Susan Cianciolo, Terry Richardson, Takashi Noguchi, Camille Vivier, Katja Rahlwes, Junya Watanabe, Hussein Chalayan, Kostas Murkudis, Viviane Sassen, and many many more....
In 1992 Olivier Zahm and his partner Elein Fleiss printed the first issue of Purple Prose, a Parisian literary art zine that over the years has evolved into Purple Fashion Magazine. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications like les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple.
Very Good copy, some light edge/cover wear, single spine crease, binding still great.
2000, English
Softcover, 500 pages, 21.5 x 15.7 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$260.00 - In stock -
A rare early issue of the iconic Purple magazine, edited by Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm, this wonderful early edition features: Susan Cianciolo, Raf Simons, Jack Goldstein, Terry Richardson, Anders Edstrom, Chloe Sevigny, Wolfgang Tillmans, Martin Margiela, Rosemarie Trockel, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, General Idea, Mark Borthwick, Lewis Baltz, Lars Bang Larsen, Wolfgang Tillmans, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Comme des Garçons, Michelle Grabner, Bless, Yohji Yamamoto, Dike Blair, Bernhard Willhelm, Gilles Deleuze, Karl Holmqvist, David Grubbs, Glenn O'Brian, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bob Nickas, Sergio Guillen, Camille Vivier, Tan Lin, Olivier Zahm, Armin Linke, Amy Yao, Elein Fleiss, Henry Roy, Torbjorn Rodland, Chikashi Suzuki, Michael Smith, Lionel Bovier, Amy Sillman, Cerith Wyn Evans, Daniel Pflumm, Allen Rupperberg, Blake Rayne, Stephen Prina, Sture Johannesson, Franz Ackermann, Adrea Zittel, Jeremy Deller, Miu Miu, Dorothee Perret, Gaspard Yurkievich, Stanley Brouwn, Vija Celmins, Bas Jan Ader, Richard Prince, Tim Griffin, and so many more. One of the best issues!
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy. Copy from the library of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture)! OMA was founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis. Sticker to spine and sticker to front cover (re-movable, but let on due to noteworthiness)
2001, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 27 x 20 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Purple Institute / Paris
$240.00 - In stock -
A very rare copy of the eighth issue of Purple, edited by Olivier Zahm, art directed by Makoto Ohru, featuring Chiara Mastroianni on the cover. One of the best issues, featuring Mark Borthwick, Roe thridge, Richard Kern, Katja Rahlwes, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Chloë Sevigny, Henry Roy, Colin de Land, Bruce Benderson, Anders Edström, Jutta Koether, Kate Moss, Maison Martin Margiela, Takashi Homma, Chloë Sevigny, Kim Gordon, Antek Walczak, Hermés, Masafumi Sanai, Dike Blair, Comme des Garçons, Balenciaga, Nakako Hayashi, Jeff Rian, Dominique Gonzales Foerster, Bless, Experimental Jetset, Bob Nickas, Ann Demeuelemeester, Claude Closky, Kyoji Takahashi, Michael Smith, Matt Sweeney, John Kelsey, Helmut Lang, Bennett Simpson, Gareth James, Miu Miu, Vanina Sorrenti, Cedrick Eymenier, Andreas Larsson, Mark Kingwell, Bernard Joisten, Laetitia Benat, Anaïd Demir, Costume National, Michel Sumpf, Alex Antitch, Giasco Bertoli, Jeremy Blake, Ola Rindal, and many more....
In 1992, Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm started the magazine Purple Prose as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980s; much as a part of the global counterculture at the time, inspired by magazines like Interview, Ray Gun, Nova, and Helmut Newton's Illustrated, but with the aesthetics of what usually is referred to as anti-fashion. Based on their personal interests and views; Purple was, and in a sense still is, made much in the same spirit of the fanzine. Started "without any means, and without any experience, because we wanted to make a magazine that was radically different. We wanted to support the artists around us that no one else supported, much less talked about."—Olivier Zahm. The magazine became associated with the "realism" of the new fashion photography of the 1990s, with names like Juergen Teller, Terry Richardson, Wolfgang Tillmans, Mark Borthwick, Corinne Day, and Mario Sorrenti. Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm and Fleiss created spin-off publications such as les cahiers purple, Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction, and of course, Purple Fashion, in which Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art. Now one of the most iconic and influential fashion magazines in history.
