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Softcover. Third Printing. Very Good with no dust jacket; Wear at edges. ; Know what's in your food, compare brands, chose the best. ; Trade PB; 595 pages.

Magazine. First edition. Near Fine magazine with a hint of soiling and a tiny pen mark to the back, otherwise as new with all inserts present. A nice copy. SHIPPED THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING AND CARDBOARD. The October 1982 issue of Camera Arts magazine with: The Nude as Seen by Fashion Photographers; Scavullo on Dance; Jim Dow shoots baseball stadiums; Katherine Fishman's hand painted photographs; Robert Semeniuk and the Inuit; and much more. Edited by Jim Hughes; cover of Marilyn Monroe by Bert Stern. 98 pages with one gatefold; color and b&w photos throughout; 8 x 10.75 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. Bert Stern, et al. (illustrator). 1st Edition. The Marilyn Monroe issue with her photos on the front cover of this quarterly hard cover magazine. BX6.

Bert Stern (photographer), Herb Lubalin (art direction & typography) (illustrator). Condition as New, Near-square format, Original pictorial wrappers. Print run for early issues undocumented; fine copies with the serigraph pages clean and unfaded are increasingly scarce. Few single issues of any American periodical occupy as many collector categories simultaneously as Avant Garde No. 2. It is at once a milestone of graphic design history, a document of pop art publishing, and a technically distinctive printed object whose method of manufacture is inseparable from its meaning. The centerpiece is The Marilyn Monroe Trip, a 12-page portfolio of silkscreen serigraphs by photographer Bert Stern, derived from his legendary 1962 Vogue commission shot over three days at the Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles, just six weeks before Monroe's death . Over three days Stern exposed more than 2,500 frames. Six weeks later, Monroe was dead. When Vogue published its September 1962 issue, already on press at the moment of her death, the editors chose restrained black-and-white images. The more intimate, incandescent photographs, Monroe in diaphanous scarves, biting a diamond necklace, supremely alive, remained largely unpublished. For Stern, conventional photographic reproduction had never communicated the full radiance of what he had witnessed in that suite, Avant Garde gave him the means to try again. The serigraphs were produced by forcing pigment-laden ink through a fine mesh screen, one color, one pass yielding a density and tactile surface presence that offset printing cannot approach. Stern and Lubalin employed fluorescent Day-Glo inks: acid yellows, electric pinks, hallucinogenic greens that appear to generate their own illumination. In 1968 this was not a neutral aesthetic choice. Day-Glo was the visual language of psychedelia and the counterculture; to render Monroe, the supreme icon of 1950s American desire in the acid palette of 1968 was a deliberate act of cultural translation. These pages are, in the strictest sense, fine art multiples bound into a periodical. Against this incandescent interior, Lubalin's cover operates by deliberate restraint: uncoated kraft-type board, muted umber tones, no visual preparation for what lies inside. The effect, experienced physically, is one of the most considered reveals in periodical design history. The New York Times subsequently ranked the cover 16th in its list of the 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time. Typography throughout is set in Lubalin's bespoke geometric logotype , the interlocking letterforms released commercially as ITC Avant Garde Gothic in 1970 and now among the most recognizable typefaces in American design history. Seeing it here in its original context, as a proprietary identity system rather than a commercial font, is one of the particular pleasures this issue affords the serious collector. Avant Garde was the third and most enduring collaboration between publisher Ralph Ginzburg, already notorious for his obscenity conviction over Eros magazine and Herb Lubalin, widely regarded as the most influential American graphic designer of the postwar era. Typography throughout is set in Lubalins bespoke geometric logotype, the letterforms later released commercially as ITC Avant Garde Gothic in 1970. Additional contents include a short story by Roald Dahl (The Visitor) and an essay on Picasso. The cover image was subsequently ranked 16th in The New York Times' list of the 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time.

