{"product_id":"street-photographs-manchester-salford-shirley-baker-1st-edi","title":"Street Photographs: Manchester \u0026 Salford, Shirley Baker — 1st Edi","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"70\"\u003ePublication\u003c\/b\u003e: Newcastle upon Tyne, Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1989.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"130\"\u003eFormatting\u003c\/b\u003e: 4to, pp. 128.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"156\"\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/b\u003e: Near Fine. The softcover binding is remarkably tight and square, showing no reading creases to the spine and indicating that the volume has been barely handled. The illustrated card wrappers remain strikingly bright and clean, completely free from the shelf-wear, corner curling, or edge-rubbing typically found on paperbacks of this era. Internally, the pages are crisp, highly luminous, and completely unmarked, with the text block edges remaining impeccably clean. A superlative, unusually fresh example of this vulnerable photographic record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"0\"\u003e\u003cb data-path-to-node=\"0\" data-index-in-node=\"721\"\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/b\u003e: First edition softcover. The volume features an introduction by Stephen Constantine and is profusely illustrated throughout with Baker's monochrome and colour photography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eDue to its softcover format and high desirability among photography collectors, finding first edition copies in such well-preserved, uncreased condition has become increasingly uncommon on the open market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eThroughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Shirley Baker spent her days wandering the streets of Manchester and Salford, documenting the daily lives of working-class communities amid widespread urban clearance programmes. Armed with her camera, she captured the resilient spirit of children playing in the streets, women gathering outside shops, and older men lingering on street corners. This volume serves as an extraordinary visual testament to a vibrant street world caught in the late afternoon light just before its disappearance, offering a profoundly humane record of a vanished era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55598340669779,"sku":"6488","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20261021_113903.jpg?v=1792922251","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/street-photographs-manchester-salford-shirley-baker-1st-edi","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}