Very Good copy.
1989, English
Softcover, 218 pages, 23.5 x 15.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Collier Books / New York
$45.00 - In stock -
First 1989 edition of the genre classic on "New Age" music, edited by Patti Jean Birosik and published by Collier Books. With an introduction by one of new age's founding fathers, Steven Halpern, the book is packed with "profiles and recordings of 500 top new age musicians" — a catalogue-like compendium that introduces a rich array of pre-1990s (largely 1970s—1980s) contemporary music that is adjacent to ambient, minimalism, cosmic, electronic, jazz fusion, avant-garde classical, computer music, experimental and 'new music', categorised and summarised through integral artists and record listings, descriptions (many written by leading musicians), record label contacts, and more. A vital piece of pre-internet documentation at the height of New Age's popularity.
"If you like the stirring soundtrack to Chariots of Fire by Vangelis; George Winston's intimate solo piano sound; Paul Horn's haunting flute, echoing in the Taj Mahal; or Pat Metheny's flights into synthesizer jazz, then this is the book for you. The New Age Music Guide profiles 500 artists, with their recordings, who are creating what Rolling Stone calls the "hottest-selling, most-talked-about music" and The New York Times hails as "the fastest-growing genre" in the business. The artists are listed A to Z for easy reference and also classified by New Age category to steer you to your favorite sounds. The categories, defined by top New Age critics and musicians, include: East/West Music by Bodhi Raines; Electronic/Computer Music by Don Slepian; Environmental/Nature Sounds by P. J. Birosik; New Age Folk by P. J. Birosik; Jazz/Fusion Music by Dallas Smith; Meditation Music by Apurvo; Native American Music by R. Carlos Nakai; New Age Pop by Lucky Clark; New Age Progressive Music by Lee Abrams; Related Artists of Interest by P. J. Birosik; Solo Instrumental Music by Shel Kagan; Sound Health Music by Jonathan Goldman; Space Music by Anna Turner; Traditional New Age Music by Suzanne Doucet; New Age Vocal Music by Michael Stillwater; World Music by Rick Bleiweiss. This is the definitive guide to the sounds of the 1990s—and beyond."—Book jacket.
Very Good copy.
2024, English
Softcover, 128 pages, 20 x 13 cm
Published by
Silver Press / London
$35.00 - In stock -
Revised and updated for the twenty-first century, 'Steering the Craft' is Ursula K. Le Guin’s carrier bag of the essentials of a writer’s craft, a generous gift from one of the great thinkers about how – and why – to write. An accessible and profound guide to the craft of writing and editing, in this handbook Le Guin lays out ten chapters that address the most fundamental components of narrative, from the sound of language to sentence construction to point of view. Drawing on the global canon, Le Guin offers her inimitably witty commentary and incisive dissection, developing into an exercise that the writer can do solo or in a group. No other writing guide offers such a comprehensive, experienced and kind approach to “steering the craft” as a writing crew.
1977, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 296 pages, 19.5 x 12.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Allison & Busby / London
$190.00 - In stock -
Very rare first 1977 hardcover edition of this essential masterpiece of jazz history by renowned photographer and music historian, Val Wilmer, published by Allison & Busby in London.
In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a generation of revolutionary musicians established black music as the true vanguard of American culture. Placing the achievements of African-American artists such as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane and Sun Ra in their broader political and social context, Wilmer evokes an era of extraordinary innovation and experimentation that continues to inspire musicians today. As vital now as when it was first published in 1977, As Serious As Your Life is the essential story of one of the most dynamic musical movements of the twentieth century.
