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Please note: Subject to real-time availability.

""In "The Moon Has Lost Her Memory," Deanna Templeton strings together a selection of photographs from her archive, some dating as far back as 16 years, and knits them along with fragments from T.S. Eliot's “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” into a observational rumination on humankind and their activities under the cloak of night.
The poem and the images harmonize in the pleasing hum of street lamps and the surrounding shadows. In a dark corner of a cafe a bored couple await their bill staring out into oblivion as a flock of women squished into shiny dresses flutter across the street, cars headlamps filtering through their spindly legs balanced on high heels teetering along the asphalt. Her camera peers into open doors at forlorn men in bars drinking by themselves as the world dances around them reveling in the darkness. The light sings in her frames, long exposures seared into the film, both the glow of the moon and garish neon signs glancing off the faces her subjects as they move through the night.
Deanna Templeton’s sensitive eye gazes upon the after hours denizens of London, Barcelona, Los Angeles and Rome as they perform the rituals of the night, drunken gaiety for some and isolated solitude for others." Super Labo Inventory Number: SP17074

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

(MANZELLA, TONY). Manzella, Tony. Venice, CA: Verb Editions, 2017. First Edition. Elephant Folio. Pictorial Tabloid Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.
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

Demand, Thomas. Text by Hal Foster. MACK, 2015. "Working within the parameters of his established technique, Thomas Demand created carefully formed paper and card sculptures, a parallel world which is photographed and then destroyed. The Dailies offers only traces – signs of consumption, or the spectres of things left behind. His creations are based on things he saw and photographs he took while travelling and walking the street. They show a world that is familiar but out of reach, like the dancing coloured pins on a clothesline, suspended somewhere between the overfamiliar and the hallucinatory – as if a chance apparition, glimpsed momentarily, before it vanishes into its habitat.

The images lure the viewer into a mirror world, a twin universe made only of paper. But the imperfect models are awash with discrepancies from actual things, and as such, they act as small ruptures that complicate the old indexical bond between a photograph and reality. Demand describes the series as Haiku poetry, simple fragments strung together to inspire reflection; they are the stock of our daily lives, but as they trigger deja vu through performed repetition, they ask us to look again, anew, to find in the repertoire an ordinary but redemptive beauty.

Demand’s work has been shown extensively across the world and is included in most of the significant private and institutional collections. Recent books include Model Studies (Ivory Press, 2011) and Blossom with the poet Ben Lerner (MACK, 2015).

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Dailies" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 9781910164402 Inventory Number: E000TDTD

Demand, Thomas and Ben Lerner. London, UK: MACK, 2015. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. The texts and images presented here are part of Blossom, a collaboration between the artist Thomas Demand and writer Ben Lerner. The images relate to a detail from a photograph of Katherine Russell, widow of Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev leaving her home in Boston, that first appeared in the New York Times on 4 May 2013.

Thomas Demand’s work lures the viewer into a reality that is not what it appears to be. Carefully contrived from paper, these imaginary worlds are sculpted, photographed and destroyed. The traces which remain are events in which the protagonist is removed, scenes that are both familiar and out of reach. Demand’s work has been shown extensively across the world and is included in most of the significant private and institutional collections. Recent books include The Dallies (MACK, 2012) and Model Studies (Ivory Press, 2011).

Ben Lerner is the author of three books of poetry: The Lichtenberg Figures, Angle of Yaw and Mean Free Path, all published by Copper Canyon Press. He is the author of two novels, Leaving the Atocha Station, published by Coffee House Press, and 10:04, out this year from Faber / FSG. His recent writing on art and literature can be found in Art in America, Frieze, Harper’s, and The London Review of Books. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and has received Fulbright, Howard, and Guggenheim Fellowships, among other honors.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Blossom" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. Inventory Number: E000TDB

(CARPENTER, TIM). Carpenter, Tim. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition 1/30 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (144pp), 74 duotone illustrations. "Borrowing its title from the Wallace Stevens poem in which “little existed for him but the few things / for which a fresh name always occurred,” Tim Carpenter’s "Local Objects" is a solid yet remarkably unassuming body of work: a calm, steady rhythm of seventy-four medium format photographs made in the semi-rural American Midwest. While each picture meticulously frames the seemingly random non-activity of a typical ‘street view’ image, Carpenter’s contemplative sequencing allows a surprising harmony of natural and geometric motifs to modulate quietly throughout the book - an interplay of minor chords that draw the viewer into this specific physical place (mostly central Illinois, where he grew up) and the subjective, literary space of the work. Detached from the urgency of current affairs, stripped of all excess, Carpenter’s photographs reflect a poetic attempt to see “the thing in itself,” to make meaning with the barest tools possible". A brand new, pristine example of deluxe The Ice Plant first edition limited to thirty SIGNED copies in a hand-stamped, NUMBERED slipcase accompanied by a SIGNED AND NUMBERED 4 1/4 x 3 3/8" Silver Gelatin print.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Local Objects" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9897859-9-0 Inventory Number: E000TCLO-LTD

