Photography (all items)
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SISKIND, Aaron.
Photographs. 1959
£750
First edition, first printing. Siskind's highly influential book captures the abstract forms of our everyday surroundings.
Quarto. Original black boards, titles to front cover silver, titles to spine in red and silver. With the dust jacket. Previous presentation inscription to front free... Read more
CLARK, Larry.
Teenage Lust. An Autobiography. 1983
£750
first edition, first printing. Signed by the Larry Clark on the title page. Not published as a hardback.
Quarto. Original grey photographically illustrated stiff wrappers, titles to spine in black. Photographic illustrations throughout. Corners and edges of spine lightly... Read more
MEATYARD, Ralph Eugene.
The family album of Lucybelle Crater. 1974
£750
First Edition, First Printing.
Quarto. Original fawn cloth, titles to upper panel and spine in black. With the dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Read more
LYON, Danny.
The Destruction of Lower Manhattan. 1969
£700
First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by Lyon on the front free endpaper "Hey Kenny, Thanks, fuck you the Zerox Kid. Jan 1970". Together with a letter on Magnum Photos Inc....
Quarto. Original black cloth, titles to upper board and spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Photographically illustrated throughout. Near fine in lightly edge... Read more
McCULLIN, Don.
The Destruction Business. 1971
£675
First edition, first impression. McCullin's first book.
Quarto. Original brown boards, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, dust jacket lightly rubbed to corners, price clipped. Read more
CLARK, Larry.
Tulsa. 1971 [ie 1979]
£675
Second Edition, First Printing. Signed by Larry Clark on the title page. Clark's first book had originally been issued as a paperback in 1971. This printing is the first in cloth.
Quarto Original black cloth, titles to spine in silver. With the dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughout. An excellent copy in the very lightly marked dust... Read more
WEBER, Bruce.
Bruce Weber. 1983
£650
First edition, first printing. Limited to 5000 copies. Signed on the title page "To Steve, Bruce Weber".
Quarto. Original black boards, initials blindstamped to front cover. With the dust jacket. Full page photographs reproduced by sheet-fed gravure with additional... Read more
KERTÉSZ, André.
Distortions. Edited by Nicolas Ducrot with an introduction by Hilton Kramer. 1976
£650
First edition, first printing. A wonderful collection and not easily found in this condition.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles top spine gilt. With the photographic dust jacket. Photographic illustrations throughtout.. Minor tape residue from some species of... Read more
CALDWELL, Erskine, & Margaret Bourke-White.
Say, is this the U. S. A. 1941
£650
First edition, first printing.
Tall quarto. Original pictorial boards. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout from photos by Margaret Bourke-White. Spine slightly rolled, light spotting to... Read more
STRAND, Paul.
Tir A'hurain. Outer Hebrides. 1962
£650
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Endpapers and margins of contents... Read more
FRANK, Robert.
The Americans. Photographs. 1969
£625
Second edition, revised and enlarged. Originally published in 1959.
Oblong quarto. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout from photos by the author. Lightly rubbed at extremities. An... Read more
(CETEWAYO) BRUTON, James E.
Cabinet portrait of Cetewayo. 1879-80
£600
Highly unusual portrait of the Zulu king in captivity. Having stayed close to his army until its defeat at Ulundi, Cetewayo fled north pursued by two separate search-parties of the...
Original photograph (151 × 102 mm) mounted on printed card mount (164 × 105 mm). Image evenly faded to pale sepia, mount a little rubbed, subject's name -... Read more
RUSCHA, Edward; Ken Price & Joe Goode.
Crackers. 1969
£600
First Edition, First Printing. A typically mad Ruscha production - a pastiche of the photoplay genre being putatively based on a film entitled, "How to Derive the Maximum Enjoyment...
Octavo. Original plain card wrappers. With the white dust jacket printed in red. An excellent copy in the nicked and marked dust jacket rather faded at the spine. Read more
THOMPSON, Hunter S.
Gonzo. 2006
£600
First edition, first printing. Limited to 3000 copies.
Folio. Original illustrated boards, titles to front cover and spine in orange and yellow. With the original photograph of Thompson. Housed in the original blue cloth... Read more
EVANS, Walker.
Many are Called. 1966
£600
First Edition, First Printing.