Features : Marion Brown, Don Cherry, Andrew Cyrille, Milford Graves, Cecil Taylor, Mcoy Tyner, Rashied Ali, Dewey Redman, Anthony Braxton, Frank Lowe, Sonny Sharrock, Marshall Allen, Archie Shepp, Jimmy Lyons, Elvin Jones, Lester Bowie, Charlie Hayden, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, and so many more....
Val Wilmer is an internationally acclaimed photographer, journalist, author and black music historian who has been documenting African-American music since 1959. In that time she has interviewed and photographed almost every significant figure in post-war jazz, blues and R&B, from Louis Armstrong and Thelonious Monk to Sun Ra and Albert Ayler via Muddy Waters and Aretha Franklin. As a photographer, her work features in the permanent collections of the British Library, the V&A Museum and the National Portrait Gallery; as a writer and historian, she has contributed to the Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography and the New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz. She lives in London.
Very Good with Very Good dust jacket (some light book block edge wear and marking, tanning)
1991, English
Softcover (staple-bound), unpaginated, 20 x 14 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
The Institute of Sonology / The Hague
$25.00 - In stock -
Very rare publication issued on the occasion of the Roboard pfestival 1991, organised by The Institute of Sonology, a research center for electronic and computer music based at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague in the Netherlands. An evening of music for computer-driven piano players, featuring the work of Karlheinz Stockhausen, László Vidovszky, Angela Hommes, Włodzimierz Kotoński, Edwin van der Heide, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Wilfried Jentzsch, Friedhelm Hartmann, Conlon Nancarrow, Sabine Schäfer, James Tenney, Tom Johnson, Hubert Mechanik, Kevin Volans, Clarence Barlow, Eric Lyon, Masahiro Miwa, Steve Reich, and more. With computer-generated portraits, bios, and blurbs on all of the composers and compositions performed in the programme, including an introduction by Clarence Barlow.
VG copy. Small marking to cover.
2011, English
Softcover, 670 pages, 11.5 x 17.5 cm
Published by
Urbanomic / Cornwall
Sequence Press / New York
$59.00 - In stock -
Fanged Noumena assembles for the first time the writings of Nick Land, variously described as ‘rabid nihilism’, ‘mad black Deleuzianism’, ‘accelerationism’, and ‘cybergothic’.Wielding weaponized, machinically-recombined versions of Deleuze and Guattari, Reich and Freud, in the company of fellow ‘werewolves’ such as Nietzsche, Bataille, Artaud, Trakl and Cioran, to a cutup soundtrack of Bladerunner, Terminator and Apocalypse Now, Land plotted a rigorously schizophrenic escape route out of academic philosophy, and declared all-out war on the Human Security System. Despite his ‘disappearance’, Land’s output has been a crucial underground influence both on recent Speculative Realist thought, and on artists, writers, musicians and filmmakers invigorated by his uncompromising and abrasive philosophical vision.Long the subject of rumor and vague legend, Land’s turbulent post-genre theory-fictions of cybercapitalist meltdown smear cyberpunk, philosophy, arithmetic, poetics, cryptography, anthropology, grammatology and the occult into unrecognizable and gripping hybrids. Beginning with Land’s radical rereadings of Heidegger, Nietzsche and Kant, Fanged Noumena terminates in Professor Barker’s cosmic theory of geo-trauma and neo-qabbalistic attempts to formulate a numerical anti-language.Fanged Noumena is a dizzying trip through land’s rigorous, incisive and provocative work, establishing it as an indispensable resource for radically inhuman thought in the twenty-first century.
