Roye Narbeth Horace (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Owner's address label inside front cover. Short tear at top left edge of front of dust jacket taped from behind. Some wear along top and bottom edges of jacket, spine head and heel.

Slim small 4to. Unpaginated. 32 b/w. plates. Paperback in original pale grey wrapps. with unlettered spine. Rubbed, the upper wrapp. being creased. US$29.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 222 pp. Original cloth with blue lettering to spine. This is one of a specially bound edition for members of The Camera Studies Club and signed by the author & photographer Roye. Clean copy. No ownership names. Colour frontis. With 130 b&w photographs by the author. Publisher's promotional leaflet laid in. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. AS PICTURED : FIVE IMAGES. First Edition, First Printing - "of a specially bound editon for members of The Camera Studies Club " and FLAT-SIGNED by ROYE in blue biro beneath this. He led an extraordinary life, with claims to have been at times a sheep-farmer, member of an illicit diamond-buying ring, dancing instructor, night-club owner, film artistes' agent, bookmaker and businessman - as well as being probably the best known glamour photographer in Britain in the immediate post-war years. He was stabbed to death at the age of 96 at his home in Morocco in 2002. pp : ix + 222. Coloured frontis + numerous glossy pages of b/w photos. Predominantly tight and tidy, with some moderate signs of wear - lower leading corners bumped, a light freckling of foxing to pages block edges, a small brown stain hidden by front foldover. No lean to spine. In unclipped laminated dustwrapper - 21s net. (later printings were 25s). Creasing, edge chips and tears, a semicircular loss at front bottom edge. The spine still presents well, with minimal wear top and tail. (G-) Now protected with clear, removable sleeve. FREE P&P IN UK. Non-UK customers quoted Shipping cost prior to purchasing. (25% proceeds to the Motor Neurone Disease Association). Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by The Camera Studies Club, London, UK. No Date (1943? ). Illustrated with tissue-guarded color photographs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in blue spiral bound cloth-covered boards with red titles present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Artistic nude glamour photographs caption with poetry quotations on tissues. Plates feature nude and semi-nude glamour models by Roye (coloured by New Life colour process) and cited in Bertolotti's Books of Nudes as a significant publication in the history of nude photography. Horace Roye (born Horace Roye-Narbeth, 4 March 1906 - 11 June 2002) was a photographer. Roye's photograph Tomorrow's Crucifixion, depicting a nude model wearing a gas mask while pinned to a crucifix caused controversy when published in the North London Recorder in August 1938, but is now a noted photograph of its time. As a photographer of nudes, he successfully contested the obscenity laws of his day. E-077; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Gelatinesilberabzug. Vintage. 20,6x15,6 cm. Barytpapier 21,5x16,5 cm. Rückseitig mit Fotografen- und Copyrightstempel "Camera Studies Club". |English description available on request. Traduction française sur demande.|.