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New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 90 p. 28 cm. B&w photos. Corners bumped, tears in spine tail, chipped spine head affecting lettering. Faint soiling to boards. Light thumbing to endpapers.

Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. Very good/Good. Covers have mild edgewear. Dust jacket shipped and missing two large bites from the top edge.

New York: Amphoto, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto, 90 pages; VG/VG-; spine white, with black and red lettering; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; mild shelf wear and soiling; large chip missing, with evidence of previous tape repair at upper left corner of jacket front; crown of jacket spine missing; large chip missing from upper edge of jacket back; price uncut '$7.95'; profusely illustrated with black and white photographs; pages clean; shelved Front Table. 1349505. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

New York: Amphoto, 1961. 90pp, white and blue/gray striped paper boards with titles on spine and front board in red. Slight shelfwear to bottom spine ends. Faint toning to boards and spine. Previous owner's name and date 1962 written on pencil on front free endpaper, along with the words "First Edition" and a past price in pencil at upper right corner. Slight, irregular toning to front endpapers. Internal pages are clean and unmarked. Brandt's photos remain clear and vivid. Black and white dust jacket with titles in black and red on spine and front cover. Black and white photo on front cover, back cover blank. Jacket shows slight age toning. Price clipped. Top front edge is creased, with a 1/4" tear about an inch and a half in from the spine. and front fore-edge is split. Crease/crumple mark running about 3" from the bottom of the spine upward. Lower front edge is creased and missing a chip near front fore-edge. Back of jacket is intact. Jacket presented under mylar.… Read More

Londra: The Bodley Head, , 1961. Rilegato (hardback). Molto buono (Very Good). Prefazione di Lawrence Durrell. Introduzione di Chapman Mortimer. Fotografie in bianco e nero di Bill Brandt. 8vo (28x24,5 cm). pp. 92. Molto buono (Very Good). Manca la sovracoperta (No DJ). Prima edizione (First Edition). Libri fotografici 1 [Parr, Badger, 2004] Parr Martin, Badger Gerry, The Photobook: A History I. London, Phaidon 2004. Nel celebre "Perspective of Nudes" Bill Brandt posizionava la sua fotocamera grandangolare a fuoco fisso a distanza ravvicinata dal corpo umano, provocando una distorsione che trasformava la figura umana in una serie di forme astratte.

C4c: Amphoto. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Amphoto, New York. 1961. 90 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (foxing and staining present to the edges of the DJ). Bound in illustrated paper covered boards. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Perspective of Nudes (1961). In several of these photographs he placed his extremely wide-angle fixed-focus camera at close range to the human body; this caused distortion and transformed the human figure into a series of abstract designs. In other photographs from this time, however, Brandt made the distorted human form become an integral element of a stark landscape of cliffs and rocky beach. Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the twentieth century, a… Read More

Amphoto, 1961. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition.. A lovely copy in a very attractive dust jacket that has some light edge wear, soiling, a few short tears and is missing a 1/4 inch piece at the top of the spine. Brandt's classic nudes with a preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer..

New York: Amphoto, 1961. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. One of the classic photography books of the 20th century with a preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Brandt's nudes are as powerful and beautiful now as they were fifty years ago. A tight close to near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket with some chipping and edge tears to the spine ends and some tanning to the edges. Still, a nice copy. (Parr & Badger v1, 216: Roth 160-161).

NY: Amphoto, 1961. First American edition. Hardcover. Brandt, Bill. 4to., 14 pp., 90 photo-plates printed in gravure. Patterned boards. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has a 1/2 inch closed tear on top edge and a tiny tear at the bottom edge of the blank rear panel; very light wear or darkening along the edges, and some waving due to the laminate pulling the printed paper, a fault in production. Brandt's most striking and original body of work.

London: Bodley Head., 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 4to. Original boards, d/w. Lower right corner bumped, d/w rubbed and frayed with small area of loss to rear panel. Fine gravure plates.

Amphoto. HARDCOVER. VG. Book VG / DJ Good. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Dust jacket bright and shiny with a fair amount of tattiness to top edges, multiple nicks, some internally repaired with old tape, a couple 2 inch tears repaired with archival repair tape, a couple chips, light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear. No expedited or international shipping, oversize.

New York: Amphoto. 1961. First American edition, first printing. First American edition, first printing. Publisher's white and grey boards with titles in red to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with photographs in black and white throughout. A superb fine copy, the binding square and firm, the boards fresh and bright. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the near fine lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a small nick without loss, at the head of the upper spine fold. A very attractive example, uncommon thus. (Parr & Badger: The Photobook Vol. I, 216: Roth 160-161). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Edition of this seminal work in which Brandt's "formal inventiveness and keen eye for the surreal are most evident." (Roth 101) With preface by Lawrence Durrell and introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Squarish royal 8vo (275 x 240mm): 14,[2], with 90 numbered gravure plates (some double-page) divided by six numbered leaves into chronological sections. Publisher's patterned paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red; photographically illustrated dust jacket printed in red and black and priced $7.95. Fine, tightly bound and clean throughout; about Fine jacket (skillful, almost imperceptible restoration to crown of spine). Parr & Badger 1, 216. Roth (101 Books), pp 160-61. Roth (Open Book), p. 188-89. Auer, p. 408. Brandt began study of the nude in 1945 and continued off and on until his death, in 1983 (for a broader but less in-depth survey, see our copy on offer of Nudes:1945-1980). But the series of nudes he made between 1947 and… Read More

New York: Amphoto, 1961. First American Edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

New York, Amphoto, 1961. Amphoto Edition. Hardback. Fine copy in title-blocked, patterned boards, in a very good dw with minor edge-loss, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 89 pages; Description: 14 p. , 90 plates. 28 cm. Subjects: Photography of the nude.

London: The Bodley Head,, 1961. First edition, first printing. One of those seminal works of art which apparently came about by accident. Brandt was experimenting with a fish-eye lens and produced these extraordinary images of nudes on beaches, distorting and merging with the rocks which surround them. From the library of Sam Haskins. Quarto. Original grey and white patterned paper boards, titles to spine and front cover in red. With dust jacket. Illustrated throughout with full page photographs. Minor toning to edges of the boards, dust jacket rubbed with a small chip to the head of the spine. Parr & Badger vol 1, p 216; Roth 101, p 160.

London: The Bodley Head, 1961. First edition. Hardback. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 10". Bill Brandt. A signed first edition of this important publication of nude images from British photographer Bill Brandt. The first edition, first impression of this important work from British photographer and photojournalist Bill Brandt, in the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper. This work is signed by Bill Brandt to the half title: 'For Sir George Pollock with gratitude Bill Brandt'. Sir George Pollock was an accomplished photographer in his own right, a president of the Royal Photographic Society whose abstract work in the 1960's drew huge attention in the art world. He also acted as a consultant to the BBC in advising them in the iconic opening credits for the original 'Doctor Who'.The publication of this work in 1961 marked, in the words of curators Martina Droth and Paul Messier, 'the point at which Brandt"s stature as an art world figure came onto assured footing', and it was… Read More