The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Charles Johnstone
The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Photographs: Charles Johnstone

Publisher: Sun

62 pages

Year: 2014

Comments: Blue hardcover. 230 x 180 mm. First edition, 2014. Limited edition of 200 copies.

sold

Charles Johnstone’s deftly designed book The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk-Up explores the allure of a pulp fiction narrative, “The Blonde” using a Raymond Chandler excerpt from Farewell My Lovely and nineteen-forties design elements to set the tone "It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window. She was wearing street clothes that looked black and white, and a hat to match and she was a little haughty, but not too much. Whatever you needed, wherever you happened to be-she had it." The book mirrors his previous self-published title Libby based on his muse and longtime collaborator. - David Strettell


Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)

more books by Charles Johnstone

more books tagged »first edition« | >> see all

more books tagged »nude« | >> see all

more books tagged »out of print « | >> see all

more books tagged »appropriation« | >> see all

Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com

Charles Johnstone,The Girl in the Fifth Floor Walk Up (Signed)