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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Interested in selling your old books, catalogues, journals, magazines, comics, fanzines, ephemera? We are always looking for interesting, unusual and out-of-print books to buy. We only buy books in our fields of interest and specialty, and that we feel we can resell.
We base these prices on desirability, market value, in-print prices, condition and our current stock levels. We offer cash, store credit, and can take stock on consignment. All
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.
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.
2017, English
Softcover, 60 pages, 21.5 x 13.5 cm
Published by
Amphetamine Sulphate / Austin
$25.00 - In stock -
English pioneer of power electronics, who formed the band Consumer Electronics in 1982 at the age of 14. He joined the group Whitehouse, led by William Bennett, in 1983. After a nine-year hiatus starting in 1984, Best rejoined and remained with the group until departing again in 2008.
2008, English
Softcover, 368 pages, 12.9 x 19.6 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Penguin Books / Australia
$12.00 - In stock -
The collected fiction of "one of the most original imaginations in modern Europe"—Cynthia Ozick
Bruno Schulz's untimely death at the hands of a Nazi stands as one of the great losses to modern literature. During his lifetime, his work found little critical regard, but word of his remarkable talents gradually won him an international readership. This volume brings together his complete fiction, including three short stories and his final surviving work, Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass. Illustrated with Schulz's original drawings, this edition beautifully showcases the distinctive surrealist vision of one of the twentieth century's most gifted and influential writers.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Translated by Celina Wieniewska
Foreword by Jonathan Safran Foer
Introduction by David Goldfarb
Very Good copy, light wear, creasing.
2022, English
Softcover, 144 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by
Wakefield Press / Cambridge
$34.00 - In stock -
A disorienting, de Chirico-esque detective tale of curio shops and eerie antiquities, penned in France's postwar trauma A traveling businessman decides to tarry in an unnamed city, dons a new name and profession on a whim, and rents a room in a hotel on an island at the city's edge. As he wanders through the streets of unvisited storefronts and offices, he encounters a strange constellation of characters: a sinister night watchman; his spiritual half-brother, the "professor"; and a mute beauty who quickly obsesses him. They in turn lead the narrator into labyrinths of crowded curio shops and secondhand furnishers where the secrets of the island lie buried behind armoires and delirium. As the narrator pieces together the drama at the heart of the abandoned quarter, he discovers missing elements to his own biography and the role he is to play as witness to tragedy. Marcel Béalu's novella, written in the 1940s but not published until 1954, peels away an oneiric banality to reveal doubled lives and secret stories. The Impersonal Adventure utilizes a dreamlike logic to translate postwar trauma, urban devastation and anxiety into a tale that unfolds in the empty streets and bric-a-brac shops of a de Chirico painting.
Marcel Béalu (1908-93) was a French poet and novelist who drew inspiration from German Romanticism and French Surrealism, but avoided schools of thought and autobiography. His work was distinct for its dreamlike qualities and has established him as a master of the French fantastique. He made his living as a hat maker (when he first met the poet Max Jacob, who took him under his wing), an antiques dealer, and then as a bookseller.
Introduction by George MacLennan.
2022, English
Softcover, 224 pages, 13.5 x 20.3 cm
Published by
Wakefield Press / Cambridge
$36.00 - In stock -
Exquisitely crafted essays on medieval criminal slang, ancient Greek prostitution, laughter, anarchy and more from the endlessly influential Marcel Schwob.
"All over the world," wrote Jorge Luis Borges, "there are devotees of the writer Marcel Schwob who constitute little secret societies." Spicilege, Schwob's last book published under his name, constitutes the handbook to these societies--to Schwob's work, to himself as erudite scholar and author, and to the twilight of the era of French Symbolism. Schwob was, as Paul Léautaud described him, a "living library," and the critical biographies gathered in the essays of Spicilege display a few of the volumes in that library: his groundbreaking research on François Villon (work that remains a cornerstone to our knowledge of Villon), his passion for Robert Louis Stevenson and his encounters with such less-remembered writers as George Meredith. But it is the carefully developed ideas in these essays and the eccentric yet thorough scholarship that draws them together that are of particular interest today: the understanding of criminal slang in the Middle Ages; the study of prostitution in ancient Greece; the folklore inspired by a Flaubert story; a complex critique of individuality that effectively laid the groundwork for Jarry's "pataphysics"; as well as ruminations on perversity, laughter, biography, love, terror and pity, and art and anarchy.
