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Bill Brandt. The English at Home, Sixty-Three Photographs. B. T. Batsford, 1936.

Price: US$148.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: COVER (hardcover without jacket)- scratches, heavy wear/tears on edges, tearing along edges of spine; general yellowing, other medium stains. PAGES- minor stains; creases, no tears; no writing. Not ex-library.

Seller: Premium Classics, Chemung, NY, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. B.T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: 4to (9.25 x 7.25 inches). 8 pages text, 63 photographs. Original pictorial boards, decorated endpapers, UK issue with "Batsford" at bottom of spine. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. Brandt's classic study of English class differences. "It was a pictorial essay on the gap between the rich and the poor, but it was also a fond study of the way people take possession of their environments, presented by a German exile with a faked English identity and an obsession with what people look like at home" (Harris, Modern Romantics, p. 247). Parr & Badger I:138; Roth, p.90. Wear to spine and board edges, internally clean. Despite these flaws, a respectable copy of Brandt's first book

Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. B.T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Brandt's first book. Features an introduction by Raymond Mortimer. A collection of 63 black and white images by Brandt. An about good copy in photo illustrated boards with some wear to and a lean to the spine and some other wear to the corners. Internally a clean copy. No dust jacket as issued. Despite the flaws a solid copy of an important debut. (Parr & Badger v1, 138, Roth 90).

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill.. The English at Home - Sixty-three photographs.. B.T. Batsford, London., 1936.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Description: First edition; U.S. issue with the Scribners imprint at tail of spine. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. Small quarto. pp 8 + 63 full-page black and white photographs. Pictorial endpapers and boards. Covers rubbed at the edges and spine and slightly marked. The lettering on the spine is almost all intact. Very good. Lacks the original plain glassine dustwrapper.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom

Brandt, Bill. The English at Home. NY: Charles Scribner's and Sons and B.T. Batsford, Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover with printed boards, 8 pages of text in English followed by 63 illustrations; fair to good condition; 1/2-inch loss at top and bottom of spine; spine also has heavy vertical cracking down length of edges as well as internal splits to front cover but is still firmly attached; images on cover yellowed with some light scratches; tiny tear to right edge of first page; otherwise internally very good; owner's name to first blank page; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. The English At Home. B. T. Batsford Ltd., London, 1936.

Price: US$439.92 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book condition: Very Good (Dedication in pen on the flyleaf, small tear on page 18 (1cm) and on page 58 of 1.5 cm, some small pieces missing on the spine, signs of use on the edges and cover, boards toned. Overall good condition for it's age.) Binding: Hardcover without dustjacket (as issued) Language: English Edition: First Published, Spring 1936 Publishing place: London Publishing Year: 1936 Description: Introduced by Raymond Mortimer, 'The English At Home' provides a photographic journey through English culture and landscapes, capturing the essence of English life from various perspectives. 600.000000

Seller: Amstelbooks, Rhenen, UTREC, Netherlands

Brandt, Bill ; Raymond Mortimer (Intro.). The English at Home : Sixty-three photographs by Bill Brandt. B.T. Batsford, London, 1936.

Price: US$503.92 + shipping

Description: 1st ed., octavo, pp.viii, 63 (illustrations), illus eps., small piece missing lower rfep, cnrs bumped, original bds in remains of backstrip, contents clean. Very good condn. Brandt was a British photographer and photo journalist best known for his documentation of British Society. This book published two years after his arrival in London

Seller: Muir Books -Robert Muir Old & Rare Books - ANZAAB/ILAB, PERTH, WA, Australia

Bill Brandt. The English at Home. B.T. Batsford, London, 1936.

Price: US$584.80 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The English at Home. Introduced by Raymond Mortimer. London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. Quarto. Original laminated photographic boards, spine and front board lettered red, photographic endpapers. 63 plates. Spine sunned, joints starting, boards toned, some wear to extremities. A very good copy. First edition, first impression of this classic. This marvellous photographer's first book moving across social classes as well as between rural and urban milieus. "Mr. Brandt shows himself not only to be an artist but an anthropologist. He seems to have wandered about England with the detached curiosity of a man investigating the customs of some remote and unfamiliar tribe" (Raymond Mortimer, introduction). The majority of the photographs printed in this volume appeared here for the first time.

