World Food Books

Hervé Guibert
Photographien

1993, German
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 140 pages, 29 x 24 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Schirmer & Mosel / Munich

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First hardcover edition of this beautiful collection of French writer Hervé Guibert's photographs, published posthumously by Schirmer & Mosel, Münich, 1993. 125 duotone plates with an accompanying unpublished essay written by Hervé Guibert in 1983. Printed in France.

"Hervé Guibert (1955–1991) recently became posthumously known in Germany as a writer through his book To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, in which he describes the course of his AIDS infection. In France, however, the highly gifted and versatile Hervé Guibert had long been a fixture of Parisian cultural life as a poet and screenwriter—he received a César Award in 1984 for the screenplay of L'Homme blessé—as an astute photo and film critic for Le Monde, and finally as a sensitive and immensely creative photographer.

Hervé Guibert engaged with photography both theoretically and practically from 1977 onwards, the year his first book, La Mort propagande, was published. That same year, he began writing photo and film reviews for Le Monde, a practice he continued until 1985. A year later, in 1978, he took the first photographs of his great-aunts Suzanne and Louise, which formed the basis for a "photo-novel" published in 1980. A major photo exhibition, Le Seul visage, followed in 1981 at the Galerie Agathe Gaillard in Paris; it, too, was accompanied by a book.

Guibert's photographic output grew in tandem with his literary output, which became increasingly autobiographical and rapidly expanded; he published seven books with Gaillard alone before his death at the age of 36.

This volume presents a representative selection of Hervé Guibert's photographs to German audiences for the first time. These are sensitive black-and-white studies, portraits, and still lifes of high poetic content, which do not deny their affinity with the aesthetics of Surrealism and reflect the intelligent care of his texts.

The images are preceded by a previously unpublished essay written by Hervé Guibert in 1983. It deals with photographs taken in the bizarre castle of Prince Palagonia in Sicily, in which Hervé Guibert is the model, subject, and victim."

VG–NF copy in VG dust jacket preserved under mylar wrap.

File under: Hervé Guibert Hervé Guibert Schirmer & Mosel / Munich Eros LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art

Hélène
Edited by Elein Fleiss

1997, English / Japanese
Hardcover, 100 pages, 21.5 x 30.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Rockin' On / Tokyo Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo

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First, only edition of Hélène, the hardcover photobook/catalogue published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Purple magazine co-founder Elein Fleiss at Tokyo gallery THE Deep in 1997. Named after actress and nineties icon Hélène Fillières, this book is the most perfect published time-capsule of what was 90s anti-fashion Paris, and probably the most brilliant fashion photobook of the decade. Published in Japan by Hysteric Glamour and Rockin' On, Hélène is cover-to-cover full-bleed gloss pages of photography by Mark Borthwick, Anette Aurell, Camille Vivier, Christophe Brunnquell, Laetitia Benat, Ronald Stoops, and Anders Edstrom, among others. Only available in Japan when published, and now very rare and sought after. This copy complete with bound-in Hysteric Glamour sticker!

Though she began her career as a curator of art exhibitions, Elein Fleiss founded the seminal Purple Magazine with Olivier Zahm at the age of 24. Purple and Fleiss' other editing/curatorial activities were the primary vehicles for the aesthetics of what became referred to as 1990's anti-fashion. Purple – in its various incantations, Purple Prose, Purple Fashion, Purple Sexe, Purple Journal, etc. – has gone down in publishing history and changed the relationship between art, literature, architecture and fashion, resisting the obvious and the commercial.

Very Good copy. Some light sunning to cover. Sample image only.

File under: Mark Borthwick Anette Aurell Camille Vivier Christophe Brunnquell Laetitia Benat Anders Edstrom Maison Martin Margiela Comme Des Garçons Comme des Garçons Claude Closky Ronald Stoops Elein Fleiss Rockin' On / Tokyo Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo Art Photography Out-of-print / Rare Fashion Group Shows / Collections

Not in Fashion
Photography and Fashion in the 90s

2011, English
Softcover (foldout covers), 320 pages, 30 x 25 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by MMK / Frankfurt am Main Kerber Verlag / Berlin

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Rare first edition of this incredible, highly sought after book documenting the period of 90s fashion photography that has come to be known as anti–fashion. Edited by Susanne Gaensheimer, Sophie von Olfers. Text by Michael Bracewell, Jason Evans, Jule Hillgärtner.

"Fashion photography is about much more than just depicting clothes. Far larger conceptions of glamour, culture, sex and consumption play out every month in two-page advertising spreads in Vogue and W, and in the editorial shoots of Purple and V. Brazenly occupying the fraught overlap between art and commerce, the most provocative fashion photography combines exquisite come-ons with subtle affronts, to convention, to propriety, to our pride. The 1990s constituted an exciting moment in fashion photography, as a generation of practitioners made work that was bluntly physical and brash, celebrating music, subculture and intimacy in the most creative fringes of twenty- and thirty-something life. Not in Fashion collects some of the strongest photographs, campaigns and picture series from magazines of the 1990s—much of which was done by photographers who maintained careers as fine artists while executing editorial and campaign work for some of the industry's leading designers and publications.

This volume includes seductive, challenging work by artists including Vanessa Beecroft, Walter van Beirendonck, Bernadette Corporation, Ayzit Bostan, BLESS, Mark Borthwick, Susan Cianciolo, Maria Cornejo, Corinne Day, Anders Edström, Jason Evans, Helmut Lang, Martin Margiela, M/M (Paris), Cris Moor, Kostas Murkudis, Collier Schorr, Nigel Shafran, Juergen Teller and Wolfgang Tillmans."

Very Good copy with Average cover due to heavy foxing to uncoated stock. Features both front and back foldout photographic gloss inner–covers in good condition, some light wear to extremities of fold–outs. Book block is crisp and content VG. Overall a Good copy.

