Collector’s slipcased edition of the first ever standalone presentation of one of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the nature of heroism and chivalry during war, and which features unpublished and never-before-seen texts and drafts.\n\nIn 991 AD, vikings attacked an Anglo-Saxon defence-force led by their duke, Beorhtnoth, resulting in brutal fighting along the river Blackwater, near Maldon in Essex. The attack is widely considered one of the defining conflicts of tenth-century England, and is immortalised in the poem, The Battle of Maldon.\n\nWritten shortly after the battle, the poem survives only as a 325-line fragment, but its value to today is incalculable. J.R.R. Tolkien considered The Battle of Maldon ‘the last surviving fragment of ancient English heroic minstrelsy’. It would inspire him to compose, during the 1930s, his own dramatic verse-dialogue, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm’s Son, which imagines the aftermath of the great battle when two of Beorhtnoth’s retainers come to retrieve their duke’s body.\n\nLeading Tolkien scholar, Peter Grybauskas, presents for the first time Tolkien’s own prose translation of The Battle of Maldon together with the definitive treatment of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth and its accompanying essays; also included and never before published is the lecture, ‘The Tradition of Versification in Old English’. Illuminated with insightful notes and commentary, he offers a definitive critical edition of these works, and argues compellingly that, Beowulf excepted, The Battle of Maldon may well have been ‘the Old English poem that most influenced Tolkien’s fiction’, most dramatically within the pages of The Lord of the Rings.\n\nThis slipcased edition includes a colour frontispiece reproducing a page of Tolkien’s original manuscript of The Homecoming, and is printed on acid-free paper with a ribbon marker. It is quarterbound with a unique illustration by Bill Sanderson gold-foiled on grey boards and is housed in a custom-built slipcase. It also includes a digitally remastered recording of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth read by J.R.R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien, which is available on CD for the first time.

The Battle of Maldon includes The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth CD

From 1978 to 1999 British photographer Tom Wood spent his Saturday mornings at Great Homer Street Market, a retail market, just far enough outside the centre of Liverpool in the North of England, for it to have it’s own unique, more relaxed identity. Complete with his Leica and out of date film, Wood made vibrant photographs of the shoppers as they hunted for bargains and met up with friends and family.\n\n \n\n“I was first introduced to Great Homer Street market in 1975, by a girlfriend with family in Dingle, Liverpool. At that time, I bought two double breasted Worsted wool three piece suits and a three buttoned pin stripe suit with turn ups, for a total of four pounds. I thought, “what a great market!” It was vast then down both sides of the street, but by the time I began to photograph the second-hand clothes had all but disappeared. Yet the market was still crowded with the same mothers and daughters who for generations had frequented “Greatie” - Tom Wood\n\n \n\nISBN — 978-1-9164106-0-2\nPages — 104\nImages — 66 (Duotone + CMYK)\nCover — Hardback, paper wrapped\nDesign — Tamara Shopsin and The Entente \nSize — 240x300mm

Women's Market

The signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside front cover.\n\nTTP is a series of photographs made by Hayahisa Tomiyasu from the window of his former student apartment in the German city of Leipzig. From his south-facing view we see a 'tischtennisplatte' or ping pong table used for a plethora of purposes – including a sun bed, a laundry counter, a kids' climbing frame, an exercise site, a family lunch spot, a refuge from busy streets, among various other uses – except from table tennis. Tomiyasu spent five years documenting the humble table and thanks to his sustained curiosity we observe the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour and social habits, as seasons change, scenes mutate and people come and go.\n\n \n\nFirst edition, third printing\nPerfect bound paperback with clear PVC jacket\n20 x 27 cm, 260 pages\n\nISBN: 978-1-912339-24-2

