A Dialogue with Solitude by Dave Heath - 1965

Community Press, 1965. Hard cover. Very good/Good. Cloth. Original edition, first printing. Very good copy but for an inscription on the front free end paper: 'Loneliness, dread, and holiness, Belong to Everyman, So Whatever station our life occupies We know that together we are One.' The dust jacket is rubbed and worn with chipping on edges and corners also price clipped.

Community Press, 1965. Hardcover. Very Good. Pages clean and unmarked. Front matter has slight we-wah. Slight cock to spine and wear to bottom points. Original bookshop sticker inside front board. Image upon request.

Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2000. First edition thus. Hardcover. A beautiful reprint of this powerful collection of black and white photographs printed in a slightly larger format than the original edition. Foreword by Hugh Edwards and with reproduces a letter by Robert Frank. The first edition was done in a tiny printing and not well distributed before the publisher went bankrupt. Dedicated by Heath to W. Eugene Smith who was clearly an influence on Heath. Includes 83 black and white images. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Heath on the title page.

Simon Lowinsky, May 6 - June 28, 1997. First edition, first printing. Catalog. Dave Heath has shot perhaps one of the most seminal photographs in Beat history of a young poet Janine Pommy Vega sitting alone in The Seven Arts Cafe as Heath would describe "with the sadness of her thoughts, about to drink from the ethereal white cup of bitter tears and honeyed mead, on the brink of poet hood". No better description for the young poet Janine Pommy Vega. Heath with his terrific eye that he showcased in at least two seminal photography books. We offer here "A Dialogue with Solitude", in its catalog form from an exhibition that would be showcased in 1997. Michael Torosian will write an appreciation for the catalog. Dave Heath was a friend of Janine Pommy Vega from her earliest years in New York City; he lived from 1931-2016. Tipped in, this wonderful handwritten letter form Heath to Janine Pommy Vega, written on both sides of the page, 8.5 x 11 in neat handwriting describing his work in… Read More

Lumiere Press, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. Signed by Author(s).

Toronto, Canada: Lumiere Press, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Toronto, Canada: Lumiere Press, 2000. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 100 pages. New And Enlarged Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. The First Edition Thus. Published in a small and limited print run (simultaneously with the Deluxe Edition) by Lumiere Press as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition Thus is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Dave Heath and Michael Torosian: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Dave Heath. Letter by the late great Robert Frank, who was a great admirer of the photographer's work, which appears in this edition only. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany using the NovaTone process, an exceptional offset technique… Read More

Toronto, Lumiere Press, 2000. . Second edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page; 4to (314 x 238 mm, 12¼ x 9¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset; grey endpapers, grey cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in black on spine, white, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in black, lower panel lightly rubbed, fine; [100]pp. Presentation copy, inscribed: 'To Hilary Gerrard / "who has loved my work for ages" / warm regards / Dave Heath / NYC 1.Feb.01'.

Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2000. Cloth. Fine/Fine. SIGNED BY DAVE HEATH at the title page just under his printed name. A pristine copy to boot of this elegant 2000 reprint of Dave Heath's seminal collection of black-and-white photographs from the early 1960s. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Tall, thin quarto, a deserved Roth-101 selection.

Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2000. Signed by the Photographer in blue on the title page; Limited to 100 copies; Separate Heath photogravure in folio binding included; Grey buckram, black spine title, pale endpapers / pastedown, & black & white photo illustrations; A fine copy in a fine slipcase; Unpaginated. . Illus. by Dave Heath. 9.5"x12.5".

Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. The second limited edition. Number 30 of only 100 copies. This comes with a gravure print of "Washington Square, New York City, 1958." A stunning production, in many ways more faithful to Heath's original conception of the book. A very fine copy in very fine dust jacket, slipcase and with a very fine gravure. Signed by Heath in the book and on the gravure as well.