File under: Vanessa Beecroft Walter van Beirendonck Bernadette Corporation Ayzit Bostan BLESS Mark Borthwick Susan Cianciolo Maria Cornejo Corinne Day Anders Edström Jason Evans Helmut Lang Martin Margiela M/M (Paris) Cris Moor Kostas Murkudis Collier Schorr Nigel Shafran Juergen Teller Wolfgang Tillmans Susanne Gaensheimer Sophie von Olfers Michael Bracewell Jason Evans Jule Hillgärtner MMK / Frankfurt am Main Kerber Verlag / Berlin Textiles Photography Fashion Out-of-print / Rare LGBTQ+ Art

Formless: A User's Guide
by Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind E. Krauss

1997, English
Softcover, 306 pages, 28 x 18.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Zone Books / New York

$160.00 - Out of stock

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Long out–of–print.

"In a work that will become indispensable to anyone seriously interested in modern art, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Krauss convincingly introduce a new constellation of concepts to our understanding of avant-garde and modernist art practices. Formless: A User’s Guide constitutes a decisive and dramatic transformation of the study of twentieth-century culture. Although it has been over sixty years since Georges Bataille undertook his philosophical development of the term informe, only in recent years has the idea of the “formless” been deployed in theorizing and reconfiguring the very field of twentieth-century art. This is partly because that field has most often been crudely set up as a battle between form and content, whereas “formless” constitutes a third term that stands outside the opposition of form and content, outside the binary thinking that is itself formal. In Formless: A User’s Guide, Bois and Krauss, two of the most influential and respected art historians of our time, present a rich and compelling panorama of the formless. They map out its persistence within a history of modernism that has always repressed it in the interest of privileging formal mastery, and they assess its destiny within current artistic production. In the domain of practice, they analyze it as an operational tool, the structural cunning of which has repeatedly been suppressed in the service of a thematics of art. Neither theme nor form, formless is, as Bataille himself expressed it, a “job.” The job of Formless: A User’s Guide is to explore the power of the informe. A stunning new map of twentieth-century art emerges from this innovative reconceptualization and from the brilliantly original analyses of the work of Lucio Fontana, Lygia Clark, Cy Twombly, Mike Kelley, Cindy Sherman, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Dubuffet, Robert Smithson, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Gordon Matta-Clark, among others."

Very Good copy. First 1997 Ed. 2nd 1999 print.

File under: Joseph Beuys Eli Lotar Robert Morris Mike Kelley Jean Fautrier Ed Ruscha Marcel Duchamp Bruce Nauman Jean Arp Jean Arp (Hans Arp) Richard Serra Jackson Pollock Andy Warhol Cy Twombly Lucio Fontana Cindy Sherman Claes Oldenburg Jean Dubuffet Robert Smithson Gordon Matta-Clark Lygia Clark Wols Georges Bataille Michel Leiris André Breton Rosalind E. Krauss Yve-Alain Bois Zone Books / New York Art Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Philosophy Theory / Essay Sculpture / Installation Arte Povera Arte Informale / Haute Pâte / Tachism Out-of-print / Rare Painting Photography Surrealism Pop Art Conceptual Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Comme des Garçons
1981—1986

1986, Japanese
Hardcover (cloth-bound in slip-case), 152 pages, 36.5 x 29 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Chikuma Shobo / Tokyo Comme des Garçons / Tokyo

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One of the most beautiful and sought after fashion photo-books ever published. First 1986 hardcover, slipcased edition of Comme des Garçons 1981—1986. A document of early 1980s Comme through the iconic images of Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Eddy Kohli, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Oliviero Toscani, and Bruce Weber.

Since the inception of Japanese fashion label Comme des Garçons in 1969, founder Rei Kawakubo applied a particular aesthetic to every aspect of Comme des Garçons, extending her vision to the company's packaging, furniture, interior design, graphic design, and publishing, including a selection of some of the fashion world's most visually compelling and challenging books and printed materials.

This wonderful and very iconic collection of photographs presents Rei Kawakubo's groundbreaking, innovative designs from an exciting period of Comme des Garçons history, between 1981 and 1986, as photographed by some of the most important fashion photographers of our time, including Arthur Elgort, Hans Feurer, Eddy Kohli, Peter Lindbergh, Steven Meisel, Paolo Roversi, Oliviero Toscani, and Bruce Weber, among others.

This gorgeous and rare clothbound volume, housed in original printed cardboard slip-case, perfectly captures a very important and exciting moment in the history of fashion, and is considered one of the most-collectable and prized fashion photo-books to come out of the 1980s.

Very Good-Fine copy preserved in Very Good cardboard slipcase with only light tanning / light wear.

File under: Rei Kawakubo Arthur Elgort Hans Feurer Eddy Kohli Peter Lindbergh Steven Meisel Paolo Roversi Oliviero Toscani Bruce Weber Comme des Garçons Chikuma Shobo / Tokyo Comme des Garçons / Tokyo Fashion Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Shigemoto Nobi
New York Anarchy

1983, Japanese / English
Softcover (w. original plastic cover and obi band), 138 pages, 22 x 30 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Asahi Shimbun / Japan

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Rare first edition of this compelling early 1980's photo book of violence and disaffection in American cities from Japanese photographer Shigemoto Nobi, printed by Asahi Shimbun in 1983.

Images of social unrest, gang warfare, prostitution, police precinct lockups, murder... the "poverty of the heart" real people must face behind the facade of America's boasted wealth of economic growth, something Japanese photographer Shigemoto Nobi (b. 1943) first encountered when he went to New York in his twenties to work as a freelance commercial photographer. Despite the implications of the title, Shigemoto Nobi visited and documented not only New York, but also Detroit, Chicago, Hawaii, the US/Mexican border and the Fort Apache Indian reservation, taking images primarily at night. Intense, lurid reportage on life in the United States of America in rich, saturated colour Kodochrome. File alongside Kiyotaka Tsurisaki, Seiji Kurata, or Bruce Davidson's "Subway".

