Signed photobooks

Background information

Signed photo books are highly desirable for the photo book library of collectors, e.g. because they

  1. the mass-produced object 'photo book' stand out from the crowd and are only
  2. are only available in limited numbers
  3. bring a personal touch to the collection.

In addition, the collector can show that he is up to date. Since photo books by still unknown photographers are often produced with caution only in small editions and the publisher/photographer wants to ensure a high distribution by the signature, these volumes often become later sought-after collector's items.

Recent examples of now sought-after photo volumes by formerly lesser known photographers

'The Rage of Devotion' by Liza AMBROSSIO - 'Altered Ocean' by Mandy BARKER - 'Oasis Hotel' by Nicolo DEGIORGIS - 'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne DE WILDE - 'Two Rivers' by Carolyn DRAKE - 'Reading Raymond Carver' & 'Real Life Dramas' by Mary FREY - 'A' and 'ZZYZY' by Gregory HALPERN - 'Standing by the Wall. Berlin 1990' by Josef Wolfgang MAYER - 'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' by Witho WORMS ... to name just a few titles ...


In her rare, out-of-print volume 'Dildo', published in a very limited edition of only 55 copies, Japanese photographer Momo OKABE accompanies her friends in their transformation from woman to man. She developed her intimate, artistic photographs by hand.
3.600,00 € * Weight 2 kg
Cafe Lehmitz Photobook Libraries shall enable collectors as well as institutions to acquire out-of-print titles at a price that can be paid. This library, the Paul GRAHAM Photobook Library, contains currently 19 photo volumes - mainly signed copies.
1.980,00 € *
For this artist edition of 'Neue Welt', Wolfgang TILLMANS has selected 72 images and re-contextualized them on large, 24 folded printed sheets. Each is a separate object with a front, center fold and back. And some new photos are not included in the book.
1.750,00 € *
The 'Dirk-ALVERMANN-Photobook-Library' currently contains one copy each of nine publications, which are already out of print at their publishers. Some of the books are SIGNED, like 'Keine Experimente' (1961), 'Zwischen den Zeiten' (2006) & 'dacapo' (2008)
1.200,00 € * Weight 8 kg
Cloth bound (no dust jackets, as issued)
1.198,00 € *
The out-of-print volume 'Early Works' by Issei SUDA contains black-and-white photographs that were published in several magazines between 1970 and 1975, prior to the 'Fushikaden' series - this photo collection is like a prologue to his personal history.
998,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
'Cette Montagne. C'est moi' is a 'real Revier 'book about a coal mining area that stretches from France to Belgium and Germany to Poland. Dutch photographer Witho WORMS documented the heaps, photobook designer Hans GREMMEN congenially staged the pictures.
from 998,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
The photo volume 'Niagara' by Alec SOTH is less about the natural wonder than the human desires associated with this place. They were taken with a large-format 8x10 camera over the course of two years on both the American and Canadian sides of the Falls.
948,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
with photo books by Mark STEINMETZ, Anthony HERNANDEZ, Bevan DAVIES, Katy GRANNAN, Sage SOHIER & John HUMBLE, Sage SOHIER, Mark STEINMETZ
900,00 € *
This Nazraeli 'NZ Library Set #4' consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes by Steve BANKS / Katy GRANNAN / Abelardo MORELL / Catherine OPIE / Mark STEINMETZ / Jack TEEMER, collected in a slipcase. All texts are in English, limited to 350 copies!
900,00 € *
The NZ-Library Set #2 consists of six signed hardcover photo volumes from Robbert FLICK / Kazuo KITAI / Philip MELNICK / John SCHOTT / Toshio SHIBATA / Mark STEINMETZ. In an extra made slipcase, richly illustrated, texts in English, Ltd. to 350 copies!
900,00 € *
This is the beginning set of the Nazraeli 'NZ Library' series, collected in a slipcase. Included are six signed photo volumes by Bevan DAVIES / John DIVOLA / Steve KAHN / Idris KHAN / Daidō MORIYAMA / John SCHOTT. Texts in English, limited to 350 copies!
