1 of 7 books I love.  Maiko Y. Satoh has “challenged” me to post a book a day for a week with the expectable and commendable criteria. It only needs be loved. Bookselling was my vocation for 45 years. I thought I’d share some books by people I’ve loved in the course of my career.
I’ll depart from precedent and skip the covers, give a brief background to the love affair, and go into the books.
This first of seven is from the first pages of ‘Art in Transit: The Subway Drawings of Keith Haring’ (NYC: Harmony Books, 1984). I “packaged” the book with Keith, Tseng Kwong Chi (photos), Dan Friedman (design), and Henry Geldzahler (text), serving in the capacities of an agent and editor in relation to the publisher – who we relegated to distributor. When we were disappointed in their distribution of the book Keith bought all the copies back and started The Pop Shop on Lafayette, just south of Houston, where it sold out.
Heady times, heady company. They’ve passed but as I revisit the book I’m 31 again and making something fine with my friends. I spoke about all this in an interview in Interview last August where they referred to but didn’t show this inscription.