ADAMS, A. Ansel Adams Fiat Lux. University of California: 1990 1st ed 111 pp, profuse b/w photos, Chronology and catalogue. VG+ in d/w with 1/4 inch nick at head of spine. A book from an exhibition of photographs of the University of California. (Book Ref #23243) £40.00
ADAMS, A. Photographs of the Southwest. Little, Brown & Co: 1994 5th printing 109 pp, 109 duotone plates, notes. Fine in Fine d/w. Powerful and evocative record of the unique landscape of America's Southwest. With an essay on the land by Lawrence Clark Powell. (Book Ref #32296) £25.00
ADAMS, A. & SZARKOWSKI, J. (intro). The Portfolios of Ansel Adams. Little, Brown & Co: 1981 rep unpaginated, 90 b/w plates, notes. VG+. First published in 1977, the typography from the original portfolios has been faithfully reproduced and new laser-scanned separations made of all the images. (Book Ref #32460) £25.00
AMIN, M. & WILLETTS, D (et al). The Roof of the World. MPC: 1989 1st ed 180 pp, profuse colour photos by Mohammed Amin and Duncan Willetts. Fine in a fine d/w. A lavishly illustrated celebration of the meeting point between the Himalaya, Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Pamir mountains in Northern Pakistan. (Book Ref #28796) £20.00
AMIN, M. & WILLETTS, D et al. The Last of the Maasai. Bodley Head: 1988 rep unpaginated, profuse colour photos. Inscription o/w VG+ in slightly nicked d/w. Hauntingly beautiful requiem to the Maasai's vanishing way of life. (Book Ref #25061) £18.00
ANON. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. Scottish Arts Council: 1970 p/b 1st ed 86 pp, some sepia photos. VG+. Catalogue of their centinary exhibition. (Book Ref #21072) £10.00
ANON. Diane Arbus. Aperture: 1990 p/b 1st p/b ed 15 pp text, profuse b/w plates. Bottom front corner creased o/w VG+. "In her pictures nothing is improvised or merely 'caught'. The subjects face the camera with interest and patience. They are fully aware of the picture-making process". First published in 1974. (Book Ref #33817) £18.00
ARGENTERI, L. Tina Modotti. Between Art and Revolution. Yale: 2003 1st ed 329 pp, b/w photos. Fine in Fine d/w. The first academic biography is intensely readable. (Book Ref #33253) £15.00
ARNOLD, E. All In A Day's Work. Hamish Hamilton: 1990 1st ed 165 pp, profuse colour photos. Fine in a d/w with a 1" chipped tear to the top edge. (Book Ref #31560) £12.00
ARNOLD, E. In Retrospect. Sinclair Stevenson: 1996 p/b 1st UK pb ed 289 pp, profuse colour and b/w photos. Card covers lightly fingered o/w VG+. A distillation, in words and pictures, of Arnold's life and her life-work. (Book Ref #33627) £15.00
ARNOLD, H.J.P. William Henry Fox Talbot. Pioneer of photography and man of science. Hutchinson: 1977 1st ed 383 pp, extensively illustrated with Calotype reproductions, notes. VG+ in lightly spine-faded d/w. Inscribed by the author on the front end paper. Scholarly and imaginative work. (Book Ref #24527) £25.00
ATKINS, M. & SINCLAIR, I. Liquid City. Reaktion: 1999 p/b 1st ed 224 pp, profuse b/w photos by Marc Atkins, bibliog. Fine. A well illustrated continuation of the exploration of London begun in Iain Sinclair's highly praised Lights Out for the Territory, the title denoting the changing states of London as well as the Thames that runs through its heart. Includes a piece on bookdealers Drif and Martin Stone. (Book Ref #29201) £10.00
BACHMANN, D. & SCHWARTZ, D. So Many Worlds. A Photographic Record of Our Time. Thames & Hudson: 1996 1st ed 288 pp, 255 b/w illustrations. Fine in a Fine d/w. All the great names of humanistic photojournalism and many anonymous images tell 255 individual stories. (Book Ref #19838) £19.99
BACHMANN, D. & SCHWARTZ, D. So Many Worlds. A photographic record of our time. Thames & Hudson: 1996 1st ed 288 pp, 255 b/w illustrations. Fine in a Fine d/w. All the great names of humanistic photojournalism and many anonymous images tell 255 individual stories. (Book Ref #21654) £18.00
BAILEY, D. & HUGHES, G.(text). Begin With Bailey.. Dent: 1983 1st ed 221 pp, numerous b/w photos. Fine in slightly creased d/w. Based on the highly sucessful Camera weekly series and illustrated with some of Bailey's best work.. (Book Ref #6838) £12.00
BATHO, JOHN. John Batho. Photocolore. Colona: 1985 1st ed 72 pp, profuse colour photos throughout, exhibitions, publications in French5 page interview in French with Annie Chambonnet. (Book Ref #33483) £15.00
BEATON, C. Air of Glory. A wartime scrapbook. HMSO: 1941 1st ed 88 pp, profuse b/w photos. Board extremities lightly rubbed and faded, inscription o/w VG+ in dust stained, chipped and worn d/w. Beaton's evocative work was almost lost when the room that contained them was devastated by a nearby bomb blast. (Book Ref #19148) £50.00
BEATON, C. Ballet. Wingate: 1951 1st ed 85 pp, colour title page and 100+ b/w photos and drawings. Boards slightly bowed o/w VG+ in a slightly edge-worn but very bright d/w. Beaton's personal memoir of the ballet in photographs, drawings and highly memorable prose. (Book Ref #33500) £20.00
