POETIC ANTHROPOLOGY OF VISUAL UNHINGED GOODS

Last Updated: May 14th, 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

1. BROWN, TREVOR “Medical Fun” (Pan-Exotica)Insanely collectible book by enfant terrible Trevor Brown. Signed copy by the man himself. Numbered edition of only 500 copies and this one is copy 007/500. Totally mint condition. Comes with outside plastic bag, cover is in plastic and the cross adorning the cover is filled with a red liquid resembling blood. Cover and cross are as new as can be. First edition stuffed with bizarre and criminally sick-erotic drawings. Highly recommended. SIGNED NUMBERED COPY!!!!! Price: 135 Dollars

2. ART WORKS 1: “Afuriranpo in Hong Kong/ Japan” (Studio Warp) (Book is in excellent condition, only some slight shelf wear). Extremely nice photograph hardcover book depicting the beautiful painted and naked bodies of the underground female freeform rock duo Afruriranpo. Released on February 25th, 2006, the book came out as limited edition issued by the publisher Studio Warp. Comes in a hard cover jacket and contains 40 paged of excellent photography printed on thick high quality paper. It sees the girls at the setting of the Osaka based nightclub Hong Kong were they blended in naked and all erotically painted up with the interior's red interior. Another look and side of these girls who could have been models instead of underground freak out act. Very beautiful indeed and these pictures by these underground goddesses is just the thing you people need in order to fill up the gap of lonely hours wasting away in front of your stereo. This might give your already vivid imagination another boost. Just beautiful and erotic. Long out of print. Price: 85 Dollars
3. HARRISON, HANK: “The Dead Book” (Links) (Book is in Excellent condition/ 7 inch Flexi Disc Is Unplayed) First edition, second printing of 1973. Comes with rare 7 inch 33rpm flexi of Neil Cassady's raps, wicked!! One of the earliest books dedicated to the Grateful Dead, the Frisco scene and the West Coast sound. Through the Trips Festivals, the Muir Beach Acid Test, the disastrous Carousel, the free concert in France, a gathering of friends, a coming of age in California and California growing up with the Dead, it has it all penned down in this first hand account, stuffed with mind bending stories and loads of archival footage. Hideously rare first edition book complete with 7 inch flexi disc, this is an amazing tale of the early Grateful Dead days, even going back to the late fifties, the budding Frisco scene and much much more. Rarely seen these days, this is a great copy and indispensable in any a self-respecting music and book collection. Highest recommendation but then again I love the Dead. I only hope you do as well….. Price: 150 Dollars
4. JACKET DESIGN IN JAPAN: “S/T” (Record Collectors) (Book is in Excellent = Near Mint Condition). 160 pages of Japanese designs for rare records and lesser deities out of the sixties up to the eighties. Work by Tadanori Yokoo (Ichiyanagi Toshi, Miles Davis, Santana, Samurai, Asaoka Ruriko, Isao Tomita, Endo Kenji), , Michihiro Kimura (Food Brain, Milk Time, Speed Glue & Shinki), Makoto Wada (Orchestral Space, Tenjosajiki's “Hatsukoi Jigoku Hen, Sadao Watanabe), Kohei Sugiura (Shonberg, Electronic Music in Japan Vol 1 & 2, Orchestral Space, Aki Takahashi, Stockhausen, Penderecki), Ikko Tanaka (Takemitsu Toru, Geino Yamashirogumi), Ishimaru Shinobu (Flower Traveling Band Satori), Ishimori Shotaru (Strawberry Path), Araki Nobuyoshi (Apryl Fool), Yukimasa Okumura (Chu Kosaka & Four Half Joe, Miki Curtis), Masaru Hirono (Folk Crusaders, Golden Cups), Seiichi Hayashi (Agata Morio, Happy End), Masayoshi Sugita (Tenjosajiki, David Bowie, YMO), Koichi Hara (Inu), Keiichi Harata (Yamaya Hatsuo, Agata Morio, Phew, YMO), Yasuo Yagi (Haruomi Hosono, Augustus Pablo, Pungo, Pinakotheca, Jagatara), Teruhisa Tajima (Miles Davis), Mitsuo Shindo (Pizzicato Five), Nobuhiko Yabuki (Paul Bley, Anzen Band, Happy End), Kazuyuki Goto (Lee Hooker, BB King, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Muddy Waters, Tsutomu Yamashita), Tadayuki Naito (Miles Davis, Deep Purple), Nobuo Hirono (Tigers, Julie, PYG) and so bloody much more dyslectic beauty. Next to that a selection of critics and writers favorite album covers, etc. beautiful art book that should appeal to aspiring designers to see how the job gets done over here. This surpasses album jacket design and borders on sheer visual art. Fantastic and long out of print. SOLD
