The Books 1978 - 98
Raymond Pettibon.
Distributed Art Publishers: 2000. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Slight wear along the top of the jacket. A few small marks of soiling on the jacket. Trace soiling on the top edge of the text block and a few, very small bumps on the bottoms of the boards. Text block a little loose from the spine at its top, but solidly attached at the bottom. Over a thousand pages. Very good.
His work on iconic album covers of Sonic Youth, Black Flag, and the Minutemen marks them as part of rock music's Pettibon-era. A precocious student and math teacher who broke bad (aesthetically) in the late 70s and early 80s, he became the unofficial in-house artist for the LA music scene. He photocopied his early drawings to make booklets and sell them for a dollar at SST Records, and they've all been collected in this scarce book.
"I'm not that stoned."