Edited and with an Introduction by Ray Brassier and Robin Mackay
Contents: Editors' Introduction / Kant, Capital and the Prohibition of Incest / Narcissism and Dispersion in Heidegger's 1953 Trakl Interpretation / Delighted to Death / Art as Insurrection / Spirit and Teeth / After the Law / Making it with Death / Shamanic Nietzsche / Circuitries / Machinic Desire / Cybergothic / Cyberrevolution / Hypervirus / No Future / Cyberspace Anarchitecture as Jungle-War / Meat (or How to Kill Oedipus in Cyberspace) / Meltdown / A ZiiGothic X-Coda (Cooking Lobsters with Jake and Dinos) / KatasoniX / Barker Speaks / Mechanomics / Cryptolith / Non-Standard Numeracies: Nomad Cultures / Occultures / Origins of the Cthulhu Club / Introduction to Qwernomics / Tic-Talk / Qabbala 101 / Critique of Transcendental Miserablism----
Land had the most brilliantly seductive and meteoric mind, endlessly imaginative and capable of adopting, inhabiting and discarding any philosophical position. With him - and rightly so - philosophy infected every area of life, and sheer vitality of life reverberated in his thinking.
I see Fanged Noumena as a kind of righteous revenge. Nick was dismissed by professional philosophers because they simply didn't want to think and preferred their turgid academic complacency. I always admired him for his unwavering desire to take thought to its absolute limit and then see how much harder one could push. - Simon Critchley
These extraordinary texts, superheated compounds of severe abstraction and scabrous wit, testify to a uniquely penetrating intelligence, fusing transcendental philosophy, number theory, geophysics, biology, cryptography and occultism into startlingly cohesive but increasingly delirious theory-fictions. - Ray Brassier
This is theory as cyberpunk fiction: Deleuze-Guattari's concept of capitalism as the virtual unnameable Thing that haunts all previous formations pulp-welded to the timebending of the Terminator films. Land's machinic theory-poetry parallelled the digital intensities of 90s jungle, techno and doomcore, anticipating 'impending human extinction becoming accessible as a dance-floor'. - Mark Fisher (K-Punk)
In the last half of the twentieth century, academics talked endlessly about the outside, but no-one went there. Land, by exemplary contrast, made experiments in the unknown unavoidable for a philosophy caught in the abstractive howl of post-political cybernetics. Fanged Noumena demonstrates how Land ruined a generation of intellectuals for merely academic philosophy, by opening a speculative singularity where the future used to be. - Iain Hamilton Grant
2024, English
Softcover, 138 pages, 19 x 12.5 cm
Ed. of 100 signed copies,
Published by
Scott McCulloch / Glenroy
$35.00 - Out of stock
I dove into the longest delta I could find. I spilled into ancient waste and rowed to an incomplete kingdom of ends. Fatigued, with nothing to moor, it was only sensible to collapse in the marsh, down in the meandering lanes between reeds, into the saliva of the delta.
Stray is a sequence of previously published short fictions by Scott McCulloch. Written over the past 10+ years and collected together for the first time, Stray assembles seven selected stories that take place on different bodies of water: a swamp, a lake, a lagoon, an estuary, a river, a floodplain, a sea.
Each limited edition copy is accompanied with personal photography and found imagery, as well as an array of raw materials—fragments, notes and drafts—that furnished the basis of Scott’s acclaimed debut novel, Basin (Black Inc. 2022). Stray also includes two extracts from Scott’s current long-form work-in-progress, Divers, a novel set in the Levant.
Design and typesetting by Axel Koschier at new jörg, Vienna / Madrid.
Printed in Vienna, July 2024. Cover by Michael Salerno (kiddiepunk)
2024, English
Softcover, 200 pages, 21.6 x 13.9 cm
Published by
Divided Publishing / London
$36.00 - In stock -
Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, Wave of Blood is a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness.
Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts and based in New York. Her books include A Sand Book—winner of the 2020 Kingsley Tuftfts Award and longlisted for the National Book Award—Mercury, Coeur de Lion, and The Cow, which won the Alberta Prize from Fence in 2006. She has taught poetry at UC Berkeley (Holloway Poet), Columbia, NYU, and Scripps College (Mary Routt Chair), been a visiting critic at Yale School of Art, and for community organizations including the Poetry Project and Poets House. Her poetry and prose have been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, Artforum, Frieze, Harper’s, and many others.