BEATON, C. (intro). & BUCKLAND, G. The Magic Image. The genius of photography. Pavilion: 1989 p/b rep 304 pp, over 200 b/w plates. Covers very slightly chipped o/w VG+. Over 200 photographers are represented with a biography by Gail Buckland, a key photographer and Cecil Beaton's personal assessment of their work. (Book Ref #33809) £15.00
BEATON, CECIL. & VICKERS, HUGO. (intro). Beaton in the Sixties. More Unexpurgated Diaries. Weidenfeld & Nicholson: 2003 1st ed 434 pp, b/w photos. Top edge lightly fingered o/w Fine in a Fine d/w. Wicked, waspish and an absolute delight. (Book Ref #33306) £15.00
BELLO, JANE HALSMAN. & BELLO, STEVE. Halsman: A Retrospective. Pavilion: 1998 1st ed 209 pp. Fine in a Fine d/w. The portraits of Philippe Halsman over a forty year career, many of which featured as Life covers. (Book Ref #33822) £30.00
BENSON, HARRY. (photos & text). The Beatles. In The Beginning. Mainstream: 1993 1st ed 125 pp, Over 120 b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. Published to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of The Beatles first trip to America. (Book Ref #33834) £12.00
BORHAN, P. (ed). Andre Kertesz. His Life and Work. Bulfinch: 1994 1st ed 367 pp, 335 duotone and 15 colour photos, bibliog. Fine in a Fine d/w. A chronological overview of a life and career that spanned eight decades and several continents. The first complete retrospective, nearly a third of the images previously unpublished. (Book Ref #33799) £65.00
BRUCE, D. Sun Pictures. The Hill-Adamson callotypes. Studio Vista: 1973 p/b 1st ed 247 pp, 130 callotypes, bibliog. VG+. Four years after Fox Talbot's invention of the callotype, Hill and Adamson began their callboration with the object of producing a massive record of the likenesses of the founders of The Free Church of Scotland. (Book Ref #8101) £10.00
BRUCE, D. Sun Pictures. The Hill-Adamson calotypes. Studio Vista: 1973 p/b 1st ed 247 pp, 130 callotypes, bibliog. VG+. Four years after Fox Talbot's invention of the calotype, Hill and Adamson began their collaboration with the object of producing a massive record of the likenesses of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland. (Book Ref #9515) £15.00
CAPA, CORNELL. & WHELAN, RICHARD. (eds). Cornell Capa. Bulfinch: 1992 1st ed 216 pp, 179 b/w illustrations. Fine in a Fine d/w. Cornell Capa wished to be distinguished as a photojournalist of peace. As a staff photographer for Life he was able to fulfil this brief. This is the first retrospective of his work. (Book Ref #33839) £35.00
CARROLL, J. Falling for Marilyn. The Lost Niagra Collection. Virgin: 1996 1st ed 102 pp, profuse b/w photos by Jock Carroll. Fine in slightly nicked d/w. A series of photographs of Marilyn Monroe taken on the set of the film Niagra by Canadian photojournalist Jock Carroll. (Book Ref #33813) £15.00
CARTIER-BRESSON, H. Tete a Tete. Portraits by Henri Cartier Bresson. Thames & Hudson: 1998 p/b 1st ed unpaginated, 134 b/w plates, 8 b/w sketches. Fine in a lightly chipped d/w. A selection of Cartier-Bresson's most memorable portraits, including Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, Truman Capote and a host of anonymous subjects, introduced by E.H. Gombrich. (Book Ref #33814) £15.00
CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI. About Russia. Thames & Hudson: 1974 1st ed unpaginated, 141 b/w plates. A few fox marks to the blank page before the half title and a light scattering along the top edge o/w VG+ in. Nineteen years after his first visit to the Soviet Union, Cartier-Bresson returned to observe and record life there. The photographs are arranged into four groups by region. (Book Ref #33708) £75.00
CLARKE, D. Colours of Africa. Parkgate Books: 2000 1st ed 175 pp, profuse colour photos by Duncan Clarke. Fine in a slightly torn d/w. 'the glorious presence and meaning of colour in African life'. (Book Ref #33391) £15.00
CLAXTON, WILLIAM. (photography & writing). & HECKMAN, DON. (foreword). Jazz Seen. Taschen: 1999 1st ed 287 pp, profuse b/w photos, some colour. Fine in a lightly scratched dustwrapper. (Book Ref #33564) £25.00
COHEN, M.N. (intro). Lewis Carroll at Christchurch. National Portrait Gallery: 1974 p/b 1st ed 32 pp, 28 b/w photos. VG. Twenty eight portraits by Lewis Carroll together with an early version of 'Hiawatha's Photographing' written before photographic processes changed to dry plate circa 1880. (Book Ref #24413) £15.00
COLOMBO, A. The Great Photographers: Pete Turner. Collins: 1984 p/b 1st ed 64 pp, profuse colour photos, chronology, bibliog. VG+. An excellent sample of the photographer's work. (Book Ref #29213) £10.00
COWAN, R. & GIBSON, F. A Century of Images. Photographs by the Gibson family. Andre Deutsch: 1997 1st ed 135 pp, profuse b/w photos, bibliog. F/F. Signed by Frank Gibson on title page. Three generations of the Gibson family's dramatic landscape photography of Cornwall and the Scilly Isles. (Book Ref #18071) £18.00
CRANE, A. On the Other Side of the Camera. Konemann: 1995 1st ed 260 pp, Over 325 b/w illus. Fine in a Fine d/w. Crane shows us his portraits of an impressive roll call of the great 20th Century photographers. (Book Ref #22432) £17.50
