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(ADAMS, BRYAN). Adams, Bryan. Foreword by Margaret Atwood. Toronto, CANADA: Key Porter Books, 1999. First Edition (Second Printing). 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. "In some ways, this book started when Flare magazine published my photograph of model Linda Evangelista in 1998, promoting a concert she and I were co-sponsoring to raise money for a breast cancer screening clinic in St. Catharine's, Ontario. Previously, I had recorded some music for a CD and performed at a concert in Los Angeles both for breast cancer research, so the idea of continuing to raise awareness was forefront in my mind. I approached Flare with the idea of continuing to promote awareness, hence this book. I am extremely grateful to all those who gave both time and money to help make each photo happen and especially to all the women photographed here who were Made in Canada". This book of musician and photographer Bryan Adams' images of inspiring Canadian women includes portraits of Margaret Atwood - who contributed the foreword, Shalom Harlow, Kim Cattrall, Catherine O'Hara, Margaret Trudeau, Sarah McLachlan, Joni Mitchell, Silken Laumann, Natalie and Nicole Appleton, Alison Sydor, Shannon Tweed, Carolyn Waldo, Jane Sibbery, Eve Salvail, Floria Sigismondi, Dayle Haddon, K.D. Lang, Genevieve Bujold, Celine Dion, Natasha Henstridge, Margo Timmins, Pamela Anderson Lee, Anne Murray and Dawn Langstroth, Sarah Polley, Jill Hennessy, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Tricia Helfer, Stacey MacKenzie, Linda Evangelista, Margot Kidder, Alanis Moris7sette, Angela Featherstone, Neve Campbell, Carrie-Anne Moss, Shania Twain, Diana Krall, Estella Warren, and many, many more. A brand new, pristine example of the 1999 Key Porter Books second printing additionally BOLDLY SIGNED WITH A SMILEY-FACE DRAWING by Bryan Adams in black marker on the title page. 1-55263-071-4 Inventory Number: 020358

(AKIYAMA, MAHOKO). Akiyama, Mahoko. Tokyo: Pan-Exotica & Treville Co. Ltd., 2004. First Edition. 12mo. Wrappers in Die Cut Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New.. np, profusely illustrated in duotone plates. Text in English and Japanese. "I have always created dolls in accordance with the dictates of my heart at the time. Then I spend long hours in my room with the dolls I have finished creating or those that are unfinished, and photograph the various doll stories that float up in my imagination... In this manner, for several years, I have shot and collected one photo after another". From renowned Japanese doll maker/photographer Mahoko Akiyama comes this creepy little gem of a book that documents and reveals his very sexually charged creations. The follow-up to his 1991 title "Ange", these shadowy images provide a mysterious and brooding atmosphere that strongly evokes Hans Bellmer (especially in the hand-colored pastel images that pay homage to "La Poupee"), Bernard Faucon, David Hamilton, The Brothers Quay, and Katan Amano. A brand new, pristine example of this gorgeously designed and printed book housed in the publisher's printed, die-cut slipcase, bound with a baby blue ribbon, as issued. 4-309-90568-4 Inventory Number: 016121

(ALEXANDRE, CLAUDE). Iizawa, Kohtaro & Claude Alexandre. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1992. First Edition. Folio. Pictorial Boards in Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Very Good. np, profusely illustrated in duotone. Text in Japanese and English. Designed by Hideyuki Taguchi. Claude Alexandre's intense fetish and bondage images are well-known in the realm of photographic erotica. Published only in Japan, this beautifully designed and printed volume remains the most comprehensive compendium of her work. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing just a bit of overall wear and handling. 4-8457-0700-4 Inventory Number: 008721

(ALTOON, JOHN). Hales, Andrea, Milton Wexler, Peter Selz & Robert Creeley. Foreword by Hugh M. Davies. San Diego, CA: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Self-Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 56pp, 23 color and 18 b&w illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a 1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego retrospective of seventy-three paintings, works on paper, and prints by John Altoon. The exhibition and the catalogue are the most comprehensive surveys to date of the quirky, erotically charged work of the influential Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist who died in 1969. A most handsome example. 0-934418-51-9 Inventory Number: 023309