900,00 € *
The photographic volume 'Approximate Joy' by Christopher ANDERSON offered here is from the 1st edition and is signed by the Magnum photographer. Collector's edition (1 of 30) with a signed C-print on metallic paper. Book with print and yellow slipcase.
850,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
SIGNED COPY. In his 2nd photo volume 'Keine Experimente', Dirk ALVERMANN takes a critical and mocking stance on the period of the economic miracle as well as the Nazi past. The b/w photographs were taken between 1956 and 1961 in Berlin and the Rhineland.
548,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
For his out-of-print book 'Behind the Block', Tobias ZIELONY visited the peripheries of modern cities such as Halle, Marseille & Bristol to explore the youth culture there in 'subcultural melting pots' and special zones of urban civilization at eye level.
498,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
'An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar' by Taryn SIMON provides amazing insights into remote corners of the USA. With her pictures, she opens up unknown, even uncanny territories of a society whose self-image is based on being open & transparent.
498,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
The out-of-print volume 'In the Shadow of the Pyramids' by Magnum photographer Laura EL-TANTAWY appears to be a general account of the hopes and setbacks associated with the Egyptian revolution.But through the texts it gains considerable personal depth.
448,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
In 'Hong Kong Flora', Michael WOLF turns his attention to plants and flowers in the urban jungle of the Asian metropolis. Each leaf, each branch, each flower a visible sign of the power of nature and people´s single-mindedness, to customize their habitat.
398,00 €
Cloth bound HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 15,5 x 21 x 2 cm., 152 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies
398,00 €
In his after sought and long-out-of-print volume 'Grays the Mountain Sends'Bryan SCHUTMAAT combines portraits, landscapes, and still lifes to explore the lives of working people residing in small mountain towns and mining communities in the American West.
398,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
The images included in the photovolume 'Bright Black World' by Todd HIDO were taken in Northern Europe and Japan. Previously focused on North America, this is the first significant foray into photography outside of his home country for the photographer.
398,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
The out-of-print photo book 'As Dust Alights' by Vincent DELBROUCK represents part #1 of The Himalayan Project. He created this artist book out of various installations, subjectively addressing the city of Kathmandu as well as the nature of the Himalayas.
398,00 € Weight 0.7 kg
'Poppy. Trails of Afghan Heroin 'by Dutch Robert KNOTH and Antoinette de JONG, traces the heroin journey, which leads from Afghanistan via Central Asia, Russia and the Balkans to East Africa, Dubai and Western Europe and gets lost in the streets of London
398,00 €
Out-of-print photo volume 'Novemberrejse' by Krass CLEMENT consists of almost 80 b/w photographs showing life in a small Danish town. Every now and then the Danish photographer chooses unexpected angles and portrays some people from the shortest distance.
398,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Pb. (no dust jacket, as issued BUT in a bag), 24 x 32 x 1 cm. (9,4x12,6"), 40 pp., 10 color ills., English. +PRINT (approx. 22 x 28 cm.) Ltd. to 50 numbered copies
398,00 € *
Out-of-print book 'Tokyo' by Gerry JOHANSSON is a journey through a city at once futuristic and obsolete. Photography is used to index the city, finding form and pragmatic order through accumulation and sequence, revealing the city's hidden, modular logic
398,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 51 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
380,00 € *
HC with dust jacket, 27 x 34,5 x 2,5 cm. (8 x 13,5 x 1 inch.), 240 pp., 320 duotone b/w ills., text language: English
378,00 €
Self-published book 'Carpoolers' by Alejandro CARTAGENA draws attention to the sociological and economic aspects of the Mexican-American economy. We look from above directly onto the loading area of Mexican pickups that transport very different 'loads'.
378,00 € Weight 0.4 kg
Ringbinded carton, 19 x 24 cm., 68 pp., approx. 24 color ills., Ltd. to 100 copies, bilingual text: Spanish / English
358,00 € *
Out-of-print photo volume 'Redheaded Peckerwood' by American photographer Christian PATTERSON, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land
from 350,00 €
Signed new edition. Paul GRAHAM's photo volume set 'A Shimmer of Possibility' is considered one of the defining photo books of the 21st century and was awarded the Paris Photo-Aperture Prize for the most important photo book of the last 15 years.
from 350,00 €
1st print run, HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 19,5 x 26 x 4 cm., 560 pp., color & b/w ills., text language: french - TEXT ONLY IN FRENCH !
