Arlene Gottfried

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

New York

Before gentrification, New York City was a gritty and inspiring place. And in its midst was Arlene Gottfried, whose eye for the sublime caught it all. Sometimes Overwhelming is a manic yet romantic ode to the people of NYC in the 70s and 80s. From Coney Island to Hasid at Riis Beach's nude bay to the disco nights of sexual abandon and the children in the original Village Halloween parade. Sometimes Overwhelming is a delightfully light-hearted look at the most outrageous people ever seen.

Sometimes Overwhelming

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Ron Galella

Peter Beard

Graydon Carter

Dick Cavett

Lauren Hutton

Slight tear on bottom right of cover, otherwise in excellent condition

Galella personalised the term paparazzo (Italian for buzzing mosquito), redefining the relationship between movie star and photographer. As the most famous US celebrity photojournalist, he has been catching the private moments of public figures for more than three decades. This is a chronicle of the disputes and confrontations that have accompanied his work with the likes of Marlon Brando, Sean Penn and Richard Burton. Driven by a mad curiosity and a dogged insistence that celebrities are fair game, he continues to take risks and make enemies to get the perfect shot.

No Pictures

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Claire Wilcox

Paris and London 1947-1957

The Golden Age of Couture celebrates a momentous decade in fashion history that began with the launch of Christian Dior's famous New Look in 1947 and ended with his death in 1957. It was Dior himself who christened this era fashion's 'golden age', a period when haute couture thrived and Paris enjoyed renown worldwide for the luxurious creations of designers such as Cristobal Balenciaga, Pierre Balmain and Hubert de Givenchy. While never competing with Paris in terms of glamour, London also proved itself a burgeoning fashion capital, boasting Savile Row, the undisputed home of bespoke tailoring, and prominent couturiers such as Charles Creed, Hardy Amies and Norman Hartnell, who dressed debutantes, aristocrats and the royal family.

The Golden Age of Couture

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Lauren D. Whitley

Pages have slight patina from age but book is otherwise in excellent condition

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Paris Style

Fashion Show ISBN 0-87846-707-6 / 978-0-87846-707-5 Clothbound, 8 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color. / U.S. $65.00 CDN $78.00 December / Fashion Valentino, Lacroix, Dior, Chanel, Azzedine Alaia, Viktor & Rolf, Rochas and Yohji Yamamoto are just the latest in a long family tree.

Fashion Show

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Alice Cicolini

Slight patina on edges of book jacket, otherwise pristine

Just in time for the return of the suit comes this bible of men's dressy style, its accoutrement and lifestyle accompaniments: a fashion handbook and treasure trove of ideas tailored to the contemporary male or metrosexual. The contemporary Englishman and the designers who design for him stepped into the international style limelight when journalists at Italian Menswear Fashion Week proclaimed that the "noughties" were the decade of British tailoring. Fusing classical principles with today's sensibilities, the book celebrates the return of the well-dressed man. Each thematic section features a specially commissioned fashion shoot by a rising star of fashion photography and a text of bespoke inspiration, instruction, interviews and insight. A reference section provides a tailor's glossary and contact information. The New English Dandy sets the standard for today's new man about town. 260 b/w & colour illustrations

The New English Dandy

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Patrick Mcmullan

Liz Smith

Kiss Kiss

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Nancy Soriano

Slight discoloration on the left of the cover near the spine but book is otherwise in pristine condition

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Transforming Ordinary Materials into Stylish and Distinctive Earrings, Bracelets, Necklaces, and Pins

The Jewelry Recipe Book takes materials available at large craft stores (as well as specialty shops and artisan shops on Etsy)--beads, shrink plastic, leather, lace, pearls, sequins, polymer clay, yarn, and pinecones, to name a few--and transforms them into one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry. Each of the 35 mini chapters organized by material consists of three projects and three skill levels, adding up to more than 100 stunning pieces that could easily be found for sale at Urban Outfitters or Anthropologie. Every piece is beautifully photographed, as are the majority of how-to steps, and the information is presented in an easy-to-follow way, like a recipe. The book also includes an overview of simple jewelry-making techniques and tips, with best practices for how to work with various materials; how to wear jewelry; and how to work with design elements that include color, scale, and shape.

The Jewelry Recipe Book

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Martin W. Sandler

Still wrapped in its original shrink wrap!

Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography

"A complement to a history fragmented for far too long, Against the Odds recommends itself to those interested in the extraordinary accomplishments of women in the single most important technological advance of the nineteenth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Against the Odds

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Claw Claw Money

The Life and Crimes of Claw Money

A two-toned, three-taloned claw paw has been sprawled in aerosol across walls around the world since the early 1990s. One of the first writers to use an icon as her throw up, CLAW is of the rarest breed: the female graff King. Not content just to beat the boys at their own game, CLAW also designs her own clothing line, Claw Money, as well as a jewellery and accessory line, literally creating her own street style. Bombshell explodes all preconceived notions about the icon many have seen but few have known.

Bombshell

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Gregor Muir

Clarrie Wallis

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Angus Fairhurst, Damien Hirst and Sarah Lucus

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Tate Britain, Mar. 3-May 31, 2004.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

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Iké Udé

Book jacket is a little dusty but the book itself is in excellent condition!

