Story of a London Night in Sixty-Four Photographs by Bill Brandt, Introduced by James Bone.
London, Paris, & New York, Country Life, Arts et Metiers Graphiques, and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938
One of Brandt's key books and his scarcest title, published simultaneously in French as Londres de Nuit, both printed with bilingual captions. Several publisher's warehouses were hit during the Blitz, including those of Country Life, which were severely damaged in 1939. The narrative begins at dusk and finishes at dawn with milk and newspapers left on the doorstep. As with his first book, The English at Home (1936), Brandt staged some pictures using a cast of friends and family.
First edition; 4to (250 x 190 mm, 9¾ x 7½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, light foxing to preliminary and final pages; original photo-illustrated wrappers, light wear, rubbing to rear, spine repaired; [viii], 64pp.
The Open Book pp126-7 (French issue); The Photobook A History, I p138.
First edition; 4to (250 x 190 mm, 9¾ x 7½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, light foxing to preliminary and final pages; original photo-illustrated wrappers, light wear, rubbing to rear, spine repaired; [viii], 64pp.
The Open Book pp126-7 (French issue); The Photobook A History, I p138.
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