First printing in original protective plastic sleeve with original obi band. Texts in Japanese and English.

Very Good copy with usual light damage/shrinkage to aged original plastic dust jacket cover/obi. Light edge wear.

File under: Shigemoto Nobi Asahi Shimbun / Japan Out-of-print / Rare Photography Japanese Photography Crime / Violence Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Drugs / Psychedelia

Hysteric Fifteen – Destroy All Monsters
by Sue Rynski

2006, English
Hardcover (debossed faux leather bound + 7"), 26 x 23 cm
600 numbered copies,
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / fine
Published by Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo

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Published in 2006 by fashion brand Hysteric Glamor in a numbered edition of 600 copies, bound in padded debossed faux leather hardcover with a 7" record, "the book is a monograph of my late 1970s photographs of my friends, the avant-garde rock group Destroy All Monsters."—Sue Rynski, Detroit photographer. Described by legendary critic Lester Bangs as "anti-rock", Destroy All Monsters was an influential Detroit rock band formed in 1973 by University of Michigan art students Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, legendary femme fatale Niagara, and filmmaker Cary Loren, existing to 1985 with shifting personnel and sporadic performances since. Performing their first concert at a comic book convention in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on New Year's Eve of 1973, the group combined elements of punk, psych, metal and noise rock with a heavy dose of experimentation and performance art, influenced as much by ESP-Disk, Sun Ra and The Velvets, as monster movies and Futurism. The cult group earned a measure of notoriety through their coveted DAM Magazine, also due to members of The Stooges and MC5 joining the band, and Sonic Youth singer/guitarist Thurston Moore compiling a three compact disc set of the group's music in 1994.

"Born in 1954, year of the birth of rock and roll, I grew up immersed in the high energy music of my hometown Detroit. This loud, physical, emotional music took hold and became a part of me."—Sue Rynski

A stunning book published by Hysteric Glamor director Nobuhiko Kitamura, with editorial direction by : Osamu Wataya, Michitaka Ota (Sokyusha), and Koichi Hara. 7" includes the tracks "Rocking the Cradle" and "Little Boyfriend" by Destroy All Monsters.

Near Fine copy.

File under: Destroy All Monsters Sue Rynski Jim Shaw Mike Kelley Cary Loren Niagara Larry Miller Ben Miller Roger Miller Mike (Jett) Powers Ron Asheton Michael Davis The Stooges MC5 Hysteric Glamour / Tokyo Art Out-of-print / Rare Photography Performance / Dance / Theater Sound / Music Painting Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Collage / Mail Art / Xerox Art Objects / Ephemera / A/V

Slideshow 1: "Image Continuum”
By Linda van Deursen

2025, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 16 x 11 cm
Ed. Of 1000,
Published by Applied Work / Tallinn

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In Image Continuum, graphic designer Linda van Deursen speaks on the subject of her own image consumption, and how the process of image editing, selecting and sequencing presents itself in her work and teaching. The book includes contributions by MA students Hanafi Gazali and Laura Martens, who further expand on the topic and ideas introduced by Linda.

“Slideshow” is a new lecture-to-book series inviting graphic designers to share the research, methods, and material processes behind their applied work, positioning their practice as a site of inquiry. Produced within the context of the MA Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts, each talk is published as a standalone volume, accompanied by responses from current students who use writing to engage with the ideas presented. Together, the books reflect the conversations, critical frameworks, and exchanges that define a design school environment—bringing practitioners’ work into dialogue with student perspectives.

Contributors: Hanafi Gazali and Laura Martens
Editors: Alexandra Margetic and Sean Yendrys

File under: Linda van Deursen Linda van Deursen Alexandra Margetic Sean Yendrys Hanafi Gazali Laura Martens Applied Work / Tallinn Fashion Graphic Design / Typography Photography

Daniel Spoerri
I Like Contradictions

2026, English / German
Softcover, 192 pages, 24 x 18 cm
Published by Snoeck / Cologne Sammlung Falckenberg / Hamburg

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The exhibition » I Like Contradictions« at the Sammlung Falckenberg offers a new perspective on the work of Daniel Spoerri (1930- 2024) and the enduring relevance of his artistic thinking. After his first career as a classical dancer, Spoerri co-founded the Nouveaux Réalistes group in Paris in 1960 together with Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, and other fellow artists, evolving into a formative representative of object art. Distancing himself from abstract art and building on the readymades and Neo-Dada of the 1960s, Spoerri created his own art genre with his »snare pictures« and established Eat Art in the 1970s.

In dialogue with works from the Sammlung Falckenberg, the diverse connections between Daniel Spoerri's artistic approach and the consumer-critical and socially critical stances found in the collection unfold. Artists like Dieter Roth or Emmett Williams were companions of Spoerri's during the 1960s and 70s; Gianfranco Baruchello, Öyvind Fahlstorm, and Spoerri exhibited together with the Nouveaux Réalistes for the first time in New York in 1962. Material-aesthetic and conceptual parallels can in turn be found in the work of Mark Dion, Mariella Mosler, Pope.L, Thomas Grünfeld, Cosima von Bonin, or John Miller - for instance, the play with everyday materials typical of Spoerri, the critique of the concept of the artwork, and the ironic handling of the significance of authorship. The works in the Sammlung Falckenberg reflect interdisciplinary interconnections with Spoerri's art, which developed across national boundaries through Fluxus, Nouveau Réalisme, and Conceptual Art right up to the present day.

With works by Daniel Spoerri, Gianfranco Baruchello, Joseph Beuys, John Bock, Birgit Brenner, Christo, Hanne Darboven, Stephan Dillemuth, Nils Norman, Mark Dion, Jimmie Durham, Erro, Öyvind Fahlström, Robert Filliou, Fischli & Weiss, Nan Goldin, Thomas Grünfeld, Richard Hamilton, Egbert Haneke, Marcus Harvey, Horst Hellinger, Georg Herold, Ray Johnson, Mike Kelley, Arthur Köpcke, Nikolaus Lang, Paul McCarthy, Jonathan Meese, Bjarne Melgaard, Vera Mercer, John Miller, Polly Morgan, Mariella Moster, C. O. Paeffgen, Anne & Patrick Poirier, William Pope. L, Robert Rauschenberg, Dieter Roth, Roman Signer, Andreas Slominski, Paul Thek, Nicola Torke, Gavin Turk, Cosima von Bonin, Emmett Williams, Erwin Wurm.

