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New Topographics - Signed -
Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, et al.
2009 - Steidl, Göttingen - First Edition
A fine first edition of this’ manifesto for a new vision of landscape photography’. [Blind Magazine, The 50 Most Influential Photobooks of All Time]
Illustrated from photographs by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr.
Signed by Frank Gohlke, William Jenkins, and Britt Salvesen.
William Jenkins was the original curator and the man who named the exhibition—and identified what would become the ‘New Topographics’ movement. Britt Salvesen was the Director and Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson when the ‘New Topographics’ show was revisited.
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2009 - Steidl, Göttingen - First Edition
A fine first edition of this’ manifesto for a new vision of landscape photography’. [Blind Magazine, The 50 Most Influential Photobooks of All Time]Illustrated from photographs by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Nicholas Nixon, John Schott, Stephen Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr.
Signed by Frank Gohlke, William Jenkins, and Britt Salvesen.
William Jenkins was the original curator and the man who named the exhibition—and identified what would become the ‘New Topographics’ movement. Britt Salvesen was the Director and Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson when the ‘New Topographics’ show was revisited.
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Le Paysan de Paris – The Peasant of Paris - Signed by Henri Cartier-Bresson -
Louis Aragon, Henri Cartier-Bresson
1994 - The Limited editions Club, New York - Number 89 of 300 copies.
‘I was seeking… a new kind of novel that would break all the traditional rules governing the writing of fiction… a novel that the critics would be obliged to approach empty-handed’ – Louis Aragon.
A large (32x42cm) beautiful and superbly produced limited edition folio of Louis Aragon’s outstanding Surrealist novel – in which he compares a poet’s love for his city to a peasant’s love for his land – illustrated and signed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of only 300 copies. With the text in English, translated by Simon Watson-Taylor.
Stunningly illustrated with seven original lithographs and a photogravure by Henri Cartier-Bresson. The lithographs were pulled by Bruce Porter at his Trestle Editions studio in New York. The photogravure was printed by Jon Goodman on French-made Arjo Wiggins stock.
Bound in silk and provided with a matching felt lined silk slipcase.
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Price HK$ 9,000
1994 - The Limited editions Club, New York - Number 89 of 300 copies.
‘I was seeking… a new kind of novel that would break all the traditional rules governing the writing of fiction… a novel that the critics would be obliged to approach empty-handed’ – Louis Aragon.A large (32x42cm) beautiful and superbly produced limited edition folio of Louis Aragon’s outstanding Surrealist novel – in which he compares a poet’s love for his city to a peasant’s love for his land – illustrated and signed by Henri Cartier-Bresson, one of only 300 copies. With the text in English, translated by Simon Watson-Taylor.
Stunningly illustrated with seven original lithographs and a photogravure by Henri Cartier-Bresson. The lithographs were pulled by Bruce Porter at his Trestle Editions studio in New York. The photogravure was printed by Jon Goodman on French-made Arjo Wiggins stock.
Bound in silk and provided with a matching felt lined silk slipcase.
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I Want to Take Picture - Signed -
Bill Burke
1987 - Nexus Press, Atlanta - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with duotones and halftones from photographs by Bill Burke; some colour reproductions and photographs.
Signed by Bill Burke with inscription to Terry Etherton within a trace of the photographer's left hand.
A photographic journal taken during the author's trips through Thailand along the Cambodian border in the early 1980’s, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
‘In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with the International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border.’ – Bill Burke.
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1987 - Nexus Press, Atlanta - First Edition
Illustrated throughout with duotones and halftones from photographs by Bill Burke; some colour reproductions and photographs.Signed by Bill Burke with inscription to Terry Etherton within a trace of the photographer's left hand.
A photographic journal taken during the author's trips through Thailand along the Cambodian border in the early 1980’s, particularly focusing on the after-effects of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
‘In 1982, years after Vietnam, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with the International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border.’ – Bill Burke.
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A Way of Seeing. Photographs of New York -
Helen Levitt, James Agee
1965 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition
A fine first edition, of this important photographic work.
In 1945 Photographer Levitt and Pulitzer Prize winning author James Agee worked together in 1945 on a documentary film shot in Harlem, these photographs were taken on the streets of Harlem and the Lower East Side in the late 1930’s and 1940s, but the project remained unpublished until ‘A Way of Seeing’ in 1965.
In James Agee's words, ‘‘Levitt’s photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know… an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and, in a gentle and wholly unpretentious way, a major poetic work’.
