| | | | Fall 2012 Featured Gift Books Thomas Campbell: Slide Your Brains Out Forword by Scott Hulet. Afterword by Ed Templeton. Growing up in southern California, artist, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell was raised on the DIY aesthetic of the early 1980s skateboarding culture. Photography tips came from like-minded fellow photographers employed in the skateboarding pres >>more UM YEAH PRESS ISBN 9780985361105 US $39.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE Hbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 176 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  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 Danzinger Gallery/T.Adler Books ISBN 9781935202349 US $35.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Jork Weismann: Asleep at the Chateau Preface by Bret Easton Ellis. Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles is a fantastical folly in the land of make-believe. As Harry Cohn, the founder of Columbia Pictures, said in 1939, “If you must get in trouble, do it at >>more Damiani ISBN 9788862082426 US $50.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE Hbk, 12 x 9 in. / 184 pgs / illustrated throughout. Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Postcard Age Text by Lynda Klich, Benjamin Weiss. Preface by Leonard A. Lauder. In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous >>more MFA Publications ISBN 9780878467815 US $45.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE Clth, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 370 color. Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Baggage By Samuil Marshak, Vladimir Lebedev. Afterword by Sarah Suzuki. During the 1920s, avant-garde Russian authors and artists worked with fervent dedication to create a new type of children’s literature, drawing on both the aesthetic innovations of the period and contemporary social and political philosophy >>more The Museum of Modern Art, New York ISBN 9780870708428 US $12.95 CAN $12.95 TRADE Hbk, 6 x 7.5 in. / 12 pgs / 12 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Posters: Irony, Imagination and Eroticism in Advertising 1895-1960 Text by Dario Cimorelli. In the closing decade of the nineteenth century, the modern age invaded the city streets of Italy in the form of advertising posters. Bouquets of monkeys, elephants, masks, automobiles and elegantly--and sometimes scantily--clad ladies suddenly >>more Silvana Editoriale ISBN 9788836622528 US $75.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color. Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The European Poster 1888-1938 Introduction by José Lebrero Stals. Text by Carlos Pérez, Dara Kiese, Luigi Cavadini, Anne-Marie Sauvage, Aymeric Perroy, Katalin Bakos. The modern poster dates back to around 1870, when color lithography had been sufficiently perfected to permit mass production. Artists such as Toulouse-Lautrec and Jules Chéret were quick to perceive and embrace the possibilities of >>more Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga ISBN 9788493842789 US $55.00 CAN $55.00 TRADE Pbk, 8.25 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 200 color / 30 b&w. Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  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 $19.95 CAN $19.95 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 64 pgs / 80 color. Pub Date: 10/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  You Are Awesome Edited by Abbey Hendrickson. Abbey Hendrickson writes the highly trafficked blog Aesthetic Outburst, which documents her life in an old farmhouse in rural New York. In between DIY disasters, childcare catastrophes, book obsessions and cultural consumption, Abbey makes some >>more Cicada Books ISBN 9781908714008 US $15.95 CAN $15.95 TRADE Hbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 112 pgs / 150 color. Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Ping Pong Edited by Ziggy Hanaor. Ping-pong is the most popular racquet sport in the world. And no wonder: it is one of the few sports that is genuinely enjoyable to play at any skill level and at any age. From >>more Cicada Books ISBN 9781908714015 US $9.95 CAN $9.95 TRADE Pbk, 4.75 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 72 color. Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Ron Church: California to Hawaii 1960 to 1965 Edited by Tom Adler. Foreword by Steve Pezman. Introduction by Brad Barrett. Text by Steve Pezman, Brad Barrett, Ron Church. Co-published by T. Adler Books and the wave-rider’s Bible, The Surfer’s Journal, this deluxe collection of mostly previously unpublished vintage surfing photographs by the cult surf documentarian, Ron Church, offers a glimpse into the last >>more T.Adler Books/The Surfer's Journal ISBN 9780966377170 US $60.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE Boxed hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 180 pgs / 4 color / 177 b&w. Pub Date: 06/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III Introduction by Alexander Sidorov. This volume of drawings and photographs completes the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia trilogy. Danzig Baldaev’s unparallelled ethnographic achievement, documenting more than 3,000 tattoo drawings, was made during a lifetime working as a pris >>more FUEL Publishing ISBN 9780955006197 US $32.95 CAN $32.95 TRADE Hbk, 5 x 8 in. / 400 pgs / 350 b&w. Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Active/Awaiting stock
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|  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 $19.95 TRADE Leatherbound, 7.5 x 10 in. / 100 pgs. Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Dive Dark Dream Slow Edited by Melissa Catanese. Photographer and bookseller Melissa Catanese has been editing the vast photography collection of Peter J. Cohen, a celebrated trove of more than 20,000 vernacular and found anonymous photographs from the early to mid-twentieth century. Gathered >>more The Ice Plant ISBN 9780982365373 US $29.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Hbk, 7.5 x 9.25 in. / 88 pgs / 4 color / 55 b&w. Pub Date: 11/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Sharon Lee Hart: Sanctuary Text by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Sharon Lee Hart, Gene Bauer, Karen Davis, Kathy Stevens. This first monograph by Lexington–based photographer Sharon Lee Hart is a book of dignified black-and-white portraits of rescued farm animals, accompanied by handwritten stories by sanctuary workers. A lifelong vegetarian, Hart considers farm animals “so >>more Charta ISBN 9788881588459 US $29.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Hbk, 9.5 x 6.75 in. / 88 pgs / 36 duotone. Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Thom deVita: deVita Unauthorized Edited by Nick Bubash. Foreword by Don Ed Hardy. Text by Nick Bubash, Don Ed Hardy, Scott Harrison, Michael Malone. Afterword by Teddy Varndell. As a youth, Thom deVita (born 1932) mingled with famous New York School painters at the Cedar Tavern, and exhibited his paintings at open-air art fairs in Washington Square Park. In the 1960s he began >>more Hardy Marks Publications ISBN 9780945367802 US $30.00 CAN $30.00 TRADE Hbk, 10.75 x 16 in. / 48 pgs / 48 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  The Art of Team Macho: The Merlin Years Text by Maggie MacDonald, Ann Marie Peña, A. James Bradley. Comprised of Nicholas Aoki, Stephen Appleby-Barr, Christopher Buchan, Lauchie Reid and Jacob Whibley, the Canadian collective Team Macho spans the worlds of both fine art and illustration, producing work for both audiences. Team Macho’s surreal, >>more Narwhal Projects ISBN 9780978356859 US $29.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 180 pgs / 150 color. Pub Date: 07/31/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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|  Japanese Dream Text by Monica Maffioli. In July 1863, the photographer Felice Beato arrived at the port city of Yokohama in Japan. He was only 31 years old, but had already established himself as a pioneering figure in the then-nascent field >>more Hatje Cantz ISBN 9783775734370 US $150.00 CAN $150.00 TRADE Clth, 13 x 19 in. / 136 pgs / 60 color. Pub Date: 09/30/2012 Forthcoming/Awaiting stock
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