File under: Arthur Køpcke Erró Daniel Spoerri Gianfranco Baruchello Joseph Beuys John Bock Birgit Brenner Christo Hanne Darboven Stephan Dillemuth Nils Norman Mark Dion Jimmie Durham Öyvind Fahlström Robert Filliou Fischli & Weiss Nan Goldin Thomas Grünfeld Richard Hamilton Egbert Haneke Marcus Harvey Horst Hellinger Georg Herold Ray Johnson Mike Kelley Nikolaus Lang Paul McCarthy Jonathan Meese Bjarne Melgaard Vera Mercer John Miller Polly Morgan Mariella Moster C. O. Paeffgen Anne & Patrick Poirier William Pope. L Robert Rauschenberg Dieter Roth Roman Signer Andreas Slominski Paul Thek Nicola Torke Gavin Turk Cosima von Bonin Emmett Williams Erwin Wurm Snoeck / Cologne Sammlung Falckenberg / Hamburg Sculpture / Installation Art Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Fluxus Conceptual Art Photography

Good Vibration
Photographs by Tetsuji Shimizu

1981, Japanese
Softcover (w. vinyl dust jacket + pin-up), unpaginated, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo

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"Bite me. Hate me. Bine me. Fuck me.
Please whip me more strong. One, sir. Two, sir. Three, sir. Hmm ah ha...."
—from the back cover.

Seldom seen, remarkable 1981 Japanese photo book by little known Japanese photographer Tetsuji Shimizu — an immersive exploration of the gay scene in San Francisco in 1980, brilliantly designed by Teruhiko Yumura (King Terri, Terrible Terri, etc.)! Rare even in Japan.

Published by Byakuya Shobo, this glossy, vinyl jacket-bound photo book is similar in format to Seiji Kurata's "Flash Up," published around the same time. While visiting New York, Shimizu was astounded by the sights of Christopher Street, the epicenter of LGBT culture. He traveled to the West Coast through word of mouth and immersed himself in the gay culture there, capturing the night-life of Castro and Folsom Streets with his camera — the leather daddies, the bondage dungeons, the bars, and back at the apartments. The impact of the images was so great that it inspired Shimizu to become a photographer. This is such a unique book that Nobuyoshi Araki said, "As I looked through this photobook, I wanted to become a subject myself."

The book also includes a fold-out pin-up, a chapter of intimate black and white close-up erotic scenes, polaroids and Kodachrome slide photo albums documenting the daily lives of friends in the SF scene — the boyfriends, the queens, the bears, fetish shops, sex toys, poppers and wardrobes, a chapter of reproductions of sex toy catalogues illustrated by the great San Francisco illustrator Rex, plus wild erotic artworks from Martin/Hottman/Teruhiko Yumura, master of the punk manga movement and the heta-uma illustration aesthetic.

Very Good copy in original publishers vinyl jacket. As common with old Japanese books preserved in these original plastic dust jackets, they shrink with age and here it has caused the back cover to partially crease.

File under: Teruhiko Yumura Tetsuji Shimizu Rex Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo LGBTQ+ Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Counterculture Fetishism / BDSM

Purple Prose 1
Automne / Autumn 1992

1992, English / French
Softcover (staple-bound), 64 pages, 24.5 x 19 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Purple Institute / Paris

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The true beginning of Purple — the very rare first issue of Elein Fleiss and Olivier Zahm's Purple Prose, published in 1992. Founded as a reaction against the superficial glamour of the 1980’s, Purple Prose embraced the immediate fanzine aesthetics of what became referred to as 1990's anti-fashion, a far cry from what we now identify with Purple Fashion with.

Purple Prose 1, Automne 1992, features contributions by Dike Blair, Andrea Zittel, Joshua Decter, Henry Bond, Daniel Lemer, Jutta Koether, Andrea Zittel, Roddy Bogawa, Jon Moritsugu, Jacques Boyreau, Jan Avgikos, Martin Kippenberger, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Edgar Heap of Birds, David Robbins, Jean-Christophe Menu, Vitaly Glabel, Kitten (pre—Free Kitten: Kim Gordon of Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore's Julia Cafritz), Patrick Bouchitey, Jean-Luc Vilmouth, François Roche, and many more.

Soon after the birth of Purple Prose, Zahm created spin-off publications like Purple Sexe, Purple Fiction and what we now know and love, Purple Fashion. Zahm aimed at fusing together his two worlds, fashion and art, in creating Purple Fashion.

Before entering the world of fashion, Zahm worked as an art critic with widespread recognition for his work as a curator as well as his participation in over 150 exhibitions featuring international contemporary art. In 1994, Zahm and Fleiss curated “The Winter of Love,” a hit show for the Museum of Modern Art in Paris that they later took to P.S.1 in New York. In responding to the superficial glamour of the 1980s, Zahm co-founded Purple Prose magazine. In the introduction of Purple Anthology, Zahm shares why he chose to create Purple Prose:

"We launched Purple Prose in the early 1990s 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. [..] It would be a form of opposition of our own".

Very Good—Near Fine copy, light wear.

