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.

Author: Carter, Jeff.

Publisher: Rigby Limited, Adelaide.

Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, beige cloth boards, 181pp, 29.5 x 24cm.

First edition.

Jeff Carter’s documentary photographs of the Australian bush are presented alongside his frank observations of our regional towns. His sympathetic camera shows us a view of Indigenous Australians that was rarely reflected in 1960s publications, and of the unwitting cruelty of some white Australians upon the land and animals, such as the image of a man sparring a kangaroo, captioned “A grazier west of Bourke spars with a giant red kangaroo he has just chased to the point of exhaustion in a Jeep.”

Jeff Carter’s (Australian, 1928–2010) photographs are held in nearly every major collecting institute in Australia.

Missing portions to dust jacket, especially spine area, book very good.

Author: Mack, Lorrie.

Publisher: Conran Octopus, London.

Format: Hardcover oblong quarto with dust jacket, white paper boards, 144pp, 22.3 x 27cm.

First edition, illustrated in colour throughout.

Living in Small Spaces shows you how to make the very best, most stylish, most effective use of the space you can afford. Fantastic 1980s interiors in the most unexpected of apartments, in the vein of the Terence Conran school of design.

Creases and light marks to dust jacket, minor foxing to edges.

Author: Fisher, Joan.

Publisher: Hamlyn, London.

Format: Hardcover quarto with dust jacket, grey cloth boards with gilt text, 176pp, 25.6 x 18.3cm.

Second impression, 1973. Illustrated in colour and black & white.

A favourite from the extreme craft genre, illustrating some outrageous macrame: bikinis, chess sets, face masks, necklaces, and string dolls.

Tears and chips to dust jacket, some offset to endpapers.

Author: Kahn Jr, Lloyd [ed].

Publisher: Shelter Publications, California.

Format: Softcover quarto, magazine style, 224pp, 27.5 x 21.5cm.

Lloyd Kahn (American, b.1935) is a self-taught architect who has become synonymous with earth building and hippie houses. Rooted in a DIY ethos, Shelter publications provided alterative examples of building from over the world in non-traditional materials, such as mudbrick, cob houses, domes, yurts, and gypsy caravans. A cult architecture book.

Insect damage to cover, tape-repaired hinge. Reading copy.

Author: Andrusia, David,

Publisher: M. Evans & Company Inc, New York.

Format: Softcover octavo, 144pp, 21 x 14cm.

The insider’s guide to the coolest clubs, restaurants, shops, salons, galleries and hotels.

An excellent pre-internet travel guide for the big apple. Think Carrie Bradshaw’s New York: a day shopping in the boutiques of Todd Oldham and Betsey Johnson, dining at the Oyster Bar, then moving to the club at Max Fish. A perfect era.

Spine slightly cocked, bumping to corners, minor stains to edges.  

Author: Busch, Heather [and] Silver, Burton.

Publisher: Weidenfled & Nicolson, London, and Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, California.

Format: Pair of softcover quartos with illustrated boards, 96pp each, 28 x 24cm.

"The ethics of feline aesthetics" and "A theory of feline aesthetics".

This bizarre pair of books were published under the auspices of being registered international experiments in "morphic resonance and is designed to test the hypothesis of formative causation."

While presented as a serious and emerging art form with roots in South-East Asia, the books are a humorous parody of both art books and cat books.

Bumping, general shelfwear.