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Malcolm M said:
Robert Kee, The Picture Post Album. Rescued from the scrofulous book section in the back corner of a vintage emporium in Blackpool, before the dust jacket gets ripped. Lord, when I die, please see to it that my books end up with a proper second-hand dealer.

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One to buy; even the paperback is decently printed and about 12½" by 9½" on good quality paper. Thought it best to take a quick look at ebay to see prices and they start at about three or four pounds including delivery in the paperback version. That would be money well spent; lots of splendid photos and just enough in the informative text.

Regards, David
 
I just received a small package of books (booklets, really) from https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/ I haven't had a chance to get deeply into them but they look impressive.

If you are not familiar with them, Cafe Royal publishs small weekly editions of books mainly involving England and Ireland by various photographers. Not pretty landscapes but B&W humanist and photojournalistic essays of events or geographic areas. The reproduction is not outstanding but they are worth the very low prices charged. I'm not familiar with most of the photographers but then I'm not located in that area of the world. It's good photography of mostly interesting subjects even to this non-Englishman.
 
David Hughes said:
One to buy; even the paperback is decently printed and about 12½" by 9½" on good quality paper. Thought it best to take a quick look at ebay to see prices and they start at about three or four pounds including delivery in the paperback version. That would be money well spent; lots of splendid photos and just enough in the informative text.

Regards, David
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The power of co-incidence. There's a hardback in the Oxfam shop in Headingley, in good condition (dust jacket not torn) for £3.99.
 
Dogman said:
I just received a small package of books (booklets, really) from https://www.caferoyalbooks.com/ I haven't had a chance to get deeply into them but they look impressive.

If you are not familiar with them, Cafe Royal publishs small weekly editions of books mainly involving England and Ireland by various photographers. Not pretty landscapes but B&W humanist and photojournalistic essays of events or geographic areas. The reproduction is not outstanding but they are worth the very low prices charged. I'm not familiar with most of the photographers but then I'm not located in that area of the world. It's good photography of mostly interesting subjects even to this non-Englishman.
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And at least one RFF member has a few zines on Cafe Royal.
 
Malcolm M said:
Robert Kee, The Picture Post Album. Rescued from the scrofulous book section in the back corner of a vintage emporium in Blackpool, before the dust jacket gets ripped. Lord, when I die, please see to it that my books end up with a proper second-hand dealer.

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Where abouts in Blackpool is that ,may I ask .
I`m in Thornton .
 
Miyamoto, Ryuji "Ryuji Miyamoto". Steidl. September 2, 1999. ISBN ‎ 9783882435764

I found it used at the local Half Price Books here in Berkeley 2 nights ago walking home from work. I honestly thought what I paid for it might been $5 more than I thought it worth (the dust cover wasn't in the best of shape). But now that I'm looking it up, the prices that it goes for kind of made me huh?! Most of the Steidl books I find at this location are Steidl dump books (IE they didn't sell as well as they had hoped so then places like Half Price buy them for cheap so Steidl can clear out the warehouse). It's a good book with interesting photos, but I'm still kind of going HUH at the street value of it.

I think the Steidl edition here is simple an English version of his Japanese edition "Architectural Apocalypse" & "Earthquake Revisted."

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