5. JAPANESE SINGLE EDITIONS FOR WESTRN ARTISTS between 1950 ~ 1970/ SHINGURU BAN TENGOKU: “S/T” (Shinko Music) (Dust Jacket, Spine, Book and Pages are in Excellent Condition). Rare and long out of print version of this 1996 book. Over more than 130 pages, you will get hit senseless with single jackets and their alternate design as they came out here in Japan between 1950 and 1970 for a wide range of European and US artists. Ranging from blues, surf trash, psychedelic, swamp rock, southern rock, Beatles, pub rock, folk, traditional, etc, this is a treasure throve of information. Alternating between black and white and full color reproduction pages, there are about 16 and 20 singles listed a page, complete with label info, release date, track listing, etc, so do the math and you get an idea of about how many singles are listed in this book. Many reproductions of rarely seen singles by Blue Cheer, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Stones, Duane Eddy, Mothers Of Invention, Cream, Hendrix, Elvis, Wanda Jackson, Who, Bowie, etc. Fabulos book that will help you to crack open and penetrate the Japanese singles market and zoom in on those rarely offered masterpieces. Essential for any record buff and aspiring collector. Long out of print and seldom seen these days. Price: 125 Dollars
6. KUNIYOSHI KANEKO: “Drink Me, Eat Me”. (Heibonsha Editions) (Hard Cover Book, Dust Jacket and pages are in Near Mint Condition). Long out of print and signed edition by the artist himself. First edition of 2004. Over 100 pages of trashy oriental vamp beauty on display, all shot in a grainy film and offering a private and personal look into this erotic female side. Seven different vamp like oriental beauties pass the revue, all in similar erotic poses, shot at home with no shame and nothing to hide. Inspired by sixties gogo dancers, strippers and cabaret girls, “Drink Me, Eat Me” offer a rare glimpse into the trashy vamp culture that resides in Japan without ever degrading itself into mere pornography. Kuniyoshi's photographs guide you through back rooms and bedrooms, unveiling a part of the myth by only adding to the glamour of the ordinary. Grainy, black and white and alternating color shots, the models are totally all revealing and will knock you senseless. Trashy beauty elevated into art, vamp women with attitude and caught on film by Kuniyoshi, he definitely is the new wave of a long history of Oriental erotic art. Mega recommended, this is a rare signed copy. Price: 90 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. BOOK - MORIYASU TOSHIHISA: “BAROQUE JAPAN ” (Kokushokankoukai) (Book, obi and dust jacket are all mint condition) First edition of 2003, long out of print. Great book focusing on such underground visionaries such as the late enfant terrible Terayama Shuji, Tadanori Yoko, Makino Shinichi and Makino Kunio. 270 pages and hard cover bound, book is largely written in Japanese but contains some reproductions and shots of the artists in question's works. This sucker will shed another light on cultural misfits out of the land of the rising sun. Awesome. Price: 50 Dollars
8. MOUSE & KELLY: “S/T” (Paper Tiger) (Near Mint Condition) original first edition of October 1979. 125 pages, high quality paper that sheds some insight on Frisco's finest poster and album jackets artists Mouse and Kelly. This book details their late sixties and early seventies creations with poster reproductions of all the great SF concerts, Human Beins, etc. I guess their art needs little to no introduction. This is a rare first edition book on their art and getting a tough one to dig up. Just beautiful and in top notch condition. Totally recommended. Price: 100 Dollars
