Arcana:

Jones, Reece. Verso Books, 2016.

A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed
Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.

Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization,” he writes, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.”

In Violent Borders, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization, the wealthy travel without constraint, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change, environmental degradation, and the growth of global wealth inequality.

Books will be signed by Reece Jones at Arcana on 10/15 and shipped on 10/18. 9781784784713 Inventory Number: e000VBRJ

Soren, Tabitha. With a short story by Dave Eggers and contributions by former and current minor league picks including Joe Blanton, Jeremy Brown, Drew Dickinson, Ben Fritz, Mark Kiger, Steve Obenchain, Chris Shank, Brian Stavisky, Nick Swisher, and Mark Teahen. New York: Aperture, Inc., 2017. First Edition. 8vo. Hardcover. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of minor league draft picks for the Oakland A’s - young men coming into the major league farm system straight from high school or college. Since then, she has followed the players through their baseball lives, an alternate reality of long bus rides, on-field injuries, friendships and marriages entered and exited, constant motion, and very hard work, often for very little return. Some of the subjects, like Nick Swisher and Joe Blanton, have gone on to become well-known, respected players at the highest level of the game. Some left baseball to pursue other lines of work such as selling insurance, and coal mining. Others have struggled with poverty and even homelessness.

Fifteen years after that first shoot, Fantasy Life portrays a selection of these stories, gathering together a richly textured series of photographs taken on the field and behind the scenes at games, along with commentaries by each of the players and memorabilia from their lives from kindergarten-age baseball cards to x-rays of career injuries. Dave Eggers contributes a five-part short story that compellingly condenses the roller-coaster ride of the minor-league everyman, from youthful pursuit of stardom through the slog of endless hardscrabble games, to that moment of realization that success may not be just around the corner after all. Additionally, a number of the featured players add their own real-life experiences of trying to make it to “The Show.” Together, these elements evoke the enduring spirit of this quintessential American fantasy of making it in the major leagues.


PLEASE NOTE: Ms. Soren will be signing her book at Arcana on Saturday, April 29th. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, May 2nd.

978-1-59711-385-4 Inventory Number: e000TSFL

Manzella, Tony.
32 pages, four color offset on 17 x 11 1/2" tabloid newsprint

Edition of 1000 designed by David Blankenship for Because

Published by Verb Editions


“Excavating local landscapes. True Image is a photographic representation of our unseen surroundings.” - Tony Manzella
Inventory Number: e000TMTI

. Steidl.

The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941

A massive, full-illustrated history of photography book making and design from the USSR

Published by Steidl
Edited by Mikhail Karasik, Manfred Heiting

The Soviet Union was unique in its dynamic use of the illustrated book as a means of propaganda. Through the form of the book, the USSR articulated its utopian (and eventually totalitarian) ideologies and expressed its absolute power through avant-garde writing and radical graphic design that was in full flower during the 1920s and 1930s.
No other country or political system advanced its cause by attracting and employing acclaimed members of the avant-garde. Among them were writers such as Semion Kirsanov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Selvinsky, Sergei Tretyakov and Kornely Zelinsky; artist designers such as Gustav Klutsis, Valentina Kulagina, El Lissitzky, Sergei Senkin, Varvara Stepanova, Solomon Telingater and Nikolai Troshin; and photographers such as Dmitry Debabov, Vladimir Griuntal, Boris Ignatovich, Alexander Khlebnikov, Yeleazar Langman, Alexander Rodchenko and Georgy Petrusov, not to mention many of the best printing plants and bookbinders.
Gorgeously produced, edited and designed, The Soviet Photobook 1920-1941 presents 160 of the most stunning and elaborately produced photobooks from this period and includes more than 400 additional reference illustrations. The book also provides short biographies of the photobook contributors, some of whom are presented for the first time.

Sherman, Julia. Abrams, 2017. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

The creator of the immensely popular Salad for President blog presents a visually rich collection of more than 75 salad recipes, with contributions and interviews by artists/creative professionals like William Wegman, Tauba Auerbach, Laurie Anderson, and Alice Waters.

Julia Sherman loves salad. In the book named after her popular blog, Sherman encourages her readers to consider salad an everyday indulgence that can include cocktails, soups, family style brunch dishes, and dinner-party entrées. Every part of the meal is reimagined with a fresh, vegetable obsessed perspective. This compendium of savory recipes will tempt readers in search of diverse offerings from light to hearty: Collard Chiffonade Salad with Roasted Garlic Dressing and Crouton Crumble, Heirloom Tomatoes with Crunchy Polenta Croutons, or Flank Steak and Bean Sprouts with Miso-Kimchi Dressing. On the lighter end there are Grilled Hearts of Palm with Mint and Triple Citrus, Persimmon Caprese, and fresh Blood Marys. The recipes, while not exclusively vegetarian, are vegetable-forward and focused on high-quality seasonal produce. Sherman also includes insider tips on pantry staples and growing your own salad garden of herbs and greens.

Salad—with its infinite possibilities—is a game of endless combinations, not stifling rules. And with that in mind, Salad for President offers a window into how artists approach preparing their favorite dishes. She visits sculptors, painters, photographers, and musicians in their homes and gardens, interviewing and photographing them as they cook. Utterly unique in its look into the worlds of food, art, and everyday practices, Salad for President is at once a practical resource for healthy, satisfying recipes and an inspiring look at creativity.



9781419724114 Inventory Number: e000SFP

Chaich, John and Todd Oldham. Ammo Books, 2017. Hardcover. New.

Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and Community spotlights an international, intergenerational, intersectional mix of thirty artists who are remixing fiber craft traditions, such as crochet, embroidery, quilting, and sewing, while reconsidering the binaries of art and craft, masculine and feminine, and gay and straight.

Designed by Todd Oldham and edited by John Chaich, this 192-page, hardcover, 8 x 10-inch book features full-color spreads of each artist's work, along with intimate details of selections and artist studios, as well as an introductory essay by Chaich, who curated the exhibition of the same name that inspired this book.

To further examine how queerness informs their work in fiber and textiles, or vice versa, the artists are interviewed by makers and thinkers from the worlds of dance, design, fashion, media, music, museums, scholarship, and more—many members of the LGBTQ community themselves, and otherwise passionate allies.

Smart yet playful, critical yet celebratory, the resulting dialogues are as colorful, challenging, personal, and universal as the works discussed and talents showcased.

Queer Threads is not just an exploration of fiber art and crafts, but also a celebration of the creativity, diversity, and vibrancy of contemporary queer culture.

Books will be signed by Mr. Chaich on Saturday, 6/10 and mailed on 6/13.

9781623261054

Join us on 6/10 for a book signing and exhibition with John Chaich as part of the Helms Day of Design! We'll be showing work from the book, drinking a special cocktail from Bar & Garden, and enjoying the ice cream stylings of CoolHaus!

Ruscha, Paul. Steidl, 2006. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. As New./No Jacket - As Issud.
Paul Ruscha's home is a monument to the compulsions of collecting. He has been amassing everything from appliances to office supplies since he was a child. Typewriters, toasters, hair dryers, cameras, cocktail shakers, coffee makers, old pens, baseball caps, odd pieces of wood, and the press-apply stickers that adorn every inch of the cabinets in his overcrowded kitchen. His numbered paper inspection slips from the pockets of new items of clothing go back to the dawn of numbered paper inspection slips. And because he has spent the last twenty years working as his artist-brother Edward's in-house studio photographer and documentarian, the paintings, sculpture and objects mixed in with all of this ephemera are significant pieces of twentieth century art. Paul Ruscha's Full Moon is an incomplete and imprecise inventory of an eclectic, well-loved treasure-trove. Texts explicate the nature of Ruscha's attachment to various items, and recall the artists whose work is included.

Books will be signed by Paul Ruscha at Arcana on October 13th - event details forthcoming! 978-386521231 Inventory Number: e000PRFM

. Aperture. Olivia Bee is celebrated for her dreamy, evocative portraits and landscapes rich with implied narratives of intimacy, freedom, and adventure. Olivia Bee: Kids in Love showcases two bodies of photographic work, including the series, Enveloped in a Dream, that first brought Bee recognition as a teenager. This first series offers a visual diary of girlhood friendship and the exploration of self, showcasing Bee’s unique ability to convey the bittersweet nostalgia of adolescence on the brink of adulthood and new possibilities. The second set of images, Kids in Love, is drawn from recent work and continues Bee’s photographic chronicle of her circle of friends and new loves, capturing both the pleasures and terrors of the fleeting passage of romanticized youth. While the work continues to evolve, what remains constant is her seductive use of color and photographic artifact, as well as the immediacy and charge of each image. Bee gives voice to the self-awareness and visual fluency of the millennial generation. Experiences are sharply felt, and easily communicated and shared, generating visual records that render these memories as significant as the moments themselves. Tavi Gevinson, founding editor of the online magazine Rookie and Bee’s frequent collaborator and model, writes about the work and about the role of images as social currency in today’s image-driven world.

Signed by Olivia Bee. Books will be signed on 5/14 at our Kids In Love event in the shop.
Inventory Number: E000obkevent

Slack, Mike. The Ice Plant + Perimeter Editions, 2016.

Walking in Place 1: New Orleans is the first in a series of standalone books by Los Angeles-based photographer Mike Slack, each taking in a different city, town or geographical locale. In this volume, Slack records various points of reference on a five day meander through The Big Easy, creating an inner travelogue both meditative and playful. Driven by an almost unconscious process of seeing, recording and cumulation, his gaze settles on architectural details, local flora, street ephemera, and the curious neighborhood cats that cross his path. Led by his keen eye for street-side formalism, and a canny sensitivity to the poetics of light and tonality — and their unlikely urban iterations and combinations — Slack has crafted another telling contribution to what has emerged as a genuinely unique photographic language. The book itself assumes the form of an elegant, pocket-sized paperback — a non-linear, non-verbal journal for the perpetual wanderer.

Books will be signed by Mr. Slack on November 12th and shipped on November 15th.


9780994388384 Inventory Number: e000MSW1

Brakha, Moshe. New York: Universe / Rizzoli Publications International, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Photography Monograph. As New.

Photographer Moshe Brakha’s acidly crisp, otherworldly images evoke a certain stylistic sensibility and a knack for innovative and sensual photography that engages the viewer. L.A. Babe: The Real Women of Los Angeles 1975-1988 collects his most compelling subjects from the late seventies and early eighties - the various women he encountered all over Los Angeles. The book includes vintage portraits of legendary proto-punk band the Runaways, LaToya and Janet Jackson, Patricia Arquette, longtime Los Angeles staple Angelyne, and many, many others. From Beverly Hills High School cheerleaders to brash bartenders and groupies, L.A. Babe captures the essential Los Angeles at its sunniest, coolest, grittiest glam and punk peak.

In a career spanning five decades, Moshe Brakha has created scores of iconic editorial images including work for the legendary Wet: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond, and album covers for the likes of Devo, The Ramones, Sparks, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, Pat Benatar, The Weirdos, and Alice Coltrane.