DALTON, S. & BERNARD, G. Vanishing Paradise. Century: 1990 1st ed 176 pp, profuse colour photos throughout. VG+ in slightly chipped d/w. Text by Andrew Mitchell. (Book Ref #32235) £10.00
DALTON, S. & with BAILEY, J. At The Water's Edge. The Secret Life of Lake and Stream. Century: 1989 1st ed 160 pp, approx 120 colour photos. Fine in a VG+ d/w. 'In the hands ...of Stephen Dalton, the camera becomes a magical tool for exploring the natural world'. (Book Ref #33069) £8.00
DANNATT, G. One Way of Seeing. Photography and Painting. Hobnob Press: 1990 1st ed 79 pp, profuse b/w photos, Notes. F/F. Dannatt is both a photographer and a painter and the interplay of one medium with another is the theme of this book.. (Book Ref #28454) £30.00
DUNCAN, C. The World of Paul Strand. My Doorstep 1950-1976. Aperture-Hale: 1994 1st ed unpaginated, profuse b/w photographs, chronology, bibliog. Owner's name on half-title o/w Fine in a Fine d/w. With critical essay by Ute Eskildsen, curator of the Museum Folkwang in Essen. (Book Ref #33820) £25.00
EISENSTAEDT, A. Witness to our Time. Viking: 1966 1st ed 343 pp, profuse colour and b/w photos. Board edges browned o/w VG+ in edge-worn d/w with small losses to bottom edge of rear panel. The record of a life behind the lens, spanning four continents and four decades, by the 'father of photo-journalism'. Twenty Years On. (Book Ref #23193) £22.50
EISENSTAEDT, A. & O'NEIL, D.C. (ed). Remembrances. Bulfinch: 1990 1st ed 141 pp, 141 duotone photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. "Remembrances is a grand celebration of a life devoted to photography" With introduction by Bryan Holme. (Book Ref #33823) £25.00
EWING, W.A. Blumenfeld. A Fetish For Beauty. Thames & Hudson: 1996 1st ed 256 pp, 47 colour, 148 duo tone, over 40 b/w illustrations, chronology, bibliog. Owner's name on title page o/w Fine in a Fine d/w. Examines the inventive techniques used by Erwin Blumenfeld for architecture and landscape as well as the fashion photography which decorated Harper's Bazaar and Vogue for over thirty years. (Book Ref #33806) £25.00
FERRENBACH, J. (ed). Islande. Voyage Aux Portes De L'Arctique. Jaques Damase: 1991 1st ed unpaginated, profuse colour photos by Pierre Ferrenbach. Fine in original glassine wrapper. Text in French. Spectacular photographs, maps, calligraphy and prints with accompanying verse and prose sumptuously presented. (Book Ref #28204) £60.00
FISCHER, R. British Piers. Thames & Hudson: 1987 1st ed 96 pp, 80 colour illustrations. F/F. "A strange mixture of fragile charm and robust vulgarity". (Book Ref #29247) £12.50
FLATTAU, J. Bridges. Lustrum: 1985 1st ed unpaginated, 80 b/w plates. VG+/VG+. (Book Ref #18113) £15.00
FLATTAU, J. Bridges. Lustrum: 1985 1st ed unpaginated, 80 b/w plates. Board edges and f.eps lightly marked o/w VG+ in lightly marked d/w. (Book Ref #20637) £12.00
FLUKINGER, R. et al. Paul Martin. Victorian photographer. Gordon Fraser: 1978 1st UK ed 217 pp, Over 100 b/w plates, bibliog. F/F. Martin's subjects during his amateur period were the working classes of London. This is a selection of his freshest work from the Gernsheim Collection. (Book Ref #23899) £25.00
FORDER, J. & FORDER, E. Hill Shepherd. A Photographic Essay. Frank Peters: 1989 1st ed 157 pp, 140 colour photos, notes. Fine in a Near Fine d/w. Signed by John and Eliza Forder on the title page. A beautiful and empathetic collection studying in detail the hard and secluded lives of the hill shepherds of North West England. (Book Ref #33781) £20.00
FREED, L. Photographs 1954-1990. Introduction by Stephanie Rosenkranz. Cornerhouse: 1991 1st ed unpaginated, 170 duotone photos, captions, exhibitions, books. Fine in a Fine d/w. 'Life and all its emotions' is the theme for this collection of photographs balancing commissioned work with images reflecting a more personal search. (Book Ref #33798) £40.00
GODWIN, F. Bison at Chalk Farm. and Other Snaps. RKP: 1982 1st ed unpaginated, 32 b/w photos. Laminated pictorial boards. Near fine. Famed for her landscape photography, this is Godwin's first collection of 'lighter moments', introduced by Frank Muir. (Book Ref #29811) £12.00
GODWIN, F. Bison at Chalk Farm. and Other Snaps. RKP: 1982 1st ed unpaginated, 32 b/w photos. Laminated pictorial boards lightly indented o/w VG+. Famed for her landscape photography, this is Godwin's first collection of 'lighter moments', introduced by Frank Muir. (Book Ref #33622) £10.00
GODWIN, F. & (SHAKESPEARE, W.). This Scepter'd Isle (From Richard III). Souvenir Press: 1989 1st ed unpaginated, 15 b/w photos. F/VG. z. (Book Ref #5373) £7.50
GODWIN, F. & BEER, P. Wessex. A National Trust Book. National Trust: 1985 1st ed 224 pp, numerous b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. 'exquisite and memorable evocation of this outstanding area of natural landscapes and historic buildings'. (Book Ref #5950) £10.00
GODWIN, F. & BEER, P. Wessex. A National Trust Book. National Trust: 1985 1st ed 224 pp, numerous b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. 'exquisite and memorable evocation of this outstanding area of natural landscapes adn historic buildings'. (Book Ref #5951) £10.00