9. PERFORMANCE OF WAR: “S/T” (Punk On Wave) (Cover and pages are crips and in Near Mint Condition. Hyper rare 1985 trash noise body art and performance punk magazine as created by noise artists Sakevi and assisted by assistant editor John Duncan with contributions by Akita Masami (Merzbow), “performance of war was one disturbing and totally underground magazine. Spread over lavishly illustrated 100 pages, it offers you a glimpse into Tokyo's 1985 underbelly and gives you a peak at some of the underground arts that reigned within. Contributions, pictures and special features on illuminating big names like Psychic TV, LAFMS Paul McCarthy's “penis painting”, John Duncan's “Signal” performance, LAFMS Joe Potts atrocities, Hanatarshi smashing all to pieces, Hijokaidan in action in 1985, highly political pieces complete with shocking imagery by Takeda Kenichi (of A-Musik) on the PLO,  medical examiners officials on dead bodies, mental hospital residing patients interview, liberation army tactics, visual art and the mystification of death, Contemporary Fear by Paul McCarthy, The New View on Death by Joe Potss, the Steps Towards Dead by Takeda, Prepare for Death piece zooming in on manners to commit suicide and other ways out of the shithole, Bondage and mutilation pieces, cemetery reports, brain diseases and other disturbing stories on victims of nuclear bombs, burn victims, torture and bomb making, plant poisons list, Hanatarashi retrospective complete with violent pics of Yamatsuka Eye, Hijokaidan in action story complete with a glimpse at Semimaru's urination act, Genesis P-Orridge interview, suspension bondage and much more. This was a real heavy hardcore 1985 shortly lived underground magazine that scared the shit out of people for all the wrong reasons. These days heavily sought after but extremely hard to come by, this one here is a near mint copy of this counter cultural and highly political music and performance art pamphlet. Rare beyond belief, this certainly gives a new meaning to the word “Underground Culture”. Price: 175 Dollars
10. SAEKI Toshio BOOK: “Akai Hako” (Wairea Shuppan) (Book and obi are near mint). Long out of print limited edition book. Toshio Saeki, Japan's master of erotic illustration devours the world with his demented images of outré sex. Saeki is mostly know to readers of these pages (gosh I have the nerve to assume that people reading this garbage) as the illustrator of most of Mikami Kan's early seventies LP jackets. “Think of Toshio Saeki's work as a gaping, red maw consuming all women (and some men), salivating over their bodies and licking them into a sexual frenzy before swallowing them whole, like giant pieces of sashimi. Japanese schoolgirls in uniforms, elderly matrons with wrinkled skin, attractive young women in kimonos and the occasional horny businessman or samurai -- all are sucked into Saeki's imaginary, Jabba the Hut-like pie hole, forced down his rapacious gullet and chased back with copious quantities of sake. Saeki, 55, is the godfather of Japanese erotica -- the one illustrator in the frenetic, oversexed, comics-crazy nation whose imagination outpaces all others. For decades, the art cognoscenti of Japan and elsewhere have hailed him as a psychosexual dream weaver who traverses all taboos with oozing, bloody scenes of insatiable carnality. Now he's being rediscovered by young adults in America and Europe for whom Japanese illustration, anime (animated cartoons) and manga (comic books) are perpetual sources of fascination. Just when you believe Saeki has shown you his most outré image, you turn the page and find additional macabre hallucinations of murder and lust. In one, a Japanese schoolgirl flies down a road on her bike, her haunches lifted in the air and her skirt flapping in the wind. She looks behind her in horror to see that her bicycle seat has morphed into a man's groaning face. In another, a young woman sips green tea as she rubs the freshly decapitated head of a soldier against her genitals, his body still upright beside her. There are drawings of necrophiliacs humping corpses and of crazed onanists sawing limbs off others with which to masturbate.” (Stephen Lemons). This nails Saeki's works perfectly, so you can guess into what kind of waters you will steer yourself into upon purchasing this extremely limited edition book. Already out of print and long gone, do yourself and your morbid sex life a favor, dive into Saeki's demented twisted world and feel normal again. This is fabulous stuff. Highest possible recommendation!! SOLD

