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Mathews Miller Dunbar / Bailey Co-Production, London 1975 . 30.0 x 22.0cms, 144pp, b/w & colour illusts, very good hardback & cover Dailey, the phootgrapher, went to New Guinea because he could 'meet someone who had never seen a caucasian, or been corrupted by missionaries and their stupid ideas of covering up every part of the body with European rags... Eighty per cent of the photographs in this book are of people exactly as I found them, in other words they did not put on their Sunday best to have their picture taken'.

First edition. Mathews Miller Dunbar/Bailey Co-Production. London. 1975. Quarto. 144pp. 130 plates in monochrome and colour, indexed to rear. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy in the original brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. The original dust wrapper is sunned and faded to spine, more so to the head, with short closed tear and crease to upper edge. A nice copy."The Highlands of New Guinea escaped the Victorian explorers which left this country with a last frontier... To take my camera and record an image that, that other corrupter of innocence, tourisme, has not yet destroyed. To just see people that have not been seen to death. To feel, no matter how small, a little of what the Burtons felt in abundance...Maybe one day in the distant future a child might come across this book in a pile of second-hand junk, and ask, "Did people dress like that when there were still tigers in the world?" and he might add "how lucky they were in the 20th century to have had such wonders"."

London: Mathews Miller Dunbar and David Bailey. 1st printing (1975). 142pp. VG/VG copy, jacket edge worn with a few nicks, small chipped losses and minor creasing, spine gently sunned, now preserved in archival jacket protector . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975.

London: Mathews Miller Dunbar - Bailey Co-Production, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. g+. Folio. 144pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over brown cloth, with gold lettering on spine. Marbled endpapers. Bailey visited Papua New Guinea for the first time in 1974 and encountered members of its native population, who live deep in the jungle, cut off from modernity. The b/w and color photographs featured in this book provide a close-up view of a civilization untouched by modernity and an exhilarating insight into Bailey's reach as a photographer. Minor and sporadic shelf wear along edges of duat-jacket. Upper back corner bumped, thus slightly affecting pages throughout. DJ, binding and interior in overall good+ condition.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.