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[TATTOOS]. SHAW, Jonathan (American, b. 1953). Scab Vendor. Confessions of a Tattoo Artist [Book 1]. [Nashville, TN: Turner Publishing Company, 2017]. 8vo. 464 pp. Publisher's pictorial wrappers (some soiling to wrappers and first text page, rubbing). Cover art by Robert Crumb. Fine. UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, WITH AN ORIGINAL MARKER PEN COLOR DRAWING BY THE LEGENDARY TATTOO ARTIST, ON THE FRONT INNER WRAP, INSCRIBED AND INITIALED BY SHAW: “To the Inimitable, One-And-Only Howie Pyro! + Love & Respek! / El Classico JS". Shaw, son of big band leader, Artie Shaw, and actress Doris Dowling. As a teenager he coped with a heroin addiction, but he was able to get a job with the Los Angeles Free Press, where he met Charles Bukowski. Bukowski inspired him to hitchhike to Rio de Janeiro, where he learned the art of tattoos. He returned to the United States in 1976 and opened the first tattoo parlor in the New York City (tattoo parlors weren't legal in New York City until 1997) Bowery, and named it Fun City Tattoo. He quickly gained a reputation as a premier artist, and gained a celebrity clientele (including Johnny Depp, Kate Moss, Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, and the recipient of this book, Howie Pyro (bass player for Danzig, The Blessed, Freaks, and more.)) Shaw also founded the first magazine dedicated to tattoos, International Tattoo Art, in the 1980s. Laid-in are 8 stickers of the cover of this book, and 3 temporary “Scab Vendor" tattoos designed by Shaw.