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Venice, CA: Hamilton Press, 2017. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Small 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket as Issued.

Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood". With imagery ranging from stark silhouettes to lush landscapes and human forms staged in undetermined acts of hope, his pairing of words and imagery form a poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle both ancient and contemporary. 

Williams' first book, "Hunted & Gathered" was painstakingly produced by Hamilton Press. The press was established in 1990 by master printmaker Ed Hamilton and artist Ed Ruscha to encourage artists to produce art in a peaceful, unhurried atmosphere. Steeped in traditional book making in a modern age, each publication itself is a fine object created by an esteemed team. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Marina Mills Kitchen of Green Dragon Office with color separations by Echelon Color, Santa Monica and printed by Dr.Cantz’sche Druckerei Median GmbH in Ostfildern, Germany, the first edition consists of seven hundred hardbound copies along with a deluxe edition of limited to fifty copies containing an original work on paper by the artist.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Hunted & Gathered" will be signed Saturday, October 7th and shipped starting on Tuesday, October 10th. 978-0-692-87700-5 Inventory Number: e000SWH&G-LTD

(Williams, Senon). Williams, Senon. Venice, CA: Hamilton Press, 2017. First Edition 1/700. Small 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

Los Angeles native Senon Williams is a lifelong artist and musician. A founding member of the always-engaging Dengue Fever, Williams’ visual work finds space in the natural, exposing outstanding and devastating stages of human evolution. “To provoke thought, a question works better than answers. I enjoy to start a story I resolve in different ways depending on my mood". With imagery ranging from stark silhouettes to lush landscapes and human forms staged in undetermined acts of hope, his pairing of words and imagery form a poignant visualization of the inherent human struggle both ancient and contemporary. 

Williams' first book, "Hunted & Gathered" was painstakingly produced by Hamilton Press. The press was established in 1990 by master printmaker Ed Hamilton and artist Ed Ruscha to encourage artists to produce art in a peaceful, unhurried atmosphere. Steeped in traditional book making in a modern age, each publication itself is a fine object created by an esteemed team. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Marina Mills Kitchen of Green Dragon Office with color separations by Echelon Color, Santa Monica and printed by Dr.Cantz’sche Druckerei Median GmbH in Ostfildern, Germany, the first edition consists of seven hundred hardbound copies along with a deluxe edition of limited to fifty copies containing an original work on paper by the artist.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Hunted & Gathered" will be signed Saturday, October 7th and shipped starting on Tuesday, October 10th. 978-0-692-87700-5 Inventory Number: e000SWH&G

. 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.

(RAFAL, ETHAN). Rafal, Ethan. San Francisco, CA: IHA Editions, 2015. First Edition. 4to. Silkscreened Cloth. Photography Monograph. New/No Jacket - As Issued. 978-0-9895996-0-3 Inventory Number: E000RERSAA

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

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition 1/20 Deluxe. 4to. Decorative Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (100pp), 50 color illustrations. "Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles… Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in "The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance? Made primarily around the American southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid compositions — like a series of thought-bubbles in search of a narrative — are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie". A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe The Ice Plant first edition limited to twenty SIGNED copies in a hand-stamped, NUMBERED slipcase accompanied by an Archival Color Ink Jet print SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Mike Slack entitled "Cloud".

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Transverse Path" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9992655-0-5 Inventory Number: E000MSTTP-LTD2

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition 1/20 Deluxe. 4to. Decorative Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/ No Jacket - As Issued. np (100pp), 50 color illustrations. "Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles… Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in "The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance? Made primarily around the American southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid compositions — like a series of thought-bubbles in search of a narrative — are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie". A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe The Ice Plant first edition limited to twenty SIGNED copies in a hand-stamped, NUMBERED slipcase accompanied by an Archival Color Ink Jet print SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Mike Slack entitled "Grass".

