Literature

Photographs of New York by Helen Levitt with and essay by James Agee.  New York: The Viking Press. 1965.First edition. 195x235mm. pp. [vi], 78. Publisher's black cloth with authors' names stamped in white on the upper cover and the title and publisher stamped in white on the spine. Dust jacket illustrated with black and white photograph by Levitt on the upper cover and spine and part of the lower cover. On the lower cover is an extract from Agee's essay.

New York Whitney Museum of American Art and Pace Editions Inc.. 1971.1971 Limited Edition. 300 by 240mm. No Dust Jacket, as issued. Limited to 2000 copies. Contents fine. Bound in hardcover of white cloth printed in black and white abstract design with a colour photo pastedown on front cover. Titled in raised white lettering on front cover. Cover is clean and near fine with slight rubbing to the head and foot of the spine. Hundreds of black and white, and colour photographs.

London: LCB in association with Thea Westreich. 1993. First Edition, First Printing. 4to, 283x235mm. Unpaginated. Black cloth with title and author printed in silver on the spine. Some modest bumping to the corners and rubbing to edges. Original illustrated dust jacket with some chipping to the top of the backstrip and a repaired tear to the foot of the front cover on the hinge with the flap. Illustrated throughout. No text. Banned in the U.S. when it was released. Over 150 colour and black and white photographs including Clark's use of collage and images taken from television screens.

Prague: Torst. 2003First edition of this selection of 83 photographs by Chochola's with an introductory essay by Ales Kunes. 160mmx180mm. Inscribed "To Mr John Morris, Blaha and Vaclav CHOCHOLA, Prague, 6.4.2004".

London: Chapman & Hall. 1936.1st ed, 4to. (310x250mm). pp 48, illustrated with 48 black and white plates on semi-glossy stock. Near fine in pale grey flecked buckram with blue-stamped titles and artist's signature.

Croton-on-Hudson: Menses Inc. 1984.First limited ed of 100 copies thus. Square 4to concertina-folded leaves, pp 101, illustrated throughout. A Near-fine copy with some marks to the first leaf - else crisp and clean. Housed as issued in a red brocade sleeve with a laid-on paper title label. In a very good grey slipcase with some very light wear to the corners.

New York Congreve. 1978.First edition, large 8vo, pp; 150, illustrated throughout. Fine in black cloth boards with white-stamped titles to spine. In a Near-fine photographic DJ.

Zurich: Scalo. 1995. 1st ed, folio. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout in B&W. Near-Fine in wine-red cloth with silver-stamped 'KL' to the upper board and silver-stamped titles in indigo panels to the spine. No DJ as issued - one small pale mark to the loward the lower edge of the upper board. A series of exquisite photographic essays in style by the enigmatic Mr.

Paris: Editions Mana & Editions Tiranty. 1949.1st edition, small 4to, 36pp, illustrated throughout, VG in plain card in fold-round illustrated card wraps. Worn and rubbed to extremities with some light creasing. With text by Marcel Natkin on various technical and aesthetic aspects of nude photography, this includes works by Boucher, Brassai, Jahan & Sougez.

New York: Aperture. 1975. 4to, unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Near-fine in chocolate-brown cloth with both blind and silver stamping.

Germany Scalo. 1996.8vo paperback. 76pp, illustrated throughout.

London: George Routledge & Sons. 1941.1st ed, 4to. (310 by 250mm)  pp. 8, 48 B&W plates on semi-glossy stock. Very good although with some spotting to endpapers. In oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and artist's signature to the upper board and spine. In a very good original photographic dust jacket in plastic wraps with light chipping to extremeties and light overall toning.

London: George Routledge & Sons. 1940.1st ed, 4to. pp 8, 48 B&W plates. Very light toning to margins and occasional spotting to versos of plates and endpapers only. Text block is approx 1/8th" bowed - else a Very Good copy in oatmeal buckram with chocolate brown-stamped titles and authors signature to the upper board.

New York: Aperture. 1982.Landscape format small 4to. 63pp, illustrated throughout in colour. Near-fine in burgundy cloth boards with burgundy gloss stamped titles. In near-fine pictorial DJ with only very minimal bumping to the top front corner and top of spine.

Kempen: teNeues. 2004First edition. Folio. pp. 195. Loosely inserted limited signed print 2/200. Lavishly illustrated in colour and black and white. The text is in French, Spanish, German, Italian and English. Original black cloth, blind-stamped on spine and upper cover. Illustrated dust-jacket, lettered in white, repaired at head of spine. Black cloth slipcase.

London: The Studio. 1903.Complete in Eight Volumes. This excellent set is in its original grey paper wrappers. The whole is of a very high quality. Each Part contains an introductory essay on a particular artistic medium. These are paginated consecutively through the series running to 64 (unopened)pages. The subjects covered are: 1. Wood Engraving; 2. Lithography; 3. Oil Painting; 4. Water Colour; 5. Etching and Dry Point; 6. Pastel; 7. Monotyping in Colour; 8. Pencil and Pen. A French translation is loosely inserted in each part. Every issue has six tipped-in plates. These include original etchings and lithographs.

Knokke-Zoute Guy Pieters Gallery. 1989.First edition. Signed in brown pastel crayon by Christo with his distinctive signature. From the introduction, Masahiko Yanagi describes this work as follows: "In December 1984, amidst final preparations for The Pont Neuf Unwrapped, Paris, 1975-1985, Christo created several drawings of imagined umbrellas set in an anonymous landscape. Thus began The Umbrellas, Joint Project for Japan and USA, in which the artist is endeavouring to temporarily install 3,000 giant octagonal umbrellas, simultaneously in two sites one in Ibaraki, Japan, and the other in California, USA.

London: Jonathan Cape. 2010 Square 8vo, 688pp, illustrated throughout with colour & B&W photographs, bound in yellow silk bookmark. Near fine in grey cloth with black-stamped titles to top board and spine. In near-fine illustrated slipcase.

London: The Studio. 1923.Special Spring Number of The Studio for 1923. 4to. (285 by 200mm) pp.14 text + 24 tipped in colour illustrations, with captioned tissue- paper. Green cloth, blind design with gilt border and gilt lettering in panel on upper cover, gilt lettering on spine. Cream illustrated dust-jacket, tear on lower cover. A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. The front pastedown has the label for A Louis de Meuleneere, 21, Rue du Chene, Bruxelles.

London: The Studio. 1935.Studio Special Spring Number for 1935. 295x211mm. pp. 48 plus 16 colour plates each with a brief introductory explanation. Bound in beige cloth with title stamped in black on upper cover in modernist sans serif font. Beige dust jacket with the title printed in black in the same font and with a geometric modernist motif in the centre. A survey of modernist painting and design from Post-Impressionism to Futurism with good quality colour reproductions tipped in. Includes images by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Modigliani, Rouault and Chagall.

London: The Studio. 1935. Studio Special Winter number for 1935. (285 by 200mm)  pp. 120. 4 pages of advertisements for craft and children's art books. Bound in pale green cloth with title and author stamped in black on upper cover and spine. Blue dust jacket made from high quality thick grained paper. Decorated with heavy line drawing of a toy horse on front and the title and author printed in black on front and spine. A tear to the top of the jacket with some small loss. Protected by plastic cover.