Books will be signed by Mr. Brakha at Arcana on Sunday 4/9 and orders will be shipped beginning Tuesday 4/11.
Inventory Number: e000MBLAW

Smith, Lenard. Los Angeles: Self-Published, 2017. First Edition 1/100 Copies. 4to. Debossed Linen over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

"A Sort Of Looking" is Los Angeles-based photographer Lenard Smith's first major publication. In it, he presents a selection of seductive images from the past five years of work that draw lines connecting the artist’s hand and chance. The formal compositions of his still lifes bring attention to the banal object form; tissue paper, flower, and in between the exploration of sculptural arrangements. Smith’s portrait work commands attention - bringing the viewer up close up to his subjects - whether they are photographed in the studio or quickly on the streets. These powerful portraits act as a metronome throughout the entire book, grounding the audience. The title reveals the artist’s engagement with institutional critique, and plays with the discourse that is commonly used in art conversations. "A Sort of Looking" is in fact Lenard Smith’s own looking, and not a “sort of”, but exactly how he is able to view the world in front of his lens just as he sees it.

Published in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies on the occasion of the 2017 Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Mr. Smith at Arcana on Saturday 3/25, and orders will begin shipping on 3/28. Inventory Number: e000LSSL

Harry, Kevin. New York: 2016. First Edition. 8vo. Printed Stapled Wrappers. New.
The magic of an afro.
This special issue of KH focuses on hair….and at the heart of it is the afro and variations on it.

30 pages---27 photos.

We are thrilled to have been the exclusive purveyor of this 2016 Special Issue of the fabulous KH zine -- this one devoted entirely to tonsorial style -- at the 2016 Printed Matter LA Art Book Fair!

Over the past two years Kevin Harry has self-published two small books cum zines entitled KH that joyously document the lively sense of fashion and personal style that pervade the participants and attendees alike at street celebrations of the African diaspora. The first issue featured images taken at New York’s annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, and the second documented the 2015 Afropunk Fest in Brooklyn. Inventory Number: e000KHSP2016

Gold, Jeff & Gene Sculatti. Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: Gingko Press & Kill Your Idols, 2016. First Paperbound Edition. 4to. Pictorial Paperback. Music Monograph. As New.. 260pp, 443 color illustrations. Jeff Gold's "101 Essential Rock Records..." is a tribute to the vinyl album and celebrates one hundred and one of rock’s most influential records - from The Beatles’ 1963 debut "Please Please Me" through the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks". Alongside the big names such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Fleetwood Mac are lesser-known but highly influential artists including Laura Nyro, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Captain Beefheart, and The Stooges. An essay on each album accompanies reproductions of the original vinyl cover artwork, with rare variations from around the world. Also included are thought-provoking interviews with musicians who discuss the albums and artists who changed their lives. Graham Nash describes meeting The Beatles at a 1959 talent show where they were billed as Johnny and the Moondogs, and how, four years later, John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang him the just written "Misery" - one voice in each ear. David Bowie speaks eloquently about the Velvet Underground’s influence, and Iggy Pop writes of the profound impact upon hearing Van Morrison’s no-holds-barred performance on the first album by Them, and his admiration for Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s "Freak Out", noting that opening for the Mothers "pushed me to be weirder faster". Additional contributions are from Jac Holzman (Elektra Records), Robyn Hitchcock, Nels Cline (Wilco), Susanne Vega, Jon Savage, Devendra Banhart, Mick Haggerty, Joe Boyd, Peter Buck (REM), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), and Ken Barnes. Also featured are pictorial explorations of Jimi Hendrix’s personal record collection and a survey of censored album covers from throughout the rock era". A brand new, pristine copy of the 2016 first paperbound printing of one of our favorite books of the past decade BOLDLY SIGNED "Jeff Gold" in black marker on the title page.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by author Jeff Gold at Acana on November 19th and shipped on the 22nd.

978-1-58423-640-5 Inventory Number: e000JG101P

Gold, Jeff & Gene Sculatti. Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA: Gingko Press & Kill Your Idols, 2012. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Music Monograph. As New/As New. 260pp, 443 color illustrations. Jeff Gold's "101 Essential Rock Records..." is a tribute to the vinyl album and celebrates one hundred and one of rock’s most influential records - from The Beatles’ 1963 debut "Please Please Me" through the Sex Pistols’ Never Mind the Bollocks". Alongside the big names such as Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Fleetwood Mac are lesser-known but highly influential artists including Laura Nyro, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Captain Beefheart, and The Stooges. An essay on each album accompanies reproductions of the original vinyl cover artwork, with rare variations from around the world. Also included are thought-provoking interviews with musicians who discuss the albums and artists who changed their lives. Graham Nash describes meeting The Beatles at a 1959 talent show where they were billed as Johnny and the Moondogs, and how, four years later, John Lennon and Paul McCartney sang him the just written "Misery" - one voice in each ear. David Bowie speaks eloquently about the Velvet Underground’s influence, and Iggy Pop writes of the profound impact upon hearing Van Morrison’s no-holds-barred performance on the first album by Them, and his admiration for Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention’s "Freak Out", noting that opening for the Mothers "pushed me to be weirder faster". Additional contributions are from Jac Holzman (Elektra Records), Robyn Hitchcock, Nels Cline (Wilco), Susanne Vega, Jon Savage, Devendra Banhart, Mick Haggerty, Joe Boyd, Peter Buck (REM), Johnny Marr (The Smiths), and Ken Barnes. Also featured are pictorial explorations of Jimi Hendrix’s personal record collection and a survey of censored album covers from throughout the rock era". A pristine copy of the quickly sold-out hardbound first printing of one of our favorite books of the past decade BOLDLY SIGNED "Dig It! Jeff Gold" in black marker on the title page.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by author Jeff Gold at Acana on November 19th and shipped on the 22nd.

