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(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. NP (London): Morel Books, 2010. First Edition 1/1000. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (24pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Ed Templeton. "Entirely designed and edited by Ed Templeton, "Drinking The Kool-Aid" brings together a selection of his work in which the viewer engages with the booklet via numerous fold-outs, posters, and trimmed pages. Templeton has essentially materialized his own flexibility and agility of mediums through the book format, creating an exceptionally original piece of work!" A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item limited to one thousand unnumbered copies in the publisher's printed wraparound band additionally SIGNED "Ed Templeton" in black marker on the rear colophon. 1-907071-20-2 Inventory Number: 027265

(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. Bologna, ITALY: Damiani Editore & Alleged Press, 2008. First Edition 1/200 Deluxe. 4to. Pictorial Boards in Slipcase. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued.. 168pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Designed by Ed Templeton. A pioneer and legend of the skateboarding world, Mr. Templeton is not only the force behind Toy Machine Bloodsucking Skateboard Company, but a world renowned photographer and artist with gallery and museum shows the world over. Nearly a decade in the making, "Deformer" (titled after Mike Mills' 2000 documentary short film of the same name featuring Ed and his wife Deanna) is a harrowing and exhilarating autobiographical piece de resistance that combines the artist's photographs, drawings, paintings, and texts in all manner of permutations thereof. A brand new, pristine example of the deluxe edition limited to two hundred copies with an original SIGNED AND DATED color photograph by Ed Templeton laid in housed in the publisher's printed chipboard slipcase, as issued. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least 18 years of age to order this item. 88-6208-060-3 Inventory Number: 018867

(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. With a Brief Text by Aurelie Voltz, and an Interview by Jerome Sans. Rome, ITALY: Drago Arts & Communications, 2002. First Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. 103pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in French and English. Designed by Ed Templeton. "A fixture of Los Angeles' skateboarding scene, Ed Templeton has been producing photographs and paintings documenting his life, tours, and encounters in the skateboarding world for ten years". A hefty artist's book cum exhibition catalogue from the man that brought us "Teenage Smokers", this was published in conjunction with the retrospective "Ed Templeton - The Essential Disturbance" at Paris' Palais de Tokyo. "The Age of Neglect" is a colorful, tour-de-force examination of skateboard culture, wayward youth, and teenage sexuality. With echoes of Larry Clark and Harmony Korine, this is one of the coolest, grittiest photo-essays we've seen in recent years. A brand new, most handsome example of the uncommon 2002 first Drago printing additionally SIGNED "Ed Templeton" WITH A PROFILE DRAWING in black ink on the front free endpaper. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least 18 years of age to order this item. 88-88493-02-6 Inventory Number: 026905

(TEMPLETON, ED). Templeton, Ed. With a Brief Text by Aurelie Voltz, and an Interview by Jerome Sans. New York: Alleged Press, 1999. First Edition. 8vo. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Fine.. np (32pp), 30 color and 3 b&w illustrations. "A fixture of Los Angeles' skateboarding scene, Ed Templeton has been producing photographs and paintings documenting his life, tours, and encounters in the skateboarding world for ten years". This charming artist's book (published in conjunction with a 1999 New York exhibition) by local Skate legend Ed Templeton is filled with Teenage Smokers, and nothing but... See transgressive youth on parade from Huntington Beach, California to Turku, Finland! A brand new, most handsome example of this contemporary classic (cited on page 94 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume III") additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Ed Templeton" in black marker on the inside front cover. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 026593

(TOM OF FINLAND). Laaksonen, Touko aka Tom of Finland. Los Angeles: Tom of Finland, 1989. Edition Not Stated - Presumed First. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Wall Calendar. Near Fine.. np (24pp), 12 b&w illustrations + b&w covers. Self-published by the late, great Tom of Finland, this is a wall calendar for 1990 that features fourteen erotic male illustrations to keep you cozy throughout the year. A most handsome example of this surprisingly uncommon item perfect for the Tom of Finland completeist suitable for use again in 2018. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 016028