Marcel Schwob (1867-1905) was a scholar of startling breadth, an incomparable storyteller and a secret influence on generations of writers, from Apollinaire and Borges to Roberto Bolaño and J. Rodolfo Wilcock.
Translated by Alex Andriesse.
2022, English
Softcover, 160 pages, 11.4 x 17.8 cm
Published by
Wakefield Press / Cambridge
$32.00 - In stock -
The archetypal Symbolist novel, and a gorgeous tapestry of death and melancholy, Bruges-la-Morte was also the first work of fiction to employ photographs in the style of Breton, Drndic and Sebald.
A widower, Hugues Viane, takes refuge in the decay of Bruges, living among the relics of his dead wife as he transforms his home and the very city he inhabits into her spatial embalmment. Spinning out his existence in a mournful, silent labyrinth of entombed streets and the cold arteries of canals, Viane takes comfort in his narcissistic delirium, until his world is shaken by the appearance of his wife's doppelganger: a young dancer encountered in the street, whose appearance conjures a sequence of events that will introduce the specter of reality into his ritualist dream-state to disastrous effect.
The archetype of the Symbolist novel, Bruges-la-Morte, first published in 1892, remains Georges Rodenbach's most famous work; it has seen numerous cinematic and operatic adaptations, and inspired the source material for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. It was also a precursor to such authors as André Breton and W.G. Sebald in being the first novel to employ photographs as illustrations--to allow readers, as Rodenbach put it, to "be subject to the presence of the town, feel the contagion of the neighboring waters, sense in their turn the shadow of the high towers reaching across the text."
Georges Rodenbach (1855-98) was one of the major figures of Belgian Symbolism, an essential bridge between the Belgian and Parisian literary scenes, and a friend and colleague of Verhaeren, Maeterlinck, Mallarmé and Huysmans. He was the author of four novels, eight collections of verse and numerous short stories, plays and critical works.
1989, English
Softcover, 300 pages, 17 x 10.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Popular Library / New York
$70.00 - Out of stock
First edition of Adulthood Rites, the second novel in Octavia E. Butler's Xenogenesis trilogy, published in 1989.
From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction.
In the future, nuclear war has destroyed nearly all humankind. An alien race intervenes, saving the small group of survivors from certain death. But their salvation comes at a cost.
The Oankali are able to read and mutate genetic code, and they use these skills for their own survival, interbreeding with new species to constantly adapt and evolve. They value the intelligence they see in humankind but also know that the species-rigidly bound to destructive social hierarchies-is destined for failure. They are determined that the only way forward is for the two races to produce a new hybrid species - and they will not tolerate rebellion.
Akin looks like an ordinary human child. But as the first true human-alien hybrid, he is born understanding language, then starts to form sentences at two months old. He can see at a molecular level and kill with a touch. More powerful than any human or Oankali, he will be the architect of both races' future. But before he can carry this new species into the stars, Akin must reconcile with his own heritage in a world already torn in two.
Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the best-known among the few African-American women in the field. She won both Hugo and Nebula awards. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant.
Very Good copy of the 1989 first edition.
1984, Japanese
Softcover, 100 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Starlog / Japan
$60.00 - Out of stock
Scarce Japanese edition of Starlog magazine, February 1984, with cover feature on French fantasy illustrator Jean Giraud (Moebius), including special fold-out portfolio of his artwork. Also features a large colour illustrated article on 1984 Japanese science fiction film directed by Sakyo Komatsu and Koji Hashimoto, Bye-Bye Jupiter, a heavily-illustrated article on "The Cosmic Terror" in science-fiction film and books, the complete episode guide/hand-book to The Twilight Zone, Illustrated guide to "SF Gals : Heroines of Science Fiction movies", illustrated collection of Ace Double SF novels, SFX section (Godzilla), Star Trek, reviews of audio, video, books, comics, anime, news, reports, community, more..... Heavy illustrated throughout.
Good-VG copy.
