New York, Aperture, in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art c1993

79pp, b/w photographs throughout, 8vo, pbk. Very good indeed. ISBN 0893815594. This is the first major publication in English on this influential German photographer, who is one of the founders of modern European photography.

London Thames and Hudson 2010

158 + (2)pp Illustrated with full b/w single sided photographs. First paperback edition. Small 4to. Fine. A selection of Cartier-Bresson's memorable portraits, including diverse subjects including as Pablo Picasso, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote, Lucian Freud, Susan Sontag, Coco Chanel, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Che Guevara.

London: Johnathan Cape 1992

167pp with many colour photos throughout. Long 4to in cloth with bright dw. Vg indeed. Published to coincide with an exhibition in the Barbican Art Gallery in London, this beautifully produced text, complete with remarks by the artist and a foreword by Mark Holborn, is the first collection of Eggleston's work in sequence from the beginning of his career.

London Thames and Hudson 1998

231pp with b/w photographs throughout. 4to Fine in dust wrapper. Reprint in smaller format of Cartier-Bresson's classic 'Les Europeans' of 1955, which recorded a continent recovering from war. With a new introduction by Jean Clair. Produced in association with an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, held that year.

London Thames and Hudson 2009

272pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Like new. Fine with dust wrapper. Spurred on by the collapse of the World Trade Center, New York, Abbas began an exploration of Islamic culture illustrated in this massive and wide ranging survey.

Aperture/ Philadelphia Museum of Art 1985

First edition. 240pp, b/w illus throughout. Large 4to. Fine in similar dust wrapper. Compendious and richly illustrated biography of this influential photojournalist. Published to accompany a major retrospective touring exhibition. Unread.

Cologne 1894

9 sepia photographs on thin collodian paper, each measuring 380x305mm. Mounted on dark card mounts with photographer's details on verso. Mounts sl. bumped at corners. Images generally vg, though a little faded. Repairs made to the glass plate negatives have resulted in small dark blemishes on the photographs. Contained within dark green morocco folio, worn at edges, with ribbon ties and paste down label. A collection of remarkably early photographs of a townhouse in Cologne, belonging to Adolf Meyer Lowenthal and his wife. The four large images (each has multiple copies) depict a suite of interconnected rooms, including a bedroom and sitting/reception rooms. The Lowenthals were the parents of Frida (1847-1923), who married the chemist and industrialist and philanthropist Ludwig Mond in 1866 and moved to England shortly after. He set up Brunner, Mond & Co. with John Tomlinson Brunner. (Later became ICI). Frida became prominent in literary and artistic circles, and, with her husband, built a large collection of artworks and literary memorabilia. These photographs show a house full of portraits and artistic objects, no doubt contributing to her passions. These photographs, later in the possession of her son, Robert Mond, may have reminded her of their origins. They are lovely, high quality images, taken by the prolific and well known photographer Anselm Schmitz (1839-1903), most famous for his work on Cologne Cathedral and recording the city walls before they were demolished in 1883.

London Four Corners Books 2012

Colour photographs and ills throughout, and some b/w reproductions of letters. Decorated firm card covers. Small 4to. Vg. Collection of over 100 images of the little-known genre of painting and portraiture, of prison inmates representing themselves in front of visiting room backdrops. Inspired by the author's visit to her brother in prison in her youth.

New York Aperture Foundation 2004

[126] with 77 large colour photographs. Long 4to in decorated boards. New title. An artistic, unflinching documentation of the challenge facing Afganistan's refugees as they return to their country and begin to rebuild. Parallel English/French text.

London Phaidon 2002

First edition. Colour plates throughout. Long 4to. Fine in dust wrapper. Signed by the author and dated Dublin 2011. Beautifully produced photographic study of this important archaeological and World Heritage Site. A less harrowing perspective of the world than is usually portrayed in McCurry's images. Signed on the verso of front end paper.

London, Lund Humphries 1994

108pp with many colour and b/w illustrations. Small oblong 4to in stiff card wraps, vg indeed. the results of projects carried out simultaneously in England and France in reaction to the opening of the Channel Tunnel. A fascinating record of a 'borderland' at the end of the twentieth century. With contributions by Kenneth Baird, Simone Cannetty-Clarke, Huw Davies, Anna Fox, Julian Germain, Malcolm Glover, Peter Kennard, Karen Knorr, Patrick Sutherland, Paul Trevor and Janine Weidel, plus an introduction by Neal Ascherson.

New York Steidl: International Center for Photography 2008

356pp illustrate with b/w and colour plates. Fine. Challenging images supported by essays by Lucy Lippard, David Levi Strauss, Allan Sekula and others.

Scalo Zurich, Berlin, New York: Kestner Gesellchaft 1998

207pp with many b/w, sepia, and colour images throughout. Square 4to in cloth with decorated dw. Vg. Published to coincide with the exhibition of the same title, with contributions by Carsten Ahrens, Monika Faber, Rudolf Kicken, and Michael Stoeber.

London, The Architectural Press 1980 (1977)

258pp with 200 b/w plates. Very good in dust wrapper. Collection of stunning photographs of interiors taken by the architectural photographer Bedford Lemere (1864-1944) working on commission for the affluent middle classes. Focusing on the period 1890-1914, and depicting many houses no longer extant, the plates are accompanied by introductory material and detailed annotations by Cooper. A remarkable insight into fashionable interiors of the period.

Arthur Dearden

Mounted on stiff card, four original photographs with impress of the photographer beneath the photographs and address. Arthur Dearman of 46 Church Street Blackpool. images 180x230mm 7 x 9 inches, mounts are 310x 230mm. [12 x10 inches] The images reveal the cluttered end of the 19th century look of a guest house. Long dining tables fill the main room with bentwood and other dining chairs in brown furniture style and there are images of the key living rooms including a large sitting room packed with pictures, rugs and cushions etc. Deardon evidently had a photography business also taking cabinet photographs and portraits.

nd. c1925

36 sepia photographs of Westminster Abbey. 32 of the interior and 3 of the exterior. Exceptionally good documentary photographs of the interior of the abbey and its monuments in the inter-war period. Large 4to album with photographs mounted with photo corners to allow easy removal. Each double page protected with tissue guard. Bookplates of Peter Denis Anthes. Each photograph is 6x8 inches c150x220mm. Some are landscape and others portrait. Includes images of the key elements of cathedral including the newly installed tomb of the unknown soldier.

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, The MIT Press c1979

First edition. viii, 189pp, b/w photographs, Square 4to. Dust wrapper. Loosely inserted letter to the GLC Department of Architecture Architects' News offering this as a review copy and negative of the cover illustration in a protective envelope. Dust wrapper slightly age-toned else very good. In 1979, Izenour, best known for co-authourship of "Learning from Las Vegas" continued his studies into the relationship of architecture and pop culture, with fellow architect Paul Hirshorn and wrote this monograph of the White Tower Hamburgers fast food chain with selected photographs taken in a variety of styles In an affectionately written introductory essay, Hirshorn and Izenour described the identifiable and idiosyncratic commercial architectural style of the 1930s and 1940s and documents the development of the White Tower's architecture and stylistic variations. The book includes conversations with former White Tower's employees, including Charles Johnson, White Tower's architect for over forty years, set their analysis of the buildings within a broader story of corporate culture, mass marketing, and the rise of franchising in the twentieth century.

London: Thames and Hudson 2002

Unpaginated. c.200pp of beautifully presented colour and b/w photographic plates plus c.10pp catalogue, bibliography, list of exhibitions. Square 4to in white boards, with tiny bump on upper board bottom edge else very good indeed. Published to accompany an exhibition held in Paris by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain. Scarce.