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A spiritual manual for prison life, this book was not meant to be circulated out of incarceration, but here we have the first edition. Full of Ram Dass wisdom to get one through literal, or psychological, confinement.

Most known for his portraits of Marilyn Monroe, De Dienes experimentations, brushes with Surrealism, and immersion in 1940s American culture, was singular artist in nude photography. This book returns him to that rightful place.

First edition of Nan Goldin's first, and most fun, photobook, documenting the scene at the Boston queer bar 'The Other Side' in all of its glory and grit. A work about found families.

A beautiful edition of one of Didion's greatest and controversial works. Worth it just for the back cover.

An ever so Ackerian play which uses the French Revolution as its basis, with several stylish subplots that are erotic, historical, and fantastical. Fabulously designed with pulpy blood splatter, this is a wonderful Acker oddity that pulls no punches.

Lee Eiferman's entry into the legendary Top Stories prose periodical. Based out of New York, Top Stoiries spotlighted experimental and avant-garde women writers in small print editions. 1982 First Printing, in near fine condition.

Exhibition catalogue for Keith Piper's 1991 show exploring the complex and ever shifting relationship between peoples of African descent and the economic and symbolic power of the Christian church. An important, historic documentation.

One of the series of CineIcons: 90s books out of Japan assembling the best images of various movie stars. This might be our favourite, Pacino is devastatingly gorgeous and achingly cool on every page.

Incredibly rare, ecclectic little volume of beat recipes, each fully illustrated, including but not limited to Ginsburgers, Pablo Piccaserole, Rex Broth, and the Kerouac Kocktail.

A pioneering British surrealist, McBean's photographs are as romantic, uncanny, and deeply elegant as their author. This is a wonderful overview of his work, from set design, portraiture, to fashion work.

A portrait of France through the lens of its favourite son, the father of modern photography himself. Lovely later colour imagery shows a breadth and brevity and the decisive moment is there throughout.

Bailey turning his lens to his local postcode, he captures in moody, atmospheric monochromes the crumbling buildings of Primrose Hill and Camden. The world he depicted was already a relic when this book was published and now feels like a distant history.

Nick Waplington was barely out of high school in 1984 when he first began hanging around his grandfather's housing estate in Aspley, Nottingham. The resulting book is one of the most an important depiction of 1980s working-class Britain.

A really excellent compilation of Davidson's work, each image is more alive, more tangible, more dangerous, and more beautiful than the next. Hardcover first edition.

Arnie's bulging out of every page of this Japanese cine-icon book from the 90s.

Jimmy Dean never looked better than in this powder printed cine-icon book from Japan. It's vibrant and nostalgic and full of pictures you've never seen of the beautiful and damned movie star.

First full-length poetry collection by the founder of the Umbra Workshop, which would become a significant influence on the Black Arts Movement. Includes Reed's major long poem "Catechism of d neoamerican hoodoo church", in the first edition paperback.

First edition. Literature has never been as fun since - Calvino's Cosmicosmics manage to be as light and joyous as anything while having such philosophical, metaphysical, and emotional depth. This is, I believe, his crowning achievement, though he saw them as ongoing writing exercises.

A lovely 60s edition of the foundational text of the Thelema, written by Aleister Crowley in 1904. "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law".

Enormous paperback bible of street style, real street style - unposed, unstyled, often unstylish. Taken in London in the late 90s, the book only furthers its cult status as the years go by.

Properly cult 70s photobook, with only archival photographs inside. It charts numerous sordid, tragic, and bizarre incidents that took place in and around Jackson County, Wisconsin between 1885 and 1900, told through primary sources.

Gravure printed, featuring fold outs, full bleeds, and elegant design choices, it has to be seen to be believed. Narahara takes us on a journey across Spain; through bustling cities thick with smoke and sweat, into the rural countryside and the pain of hard-worked bodies, and inside the ring, with the bull fighters all dressed in garb of such delicate masculinity.

First French edition of Koudelka's masterpiece, a powerful document of the spiritual and physical state of exile. Mostly taken during Koudelka's many years of wandering through Europe and Great Britain since leaving his native Czechoslovakia in 1968, they speak of passion and reserve, of his rage to see.

A very large, landscape book for very large, landscape photography. Published in 2001 to accompany a retrospective at the Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, this is a wonderful overview of Andreas Gursky's photographic work since 1984.