A well-loved copy of the first paperback editon of Stewart Brand's classic "Shelter". Brand was the Shelter Editor for the Whole Earth Catalog, and published his Domebooks One and 2 using Whole Earth's equipment and "production garage". Still in print today, Shelter is a feat, displaying hundreds upon hundreds of images and diagrams of venacular architecture from around the world.

Condition: Fair, print loss and rubbing/scuffing to covers and spine; chips and small tears along cover edges; sun fading at top of front cover; some dogeared pages; previous owner's name...
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The third issue, focusing on Britain, with Jordan Dunn on the cover, photographed by Miles Aldridge. Other photography by Ellen Von Unwerth, Martin Parr, Adrien Pinault, Sarah McRory, Doug Inglish and others. With articles on Joan Collins, Georgia May Jagger, Amir Khan, Daphne Guinness, Christian Louboutin, The Gossip, Carsten Höller, Gemma Collins and more. Due to size and weight, Priority Mail shipping within the US is an additional $5.

Condition: Near Fine, very light edgewear.
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The first issue with articles on Jerry Hall (on the cover, photographed by Sølve Sundsbø), Kylie Minogue, London clubkids, an homage to Yves Klein, Michéle Lamy, Gareth Pugh, photos by Nick Waplington, illustrations by Julie Verhoven and more. Due to size and weight, Priority Mail shipping within the US is an additional $5.

Condition: Near Fine.
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The third issue of Candy Magazine, the first Transversal style magazine "completely dedicated to celebrating tranvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations". With features on Cindy Sherman, Transvestia Magazine in the 1960s, the Italian singer Mina, Mick Jagger & Jerry Hall, Tokyo's Skinjuku district, Jenny Shimizu, La Prohibida, Allanah Starr as Dolly Parton, plus photos by Bruce Weber, and more. With Chloe Sevigny on the cover, photographed by (and as) Terry Richardson. In a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Due to size and weight, Priority Mail shipping...
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The inaugural issue of Candy Magazine, calling itself "the first Transversal style magazine completely dedicated to celebrating tranvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations". Featuring photos of Candy Darling by Bruce Weber, plus Christian Lacroix, Jeanette Main, Kim Ann Foxman, Angel Marlow, Bianca Exotica, André J, Joey Arias and others. Photography by David Armstrong, Marcelo Krasilcic, Daniel Riera, Karim Sadli, Kiran Bunse and other. With Miss Lucy Worrall on the cover, photographed by Brett Lloyd. In an limited edition of 1,000 copies. Due to size and weight...
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A typography specimen poster of the Bodoni type fonts, plus an 8.5 x 11 sheet on cardstock detailing the origin and history of Bodoni type (mid-18th Century by the Italian printer Giambattista Bodoni). The set was produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. It was designed by George F. Trenholm from Boston, the type designer and consultant to the Intertype Corporation during the 1940s-'50s.The poster displays Bodoni in italic, book, roman and bold styles, in sizes ranging from 6 to 60...
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A handsome two-color typography specimen poster "showing almost all of The 'Lost' Goudy Types" including Bertham (1936), Kaatskill (1929), Newstyle (1921), Mediaeval (1930), Deepdene Text (1932), Trajan (1930), Village No. 2 (1933), Village Italic (1933), Tory (1936), Friar (1937) and Ornate (1936). Each font is show in a variety of point sizes. The poster, which was produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes, also reproduces the text "The Type Speaks," by Frederic W. Goudy. Printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid paper...
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A two-color typography specimen poster of the Janson font, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. The poster reproduces a broadside advertisement and type specimen sheet of bibles and common-prayer books from 1685. The alphabet is also show in Janson type in sizes ranging from 10 to 36 point. The poster is printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid paper, which is "ideal for letterheads, envelopes, leaflets, brochures, and folders, as well as for limited edition book-printing"

Condition: Very Good, folded as...
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A handsome two-color typography specimen poster of the Bulmer roman and italic typefonts, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. The Bulmer font was originally designed and cut in England, about 1786, by William Martin for the printer W. Bulmer at the Shakespeare Press. The font is displayed in sizes ranging from 6 to 48 point. The poster is printed on Eastern's Atlantic Antique Laid 24lb. paper, which is "uniform in every respect, its tub-sized surfaces take print equally well on...
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A two-color typography specimen poster of the Square-Serif font family, developed around 1803, produced by the Eastern Corporation paper company to highlight their paper product and its printing attributes. Also displayed in the margins are multiple samples of other fonts in the Square-Serif style including Arme Latine, Moliere, Poilu Ancien, Stymie, Gold Rush and Eqyptian Condensed. The poster is printed on Eastern's Manifest Bond paper, which is an "outstanding mill-brand paper in the economy-group" which will "insure cleaner, sharper impressions with a minimum of waste, stoppages and other troubles that...
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A full-color, double-sided pamphlet in French, with wonderful Russia graphics, that unfolds into a 17" x 22" poster showcasing the U.S.S.R.'s accomplishments in culture, science and industry. Produced for the U.S.S.R. section at the Brussels Universal and International Exhibition 1958 (also known as Expo 58 or the Brussels World's Fair), the brochure's text has a propagandist tone with statements such as "the Soviet Union has a population of engineers almost three times larger than in the USA" and "..let's go back to the comparisons. Having caught up with Europe and...
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The Fall 1969 issue (second printing January, 1970) of the Whole Earth Catalog, which Steve Jobs called "sort of like Google in paperback form" but from 45 years ago. With information on the tools one needed (and could order) to live with the earth, it features sections on whole systems, shelter and land use, communications, community, learning, and nomadics.

Condition: Very Good+, toning to newsprint pages as is common; .5" closed tear at right side middle edge of front cover; minor chips to edges of cover; tiny dogears to top...
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Covering two decades of work from the Hong-Kong based architectural firm MAP Office, including their architectural research, artistic interventions and process-oriented projects. Documents work from exhibitions, competitions and festivals. Out of print and scarce.

Condition: Very Good+, a few small tears to the stiff paper dust jacket at top of spine; light sunning to spine.
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