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Bought this last year on amazon- took for ever to come was cool. showed so much of his history and progression and other photos of him and his friends as well as blackbooks sketches

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think it was great but he's always been pretty out there

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also got the seen book - not such a fan of this one.

 

seemed a lot of clumsy bits and an english proofreader wouldn't have hurt.

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but still some of Seen's pieces are so good how can you hate on it.?

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also got this one

 

 

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there is some awesome stuff in this.

 

there's a black book by a guy who died tabu and there's heaps of cool stuff by numerous other names you would know

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great book

finally

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I agree, I would like to know what your top 12 are? You have a great collection, not just u.s. but all around. I have recently started getting more euro books, the quality is great, and as much as I like stateside graff, the books get stagnant and predictable. If I see one more shot of a rusted can on the tracks up close, or a black homeless person looking back pissed off with some out of focus graff in the background....well you get drift.

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Hey tomtom,

yeah as soon as I posted that I realised it would be hard to pick.

In fact I don't know here's a stab at it.

 

In no order (numbered to keep track)

 

1. Freight train graffiti

2. Ruzd79

3. All City writers Would definitely be in there.

4. Blade - king of graff - blade tells a good story

5. Overground 1 or 2 - interesting in depth writing on a few select writers.

6. Train Track Memories - swedish book with photos all the way through it.

At the back it has the story of each photo very personal -it's like sitting with a writer having them tell you the story

7. The Art of Geting over

8. The history of american graffiti (I think deserves a mention)

9. Style master general ( dondi book)

10. The Nasty Terrible Tkid 170

11. Power of Style: Berlin Stylewriting

12. Subway art (it's kind of got to be in there doesn't it?)

 

other honourable mentions

sabotage graffiti art on trains in europe

Spraycan art

Million dollar vandal

Some the on the run books , Sabe, Sento, Part1, Ghost,Zebster

free agents (dc graffiti)

crack and shine ( london one)

Amsetrdam graffiti the battle of Waterlooplein

International top sprayer

writers united

KAOS VIM

Kingsway

copenhagen black books

 

would love to get my hands on some of these I have the first graffiti art book from going to Europe in 1995 but idioticly didn't buy any more of them.

 

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Got this one the other day, probably weighs more towards street art but has some great stuff from when CBS we’re doing their thing in Berlin as well as spair exploring forgotten places. Definitely worth checking out and pretty cheap on amazon. 

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3 hours ago, Media One said:

I’ve been tempted by that fra32 book for a while now. Hopefully it’s still available, wholetrain press have some decent deals in books at the moment and you get a jon ztk t shirt free with some orders I reckon 

it's pretty good

 

 those whoetrain guys are bitches to buy from if you're outside the EU though.....might be an issue with brexit 

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17 hours ago, Schnitzel said:

it's pretty good

 

 those whoetrain guys are bitches to buy from if you're outside the EU though.....might be an issue with brexit 

I feel like a lot of these euro companies have a separate thing calculating shipping as I’ve tried ordering magazines before and it’s been €15 to deliver to the U.K. 

You’re  lucky to get one of those skore blackbooks too, not many released

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On 10/21/2019 at 10:49 AM, nicklesndimes said:

quite a while back some friends of mine were over and we were having a few drinks, drawing on stickers, etc...& we were flipping through some graff books and realized that this was a first edition. pretty cool. got this in about 2002-ish.

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wonder how many editions there were. I got mine in 1999

 

 but in 2015 I was looking at a wall in Sydney Australia thinking  "man that looks like espo's work"

 

 and I turned around and he was standing right there.

 

 nipped home grabbed my copy and got him to hit it up!

 

 told him about the  old trains in Sydney called red rattlers that you could do hangouts from  and he even included "let's hangout on the red rattler" into his wall.

 

 Top dude!

 

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