GODWIN, F. & BEER, P. Wessex. A National Trust book. Hamish Hamilton: 1985 1st ed 224 pp, numerous b/w photos. F/VG. 'Exquisite and memorable evocation of this outstanding area of natural landscapes and historic buildings'. (Book Ref #11373) £6.50
GRANT, I. Cameramen at War. Patrick Stephens: 1980 1st ed 192 pp, profuse b/w photos. F/VG+. Grant was one of the first ashore with the Commandos on D-Day and his work vividly portrays the stories and unsung heroes behind today's television documentaries. (Book Ref #11892) £5.00
HAMILTON, D. Twenty Five Years of an Artist. Aurum: 1993 1st UK ed 315 pp, profuse b/w and some colour plates. Owner's small label and written name on half-title page o/w Fine in d/w lightly sunned at edges with a slight scratch on back panel. Hamilton's 'unconcealed obsession' with the juxtaposition between sexuality and purity. (Book Ref #33793) £30.00
HARRIS, A. & SARTOR, M. Gertrude Blom Bearing Witness. Chapel Hill: 1984 p/b 1st ed 150 pp, profuse b/w photos. Ex-Library with free front endpaper neatly excised and only two small stamps on the half-title verso o/w VG+. Blom, an antifascist organiser in the Weimar Republic, sought to validate all that is best in mankind, during forty years of recording the lives of The Lacandone and Mayan peoples. (Book Ref #31468) £10.00
HARRISON, M. The Great Photographers: David Bailey. Collins: 1984 p/b 1st ed 64 pp, profuse b/w photos, chronology, bibliog. VG+. An excellent sample of the photographer's work. (Book Ref #29209) £15.00
HARRISON, M. & BAILEY, D. David Bailey - Archive One. 1957-1969. Thames & Hudson: 1999 1st ed 275 pp, 313 illustrations, 257 duotone, 56 in colour. Fine in Fine d/w. Bailey's work created so much of '60s style that to turn the pages is to live it again. (Book Ref #33804) £65.00
HIDALGO, F. & GOMEZ, L. San Agustin. Delrosse: 1982 1st ed 207 pp, profuse colour photos, bibliog. Fine in slightly torn d/w. Text in german. (Book Ref #9960) £12.00
HORST, P.H. & PEPPER, T. Horst Portraits. National Portrait Gallery: 2001 1st ed 211 pp, 150 duotone and 20 colour illustrations, chronology. Previous owner's name on title page and small label on front endpaper o/w Fine in slightly nicked d/w. Celebrates the evocative portraits of one of the master photographers of the 20th century, including a number of unpublished portraits with full notes on the sitters and sittings. (Book Ref #33791) £25.00
HOSKING, E. Eric Hosking's Classic Birds. 60 years of bird photography. Harper Collins: 1993 1st ed 190 pp, over 190 b/w photos. Fine in chipped d/w. Eric Hosking's classic black and white photographs, dating from 1929-1970. (Book Ref #12803) £6.00
HUET, M. & SAVARY, C. Africa Dances. Thames & Hudson: 1995 1st ed 172 pp, profuse colour and b/w photos by Michel Huet, bibliog. Fine in a d/w with a half inch closed tear. A well illustrated book capturing, over 40 years, the fast-vanishing culture of dance as initiation and celebration of life and death in Africa. (Book Ref #29141) £20.00
HUGHES, JIM(intro. & Selection). & HAAS, ERNST & ALEXANDER. Ernst Haas In Black and White. Bulfinch: 1992 1st ed 143 pp, 114 photos from the Haas archive, plate list, bibliog. Bottom corners slightly bumped o/w A Near Fine copy in a very lightly chipped d/w. Selection by Jim Hughes and Alexander Hughes offer outstanding examples of Haas's 'transforming power' and 'joyous gift' of 'the art of seeing'. (Book Ref #33790) £80.00
JANUS, (ed). The Great Photographers: Man Ray. Collins: 1984 p/b 1st UK ed 64 pp, 60 b/w photos, chronology, bibliog. VG+. An excellent sample of the photographer's work. (Book Ref #29212) £12.00
JAY, B. Victorian Cameraman. Francis Frith's views of rural England 1850-1898. David & Charles: 1973 1st ed 111 pp, b/w reproductions from Frith's original plates. Inscription o/w VG+VG+. Written for pleasure and technical information, illuminating Frith's concentration on British social scenes. (Book Ref #17193) £10.00
JONES, P. California Photographs. Aperture: 2001 1st ed 135 pp, profuse b/w photos, chronology and exhibitions, bibliog. Fine in a Fine d/w. Essay by Tim B. Wride. A sixty year record of Northern California, particularly of special projects such as recording The Berryessa valley with Dorothea Lange before its submersion. (Book Ref #30479) £20.00
KARSH. American Legends. Bulfinch: 1992 1st ed 156 pp, 44 colour and 44 b/w photos. Fine in d/w with label traces inside front flap. (Book Ref #33825) £15.00
KERS, M. Hollandbook. Photographic Impressions of Holland. Schipper: 1988 1st ed 144 pp, profuse colour photos. Boards slightly bowed o/w VG+ in slightly sunned d/w. Kers captures the stranger elements of the landscape, those resulting from shape, colour and mood, with affection and conviction. (Book Ref #30011) £10.00
KERTESZ, A. Kertesz on Kertesz. BBC: 1985 1st ed 120 pp, b/w photos throughout. Closed page edges lightly marked o/w VG+ in VG+ d/w. One of the Great Master photographers series. (Book Ref #32760) £25.00
