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(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau, 1984. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Near Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. A most handsome example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... / Better a world / with women / and without / men / Helmut" in blue ink across the title page showing discreet ownership stamps in ink on the front pastedown and half title page along with a bit of wear and some tiny closed tears to the extremities of the dust jacket. 0-937950-06-8 Inventory Number: 025926

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1984. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. A brand new, most handsome example additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... / Helmut Newton" in black ink across the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-937950-06-8 Inventory Number: 024333

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut. New York: Xavier Moreau Inc., 1984. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 192pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Marc Walter. Issued by his longtime collaborator Xavier Moreau in 1984, "World Without Men" was the very first survey devoted solely to Helmut Newton's women's fashion editorial work. It combines Newton's own journal entries interlaced amongst a beautifully designed and printed, comprehensive selection of nearly twenty years of the photographer's decadence-laden images created for American, French, Italian & German "Vogue", "Queen", "Nova", "British Vanity Fair", "Stern", "Egoiste", and many more. The designers featured here include Chanel, Dior, Yves Saint-Laurent, Pierre Cardin, Nina Ricci, Givenchy, Ungaro, Ossie Clark, Tuffin & Foale, Mary Quant, Jean Muir, Thierry Mugler, Valentino, Hermes, Karl Lagerfeld, Balmain, Sonia Rykiel, Claude Montana, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and too many more to mention. An internally most handsome example of the unnumbered deluxe edition in silver gilt-debossed cloth issued without dust jacket BOLDLY SIGNED "Helmut Newton" in violet ink on the rear colophon, as issued, bearing a minor indentation across the spine along with a thin liquid stain along a small portion of the top edge of the front cover. Its matching slipcase shows some light soiling and discoloration along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-937950-13-0 Inventory Number: 022568

(NEWTON, HELMUT). Newton, Helmut & Philippe Garner. New York: Stonehill Publishing Company, 1976. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 128pp, 55 illustrations in color and b&w. Designed by Bea Feitler. Published in 1976, "White Women" was the very first survey in book form of Helmut Newton's decadence-laden images originally primarily created as editorial work for French, British and American "Vogue", "Vogue Homme", "Oui", "Playboy", and "Stern". Amongst the immediately recognizable subjects here are Charlotte Rampling, Veruschka Lehndorff, Elsa Peretti, Loulou de la Falaise, Karl Lagerfeld, Paloma Picasso, David Hockney, Annie Duperey, June Newton, and the photographer himself. A bright, most handsome example (cited on page 93 of "From Fair to Fine 2") of the uncommon withdrawn and subsequently retitled 1976 true first American hardbound first edition entitled "Women" - rather than the more familiar "White Women" - additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... / Helmut Newton" in black ink across the title page. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-88373-053-7 Inventory Number: 024336

(NIEDERMAIR, BRIGITTE). Niedermair, Brigitte, Charlotte Cotton & Gabriella Belli. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Boards. Fashion Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.
"Me and Fashion" is a constellation of fashion photographs made by Brigitte Niedermair over the past twenty years. These images show how, informed by her parallel creative path as an independent art photographer, she continues to query and utilize her female perspective to expand the conventions and biases of the fashion image system. Niedermair’s photographic collaborators and subjects tend to have training as dancers and can transform themselves into the material expression of the body as a language, adopting an “attitude of resistance” toward the camera. "Me and Fashion" is published for Niedermair’s exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo during the 2019 Venice Biennale. Working with acclaimed photography curator Charlotte Cotton, Niedermair responds to the atmosphere of each room of the Palazzo Mocenigo, replacing historic paintings with her fashion and still-life photographs to both amplify and counter the embedded subtexts of gender and identity that permeate these predominantly 17th-century interiors.. A brand new, most handsome example of this stunning tome additionally SIGNED by Brigitte Niedermair.

978-8862086790 Inventory Number: E000BNMAF

(NITTA, KEIICHI). Kosuga, Tomokazu & Keiichi Nitta. Los Angeles: GoBooks & Daniela Diletto, 2008. First Edition 1/500. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (40pp), 33 color and 2 b&w illustrations. Text in English. Limited to five hundred copies, this is the catalogue published in conjunction with Keiichi Nitta's 2008 Milan gallery exhibition entitled "Everyday is Like Sunday". Nitta was Terry Richardson's assistant from 1999 until 2005, then returned to Japan to shoot his own youth-oriented advertising and fashion editorial work. Here he captures street scenes, house pets, self-portraits and a requisite amount of mild nudity. A most handsome numbered copy (#183/500) of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 021633

