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We are delighted to announce our new catalogue, 'Photography Books & Ephemera'.
The debut catalogue of our new Photobook Department led by specialist Oliver Wood, the catalogue features a curated selection of some of the rarest items in contemporary visual culture.
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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Three books in editions of 20. A group of three of Stephen Shore's artists' books produced using Apple's print-on-demand iPhoto software. Shore beg...
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Yves Klein produced this publication for the Festival d'Art d'Avant-Garde in Paris, displaying it on newsstands for one day. The previous month, K...
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Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'To Hilary Gerrard / "who has loved my work for ages" / warm regards / Dave Heath / NYC ...
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One of 200 with an original photograph. Callahan informally began his series of beach photographs in 1938 at Lake Hutton, where his wife's family h...
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Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'Pour Jacquot, / un petit livre / typique des [...]... / Avec toute l'affection / de Sophie. / Le ...
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Inscribed to John Hayward. presentation copy, inscribed to editor, critic, anthologist, and bibliophile John Hayward: 'to John Hayward / [drawing o...
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Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: 'To Hilary / With best wishes / from / Tony Armstrong-Jones – / Snowdon'....
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These twelve photographs of domestic interiors are richly suggestive of the lives of those who live or lived in them. In the afterword, John Szark...
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One of 250 copies - signed. Martin Parr made these photographs in West Bay, a small Dorset seaside town near Bridport, over the 1996 August Bank Ho...
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Signed. Martin Parr made this series of colour photographs between 1983 and 1985 in New Brighton, a British seaside town near Liverpool, using a me...
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Presentation copy. Presentation copy of Lisette Model's first monograph, inscriberd: 'To Edna / My first interviewer when I did / not know what I w...
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In 1938, the Museum of Modern Art staged an exhibition of Evans' photographs, the first exhibition at the museum to be devoted to the work of a si...
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With a letter from Nelson Rockefeller. The Last Rivet was produced to celebrate the completion of the Rockefeller Center. It contains photographs b...
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On the lower 'David Bailey is fascinated by tinsel–a bright, brittle quality, the more appealing because it tarnishes so soon. He has photographed...
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Signed. Bill Burke studied Far Eastern art and religion at university while the United States was engaged in the Vietnam War. In the early 1980s, h...
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Ishimoto participated in the first and third The Eyes of Ten exhibition in May 1957 and July 1959. In between, he published this, his first book a...
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Home Town comprises photographs taken for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) by Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Edwin ...
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Join us as we journey through time to discover some of the rarest books in the world. The following texts have shown an extraordinary ability to survive, with some books having survived the ravages of flood and fire, and others counting only a single surviving copy.
The public perception of the East India Company, an organisation which was to become one of Britain's most notorious colonial ventures, was mediated by a collective of artists. Diplomatic wrangling, imperial posturing, trade and warfare became the subjects of a significant artistic movement, aimed at depicting and dissecting the Company’s involvement in the political and social life of the period.
The woods and rivers, hills and hollows of fiction constitute some of our earliest and most beloved memories: from the Hundred Acre Wood to the home of Mr. McGregor. Join us this Easter as we travel through the imaginary places and winding roads of children’s literature.
Welcome to TEFAF Maastricht: the fair that plays host to some of the most memorable treasures in the art world. With artworks that span over 7000 years, the event has an illustrious history, welcoming collectors and art loves alike for more than three decades.