KING, S. & FITZGERALD, F-STOP. Nightmares in the Sky. Gargoyles and Grotesques. Viking: 1988 1st ed 128 pp, 100 duotone and 24 colour photos. Black line across fore-edge o/w Fine in a lightly chipped d/w. The stark relief of Fitzgerald's American Gothic images complement the spine-chilling musings of Stephen King's text. (Book Ref #31767) £12.00
KIRK, M. Man as Art. New Guinea. Chronicle: 1993 p/b 1st ed 142 pp, 62 colour portraits and 31 b/w photos of New Guinean masks, captions for masks. VG+. With 25pp essay by Andrew Strathern 'Dress, Decoration and Art in New Guinea'. (Book Ref #21304) £15.00
LEE, E. To the Bitter End. A Photographic History of the Civil War. Viking: 1985 1st ed 226 pp, 122 b/w photos. VG+/VG+. Based around a previously unpublished collection of photographs, which leads the accompanying text in arguing that the campaign changed the nature of combat from a 'gentleman's war' forever. (Book Ref #26986) £8.00
LEEK, SYBIL. & LEEK, STEPHEN. A Ring of Magic Islands. Amphoto: 1976 1st ed 160 pp, colour and b/w photos throughout by Stephen Leek. Fine in VG+ d/w. (Book Ref #32912) £10.00
LEIGH, J. & CONROY, P. The Land I'm Bound To. Norton: 2000 1st ed 226 pp, profuse b/w photos, Notes. Front board very lightly marked o/w F/F. Jack Leigh's photographic tribute to his native South Carolina. (Book Ref #23640) £20.00
LIBERMAN, A. Then. Alexander Liberman Photographs 1925-1995. Random House: 1995 1st ed 256 pp, profuse b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. Photographs that 'reveal a life full of charm and valour and creative energy, and a time that shaped the world we know now'. (Book Ref #15224) £20.00
LLOYD, V. Roger Fenton. Photographer of the 1850s. South Bank Board: 1988 p/b 1st ed 184 pp, 158 b/w plates. F. A comprehensive selection of his work. (Book Ref #23513) £25.00
LORENZ, R. Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage. Photographs 1956 - 2000. Bulfinch: 2001 1st ed 199 pp, 55 colour, 180 b/w plates and 39 b/w illustrations, chronology, bibliog. Fine in a Fine d/w. The 274 images include his seldom-seen early documentary work. (Book Ref #32429) £20.00
MANARCHY, D. En Passant. Black and White photography by Dennis Manarchy. Paper Mirror Press: 1999 1st ed 120 pp, 110 full page b/w photos. A Fine copy in a Fine d/w. 'a stunning compendium' of the human form reproduced using permanent pigments and continuous-tone lithography. (Book Ref #29563) £40.00
MAPPLETHORPE, R. & CHATWIN, B. (text). Lady - Lisa Lyon. Blond Briggs: 1983 p/b 1st ed 128 pp, b/w photos throughout. A near fine copy. 'The photographer and his model have conspired to tell a story of their overlapping obsessions'. (Book Ref #27198) £15.00
MARSDEN, S. Phantoms of The Isles. Further tales from the haunted realm. Webb & Bower: 1990 1st ed 128 pp, numerous b/w (from infra-red film) photos. Fine copy in a chipped d/w. A second collection of darkly romantic photographs of reputedly haunted houses. ...'An astonishingly magical collection...' - Sunday Telegraph. (Book Ref #33810) £12.00
MARSDEN, S. Phantoms of the Isles. Further tales from the haunted realm. Webb & Bower: 1990 1st ed 128 pp, numerous b/w (from infra-red film) photos. Large inscription to f.ep o/w F/F. A second collection of darkly romantic photographs of reputedly haunted houses - 'An astonishingly magical collection' - Sunday Telegraph. (Book Ref #15680) £12.00
MATZE, YOKE. Tactile Light. YM Books: 2003 1st ed 40 pp, 30 b/w plates. White card cover very lightly fingered o/w VG+. Signed by the photographer. (Book Ref #33633) £25.00
MCCULLIN, D. Don McCullin. Jonathan Cape: 2003 new ed 295 pp, profuse b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. '...collectively McCullin's photographs constitute one of the great documents of human conflict and its attendant grief, expressed with a visual lyricism that allows us to glimpse the unbearable'. Originally published in 2001. (Book Ref #33788) £15.00
MCCULLIN, D. Open Skies. Harmony Books: 1989 1st US ed 70 pp, 69 full page b/w plates. Board edges slightly faded under the d/w. D/w is slightly rubbed along the top edge & has 1/2" closed tear at the spine head o/w VG+/VG+. Introduction by John Fowles. "the real subject...is therefore the great unease in Don's own soul...'. (Book Ref #27424) £45.00
MEHTA, A. The Coasts of India. Thames & Hudson: 1987 1st ed 80 pp, 80 colour photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. Evocative and superbly colourful impressions of Mehta's native land. (Book Ref #22961) £15.00
MEHTA, A. & HERZOG, M. Himalaya. Encounters with eternity. Thames & Hudson: 1985 1st ed 31 pp text, 77 colour plates. Small inscription, light foxing to half-title o/w VG+ in slightly torn and chipped d/w. Ashvin Mehta's exquisite photography of the 'top of the world'. (Book Ref #20482) £20.00
MILSOM, H. & MACHON, A. Earthsong. Creative Monochrome: 1995 1st ed 126 pp, profuse b/w photos by Hugh Milsom, technical notes. Fine in a Fine d/w. A lavish collaboration between nature photographer and nature poet. (Book Ref #33807) £25.00
MILTON, M. Exmoor and Beyond. A Personal Photographic Portrait of North Devon. Creative Monochrome: 1996 p/b 1st ed 48 pp, profuse b/w photos. Small scratch on front cover o/w VG+. An atmospheric study of the area. (Book Ref #27832) £7.50
