Photography Books & Ephemera
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.
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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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The Inhabitants.
MORRIS, Wright.Original price $1,131.00 - Original price $1,131.00Original price $0.00$1,131.00$1,131.00 - $1,131.00Current price $1,131.00Presentation copy. presentation copy inscribed: 'For / Lambert Davis / who should have had his hand / as well as his name / in this book / Wright M...
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Publisher's file photographs for Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967.
[WARHOL, Andy]. FINKELSTEIN, Nathan Louis 'Nat'.Original price $8,396.00 - Original price $8,396.00Original price $0.00$8,396.00$8,396.00 - $8,396.00Current price $8,396.00The publisher used these prints during preparation for Nat Finkelstein's 1989 book Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967, first published in th...
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Three iPhoto artists' books:
SHORE, Stephen.Original price $6,458.00 - Original price $6,458.00Original price $0.00$6,458.00$6,458.00 - $6,458.00Current price $6,458.00Three 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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Water's Edge.
CALLAHAN, Harry.Original price $2,584.00 - Original price $2,584.00Original price $0.00$2,584.00$2,584.00 - $2,584.00Current price $2,584.00One 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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Beyrouth.
RISTELHUEBER, Sophie.Original price $840.00 - Original price $840.00Original price $0.00$840.00$840.00 - $840.00Current price $840.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'Pour Jacquot, / un petit livre / typique des [...]... / Avec toute l'affection / de Sophie. / Le ...
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The Road is Wider than Long.
PENROSE, Roland.Original price $3,552.00 - Original price $3,552.00Original price $0.00$3,552.00$3,552.00 - $3,552.00Current price $3,552.00Presentation copy. presentation copy, inscribed to editor, critic, anthologist, and bibliophile John Hayward: 'to John Hayward / [drawing of a comp...
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London.
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Tony (Lord Snowdon).Original price $517.00 - Original price $517.00Original price $0.00$517.00$517.00 - $517.00Current price $517.00Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: 'To Hilary / With best wishes / from / Tony Armstrong-Jones – / Snowdon'....
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Message from the Interior.
EVANS, Walker.Original price $808.00 - Original price $808.00Original price $0.00$808.00$808.00 - $808.00Current price $808.00These 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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