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COBURN, Alvin Langdon.
London. [1909]
£15,000
First edition, first impression. Coburn made all the gravures himself, etching and steel-facing the plates, grinding the inks, pulling the proofs on various papers until he got the...
Folio. Original brown paper covered boards with dark green calf spine, titles to front cover gilt. Housed in a Chelsea Bindery felt lined clamshell box. With 20... Read more
PORTER, Eliot.
Portfolio One. The Seasons. 1963
£15,000
First edition, first printing.
Folio. 12 original dye-transfer mounted prints as issued. With two copies of title and limitation page. Housed in a linen portfolio with ties, titles to upper panel... Read more
HEMINGWAY, Ernest.
Inscribed photographic portrait of Hemingway holding a black Persian kitten. 1950
£12,500
An unusually intimate image in uncommonly large format. With Hemingway’s magnificent presentation inscription on the white portion of his shirt, “To Alfred Rice from his...
13 × 11 ins, original monochrome print from the negative. With the photographer’s stamp on the verso. Glazed and framed. Fine. Read more
DUCHENNE (DE BOULOGNE), Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand.
Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l'expression des passions. 1862
£12,500
First edition of this landmark in the history of clinical medical photography; presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "A mon ami [the identity of the...
Large octavo (272 × 178 mm). Original gilt-lettered red morocco-grain cloth spine and front cover skilfully laid down over later red pebble grain cloth to style,... Read more
FAULKNER, William.
Original photograph of the author with Sally Emrich on the deck of a yacht in a Greek harbour. [1957]
£12,500
With Faulkner’s signed presentation inscription to a blank portion of the image in the upper left corner, “For Miss Sally with love from William Faulkner”. Sally...
10 x 8 inches. Framed and matted behind glass. A little negligible creasing to the edges of the image but a superb print. Read more
LACROIX, Paul de (ed.)
Galerie Contemporaine des Illustrations Françaises. 1890
£9,750
The more than 160 mounted photographs include portraits of Baudelaire by Carjat, Victor Hugo, Rossini, François Coppée, Gounod, le Duc d'Aumale, Corot, Edmond About, Puvis...
8 volumes, folio. Original half morocco with marbled boards, titles and decoration to boards gilt. Profusely illustrated with more than 160 mounted photographs.... Read more
(STIEGLITZ, Alfred, & others) SCHIFFNER, R. (ed.)
Wiener Photographische Blatter Herausgegeben von Camera-Club in Wien. 1894–8
£9,500
Sole printings. A complete set of the original manifestation bound without the wrappers from the monthly numbers with new title leaves and indices. The organ of the influential...
60 issues in 5 volumes, quarto. Original puce half morocco, titles and rolls to spines gilt, puce cloth boards, grey-blue endpapers, marbled edges. Profusely... Read more
MAN RAY.
Les Invendables 1969
£7,500
First Edition, Sole Printing, Special Issue, being one of 50 numbered copies printed on nacreous paper, signed by the artist and containing an original signed photographic collage (6...
Quarto. Loose gatherings as issued in the original wrappers printed in red black and orange. 2 full page monochrome plates, 8 tipped-in colour images and 3 monochrome... Read more
WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton; R. B. Marston (ed.)
The Lea and Dove Edition, being the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler 1888
£7,500
The Royal Quarto signed limited edition, one of 250 copies signed by the editor, R. B. Marston, with the plates on india paper (500 copies were also done in smaller, demy quarto...
2 volumes, royal quarto (325 × 255 mm). Publisher's deluxe binding of green crushed morocco, spines with raised bands, lettered in gilt in three compartments,... Read more
NEWTON, Helmut.
Sumo. 1999
£7,000
First edition. One of 10,000 signed and numbered by the photographer. A book so large that it comes with its own metal folding stand, engraved with the author's name. Taschen's...
Folio. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Together with original metal stand designed by Philippe Starck and shipping packaging. 450 photographs in color and black-and-white.... Read more
(TWAIN, Mark) GESSFORD, Joseph G.
Photograph, black and white bust of Mark Twain. 1908
£6,750
Inscribed above and beneath the image by the author “To Mrs. F. B. Rice with the best wishes of Mark Twain” and dated “Feb. 20 / 08”. Signed and dated by the...
Photogravure. Image size 24 x 17 cm. Paper size 35 x 26 cm. Framed and glazed. Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Photographic portrait: “Our Skipper”. [1941/1950]
£6,500
The photograph was taken late in 1941 and circulated quite widely throughout 1942 in postcard form. For the 1950 general election the Conservative Party revived the image as a poster...
16 x 12 inches. A head and shoulders photograph entitled Our Skipper in the lower margin. Framed behind glass in dark brown wood. Signed "Winston S. Churchill" in the... Read more
EVANS, Walker.
Message from the Interior. 1966
£6,250
First edition, first printing. Inscribed on the front free endpaper by the photographer “Lincoln, from Walker”. Lincoln Kirstein is most noted for his hand in founding the...
