Books & Journals

Want proof that Pasadena is the best small city in America? Look no further than Hometown Pasadena, the visually rich, masterfully written celebration of the Crown City and its satellites: San Marino, La Cañada, Altadena, South Pasadena, and beyond. From the Kenton Nelson painting on the cover, to essays by the city’s best writers, to food lovers’ favorite haunts, to architectural walks, to interviews with the most fascinating locals, to profiles of the museums, this handsome hardcover book has it all, and then some.

The ultimate insider's guide to Los Angeles features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides. This unusual guidebook explores 111 of the city's most interesting and unknown places and experiences: wander a serpentine path in a spiritual quest of your own making; channel your inner cowboy at a tried and true honky tonk bar; pay homage to the Dude at the bungalow where the big Lebowski lived; turn your car tires into musical instruments on the country's only "musical” road; sleep with the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe and Charlie Chaplin; view a constellation of stars more vivid than anything Hollywood Boulevard has to offer. From the San Gabriel Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, Angelenos and vistors will fall in love with the real Los Angeles. 

The second edition of Cats & Plants, the debut book from Chicago-based artist Stephen Eichhorn, features a brand new cover, but with an identical interior: The 152-page book includes more than 200 rich color images of the artist’s curious cat collages, and features felines balancing plants (and sometimes shells or minerals) on their furry heads. There are Calicos and cactuses, Siamese and succulents, and so much more. Signed and dated by the artist.

Strange Plants III is the third book in the award-winning series that celebrates plants in contemporary art. The 164-page book features the work of 50 artists (with Synchrodogs on the cover!), and includes large-scale paintings of overgrown cactus gardens; filmic and otherworldly photos of water lilies; glitchy textiles of roses sourced from social media; and so much more.

in collaboration with 1854 Media and Magnum Photos.

What does it mean to be human today? These 200 portraits taken by photographers in over 65 countries celebrate global citizenship at a time of instability. Funny, revealing, and often moving, the faces and stories in this book show that we are all wonderfully unique, yet on some level, deeply the same.

The publication supports a global touring exhibition which will visit
Nigeria, Australia, USA and many more places, bringing global exposure to
the book. The award and exhibition is organised by 1854 media (British
Journal of Photography) and Magnum Photos and the images in the
publication are accompanied by short, telling stories from each
photographer, bringing home the humanity of those photographed.

Dream Baby Dream showcases the photography of Los Angeles-based award-winning photographer, director, and designer Jimmy Marble.

This bright and tactile book is filled with Marble's fresh, sun-drenched photography alongside handwritten text from the photographer himself.

Dream Baby Dream features fashion and lifestyle photographs of models and celebrities, including Ariana Grande and Amy Adams.

• The first monograph on the work of Jimmy Marble
• Unique, quirky, and fashion-forward
• Images capture the vibe of sunny Southern California
• Bound in an orange textured paper with an inset portrait, Dream Baby Dream has a vivid and tactile appeal

Dream Baby Dream is a whimsical celebration of Marble's colorful aesthetic and fashion sensibility.

His unique sense of pattern and color evokes a distinctly youthful and sunny Southern California aesthetic.

50 easy tips for a cleaner, greener, plastic-free home

How to live a more sustainable life and create a calmer, healthier, eco-friendly home without using plastics.

Making small lifestyle changes can make a big difference to our planet. Sustain is full of advice and information to help you take a more eco-friendly path. Recycling, reusing and shopping at farmers’ markets are a good start, but cutting down on the use of poisonous chemicals is just as important – it’s perfectly possible to clean a house using nothing more than lemons, bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and plain water. Becoming eco-friendly just takes some readjustment; and by following the advice in this invaluable guide you will find yourself living a calmer, greener life.

Harness the healing magic of crystals with the help of this comprehensive guide packed with full color photographs and detailed directories.

Filled with devotion and lust, sensuality and eroticism, fevers and overtures, these poems showcase some of the most passionate verses in the French language. From the classic sixteenth-century love sonnets of Louise Labé and Maurice Sceve to the piercing lyricism of the Romantics and the dreamlike compositions of the Surrealists, French Love Poems is the perfect, seductive gift for anyone who makes your heart flutter.

This collection includes poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Cahun, René Char, Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Paul Éluard, Louise Labé, Stéphane Mallarmé, Anna de Noailles, Joyce Mansour, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and many others; as well as translations by Mary Ann Caws, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, Frederick Seidel, Richard Sieburth, and William Carlos Williams.

Charged with sensuality and passion, Pablo Neruda’s love poems caused a scandal when published anonymously in 1952. In later editions, these verses became the most celebrated of the Noble Prize winner’s oeuvre, captivating readers with earthbound images that reveal in gentle lingering lines an erotic re-imagining of the world through the prism of a lover’s body: "today our bodies became vast, they grew to the edge of the world / and rolled melting / into a single drop / of wax or meteor...." Written on the paradisal island of Capri, where Neruda "took refuge" in the arms of his lover Matilde Urrutia, Love Poems embraces the seascapes around them, saturating the images of endless shores and waves with a new, yearning eroticism. This wonderful book collects Neruda’s most passionate verses.

This stylish specialty journal is filled with inspiring quotes from feminists past, notebook features lined pages with inspirational quotes sprinkled throughout