presentation copy – one of 36 with a signed print

Presentation copy inscribed to Hilary Gerrard, Ringo Starr's manager for over thirty years and a director of the Beatles company Apple Corps: 'For Hilary – / With warm regards / Dave Heath New York City / 23 Sept 2004'.

This special edition includes a signed gelatin silver print of Heath's photograph of Howard Crawford, Jr, an image which was also included in Heath's masterful book A Dialogue With Solitude (1965).

'When I left for Korea, the kind of photography I was thinking about was like what I had seen in Life magazine, but the pictures I took there, I think in a way, were more like a family album.'

First edition, number XI of 36 slipcased copies with a gelatin silver print from a total edition of 200, inscribed in black pen on half-title; 25 black-and-white photographs, 1 colour and 2 black-and-white plates tipped in; brown endpapers, pictorial black and brown paper-covered boards, quarter silk spine with title label, gelatin silver photograph (9 x 7 in) debossed title on recto, signed by Heath in pencil on verso, in a matching portfolio, publisher's brown paper-covered board slipcase with patterned panels on sides, fine; [iv], 62pp.