Small quarto. Original black boards, titles to upper board and spine printed in white. Many photographic illustrations. Book fine in edge rubbed and creased dust jacket Read more
WEBER, Bruce.
The Andy Book. 1987
£600
First edition, first printing. Bruce Weber focused on small-town boxer Andy Minsker for this 1987 book, which was only published in Japan. Text is in English by Minsker himself, with...
Quarto. Original wrappers, photographic portrait to front and back cover, titles to front cover and spine in red. Very small closed tear to top corner of front... Read more
WALTON, Izaak; Charles Cotton; R. B. Marston (ed.)
The Lea and Dove Edition, being the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler 1888
£600
A salesman's dummy, or blad, for the lavish royal quarto signed limited edition of the 100th edition of The Compleat Angler. The edition is particularly notable for its photogravures...
Royal quarto (325 × 255 mm). Original dull red morocco-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers (the same as used in the deluxe binding), top edge... Read more
CARTIER-BRESSON, Henri, & François Nourissier.
Vive La France. 1970
£600
First Edition. With the photographer's signed presentation inscription on the half title page, "a Ruta / avec mon affection / Henri". The recipient was Ruta Sadoul, wife of the...
Large quarto. Original white boards, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the dust jacket. With hundreds of photographic illustrations by Cartier-Bresson. An... Read more
(LAWRENCE, D. H.) BYNNER, Witter.
Photographs of D. H. Lawrence. 1981
£575
First Edition, Sole Printing. One of just 50 numbered copies. An assemblage of photographs taken by Bynner on the journey he shared with Lawrence et al through New Mexico and Mexico...
Oblong octavo. Original black cloth album, black ribbon ties, titles in white to the upper board. 25 original photographic prints from the negatives tipped in. Fine in... Read more
DAVIS, Charles Oliver Bond.
The Life and Times of Patuone, The Celebrated Ngapuhi Chief. 1876
£575
First edition, uncommon, COPAC shewing just BL and Oxford, OCLC lists only 10 copies in the US. Life of the Maori chieftain who witnessed Cook's arrival in New Zealand as a boy, his...
Duodecimo. Original grey card printed wraps. Original albumen print photographic frontispiece of Patuone by Auckland photographer, G. Redfern. Wraps somewhat soiled... Read more
(ELLINGTON, Duke)
Superb 1930s, signed head and shoulders photographic portrait c.1937
£550
Wonderful portrait image of the young Duke in top hat and white tie, signed "Best Wishes, Duke Ellington" across the shirt-front. Superbly evocative inked annotation verso by Bob...
Glossy "8 × 10" (257 × 201 mm) promotional photograph by Maurice of Chicago. Pin-holes to the corners, a few minor surface marks, but overall very good. Read more
VIRILIO, Paul.
Bunker Archéologie. 1975
£500
First edition, first printing. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris for the Exhibition of Virilio's photographic studies of...
Square quarto. Original photographic stiff wrappers, titles to front cover in black, titles to spine in white. Minimal rubbing to edges, a lovely bright copy. Read more
CLAXTON, William, & Joachim E. Berendt.
Jazzlife. Auf den Spuren des Jazz. 1961
£500
First edition, first impression, wrappered issue. Joachim E. Berendt was an important jazz promoter in Germany following the Second World War. He wrote a number of significant books...
Perfect bound. Original black, white, and red wrappers. Illustrations from photos by William Claxton throughout. Lightly rubbed at extremities, very short tear at tail... Read more
RIEFENSTAHL, Leni.
Kampf in Schnee und Eis. 1933
£500
First edition, first impression. Loosely inserted vintage photo-card with Riefenstahl's later signed greeting. A very nice copy of the author's first book, an account of her...
Octavo, original ecru rough cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine in maroon, green top-stain. Numerous plates, many from the author's photographs.... Read more
CUMMINS, Kevin.
Manchester. Looking for the Light through the Pouring Rain. 2009
£500
First edition, first impression. Foreword by Richard Milward. Limited to150 copies signed by Cummins, and a photographic print signed by Cummins. Numbers 1 to 50, AHW1, bound in blue...
Octavo. Original mottled blue cloth, titles to upper cover and spine in black. With the mottled blue cloth portfolio containing a gelatin-silver print. Housed in... Read more
