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Bhutan: Sacred Within
by Izu, Kenro
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Published
- 2008
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781590052259
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€94.25
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Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2008. Oversized at 13 1/2" x 16 3/4". A few very light scratches to plate pasted to upper board, otherwise book externally and internally is pristine. 70 beautiful B&W reproduction of photos. Additional postage will be required for this item.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Item Price
€94.25
Araki: Self Life Death (First Edition)
by Araki, Nobuyoshi
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780714845555
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€235.62
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London: Phaidon, 2005. Large and heavy; 719 pages with bibliography, chronology, and index. Dust jacket has a few minor defects. A comprehensive overview of Araki's prolific forty-year career. Essays by Ian Jeffrey, Akiko Miki, Yuko Tanaka, and Jonathan Watkins. Additional postage will be required for this item.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine… Read more about this item Item Price
€235.62
Thomas Struth: Strangers and Friends: Photographs 1986-1992 (First Edition)
by Sennett, Richard (essay by)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1994
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780262193573
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€28.28
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Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994. Large format: 10" x 12 1/2". Book bound in grey cloth with title (block letters) in blind on upper board. Dust jacket has wear along top edge, more along bottom edge including a small chip and 1 1/2" tear and associated creases, and is faded from pale grey to pale green in many… Read more about this item Item Price
€28.28
Atget (First Edition)
by Szarkowski, John
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2000
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780870700941
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€42.41
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New York: Museum of Modern Art \ Callaway , 2000. Large format, 10" x 12", heavy. 224 pages: captures the essence of French documentary photographer Eugene Atget (1857-1927). 100 tritone and 5 duotone photographs. May require additional postage because of heavy weight.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus. Item Price
€42.41
Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations (First Edition)
by Adams, Robert
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Published
- 2006
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781597110044
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€14.14
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New York: Aperture, 2006. Spine of dust jacket has faded from grey to pale green. Duotone reproduction of 28 pictures (woods and rivers), most of them published here for the first time. 95 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus. Item Price
€14.14
Hackney Flowers (First Edition)
by Gill, Stephen
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2007
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780954940539
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€212.06
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London: Nobody / Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. Large format, 8 3/4" x 11 1/2". 3500 copies. Bound in black cloth overprinted in red-orange paint(perhaps done by silk screen). Reproduction of colour photographs taken in east London.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket as Issued. Item Price
€212.06
A Book of Birds (Signed First Edition)
by Gill, Stephen
- Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2010
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9784905052036
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€188.50
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Kanagawa, Japan: Super Labo \ Nobody, 2010. Oblong, 10" x 7 1/4". Town and country photographs, reproduced in colour, with a named bird in each (although some are not readily apparent). Signed by Gill on title page.. Signed by Photographer. First Edition. Thin Trade Paperback. Fine.. Item Price
€188.50
Taiji Matsue: Landscapes (First Edition)
by Paust, Bettina
- Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9783938025192
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€32.99
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Germany: Museum Schloss Moyland, 2005. Bound in pale grey paper over boards with black lettering on upper board and spine. Aerial views of various landscapes (city and countyside), the world over. B&W reproductions of Matsue's photographs. 67 pages. Text in English and German.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine./No Dust Jacket as Issued. Item Price
€32.99
The Essential Duane Michals (First Edition)
by Livingstone, Marco
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Edition
- First North American Edition
- Published
- 1997
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780821224632
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€37.70
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Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little Brown, 1997. Large format, 10" x 11". First comprehensive presentation of the artist's oeuvre. 224 pages with 264 illustrations, 234 in duotone and 30 in color, and a biography, a full bibliography, and lists of awards, exhibitions abd public collections. Heavy and may require additional postage depending on destination.. First North American… Read more about this item Item Price
€37.70
Wynn Bullock: Photography: A Way of Life (First Edition)
by Bullock-Wilson, Barbara
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1973
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780871000347
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€37.70
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Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. Large format, 9" x 10 1/2". 88 magnificently reproduced photographs (in two-impression lithography) that document the full range of Bullock's life work in photography. 160 pages with biographical notes.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus. Item Price
€37.70
Material (First Edition)
by Fraser, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine Plus.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2002
- ISBN
- 9783882437294
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€23.56
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Gottingen: Steidl, 2002. Large oblong, 12" x 8 1/2" with illustrated upper board. Full page colour reproduction of Fraser's photographs, with the following blurb on rear cover "Material is what we start with and material is what we are left with. It is all there is." Unpaginaged.. First Edition. Near Fine Plus./No Dust Jacket as Issued.… Read more about this item Item Price
€23.56
I'm a Real Photogrtapher: Keith Arnatt (First Edition)
by Hurn, David and Clare Grafik
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2007
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781905712052
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€70.69
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London: Chris Boot / Photographers' Gallery , 2007. Large format, 8 1/2" x 9 1/2". Colour and B&W reproduction of Arnatt"s photographs 1974-2002. 151 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Item Price
€70.69
John Blakemore: British Image 3 (First Edition)
by Blakemore, John. Introduction By Gerry Badger
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780728701076
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€70.69
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London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977. Squarish, 9" x 9 3/4", 72 pages. B&W plates, various landscape photograghs: Metamorphoses; Primal Surge; Emergence; All Flows; Premonitions.. First Edition. Large Format Trade Paperback. Near Fine.. Item Price
€70.69
Archaeology in Reverse (First Edition)
by Gill, Stephen
- Condition
- Used - Fine.
