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This handsome book brings together for the first time Serra's drawn work, considering the artist's investigation of medium as an activity both independent from and linked to his pioneering sculptural practice.

First edition of Man Ray's autobiography, one of the finest artist's biographies ever written. Gossipy and profound, Ray was at the centre of the art world for 50 odd years and remembered everything.

A good photograph, so says Andy Warhol, is "one that's in focus and of a famous person". By this metric, John Hamilton's Thank Your Lucky Stars might just be the book with the most good photographs ever published.

Simon is one of the great contemporary photo book makers, and The Innocents is no different. Documenting the stories of individuals who served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit, it questions of photography’s function as a credible eyewitness and arbiter of justice.

Shrinkwrapped first edition of this legendary work. A single work of art that unfolds over 200 odd pages, a visual poem of sex and violence and beauty, an essay told through personal work, newspaper clippings, archival images and television screens - it seems to offer a new interpretation of itself with each visit.

Excellent, profusely illustrated survey of American Experimental Films from the 40s to the 70s. In glorious, acetate printed dustjacket.

One of the greatest fashion photographers of her time, Wallflower is the moment that Turbeville started to use collage in her work and elevated to fine artistry. Shot in Jean Cocteau's old house, this is a dreamy, dark, perfectly unclassifiable photobook.

A 1969 artists’ book by one of the all time greats, this is de Saint Phalle’s love letter to Jean Tinguely, at once erotically charged and extraordinarily innocent. It is pure love, rendered in De Saint Phalle’s unmistakable hand - as good a book as artwork as there ever was.

Made during the building of her Tarot Garden, this beautiful little book is de Saint Phalle’s explanation of her audacious and brilliant project, illustrated with her knowingly naive hand. Everything she touches is desperately romantic, endlessly alluring, perpetually profound.

Every issue of The Situationist Times was legendary, but perhaps none quite so as issue 4 which takes labyrinths as its focus. Edited entirely by Jacqueline de Jong, with architects, composers, astrophysicists and historians contributing work. Comes with a fold out poster.

The actual, original programme to the 1969 Woodstock music festival, featuring artist profiles, essays, and photos from everyone who was scheduled to play. In shockingly good condition, this is a proper slice of cultural history, beautifully designed.

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.

Ten days after he graduated from RISD with a degree in photography, Marc Wise got a long haul trucking license and spent the next six years driving across America. This book is the result of that period, wonderfully photographed.

An access guide to the town of Twin Peaks, taken deadly serious and curated by Lynch. It occasionally drops cover and knows it’s a tv show, but for the most part it's played straight. Super rare.

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 rare and loved copy of the delightful Cheap Eats, a cookbook filled with recipes and illustrations by students of Parsons School of Design, published in 1976.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.