West Bay.
Photographs by Martin Parr poems by eight contemporary poets.
Stock Code 111722
Steventon, Oxfordshire, The Rocket Press, 1997
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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 Holiday weekend. West Bay was the first series where Parr employed his now characteristic combination of a ring flash and a macro lens. The edition is stated as 250 copies, but according to the publisher, only 175 copies were completed as the bindery went into receivership during production.
First edition, number 48 of 250 copies, signed on the limitation page; oblong folio (310 x 415 mm, 12¼ x 16¼ in); 24 colour photographic plates tipped in, poems by Fergus Allen, Kate Clanchy, Phili Gross, Sophie Hannah, Geoffrey Hoare, Alice Oswald, Roger McGough, and Vicki Raymond; plain endpapers, Bognor Regis deckchair canvas-covered boards, blue cloth spine titled in blind, original blue cloth-covered board slipcase, titles stamped in blind on sides, light marking and dust-soiling, near-fine;l [64]pp.
First edition, number 48 of 250 copies, signed on the limitation page; oblong folio (310 x 415 mm, 12¼ x 16¼ in); 24 colour photographic plates tipped in, poems by Fergus Allen, Kate Clanchy, Phili Gross, Sophie Hannah, Geoffrey Hoare, Alice Oswald, Roger McGough, and Vicki Raymond; plain endpapers, Bognor Regis deckchair canvas-covered boards, blue cloth spine titled in blind, original blue cloth-covered board slipcase, titles stamped in blind on sides, light marking and dust-soiling, near-fine;l [64]pp.
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