Literature

Baden, Switzerland: Kodoji Press. 2007.Limited edition, number 15 of 20 with an original signed and numbered print: "New Graffiti #2 (CHURCHYARD) 2005". Book: 385x275mm. Unpaginated. Signed by Nanna Hänninen. Bound in grey and black linen over boards, lettering stamped in black to upper cover. Thirteen double-page reproductions of a series of digital c-prints on diasec. Short essay by Urs Stahel in English and German. Biography of Nanna Hänninen. Book is housed in a grey card slipcase with white label printed in black. Book and slipcase are in excellent, fine condition.

New York: Hastings House. 1961.First edition, first issue. 305x215mm. Unpaginated. Cream cloth decorated simply in red. Original black and white illustrated dust jacket protected by plastic cover. Some slight rubbing and chipping to the edges of the dust jacket but overall the binding and jacket are in excellent condition. Extensively illustrated throughout in black and white and colour design demonstrating the principles set out by Sutnar in his text. Accompanying the book is a collection of four A4 size original advertising and marketing leaflets showing Sutnar's work.

BY THE CATALOGUER OF THE BODLEIAN AND WALPOLE COLLECTION OF PRINTS Manchester and London: Hurst Chance and Co. and Hunt and Clarke. n.d. [1825-1829].Six parts bound in two volumes. 12mo in 6s (180x110mm). pp. [36], 378ll; [6], 445ll. The first two parts were printed in Manchester under a slightly different title. They were then reissued in London under the present title between 1825 and 1829. Contemporary half calf, marbled paper boards. Spine has four raised bands decorated in gilt, compartments decorated in blind. Contrasting lettering pieces, lettered in gilt. All edges marbled. A little rubbing at the extremities.

New York: Larry Clark. 1987.Second edition. 293x227mm. pp. [148] Unpaginated. Black and white photographs with an autobiographical essay by Clark. Card cover illustrated with a black and white photograph of teenage lust. The cover and contents are in near fine condition. A superb copy of this controversial, explicit and dark collection of images and words. It formed the inspiration for Clark's radical film "Kids".

London: Printed for J. Newbery. 1760.First edition. 8vo (200x120mm). pp. [2], vi, 264. Contemporary calf with double fillet borders in gilt to upper and lower covers, five raised bands to spine, compartments simply decorated with gilt borders. The binding is worn in places with scuffing, particularly to the foot of the upper cover at the joint and on the lower cover near the joint where there is cracking. Corners bumped and rubbed. But overall this is a handsome, simple and tight binding. The contents are in excellent condition, bright and fresh with only a little foxing.

Being a summary introduction to Polite Learning adapted to the Service and Instruction of Youth of Both Sexes, and of Others, who wish to acquire, or to confirm, useful and pleasing Knowledge in the various Branches of Education. The First Series. Containing Elementary Principles of Geography, History and Chronology, Natural History, and Botany &c. Adorned and Illustrated by Many Plates.  London: Printed for C. Taylor. 1797.Second edition. Three Volumes. 8vo in 4s (210x125mm). pp. Vol. I. pt. I: xiv, [2], 242, [2]; pt. II: [iv], 208; Vol. II. pt. III.

Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald. 1865.First edition. 8vo (212x133mm). pp. [iv], 96. Marbled paper over boards, backed with brown cloth. Remains of handwritten title label to head of the spine. Some wear to outer edges and corners but otherwise very good. Contents are very good but with light damp-staining to the lower third of the first thirty two pages. Browning to the title page and the last leaf but otherwise this is a clean tight copy. Ownership stamp on the title page of Dr med. R. Kobert, pract. Arzt.

Toulon: Hotel des Arts. n.d. [c.2000].First edition. 8vo (220x170mm). Unpaginated save for the seventeen pages of text, [pp. 136]. Number 259 of an unknown number of first printing copies of this striking and strikingly designed collection of beach photographs. The cover is card although with a faux-satin finish, decorated with a polka dot lenticular design, lettered in black. Crease to upper cover but otherwise very good. Printed on a variety of paper types from high quality gloss to soft kitchen-paper. The text, in French, is an essay by the photographer Sophie Baiss-Fabiani and, separately, an interview with her.

Tokyo: Pacific Press Service. 1982.First edition. Exhibition catalogue. pp. 112. 280 by 210mm. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by W. Eugene Smith. Bound in card, upper and lower cover illustrated. Illustrated paper slipcase with some tears but rare in any condition. The book is in superb condition. It is a catalogue of an exhibition organised by the Pacific Press Service whose founder was Robert Kirschenbaum. Kirschenbaum organised this retrospective of Eugene Smith's work in 1982, four years after Smith's death.

New York: Harry N. Abrams. 1969.First Edition. Cloth with gilt decorated elephant and donkey emblems of the Republican and Democratic Parties. Dust jacket with some wear and small tears on spine and upper edges. Contents near fine, jacket very good. Inscribed by Duncan to his friend the photo-editor John G Morris. "November 1969. For John - Happy Thanksgiving and Super Saludos - Dave". This is a superb photographic record of the 1968 Conventions. From the Library of John G Morris. John G. Morris (1916-2017) was probably the most celebrated photo-editor of the 20th century.

New York: Harper and Row. 1972.First edition, hardcover. 310 by 310mm. 42 large colour plates taken in Paris. Inscribed to his friend John G. Morris: "16th August '73. For John, Good Luck with your day dreams! Dave". This book is the result of Duncan's experimentation with the use of prisms and other lens effects to achieve "a new camera idiom". The result is a striking set of images. The contents are very good although there are small tears and some discolouration to the dust-jacket. From the library of John G. Morris. This book was a major departure for Duncan.