(ALTOON, JOHN). Hopps, Walter & Elke M. Solomon. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. np (24pp), 19 b&w and 2 color illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1971 Walter Hopps-curated Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective of fifty drawings and lithographs by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon. A bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item with an additions and errata slip laid in. LC 71-181853 Inventory Number: 025865

(ALTOON, JOHN). Hopps, Walter & Elke M. Solomon. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 19 b&w and 2 color illustrations + color cover. With an exhibition checklist. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1971 Walter Hopps-curated Whitney Museum of American Art retrospective of fifty drawings and lithographs by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon. A handsome example of this uncommon item. LC 71-181853 Inventory Number: 023366

(ALTOON, JOHN). Kienholz, Ed. Hope, ID: The Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Very Good.. np (16pp), 19 b&w illustrations + color cover. Designed by Nancy Reddin Kienholz and Russell Rosander. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with the posthumous 1982 exhibition of drawings by noted Venice artist John Altoon held at Ed and Nancy Kienholz' Faith and Charity in Hope Gallery. Its sole text is a heartfelt reminiscence of Altoon and Ferus Gallery days by Kienholz. A handsome example of this uncommon item showing some light overall soiling and creasing. Inventory Number: 023363

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nordland, Gerald R.. Chicago, IL: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1984. First Edition. Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 16pp, 8 b&w illustrations + color cover. With a biography, exhibition history and exhibition checklist. This is the slender sixteen page catalogue published in conjunction with a posthumous 1984 Arts Club of Chicago retrospective of twenty-nine works on paper by the quirky Los Angeles-based, Ferus Gallery-affiliated artist John Altoon. A most handsome example. Inventory Number: 023717

(ALTOON, JOHN). Nye, Tim, Robert Creeley, Walter Hopps, Klaus Kertess & Dr. Milton Wexler. New York: Nyehaus Gallery and the Monacelli Press, 2013. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 224pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Kyle Lamar. With a biography, exhibition history and collections listing. Published to coincide with a 2014 retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "The Astonishing Works of John Altoon" surveys the colorful paintings and virtuosic drawings of this larger-than-life personality exhibited at New York's Nyehaus in 2013. Altoon's art is intimate, haunting, and erotic - capturing a magical moment in California art between the Beat Generation and the sexual and psychedelic revolutions. The work is put in context through essays and remembrances from those who knew him best: the poet Robert Creeley; psychiatrist and fan Dr. Milton Wexler; pioneering West Coast curator Walter Hopps; and curator, gallerist, and critic Klaus Kertess. This lavishly produced original collection also features a juxtaposition of Altoon's lithographs with a selection of Creeley's poems that the longtime friends originally published as "About Women" in 1965, a facsimile of his Ed Kienholz-published memorial exhibition catalog, and posthumously addressed letters from friends. A brand new, pristine example of this exquisite document. 1-58093-386-6 Inventory Number: 025206

(AMOK). Swezey, Stuart & Brian King, Editors. Los Angeles. 1986-2000.: Amok. First Editions. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Near Fine or Better.. 32 + 52 + 100 + 374 + 476 + 562pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Before there was an internet for such things, if one wanted to investigate Serial Killers, The Illuminati, Alien Autopsies, Conspiracy Theories, Mind Control, Tiki Exoticism, Bondage and Domination, Sensory Deprivation, and any manner of transgressive topics, the Amok shop on Vermont Avenue in Los Angeles was your veritable Library of Alexandria. Starting as a modest storefront bookstore, Amok branched out in the eighties and nineties to become a far reaching mail-order empire where one could find the most obscure books, pamphlets, tracts, screeds, video tapes, cassettes, and the like on anything from Survival Research Laboratory to Ed Gein to MK-ULTRA. Their five highly informative - and sought after - catalogues of wares referred to as "Dispatches" were published in 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1999. Additionally, an anthology of writings on Autoerotic Fatalities, Trepanation, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Cargo Cult, NSK, Self-Mutilation Amputee Fetish, Infrasound, and Psych-Our was issued in 1995 as the "Amok Journal: Sensurround Edition." The first four installments are on newsprint, and show just a bit of age-toning to their textblocks. Number four is the uncommon first printing with the monochrome cover reproduction of one of artist Jim Shaw's thrift store paintings. All are first printings but for the fifth installment, which is the second printing from 2000. A most handsome, truly rare complete set of the five "Dispatches" plus the "Amok Journal" featuring nearly two thousand pages that illuminate and explore the darkest reaches of mankind - and beyond - each of which is additionally SIGNED in black ink by Amok editor and publisher, Stuart Swezey. Inventory Number: 026691

