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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Mercedes-Benz: a cura di Jurgen Lewandowski
This is complete catalogue raisonné of all models manufactured by Mercedes-Benz in the first century of the company’s existence. It includes photographs, diagrams, and technical specifications throughout and is a must-have for any Mercedes enthusiast. This copy virtually as new and very scarce thus.
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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Seven Designers look at Trademark Design
First edition. Design book with contributions by seven well-known figures offering both general thoughts on good design and specific guidance on particular problems associated with trademarks. Contributors include Herbert Bayer, Alvin Lustig, Paul Rand, and Bernard Rudofsky.
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Architecture, Graphics, Design and Fashion
Type: For Books and Advertising
A beautifully printed and still-useful book of typographical theory and practice.
$150
Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
The Ascent of Western Civilization: American Independent Rock, 1976-1991
An experimental art zine, this issue focusing on underground music. Thread Waxing Space has always been an arena for provocation and innovation; a place to stimulate the discourses on issues in contemporary art production and culture.
$75
Art and Photography
Dyn: Review of Modern Art
The first three issues of arts publication published by the [ex] surrealist Wolfgang Paalen was issued from Paalen’s new home in Mexico and sought to fill a void of serious reviews of art and literature created by the turmoil of WWII (Henry Mooore, Alexander Calder, and himself).
$300
Art and Photography
The Record as Artwork from Futurism to Conceptual Art
Catalogue of exhibition that presented the extensive art record collection of Germano Celant. Celant has been an immensely influential figure over the past four decades and his writing and curatorial work has been especially important to in creating a critical framework for both conceptualism and Arte Povera.
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Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
Fresh: Hip Hop Don't Stop
First Edition. A thorough look at hip hop subculture, specifically in nyc. Features major designers that took hip hop fashion to main stream, notably Stephen Sprouse. Engaging photos of breakdancesrs, musicans (Grandmaster Flash), and instructives on how to wear the hip hop style and accessories. A scarce copy.
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Music, Film, Pop Culture, Politics and Society
Gay Semiotics [together with] Castro St. x 24
Made by a participant in the scene which he documents, Fischer’s two books are an odd melding of impulses: almost anthropological on one hand, but filled with first-person subjectivity throughout. Together they are an extraordinary record gay culture in San Francisco during a period it when it was expanding rapidly and no longer seeking to conform to mainstream societal norms.
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Art and Photography
Irving Penn
Half title page: signed, "Irving Penn N.Y. 1984." Signed by Irving Penn. This book includes 156 plates, color and b/w, covering most of Penn's work, his fashion photographs, portraits (Anaïs Nin, Truman Capote, Henry Moore, Barnett Newman.) still-lives, work of portraits in New-Guinea, Morocco, Dahomey with a portable studio.
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