Signed by both Ed & Deanna Templeton      Making full use of the book?s accordion-bound format, husband and wife Ed and Deanna Templeton present their own photographs and words in turn, printed back-to-back on the same sheets of paper, folded together between blue cloth covers in a die cut plastic slipcase.    "We were born into this situation, and made the best of what we were dealt, thriving on the sidewalks and front yards and hidden from the influence of the city until the city poured over the castle walls out into the surrounding suburbium that grew like barnacles along the edges... (Ed Templeton)    "We found ourselves in a tract of homes that felt familiar and safe. We wandered among the quiet dark tract housing, devoid of people, finally lying down together on a rectangle of grass wedged between the sidewalk and the street. We stared up at the stars talking until the sun came up." (Deanna Templeton)   Contemporary Suburbium is a photographic meditation on living in the suburbs of Orange County, California ? specifically, Huntington Beach, a seaside town on the outer extremities of the population surrounding Los Angeles. Once dotted with orange trees, oil drilling and summer cottages for the rich, Huntington Beach is now a popular beach destination for vacationers, and the old cottages are being replaced with tall modern three-story houses. The photographs in this book are a look at the people of this traditionally conservative stronghold, the disaffected youth, the fortunate (and less fortunate), as they venture out from behind fences, walls, and endless blocks of tract housing.   Reading like two opposing coming-of-age novellas about the same place, Contemporary Suburbium offers a gritty and sunbaked, yet romantic view of Southern California, and of the twenty-first century in its own adolescence.   Ed and Deanna Templeton?s photographs have been widely exhibited and published throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. This is Ed?s second, and Deanna?s first, book published by Nazraeli Press.   Hardcover, slipcased, 210 x 160mm,    accordion-bound, 86 duotone plates   ISBN 978-1-59005-478-9

Contemporary Suburbium

One Picture Book 2 Complete Set 6   Four books in a slip case, each book contains a signed Photograph, limited to 500 numbered copies   SBN: 978-1-59005-546-5   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 18 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.   ?In the earlier 90s after traveling throughout the Sea Islands on the Southeast Coast on the United States, I decided that it was time to go home, back to Africa. There was something that I needed to know about the nature of myself. In love with customs, beliefs and material cultural, I made many pictures, but only a few of handful of people. The portraits for Africa: Gems and Jewels are that handful.? ? Carrie Mae Weems   Carrie Mae Weems is one of the most influential contemporary American artists living today. Her work investigates race, family relationships, cultural identity, sexism, class, political systems, and the consequences of power. Weems is represented in public and private collections around the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.   Africa: Gems and Jewels is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-547-2   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 24 plates, 1 original signed photograph.   Auto-Hypnosis features both black-and-white and color photographs from Ed Templeton?s photo archive, exploring our existence in and around cars and car culture. We are inevitably tied to the automobile from birth, starting from literally being strapped against our will into car seats as children, to them becoming a symbol of freedom and autonomy as teenagers. Templeton?s photos explore the car as a cage, as a tool to assuage boredom, as a deadly weapon, and as a window to watch the world as you speed by. The car is both a fetishized object and a utilitarian tool, something we live inside of and use as a prop for fashion magazines. Templeton has long used the car window as a framing device for his photography inside and out, further fetishizing the culture surrounding them.   Ed Templeton is an American artist/photographer whose work reflects human behavior with emphasis on youth subcultures, religious affectation, and suburban conventions using a cinéma vérité approach and embracing chance encounters. Templeton is a respected cult figure in the subculture of skateboarding, a two time world-champion, and Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee. He is best known for his photographic books, zines, and multi-media exhibitions. His work has been shown in museums worldwide including, Museum of ContemporaryArt, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; S.M.A.K. Museum, Belgium; Bonnefanten Museum, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; Pier 24 , San Francisco.   Each copy of this artist?s book includes a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-548-9   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 18 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.   Love You is a selection of photographs by Deanna Templeton centering around the idea of love and its symbolism, especially the heart shape as it manifests itself in myriad forms in public streets worldwide.  Be it a lock clamped onto a bridge with a wish and a prayer, or a marriage proposal scrawled into the sand, public expressions of love date back to prehistoric cave paintings. At its core the heart symbol, like the two fingered peace sign, is the simplest way to express your feelings ? a shorthand for ?I love you.? A sentiment seemingly in short supply these days, and precisely why Deanna chose this theme for her One Picture Book.   Deanna Templeton is an American photographer known for her documentary and serial work exploring youth culture and feminine identity. Since the 1990?s Templeton has explored many subjects, from the nude body to street photography at night, contrasting her own tumultuous adolescence with young women growing up in our current era. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including, Pier 24, San Francisco; NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany; Daelim Museum, South Korea; The Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia; The Preus Museum, Norway; The Museum Het Domein, The Netherlands; and The Schunk Museum, The Netherlands.   Love You is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-549-6   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2, 16 pages, 13 four-color plates, 1 original signed photograph.   ?Pico Boulevard begins in Santa Monica between two luxury beachfront hotels and ends at the Coca-Cola bottling plant at Central Avenue in downtown L.A. Traveling east on Pico Boulevard takes you through the Japanese and Iranian neighborhoods of West Los Angeles to the wealthy, predominantly white neighborhood of Rancho Park. Passing Fox Studios and the Hillcrest Country Club, Pico continues through the upscale business and entertainment center of Century City, the Jewish and Russian neighborhoods of South Robertson, the largely African American and Latino Mid-City District, and Koreatown. It then passes through the mostly lower income area of recent Central American immigrants in the Pico Union district and finally, to the crowded commotion of the Garment District in downtown Los Angeles. In short, Pico Boulevard is a veritable microcosm of Los Angeles.? ? John Humble   Brought up in a military family, John Humble spent his childhood moving around the country from one military base to another. Humble was drafted during the Vietnam War, then became a photojournalist for the Washington Post before pursuing a graduate degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. His itinerant nature continued when he traveled the world in the early 1970s, going from Europe to the Middle East, then to Africa and Asia in his Volkswagen van. However, since the summer of 1974 Humble has lived in one place: Los Angeles. In 1979, Humble acquired a 4x5 view camera and began to photograph the Los Angeles that he perceived every day ? a Los Angeles that tourists seldom see, and that locals seldom notice.    John Humble?s large-scale photographs have been exhibited and collected since the 1970s, and are included in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The LA County Museum of Art; and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.   Pico Boulevard is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.