“Ariana Reines is a go-for-broke artist who honors her traditions by being like no one else. Some of us have made a fetish of our stupidity, pretending to forget history, and some of us have made a fetish of despair, congratulating ourselves on melancholia, but Ariana is too brilliant and too alive for either of those sad luxuries . . . I am convinced of the authenticity of the summonses she receives and the summonses she issues and when I read her I am reminded that all of this is a calling before it’s an identity or career. Her voice—which is always more than hers alone—is a dialectic between the very ancient and the bleeding edge...” – Ben Lerner
“Mind-blowing...” – Kim Gordon
“Her writing is queer and raunchy, raw and occult, seemingly never pulling away from her deepest vulnerabilities. Yet Reines simultaneously maintains a feeling of epic poetry, of ancient intention. She moves between worlds in search of the divine and the self...” – The New York Times
2024, English
Softocver, 112 pages, 21.6 x 13.9 cm
Published by
Divided Publishing / London
$36.00 - In stock -
Everyone is asking about his identity. Gay? Muslim? French? Moroccan? Instead of choosing a side, he writes a book. A book about the forest and the city, Paris and Tangiers, shame and forgiveness, dating apps and spiritual discovery. A book about growing up as a diaspora kid in rural France, with desires that want to emerge at any cost. Told in mesmerising prose, How to Leave the World is a beautiful non-answer.
Marouane Bakhti is a writer and arts journalist. Born in Nantes, France to a Moroccan father and a French mother, he studied history and journalism at the Sorbonne. He writes criticism for Mouvement magazine and lives in Paris. How to Leave the World is his first novel.
Translated by Lara Vergnaud.
“A rare book that depicts the isolation and poetry of rural life...” – Annie Ernaux
“Visceral scenes and fragments of shame, desire and displacement crystallise as sentences that are felt before they are understood. Bakhti writes diaspora as distension, a condition of freezing and unfreezing through successive intimacies and encounters: ‘Voice, silence, voice, silence.’What it takes to imagine social and physical freedom is what it meant to keep reading this incredible book...” – Bhanu Kapil
“I was struck by its kaleidoscopic scope, despite its brevity – from the earthy and vital imagery of Bakhti’s childhood, through the transformational effects of grief and faith...” – Rose Cleary
“This is an astonishingly good debut book. I was immediately drawn in and adored the beautifully crafted prose. With sensitivity and nuance, Marouane Bakhti explores the complexities of family and cultural identity as a member of the Moroccan diaspora – and one who happens to be coming to terms with his sexuality. There is so much heart in this story, you can’t help but feel like it was a privilege to have been taken on this journey. Marouane Bakhti is without doubt a promising new writer and I am excited to see what he does next...” – Elias Jahshan, editor, This Arab Is Queer
2024, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 21.6 x 13.9 cm
Published by
Divided Publishing / London
$36.00 - In stock -
A Toast to St Martirià is an improvised speech given by the cult Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra at the St Martirià fiesta in Banyoles, the town of his birth. Transmitting his subversive attitude and impulsive lust for life, it is a journey through his formative years and early relationships – established in the nightlife of his hometown – that have shaped his particular conception of cinema, art and life. ‘Cinema should be this, making perception of time and space more intense.’
Afterword by Alexander García Düttmann.
The Catalan artist and filmmaker Albert Serra was born in 1975. His films usually depict European myths and literature. In 2001, he co-founded the production company Andergraun Films. His Honor of the Knights was selected by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the ten best films of 2007. For Story of My Death, Serra was awarded the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival in 2013. For The Death of Louis XIV, Serra received the Prix Jean Vigo in 2016. Pacifiction was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2022.
Translated by Matthew Tree
2023, English
Softcover, 109 pages, 21.6 x 13.9 cm
Published by
Divided Publishing / London
$36.00 - In stock -
What is the relation between family misfortune and desire? Why must we bury the dead? What is to come for those unburied? How to distinguish the endless stream of graphic violence from violence that goes straight to the bone? How does language make up not only the law, but also unwritten laws?
