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A compelling true story of three women who met at Berkley in the early Sixties, and the events that radicalised them in the years following. An honest, detailed and personal account about what each of them experienced during one of the most contentious decades of the century. First Edition.

In her writings, Alison Adburgham brings an original wit and literary phrase which had not yet been associated with fashion journalism. Her view of fashion is both accurate and acute, sometimes unexpected but never distorted. This first edition brings together a collection of articles on fashions shows, parties and people she encountered across four fashion capitals.

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.

First edition of a masterful and important work by the great Carribbean poet, here tuning back to Africa to explore the nature of loss, movement, and himself.

A japanese bootleg compilation of John Willie's best, full of imagery and illustration from the pioneering British fetishist.

Arbus made little distinction between her art photography and 'paid jobs', and nowhere is this clearer than in this lovely overview of her photos for the glossies.

This book, published by Scalo, was at the time the most substantial overview of Mikhailov's life, work, and conceptual ideologies. Replete with remarkable essays from a wealth of writers introducing each distinct series of work or aesthetic movement, it is everything you need from Mikhailov.

Over the last two years, Reference Point has released a poetry pamphlet in response to each letter of the alphabet in collaboration with friends, poets and writers who have influenced the space in one way or another. Held inside a matchbox-style slip case, The Alphabet Poetry Anthology traces a moment in time from A all the way to Z, decorated with letters drawn by each poet. List of poets from A to Z: Phoenix Yemi Moonchile Philip Larkin Miracle Sappho Ben Hera Ekas Tara Fatehi Lora Nicole Della Costa Lisa Robertson Nicko Mroczkowski Frank O'Hara Arnold Chukwu Samra Mayanja Zoë Bleu Molly Emma Arcadia Molinas June Tanaka Fuego Hasti Sebastian Wiener Brother Portrait Kate Crisp Ingvild Belinda Zhawi ACB

Exhibition catalogue for the Tate Gallery retrospective of Eduardo Paolozzi. The central section of the book was designed by Paolozzi, as were the the die-cut boot inserts which are present here.

Catalogue for the 1942 New York show, one of the most important gallery shows ever staged. With the cover designed by Duchamp, replete with die-cut holes, the catalogue contains imagery of the work of the featured artists and writing about Surrealism, introducing the movement to America for the first time.

The first modern artists book, and the most influential, here in the third edition of 3000. A very good copy with a small tear to the glassine on the lower spine. Following a journey back to Oklahoma, Ruscha attempted to create a work that was devoid of the human hand, a commentary against the photographic landscape of highly aestheticised image-making. This was pure documentation, as art.

Catalogue for the Max Ernst : Malningar, Collage, Frottage, Teckningar, Grafik, Bocker, Skulpturer 1917-1969 show at the Moderna Museet show. Furry cover and fabulous plates of the work shown.

Lovely softcover publication produced in 1967 when Aubrey Beardsley’s 19th century work was resonating with a counter-cultural, psychedelic audience. Sexy, dangerous, and provocative in equal measure.

An early study of psychedelics, in heady medical language reporting on a series of studies that explored how LSD, Mescalin, Peyote, Psilocibin, Marijuana and the like affect the human mind. Excellent cover appeal.

Japanese cine icon ode to Hugh Grant, before Four Weddings and a Funeral. Cover to cover of British foppishness, stills and BTS photographs from period films with Grant looking like the quintessential 90s heartthrob of these fine isles.

A chilling deep-dive into one of the most infamous cults in American history. Sanders unpacks how Charles Manson transformed a group of young followers into a violent, apocalyptic clan. From the drug-fuelled communes of Spahn Ranch and Death Valley, occult rituals, motorcycle gangs, and California’s 1960s counterculture, Sanders exposes the dark undercurrents that fuelled Manson’s power. The novel connects Manson’s crimes to the larger cultural chaos of the era — Hollywood, rock n roll, drugs and the search for meaning gone very wrong.

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.

The third volume of Araki's 20 volume Catalogue Raisonné, and our favourite of the series, focusing solely on his images of his wife Yoko. It begins with images from Sentimental Journey and finishes with her funeral and the empty skies that hung so heavy over him in her absence. Between these are images that range from family snapshots to staged works, erotic shoots to domestic drudgery, with ample features of their beloved cat Chiro.

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.