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Transverse Path" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9992655-0-5 Inventory Number: E000MSTTP-LTD1

(SLACK, MIKE). Slack, Mike. Los Angeles: The Ice Plant, 2017. First Edition. 4to. Decorative Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/ No Jacket - As Issued. np (100pp), 50 color illustrations. "Clouds, electronics, fog, bugs, glass, cellophane, rust, weeds, waves, particles… Mike Slack delves into an overheated terrestrial ecosystem in "The Transverse Path, surveying a luminous topography of monumental details and mundane vistas with cosmic curiosity. Transcendental in mood, Slack’s vaguely sci-fi photographs envision a sun-blasted wilderness of synthetic and organic stuff, all tangled together, flourishing and disintegrating on its own terms, as if engaged in an ageless negotiation (or flirtation?) just beyond our grasp. Where does nature end and its opposite begin? And where do people figure into this balance? Made primarily around the American southwest from 2011 to 2017, these vivid compositions — like a series of thought-bubbles in search of a narrative — are concise and direct, yet driven by an emotional ambivalence that hovers between stark environmental dread and calm intimate reverie". A brand new, pristine example of the first The Ice Plant edition limited to nine hundred unnumbered copies additionally SIGNED "Mike Slack" in ink.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The Transverse Path" will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-0-9992655-0-5 Inventory Number: E000MSTTP

Ruwedel, Mark. MACK, 2016. Message from the Exterior explores the ruins and remains of failed attempts to live in the desert’s harsh environments, depicting abandoned houses – small, often eccentric huts, both humorous and a little forlorn. Ruwedel examines the desert regions east of Los Angeles as a palimpsest of cultural and natural histories, presenting an inventory of a particular, and poignant, form of vernacular architecture; each structure might be read as a clue to the lives of anonymous individuals, and the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory. The first section, 'Desert Houses', comprises 68 desert structures, while the second section, ‘Dusk’, presents houses photographed after the sun had disappeared over the horizon, now rendered in subdued, dusky tones that suggest both present and absence, and the weight of isolation.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Message from the Exterior" will be signed Sunday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. Inventory Number: E000MRM

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

(LEE, JASON). Lee, Jason & Will Gillham. Denton, TX: Film Photographic in collaboration with RF Book Co., 2018. First Edition 1/1800. Oblong 4to. Wrappers with Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.. 180 pages, 111 color illustrations. Designed by Chris Brown, RF Book Co and Jason Lee.

"A PLAIN VIEW" is the most recent chapter in Jason Lee's ongoing photographic exploration of rural America that began more than a decade ago with large format Polaroid films on the back roads of California. This lavishly produced lay-flat softbound book is comprised of one hundred and eleven color images made throughout Texas over the course of twenty-five days between January and April of 2017 using expired Kodak 4 x 5 color films and a Graflex Speed Graphic view camera accompanied by a text by Will Gillham, the Head of Publications at The Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. Says the author "Having relocated to Texas from California in 2015, I felt it important to explore my adopted state more extensively than I had in the past as a visiting photographer. "A PLAIN VIEW" is the result of that exploration". A brand new, pristine example of the 2017 first edition limited to one thousand, eight hundred copies with a 4 x 5 film-size laminated print adhered to the front cover SIGNED by Jason Lee in ink.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "A PLAIN VIEW" will be signed by Mr. Lee at Arcana on Saturday May 26th and shipped beginning Tuesday, May 27th. If you would like to pre-order a signed copy and collect it at the event, please indicate this in the "notes" section of your order.


. Inventory Number: E000JLAPV

Gold, Jeff. Jon Savage (Editor), with contributions by Johan Kugelburg, Ben Blackwell, Joan Jett, Johnny Marr. Nashville, TN: Third Man Books, 2016. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Music Monograph. As New/As New.

One of the most anticipated books of the year about one of the most influential bands of all time... Total Chaos: The Story of The Stooges / As Told by Iggy Pop is the first time the story of this seminal band has been told entirely in Pop's own words.

Author Jeff Gold and contributor Johan Kugelberg - noted music historians and collectors both - spent two days with Iggy Pop at his Miami home, sharing with him their extensive Stooges collection and interviewing the legendary singer. Pop’s candid, bare-all responses left them with the almost unbelievable tale of the band he founded as a teenager in Michigan nearly fifty years ago. It is the alternately tragic and triumphant story of a group who rose from youth, fell prey to drugs, alcohol, and music biz realities, collapsed, and nearly thirty years later reformed to record and tour once again to great acclaim. In 2010 The Stooges, credited with having invented punk rock, were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Their continuing influence can be felt today in the shape and sound of rock 'n' roll music.