(PAGE, BETTY). Essex, Karen & James L. Swanson. Santa Monica, CA: General Publishing Group, 1996. First Edition. 4to. Boards in Pictorial Jacket. Erotic Photography Monograph. Fine/Near Fine. 288pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With a bibliography. Compiled with the assistance of the reclusive Ms. Page herself, "Bettie Page: The Life of a Pin-Up Legend" is a lavish visual tribute to legendary late cult model and object of affection. Included are hundreds of photographs (including family snapshots as well as images by Bunny Yeager, Andre De Dienes, Irving Klaw, Art Amsie, Bill Hamilton, 1950s Camera Clubs, etc.), Betty inspired artwork (Eric Stanton, Robert Blue, Olivia De Berardinis, Denis Sire, Dave Stevens, and more), book, magazine, and advertisement reproductions, and contemporary homages by the likes of Todd Oldham, Chantal Thomass, Joey Arias, Debi Mazar, Shalom Harlow, Janice Dickinson, Ellen Von Unwerth, Eva Herzigova, Christy Turlington, and Demi Moore. A most handsome copy of the 1996 hardbound first edition showing a diagonal soft crease through the front flap of the dust jacket. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 1-881649-62-8 Inventory Number: 021892

(PALEARI, FABIO) (DOHERTY, PETE). Paleari, Fabio & Robert Montgomery. Bologna, ITALY: Grafiche Damiani, 2007. First Edition 1/400 Deluxe. 4to. Boards in Wooden Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np (272pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Juan Gallego. "Any follower of the international tabloids is well-acquainted with rocker Pete Doherty, the former Libertines front man who is now quite famous for his on-again, off-again love affairs with supermodel Kate Moss and crack cocaine. After getting kicked out of the influential aforementioned British post-punk band for his over-the-top-drug use, Doherty started the band Babyshambles in 2005. Though fringe elements of Doherty's incendiary story have been well documented by unauthorized paparazzi, the authorized, inside view has never been available until now. In "I Won't Give Up", Italian photographer and documentary filmmaker Fabio Paleari follows Doherty from 2004-2006; onstage, backstage, while partying, and throughout the vicissitudes of his relationship with Moss". Hedi Slimane's Doherty tome "London: Birth of a Cult" came and went in a flash, so you won't want to miss this gritty expose! A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe hardbound edition limited to four hundred copies housed in the publisher's sliding wooden box accompanied by a 12 x 9 ½" black and white print on baritate paper of the book's cover image "Pete" SIGNED, NUMBERED AND TITLED by Fabio Paleari in black ink on the verso still in the publisher's shrinkwrap, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 88-6208-028-X Inventory Number: 014373

(PENN, IRVING). Heckert, Virginia & Anne Lacoste. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2009. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. As New/As New. 272pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. "Irving Penn is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine. In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work "The Small Trades" began. Created in Paris, London, and New York, it consists of portraits of skilled laborers dressed in their work clothes and carrying the tools of their respective trades. Capturing the humble coal heaver and the crisply dressed waiter with equal directness, Penn's arresting portraits also underscore fascinating cultural differences. "The Small Trades" was the photographer's most extensive body of work, and he returned to it over many decades, producing ever more exacting prints. Two hundred and six unique images from the series are flawlessly reproduced in this book. In addition, the introductory essay describes the history and context of The Small Trades series and its importance to Penn's career and the history of photography. An interview with Edmonde Charles-Roux, the chief editor for French Vogue from 1952 to 1966, who assisted him on the assignment in Paris, provides fascinating insights of the Paris sittings. An exhibition of the series will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from September 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010". A brand new, pristine example of the quickly exhausted 2009 first printing of this substantial, exquisitely produced hardbound catalogue. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-89236-996-5 Inventory Number: 025047

(PENN, IRVING). Penn, Irving, Alexandra Arrowsmith & Nicola Majocchi. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. & Callaway Editions, Inc., 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 300pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. With a work chronology. "Passage" is the monumental 1991 survey of Irving Penn's extraordinary career as a portrait, still life, and fashion photographer. Produced by Nicholas Callaway with photographic supervision by Richard Benson, it beautifully collects and reproduces more than fifty years of his visionary work - primarily in conjunction with Vogue magazine. A brand new, most handsome example of this landmark publication additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Irving Penn / 1991." in the year of publication inside a circular cartouche in black ink on the half title page. 0-679-40491-0 Inventory Number: 025776

(PENN, IRVING). Penn, Irving, Alexandra Arrowsmith & Nicola Majocchi. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. & Callaway Editions, Inc., 1991. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Fine. 300pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. With a work chronology. "Passage" is the monumental 1991 survey of Irving Penn's extraordinary career as a portrait, still life, and fashion photographer. Produced by Nicholas Callaway with photographic supervision by Richard Benson, it beautifully collects and reproduces more than fifty years of his visionary work - primarily in conjunction with Vogue magazine. A handsome example of this landmark publication additionally BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED "Irving Penn" in the year of publication inside a circular cartouche in black ink on the half title page showing some slight waviness and a minor dampstain to the last thirty pages along the foredge of the textblock. Additionally, this bears the ink ownership stamp on the front pastedown of the noted late Los Angeles-based photographer James Fee, from whom we acquired it directly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 0-679-40491-0 Inventory Number: 017500

(PENN, IRVING). Woodward, Richard B.. New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1990. First Edition. 4to. Sewn Printed Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (12pp), 6 gravure illustrations. Designed by Eleanor Caponigro. With an exhibition checklist. This is the elegant twelve page catalogue published in conjunction with a 1990 exhibition of one hundred platinum palladium prints of classic images by master photographer Irving Penn held at his longtime New York gallery. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon ephemeral item that was the only printed documentation of the event. Inventory Number: 021918