 

 

 

 

 

11. TETSUYA ICHIMURA - SALOME: Salome. Photographs by Tetsuya Ichimura. Bibliotheque Romanesque, Gendaishinsha,Tokyo, 1970. Unpaged. Folio. First Edition (limited to 500 copies). Faux leatherette boards with silver title and spine. No dust jacket as issued. Full-page gravure reproductions with calligraphic rice paper separators. Ichimura's surreal and somewhat psychedelic take on Oscar Wilde's take on the Biblical archetypal for countless femmes fatales throughout the history of literature. Printed in lush, inky gravure, Ichimura's figures are startlingly graphic and, like those of Eikoh Hosoe, are also depicted in a style that renders the flesh abstract and strange. Fine near mint condition of this killer set with no blemishes or splits, one of the best copies to have crossed my eyes of one of the most beautiful books ever printed. Estimated value is between 400 and 550 dollars so here you can have a near mint copy for a fraction of the price. Rumor has it that Carmen Maki appears in the pages as one of the nude models, possible,……Heavy beast of a book, weighs approximately 3.5 Kg. The book with hand crafted paper insertions is near mint. Great copy and hideously rare. Only 500 copies made back in 1970….true piece of art. This is the true first 1970 edition! Numbered copy, this one is 346/500. A bargain!! Price: 300 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

12. STUDIO VOICE Magazine: “Addicted to Noise – Issue” (March 1st, 2000 – Vol. 291) (Condition: Excellent). After the Etcetera magazine, the most in demand Rallizes related magazine issue that came out almost a decade ago. B4 sized 106 pages magazine. This was one of the first magazines to rejuvenate the interest in Rallizes Denudes and giving them the cover as well as the main story in these pages. Loads of Rallizes pictures and flyers to gaze and drool over. This is followed by a special illustrated feature on Hanatarashi tape only releases and Boredoms stuff that saw the light of day in the eighties, complete with a visual overload of the handmade cover art that graced these beauties. The tape section is followed with a complete Hanatarashi illustrated discography up till then and it looks awesome, all in full color. Next up is a 6 paged Hiroshige Jojo (Hijokaidan) vs Merzbow illustrated flashback, giving some insight in the colorful releases of Akita and Hijokaidan. Next up are two illustrated pages on Keiji Haino and two illustrated pages on Masaya Nakahara of Violent Onsen Geisha, followed by two colorful pages on Muslimgauze. If you made it so far then the real treat has yet to start. Next up is a section of 15-some pages stuffed with Japanese underground writers/ musicians and label heads' favorite illustrated lists of avant-garde/weird shit/ noise/ scum and psyched out madness releases. Contributors are Nobotta Ando, Incapacitans' Mikawa-san, MoM'n'DaD productions' Naohiro Ukawa, noise collector Kukunache, MSBR's Koji Tano, Dub Sonic, Kazunao Nagata, Space Machine collaborator Nasca car, Yasuhito Higuchi, Pain Jerk (he has the coolest list of all), Headz chief, cum writer Manabu Yuasa, Pataphysique Records label head, Osaka's Time Bomb label head, Store 15 Nove, Tower Records avant-garde buyer Furukawa, Disk Union's avant-garde responsible, now defunct Fluxus noise shop Kurara Audio Arts, noise specialist JNR, noise/cum dealer NEds, avant-garde specialist label head Omega Point, Los Apson, PSF's own Ikeezumi and Forever's own Higashi Setosan. All give you their 15 top cum releases, fully illustrated. This mag will birth a whole new generation of want lists and will have you gazing at weird and unattainable record sleeves for days in a row. Brilliant magazine that will have you hooked. Hard to find these days due to the Rallizes illustrated cover story. Price 45 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