Jeff Gold, Johan Kugelberg, and editor/contributor Jon Savage are among the most respected music authors and historians working today. Their efforts include numerous acclaimed and best-selling books and a Grammy Award. Published by Third Man Books, "Total Chaos" stands as a work for all fans of the band and rock music to draw inspiration from. Including an absolute treasure-trove of rare and unseen photographs, it is a metallic k.o. of only the best kind that shows AND tells the story of The Stooges.

"It was a rare privilege to sit with Iggy as he downloaded the story of The Stooges. He’s an incredible storyteller with a fantastic memory and a great sense of humor, and he held nothing back. The Stooges were pioneers in sound, look, and live presentation, and along the way invented a genre—punk rock—and influenced countless others that followed. There was no precedent in rock music for what they did. They're definitely the only group in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame who started out playing an amplified Waring blender, a vacuum cleaner, spring water bottles and a two hundred gallon oil drum." — Jeff Gold, Author of "101 Essential Rock Records"

"Iggy and The Stooges have to be one of the greatest American rock bands that has ever been." — Joan Jett

"What does it mean to be Iggy Pop, five decades of being ‘the wildest man in rock’? Iggy Pop is many things. Rock Star. Singer, Rebel. Primitive. Stooge. The Jean Genie, Passenger. Legend." — Johnny Marr

"Iggy Pop has turned the interview into an art form. In this book he tells the history of The Stooges with a mixture of wit, candor and spontaneity: from their early beginnings to their full flaming flare over three groundbreaking albums before the crash and the triumphant return that no-one could have predicted. Profusely illustrated with dozens of unseen images, this is the story of The Stooges like you’ve never read it before." — Jon Savage, Author of England's Dreaming. 978-0991336197 Inventory Number: E000JGTC

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.



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

(DIVOLA, JOHN). Divola, John. London, UK: MACK, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

120pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. "Between 1974 and 1975, American photographer John Divola – then in his mid twenties and without a studio of his own – traveled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera, spray paint, string and cardboard, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled "Vandalism". In this visceral, black and white series of images Divola vandalized vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks, ritualistic configurations of string hooked to pins, and torn arrangements of card, before photographing the results. The project vigorously merged the documentary approach of forensic photography with staged interventions echoing sculpture, performance, and installation art. Serving as a conceptual sabotaging of the delineations between such documentary and artistic practices at a time when the ‘truthfulness’ of photography was being called into question, "Vandalism" helped to establish Divola’s highly distinctive photographic language". A brand new, pristine example of the 2018 first MACK Books edition. additionally SIGNED by photographer John Divola.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Vandalism" will be signed by Mr. Divola at Arcana on Saturday, May 12th and shipped beginning Tuesday, May 15th. If you would like to pre-order a signed copy and collect it at the event, please indicate this in the "Notes" section of your order.



978-1-912339-00-6 Inventory Number: E000JDV

(ANTOLA, JESSICA). Antola, Jessica. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New.

Jessica Antola’s first monograph entitled Circadian Landscape is a vibrant journey through Sub-Saharan Africa. Traveling mostly by car, she captures the distinctive style and beauty of everyday life in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Togo. Her striking portraits, landscapes, and vignettes offer an intimate view of life lived in rural villages, big cities and along the remote roadways between the two. Men dressed head to toe in elaborate African wax textiles share a motorcycle; ancestral spirits bridge earthly and supernatural worlds in masked dances; the rich red soil dusts the lush tropical jungle; a girl in an over-sized straw hat steers her boat with a boldly patterned patchwork sail; and a gold jewelry-clad Kumasi King performs a warrior dance.

Antola is captivated by how people around the world express themselves in relation to their environments, and her images reflect the astonishing variety of ways people create and define themselves daily through dress and ritual, work and play.


PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Circadian Landscapes" will be signed by Ms. Antola will be signing books at Arcana on Saturday April 21st and shipped beginning Tuesday, April 24th. If you would like to pre-order a signed copy and collect it at the event, please indicate this in the "notes" section of your order.