(ANKH). Cropsey, Charles & Ed Lange, Editors. Los Angeles. 1966 + 1967.: Elysium Inc., Publishers. First Editions. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Nudist Periodical. Fine.. 70 + 70 + 66 + 66pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published by Los Angeles' last great nudist haven, The Elysium Institute, "Ankh" is arguably the most awesome of all the under the counter Hippie psychedelic magazines of the late sixties. Full-frontally illustrated throughout with photographs of well adjusted, hirsute sun worshippers in their teens and twenties (including the always photogenic Michelle Angelo) by the likes of Ed Lange, Walter Chappell, William Rotsler, and Russell Gay, the reader can all but smell the suntan lotion and Patchouli oil. Included are pictorials on communes, nudist colonies, and light shows along with articles such as "Sex in The Sun", "Group Therapy in the Nude" "What Hath God / LSD / God Wrought?", "Thoreau: The First Hippie", and the two-part "Barry McGuire (!) on Sex". A bright, spectacularly well-preserved run of the first four issues of this obscure crowd pleaser. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 026483

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Ettore Sottsass, Tetsuo Ishida, Junichi Shioda, Jakucho Setouchi, Ua & Issey Miyake. Tokyo: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo & Asahi Shimbun, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 152pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Designed by Seichi Suzuki Design Office. With a biography, exhibition history, and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1999 Tokyo Museum exhibition, this excellent survey of Nobuyoshi Araki's eroticized lifestyle includes an interview with the photographer as well as texts by the likes of Ettore Sottsass, Tetsuo Ishida, Junichi Shioda, Jakucho Setouchi, and Issey Miyake. A most handsome example (entry number 254 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). Inventory Number: 022754

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi & Jerome Sans. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2002. First Edition 1/2500 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket, Boxed. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 636pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in English, German and French. With a biography and bibliography. "Known best for his intimate, snapshot-style images of women often tied up with ropes and of colorful, sensual flowers, Araki is an artist who reacts strongly to his emotions and uses photography to experience them more fully. Obsessed with women, Araki seeks to come closer to them through photography, using ropes like an embrace and the click of the shutter like a kiss. His work is at once shocking and mysteriously tender". Limited to two-thousand, five hundred copies worldwide, this massive volume (the first of Taschen's XXXL series) pares down decades of Nobuyoshi Araki's oeuvre into a thousand or so images that tell the story of the renowned Japanese photographer and comprise the ultimate retrospective collection of his work. A brand new, pristine example NUMBERED AND BOLDLY SIGNED by Araki in black ink on the title page housed in a clamshell box still sealed in the publisher's printed shipping box, as issued. 3-8228-1292-7 Inventory Number: 014522

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Seiko Tanabe & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo: Heibonsha Co., 1996. Later Printing. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 200pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This third volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Yoko", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's images of his late wife. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1996 printing of this uncommon item (entry number 163 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania") issued less than a month after the original. 4-582-66403-2 Inventory Number: 024450

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Seiko Tanabe & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo: Heibonsha Co., 1996. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 190pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This fifth volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Chrysalis", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's provocative portraits of pre-pubescent Japanese models in varying poses, and states of dress. A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon 1996 first printing (entry number 167 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 4-582-66405-9 Inventory Number: 023202