MOORE, BOB. Tapestry of Life. Inner City Portrait 1965-1975. Aperture: 1996 p/b 1st ed 64 pp, b/w photos by the author throughout. VG+. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the Masters of Monochrome series with foreword by Cliff Thompson. (Book Ref #33513) £15.00
MOORE, DERRY. Evening Ragas. A Photographer in India. John Murray: 1997 1st ed 127 pp, 82 b/w plates. Fine in a Fine d/w. A project originally conceived with the princely palaces in mind, which became a study of the lesser buildings and their inhabitants. (Book Ref #33827) £15.00
MORRIS, WRIGHT. & ALINDER, JAMES. (ed). Photographs and Words. The Friends of Photography/Matrix: 1982 1st ed 120 pp, 61 b/w plates. Fine on an unevenly faded and nicked d/w. (Book Ref #33131) £25.00
MULLINS, G. Dorothea Lange's Ireland. Aurum: 1999 p/b rep 119 pp, b/w full-page photos throughout, bibliog. VG+. Photographs from The Oakland Museum collection with essay by Daniel Dixon. (Book Ref #32445) £25.00
McCULLIN, D. Beirut - A City In Crisis. NEL: 1983 1st ed 127 pp, 65 b/w photos. VG+ in VG+ d/w. 'I have had a kind of disasterous love affair with Beirut for the last 17 years.' - Don McCullin. (Book Ref #32125) £18.00
McCULLIN, D. Sleeping With Ghosts. A Life's Work In Photography. Jonathan Cape: 1994 1st ed 208 pp, 200 b/w photos. Previous owner's name and small label on half-title page o/w Fine in a Fine d/w. McCullin's selection of what he considers to be his best pictures. (Book Ref #33800) £40.00
NEWBY, E. What the Traveller Saw. Collins: 1989 1st ed 223 pp, profuse b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. Everyone knows that Eric Newby is a traveller and a writer in a class of his own, not many people know that he is also a highly perceptive photographer. The best of his photographs taken over fifty years are reproduced here. (Book Ref #33718) £15.00
NEWHALL, B. (intro). An Historical and Descriptive Account of the Various Processes of the Daguerrotype and the Diorama by Daguerre. Winter House: 1971 1st ed 282 pp, bibliog. Blind stamped black cloth in plain brown d/w. F/VG+. (Book Ref #24747) £35.00
O'BRIEN, G. (ed). & MEISEL, S. Sex. Secker & Warburg: 1992 1st ed unpaginated, b/w and tinted photos throughout. Aluminium ring bound covers. Covers, particularly the front, lightly scuffed o/w Near Fine. Includes 'comic' but NO pictorial silver envelope or C.D. (Book Ref #30174) £65.00
OVENDEN, G. A Victorian Album. Julia Margaret Cameron and Her Circle. Secker & Warburg: 1975 1st ed 252 pp, 119 b/w photos. VG+ in spine-faded and slightly chipped d/w. A facsimile of the original, described as the most beautiful, the earliest and most characteristic of all photograph albums with an introduction by Lord David Cecil. (Book Ref #32985) £20.00
PARKINSON, N. Photographs 1935 - 1990. Text by Martin Harrison. Conran: 1994 rep 204 pp, 189 b/w and colour photos. Owner's name on title page o/w Fine in a Fine d/w. Attempts to place Parkinson's work from each period within a contemporary historical and photographic context. (Book Ref #33802) £25.00
PARKINSON, N. Photographs by Norman Parkinson. Fifty years of portraits and fashion. Gorden Fraser: 1981 1st ed 112 pp, 21 colour and 68 b/w plates, bibliog. Spine ends very slightly bumped o/w VG+ in VG+ d/w. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery. (Book Ref #33308) £20.00
PARKINSON, N. Sisters Under the Skin. Quartet: 1978 1st ed 140 pp, profuse colour photos. Fine in slightly chipped d/w. Parkinson's first book after four decades as one of the worlds leading fashion photographers captures women of all ages and backgrounds. (Book Ref #29391) £10.00
PATTERSON, F. Portraits of Earth. Sierra Club Books: 1987 1st UK ed 180 pp, 114 colour photos by Freeman Patterson. Fine in Fine d/w. A lavish selection of land, cloud, ice and sandscapes with a revealing commentary accompanying each picture. (Book Ref #33836) £15.00
PRESTON, L. Shadows of Change. Photographs of a Disappearing Industrial Landscape. Creative Monochrome: 1993 1st ed 109 pp, profuse b/w photos by Leigh Preston, Notes. Fine in a Fine d/w. "Leigh Preston is one of the chosen few ... he lays before us images which are more than specific portraits of places: he also imbues them with an authentic mood and poetry." Graham Ovenden. (Book Ref #33826) £15.00
REICH, J. Praha. Petit: 1993 1st ed unpaginated, 72 b/w plates by Jan Reich. Fine in a VG+ d/w. A lavish selection of photos of Prague un-peopled, "a vision of fine old architecture", with a multilingual introduction, including English. (Book Ref #30950) £10.00
ROBERTS, JENIFER. Spirit of the Place. Creative Monochrome: 1992 1st ed 111 pp, b/w plates. Fine in d/w slightly creased at top edge. (Book Ref #33835) £12.00
ROBERTS, P. (text). Photogenic. From the Collection of the Royal Photographic Society. Scriptum: 2001 1st ed 336 pp, profuse sepia and duotone photos. Stamped 'lightly damaged in transit and now being sold at a bargain price'. Top corners bumped o/w F in slightly edge worn d/w. Over 300 of their finest works in print for the first time including rarities and unknowns. (Book Ref #18525) £18.50
