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.

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