In Let Them Rot Alenka Zupančič takes up the ancient figure of Antigone and finds a blueprint for the politics of desire. Not desire as consumption, enjoying what is offered, but desire’s oblivion to what came before. Such politics says: “No, this world must end and I will be the embodiment of that end.” This is not self-satisfied destruction for destruction’s sake; it is existence with consequences beyond the predictable. Zupančič asks: “Why desire?” And this question of desire, which may be the only question, takes the form of a no that is also an “I”.
Alenka Zupančič is a Slovenian philosopher and social theorist. She is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School and a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts. She is the author of many books, including What Is Sex? (MIT Press, 2017), The Odd One In: On Comedy(MIT Press, 2008), and Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (Verso, 2000).
“Zupančič’s ideas are fresh, as if they hailed from some open air beyond the clutter of current theoretical quarrels. This brilliant account of Sophocles’s Antigone breaks new ground for philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political and feminist theory...” – Joan Copjec, Brown University
“Writing my book on Antigone, I thought: “There we go, the subject is closed—let’s go to sleep.” And then along came Zupančič with her take and compelled me to rethink everything I did. In other words—and this is difficult for me to say—she is better than me here...” – Slavoj Žižek
2001, German
Softcover, 50 pages, 23 x 17 cm
Published by
Galerie Buchholz / Köln
$48.00 - In stock -
This early artist's publication by the artist Kai Althoff features drawings, photographs and installation views of his exhibition 'Aus Dir' at Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne. The book, entirely designed by the artist, contains pieces of artist-writings in German which parallels in his work of the two installations. Heavily illustrated throughout with Althoff's paintings, drawings and collected photographs.
Kai Althoff (born 1966 in Cologne) is a German visual artist and musician. Borrowing from moments of history, religious iconography, and counter-cultural movements, Althoff creates imaginary environments in which paintings, sculpture, drawing, video, and found objects commingle. Tapping a multitude of sources, from Germanic folk traditions to recent popular culture, from medieval and gothic religious imagery to early modern expressionism, Althoff’s characters inhabit imaginary worlds that serve as allegories for human experience and emotion. His image bank and painterly style also draw on the past, especially early-20th-century German Expressionism, reconfigured by introducing collaged technique.
2024, English
Softcover (flexi-silver mirror, 148 pages, 23 x 17.4 cm
Published by
Prototype Publishing / UK
$40.00 - In stock -
A facsimile edition of Derek Jarman’s sole, early, extremely rare poetry book A Finger in the Fishes Mouth, originally published in 1972.
Heavily illustrated from Jarman’s collection of postcards, the book combines text and visual imagery in a way which foreshadows his subsequent style as an artist and filmmaker. With the majority of the first edition having been destroyed by Jarman, this makes available a missing, significant piece of his oeuvre.
The facsimile retains the book’s original format, with a silver mirror cover, and an image accompanying each poem, printed in a striking green ink. Additional material comes in the form of a Foreword and Afterwords by So Mayer, Tony Peake and Keith Collins.
1964, English
Softcover (w. printed vinyl dust jacket), 60 pages, 23 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Marlborough Fine Art / New York
$35.00 - In stock -
First edition of this exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition that ran April 1964, Marlborough Fine Art, New York. Profusely illustrated throughout in colour and b/w, featuring an introduction by Professor A.M. Hammacher. Includes some color and numerous black and white illustrations. Printed vinyl dust jacket. Features Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck, Vilmos Huszár, Kurt Schwitters, Jean Gorin, Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, John Cecil Stephenson, Marlow Moss, Joost Baljeu, Katarzyna Kobro, Henryk Stażewski, Władysław Strzemiński, Erik Olsen, Charles Biederman, Fritz Glarner, Charmion von Wiegand, et al.
Very Good copy, light wear to vinyl, age.
1993, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 210 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
World Comics / Japan
Kubo Shoten / Japan
$200.00 - In stock -
Very rare original first Japanese book collection of the infamous cult classic eromanga "Bondage Fairies" by Kondom, published by Kubo Shoten way back in 1993. This is the first ever book collecting over 200 pages of the first of the original series from the early 1990s, in the original Japanese language, as they appeared in the pages of Kubo Shoten's Young Lemon magazine for the first time as "Bondage Fairies".