1-58423-488-1 Inventory Number: e000JG101H

Stenneken, Judith. Text by Robert Montgomery. Essay by Timothy Persons. Self-published, 2017. New. "'It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis'"—Henry Miller

One could also add: all is motion. This body of work deals with the seemingly simple fact that Henry Miller states so clearly in this quote: everything is ongoing and never finished.

Transition is a permanent condition. There is no beginning, middle and end. There is no sunset, nor is there a sunrise—instead, we are the ones in motion.

I use images of the journey, the voyager and transitory spaces (like hotel rooms and airplanes) as metaphors to describe transition as the sole constant in life and in betweenness as the primary state of being. The concepts of departure and arrival dissolve as the traveler keeps moving—a gravity to constant change. The voyager’s home becomes the hotel room and the airplane. Spaces where we pause but never dwell.
We are in a phase in which change happens at an accelerating pace. It can leave one dizzy, disoriented and overwhelmed at times—like a loss of control. We “burn out” as we try to keep up with this new pace, and some of us turn to old beliefs in our attempt to reestablish a balance that seems lost.
I think the acceleration of change forces us out of our comfort zones, out of our habits and into adjustments. It forces us to react. Simultaneously, it offers a chance to embrace two core conditions of life that we usually prefer to ignore: impermanence and uncertainty." Inventory Number: e000INID

. Mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt and his influential studio, Imperfect Utopia, helped to launch the Miami art scene in the 1980’s. Betancourt’s oeuvre 
is a lush explosion of radiant, eccentric colors in which he explores the kaleidoscope (multi-racial, multi-lingual, trans-cultural) of Caribbean and American culture. His work alludes to issues of memory, beauty, identity, and communication. He bends the lines between art, photography, and nature in his photographs, collages, painting, installations, and conceptual pieces.
Carlos Betancourt’s imagery reinterprets the past and present and offers it in a fresh context. He is inspired by Puerto Rico, Miami, and his extensive travels; also artist Ana Mendieta’s interventions in nature, Robert Rauschenberg’s assemblages, Andy Warhol’s perceptions, Neo Rauch compositions, and a Federico Fellini-esque cast of characters for his photo assemblages.
This exuberant volume explores Betancourt’s body of work, with more than 250 images and texts by art critic Paul Laster, art history professor Robert Farris Thompson and United States Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco.
His artwork is included in the permanent collections of various museums, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Portrait Gallery, and The Smithsonian Institute. Inventory Number: e000imperfect

Bronson, Harold. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, 2017. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Music Monograph. As New..

320pp. Harold Bronson grew up in Los Angeles as a passionate Anglophile. Through his career first as a music journalist, then as a label executive, Harold met and befriended many of those performers whose music he loved. With his newly released My British Invasion from Rare Bird Books, Harold pens his insider's account of London's cultural youthquake of the sixties and seventies that brought us The Yardbirds, The Dave Clark Five, Manfred Mann, Herman's Hermits, The Hollies, The Kinks, The Troggs, The Zombies, Johnny Rotten, Pirate Radio, and much, much more. A co-founder of the legendary Rhino Records label, Harold is the author of Rock Explosion: The British Invasion of America in Photos 1962-67, Hey, Hey, We’re The Monkees, and The Rhino Records Story: Revenge of the Music Nerds. A brand new, pristine example additionally SIGNED by author Harold Bronson.

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Bronson will be signing his book at Arcana on Sunday, May 14th. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, May 16th.

978-1-945572-09-8 Inventory Number: e000HBMBI

Bronson, Harold. Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing Group, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Illustrated Dust Jacket. Music Monograph. Fine/Fine.
160pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "Hey, Hey, We're The Monkees" is the copiously illustrated 1996 hardbound anthology of texts by and about the 1960s television and recording phenomenon The Monkees - Mike Nesmith, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Mickey Dolenz. A brand new, pristine example of this long out of print classic additionally SIGNED by author Harold Bronson.

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Bronson will be signing his book at Arcana on Sunday, May 14th. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, May 16th.

1-57544-012-1 Inventory Number: e000HBHHWTM

Johan Kugelberg w/ Jon Savage & Glenn Terry. Anthology Editions. New. An enhanced edition of the original Rizzoli publication, God Save Sex Pistols offers an unseen visual history of the incendiary punk band. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Sex Pistols iconic first record release Anarchy in the UK, Johan Kugelberg, noted writer Jon Savage, and premiere Sex Pistols archivist Glenn Terry draw on an unprecedented wealth of material to produce the most comprehensive visual history of the band ever produced. From McLaren’s handwritten letters to never-before-seen photographs of the band, Jamie Reid’s iconic album artwork, and a range of ephemera from concert tickets to fanzines, this book is a definitive celebration of a group that helped define a movement.
Limited run of 500.

Ultra Deluxe Edition Includes:

- Hardcover book (First Edition)
- Bondage inspired, 5mm “rubber” slipcase designed by Zevs
- Newsprint companion book with rare press clippings
- Screen on the Green heavy cotton print (8.5” x 6”)
- Shatter Logo heavy cotton print embossed and endorsed by Zevs
- God Save the Queen heavy cotton print stamped and endorsed by Jamie Reid
- 4 new silkscreen prints designed by Boo-Hooray (8.5” x 6”)
- Handcrafted clamshell case housing
- Custom stainless steel stand
- Sex Pistols canvas tote bag

About The Editors:

Johan Kugelberg is an editor, curator, and the author of numerous publications, including The Velvet Underground: A New York Art and Punk: An Aesthetic. Jon Savage is the author of England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture. Glenn Terry is the proprietor of Vicious Sloth Collectables in Melbourne, Australia, and considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sex Pistols history.