13. TERAYAMA SHUJI: “Art Theater – Sho O Suteyo, Machi E Deyou” (Book cover and pages are crispy mint). Date of issue: 1971, Issuer: ATG. Original 76 paged booklet (sized 24 CM ~ 15.5 Cm) filled with script, insights, loads of pictures and other demented sights and visions on Terayama Shuji's 1971 movie “Sho O Suteyo”. This booklet was distributed in a limited quantity and only available for the people who went to see the movie at the time of its release. Contains loads of pictures out of the movie, depicting the otherworldly deadpan vision of Terayama and a lot of a hell more. Very rare item I have only seen once so far. Original small number 1971 print, near mint condition and a must for all serious Terayama acolytes out there. Price: 150 Dollars.
14. UNO AQUIRAX BOOK: “Aquirax Uno Posters 1959 – 1975” (Blues Interaction) (Dust Jacket, Hard Cover, obi and pages are Mint). Fabulous eye-filling beautiful retrospective book on the poster art of Aquirax Uno, who made many of Terayama Shuji's Tenjosajiki prints, designed posters for the Stones and Pink Floyd when the hit Japan, etc. 80 pages, each one of them depicting a high grade reproduction of Uno's art, complete with detailed info on each piece. Uno7s posters are these days heavily sought after by a small group of Japanese psychedelic art collectors (esp some heavy NY collectors) and a small legion of domestic fans. Originals fetch high sums these days and have only survived in small numbers since his editions were originally printed in runs of 30 and 50 copies. This book collects some of his early and late sixties eye-popping art, psychedelic Japan fuses with pop art. Just stunningly beautiful. Highest recommendation. Out of print. Price: 75 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15. KAJI MEIKO ORIGINAL LOBBY MOVIE PICTURES: “Joshu Sasori” （Toei Productions）Original 1972 lobby card in large size and full frontal color, 5 lobby cards in total. These are amongst the rarest Kaji Meiko items. Large size: 26 cm – 20 cm. Pictures are in exquisite shape but do have some pinholes due to being used in movie theaters at the time. First time I ever laid my eyes on a set of these, I heard talking about it but always failed to locate them, until now. Set of 5 large scaled color and black & white pictures. Condition is fantastic, only they have a few pin holes due to being used at movie theaters at the time of the actual release. Classic vintage Kaji Meiko stuff that is getting bloody hard to track down. Just beautiful shots of action. Price: 120 Dollars

 

 

 

 

16. AKIRA (AQUIRAX) UNO – SIGNED COPY:  “Les Aventures Arabesques”. Date of issue: 2004, in a very limited run and impossible to get. Size: 515x365mm Offset print on heavy top quality paper. Signed by the artist himself, making this an ultra collectible piece of art. Uno was renowned for his involvement with Terayama Shuji’s avant-garde troupe Tenjosajiki for which he designed the larger bulk of the posters and pamphlets. Exquisite, one in its kind Japanese psychedelic vintage art. Rare and gorgeous. Condition is like new. Price: 120 Dollars

 

 

 

 

17. AKIRA (AQUIRAX) UNO: Aquirax Uno Posters 1959-1975. Date of issue 2003, released in a tiny run for the exposition at this Tokyo based gallery. Size: 590x420mm. Offset print on heavy top quality paper. Uno was renowned for his involvement with Terayama Shuji’s avant-garde troupe Tenjosajiki for which he designed the larger bulk of the posters and pamphlets. Exquisite, one in its kind Japanese psychedelic vintage art. Rare and gorgeous. Condition is like new. Price: 50 Dollars

 

 

 

 

18. SENYA ICHIYA MONOGATARI: Also known under the title “Tales from a Thousand and One Night” from the Tetsuka studios/ Mushi Production. Original poster from 1969 in Near Mint condition, no tears, creasing folds or pin holes whatsoever. Some of you might notice this design as the same to grace the 2nd Helpful Soul album. This is the poster to the 1969 animated movie for which the Helpful Soul provided the soundtrack. Of course this 1969 original artifact is hideously rare. Original 1969 big sized poster. Design is gorgeous and is impossible to get these days. Stunning. Size: 53 Cm – 72 Cm. Mint condition. Price: 275 Dollars.