File under: Dike Blair Andrea Zittel Joshua Decter Henry Bond Daniel Lemer Jutta Koether Kim Gordon David Robbins Martin Kippenberger Julia Cafritz Edgar Heap of Birds Roddy Bogawa Jon Moritsugu Jacques Boyreau Olivier Zahm Elein Fleiss Purple Institute / Paris Fashion Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Photography Art Fiction / Poetry Theory / Essay Film / Video Conceptual Art Painting Sculpture / Installation

Seiji Kurata
Flash Up — Street Photo Random Tokyo 1975—1979

1980, English / Japanese
Softcover (w. acetate jacket and obi-strip), 190 pages, 30 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo

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First edition. A seminal Japanese photo book and instant classic upon release, Flash up is one of the most remarkable photographic excursions into the seedy underbelly of 1970s Tokyo. Kurata (b. 1945—2020), one Japan’s formidable contemporary photographers who’s work is often referenced in the same circles as his "Provoke" teachers Daido Moriyama and Nobuyoshi Araki, won the fifth Kimura Ihei Award in 1980 for this, his first book, his acclaimed collection of photographs of creatures of the night — gangsters showing off their full-length tattoos, youth styling themselves after the Hells Angels, self-professed ultra-nationalists from the notorious Black Dragon Society, transvestites drawing in crowds of men, cabaret girls...

"The photographs of Seiji Kurata are striking for their violence. The viewer must be prepared to be hit by his flashgun along with the subjects. ‘Violence’, in this case, is not necessarily invoked by the scenes of blood-shed; rather, it is Kurata’s sharp-shooting ability to stop the flow of time, capture the moment, draw of details we would otherwise never see, then proffer them up before our eyes. Sometimes our response is to avert our eyes for fear of seeing too much. This is not to say that the images are not exaggerated; for after all, people tend only to see what they want to see. If there are those who find Kurata’s photographs ‘ugly’, it can only be said that he has succeeded in paradoxically pointing the finger at them: You who want to avoid ugliness, he says, this is reality and I have cut it out for you. [...] we must admit that the ugliness apparent in these photographs is our ugliness. Our failure to do so simply invites Kurata to deal us an extra-violent blow with his images."—Akira Hasegawa, from the afterword.

Included in Martin Parr & Gerry Badger, The Photobook, Vol. II.

Text in English and Japanese.

Very Good copy, wear and usual shrinkage to publisher's thick acetate dust jacket, VG original metallic obi-strip, Very Good book, light bump to one corner.

File under: Seiji Kurata Akira Hasegawa Byakuya Shobo / Tokyo Japanese Photography Out-of-print / Rare Photography Crime / Violence Counterculture LGBTQ+ Protest / Revolt Transgressive / Visceral / Abject

Collier Schorr: Writing a Letter, Akerman Ballet, Act 1

2026, English
Softcover, 240 pages, 19.5 x 13.9 cm
Published by The Song Cave / New York

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Introduction by Peggy Phelan.

For many years, Collier Schorr has been creating a ballet inspired by Chantal Akerman’s film Je tu il elle. Following the film’s themes of transparency, sexuality, shame, and love, Schorr has directed a piece consisting of videotaped dances in which she includes herself as a character alongside her fellow dancers. “Akerman played herself in Je tu il elle,” she says, “because she knew no actress could be as awkward as she was. I feel the same.”

Incredibly intimate, risky, and questioning aspects of age, gender, and racial norms historically underrepresented in ballet, Schorr wanted “to tell another story, based on the ones that Chantal Akerman had told me, about power and desire and compulsion and essentially free speech in the male-dominated field...” In Writing a Letter: Akerman Ballet, Act 1, Schorr has pulled a large collection of film stills from the first act of this ballet. Published as a stand-alone document of one artist vigorously in conversation with another’s work, it is also an example of the way queer histories can be shared and cared for through adoration, adaptation, and repetition. A heady act of love, in itself.

File under: Collier Schorr Chantal Akerman Chantal Akerman Peggy Phelan The Song Cave / New York Performance / Dance / Theater LGBTQ+ Photography Film / Video

Miroslav Tichý

2010, English
Hardcover (clothbound), 328 pages, 33 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Steidl / Göttingen

$220.00 - Out of stock

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Beautiful first edition of this long out-of-print over-sized hardcover catalogue on the work of Miroslav Tichý. Few stories in the history of photography are as astonishing and as compelling as that of the octogenarian Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý. With crude homemade cameras fashioned out of cardboard and duct tape, Tichý took several thousand pictures of the women of his Moravian hometown of Kyjov throughout the 1960s and '70s. These pictures of women going about their daily business are at once banal and extraordinary, transforming the ordinary moments of work and leisure into small epiphanies. Blurred and off-kilter, his photographs have a striking contemporaneity, resembling the early paintings of Gerhard Richter or the photographs of Sigmar Polke. Printed imperfectly and deliberately battered, they evince a surprising retrograde or even anti-modernist feeling, which, in the context of the Cold War atmosphere of provincial Czechoslovakia, just before and after the liberalizing moment of the Prague Spring (1968), undoubtedly constituted a kind of oblique political provocation, a nose-thumbing response to the progressive realist perfectionism of official Soviet culture.

This major catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same title at the International Center of Photography organized by Chief Curator Brian Wallis. Critical evaluations by Brian Wallis, Roman Buxbaum, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, and Richard Prince introduce more than 250 plates and illustrations.

Very Good copy.

File under: Miroslav Tichý Brian Wallis Roman Buxbaum Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev Richard Prince Steidl / Göttingen Photography Art Out-of-print / Rare Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Miroslav Tichý
Les formes du vrai / Forms of Truth

2011, English / French
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 248 pages, 24 x 30 cm
Published by Kant / Prague

$160.00 - In stock -

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Like the Prague exhibition that provided the opportunity to publish it, this stunning, over-sized hardcover book is the 'explosive' result of the meeting between two personalities with a heretical reputation: the great photographer Miroslav Tichý and the former situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti. Both are better known internationally than they are in the Czech Republic. Their paths were destined to cross - simply for the originality and radical nature of their approach to life. Tichý's work inspired Sanguinetti to make critical and riveting insights into the art of our age. While his comments may fuel polemical debate, they cannot leave the reader indifferent. The photographs by Tichý that are being presented for the first time in this book and at the City Gallery Prague represent a strict selection that prioritises the eloquence of symbols that pervade Tichý's work and which are, according to Sanguinetti, the key to his art.

