The Fashion System monsters-647-47

The Fashion System monsters-647-47London: Jonathan Cape, 1985. First British edition. Hardcover, 303pp., 6 x 9 inches. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest sunning to jacket spine. Small previous owner's name stamped to front paste down endpaper and top edge. A fascinating study in which Roland Barthes examines fashion from a new point of view. Using descriptions from magazines the eminent linguist and sociologist uncovers a system of meaning and subjects it to semantic analysis.

alternative cinematic canon drawn from the fringes of taste and style

75 x 9 inches

Iconic issue of the enormously influential Little Caesar Magazine edited by Dennis Cooper

Suzuki’s singular slant on speculative fiction would be echoed in countless later works

including The Persistence of Memory

else Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket

Bill and spent six years living there after studying painting

" the frontmatter states

family photographs and other possessions

Alonso Alcalde

Ray Johnson was described as ‘New York’s most famous unknown artist

A detailed focus is placed on the forgotten history of playgrounds in the former German Democratic Republic