Gottinchen: Steidl, 2009. First edition. 130 photographs of British 'bad boy' artist Damien Hirst by the great British fashion photographer David Bailey, taken during a single shoot lasting only eight minutes.

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. 127 pp.
340 x 290mm (13½ x 11½ inches). Brookgreen Gardens is in South Carolina, on the site of an old rice plantation.

Barcelona: La Virreina / La Fábrica, 2014. First edition, in its original clothbound format. Unpaginated [280 pages]. 310 x 230 mm (12¼ x 9 inches). This book served as both a retrospective of Weiwei's career, and as a companion publication to the exhibition of the same name. With photographs of many of his best-known items, an essay by the exhibition's curator Rosa Pera, and an artist interview conducted by Llucià Homs. Text in Catalan, English and Spanish. Ai Weiwei is best known for his use of Chinese art forms to display Chinese political and social issues. This book includes photographs from his early years in New York, a selection of his 'altered objects', such as 'Suitcase for Bachelor', and 'One Man-Shoe', plus much more.

Huizen: Tritonpers, 1969. First edition hardback. Full of wonderful b/w photographs. Text in Dutch, English, German and French. Cover images by Robert Jaspen Grootveld and Theo Kley. 128 pages. 285 x 220 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).

Kunstverein Hannover, 1991. Large book with red cloth covered boards. Colour catalogue for the exhibition of six large sculptures, which took place in the Orangery Hanover in 1991. Two of the six sculptures were new works, created especially for Hannover. This exhibition presented the artist's work to the German public for the first time. Also included in this book, a selection of images from other Kapoor installments in Venice, Grenoble and Madrid. Text in both German and English. Unpaginated [48 pages]. 355 x 305 mm (14 x 12 inches). Sir Anish Kapoor CBE, RA is a British Indian sculptor who specialises in installation art, and conceptual art.

Utrecht: Self published, 1989. With hand cut and tipped-in original photographs. 320 x 310 mm (12½ x 12¼ inches). Text in English and illustrations by Titi (Tineke) Zaadnoordijk. Titi is a poet, performer and visual artist. Her work is always figurative, and humour is always woven through it.

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.

New York: powerHouse Books, 2000. Black cloth boards with photographic dust wrapper over. Essay and large number of photographs. In as new condition. 184 pages. 340 x 260 mm (13½ x 10¼ inches). "Many people have defined the eighties as the decade in which style triumphed over substance, but Ray Perti's work under the Buffallo 'label' was, in many ways, the antithesis of what was dubbed the 'matt black designer decade' "

Jean Gilletta, 1897. A bound album, entitled Carnaval de Nice. Contains 11 original prints - each 29cm x 23cm (11½ by 9 inches) by the photographer Jean Gilletta. The photographs, mainly from a high vantage point, show the carnival and its fantastic floats. Jean Gilletta (1856-1933) was a French photographer, who popularised the South of France, in much the same way that Frith did for England.

Kobe: Tamamura, Photographer. First Edition. C.1900. Oblong folio album (19 x 42 cm), 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.

One of several similar albums produced by the studio of Kozaburo Tamamura, who was one of the originators in Japan of photographic albums of this kind for tourists. The subject of these photographs are 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).

Chile: AFA Necessaire, 2008. Signed by both authors to the title page. A photobook, with alternate photographs from each photographer. Fold out sheet of text to inside front cover in Spanish. The same in English to the rear fold out cover. Limited to 1000 copies. 62 pages. 200 x 165 mm (7¾ x 6½ inches). As well as a transcontinental friendship, the two photographers have struck a dialogue via photographs, resulting in their October 2008 joint exhibition at Galeria AFA and subsequently, this book.

Gottingen: Steidl. 2009 Edition. FINE - a never opened copy, still in publisher's shrink-wrap. No bumps or wear. The book is bound in a hardcover of printed cloth, designed with a dark blue background, titled in white and with a decorative image of an eye in white, light blue and pink on the front panel. No dust jacket was issued. A selection of Bailey's photographs from 1962 to 2008. Mostly black & white, they feature influential directors, artists, fashion designers and musicians, including Andy Warhol, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Yves Saint Laurent, John Huston and Ellsworth Kelly. 188 pages with 3 color plates, 89 tritone plates. 260 x 340 mm (10¼ x 13½ inches).

Berlin: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. Bangert's photobook is a response to being embedded with the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is a documentary of human striving to create something approximating 'normality' in the face of violence and chaos. Decorated cloth. Signed and numbered to the title page. 225 of an unspecified limitation. Unpaginated. 320 by 245mm (12½ by 9¾ inches). Comes wrapped in a proof page / printers page from the production, with a camel printed upon it. Excellent condition. Christoph Bangert, is a German photojournalist who documents crises for international publications.

Amsterdam: 1986 / 2017. Five black and white prints - after Ilford negatives. Signed in pen and pencil by the photographer (on reverse side). The 4 photo-diptychs and 1 photo show Haring at work, discussing his work, drawing and surrounded by ghetto blaster, cassette tapes, and spray cans. Printed on matte 300 gms paper. 210 x 298 mm (8¼ x 11¾ inches). In 1986, New York graffiti artist Keith Haring was invited to exhibit by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. He was also asked to spray a velum with his characteristic 'playing men'. This velum has been shown again recently at the Stedelijk Museum. Photo press followed Haring at work, and these images are part of a photo shoot with Chris Reinewald, then journalist for 'Plug' - a cultural youth magazine.

Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf, 1931. An early photo-book. 1st edition. Wire bound. First page (blank) detached. A couple more loose. Otherwise in very nice condition. A classic in its genre by Iconic avant-garde portrait photographer Lerski. Introduction by Curt Glaser. 176 pp. - 80 b/w photos. 250 x 300 mm (9¾ x11¾ inches).
Referenced in: Parr & Badger, The Photobook vol 1, page 130/131. M. + M. Auer, Photobooks, page 172.