Lavishly illustrated in colour throughout with all texts in English and French.

Miroslav Tichy (1926-2011)
After studying at the Academy of Arts in Prague (1945-48), Miroslav Tichy withdrew to a life in isolation in his hometown of Kyjov, Moravia, Czech Republic. In the late 1950s he quit painting and became a distinctive Diogenes-like figure. From the end of the 1960s he began to take photographs mainly of local women, in part with cameras he made by hand. He later mounted them on hand-made frames, added finishing touches with pencil, and thus moved them from photography in the direction of drawing. The result are works of strikingly unusual formal qualities, which disregard the rules of conventional photography. They constitute a large oeuvre of poetic, dreamlike views of feminine beauty in a small town under the Czechoslovak Communist regime.

File under: Miroslav Tichý Gianfranco Sanguinetti Kant / Prague Photography Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 2, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 2 includes photographic features by Yasuhiro Yoshioka and Yoshihiro Tatsuki, the artwork of French decorator of department store mannequins and surrealist Sunday painter Clovis Trouille, Venus in Furs erotic photo shoot by Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Yokoo Tadanori, Hans Bellmer, Leonor Fini, Alberto Martini, Félicien Rops, Rene Magritte, an incredible feature "Machine for Murder" with art by Hiroshi Nakamura, Tomi Ungerer, Koichi Tanigawa, Osamu Tsukasa, Tatsuo Ikeda, Marcel Duchamp, Seiichi Horiuchi, and others, an article on the erotica of Ukiyo-e with a fold-out colour three panel poster, the fully illustrated museum supplement on Demonology by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history, texts by Apollinaire, Burroughs, Mutsuo Takahashi, articles on laws pertaining to homosexuality, Kama Sutra, shoe fetishism, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good-Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear. Some rippling to back cover.

File under: Yoshihiro Tatsuki Clovis Trouille Tadanori Yokoo Yasuhiro Yoshioka Yokoo Tadanori Hans Bellmer Leonor Fini Alberto Martini Félicien Rops Rene Magritte Hiroshi Nakamura Tomi Ungerer Koichi Tanigawa Osamu Tsukasa Tatsuo Ikeda Marcel Duchamp Seiichi Horiuchi Yasuhiro Ishimoto Guillaume Apollinaire William S. Burroughs Georges Bataille Mutsuo Takahashi Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Periodicals Eros LGBTQ+ Art Surrealism Counterculture Japanese Photography Photography Out-of-print / Rare Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Theory / Essay Occult / Esoterica Fetishism / BDSM Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Philosophy Fiction / Poetry Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Le Sang et La Rose No. 3, 1969

1969, Japanese / French
Softcover, 232 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - In stock -

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 3 (with cover by Bronzino, 1554) includes full-colour photographic feature by Kishin Shinoyama ("Virgin In Uniform" featuring models/artists Angela Asaoka, Akaji Maro, Yoko Ashikawa) and beautiful Shomei Tomatsu photo feature ("Scoptophilia"), the artwork of the great French cross-dressing painter-photographer Pierre Molinier, texts by Jirō Kawamura, Yumiko Kurahashi, Taruho Inagaki ("Memories of Hemorrhoids or "New Tsurezuregusa"), Akiyuki Nosaka ("Dear Penis, Goodbye"), Minoru Minamihara ("The Mystic Thought of Love in the Case of Jakob Böhme"), Takiji Kobayashi, The Fictitious Garden of Babylon by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, Tsunekazu Murata ("Witch's Ax : Concerning Heresy in Medieval Europe"), translation of Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis" illustrated by Franco Gentilini, recent research on homosexuality by film critic Jin'ichi Uekusa, Kama Sutra, more Gay (Danshoku) Japanese Theater history, Marquise de Blancvilliers by Koji Nakata, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Very Good copy. Light general tanning/wear.

File under: Kishin Shinoyama Shomei Tomatsu Pierre Molinier Franco Gentilini Yokoo Tadanori Angela Asaoka Akaji Maro Yoko Ashikawa Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Franz Kafka Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Jun’nosuke Yoshiyuki Kôichi Iijima Jûrô Kara Ikuya Kato Minoru Yoshioka Ryûichi Tamura The Marquis de Sade Georges Bataille Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Jirō Kawamura Yumiko Kurahashi Akiyuki Nosaka Minoru Minamihara Jakob Böhme Takiji Kobayashi Tsunekazu Murata Jin'ichi Uekusa Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Eros Fetishism / BDSM Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Japanese Photography Surrealism Philosophy Theory / Essay Fiction / Poetry Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Ancient / Medieval / Gothic Art Counterculture Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées LGBTQ+ Occult / Esoterica Photography Sociology / Politics

Le Sang et La Rose No. 1, 1968

1968, Japanese / French
Softcover, 228 pages, 23 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo

$110.00 - Out of stock

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Revue de Érotologie, Homosexualité, Sadisme, Masochisme, Fétischisme, Narcissime, Infantilisme, Magie, Occultisme, Humour Noir, Complexe Psychisme. What more could you ask for? Le Sang Et La Rose is a masterpiece of the Japanese underground. A groundbreaking, powerful, yet short-lived Japanese arts and literary journal published in Tokyo from late 1968—mid 1969, published in a total of four luxurious, now collectible, volumes. The first three issues were edited by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), a legendary, controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade, and specialist in medieval demonology. The importance of this magazine to the Japanese avant-garde and radical culture cannot be overstated.

