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Art and Decoration
Art and Decoration
By Oscar Wilde.

Oscar Wilde was one of the most influential writers on art and design in the late 19th century. Alongside his acclaimed plays, novel and short stories, he wrote and lectured extensively on the subject. This >>more

Art / Books Vintage Classics
ISBN 9781908970541
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Clth, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 216 pgs.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


Easy Rider Road Book
Easy Rider Road Book
Edited by Anke Fesel, Chris Keller.

Subtitled “a tour through the wild and inspiring side of bicycle culture,” Easy Rider Road Book offers an illustrated guide to cycling’s subversive potential and the powerful bonds it can create among people. Bike culture, >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775755702
US $50.00 CAN $73.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 01/09/2024 In stock


OSIRIS: The Eyes of Rosetta
OSIRIS: The Eyes of Rosetta
Edited with text by Holger Sierks, Carsten Güttler, Cecilia Tubiana.

Comets have fascinated humans and inspired our imaginations for millennia. Having witnessed the formation of our solar system 4.6 billion years ago, comets are also a scientist’s dream to study. Composed of fluffy dust, several >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783958296220
US $85.00 CAN $115.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 328 pgs / 11 color / 245 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2025 Awaiting stock


The Awe of the Arctic
The Awe of the Arctic
Edited with text by Elizabeth Cronin. Text by Elizabeth C. Denlinger, Ian Fowler, Julie Golia, Bogdan Horbal, Jessica Keister, Declan D. Kiely, Maggie Mustard, Brent Reidy, Dalila Scruggs, Kyle R. Triplett, Madeleine Viljoen, Joseph Vissers, Emily Walz.

For centuries, what lies above the Arctic Circle has been a source of intrigue for those who live below its border. Stories from ancient Greek and Norse mythology gave rise to lively conceptions of ice-free >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748070
US $70.00 CAN $102.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 04/09/2024 Awaiting stock


We Started a Nightclub
"We Started a Nightclub"
By Brian Butterick, Susan Martin, Kestutis Nakas.

What Studio 54 was for disco, the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge was for the alternative scene of 1980s downtown New York. Located at 101 Avenue A, the Pyramid offered a mixture of cultures: from groundbreaking, irreverent >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788862088169
US $55.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Flexi, 7 x 9.5 in. / 416 pgs / 88 color / 45 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2024 Awaiting stock


Where'd You Get Those?
Where'd You Get Those?
Foreword, introduction and afterword by Bobbito Garcia.

Twenty years after its first release, and a decade since the most recent edition, this timeless, definitive volume on sneaker culture is finally back in print. Lavishly illustrated and remarkably comprehensive, Where’d You Get Those? >>more

Testify Books
ISBN 9780972592079
US $45.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 280 pgs / 400 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2024 Awaiting stock


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST

5 Year Diary: Black Cover
5 Year Diary: Black Cover
Designed by Tamara Shopsin. "THIS book belongs to," reads the frontispiece of the little red diary, followed by the words "Florence Wolfson," scrawled in faded black ink. Inside the worn leather cover, in brief, breathless dispatches written on gold-edged >>more

The Ice Plant
ISBN 9780977648139
US $29.95 CAN $42.95 SDNR50
Hbk, 3.75 x 6.5 in. / 376 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 In stock


5 Year Diary: Blue Cover
5 Year Diary: Blue Cover
Now available in blue, Tamara Shopsin’s classic 5 Year Diary is back in stock. Designed by Shopsin--whose illustration work is regularly featured in The New York Times--and produced by The Ice Plant and Shopsin’s General >>more

The Ice Plant
ISBN 9780977648191
US $29.95 CAN $42.95 SDNR50
Hbk, 3.75 x 6.5 in. / 376 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 In stock


5 Year Diary: Red Cover
5 Year Diary: Red Cover
Now available in red, Tamara Shopsin's classic 5 Year Diary is back in stock. Designed by Shopsin--whose illustration work is regularly featured in The New York Times--and produced by The Ice Plant and Shopsin's General >>more

The Ice Plant
ISBN 9780977648184
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 SDNR50
Hbk, 3.75 x 6.5 in. / 376 pgs.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Out of stock


A Book of Elfin Rhymes
A Book of Elfin Rhymes
By Norman. Illustrations by Carton Moore Park.

This charming children's book, written by an anonymous author known only as "Norman," first published in 1900 and now extremely rare, features 11 rhymes that capture the mysterious and sometimes ridiculous world of goblins, witches >>more

Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970398
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Clth, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs / 40 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/18/2018 In stock


A Small Book of Jewish Comedians
A Small Book of Jewish Comedians
Edited by Tony Nourmand. Introduction by Bobby Slayton.

A New York Times Book Review 2021 holiday gift guide pick

In 1978, Time magazine estimated that around 80 percent of professional American comics were Jewish, and Jewish humor remains a foundation stone of American popular >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526839
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 8.25 in. / 160 pgs / 70 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/19/2021 In stock


Andrea Bianconi: Stupidity Exercise Manual
Andrea Bianconi: Stupidity Exercise Manual
Edited by Luca Fiore.

This artist’s book from Italian artist Andrea Bianconi (born 1974) features a collection of drawings describing irrational actions such as “Bark like a dog in the presence of a dog” or “Beg a door to >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857248738
US $9.00 CAN $13.00 TRADE
Spiral bound, 4 x 6 in. / 60 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock


Aya
Aya
By Silke and Jeppe Hein, Elisabeth Kierztner.

Berlin-based artist Jeppe Hein (born 1974) and his wife, Silke, have collaborated to create an enchanting rite-of-passage story in the form of a poignant children’s picture book. Aya tells the tale of a caterpillar named >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751001
US $26.00 CAN $35.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock


Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest
Bad Luck, Hot Rocks: Conscience Letters and Photographs from the Petrified Forest
Edited by Ryan Thompson, Phil Orr. Photographs by Ryan Thompson.

The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each year, >>more

The Ice Plant
ISBN 9780989785914
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 144 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2014 Out of stock


Barça: Més Que un Club
Barça: Més Que un Club

In celebration of the 120th anniversary of the renowned soccer club FC Barcelona, this official publication collects historic photographs that highlight milestones in FC Barcelona’s history—from famous victories and team members to the social impact >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857240954
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.25 x 14.75 in. / 496 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock


Bicycle Landscape
Bicycle Landscape
Photographs by Yorit Kluitman. Text by Adriaan Geuze, et al.