The World's Most Elegantly Dressed

Iké Udé's Style File is a remarkable volume that profiles more than 55 of the most influential arbiters of style in the world today. With a foreword by Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at F.I.T., and an introduction by Harold Koda, curator-in-charge of the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this beautifully designed book provides an intimate perspective on these unique and influential men and women, offering frank insight to their views on fashion and life through evocative interviews and lush photography. Included among the many notable designers, artists, and public figures are John Galliano, Oscar de la Renta, Carolina Herrera, Isabel and Ruben Toledo, Victoire de Castellane, André Leon Talley, Dita Von Teese, Ute Lemper, Francesco Clemente, Christian Louboutin, Diane von Furstenberg, Lapo Elkann, Frédéric Malle, and many others. Style File also features numerous editorial features that deepen the book's exploration of enduring style. Annotated photo albums examine the work of premier style-making photographers such as Scavullo, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Coreen Simpson, Seydou Keïta, and Maripol. Illustrated essays including those by journalist and professor Nicholas Boston on the popular blog The Sartorialist and by George Pitts, associate chair of photography at the Parsons School of Design, on the Motown Look explore a range of fashion eras, influences, and influencers, from the Belle Epoque to the late visionary stylist Isabella Blow. Evocative archival and portrait photography of fashion legends from Marchesa Casati to Diana Vreeland, select aRude fashion editorials that point to recurring themes in the intertwined cultural-political-style landscape, and style-related aphorisms are featured throughout. This comprehensive, gorgeous book is a rich exploration of personal style that belongs in every well-dressed library.

Style File

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Valerie Steele

If you could have only one dress, wouldn't you make it a black one? Glamorous or modest, seductive or practical, chic and versatile, elegant, powerful, modern, and never out of style, the black dress has been the foundation of a woman's wardrobe for centuries. The allure of the black dress has captured the imagination of generations of couturiers and artists and served as the signature of society's most enviably dressed women. The Black Dress is a lush visual celebration of this fashion classic. With an essay and images selected by Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, this volume features page after uniquely designed page of some of the most compelling dresses in the history of fashion. The diverse imagery includes fine art, runway shots and design sketches, stills from classic films and vintage fashion plates, and, above all, gorgeous evocations of the black dress from the world's greatest designers, illustrators, and photographers. These include paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, and John Signer Sargent; illustrations by Georges Barbier and Ruben Toledo; and iconic images of movie goddesses such as Audrey Hepburn and Rita Hayworth. The world's foremost fashion designers, from Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Yohji Yamamoto to Boudicca, are featured in full color throughout, their designs accompanied by quotes on black from writers, artists and fashion personalities. Extended captions at the back of the book provide details one ach dress and its place in fashion history.

The Black Dress

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Andrew Bolton

Michael Chabon

Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute book accompanying exhibition in 2008

Fashion and Fantasy

Essay af Michael Chabon: Secret Skin. An Essay in Unitard Theory

Superheroes

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Adrian Heathfield

Pages have some patina from age, book is in excellent structural condition

Art and Performance

Live

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Patricia MacLachlan

Emily MacLachlan Charest

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)





A sweet and funny collection of poems by Patricia MacLachlan, the author of the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall.

It's a dog's life!

Every dog has a tail to wag . . . and a tale to tell. Patricia MacLachlan and Emily MacLachlan Charest asked a collection of canines to speak up--and so they do, in words, barks, and yips. Captured here are accounts of happy days filled with squeaky toys, good smells, plenty of naps, and the very important jobs they do for the people they love to love.

Once I Ate a Pie

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Amanda McCall

Ben Schwartz

It’s a book of postcards! The blank side has a slight patina from age

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Asking Awkward Questions with Baby Animals

Why Is Daddy in a Dress?

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Eleanor Dwight

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

An Illustrated Biography

Diana Vreeland was the fashion editor of the twentieth century. She had an incredible aura of glamour and a genius for enlivening life with enticing fantasy. Diana Vreeland goes behind the scenes to tell her story—how, with innate talent and hard work, the imaginative and ambitious daughter of an old New York society family became a legendary arbiter of fashion and style. It reveals the growth of her professional prowess and details her personal history, as it captures Vreeland's pizzazz, humor, flair, and flamboyance. This beautiful book—with a new preface by Vreeland's protÉgÉ and renowned fashion authority AndrÉ Leon Talley—is lavishly illustrated with more than three hundred drawings and photographs, many by the best fashion photographers of the time: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Irving Penn, Cecil Beaton, and BrassaÏ. Here, too, are the trendsetters, artists, models, and celebrities with whom Vreeland worked and played, including Coco Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Hubert de Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta, Elsie de Wolfe, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, and Jacqueline Kennedy. The fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1937 to 1962, Vreeland first shook things up with her "Why Don't You...?" column. Working with the legendary editor Carmel Snow, she drastically changed the look of the magazine by using provocative, exciting photography. As editor in chief of Vogue from 1962 to 1971, she brought vitality and beauty to its pages, letting her photographers and editors follow their own creative bents, sending them off to shoots in foreign lands and encouraging them to use their talents in fresh and provocative ways. In 1972, she became special consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, where she masterminded costume extravaganzas, contributing to the new age of blockbuster museum exhibitions and bringing hundreds of thousands to see costume history. When Vreeland became blind in the mid-1980s she said it was because she had seen so many beautiful things. When she died in 1989 she became a legend. Her story is a vibrant and extraordinary one.

