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Exhibition catalogue made on the occasion of Derek Jarman's 1992 exhibition at Manchester City Art Galleries. Featuring essays from Jarman, Norman Rosenthal , Stuart Morgan, Andrew Renton , and Simon Watney, it is profusely illustrated with Jarman's painterly works. A significant document of queer art and resistance.

Unbelievably rare, does what it says on the tin 60s counter-cultural book. Replete with excellent photography and practical guides to access and etiquette. First Edition.

Catalogue of the seminal 1951 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. All the big hitters are here, though many in their infancy. An excellent taste of what was to come.

August/September 77 issue of the greatest, new wave magazine of all time. Designed to an inch of its life, every page of this is a masterpiece, a single vision that somehow captures the whole breadth of a scene, its just not clear what scene it is.

The rarer than rare Exhibition Catalogue for Pistoletto’s Mathildenhöhe Exhibition in Darmstadt. 1974. Half the book is screen printed mirrors, meaning this is effectively a portfolio of editions Pistoletto’s for a fraction of the price if they were unbound. An unbelievable work.

A lovely compilation of all of the Man Ray’s pioneering fashion photography. Shooting for everyone who was everyone, when the industry of glossies was still in its adolescence, this is the reassurance you didn’t need that Ray still stands as one of the greatest to ever do it.

Exhibition catalogue from Claes Oldenburg’s 1966 Moderna Museet show of sculptures. Part of one of the most legendary catalogue runs of all time, under the museum directorship of Pontus Hulten and the design of John Melin, this is a perfect glimpse at Oldenburg at the height of his sculptural powers.

Super collectable Basquiat exhibition catalog published on the occasion of Basquiat's first major London exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in 1999. Colour plates of all of the exhibited work, with an excellent essay on the artist.

An all time, never bettered favourite. Made by the MOMA, featuring every important artist of the day, some submitting genuine recipes, other with recipes as artworks. A shockingly useable, knock out book.

The seminal "artists' books" issue of the New York-based underground magazine Art-Rite, edited by Edit DeAk and Walter Robinson. Featuring an "Idea Poll" with statements on the medium from fifty artists, including John Baldessari and Lucy Lippard, as well as extensive writing on the purpose of the artists’ book.

Sol LeWitt was a master of the artists’ book, exploring his conceptual ideas to their logical conclusion through the medium. Arcs and Lines is exactly what it says on the tin, a study of arcs and lines and how they interact under his constraints. It’s perfect.

Exhibition catalogue for "Alternative Suèdoise. Svenskt Alternativ” exhibition held at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 1970. As the title "Alternative Swedes" suggests, the exhibition features works by cutting-edge artists of the time, ranging from photography to performances, sculptures, and paintings

A guest edited issue of Design Quarterly from 1984, designed by and focusing on Paul Rand, the great polymathic designer.

From 1974 to 1980, American photographer Bobby Busnach transformed a crumbling Upper West Side apartment into a theatrical stage, capturing hundreds of photographs of his family of friends. With dramatic lighting, cinematic angles, and a mix of vintage and contemporary fashions, he meticulously styled, made-up, and posed his subjects, creating portraits that explored shifting personalities and identities. The images present the home as a queer, transgressive and transformative space of communion, celebration and strife. A place where a group of fierce friends, runaways and wannabe stars came together to play out their fantasies of fame through photography. The resulting images are both staged and startingly intimate; they speak to the fluid boundaries between art and life, performance and identity – capturing not only how these figures wanted to be seen, but also how they saw each other. The archive resurfaces today as both a tribute to, and testament of, an intense creative bond—loving, complex and volatile—between the artist and his closest collaborator and best friend, Geraldine Visco. Their artistic partnership produced some of the archive’s most striking images, and as its protagonist, Visco’s presence animates the work throughout. Organised and edited by Seana Redmond, the book brings together over a hundred never-before-seen photographs from an archive that remained largely unseen for decades, establishing this publication as the very first reference on Busnach’s work. Texts written by Amelia Abraham and Jackson Davidow offer contemporary and critical reflections on iconic imagery and queer domestic nightlife. All of Us Stars is a tale of re-invention and performance, disguise and theatricality, of chosen kinship, precarity and survival: an enigmatic tribute to forgotten lives that burned bright on the margins of fame.