(TZIDON, ROY). Tzidon, Roy & Chad Rea. Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS. ND (2001).: Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Boards. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Art Direction by Erik Kessels. Designed by the great Erik Kessels (of KesselsKramer renown), this is Roy Tzidon's idiosyncratic book of erotic photography set in Amsterdam's notorious Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. A favorite of students, backpackers and sightseers on a budget, the five hundred and thirty-four bed self-proclaimed "Worst Hotel in the World - now with even more dogshit in the main entrance" has been "proudly disappointing travellers for forty years". For two months in 2000 the photographer rented Room 412 - the only one in the entire establishment with a full bathtub - and invited Hotel staff, guests, and street performers to come up to the room to bathe with the proviso that they allow themselves to be photographed for public consumption. This book, used as promotion for the Hans Brinker Budget Hotel, is the result. A most handsome example of this uncommon, charming item in the publisher's custom-embroidered white terrycloth bag, as issued. Inventory Number: 021698

(UTAMARO, KITAGAWA). Utamaro, Kitagawa. Tokyo: Gabun-Do, 1970. First Edition 1/500. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Illustrated Slipcase. Artist Monograph. Very Good -/No Jacket - As Issued. 147pp, 16 color and 122 b&w illustrations. Text in Japanese. This is a monograph on the renowned Japanese Ukiyo-E master Kitagawa Utamaro's Late Eighteenth Century erotic masterpiece "UtaMakura (Poem of the Pillow)". Reproduced here are the original twelve color woodblock prints as full page hand-tipped color plates, with one small quirk. Published in 1970, in keeping with Japan's then strict censorship laws the scenes depicting exposed genitalia have each been photographed with an orange rice-paper square covering the offending area. All of the reproductions of the explicitly graphic Shunga throughout suffer from the same fate. Still, this is obviously a very detailed and scholarly study of Utamaro's erotic prints. A most handsome example of the book itself limited to five hundred unnumbered copies showing repairs to the hinges inside the boards with archival linen tape along with some mild overall wear to the publisher's printed cardboard slipcase. Inventory Number: 018208

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1994. First Edition 1/1500. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Fashion Quarterly. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 7 booklets housed in a die cut, gilt-debossed printed cardstock slipcase, each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Gregory Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Published in an edition of one thousand, five hundred numbered copies, this is the thirteenth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. The contributors to this elegantly designed issue on the theme of the "Seven Deadly Sins" are Inez Van Lamsweerde, Veronica Webb, Isaac Mizrahi, Jean Paul Goude (Envy), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Frank DeCaro, Ruben Toledo, Roxanne Lowit (Gluttony), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Barbara Kruger (Greed), Mary Ellen Mark (Lust), Mario Testino (Pride), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Francois Berthoud (Sloth), and James Nachtwey, Mario Sorrenti (Wrath). A pristine individually numbered example (34/1500) of this uncommon issue. Inventory Number: 022515

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1994. First Edition 1/1500. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Fashion Quarterly. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 7 booklets housed in a die cut, gilt-debossed printed cardstock slipcase, each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Gregory Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Published in an edition of one thousand, five hundred numbered copies, this is the thirteenth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. The contributors to this elegantly designed issue on the theme of the "Seven Deadly Sins" are Inez Van Lamsweerde, Veronica Webb, Isaac Mizrahi, Jean Paul Goude (Envy), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Frank DeCaro, Ruben Toledo, Roxanne Lowit (Gluttony), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Barbara Kruger (Greed), Mary Ellen Mark (Lust), Mario Testino (Pride), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Francois Berthoud (Sloth), and James Nachtwey, Mario Sorrenti (Wrath). A pristine individually numbered example of this uncommon issue still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Inventory Number: 018293

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1994. First Edition 1/1500. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Fashion Quarterly. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 7 booklets housed in a die cut, gilt-debossed printed cardstock slipcase, each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Gregory Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Published in an edition of one thousand, five hundred numbered copies, this is the thirteenth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. The contributors to this elegantly designed issue on the theme of the "Seven Deadly Sins" are Inez Van Lamsweerde, Veronica Webb, Isaac Mizrahi, Jean Paul Goude (Envy), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Frank DeCaro, Ruben Toledo, Roxanne Lowit (Gluttony), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Barbara Kruger (Greed), Mary Ellen Mark (Lust), Mario Testino (Pride), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Francois Berthoud (Sloth), and James Nachtwey, Mario Sorrenti (Wrath). A most handsome individually numbered example of this uncommon issue. Inventory Number: 018292