 

 

 

 

 

19. ITO SHUNYA - KAJI MEIKO – Joshu Sasori 701 Go: “Female Convict Scorpion #701” First in the Sasori series for Toei. Original 1972 Poster in mint condition with no pinholes, folding creases or tears. Size: 53 Cm – 72 Cm. Mint condition. Top notch copy. Vintage Kaji Meiko posters in top notch nick are a tough find these days. This one here is almost virginal in its state, top notch condition. Stunning. Price: 200 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

20. POSTER: “Kaji Meiko Sasori – Kemono no Heya”. Original 1973 Poster in excellent condition with no pinholes, folding creases or tears. Size: 53 Cm – 72 Cm. Mint condition. Top notch copy. Vintage Kaji Meiko posters in top notch nick are a tough find these days. This one here is almost virginal in its state, top notch condition. Stunning. Price: 180 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

21. KAJI MEIKO Poster: Also known under the title “Female Convict Scorpion- 701 Grudge Song” Original 1973 big sized poster, tremendously rare. This one is adorned with the rarely seen manga character unto which the Sasori series was based and who was played by Kaji Meiko. Impossible to find these days and ultra collectible. Poster has no pinholes and is in exquisite condition, best copy I have ever laid my eyes upon. Apart from that in excellent condition. Please ask for more pictures if you want more visual details. Size: 53 Cm – 72 Cm Price: 200 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

22. POSTER - SHIN SASORI: Original 1976 Poster for the New Sasori series after that Kaji Meiko had called it quits. in mint condition with no pinholes, folding creases or tears. Size: 53 Cm – 72 Cm. Mint condition. Top notch copy. Vintage Kaji Meiko posters in top notch nick are a tough find these days. This one here is almost virginal in its state, top notch condition. Stunning. Price: 175 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

23. KAJI MEIKO ORIGINAL LOBBY CARD MOVIE PICTURES: “Kemono no Heya” Great selection of 7 lobby picture cards used in movie theatres at the time in order to lure spectators in. hardly ever surfaces here and twice as rare as the posters. Date of issue: July 1973. No Pinholes. Size: 16,5 cm – 12 cm. Size: Price: 100 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

24. SUZUKI NORIFUMI: “Senten Seiinpu” Starring IKE Reiko and Sandra Julian. Also known under the title “Modern Porno Tale – Inherited Sex Mania”. Original 1971 speed type movie poster. Size of the poster is 26 cm – 73 cm. SOLD

 

 

 

 

 

25. SUZUKI NORIFUMI: “Ero Shogun to 21 Nin no Aisho” Starring IKE Reiko and Sugimoto Miki. Also known as “Shogun General's 21 Dolls”. Original 1972 Speed type movie poster. Size of the poster is 26 cm – 73 cm. SOLD

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26. OST: BLOW UP PRESS KIT: Comes in hard-cased envelope that contains a Japanese language booklet of 50 pages stuffed with B&W shots of the movie, really beautiful. Next to that it also contains an 8 pages booklet sized 20 CM – 25 CM ful of color shots of the move, lobby card style. Guess this one came out with the Japanese release of the movie and was used as a press kit to sent to journalists. Stunning piece of film history and possibly one of Antonioni's greatest ever achievements. Price: 50 Dollars

 

 

 

 

 

27. Pink Violence Movie Poster: "Inoshika Ochou " (Condition: Excellent ￣ Mint/ no pin holes or creases) Size: 36 cm ￣ 51 cm. Reproduction poster out of the mid-1980's when there was a little revival happening for seventies Pink Violence flicks. Main actress this time was sword yielding Tani Masato. Stuff of legends. Price: 23 Dollars.