London, Zelda Cheatle Press, 1993
This publication is based on a smaller 1986 Victoria & Albert Museum exhibition catalogue, only published in wrappers. Between 1956-61 Roger Mayne photographed extensively in North Kensington around Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove. This book is centred around Mayne's photographs of life in Southam Street, London W10, a street that was declared unfit for human habitation in 1963 and was largely demolished by 1969. Mayne and his photographs were an inspiration for Colin MacInnes's 1959 novel Absolute Beginners.
First edition thus; 4to (270 × 210 mm, n10¾ x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, texts by Zelda Cheatle and Michael Mack, Mark Haworth-Booth, and recollections of Southam Street by 10 former residents, minor r=toning to margins; white endpapers, binder's glue showing on pastedowns as often, minor toning to margins, black cloth-covered boards, black-and-white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, light shelfwear, near-fine; pp.87, [1].
Frontispiece portrait of Mayne and 54 black and white photographs, 4 contact sheets, 11 black-and-white photographs illustrating texts to rear. Texts by Zelda Cheatle and Michael Mack, Mark Haworth- Booth, and recollections of Southam Street by 10 former residents. Black cloth boards. Black-and-white photo-lllustrated dust-jacket. Adrian Murrell's signed bookplate to front pastedown. Signed by Zelda Cheatle in black ink below the introduction, her business card laid in. Fine.
First edition thus; 4to (270 × 210 mm, n10¾ x 8¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, texts by Zelda Cheatle and Michael Mack, Mark Haworth-Booth, and recollections of Southam Street by 10 former residents, minor r=toning to margins; white endpapers, binder's glue showing on pastedowns as often, minor toning to margins, black cloth-covered boards, black-and-white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, light shelfwear, near-fine; pp.87, [1].
Frontispiece portrait of Mayne and 54 black and white photographs, 4 contact sheets, 11 black-and-white photographs illustrating texts to rear. Texts by Zelda Cheatle and Michael Mack, Mark Haworth- Booth, and recollections of Southam Street by 10 former residents. Black cloth boards. Black-and-white photo-lllustrated dust-jacket. Adrian Murrell's signed bookplate to front pastedown. Signed by Zelda Cheatle in black ink below the introduction, her business card laid in. Fine.
About us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.
Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.
We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.