. 978-8862085809 Inventory Number: E000JACL

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 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

Ishino, Fumi. MACK, 2017. Rowing a Tetrapod brings together a fluctuating array of black and white photographs made in multiple locations in the United States and Japan, between which countries emerging artist Fumi Ishino has resided. The work channels his nomadic experience of moving back and forth between two distinct cultures, with divergent social norms and values. Following an aleatoric structure, the book presents images as diverse as Japanese school children, American astronauts, vernacular architecture, laboratory scenes, local cuisines, animals and studio still-lifes. Blurring distinctions between the local and the foreign, the domestic and the cosmic, Rowing a Tetrapod delights in confusing cultural conceptions, fabricating an imaginary space that is bent towards misinterpretation.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Rowing a Tetrapod" will be signed Sunday, December 9th and shipped starting on Tuesday, December 12th. 978-1-910164-92-1 Inventory Number: E000FIRAT

Spivack, Emily. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2017. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Fashion. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. Sixty-eight clothing-inspired narratives make up "Worn in New York" - the latest volume from New York Times bestselling author Emily Spivack. In these first-person accounts, contributors in and out of the public eye share surprising, personal, wild, poignant, and funny stories behind a piece of clothing that reminds them of a significant moment of their New York lives. "Worn in New York" offers a contemporary cultural history of the city - its changing identity, temper, and tone, and its irrepressible vitality - by paying tribute to these well-loved clothes and the people who wore them.

Included are contributions from Adam Horovitz, Amy Heckerling, Andre Royo, Anna Sui, Aubrey Plaza, Catherine Opie, Coco Rocha, Dick Cavett, Eileen Myles, Fab 5 Freddy, Gay Talese, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, J.D. Samson, Jenji Kohan, Jenna Lyons, Kyp Malone, Lena Dunham, Pee Wee Kirkland, Thelma Golden, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and many, many more.

Emily Spivack is a Brooklyn-based artist, writer, and editor who writes a recurring column for T: The New York Times Style Magazine. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York, Vogue, and Harper’s Bazaar.


PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Worn in New York" will be signed Sunday, November 12th and shipped starting on Tuesday, November 14th. 978-1-4197-2707-8 Inventory Number: E000ESWINY

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

(DEMETRIOS, EAMES). Demetrios, Eames. Los Angeles: Kcymaerxthaere, 2017. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Book. As New./No Jacket - As Issued.. 192pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English. Designed by Simona Szabados and Cyrus Hawkes.

"Kcymaerxthaere: The Story So Far… (Folio 1)" is a limited edition compendium documenting the first one hundred and thirty-eight Kcymaerxthaere installations, as well as a few in progress. A brand new, pristine example of Volume II only - the handy portable version of the stories told as well as the text from the markers so far perfectly sized for the plane or bedtimevreading - additionally NUMBERED AND SIGNED by author, artist, and Geographer-at-Large Eames Demetrios.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Kcymaerxthaere: The Story So Far… (Folio 1) - Volume II" will be signed Saturday, March 3rd and shipped starting on Tuesday, March 5th. Inventory Number: E000EDKTSSF-V2

(DEMETRIOS, EAMES). Demetrios, Eames. Los Angeles: Kcymaerxthaere, 2017. First Edition 1/1415. Stout Small 4to + 8vo. Decorative Ring Binder + Illustrated Wrappers. Artist's Books. As New/No Jackets - As Issued. 792pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Eames Demetrios, Tim McQuaide, Simona Szabados, and Cyrus Hawkes.

"Kcymaerxthaere: The Story So Far… (Folio 1)" is a limited edition compendium documenting the first one hundred and thirty-eight Kcymaerxthaere installations, as well as a few in progress. The Folio is a two volume set organizing the markers and historical sites in story order. Volume I begins with a visual overture. After that you'll find images and text for each of the markers and historical sites as they are installed in twenty-seven countries arranged in order of the unfolding story. Great for browsing and exploring. In the next part, you can take in the stories as words alone for ease of that special flow of reading. The folio also includes appendices and indices as well as an extensive glossary of over six hundred Kcymaerxthaereal words in myriad languages and even Kcy writing systems. Volume II is a handy portable version of the stories told as well as the text from the markers so far - sized perfectly for the plane or bedtime reading. Together, the two books that make up this Folio are definitely the most complete Kcymaerxthaere-related publication to date. A brand new, pristine example of this mind-bending two volume set limited to one thousand, four hundred and fifteen overall examples - most not for sale - NUMBERED AND SIGNED by author, artist, and Geographer-at-Large Eames Demetrios.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "Kcymaerxthaere: The Story So Far… (Folio 1)" will be signed Saturday, March 3rd and shipped starting on Tuesday, March 5th. Inventory Number: E000EDKTSSF