330,00 € Weight 2.2 kg
This new edition of 'A Hunter' by Daido MORIYAMA features the photo book with a carefully researched and designed booklet including readable essays as well as an invaluable commentary in English regarding the book as a whole and each individual photograph
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
Long out-of-print photo volume 'Bag Saga Blok' by Danish Krass CLEMENT, is a neighborhood portrait spanning over five decades around an old movie theater in Copenhagen's Vesterbro neighborhood - presented with an impressive range of photographic styles.
from 298,00 € Weight 1.9 kg
This new printed edition of Todd HIDO's legendary and coveted first monograph has been reissued to celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important photo book - undoubtedly one of the most influential and most cited photo monographs of our time.
298,00 € * Weight 2.2 kg
'Negatives are Stored' by Vladyslav KRASNOSHCHOK is an object of a wooden box with 53 colored reproductions of cabinet portraits and business cards. The originals are from Kharkov, initially the photographer only wanted to save them from their destruction
298,00 € *
Facsimile. pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), ca. 20 x 25 x 1 cm., 32 pp., b/w ills., Ltd. to 250 copies with 2 different silk-screened covers (= 500 copies in total!)
298,00 € Weight 0.3 kg
'Tokyokei' documents both: Issei SUDA's very personal view of his hometown and an important Japanes period. This photo book is perhaps the most personal title of the Japanese master. It contains 106 previously unpublished b/w photos from the 1970s and 80s
298,00 € * Weight 1.7 kg
'Pantomime' by Daido MORIYAMA features the more or less complete series of his pictures of fetuses, stored in formalin, photographed at a maternity hospital in Kanagawa. This was his first own project after three years’ work as an assistant to Eikoh HOSOE
298,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 cm., 64 pp., 58 dutone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
298,00 € *
The out-of-print volume 'Matter / Burn Out' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a documentation of the exhibition of the same name in Xiamen, which was burned after its completion. This was documented, with the data processed, manipulated and revived to create this book
298,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
The black and white images in the out-of-print photographic volume 'ON' by Irish photographer Eamonn DOYLE consist of a collection of street portraits from Dublin city center. The people are mostly photographed from the front and from a lower angle.
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
The photographs in out-of-print, large-formated 'New York Arbor' by Mitch EPSTEIN document the importance of trees to urban life in NYC, as well as their complex relationship with the residents. The superb printing makes viewing a breathtaking experience.
from 298,00 € Weight 1.6 kg
Bootleg ed. of 'Raised by Wolves' by Jim GOLDBERG. It contains harrowing stories about teenage runaways living on the streets of San Francisco and LA. It combines photographs, documents as well as handwritten, passages about their lives and feelings.
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
In his book trilogy consisting of 'A1. The Great North Road', 'Beyond Caring' as well as 'Troubled Land' - Paul GRAHAM documents life in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. This series established and him as an important voice in contemporary photography
298,00 € *
In this out-of-print photo volume 'There's a Place in Hell for Me and My Friends' Pieter HUGO devotes himself to those components that are 'active' under the surface and consist of a much broader spectrum. What seems to divide us at the actually unites us
298,00 € Weight 1.1 kg
This edition of 'Chizu / The Map' by Kikuji KAWADA is an exquisite facsimile of the two-volume maquette, which also includes a booklet of texts and an interview with the Japanese artist revealing the evolution of one of the best photobooks of all time.
298,00 € * Weight 2.2 kg
In his out-of-print photo book 'Deutschland', Gerry JOHANSSON explains German history through its landscape, industrial scenes and buildings, residential streets and store fronts. Here ends the series of books for which he spent eighteen years traveling.
298,00 € * Weight 1.2 kg
SIGNED COPY! The out-of-print photo book 'Lebensmittel' (Food) by Michael SCHMIDT documents the industrialization in food production. The volume consisting of B/W & color photographs was the last publication on which he still worked until its completion.