(PIERRE ET GILLES). Pierre et Gilles. Tokyo: Treville Co. Ltd., 1994. First Edition. Small 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 67 color illustrations. Text in English. From the iridescent silver covers to the glossy pink endpapers, this lushly produced little monograph on everyone's favorite Gallic collaborative photographic duo is as over the top as their campy, glamorous photographs. See Catherine Deneuve, Marc Almond, Thierry Mugler, Jeff Stryker, Julie Delpy, Rossi De Palma, Nina Hagen, and even Saints Pierre et Gilles themselves as idealized, ethereal creatures not quite of this world. A most handsome example of the 1994 first edition issued only in Japan showing a minute amount of surface scuffing to its shiny boards. 4-8457-0888-4 Inventory Number: 023945

(PIERRE ET GILLES). Turner, Jonathan. Sydney, AUSTRALIA: Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery in Association with the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras, 1995. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (48pp), 25 color and 15 b&w illustrations. This is the exhibition catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1995 Australian touring retrospective of the work of Pierre et Gilles. Co-published by the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, familiar faces pictured here include Rupert Everett, Susie Bick, Marc Almond, and David LaChapelle. Also included is the first appearance of the Gallic duo's notorious "Glory Hole" photo. A most handsome copy of this uncommon item. Inventory Number: 015102

(PILDAS, AVE). Campany, David & Ave Pildas. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, 2022. First Edition 1/20 Copies Deluxe. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-04-5

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Pildas will be signing copies of "Star Struck" at Arcana Saturday, October 8th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, October 11th.

"Hollywood Boulevard, Walk of Fame, 1970s. You were there, with your camera, with your love of life and people. It seems you turned the sidewalk into a little stage, and everyone came for a momentary audition. Some wanted to be famous, some were ok with a walk-on part, most were just happy to see you.”

So writes David Campany of the pictures in Star Struck, the first monograph from the legendary Ave Pildas in more than forty years. These photographs were made between 1972 and 1975 in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm.

In Pildas’s generous and gentle view, everyone is an A-list celebrity. And he should know! Those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and the Velvet Underground. Pildas brings the same joyous discipline to regular folks on the street as he did to his well-known work for DownBeat magazine and Capitol Records.
 

In the end, the most beautiful and beguiling thing about Star Struck is that you’re not sure if the title refers to the people whom Ave Pildas encountered on Hollywood Boulevard, or to the photographer himself. A brand new, most handsome example of the deluxe slipcased edition of this charming volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to twenty copies only accompanied by a signed and numbered 8 ½ x 11" archival pigment print of one of the book's images additionally SIGNED by Ave Pildas in ink.

Inventory Number: E000APSS-DLX

(PILDAS, AVE). Campany, David & Ave Pildas. Los Angeles: Deadbeat Club Press, I00221000. 2022. First Edition 1/750 Copies. 4to. Gilt-Stamped Cloth with Pictorial Pastedown. Photography Monograph. As New./No Jacket - As Issued. 104pp, profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Clint Woodside. 978-1-952523-04-5

PLEASE NOTE: Mr. Pildas will be signing copies of "Star Struck" at Arcana Saturday, October 8th between 4:00 and 6:00 PM. If you cannot attend and would like to order a signed copy to have shipped or to pick up at the shop, please purchase by selecting "Add To Cart" below. Orders will begin shipping Tuesday, October 11th.

"Hollywood Boulevard, Walk of Fame, 1970s. You were there, with your camera, with your love of life and people. It seems you turned the sidewalk into a little stage, and everyone came for a momentary audition. Some wanted to be famous, some were ok with a walk-on part, most were just happy to see you.”

So writes David Campany of the pictures in Star Struck, the first monograph from the legendary Ave Pildas in more than forty years. These photographs were made between 1972 and 1975 in perhaps the most famous of the many famous spots in Los Angeles – but at a time when Hollywood had more of a neighborhood feel and a raucous diversity was the norm.

In Pildas' generous and gentle view, everyone is an A-list celebrity. And he should know! Those who have sat before his camera include Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, and the Velvet Underground. Pildas brings the same joyous discipline to regular folks on the street as he did to his well-known work for DownBeat magazine and Capitol Records.
 

In the end, the most beautiful and beguiling thing about Star Struck is that you’re not sure if the title refers to the people whom Ave Pildas encountered on Hollywood Boulevard, or to the photographer himself. A brand new, most handsome example of this charming volume hot off The Deadbeat Club Press limited to seven hundred and fifty copies additionally SIGNED by Ave Pildas in ink.