Dutch graphic designer Yorit Kluitman (born 1980) cycled through all of the Netherlands’ 388 municipalities, photographing the empty landscape he found en route. Kluitman's photographs, along with contributions by landscape architect Adriaan Geuze and former >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462083875
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 288 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Breadcrumb: Art & Sandwiches
Breadcrumb: Art & Sandwiches
Preface by Eliot Z. Felde and Cristina Ramos. Introduction by Jimmie Durham.

Deploying sculpture, found imagery, drawing and much more, Breadcrumb compiles 41 sandwich recipes by artists from across the globe, presenting the sandwich as both an art form and a gustatory pleasure.

Recipes by: Bea Turner, Nadine >>more

Onomatopee Projects
ISBN 9789493148529
US $28.00 CAN $38.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 188 pgs / 115 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2021 In stock


CCCP COOK BOOK
CCCP COOK BOOK
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Olga and Pavel Syutkin. As the Soviet Union struggled along the path to communism, food shortages were commonplace, and both Party authorities and Soviet citizens had to apply every ounce of ingenuity to maximize often-inadequate resources. The stories and >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191114
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 95 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 Out of stock


Charles III: The Making of a King
Charles III: The Making of a King
Text by Alison Smith.

Celebrating the new king of the United Kingdom in the year of his coronation, this beautiful gift book includes a timeline of key events from Charles’ life, and explores the future of the monarchy through >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145771
US $29.95 CAN $42.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 8 in. / 128 pgs / 65 color.
Pub Date: 05/23/2023 In stock


Click, Said the Camera
"Click", Said the Camera
Text by Markus Jakob. Photographs by Balthasar Burkhard.

In Balthasar Burkhard and Markus Jacob’s elegantly designed children’s book, 20 animals meet for a photographer’s beauty contest. The protagonist of the story is a shy donkey who watches the antics of the animals with >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785508
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Spiral bound, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 42 pgs / 22 duotone.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Colors
Colors
By Philip Yenawine. These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870701764
US $14.95 CAN $17.50 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 24 pgs / 20 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2006 Out of stock


Cooking with Antonio Guida
Cooking with Antonio Guida
Edited by Maddalena Fossati. Photographs by Giacomo Bretzel.

“I became a cook because I’m a glutton,” says Antonio Guida (born 1972), star chef of the Seta restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental in Milan. Also famed for his work at the celebrated Hotel Il >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836645589
US $50.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/06/2020 In stock


Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag
Danzig Baldaev: Drawings from the Gulag
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Drawings from the Gulag consists of 130 drawings by Danzig Baldaev (author of the acclaimed Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series), describing the history, horror and peculiarities of the Gulag system from its inception in 1918. >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780956356246
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 In stock


Doomsdate: 2013 Calendar
Doomsdate: 2013 Calendar
Despite its poor—that is, zero—rate of success (to date), predicting the end of the world has never ceased to be a popular sport throughout the history of humankind. If the turn of the millennium has >>more

Paper Chase Press
ISBN 9780985204426
US $19.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Leatherbound, 7.5 x 10 in. / 100 pgs.
Pub Date: 12/31/2012


Dora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki Dora
Dora Lives: The Authorized Story Of Miki Dora
Edited by C.R. Stecyk and Drew Kampion. Foreword by Steve Pezman. The surfing iconoclast who became an icon, Miki Dora was the epitome of 1960s beach culture. His dark good looks were the envy of Malibu. His talent earned him trophies (which he disdained) and the >>more

D.A.P./T. Adler Books
ISBN 9781890481179
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 10 x 7 in. / 142 pgs / 60 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2005 In stock


Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II
Text by Alexandra Shulman.

This book highlights the most interesting and important portraits of Queen Elizabeth II that are held in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. With just under 1,000 portraits of Elizabeth II, the National >>more

National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147430
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 152 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock


Everyday Play
Everyday Play
Edited by Julian Rothenstein. Foreword by Andrey Kurkov.

“Life must be lived as play,” said Plato, and this book will help you rediscover the wonder in the weekly grind, and the extraordinary in the ordinary. Throughout history, philosophers, artists and writers have found >>more

Redstone Press
ISBN 9780995518186
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Flexi, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / 70 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 In stock


F1 Heroes: Champions and Legends in the Photos of Motorsport Images
F1 Heroes: Champions and Legends in the Photos of Motorsport Images
Text by Giorgio Terruzzi. Photography by Ercole Colombo.

This fully illustrated history takes a journey across 70 years of the most spectacular images from the archives of the great champions who have made the history of Formula One and the Grand Prix. It >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857246673
US $42.00 CAN $57.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 210 color.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 Out of stock


Football: Designing the Beautiful Game
Football: Designing the Beautiful Game
Edited with foreword and introduction by Eleanor Watson, James Bird. Text by Thomas Turner, Sam Handy, Jacques Herzog, et al. Interview by Justin McGuirk, James Bird.

Soccer is unquestionably the world’s most popular sport, with a dedicated fan base and truly international reach. It is also a significant industry, with European soccer alone being estimated to hold a value of $30 >>more

The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005614
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2022 Out of stock


For Cats Only
For Cats Only
Edited by Nadine Barth.

Every cat owner knows the frustration of shelling out a considerable amount of money for a cat tree or scratching post only to find that their feline family member prefers to sleep in the box >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748551
US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 72 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 04/13/2021 In stock


Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years
Frankenstein: The First Two Hundred Years
By Christopher Frayling.

Frankenstein lives! 200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyond

On New Year’s Day 1818, Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein was first published in an anonymous three-volume edition of 500 >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526464
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/21/2017 In stock


Futebol
Futebol
Photographs by Leonardo Finotti.

In Brazil soccer is more than just a sport. It is hope for a better future, a distraction from everyday life, creator of identity and community. If there is no ball around, people kick fruit >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784310
US $29.00 CAN $39.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 64 pgs / 32 images.
Pub Date: 07/25/2014 In stock


Gianpaolo Pagni: Double Face
Gianpaolo Pagni: Double Face
Double Face offers readers of all ages a seemingly endless series of stylized variations on the human face, each of which is a “double” that can be viewed without a top or a bottom, without >>more

Edizioni Corraini
ISBN 9788875702182
US $27.00 CAN $37.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 40 pgs / 34 color / 4 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Out of stock


Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol. Introduction by Naomi Fry.

A companion volume to Shtetl in the Sun, Andy Sweet's love letter to the colorful Jewish community of late 1970s South Beach, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah chronicles the summer of 1977 at Camp Mountain Lake, >>more

Letter16 Press
ISBN 9780989381192
US $39.95 CAN $55.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 109 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2020 In stock


Home Made Russia
Home Made Russia
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Vladimir Arkhipov.

