We will be at the London Fair at Stand C14 so hopefully you will call and see us and find some unusual titles to start a collection with or add to one.

Our traditional inventory of books on the arts, architecture and photography has been expanding in recent years to include photograph albums, which document architectural projects, trade catalogues, which inform what was really produced, and small print run journals which give insights into contemporary design ideas at a given moment. These areas interest will be part of our stock at the fair.

Among the items  we will be bringing  are two short-run journals “Uppercase” [ five issues] and “Living Arts” [ three issues].  Uppercase was the brainchild of Theo Crosby and he edited this between 1958-1961 as a journal of the graphic arts and visual communication. Crosby said “if some of the communications are tenuous, then the reader must bridge the gap with his own experience.”  Living Arts documents,  just a few years later, the activities of the ICA in London with particular, but not exclusive interest, in the visual arts.  Both these publications were at the cutting edge of design when produced.

Complimenting these runs of magazines will be individual experimental zines.

There will be original architectural drawings too spanning the 19th and 20th century on the walls of the stand including work by Robert Venturi, Maurice Adams and James Murray.

All the material mentioned in this news item is for sale [ unless someone has read it before you, discovered something and purchased  it].  Highlights, beyond those mentioned here, can be viewed  on this website by clicking on our catalogue section but the majority of the material at London Olympia can only be seen there… so come along.