Harold burdekin john (11 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. THERE IS A SLIGHT BEND TO THE BOOK. THE CORNERS ARE BUMPED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Beautiful atmospheric black and white photographs of London at night in the 1930s. They show iconic buildings and deserted streets lit mainly by street lighting A forward by John Morrison and 50 full page photographs by Harold Burdekin, assisted by John Morrison. The covers are bumped and show shelf wear on the edges and staining on the spine. The interior is unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. This extremely rare, antiquarian, First Edition, history of London and photography book, entitled "London Night" is written by John Morrison and Harold Burdekin, and includes famous landmarks and streets of London during the 1930s.Published in 1934 by Collins in 48 Pall Mall in London, this First Edition, hardback book is in good condition overall, with the pages being in good condition, with very minor yellowing of the pages on some pages within the book, and heavy wear, marks and stains on the blue clothbound hardcover and spine of the book. The dustcover is missing. This book requires an additional courier charge of £8.50, due to the high value and rarity of this book. Copyright © Coll.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Second impression. Pages yellowed and lightly foxed, with light creasing to upper corner tip. Cover is rubbed, bumped, and has one small paint stain. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Specially rebound in full black leather with title embossed on front in dark blue and in gilt on spine. AEG. Alll edges of boards decorated in gilt. Includes 50 blue-tinged photos of London at night, printed on one side only. Essay by John Morrison, photography by Harold Burdekin, A.R.P.S., assisted by John Morrison. …

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Trade Edition. Very Good, two small spots of soiling bottom of front paste down, small bumps at corners, scattered light foxing rear paste down, hinge starting to open at title page. In a Very Good priced dust jacket, small chips at spine ends, a few small closed tears at edges. Contains "Fifty Photographic Studies by Harold Burdekin, A.R.P.S., assisted by John Morrison", with a short essay by Morrison. The photogravures the work of Vandyck Printers, Ltd. of London and Bristol. Considered the earliest of night photography of London's streets, "London Night" was published a year after Brassai's famous "Paris de Nuit" (Paris at Night). Burdekin was killed, along with his wife, when a flying bomb fell on the town of Reigate, in July 1944. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Orignal blue cloth Very Good Plus folio. Clean copy with a very good dust jacket under mylar brodart. Full page photographs of nocturnal London. This is famed collection of photos for their depiction of 1930s antebellum London.…

1st Ed. 4to. [ii] limitation leaf + [x]pp. 50 blue/black photo. plates. From the library of Jerrold Northrop Moore, blue/black ills. e.ps., head of upper hinge splitting, original gilt lettered full japon with gilt stars to upper board, light soiling browning and spotting, top edge of leaves very lightly spotted, lower leading corners bumped, spine lightly browned and sl. bumped at head and tail. No. 62 of a Limited Edition of 150 copies.Signed by both the photographers.Harold Benjamin Burdekin (1899-1944). Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, 1931. Founder Fellow of the Institute of British Photographers, 1939. The above is his first published work. He and his wife were killed by a falling bomb in London in 1944.'A remarkable book of night photographs of London that was at least in part inspired by Brassai, who had published the first book ever of night photographs, Paris de Nuit, just the year before. In London Night, Burdekin is credited as the photographer, and Morrison as the assistant and author of the accompanying essay . Despite remaining largely unknown, the art of London Night represents one of the finest collections of night photographs of the 20th century. The images are technically perfect, and the compositions are balanced and hold the viewer's attention, leading the viewer into this dreamy world of shadows.' Lance Keimig. US$334.…

hardcover. Condizione: Good. No dust jacket.

FIRST EDITION, 139/150 COPIES signed by Morrison & Burdekin, vignette to title-page, 50 photogravure plates printed in blue to each recto with caption to facing verso, a couple of pages in prelims with arcing crease to lower half, a couple of light spots at head of prelims, pp. [viii] + Plates, original deluxe binding of full vellum, lettered in gilt to backstrip and upper board, in the case of the latter with a border of asterisks, the boards bowing a little (more so the upper) with a few little marks, a little darkened and faintly spotted to backstrip and borders, photographic endpapers, very good. This deluxe edition is uncommon. Preceding Bill Brandt's 'A Night in London' by four years, the model of Paul Morand and Brassaï's 1932 'Paris de Nuit' is acknowledged in John Morrison's introduction, which soon becomes a little ecstatic in its attempts to capture the scene in prose - 'She [Night] is mystery, fantasy, dream the unsolved riddle, the unguessed secret [.] the darkness of the womb, pulsating with the myriad forms of life [.] the mother of mysteries, the keeper of the keys [etc.]'. The photographs, in which Morrison assisted Burdekin, are rather more successful. …

Specially bound limited edition, signed by the authors and numbered 22 out of 150. Morrison and Burdekin were inspired by Braissaï's Paris de nuit (Paris at Night), which was published the previous year. Their nocturnal photographs document London before the blitz. Quarto. 50 monochrome plates. Original cream faux vellum, lettering to spine in gilt, lettering and stars in gilt to front cover, photographic endpapers. A few marks to extremities of covers; contents clean: a very good copy indeed. …