Inventory Number: E000APSS

(RAY, CHARLES) (PARKETT). Ray, Charles. Curiger, Bice, Editor. Zurich, SWITZERLAND: Parkett, 1993. First Edition #IX/XXIII Deluxe. Small 4to. Wrappers + Color Photographs. Contemporary Art Periodical. Fine.. ca 200pp + nine 4 x 6" color C prints, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Parallel Text in English and German. This thirty-seventh issue of the late, great influential Swiss visual arts quarterly "Parkett" focuses on the work of Charles Ray, Franz West, and Pipilotti Rist. This example from the "Artist Edition" series features Charles Ray's limited edition contribution "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World" consisting of nine informal snapshots of nineties fashion icon Tatjana Patitz taken by Ray at her Pacific Palisades home. A brand new, most handsome example of the magazine still in the publisher's shrinkwrap accompanied by the publisher's printed envelope SIGNED "Charles Ray" AND NUMBERED (IX) in black ink containing nine 4 x 6" color C prints of supermodel Patitz each stamped "CHARLES RAY, 1993 / EDITION FOR PARKETT NO. 37" in black ink on the verso, as issued. 3-907509-87-0 Inventory Number: 027437

(RHEIMS, BETTINA). Rheims, Bettina. Hamburg, GERMANY: Stern Bibliothek Der Fotografie / Gruner + Jahr AG, 1999. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. 94pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. The most interesting editions of this elegantly produced photography special published by Stern Magazine invariably sell out quickly, and this fifteenth installment devoted to noted French photographer Bettina Rheims was no exception. It is a nicely designed and printed survey of her erotically charged work featuring such models and celebrities as Claudia Schiffer, Elizabeth Berkeley, Naomi Campbell, Kristin McMenamy, Heather Graham, Shirley Manson, Traci Lords, Gretchen Mol, Liv Tyler, Salma Hayek, Gwen Stefani, Sharon Stone, Madonna, Cindy Crawford, Karen Mulder, and more. A most handsome example. 3-570-19201-6 Inventory Number: 021719

(RHEIMS, BETTINA). Rheims, Bettina & Olga Rodionova. Foreword by Catherine Millet. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2008. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Cloth in a Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 154pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, French and German. "Olga Rodionova is a well-known beauty who moves in Moscow's fashion and jet set circles. When her adoring husband - a powerful Russian millionaire - sought to have special portraits made of his wife, he asked none other than Bettina Rheims. Rheims was captivated by Olga's unique aura and felt excited by the challenge of finding aesthetic ways of doing the portraits so that they didn't feel like run of the mill pornography. The first shoot took place in Rheims' country home and Olga's husband was so pleased with the images that he suggested they produce a book with Olga as the star. A second shoot followed, in black and white with a sado-masochistic decor and other men and women playing slightly perverse sex games with Olga. A third, Marie-Antoinette-inspired shoot took place entirely in the studio. Rheims succeeded in finding a variety of ways to depict one subject with a continuous freshness and intrigue; "The Book of Olga" is a compelling depiction of female sexuality, allure, desire, intrigue and fantasy. With over one hundred images and an introduction by French author Catherine Millet, this unique book is both a love song and a bold artistic statement". A brand new, pristine example of the 2008 first printing of the Taschen Collector's Edition limited to one thousand copies NUMBERED (0087) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Bettina Rheims" in the publisher's clamshell box and unopened printed cardboard shipping carton, as issued. 3-8365-0-760-9 Inventory Number: 025653

(RHODES, ZANDRA). Rhodes, Zandra. Preface by Iris Apfel. Foreword by Suzy Menkes. Dennis Nothdruft, Editor. With contributions by Marylou Luther, Anna Sui, Journalist Joan Agajanian Quinn, Rajeev Sethi, Helena Matheopoulos, Mary Schoeser & Pierpaolo Piccioli . New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Boards. Fashion Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.

Celebrating decades of achievement by one of the foremost names in British fashion, whose vitality and influence continue to shine, "Zandra Rhodes" provides a luscious documentary of this leading British designer, spanning her fifty-year career in fashion and textile design. The book showcases not only Rhodes’s work but also her vivid personality and creative energy. Both a fashion trailblazer and a consummate textile designer, she has influenced the work of contemporary labels such as Mary Katrantzou and Alice Temperley. The book honors the centrality of textile design in Rhodes’s work, while exploring the versatility of her imagination throughout her long career; contributors include Pierpaolo Piccioli (creative director of Valentino), Suzy Menkes (editor of Vogue International), and celebrated fashion designers Anna Sui and Rajeev Sethi. It also commemorates the 50th anniversary of the house of Zandra Rhodes, a British-owned-and-made brand, and Rhodes’s successful establishment of the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. A brand new, most handsome example additionally SIGNED by Dame Zandra Rhodes.



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Inventory Number: E000ZR

(RICHARDSON, TERRY). Richardson, Terry & John McWhinnie. East Hampton, NY: JMc & GHB Editions, 2006. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. 4to. Debossed Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Buero New York. "FTW" is Terry Richardson's 2006 photo-essay documenting his time spent amongst a group of Ojai California youths dubbed the "Signal Street Alcoholics". If your idea of a good time is alcohol-infused punker transgression, this is the book for you! A most handsome copy of the deluxe edition limited to fifty copies only signed by Terry Richardson and essayist/publisher John McWhinnie in black ink on the colophon, as issued. 0-9854020-9-6 Inventory Number: 020405