Created by manga artist Teruo Kakuta under the pen name "Kondom", a multilingual pun, meaning "little insect" in Japanese and "condom" in English, Bondage Fairies is an erotic series about highly sexual female forest fairies, who work as police officers protecting the forest, whilst engaging in a wild array of anthropomorphized, inter-species sexual acts. The series began in Japan in 1990 as Insect Hunter, but it was quickly banned from sale by the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance. Under a new title, the manga was serialized in manga magazine Lemon Kids. The series is among the earliest sexually explicit manga (eromanga) commercially translated and published uncensored in the United States where the earliest editions date from 1994 (Venus Press). Eros Comix subsequently published a multi-volume series of the collected Bondage Fairies, and subsequent stories, now all very collectible. Translated to Swedish, German, French, and Italian, Bondage Fairies is one of the most popular underground adult Japanese comics outside Japan.
Near Fine copy in original NF dust jacket.
1994, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 162 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
World Comics / Japan
Kubo Shoten / Japan
$200.00 - In stock -
Very rare original first printing Volume 2 Japanese book collection of the infamous cult classic eromanga "Bondage Fairies" by Kondom, published by Kubo Shoten way back in 1994. Volume 3 of the first ever book collection bringing together over 160 pages of the the original series from the early 1990s, in the original Japanese language, as they appeared in the pages of Kubo Shoten's Young Lemon magazine for the first time as "Bondage Fairies".
Created by manga artist Teruo Kakuta under the pen name "Kondom", a multilingual pun, meaning "little insect" in Japanese and "condom" in English, Bondage Fairies is an erotic series about highly sexual female forest fairies, who work as police officers protecting the forest, whilst engaging in a wild array of anthropomorphized, inter-species sexual acts. The series began in Japan in 1990 as Insect Hunter, but it was quickly banned from sale by the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance. Under a new title, the manga was serialized in manga magazine Lemon Kids. The series is among the earliest sexually explicit manga (eromanga) commercially translated and published uncensored in the United States where the earliest editions date from 1994 (Venus Press). Eros Comix subsequently published a multi-volume series of the collected Bondage Fairies, and subsequent stories, now all very collectible. Translated to Swedish, German, French, and Italian, Bondage Fairies is one of the most popular underground adult Japanese comics outside Japan.
Near Fine copy in original NF dust jacket.
1995, Japanese
Softcover (w. dust jacket), 164 pages, 21 x 14.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by
World Comics / Japan
Kubo Shoten / Japan
$200.00 - In stock -
Very rare original first printing Volume 3 Japanese book collection of the infamous cult classic eromanga "Bondage Fairies" by Kondom, published by Kubo Shoten way back in 1995. Volume 3 of the first ever book collection bringing together over 160 pages of the the original series from the early 1990s, in the original Japanese language, as they appeared in the pages of Kubo Shoten's Young Lemon magazine for the first time as "Bondage Fairies".
Created by manga artist Teruo Kakuta under the pen name "Kondom", a multilingual pun, meaning "little insect" in Japanese and "condom" in English, Bondage Fairies is an erotic series about highly sexual female forest fairies, who work as police officers protecting the forest, whilst engaging in a wild array of anthropomorphized, inter-species sexual acts. The series began in Japan in 1990 as Insect Hunter, but it was quickly banned from sale by the Tokyo Metropolitan Ordinance. Under a new title, the manga was serialized in manga magazine Lemon Kids. The series is among the earliest sexually explicit manga (eromanga) commercially translated and published uncensored in the United States where the earliest editions date from 1994 (Venus Press). Eros Comix subsequently published a multi-volume series of the collected Bondage Fairies, and subsequent stories, now all very collectible. Translated to Swedish, German, French, and Italian, Bondage Fairies is one of the most popular underground adult Japanese comics outside Japan.
Near Fine copy in original NF dust jacket.