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Juergen Teller: Go-Sees by Juergen Teller

Zurich: Scalo Publishers, 1999. First Edition. $250.

Profusely illustrated with color photographs of models showing up for work. 

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Art-Rite 1 Edited by Edit Deak, Joshua Cohn & Walter Robinson

New York: Art-Rite Publishing Company, 1973. First edition. $100.

First issue of the great downtown little magazine. With contributions by Lawrence Alloway, Hilton Kramer, Les Levine, Lucy Lippard, Joseph Masheck, Brian O'Doherty, John Perrault, Edward Pursor, Irving Sandler, Leo Steinberg

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The Dirty Duck Book by Bobby London

San Francisco: Cocoanut Comix, 1971. First edition. $30.

An early collection of the important underground comic

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A box of haikus

High Kukus by James Broughton

The Jargon Society, Inc, 1968. First edition. $45.

Pamphlets laid into a printed card box. Book design by Davi Det Hompson and featuring drawings by Hok Vogrin. 

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"But Is It Poetry?" Anthology of One-Line Poems Edited by Duane Ackerson

:[Pocatello, Idaho]: Dragonfly, 1972. First edition. $45.

Anthology of one line poetry, including Bill Zavatsky, Ray DiPalma, Charles Simic, Michael Benedikt, Albert Goldbarth, William Matthews, Ethel Fortner, D.S. Long, Greg Kuzma, Cathey Ackerson, Peter Cooley, Felix Pollak, Richard Lebovitz. 

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AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND WILLIAM MORRIS by Susan Otis Thompson 

Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1996. $60.

With a new Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction

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The Book of Alphabets and Layouts. The Art of Metal Etching for Sign Purposes by Al Imelli

Cincinnati, OH: The Signs of the Times Publishing Company, 1922. $100.

With 109 Alphabet Plates and 100 Layouts.

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Jean Prouvé. Prefabrication: Structures and Elements. Edited by Benedikt Huber and Jean-Claude Steinegger

Praeger Publishers, 1971. Hardcover. First American edition. $85.

Text in German, French and English. // Chapters on 'Building Structures,' 'Methods of Moulding.' and 'Framework of Life;' with individual sections discussing types of jointed frames (shell, shed, propped, vaulted, centre core, stool, plastic 'types') as well as 'the houses of Abbé Pierre,' 'collective dwellings,' the Meudon houses,' 'tropical houses,' 'school buildings,' 'furniture' and 'public buildings.

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Peking the Beautiful. Comprising Seventy Photographic Studies of the Celebrated Monuments of China's Northern Capital and its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes by Herbert C. White

Shanghai: The Commercial Press, 1927. First Edition. $4500.

Complete with seventy tipped-in photographs (+ a frontispiece), a few of them in color. In the original richly embroidered blue silk binding

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First book from the 'Poet Laureate of Deep Ecology'

RIPRAP: a cobble of stone laid on steep slick rock to make a trail for horses in the mountains by Gary Snyder

Origin Press, 1959. First edition. SIGNED. $1350.

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Dade County Bible [Title from Cover]. The Holy Bible Containing the Same Old Thing Translated by Wagging Tongues Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1977 by [Zephyrus Image] Holbrook Teter, Holbrook & Michael Myer

 Hermes Free Press, 1977. First edition. $300.

 An ingenious flipbook, in which a Christian cross bends into a swastika as you flip the pages. Artists's book created by Teter & Myers in response to the anti-homosexual crusades by Anita Bryant and others.

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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf by Vita Sackville-West

William Morrow & Co, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. $25.

Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska.

Woolf based her novel Orlando on Sackville-West. 

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The Velvet Years: Warhol's Factory 1965-67 by Stephen Shore. Text by Lynne Tillman

Thunder's Mouth Press, 1995. First Edition, First Printing. $50.

Photographs and profiles of the major players of both the Velvet Underground and the Factory. Lou Reed looks really young.

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Religion in Wood: A Book of Shaker Furniture by Edward Deming Andrews and Faith Andrews

University of Indiana Press, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Introduction by Thomas Merton. $100.

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The Glittering Mountains of Canada, A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924 by J. Monroe Thorington 

Philadelphia: John W. Lea, 1925. First Edition. Illustrated with plates and maps, some fold out. $145.

Signed by Thorington under the limitation stamp on the front paste down, this being number 218.

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The first and only issue

The Shattering Screen: A Journal for Subversive Cinema. No. 1 by John Stevenson & Jeramy Turner

The Shattering Screen, 1984. First edition. $75. 

 Debut issue of this radical film journal, and to our knowledge the only issue published. Includes articles on Stanley Kubrick and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. 

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Unsung Heroes of Rock n' Roll by Nick Tosches

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1984. First edition. $150.

The very scarce hardcover issue of the true first edition.