Diana Vreeland

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The Editors of Rolling Stone

Amidst a sea of MJ insta-books, we believe MICHAEL will be the deepest, most authoritative, and most collectable book on the life and music of Michael Jackson. Including Rolling Stone′s unparalleled, in-depth reporting on Jackson that spans almost three decades, MICHAEL features Alan Light′s interview with Quincy Jones on the making of Thriller, Gerri Hirshey′s one of a kind look into the world of Jackson from 1983, as well as never before published features including a newly reported piece on what went wrong, and a piece on how MJ learned to move, featuring interviews with the break dancers and choreographers that influenced Jackson. The book also includes more detailed reported stories about the making of Bad, Dangerous and the last albums.

Michael

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Sharon Stiteler

Try as hard as you like, there's just no pleasing a disapproving rabbit Let them hop around your house, they'll disapprove of your decorating skills. Feed them tasty veggies, they'll disapprove of your culinary skills. Sit together in your yard, and they'll disapprove of your gardening (even as they devour it). Long thought of as mindless raiders of gardens and happy couriers of colored eggs, it's almost as if rabbits have been getting the best of us for years, secretly disapproving of all our non-rabbit ways. Fortunately Sharon Stiteler, known as the Bird Chick for her work in the birding community, began to notice something not-quite-right about her pet rabbit Cinnamon. It appeared that Cinnamon didn't approve . . . of anything. After studying a great many photos, Sharon has soundly and without-out-a-doubt proved that rabbits have some major attitude.

Disapproving Rabbits

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Duncan Birmingham

Featuring over 150 Suicidal Pets!

Presents more than 150 photographs of costumed pets, along with humorous captions that describe each disgruntled pet's point of view.

Pets Who Want to Kill Themselves

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Andy Riley

Return of the Bunny Suicides follows over one hundred bunnies as they find ever more bizarre ways to end their fuzzy little existences. From swimming with nibbly fishes, to hiding under an elephant’s footstool, to getting on the sharp end of a Venetian gondola—no stone goes unturned (or undropped, or uncatapulted) in the twisted little creatures’ next installment. Illustrated in a spare and simple style, Return of the Bunny Suicides is a collection of hilarious and outrageous cartoons that will appeal to anyone in touch with their evil side. www.bookofbunnysuicides.com

The Return of the Bunny Suicides

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Sloane Tanen

The Life and Times of Some Chickens

Photographs by Stefan Hagen
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With more personality than most people have to spare, New York artist Sloane Tanen's tiny yellow chickens negotiate the tricky modern world, filled with three-headed blind dates, menacing KFCs, playground popularity battles, and annoyingly crowded yoga classes. They perch amid doll furniture, in scenes photographed in glorious color and brilliantly captioned- and their lives will strike you as strangely familiar...
Charming, spiky with off-kilter wit (or waxing jobs gone terribly wrong), and somehow larger than life, these chickens win the hearts of all who behold them.

Bitter with Baggage Seeks Same

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Beatrice Alemagna

Little Fat Bug has never met another bug before and he is in for a big surprise.

Bugs in a Blanket

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Arne Svenson

In the late 1960s, Alba Ballard, a Long Island housewife, decided it would be a cute idea to dress up one of her many pet parrots in a little costume. She sewed a tiny outfit, attached snaps to the back, and slipped it onto one of the birds. Delighted with the results, Alba began creating increasingly detailed costumes for her always available and willing subjects. Soon she began staging elaborate theatrical productions, casting her costumed parrots in scene reenactments from popular movies, TV shows, historical events, and 1970s popular culture. Her husband, Marvin, would assist in creating sets and props and would photograph the productions at Alba's direction. The resulting imagery from this collaboration among wife, husband, and parrots is a look into the highly creative mind of Alba Ballard. Untrained as an artist, she nevertheless was able to create works that embodied her fantasies, her humor, and her passions. And what fantasies she had! In her world, parrots became tiny, winged, overdressed incarnations of such luminaries as Sonny and Cher, Liberace, and General George Patton. Yellow and green macaws rode around on little motorcycles dressed in leather jackets reenacting scenes from Easy Rider and, changing costumes, could then effortlessly slip into roles from TV's Batman and Robin, The Dean Martin Show, and a commercial for Soft and Dry deodorant. Eventually, Alba and her feathered cast appeared on the David Letterman Show, Saturday Night Live, and even in Woody Allen's feature film Broadway Danny Rose. Very few of the photographs that Alba and Marvin created are still in existence, and sadly, Alba passed away in 1994. However, in 1992, a small collection of these photographs was discovered in the Swiss home of Elizabeth Taylor. Just after their discovery, the photographs reached the hands of photographer and author Arne Svenson, who has now gathered them together in this book. Book jacket.

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