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Araki, Nobuyoshi, Seiko Tanabe & Akihito Yasumi. Tokyo. 1996 (2001).: Heibonsha Co.. Later Printing. 4to. Wrappers in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine./Fine.. 190pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. Text in Japanese. Designed by Seiichi Suzuki Design Office. This fifth volume (of twenty) of "The Works of Nobuyoshi Araki" is subtitled "Chrysalis", and focuses on the iconic Japanese photographer's provocative portraits of pre-pubescent Japanese models in varying poses, and states of dress. A brand new, most handsome example of a 2001 later printing of this uncommon item (entry number 167 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania"). PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 4-582-66405-9 Inventory Number: 022899

(ARAKI, NOBUYOSHI). Bauret, Gabriel, Kohtaro Iizawa & Nobuyoshi Araki. Paris: Contrejour (Photographes Contemporains) & Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporaine, 1995. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good -.. 64pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in French. With a bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1995 Fondation Cartier Pour L'art Contemporaine exhibition, this catalogue reproduces Nobuyoshi Araki's eroticized black and white "Journal Intime" series of 1994 along with an a brief essay by Gabriel Bauret and an interview with the photographer by Kohtaro Iizawa. An otherwise most handsome example (entry number 142 of the Complete List of Nobuyoshi Araki Publications, 1979-2012 in the Izu Photo Museum's "Ararchy Photobook Mania") showing a slight diagonal soft crease through the textblock at the heel of the spine. It has been priced accordingly. 2-85949-181-3 Inventory Number: 020813

(ARGENTINI, GUIDO). Argentini, Guido. NP: Self-Published, 2011. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. Square 4to. Padded Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 128pp, 104 color and 78 duotone illustrations. Text in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. The sculpture of Michelangelo, Rodin, and Brancusi, serve as the inspiration for Guido Argentini's masterly images of the female nude. Published by the Italian-born, Los Angeles-based photographer himself, "Shades of a Woman" is a sumptuously produced collection of nearly twenty years of work including his striking "Silvereye" series of statuesque models completely covered in metallic pigment a la Shirley Eaton in "Goldfinger". A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to one hundred copies BOLDLY NUMBERED (42/100), SIGNED AND DATED "Guido Argentini '11" in ink on the front pastedown accompanied by a NUMBERED, SIGNED AND DATED 10 ¾ x 10 ¾" silver gelatin photographic print housed in the publisher's gilt-embossed blue silk-over-boards slipcase, as issued. 0-615-41928-3 Inventory Number: 020789

(BALLEN, ROGER). Ballen, Roger. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1979. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Very Good. 96pp, 79 b&w illustrations. Art Direction by Susan Lusk. Designed by Joyce C. Weston. "Boyhood is a powerful and perceptive statement. In photographs and stories, Roger Ballen leads us across the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America in search of boyhood. Here, with keen insight and masterly skill, he succeeds in capturing the essence of boyhood in a series of timeless images that transcend social and cultural particularities". If you are knowingly searching for this title, could we add any more insight than the jacket description for "Boyhood"? While Ballen has subsequently become renowned for his sobering portrait images of the denizens of his adopted South Africa, this, his first book from 1979 is where it all began. The back cover features laudatory quotes from Andre Kertesz, Bruce Davidson, and Elliot Erwitt. A bright, most handsome example of the book itself whose neatly price-clipped dust jacket shows some very light wear and rubbing. 0-87754-091-8 Inventory Number: 018231

(BELLMER, HANS). Jelenski, Constantin. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967. First American Edition #616/1000. 48mo - over 3" - 4" tall. Cloth in Jacket in Slipcase. Artist Monograph. As New/As New. 113pp, 97 duotone illustrations. Translated from the 1966 Editions DeNoel French edition, this is a substantial, beautifully printed hardbound survey of nearly one hundred of Hans Bellmer's eroticized drawings executed between 1934 and 1965. A brand new, most handsome example of the 1967 first Grove Press American edition limited to one thousand NUMBERED (616/1000) copies still in the publisher's chipboard slipcase with printed pastedown. LC 67-25425 Inventory Number: 026502

