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

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).

Amsterdam: Galerie Jurka, 1980. Nice copy of this early Mapplethorpe exhibition catalogue, with 43 black and white photographic plates featuring naked males. With an introduction (in English) by Edmund White. 52 pages. 280 x 215 mm (11 x 8½ inches). The front cover features the model Bob Love in a close-up, three-quarter profile. The back cover features Mapplethorpe's iconic self-portrait wearing a leather jacket, and smoking a cigarette.

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 by 260mm (13½ by 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, 1898. 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 by 165mm (7¾ by 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. 10-1/4 x 13-1/4 inches. 188 pages with 3 color plates, 89 tritone plates

Berlin: Kehrer Verlag, 2016. Bangert's photobook is a response to being embedded with the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. 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.

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 Laski. 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.

Keystone Photo Archive, 1968. A black and white photograph of a Guardsmen at St James' Palace in London, being followed by two children from Miss Betty Vacani's school of dancing. The event was being held to support the Invalid Children's Association in London. 240 by 120mm (9½ by 4¾ inches). Keystone data in Dutch to the verso of the print. The gelatin silver process is the photographic process used with currently available black-and-white films and printing papers. A suspension of silver salts in gelatin is coated onto a support such as glass, flexible plastic or film, baryta paper, or resin-coated paper. First developed in the 1880's, it became popular after a Bartya coating was added in 1894.

Paris: Collection Neuf / Robert Delpire, 1955. First edition. In original hessian waxed cloth covered hardback boards. Fascinating perspective of the city of Moscow in the early 1950's; with 163 numbered black and white photographs. Includes candid shots of the people, streets, schools and industry. All captioned in French text. 275 x 220 mm (10¾ x 8¾ inches).

Amsterdam: Fw: Books, 2015. First edition. Unpaginated. 235 x 165 mm (9¼ x 6½ inches). Colour photography throughout. 'Nationalfeiertag', is a book about one of the biggest, and most monitored squares in the world: Tiananmen Square in Beijing. In April and May of 1989 student protests took place and there was a massacre on June 4th. Officials and police attempted to control the images taken, but Katja Stuke filmed a few hours of material at the time and on the Chinese National Holiday in October. From this footage she extracted hundreds of portraits. The book combines these portraits with newspaper clippings which are collected and spread by the June 4th Museum in Hong Kong to keep the memory of the protests of 1989 alive.