(RICHARDSON, TERRY) (SISLEY). Richardson, Terry. NP (Ponzano Veneto, ITALY): Sisley, 2000. First Edition. Small 4to. Pictorial Self-Wrappers. Fashion Trade Catalog. Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in English. This 2000 trade catalogue for Italian fashion purveyors Sisley was shot in Palm Springs by fashion bad boy Terry Richardson. Art directed by Nikko Nikko and styled by Sabina Schreder, it features flash-infused images galore of youthful male and female models basking amidst the desert scrub along with favorite snack recipes for you to make at home. A most handsome example of this uncommon item perfect for the T-Bone completeist. Inventory Number: 025106

(RODARTE) (A MAGAZINE). Mulleavy, Kate & Laura, Guest Editors. Van Den Eynden, Dirk, Editor. Antwerp, BELGIUM: A Publishe BVBA, 2011. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Fashion Periodical. Fine.. 200pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Madelein Wermenbol. "A Magazine is a biannual publication, exploring the creative sphere of a selected designer in each issue. We invite a guest curator - an international fashion designer, group or house - to develop innovative, personalized content that expresses their aesthetic and cultural values. Each issue celebrates this designer's ethos: their people, their passion, their stories, emotions, fascinations, spontaneity and authenticity". This eleventh installment from 2011 of the luxe Belgian fashion periodical was guest curated by Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy, and contains contributions on or by Autumn De Wilde, Tom Petty, Jay DeFeo, Kirsten Dunst photographed by David Armstrong, Lake Tahoe, the California Grizzly Bear, John Baldessari, Mt. Wilson Observatory, Todd Cole, The LA River, Frank Wiedmann and Andrew Durhams's "Shark", Elle Fanning photographed by Bill Owens, Joss Whedon, The Garbage Pail KIds, and many, many more. A most handsome example. 90-77745-10-6 Inventory Number: 025757

(RUSCHA, EDWARD). Ruscha, Edward. Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1969. First Edition 1/5000. 8vo. Wrappers in Printed Jacket. Artist's Book. As New./As New.. np (240pp), 115 b&w illustrations. This is Ed Ruscha's photo-illustrated narrative featuring noted Los Angeles fashion designer Rudi Gernreich, his frequent model Leon Bing, artist Larry Bell, and Tommy Smothers as models based on Mason Williams' text "How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment from Crackers" (which is printed on the inside rear flap of the dust jacket). Intentionally photographed as if a collection of film stills, this project served as the basis for Ruscha's 1971 film "Premium". A brand new, spectacularly bright white example (entry B10 in Siri Engberg's "Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999") showing none of the age-toning or sunning typically associated with this title. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Inventory Number: 025060

(RUTHERSTON, ALBERT). Rutherston, Albert. London: Oxford University Press, 1928. First Edition 1/475. Folio. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Fair/Fair. np, 16 collotype plates (10 in color), each with a printed overlay. The fourteen costume designs and two "curtain scenes" by Albert Rutherston included here date between 1912 and 1914 for two theatrical productions at the Savoy and St. James Theatres, as well as a ballet produced by Anna Pavlova in New York. A serviceable example only whose fragile dust jacket is present though chipped and torn in several places and showing significant paper loss to the rear panel along with moderate soiling, tape adhesive, and uneven staining from liquid on the front. Its boards are faded and worn bearing some mottling due to contact with liquid, particularly at the extremities. These condition flaws noted, the interior of the book (including all of the exquisitely colored plates) is remarkably clean, bright, and tight with only the front inside cover and endpaper having browned somewhat. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 000933

(SASSEN, VIVIANE). Sassen, Viviane. Stockholm, SWEDEN: Libraryman Co., Ltd., 2009. First Edition 1/300. 12mo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued.. np (32pp), 23 duotone illustrations. Text in English. Designed by Andreas och Fredrika. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This charming little volume issued as part of Swedish photography publisher Libraryman's"Day in the Life" series features understated domestic and family images by the noted Dutch photographer and Prix de Rome winner Viviane Sassen. A brand new, most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon item limited to three hundred copies NUMBERED (026/300) AND SIGNED "Viviane Sassen" in black ink on the publisher's cardstock colophon sheet, as issued. 91-86269-04-6 Inventory Number: 025768

(SEMMELHACK, ELIZABETH). Rizzoli, I00220708, 2022. 11 x9 inches, 224 Pages. Hardcover. New/No Jacket - As Issued.

Shoe design is pushing the boundaries of what is possible in both the real and virtual worlds through state-of-the-art technologies, ground-breaking materials, and new and innovative ways of thinking about what a shoe can be.

New modes of making and innovations in materials are inspiring shoe designers to challenge what shoes can look and feel like. This book explores today’s most futuristic footwear designs, from the use of new technologies such as 3-D printing and smart technology to the invention of sustainable materials, including “leather” made from mushrooms and soles made from reclaimed ocean plastics. It also examines footwear design in the virtual world where adherence to things like comfort and gravity are no longer part of the equation. The importance of sneakers in games such as Grand Theft Auto and Fortnite are explored as is the new enthusiasm for collectable non-fungible token (NFT) sneakers that are being acquired for tens of thousands of dollars for a single pair.