Seller: St Paul's Bookshop P.B.F.A., Peterborough, United Kingdom

Photographs by Bill Brandt. Introduced by Raymond Mortimer.. The English At Home. B.T. Batsford Ltd., London., 1936.

Price: US$614.04 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: B.T. Batsford Ltd. London. 1936. First edition. Hardback, with illustrated laminated boards, photographic endpapers. 8 pages + 63 b&w gravure plates. English, with French captions. 240x290mm. 0.45kg. Very good; light shelf wear to boards, some rubbing to edges and forecorners, light wear to spine ends, small abrasions to boards; internally very clean; a solid copy of a fragile title. A very good copy of Bill Brandt's first, influential photo book. At the time of publication Brandt was working as a freelance photographer for Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post in London and he applies his skills for social documentary to great effect in The English At Home . With photos of London policemen, busby hats, Harrow garden parties and fox hunting the book lulls the reader into a false sense of patriotic security. Soon images of miners, cramped working class homes, 'A Whitechapel Blind Beggar' and 'A Billingsgate Porter' begin to encroach. Brandt then makes definite statements concerning the disparity of the classes by creating such juxtapositions as 'Workmen's Restaurant' and 'Clubmen's Sanctuary', 'Circus Boyhood' and 'Nursery Girlhood', and 'East End Playground' and 'Kensington Children's Party'. Brandt, who grew up in Germany, has the eyes of a relative outsider. His photographs portray England as a country of contradictions; England has it's marvellous traditions but it also has it's intense failings.  [Hasselblad Center. The Open Book. p.122-123; Roth. The Book of 101 Books. p.90-91; Auer. 802 Photo Books. p.230; Parr& Badger. The Photobook: A History Volume I. p.77, 80] Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.

Seller: Beaux Books, ABA, ILAB, Hartley Wintney, HAMPS, United Kingdom

Brandt, Bill. The English at Home. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd, 1936.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover with printed boards, very good condition; covers are yellowed with small losses at top and bottom of spine and light edgewear to boards; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Brandt, Bill. The English At Home. London Batsford 1936, 1936.

Price: US$779.73 + shipping

Description: A first edition, first printing published by Scribners /B T Batsford LTD (Hardback, Spring 1936). The book is in good condition condition. Wear to cover edges exposing the webbing of the browned spine a little. No inscriptions. Some surface scratching to the rear panel. Brandt was a British photographer and photo journalist best known for his documentation of British Society. Rare.

Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom

Brandt, Bill (eig. Hermann Wilhelm).. The English at home. Sixty-three photographs. Introduced by Raymond Mortimer.. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd. (Spring 1936)., 1936.

Price: US$835.29 + shipping

Description: 4°. 8 S. u. 63 Tafeln in Heliogravure. Illustr. OPbd. Auer 230. The Open Book 122 f. Koetzle 67 f. Parr/Badger I, 138. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 90. - Erster Druck der ersten Ausgabe. - Die berühmte erste Buchveröffentlichung von B. Brandt. - "This was Bill Brandt's first book. At the time he was a 32-year-old freelancer, social documentary photographer working for Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post in London, but he'd already been to Paris to work with Man Ray. Compared with the works Brandt later produce and the ones he would later inspire in Robert Frank and others, The English at Home seems tame, but it dit have a lasting effect" (A. Roth). - "Brandts Laufbahn als Fotograf war, von Anfang bis Ende, die verschlungenste und ungewöhnlichste in der gesamten Geschichte der Fotografie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Während der 1930er Jahre findet man ihn als Dokumentarist, der traditionelle britische Themen erforscht, um dann während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg als der britische Landschafts- und Porträtfotograf hervorzutreten. Schließlich wurde er als Künstler und als Großbritanniens bedeutendster Fotograf der Moderne anerkannt" (Ian Jeffrey in Koetzle). - Rücken etwas gebräunt, Rücken am Fuß und untere Ecken gering berieben, sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar. Sprache: englisch.