1984, Japanese
Softcover (staple-bound), 92 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Starlog / Japan
$60.00 - Out of stock
Japanese edition of Starlog magazine, June issue 1984, with cover feature on French fantasy illustrator Philippe Druillet (b. 1944), including colour fold-out gallery of his work, plus an illustrated history. Also features a large colour illustrated article on the Zoology of illustrator/author Dougal Dixon and his world "After Man", the films of John Carpenter, Brainstorm, Ghostbusters, The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak, Indiana Jones, The Ice Pirates, Super Girl, news, reviews, tid-bits, reports and lots more. Heavy illustrated throughout.
Good-VG copy.
1986, Japanese
Softcover, 104 pages, 28 x 21 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Starlog / Japan
$80.00 - Out of stock
Scarce Japanese edition of Starlog magazine, October 1986, with cover (front and back) feature on James Cameron's 1986 science fiction film Aliens, with a lavishly illustrated section dedicated to the film and its making, including photographic fold-outs, stills, behind-the-scenes imagery, reviews, biblio, vehicles, weapons, cast, staff, etc.. Also features 2 Starlog "Special Book" sections dedicated to Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and Highlander (1986), a great photo-comic of Raw Deal (excellent John Irvin action film from 1986 starring Arnold Schwarzenegger), Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival 1986 (featuring The Last Wave, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Toxic Avenger, Eyes of Fire, Poltergeist 2, Terrorvision, Big Trouble in Little China, Critters, Re-Animator, Zone Troopers, etc.), illustrated interview with Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, The Hitcher, etc.), illustrated interview with anime legend Hayao Miyazaki, illustrated article on The Prisoner (1967) television series, SFX section, reviews of audio, video, books, comics, anime, Animation special, news, reports, community, more..... Heavy illustrated throughout.
Good-VG copy.
1993, English
Softcover (staple-bound), 32 pages, 22.5 x 22.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Seibu / Tokyo
$200.00 - Out of stock
The exceptionally rare and unique Japanese-only catalogue, The Strange Objects of David Cronenberg's Desire, published in 1993 on the occasion of an exhibition of drawings, objects and creatures from the films of master Canadian film director and king of body horror, David Cronenberg (b. 1943). This catalogue was only available at the exhibition itself, held at The Seibu Department Store, Shibuya, March 11 — 23, 1993, in conjunction with a retrospective of his films. A sign on the exhibition door warned, “the artistic vision documented in this exhibit strikes at the core of human fears and fantasies. Enter at your own risk. We warn you that some visitors may find these objects disturbing.” Curated by Ontario's Fern Bayer, the exhibition gathered together the drawings and objects created by various special effects artists that featured in the legendary films The Fly (1986), Shivers (1975), Scanners (1980), Videodrome (1982), Dead Ringers (1988), and Naked Lunch (1991). With all exhibited pieces detailed and illustrated in full-colour, alongside film stills of the pieces in action, behind the scenes shots, filmography, biography, etc. this is a rare treasure for any fan of Cronenberg, prop design, or horror SFX in general. Highly recommended.
Very Good — Fine copy.
2012, English
Softcover, 360 pages, 19.2 x 22.6 cm
Published by
FAB Press / UK
$49.00 - Out of stock
House of Psychotic Women is an autobiographical exploration of female neurosis in horror and exploitation films. Anecdotes and memories interweave with film history, criticism, trivia and confrontational imagery to create a reflective personal history and examination of female madness, both onscreen and off.
Cinema is full of neurotic personalities, but few things are more transfixing than a woman losing her mind onscreen. Horror as a genre provides the most welcoming platform for these histrionics: crippling paranoia, desperate loneliness, masochistic death-wishes, dangerous obsessiveness, apocalyptic hysteria. Unlike her male counterpart - 'the eccentric' - the female neurotic lives a shamed existence, making these films those rare places where her destructive emotions get to play.
Named after the U.S.-retitling of Carlos Aured's Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN is an examination of these characters through a daringly personal autobiographical lens.
This sharply-designed book with a 32-page full-colour section is packed with rare stills, posters, pressbooks and artwork that combine with family photos and artifacts to form a titillating sensory overload, with a filmography that traverses the acclaimed and the obscure in equal measure. Films covered include The Entity, The Corruption of Chris Miller, Singapore Sling, 3 Women, Toys Are Not for Children, Repulsion, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, The Haunting of Julia, Secret Ceremony, Cutting Moments, Out of the Blue, Mademoiselle, The Piano Teacher, Possession, Antichrist and hundreds more!