In-depth interviews with of-the-moment designers, including Iris van Herpen, the team at RTFKT, Steven Smith, Eric Avar, Alexander Taylor, and more, all conducted by the author, dive deep into the creative process, influences, and the future of shoe design. The introduction offers an overview of great footwear innovations from the past that have kept us a step ahead. 9780847871223 Inventory Number: I00220708

(SHUBUCK, SIMONE). Shubuck, Simone, Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey & Alex Wagner. New York, NY: Self-published. Printed in Poland by Szaransky, 2018. First Edition. 4to. Debossed Cloth. Artist Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.


"In the summer of 2017, Simone Shubuck launched WIFEY, a Brooklyn pop up that fused art, food, ceramics, flowers, and bit of retail in an elevated DIY way. During the process, Shubuck realized that so much of what she was doing directly connected to a show she staged as a student at the San Francisco Art Institute in the early 1990s. Wanting to formalize that multi-decade connection, she decided to make a book.


While at the Art institute, Shubuck studied painting, but probably spent more time tagging on the streets in the middle of the night than in her studio. When it came time to produce her student show, she constructed ten very unusual fake cakes festooned with pink ham hocks, a school of fresh sardines, a tent of chicken feet, and live crickets within a hat box within a cake. It was these images that attracted chefs Ignacio Mattos and Natasha Pickowicz of Estela, Flora Bar, and Cafe Altro Paradiso to the project. They became partners and began experimenting with dreamy layers cakes, which were served at WIFEY and were met with great acclaim.


As described by Ella Riley-Adams on Vogue.com: "She had made a paged project before; a short run of 'zines for Natasha Pickowicz’s bake sale benefit at Altro Paradiso. “It had more of a punk vibe,” Shubuck says—150 copies, printed in Chinatown. The new book feels more like a collector’s item: a retrospective of off-kilter cakes, blossoming drawings, and character-filled ceramics that charts Shubuck’s creative course that would make the ideal gift for the cool girl in your life. As Alex Wagner writes, next to a bright yellow page in the book: “Simone’s work - on paper, in clay, in life! - retains a glorious sense of mess and possibility and freedom.”


Includes texts by Janine Foeller, Jim Dempsey, and Alex Wagner.








0-692-07877-0 Inventory Number: E000SS

(SOKOLSKY, MELVIN). Sokolsky, Melvin. Beverly Hills, CA: Leafcar Editions, 2009. First Edition 1/50 Deluxe. Stout Folio. Cloth in a Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 472pp, profusely illustrated in duotone and color. Designed by Sara Siri. "Melvin Sokolsky's photographs are deeply imaginative, challenging the aesthetic conventions of the advertising and editorial worlds. Reflecting the artist's fascination with Surrealist art, Sokolsky's photographs play with spacial relationships, scale, proportion, visual rationality, and the laws of physics. Sokolsky defines an aesthetic that continually creates images which transcend the clothes they purport to feature, always provoking, always engaging, always alluring. "Archive" is a massive retrospective monograph of Melvin Sokolsky's photography from the 1960s to the present. This luxurious limited edition features essays and commentary by the noted photographer that accompany hundreds of Sokolsky's iconic fashion images, including work with supermodels Simone D'Aillencourt, Carmen dell'Orefice, and Twiggy among many others". A brand new, pristine example of the 2009 deluxe Collector's Edition limited to fifty copies housed in a black linen clamshell box BOLDLY SIGNED "Melvin Sokolsky" AND NUMBERED (05/50) on the front colophon accompanied by a 15 3/5 x 12 ¼" SIGNED AND NUMBERED archival black and white photographic print of iconic model Carmen Dell'Orofice in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. 0-9822266-2-4 Inventory Number: 025654

(SOKOLSKY, MELVIN). Sokolsky, Melvin & Raphaelle Stopin. Afterword by Ali McGraw. Beverly Hills, CA: Leafcar Editions, 2011. First Edition 1/800. 4to. Cloth in Plexiglas Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 80 + 80pp, profusely illustrated in duotone and color. Designed by Melvin Sokolsky. This beautiful volume is the definitive collection of all seventy-four printed images from of Melvin Sokolsky's wildly innovative "Bubble" and "Fly" series shot in Paris for "Harper's Bazaar" in the sixties. It includes for the first time more than a dozen previously unreleased and alternate visions of his iconic series, behind the scenes documentary photos, outtakes, and an intimate insight into the legendary fashion photographer's process and inspiration. Limited to eight hundred copies only featuring a unique back-to-back "zig-zag" binding, the "Signature Edition" is housed in an etched grey Lucite slipcase designed by Sokolsky himself. A brand new, pristine example from the 2011 first edition limited to eight hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED (519/800) by the late, great photographer in pencil on the front colophon in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. 0-9822266-7-5 Inventory Number: 027462