RODGER, GEORGE. Desert Journey. Cresset Press: 1944 1st ed 151 pp, 78 b/w plates, map endpapers. VG in edge-worn d/w with small losses to top edge. An account of the photographer's journey through French West Africa, Abyssinia, Eritrea, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Transjordan. (Book Ref #33266) £20.00
ROTHER, RAINER. Leni Riefenstahl. The Seduction of Genius. Continuum: 2002 p/b 1st ed 257 pp, b/w photos, chronology, filmography, bibliog. VG+. A compelling account of the tension between the political meaning of her work and its aesthetic quality in this acclaimed exploration her life. (Book Ref #32833) £8.00
RUTHVEN, M. Traveller Through Time - A Photographic Journey With Freya Stark. Viking: 1986 1st ed 143 pp, b/w photos. Fine in chipped d/w. Suitable captions from Stark's own writings accompany this unique collection of photos. (Book Ref #23190) £15.00
SCHREIBER, M.H.M. Madonna. Nudes 1979. Taschen: 1992 p/b 1st ed unapginated, 18 full page b/w photos and 3 pps of b/w contacts. VG+. The record of a brief pre-fame relationship. (Book Ref #30987) £10.00
SEXTON, J. Listen to the Trees. Bulfinch: 1994 1st ed 91 pp, 50 duotone plates, technical, information. Fine in a Fine d/w. With an essay by James Baker and a selection of poetry and prose by an eclectic group of writers. (Book Ref #33796) £60.00
SEXTON, J. Quiet Light. Fifteen Years of Photographs. Bulfinch: 1994 1st ed 121 pp, 51duotone plates, technical, information. Owner's name on the title page o/w Fine in a Fine d/w. Sexton's first book with essays by James Alinder and Colin Fletcher on Sexton's artistic and technical intentions. (Book Ref #33797) £60.00
SHAPLEN, ROBERT. (intro). The Face of Asia. Thames & Hudson: 1972 1st ed 20 pp of text, 120 b/w plates. A sewn section from plates 49 to 65 loosening, page edges lightly browned o/w a Very Good copy in an edge-worn d/w neatly internally repaired with scuffed back panel. Cartier-Bresson's exploration and definition of the face of Asia, using 'a visual power..which impinges on all our senses'. (Book Ref #33734) £45.00
SMITH, E. & GRIGSON, G. England. Thames & Hudson: 1964 rep 192 pp, 192 photogravure, and 8 colour plates by Edwin Smith. Boards lightly shelf-worn o/w VG+ in slightly edge-worn d/w. Superb collection of camera portraits by Edwin Smith. (Book Ref #16082) £20.00
SMITH, E. & LINKLATER, E. Scotland. Thames & Hudson: 1968 1st ed 224 pps, 124 photogravure plates, 10 in colour and 4 maps. Page edges slightly browned o/w VG+ in slightly chipped d/w. Edwin Smith's second record of Scotland. (Book Ref #17605) £12.00
SMITH, E. & MAC LIAMMOIR, M. (text). Ireland. Thames & Hudson: 1966 1st ed 224 pp, 113 photogravure plates and 10 colour. Page edges browned as usual o/w F in slightly torn d/w. Edwin Smith's first topographical book. (Book Ref #24239) £20.00
SMITH, E. & WILSON, A. England. Thames & Hudson: 1971 1st ed 224 pp, 138 photogravure plates and 8 colour by Edwin Smith. VG+/VG+. The splendour, variety and unexpectedness of the landscape and architecture of England, with commentaries on the photographs by Olive Cook. (Book Ref #19517) £25.00
SNOWDON. Israel, A First View. Weidenfeld: 1986 1st ed 94 pp, profuse colour and b/w photos. VG+/VG+. Taken on Snowdon's first visit to Israel in 1985. (Book Ref #5558) £6.00
SNOWDON. Personal View. Weidenfeld: 1979 1st ed 240 pp, profuse b/w and some colour photos. Endpapers slightly foxed o/w VG+ in edge-worn d/w. The best of Snowdon's work, with a witty and revealing commentary. (Book Ref #25287) £15.00
SNOWDON. Photographs by Snowdon. A Retrospective. National Portrait Gallery: 2000 1st ed 239 pp, profuse colour photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. Foreword by Charles Saumerez-Smith. (Book Ref #33824) £30.00
SNOWDON, A. Snowdon on Stage. A Personal View of the British Theatre. Rizzoli: 1996 1st ed 157 pp, profuse colour and b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. (Book Ref #33792) £10.00
STACKPOLE, PETER. Life in Hollywood. 1936-1952. Mainstream: 1993 1st UK ed 248 pp, over 350 b/w photos. Fine in a d/w slightly creased at spinehead. Stackpole was one of the original 4 Life photographers and his often humorous annotations accompany his work. (Book Ref #33828) £12.00
STEINORTH, K. & GREWENIG, M. Robert Lebeck: Fotoreportagen. magazine work 1955-92. Edition Cantz: 1993 1st ed 139 pp, b/w and colour photos. Lightly shelfworn o/w VG in VG+ d/w. Text in German. (Book Ref #5406) £6.00
STEVENSON, S. David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. National Galleries of Scotland: 1981 p/b 1st ed 220 pp, profuse b/w photos. VG+. A catologue of their calotypes taken between 1843 and 1847. (Book Ref #19872) £35.00
SWANNELL, J. I'm Still Standing. Vision On: 2002 1st ed 205 pp, profuse b/w plates by John Swannell. F/F. A lavish selection of photos by John Swannell of the Establishment - actors, politicians, royalty and more - from Spike Milligan to the Queen Mother via Joanna Lumley and Ken Livingstone. (Book Ref #25327) £15.00