(OPB2 SET6) COMPLETE #21-24 Templeton/Weems/Templeton/Humble

Love You is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   Love You is a selection of photographs by Deanna Templeton centering around the idea of love and its symbolism, especially the heart shape as it manifests itself in myriad forms in public streets worldwide.  Be it a lock clamped onto a bridge with a wish and a prayer, or a marriage proposal scrawled into the sand, public expressions of love date back to prehistoric cave paintings. At its core the heart symbol, like the two fingered peace sign, is the simplest way to express your feelings ? a shorthand for ?I love you.? A sentiment seemingly in short supply these days, and precisely why Deanna chose this theme for her One Picture Book.   Deanna Templeton is an American photographer known for her documentary and serial work exploring youth culture and feminine identity. Since the 1990?s Templeton has explored many subjects, from the nude body to street photography at night, contrasting her own tumultuous adolescence with young women growing up in our current era. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including, Pier 24, San Francisco; NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany; Daelim Museum, South Korea; The Australian Center for Photography, Sydney, Australia; The Preus Museum, Norway; The Museum Het Domein, The Netherlands; and The Schunk Museum, The Netherlands.   Love You is limited to 500 numbered copies, each including a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-548-9   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2,    16 pages, 18 four-color plates,    1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 023) Deanna Templeton - Love You