New York: Ridge Press. 1965.First Edition. Presentation copy to John Morris, legendary photo-editor of Life Magazine and New York Times: "Nov. 1965. For John, with much love and admiration for what you are and who you are. The first person I knew in photography - to me you're still the greatest. Most sincerely, Ken." Small 4to. pp. 208. Numerous b/w illustrations. Slight discolouration at edges. Cream cloth boards, gilt lettering on upper cover, black lettering on spine. Dust-jacket almost complete but some tears, worn and discoloured at extremities.

London: Chatto & Windus. 1883.First edition. 8vo. (185x120mm). pp. xxv, 562, 32 [advertisements, March 1883]. First edition published in the UK a few days before the first US edition. With over 300 illustrations. Original publisher's red cloth with illustration stamped in black to upper cover and spine and with the title in gilt. Publishers' device stamped in black and red on the lower cover. Wear to the head and foot of the spine and to the corners. Attractive olive-green leaf pattern endpapers. Slight shelfwear to the edges. Contents clean and tight with only minor foxing or marking.

A Letter to the Right Hon. Llloyd, Lord Kenyon and an Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind, part of whose Skin resembles that of a Negro; with some observations of the causes of the differences in colour and form between the White and Negro Races of Men. With a Memoir of his Life, Written by Himself.  London and Edinburgh: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Archibald Constable and Co.. 1818.First and only collected edition. 8vo (225x135mm). pp. [viii, versos blank], vii-lxxiv, [i] bl., 439, (1) imprint.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, Charles Dilly and William Creech. 1787.First edition of the English translation. 8vo (210x125mm). pp. xx, 298, [2] advertisements. Engraved frontispiece by Charles Shervin. Early manuscript inscription of ownership on second free endpaper. Full tree-calf, decorated with gilt edges, spine with gilt bands and burgundy morocco label with gilt lettering. Extremities slightly rubbed, but otherwise a fine crisp copy. Bonnet’s philosophical defence of Christianity was originally articulated in his “La palingénésie philosophique, ou idées sur l’état passé et sur l’état futur des êtres vivans” (1769) and “Recherches philosophique sur les preuves du christianisme” (1770).

the Man in Miniature known as General Tom Thumb and his wife Lavinia Warren Stratton: including the history of their courtship and marriage; Com. Nutt & Miss Minnie Warren, with some account of remarkable dwarfs, giants, and other human phenomena, of ancient and modern times, and, also, Songs given at their public levees. London: Brickhill and Bateman. 1865. Slightly expanded English edition following the American edition of 1863. 179x118mm. pp. 50, [i]. Lacking the original wrappers so the title page is the cover page. Tear with loss (but not to text) to the top of the front page.

The First Psycho-geographer? London: John Murray. 1851.First edition. In three volumes. 12mo (197x120mm). pp. xx, 360, 32pp ads; xi, 1bl, 366, 32pp. ads; xi, 1bl, 426. Engraved frontispiece in volume 1. Half titles in all three volumes and advertisements as called for. Original green/blue cloth with ribbed pattern to the borders of the upper and lower covers. White paper labels to the spines with the title and author printed in black. The label on volume two is torn at the head with some loss.

A Radical Book for Radical Times Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons. 1866. First edition. Three volumes. 8vo (222x135mm). pp. 303; 290; 284 + 4pp. publisher's adverts. Original tan blind-stamped cloth with gilt lettering on spines. Vol. 1. Spine darkened and frayed at head. Vol. 2. rubbed on joints, biro mark on upper cover. Vol. 3. Rubbed on joints and nicks at head of spine, neatly repaired. Overall, a good clean copy. Vol. 1. 'Dadie' Rylands annotations on front pastedown endpaper. Book-plate of Justin McCarthy. Stamp on title-page. A very good copy.

Munchen: Albrecht Kraus. 1987.First German Edition. 365 x 260mm. pp. 47. 20 photographs by Michael Montford. Dark brown cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Original dustjacket illustrated with a photograph of Bukowski. Signed on title page by both author and photographer. First German edition.

Stockholm: Foto Expo. 1965.First edition. 12mo (199x147mm). pp. [32, [8] (unpaginated). 38 black and white photographs, text by Per Olaf Sundman, Peter Weiss and Tor-Ivan Odulf, design by Erik Pettersson. Original black and white photo-illustrated covers. Protected by transparent plastic wrapper. The whole is in fine condition. Strömholm was initially associated with Subjective Photography and Otto Steinert’s Fotoforum group who saw photography not as reportage but as a reflection of the photographer’s personal view of the world, though he left when he felt that their aspirations were too formalist.

London: Sands & Co.. [1893]. First edition? 8vo. pp. iv, 92. Folding illustrated alphabet and further illustrations in the text, decorative initials. Verse written by Lady Strachey, 1840-1928, the wife of Richard Strachey and the mother of Lytton. Original light blue pictorial cloth.

Film poster for Maury Dexter's 1968 film "Mary Jane" which sets out to expose the "shocking facts behind the marijuana controversy". Two moody boys look into each other's eyes while one rests his hand on the other's shoulder. A girl in round dark glasses dances in that "groovy" late sixties style. Perhaps her name is Mary Jane.

Film poster for Albert Zugsmith's 1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater, starring Vincent Price. 340x280mm. Mounted on white card but unframed. Excellent condition. Shows Price with an opium pipe out of which Linda Ho appears screaming in a stream of smoke.

Paris: Hautecoeur Martinet. 1830-1835.Lithograph with hand colouring (255x190mm) by an unknown artist. Printed by Delaunois. The image, which might be from the satirical journal "La Caricature" although this is not clear, shows a young woman with two babies standing outside a priests' house. A priest has come to answer the door and she is asking him for charity. He is saying that since the revolution priest are like her (i.e. short of money). The doors open to reveal five priests drinking and cavorting.