God, this woman can write, with a voice and intellect that's so new. The truth in the most deadly unique way I've ever read. - Ralph Bakshi, director of Fritz the Cat, Heavy Traffic, Fire and Ice, etc.
Fascinating, engaging and lucidly written: an extraordinary blend of deeply researched academic analysis and revealing memoir. - Iain Banks, author of The Wasp Factory
Film index: Alice, Sweet Alice; All the Colors of the Dark; Alucarda; Anima persa; Antichrist; Asylum; The Attic; Audition; Autopsy; The Baby; Bad Dreams; Bad Guy; Bas-fonds; Bedevilled; The Beguiled; La Belle Bête; The Bird with the Crystal Plumage; Black Narcissus; Black Swan; The Blood Spattered Bride; The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll; Born Innocent; Boy Meets Girl; The Brave One; The Bride; The Brood; Burnt Offerings; Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker; Can Go Through Skin; A Candle for the Devil; Carrie; La casa muda; Cat People; La cérémonie; Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things; Christiane F.; The Collector; The Corruption of Chris Miller; Les cousines; "Criminally Insane"; The Curse of the Cat People; Cutting Moments; Daddy; Dead Creatures; Defenceless: A Blood Symphony; Dementia; Descent; The Devil's Widow; The Devils; Diabel; Die! Die! My Darling!; The Dinner Party; Dirty Weekend; Dr. Jekyll and His Women; Don't Deliver Us from Evil; Don't Look Now; Don't Torture a Duckling; Doppelganger; Dracula's Daughter; Dream Home; The Entity; The Escapees; Eyes of a Stranger; Fatal Attraction; Feed; Five Across the Eyes; Footprints; Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion; Four Flies on Grey Velvet; Freeze Me; The Frightened Woman; Frightmare; Funeral Home; Gently Before She Dies; The Geography of Fear; The Girl Next Door; The Glass Ceiling; Goodbye Gemini; A Gun for Jennifer; Handgun; Happy Birthday to Me; Hard Candy; The Haunting (1963); The Haunting (2009); The Haunting of Julia; Haute tension; Heavenly Creatures; The Honeymoon Killers; A Horrible Way to Die; I Never Promised You a Rose Garden; Images; In My Skin; The Innocents; Inside; The Isle; Julie Darling; Kichiku; The Killer Nun; Kissed; Knife of Ice; The Ladies Club; The Last Exorcism; The Legend of Lylah Clare; The Legend of the Wolf Woman; Let's Scare Jessica to Death; A Lizard in a Woman's Skin; Love Me Deadly; The Loved Ones; Macabre; The Mad Room; Mademoiselle; Madhouse (1974); Madhouse (1981); Madness; The Mafu Cage; Man, Woman and Beast; Marnie; Martyrs; Masks; May; Misery; Morris County; Morvern Callar; Mother's Day; Ms.45; Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly; Nabi: The Butterfly; Neighbor; Neither the Sea Nor the Sand; Nekromantik; Nekromantik 2; Next of Kin; The Night Porter; A Night to Dismember; Nightbirds; Nightmares; La nuit des traquées; The Other Hell; The Other Side of the Underneath; Out of the Blue; Paranoia; Paranormal Activity; The Perfume of the Lady in Black; Persona; Phenomena; The Piano Teacher; Pigs; Play Misty for Me; Possession; Pretty Poison; Prey; Psycho Girls; The Rapture; The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!; Rebecca; Red Desert; Red Sun; Red White & Blue; The Reincarnation of Peter Proud; Repulsion; Road to Salina; Roman's Bride; Santa Sangre; Schizo; Scissors; Scream 4; Séance on a Wet Afternoon; Secret Ceremony; The Secret Life of Sarah Sheldon; Shock; Singapore Sling; Sinner; Sisters (1973); Sisters (2006); Slaughter Hotel; The Snake Pit; Sombre; Spider Baby; The Stendhal Syndrome; Straight On Till Morning; Strait-Jacket; The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver; The Strange Vengeance of Rosalie; Symptoms; Szamanka; That Cold Day in the Park; They Call Her One Eye; 3 Women; To Let; Toys Are Not for Children; Trance; Trilogy of Terror; Trouble Every Day; Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me; The Uninvited; Venom; Venus Drowning; The Washing Machine; What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; The Whip and the Body; Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?; Windows; The Witch Who Came from the Sea; The Woman; Woman Transformation; Wound
1980, English
Softcover, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Panther / London
$28.00 - Out of stock
First 1980 Panther edition of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Eye of the Heron and Other Stories.
