WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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WET, "The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing and Beyond," was founded by Leonard Koren in Venice, CA and ran for 34 issues from 1976-1981. It became renowned for its unusual mix of design, fashion, art, nudity and the emerging wholistic health trends of the 1970s. While it was influential in fashion and design, it did regularly feature articles and information related to baths and bathing, saunas, showering and other manner of personal and public hydro culture. It also featured inspired ads for new and trendsetting LA brands and boutiques such as.....
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The Fall 1977 Punk issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), chock full o' punk and featuring Debbie Harry, the Sex Pistols, Throbbing Gristle, Richard Hell, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, Genesis P. Orridge, Viletones, the Feelies, Television, Yoko Ono and more!

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear; some dimpled indents to covers; light reader's creasing along spine; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The Spring 1977 issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), with features and articles on Luigi Ontani, Walter Pfeiffer, Katherina Sieverding, Marcel Just, Alex Silber, David Buchan, Tom Sherman, an Alfred Jarry shadow play, a section on books by artists (including Mr. Peanut), and more.

Condition: Very Good-, some edgewear and reader's creasing along spine; some scuffing and dimpled creasing to covers; 1" tear to page 6; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The Fall 1981 issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), with features on the "Re-Materialization of the Art Object" including Matt Mullican (6 pages of graphics), Ken Dollar, Susan Hiller, a Tina Turner self-portrait and more. This issue's "BZZZ" gossip section appears to be in Arabic, except for the bold-faced names. The Luciano Bartolini insert is not present.

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear and slight corner bumps; lacking the Luciano Bartolini insert; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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The "Global Downtown" issue of General Idea's heady and design saavy FILE Magazine (also called FILE Megazine), with this issue exploring the "ists, isms, and posts of today's Neo-design aesthetic at work within this (new) Global Downtown". Articles and features include Kim Gordon, Klaus Nomi, Jimmy de Sana, Tom Dean, Paul Oberst and more.

Condition: Very Good, light edgewear and tiny corner bumps; some dimpled creases to covers; in a custom-made protective mylar jacket.
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A set of 5 volumes comprising 10 issues of Black Politics from 1968-1969:Vol. 1, No. 3 (March 1968)Vol. 1, Nos. 4-5 (April-May 1968)Vol. 1, Nos. 6-8 (Summer 1968)Vol. 1, Nos. 9-10 (September-October 1968)Vol. 2, Nos. 13-14 (1969) Published from 1968-1969 in the East Bay, the birthplace of the Black Panther Party, the mimeographed periodical Black Politics was "a part of the Black liberation movement and believe[s] that freedom, justice, and equality must be attained by those means that the oppressed think necessary." Vol. 1, No. 3: includes "The Truth About.....
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An original two-sided flyer for a DEVO after-party at Danceteria, in New York in 1982. Also advertises a party for Neutral Records' "Vortex" film soundtrack release. The film starred Lydia Lunch and Ann Magnuson.

Condition: Very Good, toning to paper; edges unevenly trimmed.
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The scarce first printing of Walt Curtis' love story on the streets of Portland, which became Gus Van Sant's first feature film that launched a career. Sprinkled with photographs of Curtis and his protagonists in old Portland.

Condition: Very Good, toning to pages and covers; top staple loose from cover but tight on all other pages.
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In October of 2004, Tom Sachs and Van Neistat toured the Alps by motorcycle and made this publication documenting their journey with hand-drawn maps and appendices listing various information, including a calendar, crashes, expenses, dinner seating and exhibition charts, travel restrictions, and their meals, ranked. Signed in an edition of only 25 copies, this #6 of 25. Color copied onto heavy paper stock. In a custom-made protective mylar jacket.

Condition: Near Fine.
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