(VISIONAIRE). Gan, Stephen, James Kaliardos & Cecilia Dean, Editors. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1994. First Edition 1/1500. 8vo. Stapled Wrappers in Slipcase. Fashion Quarterly. Good/No Jacket - As Issued. np, 7 booklets housed in a die cut, gilt-debossed printed cardstock slipcase, each profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Designed by Gregory Foley and Florentino J. Pamintuan. Published in an edition of one thousand, five hundred numbered copies, this is the thirteenth installment of everyone's favorite long-running luxe fashion quarterly, Visionaire. The contributors to this elegantly designed issue on the theme of the "Seven Deadly Sins" are Inez Van Lamsweerde, Veronica Webb, Isaac Mizrahi, Jean Paul Goude (Envy), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Frank DeCaro, Ruben Toledo, Roxanne Lowit (Gluttony), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Jean-Philippe Delhomme, Barbara Kruger (Greed), Mary Ellen Mark (Lust), Mario Testino (Pride), Inez Van Lamsweerde, Francois Berthoud (Sloth), and James Nachtwey, Mario Sorrenti (Wrath). A presentable individually numbered example only of this uncommon issue whose seven slender, individually bound booklets show pronounced dents and some creasing through the heels of their spines. It has been priced accordingly. Inventory Number: 018291

(VON UNWERTH, ELLEN) (GUESS? INC.). Marciano, Paul & Ellen Von Unwerth. Los Angeles: Guess? Inc., 2004. First Edition. Small 4to. Stapled Tabloid Wrappers. Fashion Trade Catalog. Near Fine.. 54 individual 9 x 6" cardstock sheets printed color offset recto and verso housed in a printed cardstock sleeve, 54 color illustrations. Art Direction by Paul Marciano. This is another catalogue of sexy publicity and marketing images for the Marciano brothers' Guess? Inc. clothing company. Published for their Spring 2004 campaign, it takes the form of an oversized deck of cards - including two jokers - featuring famed photographer Ellen Von Unwerth's pictures of Bianca Balti, Sasha Beznosyuk, and other models engaging in youthful hijinks in Las Vegas and the Nevada desert. A complete, internally most handsome example of this uncommon item that was issued hors commerce - only bestowed, never commercially for sale - showing a few minor creases to the flaps of the publisher's printed sleeve that is perfectly suitable for your next round of bridge. Inventory Number: 025093

(VON UNWERTH, ELLEN). Von Unwerth, Ellen. Foreword by Ingrid Sischy. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2009. First Edition 1/1500 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Boards in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 482pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, French and German. "Ellen von Unwerth is one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers. With Fräulein, she pays homage to the era’s sexiest female icons including Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more. Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth‘s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enchantingly combined. These images were shot over the last fifteen years and many are previously unpublished". A brand new, most handsome example of the 2009 first printing of the Taschen Collector's Edition limited to one thousand, five hundred copies NUMBERED (0592) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Ellen Von Unwerth" in black marker across the limitation page in the publisher's clamshell box, as issued. 3-8365-1477-X Inventory Number: 025651

(VON UNWERTH, ELLEN). Von Unwerth, Ellen. Foreword by Ingrid Sischy. Koln, GERMANY: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 2009. First Edition 1/1500 Deluxe. Elephant Folio. Boards in Clamshell Box. Photography Monograph. As New/No Jacket - As Issued. 482pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English, French and German. "Ellen von Unwerth is one of the world’s most original and successful fashion photographers. With Fräulein, she pays homage to the era’s sexiest female icons including Claudia Schiffer, Kate Moss, Vanessa Paradis, Britney Spears, Eva Mendes, Lindsay Lohan, Dita von Teese, Adriana Lima, Carla Bruni, Eva Green, Christina Aguilera, Monica Bellucci and dozens more. Switching effortlessly between color and immaculate black and white, von Unwerth‘s photography revels in sexual intrigue, femininity, romance, fetishism, kitsch humor, decadence and sheer joie de vivre. Whether nude or in lingerie and a dazzling smile, her subjects are never objectified. Some flaunt personal fantasies; others are guarded, suggesting that we have stumbled into a secret world. Fashion and fantasy were never so enchantingly combined. These images were shot over the last fifteen years and many are previously unpublished". A brand new, pristine example of the 2009 first printing of the Taschen Collector's Edition limited to one thousand, five hundred copies NUMBERED (1310) AND BOLDLY SIGNED "Ellen Von Unwerth" in black marker across the limitation page in the publisher's clamshell box and unopened printed cardboard shipping carton, as issued. 3-8365-1477-X Inventory Number: 025650

