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KORNISS, Peter. A Vendegmunkas, (The Guest Workers).Budapest : 1988
First edition, first printing. With the photographer's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "To Augusta and Arnold Newman in the hope you will know a bit more about my small country from this book. With warmest regards Korniss Peter Budapest September 12, 1989". Learn More£275.00Stock Code: 76021
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![Showa 23-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashincho :Hokushi sensen hen [in Japanese: A photograph album in memory of soldiers at the front lines during the China-Japan Conflict of 1937-1938].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/114232.jpg)
SECOND SINO-JAPANESE WAR. Showa 23-nen Shina Jihen shussei kinen shashincho :Hokushi sensen hen [in Japanese: A photograph album in memory of soldiers at the front lines during the China-Japan Conflict of 1937-1938].Tokyo : 1938
First edition of this uncommon Japanese propaganda piece recording the opening campaigns of the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In his award-winning study of the conflict - China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 114232
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KLEIN, William. Tokyo.Paris : [1964]
First edition, first printing, French issue (both the French and Japanese issues were printed in Japan and issued apparently simultaneously). An important association copy, with Klein's contemporary signed presentation inscription on the half title to his friend Germano Facetti, and his wife, "to Germano, man of the future, noblest Roman of them all,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 115928
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STRAND, Paul. 16 Gravures from Photography Year Book 1963New York : 1963
First edition, first printing, presentation copy from Strand, inscribed on the back wrapper "To Cipe and Will, with affection, Paul". An excellent association: Cipe Pineles (1908-1991) was personally installed by Condé Nast as assistant to M. F. Agha, legendary art director to the publishing group. "Through the 1930s and early 1940s, Pineles learned... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 89275
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SÉBAH, Jean Pascal, & Policarpe Joaillier. Panorama de Constantinople pris de la Tour de Galata.Istanbul : c.1888
Superb panoramic view of the city taken from the Galata Tower looking over the Bosporus towards the Asian side; across the Golden Horn can be seen the Topkapi Palace, and the great mosques of the city, Haghia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Yeni Mosque, and the Süleymaniye. In 1857 Pascal Sébah opened one of the first photographic studios in Constantinople.... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 139037
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MOHANTY, Bijoy Chandra; K. V. Chandramouli; H. D. Naik. Natural Dyeing Processes of India.Ahmedabad : 1987
First edition, first printing, of this comprehensive guide to the dyeing techniques of India, retaining all the original samples of different textiles. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 140149
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HUNTER, F. M. An Account of the British Settlement of Aden in Arabia.London : 1877
First and only edition of this important monograph, the rare "presentation issue" with the superb photographic plates; commercial records show two copies only, one with Maggs (1954, catalogue no. 824) and another through Sotheby's (1999). Inscribed on the half-title by the recipient "E. V. Stace a kind present from the Author", his signature repeated... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 144018
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RHEIMS, Bettina. Gender Studies.Göttingen : 2014
First edition, first printing, signed by the artist on the half-title, "Bettina Rheims, 2015, Paris". Gender Studies is a series of portraits first exhibited in 2012 in Düsseldorf featuring the "sound design" of Frederic Sanchez, included here on CD. In 2011 Rheims posted an advertisement on Facebook looking for models that felt "other" to feature... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 130721
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HUGHES, Ted. Remains of Elmet.London : 1979
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author "For Janos with lots of love from Ted June 16th 1979" on the half-title. The recipient was Janos Csokits (19282011), a Hungarian poet and close friend of Hughes, who worked with him on the translation of fellow Hungarian poet, János Pilinszky. Csokits was introduced to Hughes... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 135038
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MORIYAMA, Daido. Record.Tokyo : 2008
Reprint of the first five issues of Record, signed by the artist in Japanese and English to the inside cover of the chemise. Daido Moriyama privately published his personal photo-magazine between 1972 and 1973: this edition offers a re-print of the first five volumes, handsomely packaged, of his distinctive grainy street photography. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 136882
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RIEFENSTAHL, Leni. Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf.Berlin : 1937
First edition, first printing, an exceptional copy retaining the rare glassine and card slipcase. This photobook was produced alongside Olympia, Riefenstahl's landmark documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Olympia was immediately recognised as truly innovative, experimenting with cutting-edge shooting and editing techniques, winning the Best... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 141073
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FARGUE, Leon Paul, & Roger Parry. Banalité.Paris : 1930
First edition, first impression, number 259 of 300 copies only. A beautiful reproduction of Fargue's poem Banalité, originally published in 1928, accompanied here by sixteen full-page photographs by Roger Parry. Roger Parry met the Surrealist photographer Maurice Tabard in 1928 and together they experimented with avant-garde techniques such as negative... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 122393
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PORTER, Eliot. Portfolio One. The Seasons.San Francisco : 1963
First edition, first printing, of this fine suite of colour nature photographs. "As its name implies, the dye transfer process literally involves transferring dyes (cyan, magenta, and yellow) in succession and in careful registration onto a sheet of gelatin-coated paper. Porter remained committed to the dye-transfer process, both before and after the... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 120669
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![The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937; [together with:] The Sino-Japanese Hostilities Shanghai 1937. Index.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/111970.jpg)
AH FONG PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO. The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937; [together with:] The Sino-Japanese Hostilities Shanghai 1937. Index.Shanghai & Wei-Hai-Wei : 1937
First edition of the complete set of 200 silver gelatin photographs issued by the Ah Fong Photography Studio, recording the brutal siege and conquest of Shanghai by the Japanese at the opening of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Japan's failure to defeat China in this war became the key dynamic for what happened in Asia during the Second World War. In... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 111970