Born from a period of political, social and economical turmoil in Japan, Le Sang Et La Rose may be understood as a emblematic distillation and product of the late ‘60s student rebellion and anti-authoritarian underground culture. Wilfully politically subversive, the publication drew upon a vast range of perspectives - from criticism, literature, obscure esoteric sciences, art, eroticism, radical avant-garde and a historical-rooted Japanese counterculture; featuring literature, theory, art, photography, illustration and graphic design from the most innovative and subversive Japanese and international (predominately French) artists, authors and critics, spanning the themes above. As instigator, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa in effect formulated the magazine’s design to be a spiritual and political operative that would weaponize its readers minds. This stance was made clear in the 1969 manifesto text — "My 1969" — in which Shibusawa discuss' how he perceived the ‘60s as being the age of ideas, ideas as weapons, and outlined a distain towards systems of power, moralism, State oppression, sanitised and harmless liberalism, dogmatic academic sciences and an outright distrust for ideological, progressive literary scholars who advocate "freedom of expression", but have never caused friction with the judicial power. The magazine sketched out an aim to push towards a new kind of personal freedom, intellect, autonomy and moral compass. Here, the concept of ‘erotism’ — as discussed by Georges Bataille in his highly influential 1957 book "Erotism: Death and Sensuality" — acts as a critical force. 

Issue no. 1 (1968) sets the scene perfectly, opening with Japanese author Yukio Mishima depicted as Saint Sebastian by photographer Kishin Shinoyama in a pictorial feature "Les Morts Masculines", a photographic homage to Georges Bataille that also features the photography of Eikoh Hosoe, Ikkō Narahara, Masahisa Fukase, and Osamu Hayasaki, with models including Butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, actor Akira Mita, author Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, actor Jin Nakayama, playwright Jūrō Kara, and others. Other features include " All Japanese are Perverse" — stories by Japanese writers including Yukio Mishima, Taruho Inagaki, Yutaka Haniya, Shinji Sōya; Henry Miller's letters to Anais Nin; a colour gallery of artwork by Belgian painter Paul Delvaux; articles on Vampire fantasy in the arts (including many original illustrations; Witches (illustrated by James Ensor); Oriental Eros, Ancient Indian poetry; Kama Sutra; female bi-sexuality; the history of gay (Danshoku) theatre in Japan; the full-colour art gallery "Masturbation Machine", featuring avant-garde artists Natsuyuki Nakanishi, Masuo Ikeda, Setsu Nagasawa, Carlos Marchioli, Kuniyoshi Kaneko, Masakazu Horiuchi, Tadanori Yokoo, Koji Suzuki, Tommy Ungerer; the fully illustrated museum supplement "Pain and Pleasure : On Torture" by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa with artworks throughout history; pornographic stories by Guillaume Apollinaire and Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne (who coined the term "Pornographer"); fiction by Pierre Morion (pseudo. André Pieyre de Mandiargues); critic Jin'ichi Uekusa on the controversial writings of Roger Peyrefitte, illustrations by Ernst, Bellmer, Labisse, Fini, Lam, and much more.

Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (1928—1987), was a well-known and controversial Japanese novelist, art critic, and translator of French writers such as Jean Cocteau, Georges Bataille and Marquis de Sade. In 1960 he and his publisher, Kyōji Ishii, were trialled for public obscenity over the publishing of Shibusawa's translation of de Sade's Juliette into the Japanese language. What was to be known as the "Sade Trial" took 9 years and although many of Japan's leading authors testified for the defense, in 1969 the Japanese Supreme Court ruled them guilty and charged. This did not deter Shibusawa, whose essays on black magic, demonology and eroticism were popular reading in Japan, and in 1981 he was awarded the 9th Izumi Kyoka Literature Prize.

Good copy with some spine damage and tanning/wear.

File under: Max Ernst Léonor Fini Felix Labisse Wilfredo Lam Hans Bellmer Paul Delvaux Natsuyuki Nakanishi Masuo Ikeda Setsu Nagasawa Carlos Marchioli Kuniyoshi Kaneko Masakazu Horiuchi Tadanori Yokoo Koji Suzuki Tommy Ungerer Tatsumi Hijikata Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Eikoh Hosoe Ikkō Narahara Masahisa Fukase Osamu Hayasaki Kishin Shinoyama James Ensor Tatsuhiko Shibusawa Jin'ichi Uekusa Roger Peyrefitte Yukio Mishima Taruho Inagaki Yutaka Haniya Shinji Sōya Henry Miller Suehiro Tanemura Guillaume Apollinaire Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne Jūrō Kara Tensei Shuppan / Tokyo Fiction / Poetry Japanese Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Photography Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Fetishism / BDSM LGBTQ+ Eros Ero Guro / Erotic / Grotesque Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Counterculture Surrealism Symbolism / Decadence / Fin de siècle Transgressive / Visceral / Abject Ancient / Medieval / Gothic

Rosemary Doll
Poetry by Kazuko Shiraishi; Photography by Osamu Nishikawa

1976, Japanese
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), unpaginated, 19.6 x 12.3 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by Sanrio / Tokyo

$220.00 - In stock -

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Very rare copy of Rosemary Doll, an enchanting 1976 photo-storybook from Sanrio’s legendary early publishing era. This exquisite pocket-sized volume weaves a dreamy, melancholic tapestry around the delicate bond between a girl named Rose and her doll, Marie. Brought to life through the hauntingly beautiful doll artistry of Rune Naito (iconic illustrator, doll designer and important contributor to Barazoku, the first commercially circulated gay magazine in Japan), the atmospheric, soft-focus photography of Osamu Nishikawa, and the avant-garde, evocative poetry of the modernist, outsider, "VOU"–poet Kazuko Shiraishi ("the Allen Ginsberg of Japan"–Kenneth Rexroth), the book stands as a masterpiece of Japanese Mid-Showa aestheticism. Long out of print and highly sought after by collectors, it remains a mesmerizing artifact of pure nostalgia, capturing the fleeting, surreal innocence of girlhood and doll-centric fantasy.

Bound in hardcovers, this copy have a couple of pages with marker scribbles, one prominently, oddly, over the doll. Otherwise Very Good copy.