Bert Stern (illustrator). Good Eros autumn edition from 1962 (volume 1, number 3). Bumping and wear to head and foot of spine ends. Slight creasing to both front and rear hinge. Minor scuffing to both corners of front board with some slight spots of discolouration on rear board. Band of sun-fading to rear board and hinge area (1" width). Pages clean and unmarked. Slight speckle of discolouration to top of text block. A lovely copy of Eros featuring Bert Stern's last studio photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe before her passing shortly after.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Issued Without DJ. 1st Edition. M MONROE ON THE COVER.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. March 1968. The issue begins with a 13 page spread of Bert Stern's serigraphs of Marilyn Monroe. There is also an article on Picasso and Roald Dahl's story "The Visitor." A close to near fine copy in wrappers with some slight toning to the pages. The Stern serigraphs are very clean.

paperback. Condition: very good(+). Stern, Bert (illustrator). First. A run of 9 (out of 14 total) issues. Illustrated in color & black-and-white. Thin square 4to, color pictorial wrappers, just a bit edge rubbed. New York: Avant-Garde, (1968-1970). First edition. Very good(+) clean copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Herb Lubalin (Art Director), and Bert Stern (illustrator). The format is approximately 9.875 inches by 12.75 inches. RARE Monroe item.96 pages. Illustrated front and back cover. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations (some in color). Some cover wear to front and back and spine. This issue includes the last major photograph session by Bert Stern with Marilyn Monroe, taken a few days before her death. Topics include: Love, Eros, Marilyn Monroe, Aphrodisiacs, Pharmacopoeia, Phallic Symbol, Porcupines, Napoleon, Love Life, Brothel, Sexercise, Clitoris, French Post Cards, and Fanny Hill, Ralph Ginzburg (October 28, 1929 July 6, 2006) was an editor, publisher, journalist, and photographer. He was best known for publishing books and magazines on erotica and art and for his conviction in 1963 for violating federal obscenity laws. Ginzburg's most famous publication, Eros, a magazine of classy erotica, was launched in 1962, and only four issues were published before he was indicted on charges of violating federal obscenity laws and had to stop publishing He was found guilty by the Supreme Court eventually and sentenced to five years in prison. He was released after eight months. Herbert F. Lubalin (March 17, 1918 May 24, 1981) was a graphic designer. He collaborated with Ralph Ginzburg on three of Ginzburg's magazines: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde. In Lubalin's studio, he worked on a number of wide-ranging projects, from poster and magazine design to packaging and identity solutions. It was here that he became best known for his work on a series of magazines published by Ralph Ginzburg: Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde. Bertram Stern (October 3, 1929 June 26, 2013) was an American commercial photographer. His father worked as a children's portrait photographer. He became art director at Flair magazine, where Stern learned how to develop film and make contact sheets, and started taking his own pictures. In 1951, Stern was drafted into the United States Army, sent to Japan and assigned to the photographic department. He was one of the last photographers to shoot Marilyn Monroe, in June and July 1962 for Vogue magazine. (with some images authorized to be published in EROS). Monroe died in August 1962. These sessions became known as The Last Sitting; The 2571 photographs taken on these sessions were published after her death in The Complete Last Sitting in 1992. By the late 1970s, Stern returned to the U.S. to photograph portraits and fashion. Eros was an American quarterly political and literary magazine that published only four volumes in 1962. Eros (four issues, Spring 1962 to 1963) devoted itself to the beauty of the rising sense of sexuality and experimentation, particularly in the burgeoning counterculture. It was a quality production with no advertising, and the large format (13 by 10 inches) made it look like a book rather than a quarterly magazine. It was printed on varying papers and the editorial design was some of the greatest that Lubalin ever did. It quickly folded after an obscenity case brought by the US Postal Service. The New York Times described Eros as a "stunningly designed hardcover 'magbook'," covering "a wide swath of sexuality in history, politics, art and literature." The magazine was the first product of Ralph Ginzburg and Herb Lubalin who later created two other influential magazines, namely Fact and Avant Garde. The first issue of the magazine appeared in Spring 1962. Ralph Ginzburg was the editor and Herb Lubalin was the art director of Eros which came out quarterly. The focus of the magazine was on love and sex during the dawning of the Sexual Revolution. It also covered articles on politics, arts and literature. The third (Autumn, 1962) of a total of 4 issues of the magazine published featured the photographs of Marilyn Monroe just before her death which caused an obscenity lawsuit against Ginzburg by then U.S. Attorney General, Robert Kennedy. The reason for the lawsuit was the claim that the magazine had violated federal anti-obscenity laws. Ginzburg was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, but he remained in prison for eight months. Following this incident the magazine was closed down. Presumed First Edition, First printing this issue.