Collins, Leonora.

London in the Nineties [Victorian London in Photographs]. Edited by Leonora Collins.

London, The Saturn Press, 1950. Quarto (21 cm x 27 cm). 96 pages with many photographs. Original Hardcover with the rare dustjacket. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

Davison, Mark / Currie, Ian.

London’s Hurricane.

London, Froglets Publications, 1989. 27 cm x 22 cm. 128 pages including many photographs. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Editors Of Look.

Look at America – The Country You Know – And Don’t Know.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, [1930]. 23 cm x 30.9 cm. 341 pages. With many black and white photographs throughout. Features 8 colour photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing and fading to edges. Very minor fading to gilt title on spine and front cover. Minor dampstain to page edges. With illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Impressive pictorial book with an intimate insight into American history, life and culture. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

[John Minihan Collection] – [Atget, Eugène] Barberie, Peter.

Looking at Atget. With an essay on the photographic materials by Beth A.Price and Ken Sutherland.

New Haven/London, Yale University Press / Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005. 4°. IX, 125 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in near fine condition. The volume itself in Excellent -FINE- condition. From the library of irish photographer John Minihan.

Christie’s.

Magnum Photographs London Thursday, 12 May 1994 at 11.00 am.

London, Christie’s, 1994. 21 cm x 27 cm. 69 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. From the library and personal archive of irish photographer John Minihan.

Barwise, Lucy Weston / [Lucy Chapman, George Chapman, Henry Chapman]

Manuscript Autobiography, Diary and vintage photo album of the Chapman – Barwise Family. A cultured London woman’s autobiography and diary including a first hand account of ‘Fiesche’s attempt to assassinate Louis Phillippe’ which she observed while at school in Paris as a child. The manuscript has a mournful postscript by the man she left behind, her husband: ‘Alas! that I George Chapman should have to finish the record of so dear a Life…’ by Lucy Weston Barwise (1822-1876) wrote in a lockable, lined octavo notebook, crushed morocco, marbled endpapers and edges. Her autobiography was begun in January 1872 at one end of the book (16 pages); her diary appears at the other end of the book from October 22 1871-April 1874 with her husband’s postscript dating from June 1880. There is a second volume of family accounts in a lockable octavo sized ledger and a folio sized volume of family photographs, most unlabelled. Barwise’s autobiography recounts her education in Paris in the Rue Taitbout where she witnessed ‘Fiesche’s attempt to assassinate Louis Phillippe’ while watching from her music master’s house opposite the Porte St Martin, noting ‘the Duc D’Orleans [who] looked very handsome’ but shortly afterwards ‘heard a loud report and then a shout… general commotion but the crowd was so thick and immoveable’ and then ‘the King and stiff rode slowly back along the line but looking very white.’ It was only later that she discovered the casualties of ‘Fieschi’s infernal machine… It was a row of gun barrels arranged along a window so as to be discharged all at once.’ Barwise also watched the subsequent funeral from her attic window, the ‘open hearse with its draperies of black and silver’. The highlight of Chapman’s diary is a detailed account of the deaths she witnessed during the ‘Thanksgiving Day for the recovery of the Prince of Wales’ on February 27th, 1872, as seen from her husband George Chapman’s ‘office windows in Cockspur St’ behind Trafalgar Square which overlooked the procession. There she witnessed the lack of barriers and observes with horror the police charging into the surging crowd ‘The big policemen threw themselves against the men; the horses even made to dance and back heel it was a fearful struggle’with a baby almost crushed to death in front of her. There is an interesting secondhand account of Paris under the Commune via one of her daughters and frequent visits to London art exhibitions as on July 8 1871 where she saw an ‘exhibition of old masters at the Royal Academy… Crome, Ruysdael, heads by Moroni, of Titian’s Schoolmaster, Burgomaster by Rembrandt… the two heads.. by Giorgine belonging to Lord Ashburton, such colour and such expression. There are trips to Ascot and the Boat Race, a curry with friends in Wandsworth and a recitation by ‘Mr Bradman [of] the Merchant of Venice for the benefit of the Workman’s Club. It was very clever… Shylock was good but my recollection of actors, Charles Kemble, C.Kean &c made this more familiar and perhaps a little more like ranting’.

[London], c. 1871 – 1872. Octavo. Diary I: 44 pages / Diary II: 24 pages / Photoalbum: 48 pages with 120 original cabinet photographs (including a photograph of a british Forest School). Hardcover / Original full leather. All three Volumes slightly rubbed but all in very good condition. The cabinet photographs all in excellent condition and from dozens of different victorian photographers in Bath (Friese Greene), Bonn (Emil Koch), Astley (Photograpic Landscape Artist in Astley, Essex), and many others. The one diary is really a cash ledger of George Chapman where he kept track for the Chapman family with listings of expenses for Hampstead House, Henry Chapman, Edward Chapman, Oswald D. Chapman, Mrs. Barrett Chapman, Edith Louisa Chapman.

[John Minihan Collection] – [Minihan, John] Mannion, Michael B.

Michael B. Mannion – The Bard of Kensington – Vintage Vinyl with an early cover – photograph of Mannion by John Minihan. Including John Minihan’s signature and brief titleing of the Record.

London, Tuba Press, 1982. Original Vinyl with original Vinyl in protective sleeve. Some signs of wear but overall in very good condition. SIGNED by John Minihan.

Chadwick, Whitney.

Mirror Images – Women, surrealism, and self-representation. Essays for example include: Dawn Ades – Surrealism and the Representation of the Female Subject in Mexico and Postwar Paris / Helaine Posner – Negotiating Boundaries in the Art of Yayoi Kusama, Ana Mendieta and Francesca Woodman / Katy Kline – Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman / Salomon Grimberg – The Self as an End / Dickran Tashjian – Marcel Duchamp and Transgender Coupling] Edited by Whitney Chadwick.

Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 1998. 28 cm. xiii, 193 pages with numerous illustrations (some in color). Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

Davies, John.

Mist Mountain – Water – Wind [England, Scotland, Ireland]. With an Introduction (a brief Essay titled” Changes of Time and Place”) by Richard Ehrlich.

London, Travelling light, 1986. 21 x 27 cm. Non paginé / Unpaginated 50 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Private gift-inscription on titlepage.

Pildas, Ave / Irwin Smith, Lucinda.

Movie Palaces – Survivors of an Elegant Era. Text by Lucinda Smith, Foreword by King Vidor.

New York, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc/Publishers New York, 1980. 23.5 cm x 30.5 cm. 128 pages. Illustrated with 181 full colour photographs and 15 black-and-white photographs by Ave Pildas. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. The dustjacket with some tears but otherwise the publication overall in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.