(BENGLIS, LYNDA). Benglis, Linda. New York. ND (1974): Paula Cooper Gallery. First Edition #27/100 Deluxe. Small 4to. Printed Postcard. Artist's Multiple. Very Good -.. One 10 × 6 ¾" cardstock sheet printed offset recto and verso, 1 color illustration. This announcement for Lynda Benglis' 1974 exhibition of "Metallized Knots" at New York's Paula Cooper Gallery features a color photograph of the artist naked but for a pair of jeans pulled down around her calves. Taken by the illustrious Annie Leibovitz, the charged image of Benglis gazing back over her shoulder at the viewer invokes Betty Grable's iconic World War II pinup portrait, and was produced at a time the artist was purchasing a series of self-portrait advertisements for Artforum magazine. An otherwise most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon artist's multiple edition of this ephemeral item limited to one hundred copies NUMBERED (#27/100) AND SIGNED in blue ink showing some brown spotting on the on the face. Inventory Number: 026269

(BERMAN, WALLACE) (PRINCE, RICHARD). McKenna, Kristine & Richard Prince. Introduction by Michael Kohn. Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 2009. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Illustrated Boards. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 112pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Xiaoqing Wang, Green Dragon Office. With an exhibition checklist. "The use of heterosexual pornography or soft erotica in collage and assemblage is often all too uncritical, but for a few of the California artists who came of age in the early 1950s, Wallace Berman for example, its applications were much more nuanced. This approach to "girlie magazine" imagery and its polar opposite - the impulse to decommodify sexuality - can both be found in the photographs, paintings and books of Richard Prince, an artist whose fondness for the era of Berman is well-known. "She" traces these overlaps and sympathies with reproductions of previously unseen works by Berman and new images from Prince's "Girlfriends" and "de Kooning" series. Also included is an interview with Prince and editor Kristine McKenna, whose ongoing work on Wallace Berman and his contemporaries continues to yield exciting discoveries". A brand new, pristine example (catalogue entry 59 in "Bibliotheque d'un Amateur: Richard Prince's Publications 1981-2012") of this beautiful hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2009 Los Angeles gallery exhibition still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-880086-20-4 Inventory Number: 021100

(BERNHARD, RUTH). Mitchell, Margaretta K. Foreword By Ruth Bernhard. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. First Edition. Small Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 160pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. "Hailed by Ansel Adams as "the greatest photographer of the nude," Ruth Bernhard has lived a life that spans almost a century of passionate, ceaseless exploration of the magic of light to create form. "Between Art & Life" is the first biography of this charismatic woman who kept her personal promise to infuse her art with life, and live her life though art". Centered around a series of detailed interviews between Ruth Bernhard and author Margaretta Mitchell, this is a superbly illustrated survey of the photographer's seminal modernist work (including many of the famous female nudes) , personal life, correspondence, and quotations from the photographer regarding her inspirations, technique, and creative process. A brand new, pristine example (cited on page 202 of "From Fair to Fine 3") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED in Ruth Bernhard's unmistakable calligraphic hand in black fountain pen on the title page. 0-8118-2191-9 Inventory Number: 015275

(BERNHARD, RUTH). Williams, Ginny. Santa Fe, NM: Tallgrass Press, 1993. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (95pp), 43 tritone illustrations. This is the lavish catalogue published in conjunction with the 1993 exhibition "Ruth Bernhard: A Retrospective from the Ginny Williams Collection" at the Denver Art Museum and the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. A superbly printed selection of Bernhard's seminal modernist work (including many of the famous female nudes) is represented here, interspersed with quotations from the photographer about her inspirations and her creative process. A brand new, pristine example of the uncommon hardbound edition additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ruth Bernhard" in her unmistakable calligraphic hand in black fountain pen on the title page. 1-881138-04-6 Inventory Number: 023786

(BERQUET, GILLES). Berquet, Gilles. Paris: Jean-Pierre Faur Editeur, 1997. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (32pp), 33 b&w illustrations + color covers. Text in French. This is a slender, strikingly designed and printed volume of renowned French erotic photographer Gilles Berquet's explicit fetish and bondage images. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item. 2-909882-30-6 Inventory Number: 015576