Featuring a redesigned cover, Home Made Russia compiles over 220 artefacts of Soviet culture, each accompanied by a photograph of the creator, their story of how the object came about, its function and the materials >>more

FUEL
ISBN 9781916218475
US $34.95 CAN $46.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock


How to Not Fuck Up Your Art-World Happiness
How to Not Fuck Up Your Art-World Happiness
By Christoph Noe. Edited by Jamie Bennett.

After living and working in the art world for the past 15 years, Christoph Noe brought pen to paper to gather some thoughts on how to navigate the culture industry. “It first developed foremost as >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903439702
US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7 in. / 88 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/21/2023 Out of stock


Ice the Bear and the Boiling Breath
Ice the Bear and the Boiling Breath
By Valentina Agnesi. Illustrations by Zelda Was a Writer.

Ice is a polar bear cub who lives at the North Pole, in the icy area of Clear Water, where he spends his days getting into trouble with his best friend, Baffo the Seal. When >>more

skira
ISBN 9788857245720
US $19.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 In stock


Ice the Bear and the Burning Land
Ice the Bear and the Burning Land
By Valentina Agnesi. Illustrations by Zelda Was a Writer.

This is the second volume in Valentina Agnesi and Zelda Was a Writer’s trilogy about the adventures of a polar bear seeking to save his native land from climate disaster.
In Ice the Bear and the >>more

skira
ISBN 9788857245737
US $19.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock


Ice the Bear and the Evil Sorcerer
Ice the Bear and the Evil Sorcerer
By Valentina Agnesi. Illustrations by Zelda Was a Writer.

In the final volume in Valentina Agnesi and Zelda Was a Writer’s trilogy about the adventures of a polar bear in the age of climate change, Ice has to face a black tide caused by >>more

skira
ISBN 9788857245744
US $19.95 CAN $26.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock


Into the Heart of the World
Into the Heart of the World
Edited by Antonio De Vivo, Francesco Sauro.

The La Venta Association was founded in Italy in 1991 with the aim of organizing and running geographical exploration projects across the world. This volume highlights La Venta's explorations of the past 25 years, from >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857231778
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.75 in. / 312 pgs / 284 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
Kim Jong Il Looking at Things
Edited by João Rocha. Text by Marco Bohr.

Comical and bizarre, Kim Jong Il Looking at Things has become a cult classic among photobook connoisseurs since its publication in 2015. The book was based upon one of the most followed, shared and imitated >>more

JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680615
US $49.95 CAN $67.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 176 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock


Lines
Lines
By Philip Yenawine. These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870701757
US $14.95 CAN $17.50 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 24 pgs / 10 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2006 Out of stock


Looking for Lenin
Looking for Lenin
Photographs by Niels Ackermann. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Sébastien Gobert, Myroslava Hartmond.

In the process of decommunisation, Ukraine has toppled all its Lenin monuments. The authors have hunted down and photographed these banned Soviet statues, revealing their inglorious fate. As Russia celebrates the 100th anniversary of the >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191176
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 6.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 06/27/2017 In stock


Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti
Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti
Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. Text by David "Chino" Villorente, Todd "Reas" James. In the graffiti world it's the name that brings the fame, but what about the figural components of this urban typography? Some of the most iconic pieces in the history of graffiti have earned their >>more

Testify Books
ISBN 9780972592048
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2007 In stock


Moving to Mars
Moving to Mars
Edited by Andrew Nahum, Justin McGuirk, Eleanor Watson. Foreword by Deyan Sudjic. Text by Mike Ashley, Stephen Petranek, Fred Scharmen, Lydia Kallipoliti, Daisy Ginsberg, Kim Stanley Robinson.

Moving to Mars is the first book ever to thoroughly explore the crucial role that design will play in the collective endeavor to travel to and inhabit Mars.

A comprehensive overview of both past and current >>more

The Design Museum
ISBN 9781872005461
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 220 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 12/17/2019 In stock


NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon
NASA Apollo 11: Man on the Moon
Edited with text by Steffen Knöll. Text by Eric M. Jones.

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, one of the Apollo 11 crew, placed his left foot on the surface of the moon for the first time in human history, our fascination with Earth’s satellite has lost >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959053167
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 750 color / 750 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 In stock


Offline Activities
Offline Activities
By Tamara Shopsin & Jason Fulford.

Jason Fulford and Tamara Shopsin's Offline Activities is a book of 52 suggestions for things you can do in real life. Rearrange your furniture; invite an old friend to lunch; bring something home from the >>more

THE ICE PLANT
ISBN 9780999265543
US $14.95 CAN $19.95 SDNR50
Pbk, 5 x 2.5 in. / 112 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 04/01/2020 Out of stock


Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith
Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith
Edited by John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert. Photographs by Jason Fulford. Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist--Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles, while his >>more

J&L Books/Anthology Film Archives
ISBN 9780989531139
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock


People
People
By Philip Yenawine. These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870701740
US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 24 pgs / 15 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2006 In stock


Piggy Goes to University
Piggy Goes to University
By Ezra Elia, Miriam Elia.

Piggy Goes to University is the story of a precocious young pig, and his rise to the forefront of the Anti-Piggist social justice movement. Journeying from the rural fringes of the United Union of Pigs >>more

Dung Beetle Ltd
ISBN 9780992834951
US $15.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 6.5 in. / 80 pgs / 20 duotone / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock


Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion
Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion
Edited and with introduction by Michael Kupperman. In the late 1990s, American comic artist Michael Kupperman bought a stack of men’s magazines from the 1950s and 1960s, with titles like Sir!, Real Action and Man’s Thrills. "They all had the owner’s name >>more

Four Corners Books
ISBN 9780956192875
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 148 pgs / 63 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 Out of stock


Places
Places
By Philip Yenawine. These bright, compact hardcovers introduce young readers and their parents to six visual building blocks--Lines, Shapes, Colors, People, Places and Stories--via an assortment of the great masterpieces of twentieth century art. Author Philip Yenawine, the >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870701733
US $14.95 CAN $21.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 24 pgs / 17 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2006 In stock


Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah
Edited by Morgan Bassichis, Jay Saper, Rachel Valinsky. Foreword by Angela Y. Davis. Introduction by Morgan Bassichis. Afterword by Jay Saper. Illustrations by Nicole Eisenman.

Edited by comedic performance artist and activist Morgan Bassichis with artist and educator Jay Saper and writer Rachel Valinsky, Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah invites 36 writers, artists, scholars and activists to offer >>more

Wendy's Subway/Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University/Instit
ISBN 9798986337524
US $18.00 CAN $26.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 160 pgs.
Pub Date: 08/08/2023 In stock


Redstone Diary 2024
Redstone Diary 2024
Edited by Julian Rothenstein. Introduction with text by Julian Barnes.

