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Witness Number Four: Sections of Time.
New York: Joy of Giving Something Inc, 2007.
Book ID: 2104More details Price: £40.00 -
A Century of American Sculpture. Treasures from Brookgreen Gardens.
New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. First Edition. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and blind stamped figure on upper board. Beautiful full colour photos of garden sculptures from the late 19th and 20th centuries. Boards has some sun fading, but the photographic dust jacket is in a very good condition. Neat gift inscription to the inside front. Brookgreen Gardens is in South Carolina, on the site of an old rice plantation. 127 pp.
340 x 290 mm (13½ x 11½ inches).Book ID: 2189More details Price: £35.00 -
Characteristic Japan.
Views and Characters in the Land of the Rising Sun.
Kobe: Tamamura, Photographer. Rare First Edition. Circa 1907. Oblong folio album, original decorated silk padded boards, with silver embroidery and ties. All edges gilt. Title page printed on charcoal paper with decorated borders and text in silver, followed by 24 hand coloured collotype photographic prints on cream paper, with tissue guards. The silk boards have been professionally restored. In a very good condition.
One of several similar albums produced by the studio of Kōzaburō Tamamura, who was one of the originators in Japan of photographic albums of this kind for tourists. The subject of these photographs include Kyoto, Osaka, Shikoku, with scenes of temples, pagodas, rivers, lakes and Fujiyama etc, with captions in English. 420 mm x 190 mm (16½ x 7½ inches).
Book ID: 2174More details Price: £650.00 -
Blinde Verrassing. First edition, with additional original photograph.
Edition: First Edition
Uitgeverij Fragment: Den Haag: 1993. Grey cloth with embossed titles, and a photograph laid onto the front cover. Original photograph loosely inserted. The photo-book Published in collaboration with Tel Design, Koninklijke Drukkerij GJ Thieme Nijmegen and Kadee Delft. 24 black and white photographs printed on glossy photo paper. To the rear of each are the details about the subject, the scene and those who participated. A fascinating concept in photography. A complex scene is set up - and the central subject is blind folded and brought into the scene. The blindfold is then briefly removed - and the photograph taken. They are then apparently blind folded again, and only see what was really there when the photograph is produced. Very good condition.
Book ID: 1983More details Price: £35.00 -
Henry Moore Dutch language edition
Edition: First Edition
Den Haag: W. Gaade N.V: 1968. First edition. Somewhat darkened pictorial dust wrapper, with a touch of nicking / edgewear to it. Internally clean and tidy throughout. Full of black and white photographs of Moore's work 240pp
Book ID: 1982More details Price: £38.00