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Introducing our New Department: Rare Science Books
by Laura Massey
Science Specialist Laura Massey introduces and gives an overview of eight new Science Categories Available to browse on our website.
Photography Books & Ephemera
Our new catalogue
We are delighted to announce our new catalogue, 'Photography Books & Ephemera'.
The debut catalogue of our new Photobook Department led by specialist Oliver Wood, the catalogue features a curated selection of some of the rarest items in contemporary visual culture.
About Us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in London, specialising in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper, with particular expertise in fine illustrated books from the 15th to the 20th century, travel & voyages, natural history, modern firsts, rare children’s books, guidebooks, Hebraica & Judaica, Eastern European, and Islamica.
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FEATURED ITEMS
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The Inhabitants.
MORRIS, Wright.Original price £875.00 - Original price £875.00Original price £0.00£875.00£875.00 - £875.00Current price £875.00Presentation copy. presentation copy inscribed: 'For / Lambert Davis / who should have had his hand / as well as his name / in this book / Wright M...
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Publisher's file photographs for Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967.
[WARHOL, Andy]. FINKELSTEIN, Nathan Louis 'Nat'.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00The publisher used these prints during preparation for Nat Finkelstein's 1989 book Andy Warhol: The Factory Years 1964-1967, first published in th...
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Three iPhoto artists' books:
SHORE, Stephen.Original price £5,000.00 - Original price £5,000.00Original price £0.00£5,000.00£5,000.00 - £5,000.00Current price £5,000.00Three books in editions of 20. A group of three of Stephen Shore's artists' books produced using Apple's print-on-demand iPhoto software. Shore beg...
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Water's Edge.
CALLAHAN, Harry.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00One of 200 with an original photograph. Callahan informally began his series of beach photographs in 1938 at Lake Hutton, where his wife's family h...
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Beyrouth.
RISTELHUEBER, Sophie.Original price £650.00 - Original price £650.00Original price £0.00£650.00£650.00 - £650.00Current price £650.00Presentation copy. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'Pour Jacquot, / un petit livre / typique des [...]... / Avec toute l'affection / de Sophie. / Le ...
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The Road is Wider than Long.
PENROSE, Roland.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £0.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Presentation copy. presentation copy, inscribed to editor, critic, anthologist, and bibliophile John Hayward: 'to John Hayward / [drawing of a comp...
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London.
ARMSTRONG-JONES, Tony (Lord Snowdon).Original price £400.00 - Original price £400.00Original price £0.00£400.00£400.00 - £400.00Current price £400.00Inscribed to Hilary Gerrard. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed: 'To Hilary / With best wishes / from / Tony Armstrong-Jones – / Snowdon'....
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Message from the Interior.
EVANS, Walker.Original price £625.00 - Original price £625.00Original price £0.00£625.00£625.00 - £625.00Current price £625.00These twelve photographs of domestic interiors are richly suggestive of the lives of those who live or lived in them. In the afterword, John Szark...
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GuidesA Guide to Guidebooks
by Lucinda BoyleKarl Baedeker was head of a successful publishing business, when in 1832 he acquired the publishing house of Franz Röhling which four years earlier had published a travel guide Rheinreise von Mainz bis Cöln: Ein Handbuch für Schnellreisende by Professor...
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LiteratureUkrainian Modernism
A visit to the Royal Academy in London by Eleanor MooreThe Royal Academy's new exhibition, In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine 1900-1930s, is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in the UK, celebrating a period of bold artistic experimentation. Despite profound upheaval, there was a true flourishing...
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TravelProvenance
Julian MacKenzie chooses books from the collections of 3 great bibliophiles, currently on our shelves.The great thing about collecting books is that they were produced as multiples giving lots of collectors a chance to own a copy. To distinguish between copies the most desirable factors are condition and provenance and for me the greatest...