The Eye of the Heron (1978) is a science fiction novel set on the fictional planet of Victoria in a speculative future, probably sometime in the 22nd century, when the planet has been colonized for about a century and has no communication with Earth. The protagonist is a young woman called Luz but the story is told in the third person and the reader sees events from the point of view of several different characters. The Eye of the Heron was first published in the science fiction anthology Millennial Women.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. She was primarily known for her works of speculative fiction. These include works set in the fictional world of Earthsea, stories in the Hainish Cycle, and standalone novels and short stories. Though frequently referred to as an author of science fiction, critics have described her work as being difficult to classify.
Very Good copy.
1978, English
2 Volumes, softcover, 158 + 138 pages, 18 x 11 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Panther / London
$65.00 - Out of stock
First 1978 Panther editions of Ursula K. Le Guin's The Wind's Twelve Quarters Vol. 1 and 2.
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin, named after a line from A. E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad and first published by Harper & Row in 1975. Described by Le Guin as a retrospective, it collects 17 previously published stories, four of which were the germ of novels she was to write later: "The Word of Unbinding" and "The Rule of Names" gave Le Guin the place that was to become Earthsea; "Semley's Necklace" was first published as "Dowry of the Angyar" in 1964 and then as the Prologue of the novel Rocannon's World in 1966; "Winter's King" is about the inhabitants of the planet Winter, as is Le Guin's later novel The Left Hand of Darkness. Most of the other stories are also connected to Le Guin's novels. The story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" won the Hugo Award in 1974, while "The Day Before the Revolution" won the Locus and Nebula Awards in 1975.
Very Good copies of both volumes. Complete together.
1992, English
Softcover, 208 pages, 11 x 18 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Puffin / UK
$25.00 - Out of stock
Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in 1990. It is the fourth novel set in the fictional archipelago Earthsea, following almost twenty years after the Earthsea trilogy (1968–1972), and not the last, despite its subtitle. Tehanu continues the stories of Tenar, the heroine of the second book of the Earthsea series The Tombs of Atuan, and Ged, the hero of the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea. "It is a time of growing evil and the perversion of magic. Power hangs in the balance, and uncertainty and fear are widespread, as magi and king alike seek a woman of Gont to show them the way forward. Tenar, erstwhile Priestess of Atuan, cares for Therru, a young girl who has been abused."
Tehanu won the annual Nebula Award for Best Novel and the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) was an American author of speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, librettos, essays, poetry, speeches, translations, literary critiques, chapbooks, and children's fiction. She was primarily known for her works of speculative fiction. These include works set in the fictional world of Earthsea, stories in the Hainish Cycle, and standalone novels and short stories. Though frequently referred to as an author of science fiction, critics have described her work as being difficult to classify.
Very Good copy.
1976, English
Softcover, 288 pages, 13 x 18 cm
Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Corgi / London
$35.00 - Out of stock
1976 UK edition of William S. Burroughs' The Naked Lunch, published by Corgi books.
'I can feel the heat closing in, feel them out there making their moves'
Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. One of the most shocking novels ever written, Naked Lunch is a cultural landmark, now in a restored edition incorporating Burroughs' notes on the text, alternate drafts and outtakes from the original.
William S. Burroughs was born in 1914 in St Louis. In work and in life Burroughs expressed a lifelong subversion of the morality, politics and economics of modern America. To escape those conditions, and in particular his treatment as a homosexual and a drug-user, Burroughs left his homeland in 1950, eventually living in Mexico City, Tangier, Paris and London. By the time of his death he was widely recognised as one of the most politically trenchant, culturally influential, and innovative artists of the twentieth century. His numerous books include Naked Lunch, Junky, Queer, Nova Express, Interzone, The Wild Boys, The Ticket That Exploded and The Soft Machine.
