Pictures from the New World contains a selection of Lyon's photographs from 1962-1980, including work from The Movement (1964), The Bikeriders (1968), The Destruction of Lower Manhattan (1969), and Conversations with the Dead (1971).

'I never intended to be a photographer. I never intended to be anything... Photography then seemed new and exciting, and all America, which I regarded with mystery and reverence, lay before me.

Eighteen years have now passed. In order to make this book I have had to face directly everything I have done in photography from that day to this. Now, I give it back to you, America, from whom I took it all in the first place. The slate is clean, and I am free to begin again.'

First edition; (226 x 290 mm, 9 x 11½ in); colour and black & white photographs, light foxing to edges; light brown cloth-covered boards, titles stamped to spine and front in grey, plain endpapers, crease to front, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, printed in grey, black, and colours, minor wear to extremities, light foxing to verso; 144pp.