Quarto. Original grey mottled cloth, titles to white paper label to front board in black, titles to spine in white. Twelve works of photography reproduced in sheet-fed... Read more
(CHURCHILL, Winston S.) STONEMAN, Walter.
Photographic Portrait. 1945
£6,000
Signed in black ink “Winston S. Churchill” on the image.
12 × 10 inches. Vintage black and white print from the negative. With studio stamp of Stoneman on the reverse. Fine condition. Read more
FRITH, Francis.
Sinai and Palestine. [1863 after]
£5,000
Volume I of the second, enlarged edition of the work originally published in 2 volumes in1859. “The prints in this edition are of a much stronger quality than those in the first...
Folio. Original half tan morocco, red cloth sides, titles to spine gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Mount albumen print to half title and 36 larger albumen... Read more
ARNOLD, Eve; Jill Freedman; Ernst Haas; André Kertész; Duane Michals; Inge Morath; Barbara Morgan; Eva Rubinstein; Nea
Ten Photographers. 1978
£5,000
First Edition. Limited to 75 copies. Each photograph signed and numbered below the image by the artist.
Folio. Clamshell portfolio bound in fawn linen, titles to spine and upper board in grey. 10 individually matted original silver prints, each signed and numbered by the... Read more
BUCKHAM, Alfred G.
Biplane over the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. [1920s]
£4,500
Alfred G. Buckham, pioneer of aerial photography, began his photographic career in 1905 and joined the Royal Navy Air Service to undertake photographic duties in 1917. At this...
40 x 32.5 cm. Original carbon photograph on artist’s mount, signed in pencil by Buckham on the mount below the image, titled and signed on the reverse with his... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Signed Photograph of Churchill and A.V. Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty outside Downing Street, Winter 1941. 1941
£4,500
Churchill and Alexander are shown on a snow-covered Downing Street, both wearing heavy top coats and with highly Churchillian cigars. Churchill is waving his hat to the...
Good large press photograph, (258 × 175 mm), mounted on card. Very slight damage at the top left-hand corner, but overall very good contemporarily mounted on... Read more
[HARDINGE, Sir Charles]
The Viceregal Visit to Jodhpur. 1914
£4,500
Superb album commemorating the visit of Sir Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, Viceroy of India 1910-6, to Jodhpur in 1914. Contains an excellent range of views and...
Landscape folio (490 × 375 mm) red morocco album, elaborately gilt on the upper board with title as above, the arms of the Marwar Durbar, or Darbar, the regional... Read more
RICH, Captain E. T.
Views of the Bazar Valley Field Force, 1908, [1908]
£3,875
From the time of the end of the Tirah campaign in 1897-8 the Zakka Khel Afridis had “...remained the persistent enemies of tranquility and progress. Numerous raids in British...
Landscape quarto. Album leaves loose, housed in a blue cloth drop-back box, title - “Photographs” - from the original album mounted on the upper panel. 93... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S. & Clementine.
Pair of Original Portrait Photographs, signed. 1946
£3,750
Each photograph is signed on the mount, that of Clementine with the inscription, “To Frank Clarke with happy memories of our visit to America in the Winter & Spring of...
2 original photographs (195 x 143 mm), mounted on card and now window mounted side by side, framed and glazed. Card mounts a little browned, inscriptions slightly... Read more
SERBIN, Vincent.
Toward Omega. 2005
£3,750
First edition, first printing. One of 60 numbered and 2 hors commerce copies signed by Vincent Serbin, Daniel Westover, John Wood and Steven Albahari. Each of the 10 tipped-in silver...
Folio. Finely bound by Peter Geraty and his Praxis Bindery, original decorated metal copper boards with vellum spine, titles to spine in copper, with 10 tipped-in... Read more
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Photograph portrait. undated, ca. 1956]
£3,500
A full-length portrait of Churchill standing in the road in front of Villa La Pausa, dressed in Stetson, Loden coat and gloves, with a walking stick.
Image size 231 × 229 mm, initialled on the photographic paper below the image by Churchill. Excellent condition. Read more
MAN RAY.
Photographs / Photographies 1920-1934 Paris. [1934]
£3,000
First edition, second issue with the title page citing the publisher's fictitious claim of "second edition". The title pages - presumably a healthy percentage of the run, whose sales...
Quarto. Photographically illustrated stiff wrappers with white plastic ringbound strip, titles to front wrapper in white. Housed in a black cloth solander box made by... Read more
(HARRISON, George) TAYLOR, Derek.
Fifty Years Adrift. 1984
£2,750
First edition, first impression. Limited to 2000 copies. This is no. 1687 signed by Derek Taylor, George Harrison and Larry Smith (of Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band fame), the artist of the...
Quarto. Original brown half calf with brown boards, illustration to front cover in red and git, titles to spine gilt, one red calf label to spine, all edges gilt.... Read more
