Yves Saint Laurent, 1983; [and] Universe of Fashion: Yves Saint Laurent, 1997.

Author: Laurent, Yves Saint; Vreeland, Diana; et al.

Publisher: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with Thames and Hudson, London; and The Vendome Press.

Format: Softcover quarto, 192pp, 30.5 x 23cm; and Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, 78pp, 22.2 x 16.2cm.

Yves Saint Laurent, 1983, was published in connection with an exhibition held at the Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983 – the first living designer to merit a one-man show at the Met’s Costume Institute.

General shelfwear.

Author: Healey, Deryck.

Publisher: Villard Books, New York.

Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, green boards, 160pp, 29.8 x 21cm.

First edition.

Not your average 1980s floral arrangement book as it employs a variety of vessels to display your arrangements, such as the humble bleach domestos bottle.

Minor scuffs.

Author: Katoh, Amy Sylvester [and] Kimura, Shin.

Publisher: Charles E. Tuttle, Vermont & Tokyo.

Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, black textured boards, 191pp, 28.2 x 22.8cm.

A photographic tour of exquisite homes in the Tokyo area, focusing on original and attractive uses of Japanese antiques and folk crafts. Also included is information on antique markets and hints for where to see the art of living – in galleries, textile and craft shops, and restaurants.

Minor foxing to prelim pages, dust jacket price clipped.

Author: Margan, Frank [and] Finney, Ben R.

Publisher: Paul Hamlyn, Dee Why West, NSW.

Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, blue card boards with white spine, 319pp, 28 x 21cm.

An Australian publication with more than 600 illustrations, some by well-known Australian photographers such as Max Dupain and David Moore, trace the development of surfing all over the world. Includes surfing personalities such as Duke Kahanomoku, Nat Young, Bob Simmons, and early women surfers Lyn Stubbins and Judy Trim.

Slight buckling to spine, creases and chips to dust jacket.

Author: Chaton, Enna.

Publisher: Editions Villa Saint-Clair, France.

Format: Hardcover octavo with illustrated boards, unpaginated [138pp], 22.8 x 16.6cm.

First edition. Text by Stéphanie Éligert, Patrice Allain, Patrice Gaborieau, in French, followed by English. Features a small inset-photograph on each page that makes up a flip-book.

Artist Enna Chaton (French b.1969) works with nudity through videography, photography and performance. Herself also naked during the documentation process, she works with “anti-models” to open “experimental, creative tolerant space…where democratic nudity sweeps aways norms and stereotypes.” Ref: EnnaChaton.

Two minor stains to prelim pages, light scuffing.

Author: Hudson, Mike.

Publisher: The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba NSW.

Format: Softcover quarto with letterpress printed card wrappers and endpapers, 10 three-colour linocuts by Mike Hudson, numbered "33" [of 75] copies and signed by Mike Hudson and printer Jadwiga Jarvis in pencil on colophon, 30pp [verso pages blank], 32.2 x 21.2cm.

Includes loosely inserted prospectus with same title As Dead As the Proverbial..., explaining that the main text comes from an essay about the Dodo which appeared in The Penny Magazine, June 1832.

Accompanied by a folder entitled "Retrospectus" numbered 31 of 50, containing two letterpress and linocut posters for a special edition of The Van Diemen's Land Warriors: or the Heroes of Cornwall [the first piece of verse to be printed in the colony of Tasmania, 1827, to be re-issued "with thirty cuts" by Mike Hudson]; as well as a type-written letter from Mike Hudson dated '24 Feb '89' to Josef Lebovic, regarding "the latest bit of frou-frou from the printers' picnic press", with attached photograph of Mike in his printing studio.

The Wayzgoose Press was Michael Hudson (British/Australian, 1939–2021) and Jadwiga Jarvis Polish/Australian, 1947–2021), "a fiercely independent, reclusive private press operating from the depths of Katoomba in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales...They combined their individual professional design skills with techniques such as handset letterpress, wood engraving, linocut, photography, craft bookbinding and calligraphy. By the time Mike and Jadwiga ‘retired’ from undertaking large-scale productions (around 2012), they had produced 20 fine press books and over 40 printed broadsides as well as numerous keepsakes." Their archive is kept in the State Library of Victoria. Ref: Caren Florance.

Very minor creases to corners, otherwise Fine.

Author: Avedon, Richard.

Publisher: Random House, New York.

Format: Hardcover folio, brown cloth boards with red printed title and spine, glassine dust jacket and housed in publisher’s original white cardboard box, 284pp, with index, 37.3 x 30.6cm.

First edition. Signed “Avedon" and dated, "1993” in ink on flyleaf. 284 duotone illustrations printed on Kodak Eastman paper.

Nearly fifty yeas of work is present in this retrospective, including well-known images of Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin, and Andy Warhol’s Factory. In his preface, Richard Avedon (American, 1923–2004) explains: “This book tracks the path of three crucial illusions in my life. The first section is about the illusion of laughter, and a young man’s discovery of the fine line between hilarity and panic. The second section is about the illusion of power. The third section is about the loss of all illusions. All of the images were brought to me by the real people and events of my time.”

Minor bumping and scuffing to cardboard box including old tape and sticker.

Author: Avedon, Richard.

Publisher: Abrams, New York.

Format: Hardcover folio, tan cloth boards with photographic paper and acetate dust jacket, 184pp, 37 x 28cm.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed to “Wheeler Bailey Davies III”, signed by Avedon and dated “1990” in ink on flyleaf.

In 1978 Richard Avedon (American 1923–2004) was commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art to create a portrait of the American West through its people. “In these sittings, he discovered people who conveyed through their faces, clothes, and postures not merely hard living but the full embrace of existence.” Ref: Carter Museum.

Scuffs to acetate dust jacket, minor foxing to covers and prelim pages, stain to lower edge of rear board.

Author: Schuyt, Michael [and] Elffers, Joost.

Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London.

Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, magenta cloth boards, 247pp, 29.3 x 25.5cm.

First UK edition. Richly illustrated in colour and with photogravure.

Artists and individuals let their imaginations roam wild to produce extraordinary houses, gardens, settlements, and free form sculptures that can be lived in. Featuring some favourites such as Salvador Dali, Niki de Saint Phalle, Antonio Gaudi, the Watts Tower, Winchester House, L’Enfer nightclub, and so many more. A tour-de-force of outsider architecture.

Chips to head of dust jacket, slight sun-fading to spine and back of jacket. 

Author: Lopez, Antonio.

Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London.

Format: Softcover quarto, 128pp, 28.6 x 23.5cm.

First UK edition. Profusely illustrated with Lopez’s sketches and polaroids.

Antonio Lopez (Puerto Rican, 1943–1987) was a fashion illustrator and behind-the-scenes darling of the 1960s and 1970s New York fashion world, collaborating with the likes of Halston, Andy Warhol, Karl Lagerfeld, Fiorucci, and more. With his partner Juan Ramos, "their vivid use of color, inventive collages, unconventional models, and striking compositions paved the way for a radical new visual vocabulary that transformed mainstream media.”

The book features words from Grace Jones, Jerry Hall, Tina Chow, Jessica Lange, and Pat Cleveland, with an introduction by Christopher Hemphill.

Hinge and backstrip splitting, thumbing, foxing and crinkles, but holding together.