Rays a Laugh by Billingham Richard, First Edition (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Seminal & influential 1st Edition hardback book in good overall condition, but the dust jacket is in fair condition - does not affect contents. This is the original hardback edition published in 1996.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 99pp. Large format. No text.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. This new edition restores Billingham's original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham's training as a painter: it constitutes a 'director's cut' and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era. 'The signed edition includes a slip signed by the artist and glued into the inside back cover' - publisher's website. 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 32 cm. First edition thus. As new, still in publisher's wrapping. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. "First published in 1996, Richard Billingham's Ray's a Laugh is one of the most significant photobooks of the turn of the twentieth century. Formed of starkly intimate images of Billingham's often chaotic parental home under the heavy effects of alcoholism and poverty, the book was produced in the 1990s with editors Michael Collins and Julian Germain. This new edition restores Billingham's original vision for his deeply personal work for the first time. Including numerous unseen images and a distinct approach to sequencing inflected by Billingham's training as a painter: it constitutes a 'director's cut' and reintroduces a vital and consistently challenging work for a new era." Signed by Billingham for this issue to a slip glued to the inside back cover. 4to (32cm). Embossed linen hardcover, pp. 320. New, in publisher's shrinkwrap. Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume II.

Scalo - Zürich. 1996. 285 x 215 mm (11 1/4 x 8 1/2 in) 100 pages - Hardback with original jacket. 54 colour photographs. Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, page 289, 304/305. Mint, unread, new, flawless. Originally shrink-wrapped in plastic foil. Scarce hardcover edition. There was also a paperpack edition 4 years later. Introduction by Richard Billingham; edited by Michael Collins and Julian Germain; design by Hans Werner Holzwarth. - ----------- Scalo, Zürich, 1996. Deutsche Erstausgabe. Erschien zeitgleich und identisch in Aufmachung, Layout, Größe und Inhalt mit der englischen Originalausgabe. Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 2, Seite 289, 304/305. Neu, ungelesen, makellos. Noch original-eingeschweißt in Plastikfolie. Seltene Hardcover-Ausgabe. Nicht zu verwechseln mit der 4 Jahre später erschienen Paperback-Ausgabe (2000). Hardback mit Originalumschlag. 285 x 215 mm, 100 Seiten. 54 Farbfotografien. Einführung durch Richard Billingham; editiert von Michael Collins und Julian Germain; Design von Hans Werner Holzwarth. Mint copy ! STILL SEALED IN PUBLISHER'S PLASTICFOIL. Sprache: Deutsch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie uns immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact us always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***.

First edition, first impression. Signed and dated by the photographer on the front free endpaper. This is Billingham's best-known book, "a British family-album so cool that I can see and hear what goes on between the frames" (Robert Frank). Quarto. With photographic illustrations throughout in colour. Original pink boards, titles to front board and spine in purple, text to rear board in purple, photographic endpapers. With dust jacket. A very good copy, spine ends and extremities a little bumped, but the boards otherwise clean; in the somewhat rubbed dust jacket with mild creasing to extremities.