BILL BRANDT A Night in London . Introduction by James Bone. London, Paris and New York: Country Life, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. 4° (251 x 190mm). 64 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear at extremities, minor soiling, joints expertly repaired). Provenance : Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995; bookplate, designed by Chris van Geel; pencilled signature dated August 1938). FIRST EDITION. RARE: a number of copies are said to have perished in a warehouse fire during the London blitz. The Surrealist photographer and author Emiel van Moerken's copy. The Open Book , pp.126-27 (illustrating the French issue); The Photobook , p.138 ('superior in both conception and execution [to The English at Home ] ... the night brought out Brandt's predilection for the mysterious and the fantastic').
BILL BRANDT A Night in London . Introduction by James Bone. London, Paris and New York: Country Life, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. 4° (251 x 190mm). 64 black and white photographs. Original photo-illustrated wrappers (light wear at extremities, minor soiling, joints expertly repaired). Provenance : Emiel van Moerkerken (1916-1995; bookplate, designed by Chris van Geel; pencilled signature dated August 1938). FIRST EDITION. RARE: a number of copies are said to have perished in a warehouse fire during the London blitz. The Surrealist photographer and author Emiel van Moerken's copy. The Open Book , pp.126-27 (illustrating the French issue); The Photobook , p.138 ('superior in both conception and execution [to The English at Home ] ... the night brought out Brandt's predilection for the mysterious and the fantastic').
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