Brighton, East Sussex, England: The Wildcat Collection, 1996. Staplebound wraps. 7 3/4" X 8 1/4". 47pp. Moderate wear to staplebound pictorial wraps, with creasing, surface scuffing, bumping to corners, and small nicks to head and tail of spine. Slight lean to spine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean..... More
Santa Rosa, California: 43 Cherry St. Productions, September 1983. Staplebound wraps. 10 7/8" X 8 3/8". Unpaginated, 20 pages. The faintest touch of wear to extremities. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A pristine copy of this fun 1983 tattoo shop "fun book" out of Cherry Street in..... More
Newport Beach, California: Action Publishing, 1994. Paperback. 10 3/4" X 8 3/8". 211pp. Mild edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, else fine, firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and bright. A very well preserved copy of this 1994 directory of tattoo artists and studios worldwide, by state and city, and..... More
Paris: La Roulotte, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Written by poet, journalist, and lexicographer Robert Giraud and police inspector and later historian Jacques Delarue (Inspecteur a la Direction des Services de Police judiciaire de la Surete nationale), this scarce, early book on tattooing was intended for an audience of police officers..... More
Berkeley, California; Louisville, Kentucky: Privately Printed, 1987. Loose_leaf. 13 loose leaf prints, with Terry Kaegin's black and white illustrations to rectos and C. W. Eldridge's text to versos, housed in a 11 1/4" X 9 1/4" black folder, with pictorial title label to front cover loose and laid in, and..... More
Minsk, Belarus: Met Publishing, 1997. Hardcover. 9 3/4" X 6 1/2". 231pp. Text in Russian. Pictorial paper over boards. Moderate edgewear to binding, with slight lean to spine. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid copy of this Russian book on the art of tattooing, fully illustrated..... More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First American Edition. Hardcover. A complete and well-preserved first American printing of Hambly's The History of Tattooing. This 1927 tome on the subject of tattooing explores body marking as a religious rite and form of worship throughout indigenous cultures, body marking and magic, body..... More
Paris: Editions La Musardine, 2000. Paperback. 9 7/8" X 7 1/2". 199pp. Text in French. Mild edgewear to pictorial wraps, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this exploration of body modification, from body-building, tattooing, piercing, to genital surgical procedures..... More
Tokyo: Gentosha, 2005. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 7/8". 163pp. Text in Japanese kanji only. Mild edgewear to dust jacket over printed wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this exploration of the modern art of tattoo, including Japanese traditional, cover-up..... More
[Papakura, New Zealand]: Southern Reprints, 1987. Hardcover. 10 3/4" X 7 5/8". xxi, 216pp, [ii]. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild wear to dust jacket, with light dust soiling and small closed tears to upper edges. Bookseller ticket of Books on Braodway of Newmarket, New Zealand to..... More
Herstellung: KVFR; Books on Demand GmbH, 2001. Paperback. 8 5/8" X 6 5/8". 101pp. Mild wear to pictorial wraps. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout in black and white, this is a very nice copy of this ideas and information about tattooing and bodypainting..... More
Rieden, Germany: Arun-Verlag, 1998. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 3/4". 175pp. Text in German. Mild edgewear to paper wraps. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice copy of this exploration of piercing from ancient rite to modern practice, illustrated in photographs. More