(BERQUET, GILLES). Berquet, Gilles. Preface By Alina Reyes. Paris. 1992 (1995).: Jean-Pierre Faur Editeur. Second Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in French. This is a beautifully designed and printed volume of renowned French erotic photographer Gilles Berquet's explicit fetish and bondage images. While the prints themselves are mostly sepia-toned, the book has been printed in a full color process to capture the subtle nuance of the originals. And while the work shows predecessors Hans Bellmer and Pierre Molinier as inspiration, has anyone ever made pissing on a bare wood floor look so elegant as Berquet does here? A handsome example of the 2005 second edition. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 2-909882-15-2 Inventory Number: 013855

(BIANCHI, TOM). Bianchi, Tom. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2013. Second Printing. Small 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Erotic Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 211pp, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Tom Bianchi and Ben Smales. "In 1970, fresh out of law school, Tom Bianchi was invited to spend a weekend at Fire Island Pines, where he encountered a community of gay men. Using a Polaroid SX-70 camera, Bianchi documented his friends' lives in the Pines, amassing an image archive of people, parties and private moments. These images, published here for the first time, and accompanied by Bianchi's moving memoir of the era, record the birth and development of a new culture. Soaked in sun, sex, camaraderie and reverie, "Fire Island Pines Polaroids 1975-1983" depicts eight summers of gay life on the Long Island sandbar, and conjures a magical bygone era. "In taking the photos, my first mission was to show that boys like me knew they had a place to go, and the second was to let the world know there was nothing threatening about us". The book's subjects - shown frolicking at the beach, lazing in bed, dancing, holding each other, and hanging out in modernist beach houses - are palpably exhilarating. The sense of joy is so immersive that it's easy to forget, if just for a few minutes, the waiting epilogue that struck the gay community soon after. "The book has for me a profound emotional resonance," says the sixty-seven year-old photographer who lives in Palm Springs, but still spends several weeks every summer on Fire Island. "I'm looking at myself and many other young men who were vividly alive and celebrating their freedom for the first time. I tried to give a sense of the world we lived in. I found very strong connections between us, our style and the place - you would never attempt a community anywhere but in a place that beautiful". A most handsome example of the now-uncommon 2013 second Damiani printing that beautifully reproduces the Polaroids in facsimile. 88-6208-270-3 Inventory Number: 026848

(BIDGOOD, JAMES). Benderson, Bruce. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1999. First Edition. Tall 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 176pp, profusely illustrated in color. Full edge gilt. Text in English, German and French. The director of the cult erotic gay fantasy "Pink Narcissus", James Bidgood remained the all-but-unknown, astonishing precursor to Pierre et Gilles and so many other baroque photographers of the male physique until this amazing, well researched monograph by Bruce Benderson appeared nearly a decade ago. Evoking Kenneth Anger, "Querelle", and George Platt Lynes, these images by the former drag performer/window dresser/costume designer are a revelation in Technicolor! A brand new, most handsome example. 3-8228-7427-2 Inventory Number: 021941

(BOURDIN, GUY). Bourdin, Guy. New York: Bloomingdale's New York & The New York Times, 1976. First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Fashion Trade Catalog. Very Good.. np (36pp), 34 color illustrations + color covers. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the legendary Fall 1976 collaboration between pioneering fashion provocateur Guy Bourdin and Bloomingdale's New York that was included as a supplement to the Sunday New York Times. The notoriously exacting Parisian photographer demanded complete artistic control for the project which caused some controversy from the Times readership and hand-wringing in the New York press upon its publication and distribution. The booklet features Bourdin's stylized, shadowy images of groups of models (including a very young Janice and Debbie Dickinson) seductively displaying the season's lingerie and undergarments by the likes of Halston, Diane Von Furstenberg, Christian Dior, Rudi Gernreich, Ralph Lauren, John Kloss, Jantzen, Olga, and more. A most handsome, well preserved example of this surprisingly uncommon object of desire showing just a bit of light wear and creasing along the spine. Inventory Number: 026479

(BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES). Bellas, Bruce aka Bruce of Los Angeles. Los Angeles. ND: Bruce of Los Angeles. First Edition. 4to. Silver Gelatin Photograph. Near Fine.. One 8 x 10" silver gelatin print printed recto only, mounted with archival photo corners in a heavy white 11 x 14" beveled mat. This is a classic male physique photograph by Bruce Bellas - better known as Bruce of Los Angeles - picturing the nude, dramatically lit muscular model John Hackett posing in Bruce's studio. A bright, most handsome vintage silver gelatin print on heavy fiber-based paper bearing the stamp BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES / Box 73505, Sanford Station / Los Angeles 5, Calif." in black ink on the verso along with the name of John Hackett handwritten in pencil along the bottom edge showing a bit of browning of the emulsion along the lower margin of the recto not affecting the image. Inventory Number: 026270

(CARLSEN, ASGER). Carlsen, Asger. London: Morel Books, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. 4to. Debossed Cloth Over Boards. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (48pp), profusely illustrated in b&w. "If the traditional nude occasionally intends to bare and reveal a final and ideal form through ad hoc stance or sculptural immortality, Asger Carlsen's "Hester" - his honest take on the classic theme of the female nude - revises the study of the female form to ultimately reveal the evolving terrain of photography and its standards of aesthetics and morality". A brand new, pristine example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-907071-31-8 Inventory Number: 024913

(CHURCH OF THE SUBGENIUS, THE). Stang, Ivan, Paul Mavrides & The SubGenius Foundation, Inc.. Auburn, CA: Rip Off Press, Inc., 1989. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. Small 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Underground Comic Book. Fine.. 32pp, profusely illustrated in b&w + color cover. Published in 1989, this is the first and only installment of "Bob's Favorite Comics" - an anthology of fifteen black and white Church of the SubGenius-approved comics and tracts. The titular "Bob" is of course J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, the fifties clip art avatar turned High Epopt of The Church of the SubGenius, America's emergent eighties conspiracy theory-embracing cult religion whose pantheon includes gods, extra-terrestrials, and mutants. The contributors to this issue are the SubGenius Foundation, Inc.'s Ivan Stang and Paul Mavrides (also as St. Palmer Vreedez), Harry S. Robins, Carol Lay as Donna Sangre, Byron Werner, the LIES Project, President Xandy Smith, Jay Kinney, Gilbert Shelton, Horizon Unlimited Master Control Programming, Robert Williams, Satellite Weavers, Puzzling Evidence aka Doug Wellman, and of course, "Bob". A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon Rip Off Press, Inc. first printing with the printed price of $2.50 on the front cover. Inventory Number: 026454

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. Hancock, NH: Lustrum Limited Editions & Colloquium, Inc., 1974. First Edition. 16mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Publisher's Prospectus. Fine.. np (12pp), 9 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", Larry Clark's groundbreaking first book was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, "Tulsa" forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. The 1971 first edition is cited on page 260 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 272-73 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 25 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 208-09 of "The Book of 101 Books". A bright, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon, tiny (5 ½ x 4 ¼") ephemeral item that was the pre-publication prospectus for the 1974 Lustrum Limited Editions and Colloquium, Inc. portfolio limited to fifty copies containing ten photographic prints from Larry Clark's "Tulsa". Inventory Number: 025838

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. NP (New York). ND 1979.: Self-Published. First Edition Thus. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", Larry Clark's groundbreaking first book was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, "Tulsa" forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. A brand new, most handsome example of the first printing of Larry Clark's own 1979 self-published hardbound reprint of the original 1971 Lustrum press edition (the original is cited on page 260 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 272-73 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 25 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 208-09 of "The Book of 101 Books") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Larry Clark" in black ink at the lower foredge corner of the title page. Inventory Number: 024362

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. NP (New York). ND 1979.: Self-Published. First Edition Thus. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", Larry Clark's groundbreaking first book was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, "Tulsa" forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. A most handsome example of the first printing of Larry Clark's own 1979 self-published hardbound reprint of the original 1971 Lustrum press paperbound edition (the original is cited on page 260 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 272-73 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 25 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 208-09 of "The Book of 101 Books") whose dust jacket shows a tiny nick along the bottom edge of the front cover. Inventory Number: 024039