Seller: Antiquariat Haufe & Lutz, Karlsruhe, BW, Germany

BRANDT, Bill. The English at Home. Sixty-three photographs by. Introduced by Raymond Mortimer. , 1936.

Price: US$890.98 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8 pages (Introduction) London, B.T. BATSFORD LTD, 1936, in-4, 8 pages (Introduction) suivies de 63 reproductions photographiques en héliogravure, Cartonnage illustré de l'éditeur, ÉDITION ORIGINALE. Introduction en anglais. Légendes en français et en anglais. Premier ouvrage du photographe. Cartonnage légèrement défraîchi avec léger manque de papier dans la partie postérieure du dos et un coin un peu racorni, cependant très bel état intérieur et très bon exemplaire. Références bibliographiques : Parr - Badger I, 138 ; Auer Coll. 230.

Seller: Librairie Alain Brieux, paris, France

BRANDT, Bill. The English At Home. B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1936.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: BRANDT, Bill [63] pp. B.T. Batsford Ltd. 1936 9 3/8" x 7 3/8" Sixty-Three Photographs by Bill Brandt First edition, first impression, of the photographer's first book. "The book is notable for its pointed contrasts of upper- and working-class life, but also for Brandt's sheer relish for the mysteries and rituals of Englishness" (ODNB). Roth 101, Parr & Badger. Quarto. Original glazed photographically illustrated boards, titles to front board and spine in red. A very good copy of Bill Brandt's first, influential photo book. At the time of publication Brandt was working as a freelance photographer for Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post in London and he applies his skills for social documentary to great effect in The English At Home. With photos of London policemen, busby hats, Harrow garden parties and fox hunting the book lulls the reader into a false sense of patriotic security. Soon images of miners, cramped working class homes, 'A Whitechapel Blind Beggar' and 'A Billingsgate Porter' begin to encroach. Brandt then makes definite statements concerning the disparity of the classes by creating such juxtapositions as 'Workmen's Restaurant' and 'Clubmen's Sanctuary', 'Circus Boyhood' and 'Nursery Girlhood', and 'East End Playground' and 'Kensington Children's Party'. Brandt, who grew up in Germany, has the eyes of a relative outsider. His photographs portray England as a country of contradictions; England has its marvellous traditions, but it also has its intense failings.

Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.

BRANDT, Bill (1904-1983). [Photobook] The English at Home. B. T. Batsford Ltd, London, 1936.

Price: US$1365.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing (so stated) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spine and upper cover lettered in red, photographic end papers. Wanting the rare unprinted acetate dust jacket. Spine and covers lightly toned, else a clean, bright, firmly bound copy. Roth (101), p. 90. Roth (Open Book), pp. 122-23. Parr & Badger I, p. 138. Auer, p. 230. Brandt's first foray into print, contrasting the English social classes and panning between urban and rural milieus, with the photographer showing himself "not only to be an artist but an anthropologist. He seems to have wandered about England with the detached curiosity of a man investigating the customs of some remote and unfamiliar tribe." (from the Introduction) Most of the photographs appeared here for the first time. The English at Home seems to begin as a conventional photographic celebration of Englishness, with views of a Buckingham Palace guard and double-decker buses crossing London Bridge. But as the book proceeds, the "strictly divided class structure of England is increasingly reflected in the layout, with an image of a desolate street (East End Playground) juxtaposed with children in fine clothes looking bored (Kensington Children's Party) . . . Compared with the works Brandt would later produce and the ones he would later inspire in Robert Frank and others, The English at Home seems tame, but it had a lasting effect." (Roth 101) "The book is notable for . . . Brandt's sheer relish for the mysteries and rituals of Englishness. He had privileged access to these through various Brandt uncles and their households. Friends and family acted out various roles in Brandt's photographs. His master in the art of documentary photography, or photojournalism, was the Paris-based Transylvanian Brassai . . . " (ODNB) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.