Photography

New Hampshire: Addison House. 1977.First edition. 275x188mm. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout. Photographic card wrappers, protected by a transparent plastic cover. In excellent condition with only a little light shelfwear to the extremities Internally very good. Signed by Kroll on the frontispiece. A nice copy of an important sociological study. Offered with an original vintage print signed by Eric Kroll on the back and from his own collection. Part of the mount is cut out to show the signature. In very good condition.

Paris: Aux Éditions Tiranty. 1945.265x189mm. pp. 40, [2]. XXXII black and white photographs. Card covers with illustrated paper wrappers. Foxing and marking to the covers but overall a very good copy and internally in excellent condition, especially the photographs which are by Laure Albin Guillot, Pierre Boucher, Man Ray and Roger Schall. The first half of the book is a brief history of the nude in art from antiquity to the 20th century and there isa chapter at the end on the technique of nude photography.

High Kelling, Norfolk: Voewood Press. 2014.A photographic record by celebrated British photographer Martin Parr of the 2013 Voewood Festival. Introductory text by Martin Parr and DBC Pierre. Includes a photograph of Glen Matlock at his birthday party with David Gilmour, a guest, is standing behind Matlock singing Happy Birthday.

San Francisco. 1979.Black and white photograph by Anita Corbin. Photograph measures 370x263mm in the mount which is 470x365mm. A small crease to the top right corner but otherwise in excellent condition. It shows Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg during a poetry recital. Orlovsky is centre stage, mid-declamation and with his arms stretched out. Ginsberg is sitting next to him quietly watching him perform. The photograph is pasted onto card and placed in a white card mount. On the back of the card is an inscription "To Peter, love and hugs Anita Corbin".

Göttingen: Steidl. 2004.First edition. 300x295mm. pp.256. Original grey paper covered boards, title stamped in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Very slight bumping to the bottom corners. Otherwise, near fine; an excellent copy of a beautifully produced book. pp7-17: essays by Eugen Blume ("Conversation on the Beach too long") and Manfred Leve ("Photographing Block Beuys"), text in German and English. pp20-256, black and white photographs of Beuys's work.There are two short collections of photographs from exhibitions in Düsseldorf and Mönchengladbach which form part of the "Ur-history" of the Block Beuys installation.

Tokyo: Sinchosha Company. 1998.First edition. 8vo. [658pp] Card covers in white decorated with red circle (i.e. the Japanese flag. Lettered in white (on red) to spine. Illustrated paper wrapper and publisher's band (obi). All in excellent condition with only the very slightest shelfwear. Illustrated throughout with almost no text apart from chapter headings in Japanese and English. Kurata's work is in the tradition of the photo-documentary. He captures, in both colour and black and white, everyday life in Japan from the mainstream to the counter-cultural.

[Prague] Galerie Dila Usti nad Labem. 1972.First edition. Exhibition catalogue for a show of sculptures by Stanislav Hanzik in Prague in 1972. 230x165mm. pp. 28. 14 pp of text and 16 (unpaginated) pp of photographs and 1 page of list of sculptures at the exhibition, final page blank. Text in Czech. Original brown card wrappers with Hanzik's signature printed in red on upper cover, all in excellent condition. Sudek began life as a bookbinder but after losing an arm in WWI, became a photographer and was the great 20th century chronicler of Prague.

Paris: Éditions arts et métiers graphiques. 1933.Twenty loose leaves (title page and nineteen black and white photographs) in a cream coloured board folder, spine in cream linen with a black and white photograph of a woman on the upper cover. Housed in a blue purpose made box lettered in gilt on the spine. There is some rubbing and wear to the folder itself and to the photograph on the cover.

Cape Town: The Gallery Press. 1982.First edition. Signed by David Goldblatt. Oblong quarto. 285x292mm. Unpaginated. Seventy-one black and white photographs. Two page introduction by Goldblatt at the beginning of the book and at the end is the four page Declaration of Group Areas at Boksburg designating certain areas in the Boksburg district to be reserved "for occupation and ownership by members of the White group". Original black cloth boards lettered in white. Black dustjacket letter in white, protected by a transparent plastic wrapper.

New York: Visionaire. 1997.Limited edition of 3000. Dark blue vinyl case with a pack of large playing cards inside. All inside a white card box. The images on the cards were each designed by individual art directors including Fabien Baron, Mario Testino (who photographed John Galliano as the King of Diamond while Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin photographed Iman as the Queen. The 3,000 issues of Visionaire 21 were packaged in individual jewellery boxes, each with its own lock and key, and offered a real diamond for one lucky subscriber. Sadly no diamond with this one.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. 1973.First edition. 235x286mm. pp. [iv], 124. 110 black and white photographs by Richards with accompanying text for some of the images. Photographic illustrated paper boards. Some bumping to the corners and head and foot of spine but otherwise in very good condition and the contents are excellent. Lacking dustjacket. This is Eugene Richards's first book. It was born out of his work with VISTA, (Volunteers in Service to America) which he joined in 1968.

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: 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".

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.

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.

Paris: Éditions de La Martinière. 2000.First edition. Large 4to. (335 by 255mm). pp. 431. Original black cloth with title and author printed in black on the spine. Photographic dust jacket with title and author printed in grey to upper cover and spine. There is some very minor bumping to the bottom right of the upper cover but otherwise this is in fine condition throughout. Text in French. Eight page introductory essay by Lélia Wanick Salgado setting out the aim of the book: "This book tells the story of humanity on the move".

Japan: Self Published. 1981.First edition, limited to 500 copies. 247 by 267mm. Unpaginated. 47 colour plates. Black cloth with title and author stamped in English in silver on upper board and in Japanese on the spine. White card slip-case with a photograph on its front and the title and author printed in black in English and Japanese. Slip-case is protected by a plastic wrapper. Both book and case are in fine condition. The photographs in this, the last of Gocho’s three published works were taken between April 1978 and October 1980.

Tokyo: Hakua Kan. 1977. First edition. 210 by 235mm. Unpaginated. 64 black and white plates. Black cloth with title and author stamped in white on the spine. White dust jacket with black and white photograph on the front. Title and author printed in black on front and spine. Protected by plastic covers. Dust jacket has some modest sunning and a small repaired tear to the head of its spine. Contents fine, dust jacket very good but it is extraordinarily rare to find this highly sought-after and important collection in its original jacket. ffep has a non-authorial gift inscription.

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.