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket as Issued
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2007
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780954940560
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€37.70
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UK: Nobody / Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007. Square, 8 3/4" x 8 3/4"; hand-painted (each copy has a blob of red paint on upper board) clothboud (brown) hardback; 3000 copies. Colour plates on all pages of Gill's photographs; with a 12 page afterword by Iain Sinclair inserted. Unpaginated with one fold-out leaf.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine./No… Read more about this item Item Price
€37.70
Judy Dater: Twenty Years (First Edition)
by Enyeart, James L.
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1986
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780816509546
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- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€23.56
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Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1986. Large format: 9" x 11". Dust jacket has significant edge wear: tears, creases, and small chips, and rubbing along rear flap fold. 128 pages with full page reproductions of Dater's photography, both in colour and B&W, and includes a Selected Bibliography.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Good. Item Price
€23.56
Country Life Picture Book of the West Country (First Edition)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1952
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€9.42
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London: Country Life, 1952. Large format, 9" x 11 1/2". Tips bumped, and offsetting to endpapers; internally clean, unmarked and soundly bound. 59 B&W plates, all full-sized photographs of the west country of England. Colour photograph of the south Cornish coast tipped to front panel of dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near… Read more about this item Item Price
€9.42
British Columbia: Our Land (First Edition)
by St. Pierre, Paul (Words)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine Plus
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1977
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780919654969
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€23.56
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Saanichton, BC: Hancock House, 1977. Large format, 10 1/4" x 13 3/4", dark blue fau leather binding blind stamped with title on upper board and with gilt lettering on spine. Dist jacket has a 3" tear bottom of front panel and some other minor edge wear and soiling. 17 page introduction by St. Pierre and reproduction of colour… Read more about this item Item Price
€23.56
Unfinished Business: Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 To1985 (First Edition)
by Jeffries, Bill, Glen Lowry, and Jerry Zaslove (editors)
- Condition
- Used - Near Fine Plus.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 2005
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780920293676
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€37.70
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Burnaby & North Vancouver: West Coast Line & Presentation House Gallery, 2005. Traces of wear to cover edges; internally clean, unmarked, and tightly bound. B&W and colour photographs (Dick Bellamy, Fred Douglas, Fred Herzog, Jeff Wall, Paul Wong, and others) and essays about street photography in and around Vancouver, British Columbia. The cover wrap around photo of Granville… Read more about this item Item Price
€37.70
Mothers & Daughters: That Special Quality: An Exploration in Photographs (First Edition)
by Olsen, Tillie & Estelle Jussim (essays by)
- Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine Plus
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1987
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780893812638
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€18.85
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New York: Aperture, 1987. Large format: 9 3/4" x 11 3/4". Photographs by various photographers, B&W and some in colour. 111 pages.. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine Plus. Item Price
€18.85
Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown
by Tchen, John Kuo Wei
- Condition
- Used - Very Good Plus.
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1984
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780486245928
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Comox, British Columbia, CAN
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€18.85
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Mineala, NY: Dover, 1984. Large format, 8 1/2" x 11 1/4". Fore corners lightly bumped, and wrinkling from use of rear cover. Contains 130 of Genthe's finest Chinatown photographs before 1906. An original Dover publication. 133 pages.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good Plus.. Illus. by Arnold Genthe (photographer). Item Price
€18.85
