Nick Waplington spent four years photographing two families on a housing estate in Nottingham. His relationship with his subjects is clearly one of comfort and affection. In his essay, Richard Avedon, an early champion of Waplington's work, writes, 'The photographer's triumph is to bring order out of chaos, without betraying the chaos. Waplington presents the violence in affection, the sexuality in innocence, a chill at the electric hearth, all in a new vocabulary, without romance, all in the same room at the same time.'

First edition; (242 x 318 mm, 9½ x 12½ in); colour photographs, design by Tibor Kalman; endpapers printed tan one side only, orange cloth-covered boards, orange linen spine stamped in silver, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, publisher's reply card laid in, remainder mark, a fine unread copy; [72]pp.

The Open Book pp354-5.