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Art and Photography
Document Tsukin Densha (Document Express Train)
Chikan is a Japanese vernacular term for men who grope women in crowded public places. The practice reached epidemic proportions in the early 2000s causing rail officials to have separate women only train cars during the rush hour. In Document Express Train Kagari uses infrared film and surveillance techniques to catch the Chikan in action.
$1,000
Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Xerografia
In the late 1960's the Xerox machine was a relatively new mechanism for reproduction, and Bruno Munari, who was always interested in new possibilites of bookmaking, was one of the first artist to experiment with the medium. This book demostrates Munari's playful investigation of the Xerox machine, and includes gorgeously rendered images of his experiments.
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Literature
Cheri
1st Edition. Chéri tells a story of the end of a six-year affair between an aging retired courtesan, Léa, and a pampered young man, Chéri. Turning stereotypes upside-down, it is Chéri who is the object of gaze, and Léa who demonstrates all the survival skills which Colette associates with femininity.
$500
Gastronomy, Earth Sciences and Gardening
Spoonbread and Strawberry Wine
First edition.A clean, bright copy. Written in the era of Roots, the authors seek to trace their family history through the collection of recipes. The book is richly researched and evocative with information on many striking and unique dishes, not least the titular strawberry wine Papa Darden once sold for five cents a glass out of his general store.
$250
Art and Photography
Suicide Notes by Brice Marden
First edition. Issued simultaneously by Paul Bianchini in New York. Signed B. Marden on first preliminary page. Marden’s artist’s book begins on the cover with his name and address and the handwritten statement ‘these are […] suicide notes. I don’t know what my mind means!?’ where a dense black ink drawing blots out the words between ‘are’ and ‘suicide’.
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Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
Prayers and Poems
First Ediition. Inscribed by author to Jack Kennedy: "with admiration and prayerful good wishes/F. Cardinal Spellman" A collection of prayers and poems, many of which are in response to the Second World War. Inscribed to friend and fellow Massachusetts native John F. Kennedy, who at the time was a newly elected member of the U.S. Congress.
$7,500
Art and Photography
Autobiography
First edition.An unusually clean, tight and bright copy of one of the most influential artist's books ever published. Lewitt famously defined Conceptual Art as that work in which the idea or concept, and not the visual appearance, is of foremost importance: “the idea becomes a machine that makes the art.”
$3,000
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
I Lost It At The Movies
First edition. Pauline Kael changed film criticism and with this, her first collection of reviews and essays, she emerged as the most articulate critical voice writing on film in America and the must-read reviewer for cinephiles just an unprecedented period of American cinematic creativity was dawning.
$150
Art and Photography
A Loud Song
First edition. A beautifully preserved copy of one of the most successful photobooks of its era. A Loud Song was the first publication issued by Ralph Gibson’s short-lived Lustrum Press and like the few others with the Lustrum imprint (Tulsa, and Somnambulist especially), it is a classic.
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Literature
Tripper
First edition.Vanity press novel about the sixties drug experience wherein"Tripper and her tribe got zonked on peyote" in the Arizona desert.
$300
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
The Big Heart
First edition. A beautiful copy of Melvin van Peebles first book, published when he was 25 using just the name "Melvin Van", it is about his experience as a cable car conductor in San Francisco. The book is a love note in the form of a photo-book to the city where Peebles spent his early adulthood.
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Literature
The Library of Frederick W. French
A catalogue of the very private library of Frederick W. French of Boston, member of the Grolier Club, and the Club of Odd Volumes.
$75
Literature
English Books 1475 - 1900 Volume 1 and 2
First edition, one of 2,000 copies. Two volumes on collectible English literature—still valuable as a reference and now quite collectible itself.
$300
Gastronomy, Earth Sciences and Gardening
The Sea Around Us
Carson's great passion for all that is natural, specially the ocean, is evident within the first sentence of The Sea Around Us. "Beginnings are apt to be shadowy, and so it is with the beginnings of that great mother of life, the sea."
$1,500
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
The Outsider
First Edition. Through the works and lives of various artists - including H. G. Wells (Mind at the End of its Tether), Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Harley Granville-Barker (The Secret Life), Herman Hesse, T. E. Lawrence, Vincent Van Gogh, Vaslav Nijinsky, George Bernard Shaw, William Blake, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky and G. I. Gurdjieff - Wilson explores the psyche of the Outsider, his effect on society, and society's effect on him. Written when Wilson was just 24 and sleeping in a public park.
$400
Literature
Bonjour Tristesse
Published in 1954, when the author was only eighteen, Bonjour Tristesse caused an overnight sensation. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, "À peine défigurée," which begins with the lines "Adieu tristesse/ Bonjour tristesse..."
$200
Art and Photography
The Sex Book: A Modern Pictorial Encyclopedia
Written and compiled by doctors and experts of the field, this book was an open and thoroughly modern encyclopedia on sex—it now seems very rooted in its time, but remains a classic for its design, especially the beautiful black and white photographic images with which it is illustrated throughout.
$85
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
Twiggy
First edition. The autobiography of Lesley Hornby, better known as Twiggy, whose slender build, short hair and boyish look made her the iconic fashion model of the 1960s.
$150
Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
A Miniature History of the English House
Much of the illustrations in this book were taken from Nathaniel Lloyd's "History of the English House," with brief notes added to help them tell the history of domestic English architecture.
$50
Literature
Catalogue of John A. Rice’s Library
This splendid collection of Americana was at the time the finest ever to come up for auction in the United States, the sale being brought about by Rice’s need to pay off debts accumulated by over-investment in the grain market.
$350
Art and Photography
The Autobiography & Sex Life of Andy Warhol
First Edition. This book consists of a series of interviews about Warhol with his associates and friends recorded by John Wilcock over the course of five years in the late 60s and presented, very lightly edited, in this compendium.
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Gastronomy, Earth Sciences and Gardening
Consider The Oyster
1st Edition. The third book by America's finest writer on food. "Here is the story of the oyster's dreadful but exciting existence, its disconcerting sex life, and, far most important of all, its various and delicious ways of dying."
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