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(BILLINGHAM, RICHARD). Billingham, Richard. Preface by Robert Frank. Zurich, SWITZERLAND, Berlin, GERMANY & New York: Scalo, 2000. First Paperback Edition. 4to. Pictorial Wrappers. Photography Monograph. As New.. np, profusely illustrated in color. Designed by Hans Werner Holzwarth. Richard Billingham's acclaimed first book "Ray's A Laugh" is an alternatingly wry and gut-wrenching fly-on-the-wall chronicle of the everyday goings on within the domicile of the British photographer's Mum Elizabeth and chronic alcoholic father - the titular Ray. A brand new, pristine example of the 2000 first Scalo paperback edition (whose 1996 hardbound edition is cited on pages 304-305 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume II") still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 3-908247-37-3 Inventory Number: 023611