Humanity and Inhumanity.
£1,500 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books
edition of 100 with a signed photograph The deluxe edition of Humanity Inhumanity, the first comprehensive overview of Magnum co-founder George Rodger's photographic career. With a signed print of Rodger's 1948 photograph taken in South Africa of a young Basuto boy wrapped in blankets against the cold on the Thabu Bosiu ('Mountain of the Night'). First edition, number 21 of 100 signed copies, specially bound with a signed photograph; 4to (289 x 247 mm, 11½ x 9¾ in); black-and-white photographs, text by Bruce Bernard; grey endpapers, grey silk-covered boards, titles to spine and sides in blind, publisher's matching box with titles stamped to spine in black, lightly marked, cloth lifting a little at spine, gelatin silver photograph (252 x 202 mm, 10 x 8 in), signed by Rodger in black ink in lower margin, Magnum stamp on verso, in a sleeve, laid in, fine in a near-fine box; 320pp.
- Binding: Hardcover
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