(WEBER, BRUCE) (BRUTUS). Weber, Bruce, Nan Bush, Sofia Coppola, Herbie & Christian Fletcher, Ingrid Sischy, Franca Sozzani, Helmut Lang, et al.. Tokyo: Brutus, 2005. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Periodical. Near Fine.. 170pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Japanese. Published in conjunction with the 2005 opening of the "Weberbilt" boutique in Tokyo, Japanese fashion and lifestyle bible "Brutus" magazine devoted this entire issue to all things Bruce Weber. Included are more than one hundred and twenty pages of photo-essays, collages, drawings, interviews, and a completely illustrated Little Bear bibliography and filmography. A most handsome example of this obscure necessity for the Bruce Weber completeist. Inventory Number: 020952

(WEBER, BRUCE). Heartney, Eleanor & Murray Horne. Pittsburgh, PA: Wood Street Galleries, 2001. First Edition 1/4000. Oblong Small 4to. Printed Wrappers. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine.. np (54pp), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published in conjunction with a 2001 survey exhibition of "the naked body in contemporary video, photography and performance", this catalog featuring the work of participants Tina Barney, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Jaan Toomik, Spencer Tunick, Bruce Weber, and Manabu Yamanaka was withdrawn from sale days after the show opened due to a legal dispute regarding the reproduction of Weber's images of Layne and Kyle Carlson. A most handsome example of this exceedingly uncommon Bruce Weber-related item of which reputedly only a handful were ever circulated and not a single copy is currently cited in OCLC WorldCat showing just a bit of light wear to the wrappers. Inventory Number: 021073

(WEBER, BRUCE) (VOGUE ITALIA). Weber, Bruce. With Brief Texts By Woody Guthrie & John Steinbeck. Milan, ITALY: Vogue Italia, 2003. First Edition. 4to. Illustrated Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np (124pp + covers), profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English. Published separately as the supplement to a 2003 issue of "Vogue Italia", this Bruce Weber film journal was an advance peek at his feature, "A Letter to True". True is True Blue, the photographer's youngest pup, and the movie is a cinematic love letter to Weber's many dogs, as well as Tyson the cat. Mixed in amongst the hundreds of photos revolving around the canine cast here are Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom, Natalie Portman, Renee Zellweger, Owen Wilson, Charlize Theron, Jude Law, Drew Barrymore, James Franco, Kate Moss, Colin Farrell, Vinnie Jones, Paul Walker, Snoop Dogg, Peter Cincotti, Muhammad Ali, Marianne Faithfull, Sean Penn, "the Boy Who Wanted to Look Like Elizabeth Taylor", and many, many more! A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap along with the issue of Vogue. Inventory Number: 023324

(WEBER, BRUCE). Weber, Bruce. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. First Edition 1/5000. Small Folio. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Very Good/Near Fine. np, profusely illustrated in monochrome and duotone gravure. Designed by John Eric Cheim. This is the exquisite first collection in book form of the photographs of the redoubtable Bruce Weber. Unabashedly celebrating youth and athleticism, it is divided into the chapters "Brothers", "Matt Dillon", "Notebook", "Lifeguards", "Clammers", "Hall of Fame", "Jeff (Aquilon)", and "On Leave in Waikiki". A handsome example of the 1983 first Twelvetrees Press edition of this influential book additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "For ... Bruce Weber" in black ink on the title page showing some very light spotting to the edges of the textblock. Inventory Number: 024219

(WEBER, BRUCE). Weber, Bruce & Jochen Siemens. Hamburg, GERMANY: Stern Spezial Fotografie / Gruner + Jahr AG, 2001. First Edition. Folio. Stapled Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. 110pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and German. The most interesting editions of this elegantly produced photography special published by Stern Magazine invariably sell out quickly, and this twenty-second installment devoted to Bruce Weber was no exception. An American travelogue compiled over a twenty-five year period, this features many of the photographer's familiar territories; Chet Baker, Robert Mitchum, Lisa-Marie, Peter Johnson, Sam Shepard, Newfoundlands and Retrievers, Santa Barbara, Golden Beach, The Chelsea Hotel, Montana, plus lots and lots of muscular young men and women. A brand new, pristine example still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-570-19293-8 Inventory Number: 020693

(WESSELMANN, TOM). Hunter, Sam. Introduction By Fred Hoffman. Santa Monica, CA: Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1996. First Edition. Square 4to. Spiral Bound Die-Cut Wrappers. Artist Monograph. Fine.. 36pp, 16 color illustrations. Designed by For Design. With a biography, exhibition history and exhibition checklist. This is an exceptionally nicely designed and produced catalogue issued in conjunction with a 1996 Santa Monica gallery retrospective of twenty-four works by the late Pop Art master Tom Wesselmann. A pristine copy. Inventory Number: 017744