Books will be signed by Mr. Kugelberg at the Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair on 2/23 and mailed to buyers on Tuesday, 2/28.
Inventory Number: e000GSSP-UD

Johan Kugelberg with Jon Savage & Glenn Terry. Anthology Editions. New. An enhanced edition of the original Rizzoli publication, God Save Sex Pistols offers an unseen visual history of the incendiary punk band. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the Sex Pistol’s iconic first record release Anarchy in the UK, Johan Kugelberg, noted writer Jon Savage, and premiere Sex Pistols archivist Glenn Terry draw on an unprecedented wealth of material to produce the most comprehensive visual history of the band ever produced. From McLaren’s handwritten letters to never-before-seen photographs of the band, Jamie Reid’s iconic album artwork, and a range of ephemera from concert tickets to fanzines, this book is a definitive celebration of a group that helped define a movement.

Limited run of 2000.



Deluxe Edition Includes:

- Hardcover Book (First Edition)
- Bondage inspired, 5mm “rubber” slipcase designed by Zevs
- Newsprint companion book with rare press clippings
- Screen on the Green silkscreened event poster print
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About The Editors:

Johan Kugelberg is an editor, curator, and the author of numerous publications, including The Velvet Underground: A New York Art and Punk: An Aesthetic. Jon Savage is the author of England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture. Glenn Terry is the proprietor of Vicious Sloth Collectables in Melbourne, Australia, and considered one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sex Pistols history.



Books will be signed by Mr. Kugelberg at the Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair on 2/23 and mailed to buyers on Tuesday, 2/28. Inventory Number: e000GSSP-DLX

Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Contribution by Jon Savage and Glenn Terry. Rizzoli, 2016. New.
A definitive celebration packed with previously unseen material of the original punk band—the group that defined a movement, energized a generation, and brought punk music and the safety-pin aesthetic to the mainstream. The Sex Pistols have defined the look, sound, and feel of the punk movement since they formed in London in 1975. Together for less than three years—a short run that included just four singles and one studio album before they broke up in 1978—their impact on the musical and cultural landscape of the last forty years is nothing short of remarkable. The Sex Pistols—Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock (later to be replaced by Sid Vicious)—were brought together by the cultural impresario Malcolm McLaren. Between the cultivated attitude of the players themselves, the aggressive management of McLaren, and the tremendous success of their era-defining album Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols, the band embodied the punk spirit and colored the worlds of music, fashion, youth culture, and design forever. Published to coincide with the fortieth anniversary of the band’s formation, Johan Kugelberg and Jon Savage draw on an unprecedented wealth of material—from McLaren’s handwritten letters to never-before-seen photographs of the band, Jamie Reid’s iconic album artwork, and a range of ephemera from concert tickets to fanzines—to produce the most comprehensive visual history of the band ever produced and a bible of popular culture for years to come.

Books will be signed by Mr. Kugelberg at the Printed Matter Los Angeles Art Book Fair on 2/23 and mailed to buyers on Tuesday, 2/28.

9780847846269 Inventory Number: e000GSSP

Marc Appleton, Bret Parsons, and Steve Vaught . Los Angeles: Tailwater Press / Angel City Press, 2016. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Architecture Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 is a new twelve volume series overseen by Marc Appleton, Bret Parsons, and Steve Vaught that showcases the work of the Golden Era’s most important residential architects. Featuring period photographs of the work of legendary names in the region's architecture, these monographs are devoted to the period when oil barons, film industry moguls, bankers, and successful entrepreneurs who were new to Los Angeles sought to hire the most accomplished and talented architects they could find.

In the premiere volume, the authors showcase Gordon B. Kaufmann, whose design for Greystone - the famed Beverly Hills domicile he created for E.L. Doheny Jr. and Lucy Doheny - catapulted him to the top of his field. Combining elements of English Gothic and Jacobean styles, the fifty-five room manor for the son and daughter-in-law of the then-richest man in the United States became the largest private residence in Southern California.

Though Kaufmann’s name and legacy have since dimmed to all but architectural historians and savvy realtors, his stamp is all over Southern California, and Greystone is far from his crowning achievement. GORDON B. KAUFMANN includes a detailed career biography that chronicles numerous residential projects he designed, including homes for legendary Los Angeles families with names like Chandler, Janss, Adamson, Getz, and Hampshur-Jones, to name a few. In addition, Kaufmann designed Hoover Dam, the Los Angeles Times Building, Caltech’s Athenaeum, Santa Anita Park, and other important Southern California landmarks.

The period from 1920 to 1940 was an era of incredible homes that utilized the very best building materials available, prior to their being needed for the nation's World War II effort. Notes co-author Bret Parsons “Artisans were still crafting the best details from those remarkable materials; redwood two-by-fours still measured two-inches by four-inches”. These residences defined Los Angeles as a city whose architectural heritage was in the making. “These were the homes that made architectural history, yet few were properly documented.”

Co-author and renowned architect Marc Appleton of Appleton Partners notes of Kaufmann, “His great homes needed to be memorialized, since one-by-one they are disappearing. The masterpieces of the era must be documented - so that’s the purpose of the series Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940.” The authors’ premiere volume includes numerous of-the-era photographs that document the exteriors and interiors, as well as lists of previous owners (the current owners’ names are withheld for privacy concerns).

