Vintage Postcard Foyles Bookshop London 1930 Street Scene Wolfgang Suschitzky UK

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Price: 18.00

Social History: Capture a moment of literary history with this evocative black-and-white postcard by the renowned photographer and cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky. The image, titled "Foyles London c.1930," depicts a gentleman in a bowler hat deeply engrossed in a book outside the world-famous Foyles Bookshop on Charing Cross Road.

Suschitzky originally took this speculatively for advertising, but Foyles remarkably rejected it at the time, only for it to become one of his most iconic works later!

Era: Printed in 1989 (part of a vintage portfolio series celebrating Suschitzky’s 1930s work)

Size: Continental 6" x 4"

Type: High-quality black-and-white art print on heavy cardstock

Publisher: Vintage Portfolio, London

Condition: Excellent vintage condition with light corner bumping. The surface and image remain crisp and clean. The back features intriguing pencil notations, including "famous bookshop," "b 1912 Vienna," and "arr London 1935," which are brief biographical references to the photographer himself.