SWANNELL, J. Twenty Years On. Pavilion: 1996 rep unpaginated, profuse b/w full page plates. F/F. A lavish collection of landscapes, portraits of the famous and nudes with a foreword by Bob Geldof. (Book Ref #25948) £30.00
SWANNELL, J. Twenty Years On. Pavilion: 1996 1st ed unpaginated, profuse b/w full page plates. A Fine copy in a VG+ d/w. (Book Ref #33801) £30.00
SZARKOWSKI, J. The Idea of Louis Sullivan. Bulfinch: 2000 new ed 162 pp, 95 b/w illustrations. F/VG+. The sympathetic result of Szarowski's Guggenheim Fellowship. Sullivan's major buildings are accompanied by a lively text and augmented by his biography and writings. (Book Ref #19062) £25.00
TAKAMA, SHINJI. Bamboo of Japan. Graphic-sha: n.d 1st ed 92 pp, 80 colour photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. Captions and Afterword in English and Japanese. (Book Ref #31613) £25.00
TCHEREVKOFF, M. Tcherevkoff the Image Maker. Amphoto: 1988 1st ed 144 pp, 78 colour illustrations. F/VG+. (Book Ref #29999) £10.00
TRUPP, FRITZ. The Last Indians. South Americas Cultural Heritage. Perlinger: 1981 1st ed 263 pp, profuse colour and b/w photos, b/w map, bibliog. VG+ in slightly nicked d/w. Trupp, an ethnographer, recognised the threat to primitive ways of life nearly thirty years ago and recorded details of many Amerindian tribes. (Book Ref #32546) £25.00
TURBEVILLE, DEBORAH. Wallflower. Simon & Schuster: 1978 1st ed unpaginated, colour and b/w plates throughout. Board edges lightly shelf-worn o/w VG+ in lightly marked d/w. (Book Ref #33732) £25.00
VAN VEEN, A. Pieter Oosterhuis 1816-1885. Fragment Uitgever: 1993 1st ed 180 pp, sepia photos, bibliog. Fine in a Fine d/w. Text in Dutch and English. (Book Ref #12751) £22.00
VICKERS, H. Cecil Beaton. The Authorised Biography. Weidenfeld: 1985 1st ed 656 pp, 32 pages of b/w photos and line drawings, notes, bibliog. Owners' stamp o/w V/G in slightly torn d/w. A superbly written and lively biography.. (Book Ref #7425) £12.50
WAITE, C. Scottish Islands. Constable: 1989 1st ed 199 pp, 82 full page colour plates. VG+ in VG+ d/w. (Book Ref #32471) £15.00
WEIERMAIR, P. George Platt Lynes. Bruno Gmunder: 1989 p/b 1st ed unpaginated, b/w plates throughout. VG+. Text in English, German and French. A fine collection of Platt's elegantly erotic males. (Book Ref #28319) £25.00
WEISEL, D. & HELIKER, C. Kilauea. The Newest Land on Earth. Bishop Museum: 1992 p/b rep 76 pp, Profuse photos by Dorian Weisel. VG+. A lavishly illustrated homage to lava, volcanoes and the Hawaiian islands which are riddled with them. (Book Ref #28794) £7.50
WELTY, EUDORA. & PRICE, R. (foreword). Eudora Welty Photographs. University of Mississippi: 1989 1st ed unpaginated, 226 b/w photos. VG+ in VG+ d/w. The work of the writer Eudora Welty covers the 1930s, 40s and 50s, using elements which 'combine her deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities'. (Book Ref #33349) £15.00
WHITE, S. John Thompson. Life and Photographs. Thames & Hudson: 1985 1st ed 200 pp, 173 illustrations including 161 duotone plates, notes, chronology, bibliog. F/F. The first monograph to be published on the great 19th century photographer, featuring his documentary journeys through the Orient, Cyprus and London. (Book Ref #24904) £25.00
WHITE, P.M. & CLARKE, B.C. White Heat. Mitchell Beazley: 1990 p/b 1st ed 126 pp, b/w photos by Bob Carlos Clarke, colour food photos by Michael Boys. VG+. (Book Ref #33496) £35.00
WILLIS-BRAITHWAITE, D. & BIRT, R.C. (biographical essay). VanDerZee. Photographer 1886-1983. Abrams: 1993 1st ed 192 pp, 187 b/w illustrations, bibliog. Fine in a Fine d/w. Published to coincide with The Smithsonian Exhibition of 1993-4. (Book Ref #33348) £20.00
WINDSOR, MARK. By a Different Tide. Photographs of Guernsey. Big Blue Design: 2000 1st ed 77 pp, 79 b/w full page plates. Fine in VG+ d/w. Details of everyday Guernsey life quietly taking place beyond the tourist brochures. (Book Ref #32499) £25.00
WOODHOUSE, ADRIAN. Angus McBean. Face-maker. Alma Books: 2006 1st ed 408 pp, b/w photos. Fine in a slightly nicked d/w. The first full-length biography of a talent recently re-discovered and celebrated. (Book Ref #32876) £15.00
WRIGHT, P. & ARMOR, J. The Mural Project. Photography by Ansel Adams. Reverie Press: 1989 1st ed 112 pp, 85 b/w photos. Fine in a Fine d/w. A selection from the 225 exhibition prints produced by Adams, travelling in America's National Parks at Government's expense, in 1942. Originally intended to be for a mural, this is the first time they have been produced for the general public. (Book Ref #32300) £20.00
YEVTUSHENKO, Y. Invisible Threads. Secker & Warburg: 1981 1st ed 157 pp, profuse b/w and colour photos. VG+/VG+. Words and photographs by one of Russia's finest poets taken as he travelled the world. (Book Ref #29941) £8.00
YOXALL JONES, E. Father of Art Photography: O.G Rejlander 1813-1875. David & Charles: 1973 1st ed 112 pp, over 80 b/w photos, references. Top of page edges lightly foxed o/w VG+ in slightly chipped d/w. Biographical monograph of this gifted and eccentric early photographer. (Book Ref #14000) £25.00
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