Uppercase, no.5,1961

Uppercase, no.5. Ed. by Theo Crosby. Whitefriars Press, 1961. 18 x 14cm. Pp. 64, [56]. The final number. In two parts: a group of articles on the work of the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Ulm, and 'Portrait of Southam Street', social documentary photographs by Roger Mayne (1929-2016). Orig. semi-stiff boards, very slightly worn. This was the first appearance of Mayne's celebrated Southam Street photographs. They can now be set beside Alan Johnson's remarkable memoir of growing up there, This Boy  (2013). £200