The 2024 Redstone Diary opens a window on that most enigmatic part of our everyday lives: the family. It has been an essential subject for artists, writers, singers, therapists and psychoanalysts. Tolstoy wrote: “All happy >>more

Redstone Press
ISBN 9781739597603
US $24.95 CAN $34.95 TRADE
Spiral bound, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 27 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/13/2023 In stock


Remember to Dream!
Remember to Dream!
Edited with preface by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

In Remember to Dream!, celebrated curator Hans Ulrich Obrist collects an abundance of thoughts for the day, dreams, drawings, musings, jokes, quotations, questions, answers, poems and puns from some of the world’s greatest contemporary artists, >>more

HENI Publishing
ISBN 9781912122073
US $16.95 CAN $22.95 TRADE
Pbk, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 208 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 11/21/2023 In stock


Revolution Every Day
Revolution Every Day
Edited by Robert Bird, Christina Kiaer, Zachary Cahill.

With 365 calendar pages, Revolution Every Day juxtaposes Soviet graphic art—primarily posters from the 1920s and ‘30s, by artists such as Valentina Kulagina—with works on video and film, including excerpts from Dziga Vertov’s films, post-Soviet >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867492947
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 FLAT40
Paperback, 4.25 x 6.25 in. / 768 pgs / 365 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock


Russian Criminal Playing Cards
Russian Criminal Playing Cards
Compiled by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell.

This deck of cards has been put together using four different sets (one for each suit) made by Russian criminals in prisons during the 1980s. Prohibited by the prison authorities, they were constructed from innocuous >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780995745544
US $20.00 CAN $29.95 SDNR50
Boxed, 54 cards, 2.5 x 3.5 in. / 54 pgs / 54 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2018 Out of stock


Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive
Russian Criminal Tattoo Archive
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Mark Vincent, Alison Nordström. Art by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasilev, Arkady Bronnikov.

This volume presents highlights from Fuel’s singular collection of authentic material on this subject. Previously unpublished in its original form, this work comprises ink-on-paper drawings by Danzig Baldaev, the photographic albums of Arkady Bronnikov and >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9781739887803
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 235 color.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 In stock


Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Postcards
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Postcards
Drawings by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. This beautifully produced boxed set of 53 postcards contains stunning images from the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia series of books. These hugely popular and influential books document the Russian criminal tattoo, revealing its hidden >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780956896261
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 SDNR50
Slip, 4.5 x 6.5 in. / 53 color postcards.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 In stock


Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Alexei Plutser-Sarno. Text by Danzig Baldaev. Photographs by Sergei Vasiliev. Occasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955862076
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 In stock


Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volume II
Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia Volume II
Introduction by Anne Applebaum. Foreword by Alexel Pluster-Sarno. Photographs by Sergey Vasiliev. Drawings by Danzig Baldaev. Danzig Baldaev's father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enemy of the people. In fact much of Baldaev's family moved through the Soviet prison system, while he >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955006128
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Hardcover, 4.75 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 In stock


Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files
Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Arkady Bronnikov. Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume I features more than 180 photographs of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia’s foremost authority on criminal tattoo iconography. >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780956896292
US $32.50 CAN $42.50 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 256 pgs / 186 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock


Sanlé Sory: Volta Photo
Sanlé Sory: Volta Photo
Edited with text by Matthew S. Witkovsky. Text by Antawan Byrd, Florent Mazzoleni.

The studio photographs of Sanlé Sory and his participation in the vibrant music scene in Bobo-Dioulasso give us a picture of a cosmopolitan city shaping its independent identity in the 1960s through to the ’80s, >>more

Steidl/The Art Institute of Chicago
ISBN 9783958294004
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 120 pgs / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock


Seeing Things
Seeing Things
Edited by Julian Rothenstein. Foreword by Cornelia Parker.

A sunset. A famous writer at the door. A fire hydrant that casts a beguiling shadow. A sinister note from a hotel cleaner. An archival portrait that speaks across the decades. This book gathers some >>more

Redstone Press
ISBN 9781739597627
US $25.00 CAN $36.00 TRADE
Flexi, 10 x 6.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/08/2023 In stock


Shore Leave
Shore Leave
Edited by Ryan Mungia. Introduction by Jim Heimann. For the thousands of US sailors bound for the Pacific theatre of World War II, the Hawaiian Islands were the staging ground for an unknown fate. Their perception of Honolulu as a tropical paradise quickly >>more

Boyo Press
ISBN 9780991619818
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 8 in. / 88 pgs / 8 color / 71 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock


Skateboard Studies
Skateboard Studies
Edited with text by Konstantin Butz, Christian Peters. Text by Iain Borden, Ocean Howell, Kyle W. Kusz, Kai Reinhart, Eckehart Velten Schäfer, Francisco Vivoni, Emily Chivers Yochim.

Skateboarding is not readily associated with university research projects, and no certainly scholarly approach can substitute for the empirical knowledge gained through the act of skateboarding itself—the movement of the body with and on a >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960983415
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 272 pgs / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock


Soviet Space Dogs
Soviet Space Dogs
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Text by Olesya Turkina. This book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space program. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the program's >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780956896285
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Clth, 5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 In stock


Soviets
Soviets
Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Soviets features unpublished drawings from the archive of Danzig Baldaev. Made in secret, they satirize the Communist Party system and expose the absurdities of Soviet life. Baldaev touches on a wide range of subjects, from >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780956896278
US $32.95 CAN $43.95 TRADE
Hbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 240 pgs / 181 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock


Sunset Cocktails
Sunset Cocktails
Text by Guillaume Aubry, Sterling Hudson. Afterword by Ryoko Sekiguchi.

This book is an invitation to transform the simple contemplation of a well-mixed cocktail into a sensory experience of “drinking the sunset.”
In 2020, French artist and architect Guillaume Aubry (born 1982) asked the celebrated Paris-based >>more

JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680509
US $25.00 CAN $34.00 TRADE
Hbk, 5 x 7.75 in. / 90 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 09/21/2021 In stock


Synergetic Stew
Synergetic Stew
Introduction by Jamie Snyder.