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

(TEMPLETON, ED) (TEMPLETON, DEANNA). Templeton, Deanna and Ed. Paso Robles, CA: Nazraeli Press, 2017. First Edition 1/2000. 8vo. Cloth with Pastedown in a Plastic Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. *

np, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Ed Templeton. Hot off the Nazraeli Press, "Contemporary Suburbium" is the beautifully produced collaboration between photographers Ed and Deanna Templeton. Presented as a double-sided accordion-fold leporello bound between two boards, each utilizes a full side to provide a linear documentary of the goings-on of their OC neighbors over the past fifteen years. A brand new, pristine example of the first edition limited to two thousand unnumbered copies in the publisher's printed plastic slipcase additionally SIGNED by both Ed and Deanna Templeton in ink.

Check out our other Templeton-related offerings for sale here: https://www.arcanabooks.com/catalog/category/ed-templeton/

PLEASE NOTE: Due to limited, pre-publication supplies, sales are limited to one copy of "Contemporary Suburbium" per person. Copies will be signed Saturday, December 9th and shipped starting Tuesday, December 12th. 978-1-59005-478-9 Inventory Number: E000DETCS

Woodside, Clint. Um Yeah Arts, 2016. First Edition 1/10 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth with Pastedown, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 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: E000CWUCDLX

Mendoza, Ruben G. Photographs by Melba Levick. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Architecture Monograph. As New/As New. The twenty-one missions of California - from San Diego to San Francisco Solano - are historic treasures and sites of pilgrimage for visitors from the world over. Intrinsically beautiful structures typically built of adobe brick and wood, adorned with towers, domes, whitewashed stucco, often surrounded by lush gardens, the missions are at the very heart of California.

Established by Spanish padres, built by Native Californians, and preserved and restored by historians and architects, California’s missions are unique monuments to the region’s indigenous and European histories. This colorful, informative exploration of all twenty-one sites, each with its own rich story to tell, journeys along the historic Camino Real from Mission Dolores with its flower-strewn courtyard gardens in San Francisco, to San Juan Capistrano, famous for the swallows that flock to its inviting grounds. With lush photography that captures the missions’ details so splendidly, this is the perfect book for mission visitors and lovers of their strong and simple forms.

About the Authors: Melba Levick is a widely published and exhibited photographer who lives and works in Paris, California, and Spain. She has co-authored or contributed to numerous books published by Rizzoli. Ruben G. Mendoza is an archaeologist, author, photographer, and founding faculty member of California State University, Monterey Bay.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "The California Missions" will be signed by Ms. Levick and Mr. Mendoza at Arcana on Sunday, April 15th and shipped starting on Tuesday, April 17th. 978-0847861514 Inventory Number: E000CM

(KENT, SISTER MARY CORITA). Kent, Sister Mary Corita, Dr. Ray Smith & Aaron Rose. Los Angeles: Atelier Editions, 2018. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Illustrated Cloth in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 80pp, 26 color illustrations + 26 loose color offset plates laid in.

"Radical American artist, educator, and once-devout Catholic nun, Sister Mary Corita Kent’s provocative imagery has entranced audiences for over four decades. Originally completed in 1968, Kent’s "International Signal Code Alphabet" encompasses a series of twenty-six kaleidoscopic serigraphs integrating scripture, typography, image, icon, and the maritime flags of the International Code of Signals. It features an introduction by Corita Art Center Director Dr. Ray Smith along with a foreword by noted Kent scholar, artist, and curator Aaron Rose. As 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of both the series’ completion, and the centennial of Kent’s birth, this celebratory publication reproduces this engaging body of work for the very first time in a monographic, fine art format". A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies containing a suite of all twenty-six images reproduced on loose plates housed along with the book in an illustrated cloth slipcase additionally SIGNED by authors Dr. Ray Smith and Aaron Rose in ink.

PLEASE NOTE: Copies of "International Signal Code Alphabet" will be signed by Dr. Smith and Mr. Rose at Arcana on Saturday, May 19th and shipped beginning Tuesday, May 22nd. If you would like to pre-order a signed copy and collect it at the event, please indicate this in the "Notes" section of your order. 978-0-9775935-6-3 Inventory Number: E000CKISCA-DLX