‘Since its first publication in 1965, Helen Levitt’s collection of photographs taken on the streets of New York in the 1940s has been a classic of its kind. Produced in collaboration with writer James Agee, who provided the book’s introduction. Levitt’s focus on marginalized children and communities offers a compassionate perspective. His work also set a new standard for authenticity and poetic storytelling in street photography. A Way of Seeing remains a benchmark for those seeking humanity in their images.’ – The 50 Most Influential Photobooks of All Time – Blind Magazine, January 2025.
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1965 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition
A fine first edition, of this important photographic work.In 1945 Photographer Levitt and Pulitzer Prize winning author James Agee worked together in 1945 on a documentary film shot in Harlem, these photographs were taken on the streets of Harlem and the Lower East Side in the late 1930’s and 1940s, but the project remained unpublished until ‘A Way of Seeing’ in 1965.
In James Agee's words, ‘‘Levitt’s photographs seem to me as beautiful, perceptive, satisfying, and enduring as any lyrical work that I know… an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and, in a gentle and wholly unpretentious way, a major poetic work’.
‘Since its first publication in 1965, Helen Levitt’s collection of photographs taken on the streets of New York in the 1940s has been a classic of its kind. Produced in collaboration with writer James Agee, who provided the book’s introduction. Levitt’s focus on marginalized children and communities offers a compassionate perspective. His work also set a new standard for authenticity and poetic storytelling in street photography. A Way of Seeing remains a benchmark for those seeking humanity in their images.’ – The 50 Most Influential Photobooks of All Time – Blind Magazine, January 2025.
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Evidence - Signed -
Larry Sultan, Mike Mandel
1977 - Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae - First Edition
Fine first edition of this ‘pioneering work in photography's engagement with meaning and context’ [Blind Magazine, The 50 Most Influential Photobooks of All Time]
Signed by both Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.
With 60 halftones from photographs, and an afterword by Robert F. Forth.
Described by Martin Parr in ‘The Photobook: A History’, as ‘one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks’.
Sultan and Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the US Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and many other corporations, institutions, and government agencies looking for photographs that were made and used as documents and objective instruments, as evidence.
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1977 - Clatworthy Colorvues, Greenbrae - First Edition
Fine first edition of this ‘pioneering work in photography's engagement with meaning and context’ [Blind Magazine, The 50 Most Influential Photobooks of All Time]Signed by both Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.
With 60 halftones from photographs, and an afterword by Robert F. Forth.
Described by Martin Parr in ‘The Photobook: A History’, as ‘one of the most beautiful, dense and puzzling photobooks in existence, an endless visual box of tricks’.
Sultan and Mandel sifted through thousands of photographs in the files of the Bechtel Corporation, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Jet Propulsion Laboratories, the US Department of the Interior, Stanford Research Institute and many other corporations, institutions, and government agencies looking for photographs that were made and used as documents and objective instruments, as evidence.
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Kiki’s Memoirs -
Kiki [Alice Prin], Ernest Hemingway (editor), Samuel Putnam (translator)
1930 - Edward W. Titus at the sign of the Black Manikin Press, Paris - First Edition in English, one of 1000 copies
A superb and apparently unopened copy of the memoirs of Kiki of Montparnasse – buxom, sensuous, strikingly made-up, uninhibited artist’s model and Parisian good-time girl in the 1920’s who was, Hemingway wrote in his introduction, ‘about as close as people get nowadays to being a Queen but that, of course, is very different from being a lady’.
Featuring an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway, and wonderfully illustrated throughout with full page reproductions of 20 paintings by Kiki and with numerous portraits of her by Tsuguharu Foujita, Kisling, Per Krogh, Hermione David and others, together with several by photographer Man Ray, whose lover she was for eight stormy years. Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam and presented here in the original glassine wrapper, the intact red wraparound band, and the publisher's original slipcase.
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1930 - Edward W. Titus at the sign of the Black Manikin Press, Paris - First Edition in English, one of 1000 copies
A superb and apparently unopened copy of the memoirs of Kiki of Montparnasse – buxom, sensuous, strikingly made-up, uninhibited artist’s model and Parisian good-time girl in the 1920’s who was, Hemingway wrote in his introduction, ‘about as close as people get nowadays to being a Queen but that, of course, is very different from being a lady’.Featuring an Introduction by Ernest Hemingway, and wonderfully illustrated throughout with full page reproductions of 20 paintings by Kiki and with numerous portraits of her by Tsuguharu Foujita, Kisling, Per Krogh, Hermione David and others, together with several by photographer Man Ray, whose lover she was for eight stormy years. Translated from the French by Samuel Putnam and presented here in the original glassine wrapper, the intact red wraparound band, and the publisher's original slipcase.
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Price HK$ 6,500