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Campbell's New Revised Complete Guide and Descriptive Book of Mexico.
Campbell, 1907. First published in 1899, this is the revised edition. Hardback book in maroon coloured cloth. Gilt titles to front board and spine. Page edges red. Boards are slightly handled and a little bumped at corners. Lots of interesting photos - including frontis portrait and large colour fold-out map attached at rear. 351 pages plus map. Overall good + 190 x 145 mm (7½ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3990More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
Codex.
Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2019. First Edition. Hardback green cloth boards, with colour photos pasted to both front and back boards - as issued. Fascinated by nature, the anonymous street artist ROA likes to be inspired by its beauty. His work involves the brutal side of the animal world. With great attention to detail his nomadic lifestyle takes him all over the world, from Moscow to Mexico City, and from Los Angeles to London. This book features amazing photographs of over 300 of his signature colossal monochrome drawings of endangered native species. In a very good / fine condition. 352 pages. 310 x 255 mm (12¼ x 10 inches).
Book ID: 3467More details Price: £50.00 -
Collection automne / hiver 1998-1999
Paris: P.P.A, 1998. Gorgeous colour fashion book / catalogue with all photography by Karl Lagerfeld. Hardback glossy black boards with CC logo to front. Virtually no text (only credits at rear). Light handling to boards, inside near fine. 300 x 240 mm (11¾ x 9½ inches). Magnifique livre/catalogue de mode en couleurs avec toutes les photographies de Karl Lagerfeld. Couverture rigide noire brillante avec le logo CC sur le devant. Pratiquement aucun texte (seulement les crédits au dos). Légère manipulation sur les planches, l'intérieur est en parfait état. 300 x 240 mm
Book ID: 4785More details Price: £30.00 -
Dornroschen Photographie nach dem im Kaisersaal zu Goslar
Book ID: 4282More details Price: £60.00 -
Edward Weston Nudes. His Photographs Accompanied by Excerpts from the Daybooks & Letters.
New York: Aperture Inc, 1977. First edition, first printing. Hardback in cloth inside original unclipped dust jacket. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 116 pages. 295 x 250 mm (11½ x 9¾ inches).
In his 'Daybook' dated December 9th 1934, Edward Weston wrote: "The first nudes of C. were easily amongst the finest I have done, perhaps the finest". The C. referred to was Charis Wilson, who in this book remembers her time with Weston - as his lover, companion, assistant and muse.Book ID: 3721More details Price: £50.00 -
Engineering Apprenticeship
Book ID: 3594More details Price: £30.00 -
Ex-Voto
Book ID: 5050More details Price: £150.00 -
Eye.
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).
Book ID: 2177More details Price: £30.00 -
Fidel Castro - original silver gelatin photograph
Paris: Photo Pic, [1959]. Large borderless b/w photograph of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, taken circa 1959. With the rubber stamp of Parisian photographer Roger Pic to the verso. Roger Pic (1920 - 2001) was a French photojournalist famed for his portraits and documentaries on anti-colonial struggles. He visited Cuba in the late 50's and 60's; forging personal relationships with both Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. This closeness enabled Pic to achieve images of unusual relaxation and candor. Very good condition. 205 x 305 mm (8 x 12 inches).
Book ID: 2895More details Price: £120.00 -
Five albumen photographs of Italy, Switzerland and Cologne on two cards
Book ID: 5069More details Price: £175.00 -
Ganga Ma
Book ID: 5053More details Price: £150.00 -
'Gingung' an Australian Aboriginal man
Book ID: 2748More details Price: £180.00 -
Goethe Gallerie
Book ID: 4906More details Price: £100.00 -
Hello Camel.
Book ID: 2481More details Price: £30.00 -
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 -
James Joyce's Dublin. With selected writings from Joyce's works.
Nice: EDQ, 1973. First edition. Hardback in red cloth, inside original unclipped dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are both in very good / fine condition. 285 x 225 mm (11¼ x 8¾ inches).
With an introduction by Samuel Beckett, this fascinating collection of Edward Quinn's mostly b/w photography uses the same reportage style as Joyce himself often adopted. Rambling around Dublin from dawn to dusk Quinn found himself collecting what Joyce referred to as epiphanies. Not the literary kind, but photographic incidents of daily life and atmospheric places in Ireland's capital city.
Book ID: 3979More details Price: £30.00 -
Jazz My Love
Paris: Éditions Vade Retro, 2003. First French edition. Hardback in unclipped dust jacket. Full of b/w and colour images - most full-page - of jazz musicians. Text in French. Captions / quotes in English. Boards, dust jacket and inside of book all in very good condition. 310 x 310 mm (12¼ x 12¼ inches).
Book ID: 3722More details Price: £30.00 -
Keith Haring at work, Amsterdam 1986. Five digital prints - signed and numbered on reverse.
Book ID: 2163More details Price: £290.00 -
Kleingärtner.
London: Koenig, 2019. First edition. Hardback green cloth with yellow title to front and spine. A gorgeous look at people growing their own food in allotments across Germany. Colour photography. Both book and hardback boards in fine condition. 96 pages. 225 x 235 mm (8¾ x 9¼ inches).
Book ID: 3695More details Price: £30.00