298,00 € * Weight 2.7 kg
This set includes all three different designs and book formats of the 'No more no less' photo book project which has been iniciated by Thomas SAUVIN and Kensuke KOIKE. The base was a found manuscript with pictures about the work with portrait photography.
298,00 € *
Re-edit, English Ed., Slipcased HC + pb. (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 31,5 x 3,5 cm., 328 pp., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies
298,00 € * Weight 1.8 kg
This photo volume by Carolyn DRAKE is a statement for the freedom of the Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. He combines photographs with drawings by the Uighurs. The book also contains excerpts from the allegorical story 'Wild Pigeon' by Nurmuhemmet YASIN.
298,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
'Das Auge der Liebe' (The Eye of Love) by René GROEBLI owes its existence to a belated honeymoon. Sparsely furnished rooms, mirrors, beds, window views, wine, cigarettes - and his wife Rita. A love poem and a book for lovers, longing, seeking, desperate.
280,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
'A New Map of Italy' by Guido GUIDI focuses on spontaneous suburban architecture in order to draw a complex and layered portrait. Picture by picture the illusions of a 'Bella Italia' give way to the other, more precarious, more realistic face of Italy.
278,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
Out-of-print book 'Hattfabriken' by Gerry JOHANSSON documents the architectural details of the building by Erich Mendelsohn as well as more buildings that reflect the history of the factory and the turbulent political periods from the 1920s to the present
275,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
Slip cased HC, 28 x 30,5 x 2 cm., b/w ills., text language: English
250,00 € *
In 'Temptation of Life' by Boris MIKHAILOV, older images enter into a dialogue with those from 2017, taken in a Soviet-era Kiev crematorium, as well as in decaying corners of Eastern & Western European cities and in bedrooms and hospitals, and night bars.
250,00 € *
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 28 four color & b/wills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
248,00 € *
The US report in out-of-print book 'Heartland' by Thomas HOEPKER is a prime example of committed photojournalism personally interpreted, of photography as reportage at the highest level of formal aestheticism. Photo history and at the same time up to date
from 248,00 € Weight 0.5 kg
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 40 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30,5 x 38 x 2 (12 x 15 in.) cm., 48 pp., 20 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 56 pp., 51 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 32 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 54 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
The photographic volume 'Discarded' by US-American photographer Anthony HERNANDEZ is part of the 'NZ Library Set #3'. It consists of thirty-five photographs taken in desert and high desert cities such as Riverside, Salton City, Lancaster and Palmdale.
248,00 € * Weight 1.4 kg
Self published out-of-print photographic volume 'Distance. 1991-1995' by Koji ONAKA is about an unspecified city and in its industries. The black-and-white images show railroad infrastructure and roads, as well as a worn port. Signed & numbered (178/300).
248,00 € * Weight 0.2 kg
'She dances on Jackson' by Vanessa WINSHIP is the result of travelings across the United States - from California to Virginia, from New Mexico to Montana - always in search of the 'American Dream'. It contains her typical portraits & landscape photographs
248,00 € Weight 1 kg
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 60 pp., 26 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 25 x 38 x 2 cm. (10,5 x 15 in.), 36 pp., 24 four-color b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
248,00 € *
Limited edition photo book 'Bike Kill' shows life in a Brooklyn bike club. The French Julie GLASSBERG spent three years documenting the world of the Black Label Bike Club. The title refers to an annual celebration of bike chopping, friendship and anarchy.
248,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
The out-of-print photographic volume 'Story/No Story' by Tobias ZIELONY provides an overview of his work since 2000, which has mainly been taken in social hotspots in Bristol, Halle-Neustadt, Marseille, South Los Angelesas well as in Winnipeg, Canada.
248,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
'Roxane' represents the visual journal of the photographer Viviane SASSEN. The book shows a series of intimate portraits of her muse named Roxane, whose body and expressions follow the artist's instructions in various poses and moods.
248,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 38 x 30 x 2 cm. (10,5 x 15 in.), 56 pp., 22 four color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
248,00 € *
Out-of-print 'Hong Kong Umbrella' by Michael WOLF shows umbrellas in the Back Alleys. The cover also refers to the yellow umbrella as a symbol of protest against Chinese appropriation; images of the 'Umbrella Revolution' by Lam Yik FEI can also be seen.