(SOKOLSKY, MELVIN). Sokolsky, Melvin & Raphaelle Stopin. Afterword by Ali McGraw. Beverly Hills, CA: Leafcar Editions, 2011. First Edition 1/100 Deluxe. 4to. Cloth in a Lucite Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 80 + 80pp, profusely illustrated in duotone and color. Designed by Melvin Sokolsky. This beautiful volume is the definitive collection of all seventy-four printed images from Melvin Sokolsky's wildly innovative "Bubble" and "Fly" series shot in Paris for "Harper's Bazaar" in the sixties. It includes for the first time more than a dozen previously unreleased and alternate visions of his iconic series, behind the scenes documentary photos, outtakes, and an intimate insight into the legendary fashion photographer's process and inspiration. Limited to one hundred copies featuring a unique back-to-back "zig-zag" binding, the "Fly" Edition is housed in an etched grey Lucite slipcase designed by Sokolsky himself. A brand new, pristine example NUMBERED (67/100) AND SIGNED Melvin Sokolsky" in pencil on the front colophon with the 12 ½ x 11" NUMBERED (67/100) AND SIGNED silver gelatin print of "Dior Wings" in the publisher's printed shipping carton, as issued. 0-9822266-9-1 Inventory Number: 022891

(SOTH, ALEC). Bordignon, Elena, Alec Soth, Jona Frank, Tanyth Berkeley & Alix Smith. Milano, ITALY: TH INSIDE, 2005. First Edition #333/400. Square 8vo. Debossed Cloth. Exhibition Catalog. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in Italian and English. With photographers' biographies, exhibition histories, and bibliographies. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the elegant hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 2005 Tommy Hilfiger-sponsored exhibition held in Milan of Fashion-inflected color portrait photography by Alec Soth, Jona Frank, Tanyth Berkeley, and Alix Smith. A brand new, pristine example of this exceedingly uncommon item - only a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat - limited to four hundred NUMBERED (333/400) copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED by Alec Soth and Jona Frank in black ink on the title page at our shop with the business card of the director of Minneapolis' Weinstein Gallery - Alec Soth's representatives at the time - laid in. Inventory Number: 025743

(SUI, ANNA). Kawachi, Taka. Tokyo: Masakazu Takei / Little More, 1997. First Edition. Square 8vo. Wrappers in Illustrated Jacket. Fashion Monograph. Near Fine./Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color. Text in English and Japanese. This first monograph on Ann Sui is a vibrant confection has everything - cartoons, posters, kooky design, and more. While short on biographical details and long on cute, who needs an academic analysis of her collections when you can read about Anna Sui's "Favorite Things", like her favorite nail polish - Zulu, dark green, by Nars, or her favorite current band - The Smashing Pumpkins. This colorful scrapbook illustrates the world of Anna Sui along with celebrity endorsements from the perennially Cool (supermodels Kate Moss, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Amber Valetta, Marc Jacobs, Anita Pallenberg, Kim Gordon and Sofia "Anna is the Coolest" Coppola). How could you not want this? A most handsome example of this manna from heaven for your inner Japanese teenage girl still in the publisher's printed obi, as issued. 4-947648-49-X Inventory Number: 011873

(SUTNAR, LADISLAV). Sutnar, Ladislav. New York: Arts Inc., 1953. First Edition. Oblong 4to. 1/4 Buckram Over Boards. Design Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket. np, profusely illustrated in b&w. Designed by Ladislav Sutnar. This is the pioneering Czechoslovakian-born, New York-based graphic designer Ladislav Sutnar's stylish survey on what was at the time a rather unexplored subject - modernist design in post-war product packaging. Filled with examples from the world of fashion as well as the supermarket and hardware store, it contains work by such design icons such as Saul Bass, Lester Beall, Alexey Brodovitch, Donald Deskey, Alexander Liberman, Raymond Loewy, Paul Rand, the author himself, and many, many more. A handsome example of the silver buckram over orange boards variant binding lacking its dust jacket and showing a tiny dent to the tips at the lower foredge corner. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. LC 53-11450 Inventory Number: 019919

(TELLER, JUERGEN). Teller, Juergen. Cornel Windlin, Editor. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1996. First Edition. Square 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. 175pp, 117 full-page color and b&w illustrations. Designed By Cornel Windlin. Text in English. Published in 1996, this was the first comprehensive compendium of Juergen Teller's informal and innovative work - with more intimate shots of Kate Moss, Annie Morton, Kristin McMenamy, Stella Tennant, and Cordula Reyer than you can shake a stick at. In addition to the fashion editorial work, this contains photos of Kurt and Courtney, P.J. Harvey, Bjork, Patti Smith, Nicole Kidman, and more. A brand new, most handsome example additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Juergen Teller" at our shop at the time of publication in black ink across the image of his armpit on the front free pastedown. 3-8228-8310-7 Inventory Number: 026396