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BRANDT, Bill. Camera in London.London : 1948
First editions, first impressions, both issues (the preferred case-bound issue and the wrappered issue); presentation copy of the wrappered issue, inscribed by the photographer on the title page, "To Julia Trevelyan Oman, from Bill Brandt", and with her bookplate to the front free endpaper. Oman (19302003) was one of the most celebrated theatre, television,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 104253
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GREEN, John D. Birds of Britain.Bonn : 1967
First German edition, first printing. This edition is bilingual, with the text in English and the German translation laid in, as issued, in a slip to the back pastedown. Birds of Britain was published simultaneously in England, the USA, France, Italy, Germany, and other countries. The book is a collection of photographs of 1960s "birds" (period British... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 137049
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STRAND, Paul, & Claude Roy. La France de profil.Lausanne : 1952
First edition, first printing, of one of Roth's '101 seminal photographic books of the 20th century'. "In the early 1950s Paul Strand moved from the United States to Europe, largely to escape the spectre of McCarthyism... His intention with this book had been to find the perfect French village or small town and to photograph it in depth. But the ideal... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 143858
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WILKINSON, Geoffrey Miles. Manuscript memorial volume of a pilot officer of 56 Squadron R. F. C.Ealing, Middlesex : 1918
A unique and extremely moving document, a manuscript record of the life and brief career of 2nd Lieut. G. M. Wilkinson, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, attached to 56 Squadron R.F.C. (1898-1917), lovingly copied out and compiled by his mother. Following the structure of the memorial volumes of the era the volume offers a brief account of schooling... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 144576
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DIVANOV, Khudaibergen. Eighteen original photographs of Khiva and its people.Khiva : c.1920
Eloquent and atmospheric sequence of images showing the ancient Silk Road city of Khiva during a period of rapid transition, the work of Khudaibergen Divanov, Uzbekistan's first photographer whose life and fate mirrored his times. Proscribed and executed in Stalin's Great Purge, vintage prints from Divanov's studio are exceptionally scarce.
All... Learn More£29,250.00Stock Code: 113773
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GIRARD, Sébastien. Nothing but Home; Desperate Cars; Under House Arrest.2009-11
First editions, signed limited issues, Nothing but Home number 90 of 100 copies, Desperate Cars number 22 of 100 copies, and Under House Arrest number 81 of 100 copies. Each work has an original signed and matching numbered photograph loosely inserted. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 128740
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THATCHER, Margaret. Official cabinet photograph, July 1983.Margaret Thatcher's own copy of the official cabinet photograph taken 7 July 1983, the first cabinet photograph after her landslide victory in the June 1983 election, signed by herself and every other member of the cabinet. This is one of two signed 1983 cabinet photographs, this in colour, the other in black and white, which were kept by Thatcher until... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 133384
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THATCHER, Margaret. Official cabinet photograph, July 1983.Margaret Thatcher's own copy of the official cabinet photograph taken 7 July 1983, the first cabinet photograph after her landslide victory in the June 1983 election, signed by herself and every other member of the cabinet. This is one of two signed 1983 cabinet photographs, this in black and white, the other in colour, which were kept by Thatcher until... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 133386
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HARVEY, David Alan. Based on a True Story.[n.p.] : 2012
First edition, first impression. Meant as an interactive story taking place in Rio de Janeiro, the postcard gives clues to the different ways this photo-novella can be read. Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 140311
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BEDFORD, Francis, & W. M. Thompson. The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, etc. etc.London : [c. 1866-7]
First edition thus, notably scarce, comprising some superb views of Egypt (10), Palestine (23), Lebanon (8), Syria (1), Constantinople (3), and Athens (3). Francis Bedford (1815-1894), one of the most important photographers of the period, his work characterised by it "rich tonalities" (ODNB), was the first photographer to accompany a Royal Tour.
In... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 142282
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BIDERMANAS, Izis. Paris des poètes.[Paris] : 1977
First edition, first printing. Izis's superb photographs are accompanied by poems by 24 writers, including Louis Aragon, Lawrence Durrell, Eugène Ionesco, Jacques Prévert, Claude Roy, and Michel Tournier. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 143809
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BITESNICH, Andreas H. Polanude.Kempen : 2005
First edition, first printing. Bitesnich has used the Polaroid camera for this collection of work. Text in English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 139622
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ROLLING STONES - SYKES, Christopher Simon. The Rolling Stones Tour of the Americas 1975.Guildford : 2006
Signed limited edition, number 29 of 2,500 copies signed by the photographer Christopher Simon Sykes and the Rolling Stones tour manager Peter Rudge; this is one of 350 deluxe copies bound in full leather (the rest of the edition bound in quarter leather), with an additional photographic print of Mick Jagger signed by Sykes and a facsimile of the "Starship"... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 141063
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BRASSAÏ, & Paul Morand. Paris de Nuit.Paris : 1933 [1932]
First edition, first printing, of the photographer's first publication, presentation copy inscribed on the title page to his Parisian host "À Monsieur Gaston Robbe, mes hommages cordiaux, Brassaï Halász, Paris 1932".
Gaston Robbe was the owner of the Hotel Des Terrasses in Paris, where Brassaï had established himself in the early 1930s while... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 142446
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BRASSAÏ, & Paul Morand. Paris de Nuit.Paris : 1933
First edition, first printing, of this work in which Brassaï showcases his mastery "at drawing luminosity from the darkness. The swaths of wet paving stones featured on the covers and endpapers of Paris de Nuit gleam like pale beacons in the streetlight. Inside, Brassaï explores the city, beginning with its broad vistas and grand public spaces and... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 132129
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ERWITT, Elliott & Sean Callahan. Personal Best.Kempen : 2009
Second edition, first printing, inscribed by Erwitt "To Paul" on half-title. Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 134613
