Subcultures & Counterculture

Softcover | 11 x 1.1 x 18.5 cm | 150 pp Kicks Books | 2012 | 9780965977760 Rare & Collectible The autobiography of legendary music producer Kim Fowley told in his own poetry and prose. Kim Vincent Fowley (1939-2015) was an American record producer, songwriter...

Greg Graffin Hardcover | 16.13 x 3.81 x 24 cm | 368 pp Hachette | 2022 | 9780306924583 Greg Graffin (b. 1964) is the lead vocalist and songwriter of Bad Religion, recently described as "America's most significant punk band." Since its inception in Los Angeles...

Nick McFarlane Hardcover | 16 x 3.3 x 21.59 cm | 384 pp Carpet Bombing Culture | 2025 | 9781908211941 The world is currently teetering on the edge of chaos, buckling under the weight of greed and corruption, dark undercurrents of power twisting noble intentions...

Ray Raghunath Cappo Hardcover | 15.24 x 2.79 x 22.86 cm | 368 pp Insight Editions | 2024 | 9781647228682 Ray Cappo (b.1966) was a hardcore punk singer and pioneer of the straight-edge movement living on the Lower East Side of New York City...

Jean Stein Softcover | 13.1 x 3 x 19.7 cm | 464 pp Grove Press | 2020 | 9780802134103 ‘Exceptionally seductive… You can’t put it down’ LA TimesOutrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful - in the 1960s Edie Sedgwick became both an emblem of, and a...

Brian Doherty Hardcover | 15.24 x 4.32 x 22.86 cm | 448 pp Abrams | 2022 | 9781419750465  The first complete narrative history of Underground Comix, the countercultural movement from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s that forever changed comics. In Dirty Pictures author and journalist Brian...

Bob Stanley Softcover | 15.3 x 3.7 x 23.4 cm | 656 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571372195 Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record...

Ray Potes Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.03 x 26.04 cm | 200 pp powerHouse Books | 2008 | 9781576874073 This fierce, moving collection of black and white images from underground photography magazine Hamburger Eyes (founded 2002) is proof positive that Diane Arbus's artistic descendents are alive,...

Mark Paytress Hardcover | 20.32 x 2.79 x 26.67 cm | 304 pp Omnibus Press | 2022 | 9781913172282 This is a triumphant bid to capture lightning in a bottle! Glam came and went in a few short years, but renowned music journalist Mark...

Sebastian Denz Hardcover | 22.71 x 1.8 x 32.72 cm | 120 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791382951 Includes 2 pairs of 3D glasses Skateboarding.3D features stunning 3D photographs that make skateboarding come to life. Put on the 3D glasses and immerse yourself in a...

Marta Popowska Hardcover | 20.07 x 1.78 x 24.38 cm | 160 pp teNeues | 2023 | 9783961714452 Text in English and German While it has always been around for some people, roller skating has seen a huge resurgence in recent years - for many...

Dieter Ehrlich Hardcover | 20.96 x 1.55 x 20.96 cm | 268 pp Kicks Books | 2024 | 9781940157191 Lost photographs of teenage street gangs in Switzerland in the 1960s from the scrapbook of gang leader Dieter Ehrlich. Includes brief history of the gangs and...

Anna Doble Hardcover | 16.3 x 3 x 24.2 cm | 304 pp Nine Eight Books | 2024 | 9781788709484 It is 1994. In a loft bedroom in North Yorkshire, fifteen-year-old Anna sits on the carpet immersed in the pages of Smash Hits, listening to...

James Wyllie Hardcover | 16.5 x 2.5 x 24 cm | 240 pp The History Press | 2022 | 9780750996006  The biggest drug bust in British history occurred in the early hours of 25 March 1977: 800 officers made 120 arrests and seized a staggering...

Benjamin Breen Hardcover | 16.7 x 3.5 x 24.4 cm | 384 pp Footnote Press | 2024 | 9781804441091 Tripping on Utopia is a bold and brilliant revisionist take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century. The generation that survived the second World...

Hardcover | 24.77 x 2.54 x 33.66 cm | 187 pp Rare Bird Books | 2023 | 9781644282496 This wonderful body of photographs was created by Syd Shelton for and about the British Rock Against Racism movement (RAR) of 1976–1981. For Shelton, this work...

Jian Deleon Hardcover | 12.7 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm | 160 pp Studio Press | 2024 | 9781800789760 This pocket-sized visual history of the ground-breaking and ground-shaking street style brand presents the story of Dr. Martens, from its beginnings in 1901 as a producer...

Hardcover | 22.23 x 2.54 x 30.48 cm | 200 PP Damiani | 2011 | 9788889431894 FunkyTown digs into British photographer Dean Freeman's archive to gather published and unpublished portraiture, fashion and reportage spanning three decades of youth culture, from the 1980s to the...

Robert Inchausti Softcover | 13.97 x 1.52 x 21.84 cm | 208 pp Shambhala Publications | 2018 | 9781611804171 The Beat writers stand out as prophets who made a valiant effort to speak the truth in the face of the establishment values of the American...

Max Décharné Hardcover | 16.4 x 3.3 x 24.2 cm | 336 pp Profile Books | 2024 | 9781846689789  PLEASE NOTE: Some copies are missing the dust jackets. With their draped suits, suede creepers and immaculately greased hair, the Teddy Boys defined a new...