Rare Finds - A Guide to Rare Book Collecting

“The entire book stands as a testament that man, at least through art, can rise above his condition, can transform misery into beauty, loneliness into solitude.” - Aperture

In 1961, an obscure photographer struggled to have his first book published, a collection of stark, haunting and remarkable photographs that he had taken over a ten-year period. He was turned down by numerous publishers, mainly because of his insistence that the book’s layout - the sequence of photographs, the text that accompanied them - be exactly to his specifications, as he had envisioned it page by page.

It was finally published by a modest firm in Culpepper, Virginia in a small edition that quickly went out of print. Dave Heath’s A Dialogue With Solitude, now considered among the most significant photo books of the century, remains a testament to its creator’s steadfast vision. In the raw beauty of its images, we see with what power a single group of photographers can convey so much, so eloquently.

We invite you to contact us for a copy of our new photography catalogue. Among the offerings, we include the rare first edition of Dave Heath’s A Dialogue With Solitude.