The fifth issue of Candy Magazine, the first Transversal style magazine "completely dedicated to celebrating tranvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations". With a theme of "The Candydate" and articles on Nazi crossdressers, the art of Mel Odom, Lahoma Van Zandt, Paola Revenioti, Diana Vreeland, Berlin, a collaboration with Gucci, and much more. With Connie Fleming as Michelle Obama on the cover, photographed by Danielle Levitt. With a heavystock photo card of Fleming as Obama laid in, noting that this is copy number 556 of the special...
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The second issue of Candy Magazine, the first Transversal style magazine "completely dedicated to celebrating tranvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny, in all its manifestations". Featuring Divine (as herself), Ash Stymest as Amy Winehouse (photographed by Ellen Von Unwerth), Charles Guislain as Twiggy, Edward Vigiletti as Lady Gaga, Guillermo Turell as Barbra Streisand, and more. With James Franco in drag on the cover, photographed by Terry Richardson. In a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Due to size and weight, Priority Mail shipping within the US is an additional $5.

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A typography specimen poster from the Bauer Alphabets company whose slogan was "the types of today and tomorrow". Includes samples of the following font families in a variety of styles and point sizes: Weiss, Futura, Corvinus, Bauer Bodoni, Beton and Cartoon. Also shows one-line examples of eight additional typefaces. Uniquely, three corners of the poster are rounded.

Condition: Poster: Good+, unfolded; some light surface wear/light creasing likely from being rolled; .5" closed tear at left middle.
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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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A study of the great artists' books of the 20th Century, with particular attention to Italy's place within the international artist book movement. Richly printed color illustrations. Includes an illustrated bibliography with thumbnails of books on books categorized by genre. Text in English and Italian. Out of print.

Condition: Very Good; corner bump/crease of 1.25" to the top corner of back cover, faintly visible as a tiny corner bump to the last 40 pages.
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An artist book from the London-born, New York-based artist presenting his altered washcloth assemblages. Printed as black-and-white photocopies on green, blue, grey and pink colored paper corresponding to the color of the work itself. Out of print.

Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
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The Dutch artist Willem Oorebeek uses modern printing process such as lithography to manipulate and alter existing imagery and text such as advertisements and printed matter, exploring repetition, order, redaction and other themes. With essays by Camiel van Winkel and Wouter Davidts. This monograph, which is more of an artists' book than traditional artist survey, is from his 2008 exhibition at Culturgest in Lisbon. Out of print.

Condition: New, still in shrinkwrap.
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The exhibition poster for Jack Youngerman at the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, from Nov. 27-Dec. 16, 1961. The exhibition was his third show with the gallery and his fourth solo exhibition. Youngerman was included in MoMA's important "Sixteen Americans" exhibit in 1959, along with Rauschenberg's Combines and Jasper Johns' flags and targets. Poster printed in France by the famous Mourlot print shop of Paris.

Condition: Good, folded as issued; staple holes and pinholes in 4 corners; 4 pinholes at center top; a .75" inch closed tear at upper left;...
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Smartly-designed group exhibition flyer for The Arena of Love exhibit, Dwan Gallery Los Angeles, with artists’ names extending from Hershey’s kisses paper plumes, including Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein, Andy Warhol, CPLY, John Chamberlain and Roy Lichtenstein, among others.

Condition: Very Good+, very faint soft creases/bumps to corners.
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The 1957 edition of this scarce title. Conversations with 35 American painters, sculptors, and architects by Selden Rodman, including Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Morris Graves, Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko and Ben Shahn, among others.

Condition: Very Good, sunning to dust jacket spine and rubbing along jacket spine folds; age toning to interior pages.
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