(WILKE, HANNAH). Wilke, Hannah & Joanna Frueh. Thomas H. Kochheiser, Editor. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1989. First Edition. Oblong 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Artist Monograph. Fine/Fine. 176pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. With an exhibition checklist and bibliography. Published in conjunction with a 1989 Hannah Wilke retrospective exhibition held at the University of Missouri at St. Louis' Gallery 210, this comprehensive hardbound catalogue was the first major publication on the pioneering late feminist artist. It combines copious photographic documentation with an essay by Joanna Frueh and a selection of previously unpublished writings by the artist. A brand new, most handsome example of this uncommon item additionally SIGNED AND DATED "Hannah Wilke 1989 00" in the year of publication in black ink to the right of her posterior on the frontispiece portrait photograph 0-8262-0703-0 Inventory Number: 027450

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Dupuy, Alain & Antonio Saura. Madrid, SPAIN: Ministerio De Cultura, Spain & Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, 1989. First Edition. Square 8vo. Debossed Silk Over Boards. Exhibition Catalog. Near Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 120pp, profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Text in French. With a bibliography and exhibition history. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This is the beautifully designed hardbound catalogue published in conjunction with a 1989 traveling European retrospective that presented Joel-Peter Witkin's finished prints alongside the photographer's macabre preparatory drawings. A most handsome example of the first Spanish language edition in black moire silk-covered boards debossed with an elaborate gothic cross additionally BOLDLY SIGNED "Joel-Peter Witkin" in black ink across the entire half title page. 84-505-7482-X Inventory Number: 018491

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Janis, Eugenia Parry. Paris: Centre National De La Photographie (Photo Poche Collection), 1991. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. Near Fine.. np, 63 duotone illustrations. Text in French. With a biography. In a protective clear acetate dustwrapper. This forty-ninth installment of the venerable Photo Poche series of photography monographs is a concise survey of the boundary pushing work of Joel-Peter Witkin. A most handsome example of the 1991 first edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED PRESENTATION "To Robert, Joel" in black ink on the title page to the noted late photography curator and historian Robert Sobieszek from whom we acquired this directly. 2-86754-071-2 Inventory Number: 018676

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Witkin, Joel-Peter. Pasadena, CA: Twelvetrees Press, 1995. First Edition #53/100. Large Square 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket,Slipcased. Photography Monograph. Fine/Fine. np (130pp), 52 duotone illustrations. Designed by Jack Woody. With an exhibition history, bibliography and collections listing. Issued in 1985 by the redoubtable Twelvetrees Press, this is the beautifully designed and printed first comprehensive publication on the work of Joel-Peter Witkin. Says the publisher: "Joel-Peter Witkin's photographs are simultaneously loathsome and brilliant, generating endless controversy and sometimes, admiration. This is the artist's first monograph and in his words and pictures a more complete understanding of his work emerges." A brand new, most handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon deluxe edition of the first 1985 Twelvetrees Press printing limited to one hundred copies BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED "Joel-Peter Witkin / 53/100" in black ink on the title page in the publisher's black linen-over-boards slipcase, as issued. 0-942642-15-5 Inventory Number: 026573

(WITKIN, JOEL-PETER). Witkin, Joel-Peter & Galway Kinnell. New York: Kevin Begos Publishing, Inc., 1993. First Edition 1/175. Elephant Folio. 1/4 Leather Over Boards in Box. Livre D'Artiste. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued.. np (52pp), 12 gravure illustrations. Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Joel-Peter Witkin. Issued in 1993, this is an exquisitely produced Livre D'Artiste collaboration between publisher Kevin Begos and photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. Limited to one hundred and seventy-five copies, it presents twelve arresting hand-pulled photogravure images accompanied by the letterpress printed poem "Under The Maud Moon" by Galway Kinnell from his "Book of Nightmares". Measuring 23 ½ x 17 ½", the Lana paper pages reproduce the following Witkin photographs: 1) "Head of a Dead Man (Mexico City, 1990)", 2) "Satiro ( Mexico City, 1992)", 3) "Three Kinds of Woman (Mexico City, 1992)", 4) "Un Santo Oscuro (Mexico City, 1987)", 5) "Still Life (New Mexico, 1992)", 6) "Las Meninas (New Mexico, 1987)", 7) "Studio of the Painter (Paris, 1990)", 8) "Feast of Fools (Mexico City, 1990)", 9) "Laokoon (New Mexico, 1992)", 10) "Negre's Fetishist (Paris, 1990)", 11) "Vanity (New Mexico, 1990)", and 12) "Man with a Dog (Mexico City, 1990)". These are bound in elegant one quarter black leather-over-dark grey-boards, and housed in a black linen covered clamshell box with a grey pastedown on the spine. A brand new, most handsome example of this extraordinary object acquired directly from Kevin Begos BOLDLY SIGNED AND NUMBERED in pencil by Joel-Peter Witkin at the rear colophon in the publisher's clamshell box, as issued. Inventory Number: 023305