Each copy of this artist?s book includes a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   Auto-Hypnosis features both black-and-white and color photographs from Ed Templeton?s photo archive, exploring our existence in and around cars and car culture. We are inevitably tied to the automobile from birth, starting from literally being strapped against our will into car seats as children, to them becoming a symbol of freedom and autonomy as teenagers. Templeton?s photos explore the car as a cage, as a tool to assuage boredom, as a deadly weapon, and as a window to watch the world as you speed by. The car is both a fetishized object and a utilitarian tool, something we live inside of and use as a prop for fashion magazines. Templeton has long used the car window as a framing device for his photography inside and out, further fetishizing the culture surrounding them.   Ed Templeton is an American artist/photographer whose work reflects human behavior with emphasis on youth subcultures, religious affectation, and suburban conventions using a cinéma vérité approach and embracing chance encounters. Templeton is a respected cult figure in the subculture of skateboarding, a two time world-champion, and Skateboarding Hall of Fame inductee. He is best known for his photographic books, zines, and multi-media exhibitions. His work has been shown in museums worldwide including, Museum of ContemporaryArt, Los Angeles; International Center of Photography, New York; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; S.M.A.K. Museum, Belgium; Bonnefanten Museum, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; Pier 24 , San Francisco.   Each copy of this artist?s book includes a 5x7 inch original print that has been signed by the artist.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-547-2   Hardcover, 6 x 8 1/2,    16 pages, 24 plates,    1 original signed photograph.

(OPB2 022) Ed Templeton - Auto-Hypnosis

Making full use of the book?s accordion-bound format, husband and wife Ed and Deanna Templeton present their own photographs and words in turn, printed back-to-back on the same sheets of paper, folded together between blue cloth covers in a die cut plastic slipcase.    "We were born into this situation, and made the best of what we were dealt, thriving on the sidewalks and front yards and hidden from the influence of the city until the city poured over the castle walls out into the surrounding suburbium that grew like barnacles along the edges... (Ed Templeton)    "We found ourselves in a tract of homes that felt familiar and safe. We wandered among the quiet dark tract housing, devoid of people, finally lying down together on a rectangle of grass wedged between the sidewalk and the street. We stared up at the stars talking until the sun came up." (Deanna Templeton)   Contemporary Suburbium is a photographic meditation on living in the suburbs of Orange County, California ? specifically, Huntington Beach, a seaside town on the outer extremities of the population surrounding Los Angeles. Once dotted with orange trees, oil drilling and summer cottages for the rich, Huntington Beach is now a popular beach destination for vacationers, and the old cottages are being replaced with tall modern three-story houses. The photographs in this book are a look at the people of this traditionally conservative stronghold, the disaffected youth, the fortunate (and less fortunate), as they venture out from behind fences, walls, and endless blocks of tract housing.   Reading like two opposing coming-of-age novellas about the same place, Contemporary Suburbium offers a gritty and sunbaked, yet romantic view of Southern California, and of the twenty-first century in its own adolescence.   Ed and Deanna Templeton?s photographs have been widely exhibited and published throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. This is Ed?s second, and Deanna?s first, book published by Nazraeli Press.   Hardcover, slipcased, 210 x 160mm,    accordion-bound, 86 duotone plates   ISBN 978-1-59005-478-9

Signed by the Photographer   Limited to just 500 signed and numbered copies   Ed Templeton first achieved fame as a professional skateboarder in the 1980s, but is now internationally recognized as a painter, designer and photographer as well. The subject of dozens of books and zines, Templeton creates all of the artwork for his skateboard company Toy Machine.   In his contribution to our One Picture Book series, Templeton takes us along on a 5-day family roadtrip from Pismo Beach to San Francisco via Santa Cruz in March of 2016, photographing in black-and-white and color as ?These beings and their myriad trips swirl around you whispering stories impossible to understand in the time we?ve been allotted.? The book comprises 16 reproductions, and features a signed original photograph at the front of each copy.   Ed Templeton?s work has been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia, and is included in the permanent collections of such institutions as Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, The Netherlands; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; and The Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom.   ISBN: 978-1-59005-458-1   Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 7 1/4,    16 pages, 16 duotone and four-color plates,    1 original signed photograph.