248,00 € * Weight 0.3 kg
In 'Ciprian Honey Cathedral' Raymond MEEKS carefully examines the legibility of our material surroundings and the people who are closest to us. He is known for using photography to poetically distill the boundaries of sight, awareness, and understanding.
248,00 € * Weight 1 kg
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 72 pp., 29 duotone b/w ills., Text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
HC, 30,5 x 41 cm., 202 pp. + 2 add. books, housed in screen printed box
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.) 60 pp., 47 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Very large photo book, 'San Fernando Valley,' contains a series of themes that reveal the ability to capture the solitary, wrapped up everyday scenes for which John DIVOLA became famous. A fascinating account of the culture of Los Angeles in the 1970s.
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 54 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 copies
248,00 € *
The out-of-print volume 'Vertigo' by Daisuke YOKOTA is a kind of evolutionary sequel to 'Back Yard'. It contains close-ups as well as bird's-eye views of files. It refers to and clarifies the editing methods used by making the viewer aware of the sequence
248,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38,5 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 33 four color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slip cased HC, 30,5 x 38 cm., 64 pp., 29 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 41 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 56 pp., 43 four color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC with dust jacket, 30 x 38 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 64 pp., 51 duotone b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 cm., 48 pp., 21 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
Slipcased HC, 30,5 x 38 x 2 cm. (12 x 15 in.), 48 pp., 31 b/w ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 350 numbered copies
248,00 € *
'The Island of the Color Blind' by Sanne de WILDE documents a hereditary disease of people in Micronesia. The image selection obscures or emphasizes their eyes, faces and their way of seeing - the viewer is led into a dream world of colorful possibilities
248,00 € * Weight 0.9 kg
The book 'American Winter' by Gerry JOHANSSON shows half-empty cities across the U.S., with as much beauty as misery in snow-covered landscapes: a lonely church floating in a dappled sea of white, or bare trees lining endless highways tending to nothing.
228,00 € * Weight 1.3 kg
In out-of-print book 'A Clearing', Raymond MEEKS documents the stark geological & human assertion of presence against the flattening insistence of time, erosion & poverty. The figures in the landscape appear so isolated that they take on a mythical power.
220,00 € * Weight 1 kg
In his ongoing 'City Diary' project, Anders PETERSEN - awarded with the Dr.-Erich-Salomon-Award, DGPh - examines the less public side of urban life, in volumes #1 to #3, he photographed such different cities like Stockholm, Tokyo as well as St. Petersburg
198,00 € * Weight 1.1 kg
Inspired by military manuals, American ex-soldier Ben Brody's diary-like photo book 'Attention Servicemember' is a passionate exploration of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
from 198,00 € Weight 0.9 kg
In 'Witness Number 7,' Todd HIDO creates a connection between his photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes and portraits of Leon Borensztein. HIDO's powerful, surreal images evoke a longing for the time when things were better in these homes.
198,00 €
The book 'Between Maple and Chestnut' by Terri WEIFENBACH is about the idyllic home - starting point in the 'American somewhere'. Through the use of selective focus & shallow depth of field, the photographer enters a space between painting & photography.
198,00 €
For her book 'Hafiz', Sabiha ÇIMEN documented the life at Koranic schools for girls in Turkey for three years. A return to schools as she once visited them with her twin sister. The title refers to someone who has memorized all 604 pages of the Holy Quran
198,00 € Weight 0.8 kg
The book 'Landscapes for the Homeless' was published on the occasion of the awarding of the DG Bank Forderpreis to Anthony HERNANDEZ in 1995. It begins with a dialogue between him and Lewis BALTZ, followed by photographs documenting places of the homeless
198,00 € * Weight 0.7 kg
Pb. in unopened plastic bag (no dust jacket, as issued), 17,5 x 20,5 x 2,5 cm. (6 7/8 x 8 in.), 172 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 1,000 copies
198,00 € *
SC with dust jacket, 22,5 x 27 x 1 cm., 64 pp., color ills., English, Ltd. to 800 copies
198,00 € Weight 0.4 kg