Researching Kaufmann’s life, co-author/historian Steve Vaught says he found the details of the architect’s projects fascinating. “His work became so renowned that he was equally sought after for residences and public buildings. He was hailed as a virtuoso of Spanish, Mediterranean, and other romantic revival designs, yet when the mania for such designs subsided, he exhibited the same masterly embrace of modern design.”

Parsons, who is director of the architectural division at Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in Beverly Hills, notes, “A Kaufmann home in Hancock Park recently sold for more than $15 million, and was only on the market a few days. Buyers have always been willing to pay a premium for the old-world craftsmanship and charm of a Gordon B. Kaufmann design.”

Please Note: Books will be signed by the authors at Arcana on March 11th and posted to buyers beginning Tuesday, March 14th. Inventory Number: e000GBK

Panar, Ed. Essay by Timothy Morton. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2016.

Can non-humans care? Of course they can. Can we?
— Timothy Morton

Animals That Saw Me: Volume Two pairs a new collection of photographs from the observational wanderings of Ed Panar with an original essay on “being seen” by speculative realist philosopher Timothy Morton. Extending the project Panar began in 2011 with Animals That Saw Me: Volume One, this 'sequel' draws from recent work and newly discovered gems from his vast back catalogue to depict a series of brief, shared encounters with various (non-human) species — mammal, reptile, bird, insect — as they seem to behold the (human) photographer. Edited for the viewer’s maximum delight, the pictures embody a whimsical concept with surprisingly complex ramifications under the surface. Why do we distinguish between “us” and “them,” and what exists in the space between these distinctions? What does it mean to make “eye contact” with another species? What does the presence of a camera add to this phenomenon? Channeling the thoughtful humor, wonder and peculiar engagement with the world that made Panar's first volume an instant hit, this volume revisits and digs deeper into the question: “Why do we assume that it’s only us who does the looking?”

Books will be signed by Mr. Panar on November 12th and shipped on November 15th.

9780982365342 Inventory Number: e000EPA2

Shaffer, Barry with Robert Thurman. EBS Editoriale Bortolazzi Stei,. Los Angeles-based photographer Barry Shaffer presents his first major fine-art publication, “Echoes of Bhutan”, produced in Verona, Italy, by EBS Editoriale Bortolazzi Stei, and designed by David Chickey. The photographs are from Shaffer’s collection of visits to Bhutan during the years 2001, 2014 & 2015. Shaffer’s visits to Bhutan were as a private citizen, and as an engaged photographer for the Tribal Trust Foundation and later at the invitation of Bhutan’s government and travel Industry. The stunning photography is accompanied by written contributions from Dr. Robert Thurman; Bhutan’s Queen Mother; the 4thKing; the Honorable Prime Minister, Tshering Tobgay; Costas Christ, an on-going editor at National Geographic; and captions by Samten Wangchuk.

Please join us for a book launch with photographer Barry Shaffer on Saturday, June 24th, 4:00 - 6:00 pm.

All proceeds from the sales of Echoes of Bhutan will benefit Bhutan’s Tarayana Foundation. Inventory Number: e000EOB

Rea, Steven. Angel City Press. Hard Cover. "Hollywood Rides a Bike" shows classic stars - from Shirley Temple. Betty Grable. and Brigitte Bardot to Bogie, Gable, and Bing - on wheels, and proves there's way less than six degrees of separation between Kevin Bacon and all the best bikes Hollywood prop shops have to offer. One hundred and twenty-five rare vintage photographs will make bicycle lovers drool over classic models and one-of-a-kinds. Then, especially for cycling aficionados, there's a special index just about the bicycles! Not to disappoint movie fans. another index is devoted to the book's Who's Who of Hollywood stars. For everyone who ever pedaled to the movies. ate popcorn in a cinema. or watched a classic movie channel, Steven Rea's charming "Hollywood Rides a Bike" is a coffee table must-have! 978-1883318635 Inventory Number: e000E-BIKE

dosa. Design by Lorrane Wild and Amy Fortunato, Illustrations by Patricia Curtan. Published by dosa $ 30.00. Folded Newsprint, 108 pages.

A collection of techniques, textiles, people, and organizations involved with dosa, past and present. Information is based on our notes from the field - insights gained working side by side with artisans, knowledge shared with us firsthand, and reference material from books picked up along our travels. Entries include a brief description and geographical origin or region of reference. This glossary is a continual work-in-progress.

10.75" x 15.75" unbound paper

This will be signed by Ms. Kim at our event on December 16th and shipped on December 19th.

978-0-9978446-0-3 Inventory Number: e000dosa

Hicks, Dan. Edited by Kristine McKenna. Afterword by Tommy LiPuma. Foreword by Elvis Costello. London, UK: Jawbone Press, 2017. First Deluxe Edition Limited to One Hundred Copies. 8vo. Cloth. Music Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 100 b&w and color illustrations.

Each special collector's edition comprises an individually numbered hardcover book with special fabric binding, blind-embossed spine, coloured endpapers and contrasting coloured page edging, plus a set of six unique prints of handbills with original artwork by Dan Hicks, printed on heavy art stock, each one numbered and stamped with the publisher's seal and packed in a custom-made folio. Each set is supplied in a specially made shipping carton with protective sleeve

Please join us on Sunday, June 18th (4:00 - 6:00 PM) for a Book Signing and Panel moderated by Kristine McKenna with Van Dyke Parks, Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, and Hot Licks guitarist Paul Robinson!

This vivid memoir of a man described as “one of America’s greatest songwriters” by Elvis Costello, and a cat that was “fly, sly, wily, and dry” by Tom Waits. Dan Hicks had a front-row seat to the birth and death of counter culture -- San Francisco, 1966 -- it would affect both him and his music.

