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A Camera on Unknown London
London J. M. Dent and Sons (1936) 1937
Unpaginated c. 120pp, b/w illus with captions, 8vo cloth,decorated endpapers. Pictorial dw has pieces missing to the upper and lower, else a vg copy. Loosely inserted article on a Hoppé exhibition. Book made at The Temple Press, Letchworth. Ex Libris Gavin Stamp, with his bookplate.
Stock ID: 19939More details Price: £38.00 -
Beato's Delhi 1857 and Beyond
New Delhi Penguin/Viking 2011 (2000)
vii(1) + 120pp, b/w illus. Long 4to cloth with illustrated dw. Small chip to the base of the spine else very good indeed. First published by Ravi Dayal, 2000. Ex libris gavin stamp, with his bookplate.
Stock ID: 20106More details Price: £38.00 -
Byker
London Jonathan Fraser 1983
128pp illustrated with b/w photographs. Long 8vo. Decorated wrappers. Documents this working class area of the city before it was largely demolished for redevelopment with the famous Byker Wall project. Effectively documents the way of life of the area, interiors and exteriors of people's homes. Dedication copy from the photographer, signed to the late Brian Mills, Bookseller, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
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El Salvador
New York, W W Norton, Double Take 1997
127pp, illustrated with b/w plates throughout. Larry Towell first visited El Salvador in 1986 as a member of a human rights delegation. Civil war 1979-1990 left huge populations as refugees and death squads terrorised the nation. This book presents his photographs showing a country where every place is a war zone. Signed on the front end paper. First Printing (issued simultaneously with the hardcover edition).
Stock ID: 16580More details Price: £75.00 -
Fashion Magazine Summer 2005
Stock ID: 19683More details Price: £75.00 -
Felice Beato
A Photographer on the Eastern Road
Los Angeles The J. Paul Getty Museum 2010
202pp duotone ills. Long 4to boards with dw. vg. Well illustrated overview of Beato's work with an essay by Fred Ritchin. Ex libris with the bookplate of Gavin Stamp.
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Focus on Architecture and Sculpture
an original approach to photography of architecture and sculpture
London The Fountain Press 1949
142pp illustrated with 70 photographs in b/w. Small 4to. Very good with good dust wrapper. Superbly framed images of architectural and sculptural masterpieces.
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Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan
New York, Umbrage Editions 2001
136pp with 105 full page colour photographs. Square 4to in cloth boards with lovely decorated cloth d/w. New title signed by author. Steele-Perkins' dazzling and idiosyncratic photographs of Japan celebrate the extremes of beauty, the hand print of techno-culture, and the irony of the documentary. Based around Mount Fuji these images reflect on Hokusai's images on the same theme.
Stock ID: 19664More details Price: £125.00 -
Im Fluge Über Wien:
Österreichisches - Fliegerwerk
Stock ID: 19733More details Price: £395.00
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Ishiuchi Miyako
Postwar Shadows
Los Angeles The J. Paul Getty Museum 2015
With contributions by Ito Hiromi and Miryam Sas. 192pp,colour + b/w illus. 4to boards with pictorial dust wrapper. Published on the occasion of an exhibition by the same name, at the J. Paul Getty. Profusely illustrated, examines Ishiuchi's photographic exploration of the Americanisation of post-war Japan.
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Norman Parkinson: Portraits in Fashion
Bath, Palazzo 2010
191pp + colour & b/w photographs throughout. 4to. Decorated dust wrappers. Very good. A decade-by-decade look at Norman Parkinson's photographic work.
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Original Photograph of Chirk Castle Gates
nd c1960
Portrait format, 160x235mm. It illustrates the wrought iron gates with landscape park behind. The photograph was taken for an article in Horizon Magazine. The magnificent iron gates are dated 1719 and bear the coat-of-arms of the Myddelton family of Chirk Castle. They are the work of the Davies Brothers, Robert and John of Croesfoel Forge, near Bersham, Wrexham and were erected between 1719 and 1721.
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Original Photograph of Chirk Castle Gates
Detail of the upper parts of the gate showing the armourial shield
nd c1960
Landscape format. 235x160mm. Made for a magazine article in Horizon Magazine. The magnificent iron gates are dated 1719 and bear the coat-of-arms of the Myddelton family of Chirk Castle. They are the work of the Davies Brothers, Robert and John of Croesfoel Forge, near Bersham, Wrexham and were erected between 1719 and 1721. Pencil note on verso in Edwin Smith's hand writing noting location.
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Paris des Reves
Lausanne La Guide du Livre 1950
Foreword by Jean Cocteau. 75 photogravure plates with facing texts. 4to. Stiff photographic wrappers with original glassine wrappers. Text in French. Near fine copy.
Stock ID: 20290More details Price: £145.00 -
Paul Strand Photographs 1915-1945
New York Museum of Modern Art 1945
Good copy in slightly worn and chipped dust wrapper illustrated with a Paul Strand image. 40pp Small 4to. Superb black and white images throughout. To accompany an exhibition held April 25–June 10, 1945.172 numbers in the show covering Mexico, New Mexico and Vermont series amongst others.
Stock ID: 20342More details Price: £65.00 -
Photograph Album mostly of Town and Country House Interiors with five additional loosely inserted photographs.
Stock ID: 20780More details Price: £400.00 -
Pictorial Church Photography
Northampton privately published by the author 1986
Limited to 100 copies. Large 4to. Red cloth, gilt letters. Humfrey, who lived in Dallington, was a member of the Northants Natural History Society's photographic section as well as the exclusive Northampton Pictorial Photographers. In 2008, her work was posthumously accepted into the National Media Museum by the Royal Photographic Society. This copy contains a loosely inserted a.l.s. by the photographer and slipped in 4 original photographs which appear in the book. Full page photogravure plates with facing captions. Lovely item. Uncommon.
Stock ID: 19577More details Price: £140.00 -
Project for Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin
Collages, Drawings, Scale Model, and Photographs / November 15 - December 10, 1977
London Annely Juda Fine Art 1977
[28] with many b/w photos and illus throughout. 8vo pamphlet in decorated b/w wraps. Vg. German/English language catalogue of preliminary sketches for the Wrapped Reichstag. Loosely inserted newspaper cutting of the article 'Reichstag package deal' detailing how the wrapping of the Reichstag project had gained momentum with the support of parliament president Rita Süssmuth.
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S S Suecia [ in service with Swedish Lloyd 1929-1966.]
Stock ID: 19646More details Price: £480.00
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The Gaucho
New York Crown Publishing Inc 1968
Unpaginated - documents with superb bw photographs the life of this unique figure. Beautiful copy with good dust wrapper.
Stock ID: 20166More details Price: £175.00