File under: Rune Naito Osamu Nishikawa Kazuko Shiraishi Sanrio / Tokyo Out-of-print / Rare Japanese Photography Photography Poetry

Rear View
Nick Tosches

1981, English
Softcover, 96 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Delilah Books / New York

$140.00 - In stock -

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First 1981 edition of Rear View, Nick Tosches’s superb photo-essay homage to the bottom in all it's splendor, lavishly illustrated with photography by Jeff Dunas, Bob Guccione, Geoff Howes, Stan Malinowski, Donald Milne, Siwer Ohlsson, Peter Vann, Carl Wachter, Harvey Wang, Jacky Winter, Zox. "In light of the designer jeans phenomenon, America's fascination with and exploitation of the derriere is examined in text and photographs". Features designer jeans by Jordache, Zena, Calvin Klein, Jesse Jeans, Sergio Valente. Art direction by Horst Weber. A now cult classic of the era.

Good—Very Good copy with some geenral light wear to boards/extremities.

File under: Jeff Dunas Bob Guccione Geoff Howes Stan Malinowski Donald Milne Siwer Ohlsson Peter Vann Carl Wachter Harvey Wang Jacky Winter Zox Nick Tosches Delilah Books / New York Eros Photography Out-of-print / Rare

Plexus 17
October 1968

1968, French
Softcover, 162 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$50.00 - In stock -

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Issue 17 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 17, October 1968. Cover by Gilles Rimbault. Features a gallery of art by Gilles Rimbault, Didier Moreau, Georges Wolinski, photography by Emil Cadoo, actress Geneviève Grad, Anton LaVey, Emmanuelle Arsan, Yves de Saint-Agnes, Jacques Sternberg, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age, small sticker damage to lower cover (sample image only)

File under: Georges Wolinski Gilles Rimbault Didier Moreau Emil Cadoo Geneviève Grad Emmanuelle Arsan Yves de Saint-Agnes Jacques Sternberg Anton LaVey Planète / Paris Periodicals Art Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Counterculture Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 29
November 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 130 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$50.00 - In stock -

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Issue 29 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 28, November 1969. Cover by Jean Coulot. Features a gallery of art by Jean Coulot, Raymond Bertrand, Tiger Tateishi, actress/model Elsa Martinelli, Pieyre de Mandiargues, Emmanuelle Arsan, André Guillois, and article on Hitler illustrated by Gérard Gachet, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age, small sticker damage to lower cover (sample image only)

File under: Gérard Gachet Raymond Bertrand Tiger Tateishi Elsa Martinelli Jean Coulot Pieyre de Mandiargues Emmanuelle Arsan André Guillois Planète / Paris Counterculture Out-of-print / Rare Periodicals Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Art Photography Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica Film / Video Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 26
July 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 144 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$45.00 - In stock -

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Issue 26 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 26, July 1969. Cover by Roman Cieślewicz. Features a gallery of art by Claudine Wick, Georges Wolinski, an "unprecedented document on homosexuality" an investigation by Pierre Hahn featuring contributions by Roger Peyrefitte and Michel Butor (writers), Claude Dumezil (psychoanalyst), Daniel Guérin (sociologist), Marc Oraison (priest), Roger Bastide (ethno-sociologist), André Baudry (director of "Arcadie"), Daniel Guérin, Jacques Sternberg, Hair, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Roman Cieślewicz André Baudry Claudine Wick Georges Wolinski Roger Peyrefitte Michel Butor Claude Dumezil Daniel Guérin Marc Oraison Roger Bastide André BaudryDaniel Guérin Jacques Sternberg Pierre Hahn Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Counterculture Art Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Eros Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Photography Film / Video Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Occult / Esoterica LGBTQ+ Drugs / Psychedelia

Plexus 30
December 1969

1969, French
Softcover, 130 pages, 20 x 17.8 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by Planète / Paris

$40.00 - In stock -

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Issue 30 of Plexus, an avant-garde French magazine published in Paris from 1966-1970, created as the companion publication to fantastical realist magazine Planète by prominent figures French journalist and author Louis Pauwels and fantastique fiction author Jacques Sternberg. Born from the ashes of surrealism into it's cultivated counterculture and subtitled "the uninhibited magazine", Plexus blended a psychedelic mix of erotica, fantasy, philosophy, psychedelia, literature, esoterica, filmmaking, science fiction, satirical cartoons and more. Only 37 issues total were published during its short four year run, but it made a big splash, even being prohibited to minors in 1967 after just one year of publication for its “pornographic content.” Each issue featured striking cover artwork by some of the most prominent artists of the period, along with galleries of erotic artworks, historical and contemporary – often seen only in the pages of Plexus.

Plexus, issue 30, December 1969. Cover by Bonneville. Features a gallery of art by Max Savy, the first ever pornography fair in Copenhagen, Contemporary art and the sexual revolution (Niki de Saint Phalle, Mel Ramos, Alina Szapocznikow, Martial Raysse, Roy Lichtenstein, Christo, Tom Wesselmann, Yves Klein, David Hockney, Richard Lindner, Bernard Rancillac, James Rosenquist, Larry Rivers, etc. by Pierre Restany, French author Catherine de Prémonville, Edgar Morin, and so much more.

VG copy, light wear/age.

File under: Catherine de Prémonville Edgar Morin Max Savy Alina Szapocznikow Niki de Saint Phalle Martial Raysse Christo Yves Klein David Hockney Richard Lindner James Rosenquist Larry Rivers Roy Lichtenstein Tom Wesselmann Pierre Restany Jacques Sternberg Catherine de Prémonville Edgar Morin Planète / Paris Periodicals Out-of-print / Rare Eros Counterculture Drugs / Psychedelia Weird / Speculative / Science Fiction Art Brut / Folk / Visionary / Fantastic Art Illustration / Graphic Art / Bandes Dessinées Film / Video Photography Occult / Esoterica Philosophy Sociology / Politics Nouveau Réalisme / Zero / Kinetic Pop Art