Buckminster Fuller is globally known as a design scientist, architect, author, poet, engineer and a true visionary. On his 86th birthday he received the cookbook Synergetic Stew as a surprise present from his friends and >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786437
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Spiral bound, 6 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 57 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/04/2020 In stock


Tamara Shopsin: What Is This?
Tamara Shopsin: What Is This?
It is never too early to learn about abstraction--especially if celebrated illustrator Tamara Shopsin is doing the teaching. What Is This? is Shopsin's wordless children's book that will encourage imaginative thinking in readers both young >>more

The Ice Plant
ISBN 9780989785945
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Hbk, 3.5 x 4 in. / 40 pgs / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/28/2015 Out of stock


Tattoo
Tattoo
Edited by Anne & Julien. Text by Pascal Bagot, Joe Cummings, Anna Felicity Friedman, Sébastien Galliot, Alan Govenar, Simon Jean, Andrea Juno , V. Vale, Lars Krutak, Florence Lamy, Karl Marc, Michael McCabe, Jérôme Pierrat, Luc Renaut, Yoshimi Yamamoto. The practice of tattooing has an extensive primitive history in Asian and African countries, where it had social, religious and mystical roles. In 3000 BC, Ötzi (whose mummy was famously discovered in the 1990s) covered >>more

Musée du Quai Branly/Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330032463
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 304 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2014 In stock


The ABCs of Style
The ABCs of Style
Edited by David Villorente. Text by Dana James.

Filled with 26 colorful marker drawings contributed by some of graffiti art's ultimate style masters, The ABCs of Style is part children's book, part adult art primer, tracking the evolution of graffiti letterforms. Each letter >>more

Testify Books
ISBN 9780972592093
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 64 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock


The Art of Smallfilms
The Art of Smallfilms
Edited by Jonny Truck, Richard Embray. Introduction by Stewart Lee. Foreword by Daniel Postgate. Working from a cowshed on a farm in Kent, Oliver Postgate (1925–2008) and Peter Firmin (born 1928) produced some of the best-loved British children's animated television of the 1960s and 1970s. Their iconic productions include >>more

Four Corners Books
ISBN 9781909829022
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10.25 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/24/2015 In stock


The Beat Scene
The Beat Scene
Edited by Tony Nourmand, Michael Shulman. Essay by Jack Kerouac.

This magnificent volume features a remarkable collection of largely unseen photographs of the Beat Generation by renowned Magnum photographer Burt Glinn. This amazing, untouched treasure trove of images was discovered when Reel Art Press was >>more

Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526266
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/24/2018 In stock


The Death Instinct
The Death Instinct
By Jacques Mesrine. Introduction by Robert Greene. Translation by Robert Greene, Catherine Texier. France's Public Enemy Number One from the late 1960s to the end of the 1970s--when he was killed by police in a sensational traffic shootout--Jacques Mesrine (1936–1979) is the best-known criminal in French history. Mesrine >>more

TamTam Books
ISBN 9780966234688
US $16.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 325 pgs.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 Out of stock


The Goddess—La Déesse
The Goddess—La Déesse
By Christian Sumi.

From the moment of its debut in 1955, the Citroën DS was a sensation and a magnet for movie stars, designers, philosophers and politicians alike. No other automobile was able to combine form and technology >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786260
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 6.5 in. / 232 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2020 In stock


The Lucky, Plucky Chairs
The Lucky, Plucky Chairs
By Rolf Fehlbaum and Maira Kalman. When a set of eight classic old No. 14 Thonet chairs are threatened with certain doom, their ingenuity saves the day. Together they discover a way to escape, and encounter a world of the most >>more

Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852095
US $18.50 CAN $26.00 TRADE
Clth, 6 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/28/2016 In stock


The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space
The Moon: From Inner Worlds to Outer Space
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Marie Laurberg. Foreword by Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Marie Laurberg, Anja C. Andersen, Stephen Petersen, E.C. Krupp.

The moon has long furnished humankind with an artistic icon, an image of longing and object of scientific inquiry. Encompassing art, film, literature, architecture, design, natural history and historical objects, and published on the occasion >>more

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788793659087
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 10.25 in. / 128 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock


The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln
Edited by Peter W. Kunhardt, Jr. Introduction by Harold Holzer. Preface by Philip B. Kunhardt, III. First published in 1911, The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln was privately printed by Frederick Hill Meserve, the preeminent historian of the photographs of Abraham Lincoln. It was a groundbreaking look at the then-known photographs of >>more

Steidl
ISBN 9783869309170
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 288 pgs / 114 tritone.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 Out of stock


The Redstone Diary 2023
The Redstone Diary 2023
Edited by Julian Rothenstein, Mel Gooding, Rhiannon Gooding, Ian Sansom.

What is beauty? Philosophers have often asked the question—as have artists, poets, lovers, thinkers, explorers, family, friends. Is this thing, this person, this place, this quality really beautiful in and of itself, or is it >>more

redstone press
ISBN 9780995518193
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 SDNR50
Spiral bound, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 30 color / 12 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/07/2022 Out of stock


The Sick Rose
The Sick Rose
By Richard Barnett. The Sick Rose is a visual tour through the golden age of medical illustration. The nineteenth century experienced an explosion of epidemics such as cholera and diphtheria, driven by industrialization, urbanization and poor hygiene. In >>more

D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781938922404
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 In stock


The Spectacle of Illusion
The Spectacle of Illusion
By Matthew L. Tompkins.

In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised and popularised by mesmerists, magicians and psychics since the early 18th century. Organised thematically within >>more

D.A.P.
ISBN 9781942884378
US $35.00 CAN $49.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 165 color / 370 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


UFO Presences
UFO Presences
By Javier Arcenillas.

UFO Presences explores the places where UFO sightings have taken place across America: in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and of course the infamous Area 51, along South Central Nevada's State Route 375—the so-called Extraterrestrial >>more

RM
ISBN 9788417047283
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 120 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 03/27/2018 In stock


Vega Sicilia
Vega Sicilia
Introduction by Harry Eyres. Text by Serena Sutcliffe. Photographs by Gautier Deblonde, Johnnie Shand Kydd. This hardcover celebrates the 150th anniversary of famed Spanish winery Vega Sicilia, one of the oldest in Europe. Vega Sicilia offers a glimpse of the winery through the eyes of three artists: Gautier Deblonde, Johnnie >>more

Turner
ISBN 9788416142408
US $90.00 CAN $120.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 140 color / 20 duotone / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/29/2015 Out of stock


Vegan Art: A Book of Visual Protest
Vegan Art: A Book of Visual Protest
Edited by Tommy Kane.