"I Scare Myself" captures the highs and lows of a lifelong adventure in music. You’ll get to see Hicks’ memories of one of the changes the sixties brought, working with great musicians, plus, a foreword by Elvis Costello, afterword by producer Tommy LiPuma, and annotations by his close friend Kristine McKenna.

“I just started taking ingredients I liked and putting them together to see what came out,” Hicks writes. What came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink and drug abuse.

Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music, and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Ms. McKenna on June 18th, and posted starting Tuesday, June 20th.

978-1911036234 Inventory Number: e000DHISM-LTD

Hicks, Dan. Edited by Kristine McKenna. Afterword by Tommy LiPuma. Foreword by Elvis Costello.. London, UK: Jawbone Press, 2017. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Music Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 240pp, 100 b&w and color illustrations.

Please join us on Sunday, June 18th (4:00 - 6:00 PM) for a Book Signing and Panel moderated by Kristine McKenna with Van Dyke Parks, Maria Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, and Hot Licks guitarist Paul Robinson!

This vivid memoir of a man described as “one of America’s greatest songwriters” by Elvis Costello, and a cat that was “fly, sly, wily, and dry” by Tom Waits. Dan Hicks had a front-row seat to the birth and death of counter culture -- San Francisco, 1966 -- it would affect both him and his music.

"I Scare Myself" captures the highs and lows of a lifelong adventure in music. You’ll get to see Hicks’ memories of one of the changes the sixties brought, working with great musicians, plus, a foreword by Elvis Costello, afterword by producer Tommy LiPuma, and annotations by his close friend Kristine McKenna.

“I just started taking ingredients I liked and putting them together to see what came out,” Hicks writes. What came out was an amazing blend of complex time signatures, unusual instrumentation, and intricate vocal harmonies that took him to the top of the 70s rock world but also into a downward spiral of drink and drug abuse.

Hicks passed away in early 2016, but his music, and the stories he tells here, remain as fresh and irresistible as ever. I Scare Myself takes readers on a journey behind the music, and into the life and mind of the fantastic artist who created it.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Ms. McKenna on June 18th, and posted starting Tuesday, June 20th.

978-1911036234 Inventory Number: e000DHISM

Woodside, Clint. Um Yeah Arts, 2016. First issued in 2013 as a Deadbeat Club zine, Undercover Cars has been substantially enlarged and re-conceived as an elegant hardcover book featuring a new text by photographer Mike Slack. Undercover Cars is the culmination of a series of color photographs – shot on film and printed in the dark room – spanning five years, scores of autos, and thousands of miles from Los Angeles to Bangkok. The book contains 52 images of cars parked in plain sight, but covered from the elements. In his insightful essay, co-publisher Mike Slack (The Ice Plant) observes, “What strikes me now, looking at this fresh new edit, is not the boring ubiquity of the subject matter - the deadpan Christo-like charm of all these tarps attached to all these automobiles - but the man-made environments Woodside is showing us in the photographs, and the sense of walking-and-looking that the series implies. Never mind the covered cars; look at what surrounds them.” Hailing from New York, Clint Woodside currently resides in LA by way of Philadelphia. His work as a photographer has been shown in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose, and Philadelphia, and internationally in Europe, Asia, and Australia. Woodside is also known for his extensive work as a curator, graphic designer, and as creator/publisher of Deadbeat Club - a publisher and distributor of more than forty publications whose diverse roster of photographers includes Todd Hido, Tobin Yelland, Ed Templeton, Deanna Templeton, Andrea Sonnenberg, Jerry Hsu, Patrick O’Dell, Woodside, and others.

Comes in 8.5" X 10.5" box
With signed, stamped and numbered print and book
Choice of 5 different prints
Edition of 10 each set - 50 Total Inventory Number: e000CWUdlx

Rea, Steven. Schiffer Publishing. Put on a pot of your favorite coffee, perk up, and enjoy nostalgic black-and-white photos that celebrate screen icons from the Silent Era through the eighties making and drinking their own cups of joe, java, pour-overs, and percolated brews. Hollywood Café bridges the vibrant coffee culture of the present with the glamorous coffee culture of the star-studded past. A cast of nearly two hundred stars - including Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Michael Caine, Robert Mitchum, Rita Hayworth, Bob Hope, Jackie Gleason, Lucille Ball, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Wayne, Bette Davis, Clara Bow, Charlie Chaplin, W. C. Fields, and many more - is captured on the set, on the run, in costume and out, behind-the-scenes, and at the kitchen table refilling and refueling, sipping and savoring, drinking the good stuff, just like us. 978-0764349898 Inventory Number: e000CAFE

Stern, Aaron. 2016. 8vo. New. Signed First Edition with a print. Inventory Number: e000ASHA

Marcopoulos, Ari. Roma Publications, 2016.

Rome - Malibu from Amsterdam's Roma Publications presents photographs taken this year by Ari Marcopoulos in Rome and Malibu, and features a textual contribution by Kara Walker: "Rome. (...) Here, no image or structure is complete without symbolic framing devices, which also require framing devices, and so on. Ad infinitum. Malibu. Rockstars and fallen rocks and the edge, here is where the European conquest of the New World meets its fountain of youth endgame. We have reached the end, and it is vast."


PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Mr. Marcopoulos on November 18th and shipped on November 22nd.

978-9491843785 Inventory Number: e000AMRM

Marcopoulos, Ari, Foreword by Robert Slifkin, Text by Catherine Taft and Neville Wakefield. Rizzoli.