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. London: LCB (Larry Clark Books in association with Thea Westreich), 1993. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth and Design pur. Text in English. Published in Switzerland 1995, Larry Clark's "The Perfect Childhood" caused quite a stir when the attorneys for its American distributor upon seeing their first copy refused to let it be imported due to the prevailing moral climate. The successor to "Tulsa" and "Teenage Lust", it continues the notorious photographer/director's fascination with the American teen through wall-to-wall photos, collages, video stills and re-photographed press clippings - most of which are previously unpublished. Highly voyeuristic in nature, there is no shortage here of sex, violence, skateboarders and Matt Dillon! A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon true first edition (cited on page 245 of Alessandro Bertolotti's "Books of Nudes") issued by Larry Clark Books in association with Thea Westreich. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 0-302-00644-3 Inventory Number: 020754

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. Zurich, SWITZERLAND & Milan, ITALY: Nieves & Le Case D'Arte, 2006. First Edition 1/150. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine. np (18pp), 12 b&w illustrations + b&w cover. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the first of two slender catalogues published as part of the Nieves "Zine" series on the occasion of the 2006 exhibition of work by Larry Clark held at the Le Case D'Arte in Milan. Issued without text, it contains images from Clark's landmark "Tulsa" series. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to one hundred and fifty copies NUMBERED (132/150) on the rear cover in pencil, as issued. Inventory Number: 020751

(CLARK, LARRY). Clark Larry. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 2000. First Edition Thus 1/250 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Nearly thirty years after the 1971 Lustrum Press publication of this landmark book, Larry Clark's taboo breaking "Tulsa" is once again available. Long before "Kids", "Another Day in Paradise" and "Bully", this was the real thing. A gritty, voyeuristic photo essay of the author's life amongst youthful petty criminals and drug addicts in Oklahoma, this book forever changed the landscape of acceptability for the photographic book in the latter half of the 20th Century. The 1971 Lustrum Press first edition is cited on page 260 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 272-73 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", page 25 of "From Fair to Fine: 20th Century Photography Books That Matter", and pages 208-09 of "The Book of 101 Books". This example is from the Grove Press 2000 limited slipcased edition of two hundred and fifty copies only SIGNED by Larry Clark, with a SIGNED 8 x 10" black and white photographic print (of an image that is not reproduced in the book) laid in. A brand new, pristine example in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. 0-8021-1678-7 Inventory Number: 020125

(CLERGUE, LUCIEN). Charles-Roux, Edmond. Marseille, FRANCE: Ancien Couvent Royal De Saint-Maximin, 1967. First Edition. Small Oblong 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (10pp), 3 b&w illustrations with a tipped-in photograph. With an exhibition checklist, biography, exhibition history and bibliography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender ten page catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1967 exhibition of one hundred and twelve photographs by Lucien Clergue held at Marseille's Ancien Couvent Royal De Saint-Maximin. It features a 5 x 7" silver gelatin print of a female nude at water's edge we believe to be from the photographer's "Naissances D'Aphrodite" series stamped "PHOTOGRAPHIES / Lucien CLERGUE / ARLES-SUR-RHONE / REPRODUCTION INTERDITE" on the verso tipped to the inside front cover. A handsome example of this uncommon item BOLDLY SIGNED in black ink AND NUMBERED (000155) - from an unstated edition - on the inside front cover beneath the photo, as issued. Inventory Number: 026583

(COPLEY, WILLIAM AKA CPLY). Waldberg, Patrick. Paris, FRANCE. ND (circa 1955): Galerie Editions Du Dragon. First Edition. 8vo. Illustrated Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Near Fine.. np, (18pp), 3 b&w illustrations + cover. Text in French. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the slender eighteen page catalogue issued on the occasion of a mid-fifties exhibition of eroticized, automotive-themed paintings by William Copley (CPLY) held at Paris' Galerie Du Dragon. It includes a brief text by Patrick Waldberg along with three reproductions of exhibited works. An internally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon document additionally bearing the SIGNED ASSOCIATION PRESENTATION "To Man & Julie / With Love / Bill Copley" in ink along the top of the front cover showing just a bit of wear and age-toning to its pale yellow wrappers. This was acquired by us directly from the library of Joseph Browner, Juliet's brother, and longtime executor of the Man Ray Trust. Inventory Number: 026668