Very Good copy.
1980, English
Softcover, 54 pages, 17.5 x 12.5 cm
Out of print title / used / good
Published by
City Lights Books / San Francisco
$45.00 - Out of stock
Second 1980 printing of this lovely 1979 City Lights edition of William S. Burroughs' Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities. Written by Burroughs in the early 1960's, Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities was originally intended for inclusion in The Yage Letters but was censored by the English printers. Ted Morgan describes the text as a parody or routine in which Cabinet offices are given to pimps, thieves, hookers, and hustlers, which was not that wide off the mark, in a metaphorical sense, given the peculiarities of some members of the first Roosevelt Cabinet.
Good copy.
1970, English
Softcover, 13 x 18 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Corgi / London
$35.00 - Out of stock
First 1970 UK edition of William S. Burroughs' The Soft Machine, published by Corgi books.
With a dangerous blend of chemistry and magic, secret agent Lee has the ability to change bodies - his own, or with anyone he chooses. Also able to time travel, he finds himself forced to use his skills to defeat a team of priests, who are using mind control to produce their own private slave race. Dead soldiers, African street urchins, evil doctors, corrupt judges and monsters from the mythology of history and science all feature in Lee's terrifying adventure.
A surreal space odyssey, The Soft Machine is the first book in Burrough's innovative 'cut-up' trilogy - followed by Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded - and a ferocious assault on hype, poverty, war and addiction in all its forms.
William S. Burroughs (1914—1997) was an American writer and visual artist, immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s — notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg — and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. His first published novel was the largely autobiographical Junky, which remains a classic depiction of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses he was victim to for most of his life. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". In 1951, in a drunken William Tell stunt, he accidentally shot and killed his common-law wife. He is most famous for his use of the 'cut-up' technique of writing and the novel Naked Lunch. His other major works included Queer, Exterminator! The 'Nova Trilogy' (The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded) and the 'Red Night Trilogy' (Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands).
Good copy.
1971, English
Softcover, 192 pages, 13 x 18 cm
1st UK Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Corgi / London
$25.00 - In stock -
First 1971 UK edition of William S. Burroughs' The Ticket That Exploded, published by Corgi books.
Inspector Lee and the Nova Police have been forced to engage the Nova Mob in one final battle for the planet. This is Burroughs's nightmare vision of scientists and combat troops, of Johnny Yen's chicken-hypnotizing and green Venusian-boy-girls, of ad men and conmen whose destructive language has spread like an incurable disease; a virus and parasite that takes over every human body.
One of Burroughs's most approachable works, The Ticket That Exploded is the climax of his innovative 'cut-up' Nova trilogy - following The Soft Machine and Nova Express - and is an enthralling and frightening image of the future.
William S. Burroughs (1914—1997) was an American writer and visual artist, immensely influential among the Beat writers of the 1950s — notably Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg — and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays, and five books have been published of his interviews and correspondences. His first published novel was the largely autobiographical Junky, which remains a classic depiction of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses he was victim to for most of his life. He also collaborated on projects and recordings with numerous performers and musicians, made many appearances in films, and created and exhibited thousands of visual artworks, including his celebrated "Shotgun Art". In 1951, in a drunken William Tell stunt, he accidentally shot and killed his common-law wife. He is most famous for his use of the 'cut-up' technique of writing and the novel Naked Lunch. His other major works included Queer, Exterminator! The 'Nova Trilogy' (The Soft Machine, Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded) and the 'Red Night Trilogy' (Cities of the Red Night, The Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands).
Good copy.