Newly published by Rizzoli, Not Yet is the definitive publication on the work of Ari Marcopoulos. For nearly four decades this renowned photographer whose explicit and startling visual intimacy bridges art and street photography has broken conventions with his candid and raw style. His images documenting subcultures such as skateboarding, snowboarding, and hip-hop; his tendencies to photograph stark landscapes, portraits of artists, and celebrities; and his extremely quiet and intimate pictures of his family and friends have all been hugely influential in helping to establish the visual rawness of youth culture, as well as the ephemeral aesthetic of contemporary photography. Ari Marcopoulos: Not Yet is an unprecedented journey through the artist’s celebrated career including both iconic and never-before-published photographs from the 1980s to now. Each chapter is edited by a different celebrated artist or family member close to Marcopoulos, and it is through these personal reflections on the artist’s work that this monograph takes on a deeper level of intimacy, drawing a more complete portrait of his oeuvre.

PLEASE NOTE: Books will be signed by Mr. Marcopoulos on November 18th and shipped on November 22nd.

978-0847848881 Inventory Number: e000AMNY

. Courts 02 by Ward Roberts
Print 03 (Edition of 200)

Photography by Ward Roberts

23.4in x 23.4in (59.4cm x 59.4cm)
Printed uncoated 148gsm specialty paper Inventory Number: e0000wrp03

. Courts 02 by Ward Roberts
Print 02 (Edition of 200)

Photography by Ward Roberts

23.4in x 23.4in (59.4cm x 59.4cm)
Printed uncoated 148gsm specialty paper Inventory Number: e0000wrp02

. Courts 02 by Ward Roberts
Print 01 (Edition of 200)

Photography by Ward Roberts

23.4in x 23.4in (59.4cm x 59.4cm)
Printed uncoated 148gsm specialty paper

100.00USD Inventory Number: e0000wrp01

Roberts, Ward. Éditions, 2016. Courts 02 by Ward Roberts
Foreword by Jennifer Krasinski
Special Edition of 100 copies only

Authentically signed by paintbrush stroke
Special Edition hardcover natural linen cover with debossed grid
Original unreleased archival print inserted

10.23in x 8.27in (26cm x 21cm)
60 pages printed full colour offset
Back cover and spine text in black foil 978-0-646-95542-1 Inventory Number: e0000wr2

Roberts, Ward. Éditions, 2016. Following the release of Courts 01 (2012), Ward Roberts extends upon his comprehensive body of work documenting sporting courts in Hong Kong, Bermuda, Hawaii, New York and Melbourne with ‘Courts 02’. 
 
‘Courts 02 by Ward Roberts’ will see two separate releases of the book (a standard edition plus a collector’s edition of 100 copies only), and for the very first time a selection of prints (23.4in x 23.4in) will be made available.
 
‘As all iconic images inevitably do, Ward Roberts’s Courts have now become a force of their own, circulating the world with terrific velocity via the rushing slipstream of the Internet, gathering momentum and making their mark upon the global eye. His work has brought together a growing community of followers, with whom he feels a humble sense of connection. This is, in a sense, the most beautiful reflection of the essence of what makes his images so riveting, his art so powerful: he gives life to the spaces of photography, and photography to the spaces of life’.  — Excerpt from ‘Courts 02 by Ward Roberts’ book foreword by Jennifer Kransinki, 2016. 978-0-646-95542-1 Inventory Number: e0000wr1event

Littky, Pamela. Foreword by Cameron Crowe. Kehrer Verlag. Like many apartment buildings in Hollywood, the Villa Bonita was built during the film industry’s first heyday bridging the 1920s to the 1930s. Built for the vast crews and casts that Cecil B. DeMille was hiring during the period, the Villa Bonita has housed great Hollywood figures from Errol Flynn to Francis Ford Coppola. In the absence of traditionally scaled, walkable neighborhoods, Los Angeles has long created community within the confines of these kinds of apartment complexes. Young and old, employed and between gigs, dreamers and those whose dreams left long ago – everyone arrived at the Villa Bonita for one good reason or another. Featuring a foreword by Cameron Crowe, this striking hardbound volume brings us within intimate distance of its subjects, as Los Angeles-based photographer - and Arcana favorite - Pamela Littky surveys all of the inhabitants of this historic apartment tower in the middle of Hollywood, creating a collective portrait of the transient nature of the city.

To be SIGNED by the photographer at Arcana on September 15th!



978-3868286854 Inventory Number: e0000PLVB

Littky, Pamela. Kehrer Verlag. "Vacancy" is a multifaceted portrait of two towns that are as much rural desert communities as they are states of mind. While driving between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, Pamela Littky was exposed to the small towns at either edge of Death Valley - the legendary region of the Mojave Desert that hosts the hottest and driest climate in the US. Anyone who has ever been there can tell you that there is little else on either side except for long, empty stretches of straight-line desert highway. But the Mojave’s harshest conditions have not deterred all living things. The towns that both claim the title of "Gateway to Death Valley" - Baker, California and Beatty, Nevada - are tight-knit communities of people who remain settled where most merely pass through. Littky found an America that is far from "frozen in time," but entirely in its own cultural zone. Independent, hardy, and idiosyncratic, the people of these towns were ideal subjects for Littky to explore the heart of what seems like a big empty place, but may reflect back something important about the American experience today. From domestic scenes to colorful bars, trailers to bingo halls and the always beautiful-but-unrelenting landscape, Vacancy illuminates the everyday life of these two unique Desert communities.

To be SIGNED by the photographer at Arcana on September 15th! Inventory Number: e0000PLV