In this volume, the celebrated American illustrator Tommy Kane brings together a collection of contemporary vegan artists whose works grapple with one of the biggest issues of our century and confront our conflicted relationship with >>more

HENI Publishing
ISBN 9781912122301
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 164 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 06/07/2022 In stock


Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture
Visions of Enchantment: Occultism, Magic and Visual Culture
Edited with preface by Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble. Introduction by Gražina Subelyte, Daniel Zamani, Judith Noble. Text by Christiane Gruber, Antje Bosselman-Ruickbie, D. Lyle Dechant, Deanna Petherbridge, Antoine Faivre, Nikola Piperkov, M.E. Warlick, Nathan J. Timpano, Leo Ruickbie, Victoria Ferentinou, Judith Noble.

Since Antiquity, the idea of the artist as a magician, trickster and powerful creator of new realities has established itself as a fertile idea in the discussion of image-making. The conjuring of illusions, the inherent >>more

Fulgur Press
ISBN 9781527228825
US $65.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 208 pgs / 74 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock


We Do Christmas
We Do Christmas
By Ezra Elia, Miriam Elia.

The latest in the Dung Beetle Learning series, Mummy, John and Susan are taken on a thrilling Christmas adventure. "Come with me," says Father Christmas, "and I will show you the magic of kindness." "And >>more

Dung Beetle Ltd
ISBN 9780992834975
US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Hbk, 4.75 x 6.75 in. / 48 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 In stock


We Go to the Gallery
We Go to the Gallery
Have you taken children to a gallery recently? Did you struggle to explain the work to them in plain, simple English? With this new Dung Beetle book by artist Miriam Elia--a tribute to and a >>more

Dung Beetle Ltd
ISBN 9780992834913
US $14.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE
Hbk, 4.75 x 7 in. / 46 pages / 20 color.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock


What Is Contemporary Art? A Guide for Kids
What Is Contemporary Art? A Guide for Kids
By Jacky Klein, Suzy Klein. What Is Contemporary Art? opens up the exciting, dynamic and sometimes bewildering world of contemporary art for a young audience, inviting readers to explore, enjoy and question a variety of artworks drawn from the collection >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708091
US $22.95 CAN $32.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 64 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 In stock


What is Art?
What is Art?
Text by Stefanie Bringezu, Daniel Kramer, Janine Schmutz. What would life be like without art? This is hardly a rhetorical question: for at least as long as art criticism has existed, there has been a great deal of philosophizing and speculation on the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775735278
US $30.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 6.75 in. / 216 pgs / 39 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Out of stock


Wow Gilles!
Wow Gilles!
Text by Giorgio Terruzzi. Photographs by Ercole Colombo.

The legendary Canadian racing driver Gilles Villeneuve died on 8 May 1982 on the Zolder track in Belgium. Villeneuve had spent six years in Grand Prix racing with Ferrari, winning six races and widespread acclaim >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857236056
US $50.00 CAN $65.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 7.75 x 11.75 in. / 208 pgs / 196 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock



                                                                                     

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

A Crazy Job: Leading Publishers in Conversation with Juan Cruz Ruiz
A Crazy Job: Leading Publishers in Conversation with Juan Cruz Ruiz
Edited and introduction by Elena Ochoa Foster. Text by Juan Cruz Ruiz. With the explosion of digital publishing and online retailing, and the collapse of major bookstore chains and traditional publishing houses, the book industry has changed dramatically over the past decade. However, it is also true >>more

Ivorypress
ISBN 9788493949815
US $37.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Hbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 250 pgs / 12 b&w / 12 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available


A Little Common Place Book
A Little Common Place Book
Introduction by D. Graham Burnett. Reading is perhaps best understood as a peculiar form of writing, and vice versa. Renaissance thinkers took this paradox seriously, giving it concrete form in their "commonplace books," manuscript journals of passages copied from assorted >>more

Cabinet Books & Proteotypes
ISBN 9781932698503
US $15.00 CAN $17.50 TRADE
Clth, 5.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available


Andrea Jones: Plantworlds
Andrea Jones: Plantworlds
Photographs by Andrea Jones. Contributions by Tim Smit. Text by Roberio Diaz, Dan Hinkley, Roy Lancaster, Fumiaki Tokano, Jane Goodall. When fall's chill or winter's storms keep you in, plant yourself in front of the fireplace with this book of Andrea Jones's botanical photographs and enjoy the eternal spring. In fact, not even spring's arrival >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788889431153
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 13.5 in. / 350 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 07/15/2005 Not available


Art Brands
Art Brands
Text by Michael Klant, Jochen Ludwig, Günter Figal et al. Vermeer chippers, Fontana juice, Giotto candies, Goya noodles, Lichtenstein medicine, Rembrandt toothpaste, Richter spicy fish rolls and Beuys dog food… In this amusing volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museum für Neue >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721165
US $30.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8.75 x 9.25 in. / 120 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Not available


Ben Jones: New Painting & Drawing
Ben Jones: New Painting & Drawing
This volume is produced in conjunction with Ben Jones' first solo show in Athens, Greece. Jones is a member of the famed Providence, Rhode Island-based art group Paper Rad, which has lent its lo-fi, DIY >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780979415371
US $20.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Hardback, 7.25 x 8.25 in. / 32 pgs / 20 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/01/2008 Not available


Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists
Between the Lines: A Coloring Book of Drawings by Contemporary Artists
What if an ordinary little coloring book were to be upgraded with a set of 54 energetic line drawings by some of today's best-known contemporary artists instead of the usual dumbed-down pedagogical renderings? And what >>more

RxArt
ISBN 9780978701307
US $17.00 CAN $20.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 10.75 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Not available


Between the Lines: Volume 2
Between the Lines: Volume 2
If Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Sean Landers, Jim Lambie and Raymond Pettibon were to each unleash their inner child and create new art for a coloring book, what surprising imagery might they come up with? >>more

RxArt
ISBN 9780615309385
US $20.00 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 112 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


Brian Chippendale: If 'n Oof
Brian Chippendale: If 'n Oof
Brian Chippendale, drummer for the acclaimed and outrageously loud noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt and collaborator on Björk's 2007 album, Volta, is an increasingly in-demand graphic novelist, one of those artists who draw because they're compelled >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780982094754
US $29.95 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 650 pgs / 650 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available


Cafè Of Stars
Cafè Of Stars
Essay by Vincenzo Mollica. Foreword by Walter Veltroni. These well-reproduced, previously unpublished photographs about Dolce Vita the "cafÀ of stars" document coffee's relation to life and style in Rome in the 1950s and 60s. Many of these images were taken by paparazzi, considered >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788890130472
US $35.00 CAN $40.00 TRADE
Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Not available