(TEMPLETON, ED) (HUCK MAGAZINE). Templeton, Ed & Andrea Kurland, Editors. London: TCOLondon Publishing, 2014. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Skateboard Periodical. Fine.. 98pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Cover by Ed Templeton and Tobin Yelland. London-based "Huck" is the stylish international magazine devoted to radical culture. Hot off the press, this forty-fifth installment is specially guest-edited by artist, photographer, skate legend, and unique chronicler of Southern California, Ed Templeton. It presents an insightful, colorful cruise through The Tempster's crew of creative friends spawned from the cultures of skateboarding, surfing and beyond. Along with an epic, multi-part illustrated visit with Ed - in which skateboarding's favorite expressionist reflects on his Huntington Beach history, artistic inspirations and the community of like-minded DIYers he surrounds himself with - it also features in-depth interviews and beautiful photo shoots with Ed's countercultural coterie: Lee Kaplan of Arcana: Books on the Arts in Culver City, Australian-born, Parisian-based curator and gallerist Joseph Allen Shea, photographer, wife and muse Deanna Templeton, skate and porn chronicler Dennis McGrath, Philadelphia artist Daniel Arnold and his experimental media project "Megawords", documentary photographer Tobin Yelland, Los Angeles-based artist Ashley Macomber, artist, comedian, actor and skater Kevin Christy, New York street photographer Daniel Arnold channels daily moments of curious life into square little social media updates, designer and photographer Clint Woodhouse's zine-making "The Deadbeat Club", San Francisco-based photographer and publisher of the legendary "Hamburger Eyes", Ray Potes, Una Kim of Keep Shoes, skate filmmaker Kevin Barnett, and Highland Park's multi-talented Ashley Thayer. A most handsome copy additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ed Templeton" in silver marker on the front cover. 1-75127-205-2 Inventory Number: 027274

(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed, Aaron Rose & Arty Nelson. New York: Seems, 2011. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 80pp + one 22 ½ x 22 ½" poster printed black and white on newsprint recto only, neatly folded in sixteenths as issued, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. "Teenage Kissers should be viewed as a historical volume. As we look at these photographs of young people exchanging awkward kisses we are reminded again of that wonderful uncomfortability that comes with the discovery of young sexuality. Not only do we all remember the feeling of that first clumsy teenage kiss, as mature viewers we can now look at the photos from afar and understand exactly where it's all going. Like its predecessor "Teenage Smokers", this is a perfect documentation of this feeling. The photographs are, in many ways, beyond innocence. They brim with humanity in its most raw form and remind us that although some of us have now grown up, we're still never so far from that first kiss. The basics of our sexual lives are reflected back to us in these images and no matter how many times we see it, it cannot be denied that there's a little "Teenage Kisser" in every one of us". A brand new, pristine example of the quickly sold out 2011 sequel to Ed's acclaimed "Teenage Smokers" limited to one thousand unnumbered copies additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ed Templeton" on the title page with the publisher's SIGNED poster of Ed's image of Deanna Templeton laid in still in the publisher's plastic pouch. 0-9825936-7-8 Inventory Number: 027518

(TESTINO, MARIO). Testino, Mario. Introduction by Michael Roberts. Foreword by Nicole Kidman.. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2007. First Edition 1/1000 Deluxe. Folio. Cloth in Jacket, Slipcased. Photography Monograph. As New./As New.. 306pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. "As one of the 21st Century's most traveled, acclaimed, and influential fashion photographers, Mario Testino has unsurpassed access to the most magnetic stars of popular culture. For some time now he has been collecting a personal archive of off-screen moments, often snatched spontaneously before, during, and after more official sittings for "Vanity Fair", "Vogue", and Testino's many clients in the world of fashion. The result is a portrait not just of a generation of the most wanted and talked-about, but an invitation to be part of the backstage parties and unstaged moments of Testino's life. Sometimes offbeat, but always on the pulse, "Let Me In!", with Testino's eye for a modern kind of elegance liberated from conventional polish, is a new chapter from the photographer who has already made his mark with the books "Any Objections", "Front Row Backstage", "Alive", "Portraits", "Kids", "Diana Princess of Wales", and numerous exhibitions and publications worldwide". This massive tome is one of the most lavish glances behind the veil of celebrity yet published. A brand new, unopened example of the 2007 Taschen first edition limited to one thousand copies SIGNED AND NUMBERED by Mario Testino still shrinkwrapped in the publisher's Plexiglas slipcase and printed shipping carton, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. 3-8228-4416-0 Inventory Number: 026612

(TESTINO, MARIO). Testino, Mario & Jochen Siemens. Hamburg, GERMANY: Stern Spezial Fotografie / Gruner + Jahr AG, 2000. First Edition 1/10000. Folio. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Very Good.. 94pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. Art Directed by Dirk Linke. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. The most interesting editions of Stern Magazine's elegantly produced Bibliothek der Fotografie / Spezial Fotografie Portfolios invariably sell out quickly, and this twentieth installment devoted to the glamorous fashion and celebrity work of Mario Testino was no exception. A handsome example showing a bit of overall wear and handling to the wrappers. It has been priced accordingly. 3-570-19252-0 Inventory Number: 020695

(TESTINO, MARIO). Testino, Mario & Jochen Siemens. Hamburg, GERMANY: Stern Spezial Fotografie / Gruner + Jahr AG, 2000. First Edition 1/10000. Folio. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 94pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. Art Directed by Dirk Linke. The most interesting editions of Stern Magazine's elegantly produced Bibliothek der Fotografie / Spezial Fotografie Portfolios invariably sell out quickly, and this twentieth installment devoted to the glamorous fashion and celebrity work of Mario Testino was no exception. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-570-19252-0 Inventory Number: 017489