(OPB#095) Memories of the Salt... opb

High Tide Wane Moon  Kazuumi Takahashi  Japanese artist Kazuumi Takahashi?s stunning first monograph, High Tide Wane Moon, explores the relationship between the moon and the ocean. The son of a fisherman, Takahashi grew up near the sea. The schedule of the tide influenced his daily planning, just as the moon in turn influenced the tides. In this large-format book, Takahashi presents 25 double-page spreads, each with a photograph of the moon on the left side, and a corresponding photograph of the ocean on the right. Every double page thus comprises a beautiful diptych in which the viewer is enveloped in water and sky. Collectively, the photographs pay homage to forces that have inspired our dreams, and influenced our ways of life, since the beginning of humankind. Takahashi?s work has been widely exhibited throughout Japan. We are pleased to make it available to an international audience with this publication. Printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies, High Tide Wane Moon closes with an esay by Shino Kuraishi, Curator of Photography at the Yokohama Museum of Art.      Hardcover, 14 x 11, 56 pages,    51 four-color plates.    ISBN 978-1-59005-198-6

High tide Wane Moon

Correct Distance      Published by Cornerhouse, 1990   This was the first book by Photographer and Artist Mitra Tabrizan, she studied film and photography at the University of Westminster, London. Her work combines techniques from documentary photography, reportage and advertising to make the viewer aware of the ideologies underlying the construction of cultural identities. She has exhibited widely and in major international institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; ICA, London; Museum of Photography, Tokyo and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Her two short films Journey of No Return (1993) and The Third Woman (1991) have been screened internationally at festivals and museums. She has widely published articles and photo-essays in numerous international newspapers and magazines, including Third Text and Camera Austria. Her monograph Correct Distance appeared in 1990, published by Cornerhouse. The artist lives and works in London.     ISBN 0-09-479716-9

Correct Distance

Domestic Landscapes: An Introduction Manual'     Self Published   Limited Edition of 400 numbered copies    Signed by Bert Teunissen.     NEW    The book is spiral bound with stiff card pages, each page has been cut in such away to take one picture, the book has pages to display 15 images. There are 20 pictures that come with the book, printed single sided onto sheets of paper which fit onto the stiff card pages. The idea is that you are then able to edit and arrange the images in any order you desire. Each image is approx 370mm x 300mm    The images have taken over a ten year period throughout Europe and Japan, and have been produced on large format using available light; in houses that were built pre WWII when architects were more aware of natural light and houses were built to make use of this natural commodity rather than relying on the electric light.    This winter work from Teunissen's 'Domestic Landscapes project has been simultaneously Exhibited in Amsterdam (Dec to Mar)and London (Dec to Jan).  The Exhibition moves to the Aperture Gallery in New York in the spring (Mar to May) to coincide with the Aperture launch of the Teunissen's book 'Domestic Landscapes: A portrait of Europeans at Home

Domestic Landscapes - an introduction Manual

The Artificial of the Real: Trcka - Weston - Newton    Published by Scalo, 1998    Hardbound with dustwrapper, Fine condition except for crease to the spine of the dustwrapper.    This sumptuous book features the work of three of the greatest photographic artists of this century. It is an interesting grouping of quite different artists, including the soft, atmospheric portraits of Tr cka; the crisp, sensual still lifes of Weston; and the stark nudes of Newton. The book is unified by the theme of photographic form, notably in portraiture and the human figure, as well as Weston's classic still lifes. Although technically a catalog for a 1998 German exhibition curiously titled 'The Artificial of the Real', the large-format, clothbound book is beautifully reproduced and reasonably priced, especially given the high production values. Exhibition catalogs often present artists in the freshest and most insightful light, and this book is no exception. It offers a rare opportunity to glimpse the work of three accomplished photographers and to gain some understanding of how their work is viewed today. Highly recommended. A Raymond Bial, Parkland Coll. Lib., Champaign, IL  Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Artificial of the Real: Trcka - Weston - Newton

Juergen Teller: Marchenstuberl    STEIDL PUBLICATIONS, 2002     Signed Hard Cover

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