2020, English
Softcover, 254 pages, 21 x 14 cm
Published by
Amphetamine Sulphate / Austin
$40.00 - Out of stock
MULTIPLE WRITINGS / NO LACOSTE NO COLOGNE NO BRIGHT SHIRTS / FEAR CITY / PLATO’S RETREAT / PIG TO PIG / NINTH CIRCLE / TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONE / THE MINDSHAFT / YOU MAKE ME FEEL (MIGHTY REAL) / JOCKSTRAP LEAGUE OF AMERICA / PERFECT MOMENTS / VIENNESE ACTIONISM 1969 / SAUSALITO 1977 / PISS ELEGANCE / FOREIGN BODIES / SEX PARTS / TUBS AND TROUGHS / BENT FOR JOY / NYC COCKPIT / A KID ON THE PIERS / BANGED ON THE FLOOR / HUCK FINN SHOOTING UP / MULTIPLE STAB WOUNDS / DERELICT TEMPLES / DOING POPPERS / STEVE FINBOW / FULL LEATHER MASKS / HALF OF HELL HALF OF DREAMS / NOMADISM / ALIEN COCKS / PIERCED WITH GOLD NEEDLES / HANDBALLING / MAINLINED VERTIGO / EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE / SILVER NEON STROBES / SAILORS AND MEAT TRUCKS / BONDAGE STRAPS / TO THE PEOPLE OF QUEENS / GODS OF THE PLAGUE / DEATH VALLEY 1975 / I’M HERE YOU’RE HERE / TAPED MUSIC / GOOD DRUGS / PRISON SADISM / AMPHETAMINE SULPHATE / TOTAL FANTASY / WALLS PAINTED BLACK / SECRET CODES / MORAL CONDITIONING / COILED SERPENTS RISING / HOT ROPES / BLUE AND YELLOW RAINBOW / FIST PRESSING BACK
EROTICISM AT THE ABYSS. What connects Robert Mapplethorpe, Francis Bacon, Michel Foucault, the Son of Sam, Andy Warhol, De Sade, Franz Kafka, Adolf Hitler, William Friedkin and a host of other creative artists and deviant creeps? Ever wondered what it might feel like to drop acid in Death Valley or explore the forbidden sex clubs of 70s Manhattan. If you love cruising, if you love the pleasures of the flesh, if you love the feel and touch of shiny, shiny leather, now's the time to enter ... THE MINDSHAFT
You won't want to come back. "The whole book is a sort of rupture-in-anguish leaving us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves." — 3AM magazine
"Too many very graphic displays of extreme sexual activity." — A GoodReads 5-Star(!) review
1978, English
Hardcover (w. dust jacket), 96 pages, 28 x 22 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / very good
Published by
Bonfini Press / Switzerland
$48.00 - Out of stock
First English-language edition of this hardcover monographic volume on Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor (1860 —1949), published by Bonfini Press in Switzerland in 1978 and printed in Italy. Profusely illustrated with Ensor's paintings and graphic works in colour and black and white, accompanied by text by Jacques Jansenns. Includes biography and bibliography.
James Sidney Edouard, Baron Ensor (1860 —1949) was a Belgian painter and printmaker, an important influence on expressionism and surrealism who lived in Ostend for almost his entire life. He was associated with the artistic group Les XX. While Ensor's early works, such as Russian Music (1881) and The Drunkards (1883), depict realistic scenes in a somber style, his palette subsequently brightened and he favoured increasingly bizarre subject matter. Such paintings as The Scandalized Masks (1883) and Skeletons Fighting over a Hanged Man (1891) feature figures in grotesque masks inspired by the ones sold in his mother's gift shop for Ostend's annual Carnival. Subjects such as carnivals, masks, puppetry, skeletons, and fantastic allegories are dominant in Ensor's mature work. Ensor dressed skeletons up in his studio and arranged them in colourful, enigmatic tableaux on the canvas, and used masks as a theatrical aspect in his still lifes. Attracted by masks' plastic forms, bright colours, and potential for psychological impact, he created a format in which he could paint with complete freedom. James Ensor is considered to be an innovator in 19th-century art. Although he stood apart from other artists of his time, he significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, George Grosz, Wols, and many expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.
Very Good in VG dust jacket preserved under mylar wrap.
1978, French
Softcover (staple-bound), 100 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Les Humanoïdes Associés / Paris
$45.00 - Out of stock
Metal Hurlant No. 33, September 1978 issue featuring comic stories/art by Jean-Michel Nicollet, Alain Voss, Moebius, Serge Clerc, Chantal Montellier, Jacques Goimard, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, and many more, plus the usual fare of sci-fi, movies, music... Cover art by Alain Voss. Original French editions, very scarce outside Europe.