Chewed
Chewed
Photographs by Arne Svenson & Ron Warren. Texts by Augusten Burroughs, Todd Oldham, William Wegman, Roz Chast, Maira Kalman, Rick Meyerowitz, Isaac Mizrahi, Andrew Zimmern. Photographers Arne Svenson and Ron Warren--co-authors of the popular Sock Monkeys--here turn their attention to those masses of slobbered-over yarn, remnants and stuffing that ordinarily go the way of all pet toy casualties and get >>more

Ideal World Books
ISBN 9780972211178
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 160 pgs / 138 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available


Crime
Crime
Edited by Alix Lambert, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell, Ariana Speyer. How much do criminal acts and their representation in cinema, literature and music really have in common? Is the execution of crime in everyday life as appealing or as inspired as creative artists have made >>more

FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780955006180
US $45.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE
Hardback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 352 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Not available


Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America
Cyanide and Sin: Visualizing Crime in 50s America
Text by William Straw. Beginning with a 1941 cover of Headquarters Detective: True Cases from the Police Blotter, which features a beautiful redhead, ravaged and roped, and ending with the April 1976 cover of Front Page Detective, on which >>more

PPP Editions/Andrew Roth Inc., New York
ISBN 9780971548046
US $39.95 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 190 pgs / 196 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available


El Super
El Super
Edited by Kurt Hollander. Photographs by Adam Wiseman. If you are what you eat, then it would follow that grocery shopping is the way you construct your identity, and that markets and grocery stores are the laboratories in which whole cultures build theirs--as >>more

Editorial RM
ISBN 9789685208475
US $19.95 CAN $25.00 TRADE
Flexibound, 6 x 6 in. / 216 pgs / 165 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available


Encyclopedia of Flowers
Encyclopedia of Flowers
Edited by Kyoko Wada.

Flowers have been a universal cultural object for millennia. They are an important aesthetic element in everyday life worldwide, and have played a highly symbolic role in art throughout the ages. Over the past few >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783139
US $85.00 CAN $105.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 6.25 in. / 512 pgs / 203 images.
Pub Date: 10/07/2012 Not available


Fallen Books
Fallen Books
For book lovers, Fallen Books will have the grim fascination of a car wreck or crime scene. It collects photographs of toppled books and bookcases from libraries in seismically active areas, organized chronologically with the >>more

Onestar Press
ISBN 9782915359305
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 224 pgs / 224 color.
Pub Date: 12/31/2009 Not available


Frank Santoro: Storeyville
Frank Santoro: Storeyville
Introduction by Chris Ware. A perfect match of form and content, Storeyville was originally published in 1995 as a 40-page tabloid newspaper. Now rare, it was printed in black and white, along with a set of three muted tones >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780978972271
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Hardback, 11 x 16 in. / 48 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Not available


From Abfab To Zen
From Abfab To Zen
Photographs by John Waters. Text by Kim Hastreiter, David Hershkovitz. "...the Vogue of the down-low universive."--Jay McInerney. "Consistently ahead on style trends."--The New York Times. "The magazine of culture formation among the seriously hip."--Time Magazine. >>more

D.A.P./Paper Magazine
ISBN 9781891024047
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 204 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w
Pub Date: 09/02/1999 Not available


Gary Panter: Cola Madnes
Gary Panter: Cola Madnes
Available widely for the first time! Legendary underground cartoonist Gary Panter's comics are typically anarchic and fun, but they also delve deeper. Drawn in 1983, printed in 2001 and released here for the first time, >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780979415395
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Hardback, 5 x 7 in. / 212 pgs / 210 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Not available


Ghanavision
Ghanavision
Introduction by Thibaut de Ruyter. Against today's copyrighted-to-the-gills Hollywood movie industry, the wacky world of Ghanian movie posters comes as a joyous relief, with its absolute lack of respect for not only the directors and even stars of Hollywood, but >>more

Bongout
ISBN 9783940907059
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 68 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/31/2009 Not available


Ghost Knigi
Ghost Knigi
By Benjamin Sommerhalder. This adorable, limited-edition children’s book written and illustrated by the editor and publisher of the super-cool artist book/zine publisher, Nieves, follows a young ghost named Knigi on his quest to learn to read. Readers of >>more

Nieves
ISBN 9783905999051
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Clth, 7.75 x 10 in. / 20 pgs / 3 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Not available


Harmony Korine: Mister Lonely
Harmony Korine: Mister Lonely
The Fifty Word Review succinctly summarized Harmony Korine's upcoming film, Mister Lonely, thus: "A Mexican Michael Jackson falls for Marilyn Monroe (Samantha Morton) married to Charlie Chaplin--all living in a Scottish commune along with the >>more

Nieves
ISBN 9783905714425
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Paperback, 4.5 x 7 in. / 148 pgs / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available


John Cage Book of Days 2011
John Cage Book of Days 2011
Edited by Laura Kuhn. Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the ever-pithy composer, writer, philosopher and artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become the mantras of fans the world over. "I have nothing to say/and I >>more

The John Cage Trust
ISBN 9781935202233
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 120 pgs / 26 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Not available


John Cage Book of Days 2012
John Cage Book of Days 2012
Edited by Laura Kuhn. Few twentieth-century artists have been as quotable as the composer, writer, philosopher, and visual artist John Cage, and his aphorisms have become mantras of fans the world over. Celebrating his gift for playful, concise wisdom, >>more

The John Cage Trust
ISBN 9781935202646
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Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 120 pgs / 52 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available


Julie Doucet & Michel Gondry: My New New York Diary
Julie Doucet & Michel Gondry: My New New York Diary
In 2008, the famed director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Green Hornet, You'll Like This Film Because You're In It) wrote to legendary cartoonist Julie Doucet (of My New York Diary fame) >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780984589203
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Hbk, 7.25 x 6.25 in. / 80 pgs / 80 b&w / DVD (NTSC & PAL).
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available


Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer: Drift
Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer: Drift
Essays by Sam Durant, Tom Lesser, Alan Licht, Jonas Mekas and Roland Spekle. Introduction by Lea Rekow. Drift, a collaboration between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, has been growing since 1991 and is documented here, at last, on DVD. While Singer manipulates films in >>more

Plexifilm
ISBN 9781933045344
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Slipcased, 5.5 x 8 in. / 112 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 Not available


Marilyn Monroe: NYC, 1955
Marilyn Monroe: NYC, 1955
Text by James Danziger. In 1955, Peter Mangone was 14 years old--a skinny boy from the Bronx with a Marilyn Monroe fixation, like so many teenagers of his generation. What distinguished Mangone was that he got to meet his >>more

Danziger Gallery/T.Adler Books
ISBN 9781935202349
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Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 30 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Not available


Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards
Moustaches, Whiskers & Beards
By Lucinda Hawksley. Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times to the present day. By >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144934
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Pbk, 6.5 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 105 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 Not available


Pets in Portraits
Pets in Portraits
By Robin Gibson. Introduction by Chris Packham. "Look at people and their pets today. Pets tell something about their owners, whether they are bought to make a fashion statement, as child substitutes or as an expression of unconditional love between two sentient >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144989
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Pbk, 6.5 x 7.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 Not available


Renée French: H Day
Renée French: H Day
Renée French, an acclaimed graphic novelist and Inkpot Award winner at San Diego's Comic-Con International, has entranced legions of fans with her twisted, highly inventive pencil drawings, whose agile lines and delicate shading open up >>more

PictureBox
ISBN 9780982094709
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 216 pgs / 200 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available


Show Dogs: A Photographic Breed Guide
Show Dogs: A Photographic Breed Guide
Edited by Stacy Wakefield. Photographs by Kate Lacey. The American Kennel Club recognizes over 160 breeds of dogs in seven categories: Hound, Working, Sporting, Non-sporting, Terrier, Toy and Herding. Thousands of Americans own purebred show dogs, and year round, local kennel clubs host >>more

Evil Twin Publications
ISBN 9780976335535
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Hbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 168 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available


Sonora
Sonora
Edited by Kurt Hollander. Known locally as the “witchcraft market,” the Sonora Market in Mexico City undoubtedly has the cure for what ails you. According to pilotguides.com, Sonora has “rattlesnake skins, desiccated hummingbirds and dried fox skins as well >>more

Editorial RM
ISBN 9788493612344
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Hardback, 6 x 7.5 in. / 200 pgs / 161 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Not available


Spaghetti & Stars
Spaghetti & Stars
Text by Vincenzo Mollica, Walter Veltroni. Leonardo DiCaprio loves pasta, and in that, he's not alone. Spaghetti & Stars--the latest volume in the successful series which also includes Caff» & Stars and Airports & Stars--collects many previously unpublished photographs of the >>more

Damiani
ISBN 9788890130410
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Hardcover, 8 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 160 tritone.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available


Stína
Stína
By Lani Yamamoto. Stína, by award-winning author and illustrator Lani Yamamoto, tells a heart-warming story of friendship and love amid the cold of winter. Those who live in cooler climates, like the acclaimed author herself, know all too >>more

Crymogea
ISBN 9789935420428
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Clth, 6.5 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 Not available


Stína
Stína
By Lani Yamamoto. Stína, by award-winning author and illustrator Lani Yamamoto, tells a heart-warming story of friendship and love amid the cold of winter. Those who live in cooler climates, like the acclaimed author herself, know all too >>more

Crymogea
ISBN 9789935420428
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Clth, 6.5 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 15 color.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 Not available


Surf Contest
Surf Contest
Introduction by Brad Barrett. While surfers may look more relaxed than most and may even be more relaxed, they are not exempt from the human desire to go higher, farther and faster. As the members of the developing surfing >>more

T. Adler Books
ISBN 9781890481506
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Clth, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 127 b&w / 100 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/01/2009 Not available


Surf Life 32 To 02
Surf Life 32 To 02
Edited by Tom Adler, Craig Stecyk. Contributions by Sam George. From sepia-toned shots of old Hawaii to sharp focused close-ups of Kelly Slater, Surf Life juxtaposes, pastes, and cuts together a scrapbook of the surfer lifestyle throughout the 20th century. But as even the greatest >>more

T. Adler Books
ISBN 9781890481094
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Hardcover, 11 x 8 in. / 160 pgs / 172 color.
Pub Date: 05/02/2003 Not available


The Fifa 100
The Fifa 100
Text by Kofi Allen. Who does Pele think are the greatest footballers alive? This beautiful book, which celebrates FIFA's centenary, reveals his selection. These portraits, commissioned from some of the world's leading photographers, are surprising and unexpected. Unlike the >>more

Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973523
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Cloth, 10.5 x 13.5 / 216 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 06/01/2001 Not available


The Plight of the Torpedo People
The Plight of the Torpedo People
Introduction and photographs by Keith Malloy. Foreword by Jeff Johnson. Text by Dave Parmenter, Bruce Jenkins, Mark Cunningham, John Clark, Judith Sheridan. The Plight of the Torpedo People is a collection of bodysurfing photographs, frame grabs and personal essays documenting the making of Keith Malloy’s first film, Come Hell or High Water--the first feature-length film to be >>more

Woodshed Films/T.Adler Books
ISBN 9781938922084
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Hbk, 12 x 8.25 in. / 100 pgs / 69 color / 8 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/28/2013 Not available


Toygiants
Toygiants
Edited by Selim Varol. Text by Eugen Blume. Daniel and Geo Fuchs were, until recently, best known for their stark photographs of animals, fish and humans conserved in science museums, which address the mortality of their subjects. More recently, they've shifted from dark >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783939738190
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 214 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available


Ukiyo-e: Reloaded
Ukiyo-e: Reloaded
Essays by Peter Noever, Johannes Wieninger, Brigitte Moser and Beate Murr. Urban pleasures and everyday middle-class phenomena--not cherry blossoms and classical Japanese motifs--have been the subjects of Ukiyo-e color woodblock "images of the flowing world" since they came into being alongside the seventeenth century's new merchant >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775717557
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Slipcased, 5.75 x 8.5 in. / 32 pgs / 27 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available


Victrola Favorites
Victrola Favorites
Edited by Rob Millis, Jeffery Taylor. A staple of the 1920s parlor-room, the Victrola was a wind-up gramophone designed to play 78-rpm shellac records. Victrolas were hard on 78s: “each plays slightly different than the last as the needle bites deeper >>more

Dust-to-Digital
ISBN 9780981734200
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Clth, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 144 pgs / 125 color / 53 duotone / 2 Audio CDs.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


Where'd You Get Those?
Where'd You Get Those?
Text by Bobbito Garcia. Finally in paperback! This critically acclaimed, best-selling insider's account of New York's sneaker culture chronicles the rise of the mighty gym shoe, with the bulk of the book examining nearly 400 models released during the >>more

Testify Books
ISBN 9780972592031
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Paperback, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 264 pgs / 400 color and 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Not available


Where'd You Get Those?
Where'd You Get Those?
Essay by Bobbito Garcia. Lavishly illustrated and remarkably comprehensive, Where'd You Get Those?, is an insider's account that traces New York City sneaker culture back to its earliest days. Describing how a small and dedicated group of sneaker consumers >>more

Testify Books
ISBN 9780972592024
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Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 264 pgs / 400 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Not available