Koln: Taschen, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Heavy item, extra handling fees for local shipping. The unique tones and spontaneity of Polaroids have made them a beloved photographic format for decades. Brimming with all the warmth and nostalgia of a family album, this ode to the instant camera presents hundreds of..... More
New York: The Monacelli Press, 1999. Wim Wenders (foreword). First US Edition. Hardcover. Signs & Relics is an exploration of the world from a photographer's point of view -- in this case, noted Village Voice photographer Sylvia Plachy. Her engaging images -- some light and humorous, some somber -- show..... More
London: Phaidon Press, 2005. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. American photographer Larry Fink (b.1941) is the Jack Kerouac of photography. This accessible monograph reviews his 40-year career as a photographer, during which he celebrated the expressiveness of the human body and its colourful and energetic sensuality. A strong supporter of social..... More
New York: Aperture/ Many Voices Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare. In 1978, 34 year old Dorothea Lynch discovered she had breast cancer. In an attempt to gain control over the disease and communicate her experience to others, she asked her longtime friend, photographer Eugene Richards, to visually document her..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. James Agee (introduction). Second Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Between 1936 and 1941 Walker Evans and James Agee collaborated on one of the most provocative books in American literature, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941). While at work on this book, the two also..... More
Zurich: Scalo, 2002. First Scalo Edition. Hardcover. In 1973 Walker Evans began to work with the innovative Polaroid SX-70 camera and was given an unlimited supply of film from its manufacturer. The virtues of this camera, introduced in 1972, perfectly fit Evans's search for a concise yet poetic vision of..... More
London: Phaidon Press, 2003. Murray Sayle (introduction), Charles Flowers (text). Reprint. Softcover. Heavy item, additional handling fees for local shipping. One of the leading photographers of his generation, Elliott Erwitt (b.1928) has been taking pictures since the late 1940s. A member of the prestigious Magnum agency since 1954, he has..... More
France: Marval, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Rare. Text in English, Chinese and French. Patrick Zachmann travels to Europe, the United States, China, Tahiti, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Macao. Accompanying Zachmann’s photographs is a narrative in which he describes in 48 pages..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Few contemporary photographers can have been so widely celebrated as Tim Page. Everything he has done since throwing himself into the Indo-China and Vietnam of the 1960s - the deep end of the pool of life - has exhibited a brilliantly..... More
New York: Many Voices Press, 1983. Eugene Richards (design). First Edition. First Printing. Softcover with jacket. Very Rare. Before dawn a line of candles is lit in protest against the outbursts of violence, as masses of men and women move across the wind blown swamps toward the police lines and..... More
Tokyo: Magazine House Co. Ltd, 1993. Fourth Printing. Softcover with dust jacket. Rare. Text in Japanese and English. Street scenes of Tokyo contrasted with occasional female nudes, all made by Araki in 1989 while his wife Yoko was dying of ovarian cancer. Photographs by Nobuyoshi Araki; afterword by Toshimaru Ito..... More
Montreal: Vox Populi, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Text in French. Introduction by Christian Caujolle. Text by Francois Jalbert. More
New York: Aperture, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare. Photographer Maggie Steber has worked in 64 countries focusing on humanitarian, cultural, and social stories. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition (stated). Softcover. Photographs of the women and patrons on the internationally notorious street of prostitutes, Falkland Road, in Bombay. More
New York: Random House, 1996. First Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Oversized, heavy item; please note additional handling charge. China is one of the great question marks on the world stage as we approach the third millennium. No longer a sleeping giant, neither is China a stable ally of the West..... More
London: Little, Brown and Company, 1998. First Printing. Paperback. Beyond Belief is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time: the effects of the Islamic conversion of Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, and Malaysia. It is not a book of opinion. It is--in the Naipaul way--a..... More
New York: Touchstone, 1996. First Printing. Paperback. The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski. Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work..... More
London: HarperCollins, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures..... More
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2006. First Bloomsbury Edition. Paperback. A sportswriter and a real estate agent, husband and father –Frank Bascombe has been many things to many people. His uncertain youth behind him, we follow him through three days during the autumn of 2000, when his trade as a realtor on..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. First Printing. Paperback. London translator Iona Kirkpatrick is at work on a new project: a collection of letters and diaries by a Chinese punk guitarist named Kublai Jian. As she translates the handwritten pages, a story of romance and revolution emerges between Jian, who believes..... More
Hoboken: Melville House, 2003. James X. Mitchell (tr.). First Edition. Hardcover. In a ground-breaking book that combines a novelist’s eye with riveting investigative journalism, Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of the world’s most esteemed writers, retraces Pearl’s final steps through a murky Islamic underworld, suffused by “an odour of the apocalypse.” The..... More
New York: Scribner, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. The journalist widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan, discusses their family's commitment to responsible journalism, her own role a a negotiator between the FBI and Pakistani police, terrorism in today's world, and her efforts..... More
London: HarperCollins, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later Timothy Garton Ash--who was by then famous for his reportage of the downfall of communism in Central..... More
New York: North Point Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Within days after September 11, 2001, William Langewiesche had secured unique, unrestricted, round-the-clock access to the World Trade Center site. American Ground is a tour of this intense, ephemeral world and those who improvised the recovery effort day by day, and..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 2012. Reprint. Hardcover. "That is where the story begins, in your body and everything will end in the body as well." On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of Winter..... More
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