Métal Hurlant (literal translation: "Howling Metal") was a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas. The four were collectively known as "Les Humanoïdes Associés" (United Humanoids), which became the name of the publishing house releasing Métal Hurlant. English, German and Italian editions were also licensed, including Heavy Metal, published in the US by National Lampoon. Métal hurlant was originally released quarterly with contributors including Moebius and Druillet, depicting such iconic characters as Arzach and Lone Sloane for the first time, as well as work by Richard Corben, Guido Crepax, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Caza, Serge Clerc, Alain Voss, Berni Wrightson, Nicole Claveloux, Milo Manara, Frank Margerin, Masse, Chantal Montellier, and many others.
1978, French
Softcover (staple-bound), 82 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
$50.00 - Out of stock
Metal Hurlant No. 26, February 1978 issue featuring comic stories/art by Moebius, Chantal Montellier, Alain Voss, Philippe Druillet, Jacques Lob, Serge Clerc, Daniel Ceppi, Nicole Claveloux, Paul Gillon, and many more, plus the usual fare of sci-fi, movies, music... Cover art by Moebius. Original French editions, very scarce outside Europe.
Métal Hurlant (literal translation: "Howling Metal") was a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas. The four were collectively known as "Les Humanoïdes Associés" (United Humanoids), which became the name of the publishing house releasing Métal Hurlant. English, German and Italian editions were also licensed, including Heavy Metal, published in the US by National Lampoon. Métal hurlant was originally released quarterly with contributors including Moebius and Druillet, depicting such iconic characters as Arzach and Lone Sloane for the first time, as well as work by Richard Corben, Guido Crepax, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Caza, Serge Clerc, Alain Voss, Berni Wrightson, Nicole Claveloux, Milo Manara, Frank Margerin, Masse, Chantal Montellier, and many others.
Good copy.
1978, French
Softcover (staple-bound), 98 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Les Humanoïdes Associés / Paris
$50.00 - Out of stock
Metal Hurlant No. 27, March 1978 issue featuring comic stories/art by Moebius, Chantal Montellier, Paul Gillon, Philippe Druillet, Jacques Lob, Serge Clerc, Daniel Ceppi, Alain Voss, René Pétillon, and many more, plus the usual fare of sci-fi, movies, music... Cover art by Philippe Druillet. Original French editions, very scarce outside Europe.
Métal Hurlant (literal translation: "Howling Metal") was a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas. The four were collectively known as "Les Humanoïdes Associés" (United Humanoids), which became the name of the publishing house releasing Métal Hurlant. English, German and Italian editions were also licensed, including Heavy Metal, published in the US by National Lampoon. Métal hurlant was originally released quarterly with contributors including Moebius and Druillet, depicting such iconic characters as Arzach and Lone Sloane for the first time, as well as work by Richard Corben, Guido Crepax, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Caza, Serge Clerc, Alain Voss, Berni Wrightson, Nicole Claveloux, Milo Manara, Frank Margerin, Masse, Chantal Montellier, and many others.
1979, French
Softcover (staple-bound), 100 pages, 27 x 21.5 cm
1st Edition, Out of print title / used / good
Published by
Les Humanoïdes Associés / Paris
$30.00 - Out of stock
Metal Hurlant No. 45, October 1979 issue featuring comic stories/art by Moebius, Nicole Claveloux, Jacques Lob, René Pétillon, Alain Voss, Frank Margerin, Michel Halmos, Jean-Pierre Dionnet, and many more, plus the usual fare of sci-fi, movies, music... Cover art by Michel Halmos. Original French editions, very scarce outside Europe.
Métal Hurlant (literal translation: "Howling Metal") was a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories, created in December 1974 by comics artists Jean Giraud (better known as Mœbius) and Philippe Druillet together with journalist-writer Jean-Pierre Dionnet and financial director Bernard Farkas. The four were collectively known as "Les Humanoïdes Associés" (United Humanoids), which became the name of the publishing house releasing Métal Hurlant. English, German and Italian editions were also licensed, including Heavy Metal, published in the US by National Lampoon. Métal hurlant was originally released quarterly with contributors including Moebius and Druillet, depicting such iconic characters as Arzach and Lone Sloane for the first time, as well as work by Richard Corben, Guido Crepax, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Enki Bilal, Caza, Serge Clerc, Alain Voss, Berni Wrightson, Nicole Claveloux, Milo Manara, Frank Margerin, Masse, Chantal Montellier, and many others.