Paris: A. Maloine & Fils, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 206 pp, printed wraps. Illustrated with 50 drawings, photographs, and figures, including some full page plates. Text in French. The first edition of this continuation of the influential criminologists anthropometric studies of the prisoners at La Maison Centrale de Nîmes, one... More
[Philadelphia]: nd [c. 1980's]. 22 1/2 x 25", ink on heavyweight paper, edged in black gaffer's tape, as hung. Unsigned and undated. A large scale flash poster,completely handdrawn, by the influential tattoo artist Crazy Philadelphia Eddie, aka Eddie Funk, which hung in his Philadelphia tattoo parlor. Eddie began his career... More
New York: Implosions, Inc., 1967. 10 x 13" sheet, offset lithograph in color, with backing intact and die-cut hole punched at upper margin, for hanging. One of a series of sticker sheets created by Watts and Maciunas as part of their ambitious Implosions, Inc. company, formed to sell novelty items... More
Lyon: Bosc frères : M. et L. Riou, 1933. First edition. 8vo, 229 [2] pp, printed wraps. Text in French. This expansive work on tattoos grew out of De Tromelin's doctoral thesis, in which he studied 788 subjects and 4,142 tattoos, making classifcations between ethnic, professional, and allegorical tattoos. The... More
Copenhagen: I. Cohens Bogtrykkeri, 1891. 8vo,16 pp, with double-paged two color lithograph at rear. Saddle-stapled in wraps. The first edition of this brief but important early essay on the relationship to prostitution and tattoos, notable for the beautiful double-paged lithograph plate at rear which reproduces drawings of 18 tattoos observed... More
Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1925. First edition. 4to, 40 pp. + 24 photographic plates, reproducing 94 photographs. Printed wraps. One of the most important early scholarly tattoo works, remarkable for the superb 94 photographs of tattooed subjects which make up the latter half of the work, which number as one of... More
San Francisco: 1979. Four 8 1/2 x 11" sheets, each offset printed on yellow stock, stapled once at the upper left hand corner. The cover flyer is for the 2nd Annual Tattoo Ball, and is illustrated with a photogaph of Lyle Tuttle and George over a background of drawings by... More
Paris: La Roulotte, 1950. First edition. Small 4to, 56 [64] pp, bound in printed boards and photographically illustrated dust jacket. One of the rare 50 numbered copies of the edition original, preceding the trade issue. In addition, this is an important association copy, inscribed by Delarue to Alain Campagne, a.... More
Padova: Mastrogiacomo Editore, 1980. First edition. Square 8vo, unpaginated [47 unnumbered leaves], photographiucally illustrated wraps. Text in Italian, with matching English translation. Profusely illustrated with 114 reproductions of photographs, some in color. Ambitious survey of the tattoo as an art form, intended as a corrective to longstanding anthropological or criminological... More