📚 Graffiti

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Writing in public: from subway cars to galleries, and the argument over which word — art or vandalism — fits.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject graffiti in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Subway Art	Martha Cooper	1984	9
The Faith of Graffiti	Norman Mailer	1974	8
Ancient Graffiti In Context	Jennifer Baird	2010	8
Banksy	Will Ellsworth-Jones	2012	8
Getting Up	Craig Castleman	1982	7
Crimes of style	Jeff Ferrell	1993	7
The World Atlas Of Street Art And Graffiti	Rafael Schacter	2013	7
Wall and Piece	Banksy	2005	6
Routledge Handbook of Graffiti and Street Art	Jeffrey Ian Ross	2016	6
Graffiti 3	Nigel Rees	1981	4
Graffiti	Nigel Rees	1984	4
Graffiti World	Nicholas Ganz	2004	4
Street Sketchbook	Tristan Manco	2007	4
Banksy	Alessandra Mattanza	2021	4
The art of rebellion	Christian Hundertmark	2003	3
Street Art	Louis Bou	2005	3
Concrete to canvas	Jo Waterhouse	2005	3
Uncommissioned art	Christine Dew	2007	3
Street fonts	Claudia Walde	2011	3
Art in the Streets	Jeffrey Deitch	2011	3
This Is Not a Photo Opportunity	Martin Bull	2014	3
This Is Modern Art	Kevin Coval	2016	3
Street art	Alessandra Mattanza	2017	3
Street writers	Gusmano Cesaretti	1975	2
Women in the john	Unknown author	1978	2
The writing on the wall	Mark Barker	1979	2
A poesia do acaso	Cristina Fonseca	1981	2
The merry-thought, or, The glass-window and boghouse miscellany	Hurlothrumbo	1982	2
Graffiti	Hans Gamber	1984	2
Les murs se marrent	Régis Hauser	1991	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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