Photography

Paris: Mulhouse. 1952. Large octavo, (255x195mm). pp48. Original plain beige card wrappers. Original black dust-jacket printed with white and yellow lettering. Booksellers small ticket to front flap of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket slightly rubbed at extremities. A near fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket. First edition, collecting essays (text in French) on jazz and blues by various writers, including Big Bill Broonzy, Michel Perrin and Paul Andreota.

New York: Times Books in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 1987.First edition. Oblong 4to. 255 by 303mm. 128pp Unpaginated. 55 colour photographs. Text by Any Grundberg and Anne Wilkes Tucker, design by Elissa Ichiyasu and Mark LaRiviere. Original dove-grey cloth with spine lettered in silver. Title to upper cover in blind. Original colour photographic dust-jacket. A particularly nice, near fine copy of this collection of starkly archetypal images of everyday America. Sternfeld travelled across America on and off for eight years with a large format camera.

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.