Bland, Jr., C.W., Tyson Wellman Reilly & Michelle Aaronson, Editors. San Diego, CA: Socio Library, 1971. First Edition. 4to. Stapled Illustrated Wrappers. Erotic Periodical. Fine.. 62pp, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Published in the wake of Masters and Johnson's landmark studies "Human Sexual Response" and "Human Sexual Inadequacy", the Socio Library's six volume "Photo-Illustrated Encyclopedia of Deviant Sexual Behavior" is notable for its hard core pornographic approach to scholarship. This third installment contains explicitly illustrated contributions on the subjects of Femoralism, Fetishism, Flagellation, Frictation, Frottage, Gerontophilia, Graophilia, Group Sexuality, Hermaphroditism, Homosexuality, Hyperaesthesia, Incest, Indecent Exposure, Inunctionism, Lesbianism, and Lingerie Fetishism. A most handsome example of this uncommon item showing a tiny vintage "Pacific News" distribution sticker on the front cover. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. Inventory Number: 022713

Cortes, Jose Miguel G.. San Sebastian, BASQUE: Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, 1997. First Edition. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Silk Boards. Exhibition Catalog. Fine./No Jacket - As Issued. 344pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in Basque and Spanish, with an English summary. With a bibliography and filmography. This is the amazing catalogue produced in conjunction with a 1997 Spanish Museum exhibition whose English title translates as "The Veiled Face: Transvest[it]ism and Identity in Art". The premise of the show was to provide a comprehensive survey of Drag, Cross Dressing, Transvestitism, and the Transgendered as subject matter in contemporary art and film. The artists whose work is presented here are Claude Cahun, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Juan Hidalgo, Michel Journiac, Jurgen Klauke, Zoe Leonard, Urs Luthi, Lisette Model, Pierre Molinier, Catherine Opie, Pierre et Gilles, Man Ray, Humberto Rivas, August Sander, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Joel-Peter Witkin. A brand new, most handsome example. 84-7907-214-8 Inventory Number: 011658

Goliath Verlag Staff, Editor. Bonn, GERMANY: Goliath Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2009. First Edition. 8vo. Flexible Boards. Erotic Photography Survey. Very Good./No Jacket - As Issued.. 272pp, profusely illustrated in b&w. Text in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. With artist biographies and bibliographies. "Best of Bondage" is a survey of contemporary black and white bondage and fetish images from the international cast of Goliath Verlag-associated erotic photographers Dave Naz, Steven Speliotis, Laura M. Stansfield, Midori, Lee Higgs, Craig Morey, Roman Kaspersky, Josef Botello, and Martin R. Klass. A handsome example showing just a bit of light use and some wear and creasing along the spine. PLEASE NOTE: Due to the explicit nature of some of the content here, you must be at least eighteen years of age to order this item. 3-936709-36-X Inventory Number: 025536

Kaigo No Hana Photographers Club, Editor. Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1994. First Edition. 4to. Wrappers in Pictorial Jacket. Fine./Fine.. np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Text in Japanese, with some English. The Kaigo No Hana Photographers Club "Girl" anthologies are sumptuous annual publications featuring the best of their amateur members' work alongside that of professional submissions. Billed as "Japan's Standard in Nudity", the images are beautifully photographed and printed female nudes - both Asian and Caucasian. This anthology collects the best amateur work of six years of these publications. A brand new, pristine example. 4-89011-341-X Inventory Number: 012898

Sha-Girl Editorial Staff. Tokyo: Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, 1995. First Edition. 4to. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 96pp, profusely illustrated in color. Text in Japanese. From the Japanese publisher of the "Sha-Girl" annuals comes the third installment of this anthology that contains five separate erotic photo-essays devoted to young Asian female beauty (although one of the subjects this time around is decidedly Caucasian). A most handsome example. 4-89011-355-X Inventory Number: 008896

Sprigle, David Aden, Editor. Santa Monica, CA: FotoFactory Press, 1997. First Edition 1/6000. Square 8vo. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. As New/As New. np (124pp), profusely illustrated in color and duotone. Designed by Stephen Patrick Foery and David Sprigle. Published in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition at Venice Beach's David Aden Gallery, this is another beautifully appointed FotoFactory Press thematic anthology that features the work of fifty-nine photographers' erotic images of men and animals. Those included here are Ali, Bjorn Andren, Larry Ashton, Clifford Baker, Steven Baratz, Jim Barnes, Joel W. Benjamin, Tom Bianchi, Rick Castro, Lance DeWalt, Evergon, Benjamin F. Fink Jr., Stephen Fleitz, Robert Flynt, Ed Freeman, Nina Glaser, Alair Gomes, Steph. Gorkii, Kelly Grider, David Grinnell, Kim Hanson, Conrad Hechter, Baly Hinter Wipflinger, Justice Howard, Donnie Hudson, Rolf Juario, Dean Keefer, Ross Bennett Lewis, Mark Lynch, Geoff Manasse, David J. Martin, Reed Massengill, Jose Messana, Martin Meyer, Daniel Nicoletta, Freddie Niem, Barbara Nitke, Ray Lewis Payne, Stevee Postman, Veli-Pekka Raty, Paul Roberts, Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte, Edgar Scott, Robert Emery Smith, David Sprigle, Stanley Stellar, Vince Sullivan, Brian To, Bill Toscano, Arthur Tress, Tim Wilkerson, and Cameron Wolf. A pristine copy still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-883923-23-9 Inventory Number: 015241

Sprigle, David Aden, Editor. Santa Monica, CA. 1997 (1998).: FotoFactory Press. First Edition (Second Printing) 1/6000. Square 8vo. Cloth in Dust Jacket. Exhibition Catalog. Fine/Fine. np (124pp), profusely illustrated in duotone. Designed by Stephen Patrick Foery and David Sprigle. This is the very first beautifully appointed FotoFactory Press thematic anthology that features the work of forty-one photographers' erotic images of men together: working, playing, fighting and loving. Those included here are Ali, Robert Atherton, Jr., David Ausman, Clifford Baker, Steven Baratz, Joel W. Benjamin, Doug Birkenheuer, Kristen Bjorn, Ripp Bowman, David Butt, Daniel Collins, Bill Costa, E.A. Cotter, Paul Dahlquist, Andy Devine, Hans Fahrmeyer, Tomas Gaspar, Barry Gollop. J.J. Green, Charles F. Gustina, , Kim Hanson, Conrad Hechter, Baly Hinter Wipflinger, Justice Howard, Donnie Hudson, Robert Irwin, Rolf Juario, James J. Klekowski, Harriet Leibowitz, Ross Bennett Lewis, Mark V. Lynch, Geoff Manasse, Brent McTavish, Martin Meyer, Jeff Palmer, Paul Roberts, John Sonsini, Stanley Stellar, Ström, Arthur Tress, Tim Wilkerson, Jim J. Winbourn, and William Yang. A pristine copy of the 1998 second printing.. 1-883923-24-7 Inventory Number: 010834

Sullivan, Steve. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. First Edition. Square 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers. As New.. 320pp, profusely illustrated in b&w and color. From the author/editor of "Glamour Girls Then and Now", "Va Va Voom" and "Bombshells" comes this all encompassing (if not somewhat arbitrary) illustrated dictionary of the one thousand sexiest Twentieth Century objects of not-so-obscure male desire. From pinups to porn stars, first ladies to strippers, scream queens to bathing beauties, they're pretty much all here beginning with the top ten of Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Jayne Mansfield, Brigitte Bardot, Rita Hayworth, Bettie Page, Sophia Loren, Jean Harlow, June Wilkinson and Cindy Crawford, then spiraling downward past Diane Webber, Traci Lords, Diana Rigg, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Carol Doda, Jennie Garth, and Gwen Stefani all the way to Isadora Duncan(!) - number 1000... Each entry includes a brief biography, and in most instances a saucy pic. A pristine copy. 0-312-20651-8 Inventory Number: 010239