Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1960. Caponigro. First edition. 8vo., 71 - 122 pp., illustrated from photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. This issue is devoted to an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, "The Sense of Abstraction" with images by: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Francis Bruguiere, Man Ray..... More
Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1960. De Meyer, Baron A. First edition. 8vo., 171-210 pp., 15 illustrations from b&w photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. Contains a portfolio by Gerry Sharpe; editorial and a lengthy article by Minor White; additional images by Baron A. De Meyer, Nathan Lyons, Syl Labrot, Walter..... More
Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1961. Chappell, Walter. First edition. 8vo., 42 pp., 31 b&w illustrations from photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. The upper tip of the rear wrapper is bent; slight wear along the fore edge of the front wrapper; light rubbing; a very good copy. This issue is contains a...... More
Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1961. Chappell, Walter. First edition. 8vo., 42 pp., 31 b&w illustrations from photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. This issue is contains a portfolio by Robert Frank, with an essay on Robert Frank by Edna Bennett, and a portfolio by Walter Chappell. Cover illustrations by Jack Franks..... More
Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1961. First edition. 8vo., [41] pp., 31 plates from b&w photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear; very good. The entire issue is an extended portfolio, "Five Students from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology"; the five students featured are: Ken Josephson, Joseph Sterling, Charles..... More
Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1961. First edition. 8vo., [41] pp., 31 plates from b&w photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. The entire issue is an extended portfolio, "Five Students from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology"; the five students featured are: Ken Josephson, Joseph Sterling, Charles Swedlund, Ray K...... More
Rochester, New York: Aperture, 1961. Lyons, Nathan. 8vo., 139-178 pp., illustrated fron b&w photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. Contains: a symposium , "The Idea of the Workshop in Photography" by Ruth Bernhard, Minor White, Ansel Adams, Nathan Lyons, Henry Holmes Smith. Cover illustrations by Robert Brown and Ansel Adams... More
Berlin: Galerie Springer, 1981. First edition. 4to., [16] pp., 8 full-page plates from b&w photographs. Printed stiff wrappers; the word APPELT on the cover in underscored in ink. Light creasing. Very good. Three page text by Günther Gercken in German. Limited to 500 copies. More
Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1975. Apple, Jacki. First edition. 4to., (52) pp., 40 photo-illustrations on 49 unnumbered pages; patterned endpapers. Faux leather-backed paper over boards. Edges lightly rubbed else a very good copy. SIGNED by the artist. A story of love and murder built upon the various meaning ascribed to..... More
Caen: L'Echoppe, 1987 [1839]. 12mo., 25 pp. Printed stiff wrappers with a slight bruise to the front lower tip. Near fine. Reprinting the text from tome xxxv de La France littéraire, 1839. Limited to 800 copies. More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1979. Second edition, expanded and enlarged. Oblong 4to., 97, (2) pp., fully illustrated from b&w and color plates. Previous owner's neat signature on the blank front flyleaf. Embossed black cloth with a tiny bruise to the cloth at the rear upper tip. A near..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha International Limited, 2003. First edition. 4to., 407 pp., fully illustrated from color and b&w photographs. Glossy illustrated card wrappers with a color photo-illustrated dust jacket that has folded panels on both the top and bottom edges to reveal a near full figure female nude. Fine. Produced under the..... More
Tokyo: Libro Port, 1993. Araki, Nobuyoshi. First edition. 4to., unpaged, chiefly illustrated with b&w photographs. A fine, as new copy in illustrated dust jacket, original obi (wraparound band). Parts of the nude human bodies, close-ups of places and plants, details and fragments - all depicted in an intensely intimate fashion..... More
[Zurich]: Edition Stemmle, 1998. First edition. 4to., 136 pp., chiefly illustrated in color and b&w from photographs. A fine copy in the very good photo-illustrated dust jacket that has one short tear along the fore edge of the rear panel. Translated from the German by John S. Southard. More
NY: Aperture, 1984. Arbus, Diane. First edition. NY: Aperture, 1984. First ed. 4to., 175 pp., numerous b&w photos. Slight toning the the blank free endpapers; else a fine copy in the pictorial dust jacket. Catalogue for a traveling exhibition which originated at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University..... More
New York: Aperture, 1995. Arbus, Diane. First edition. Folio, (112 pp.), chiefly b&w photographs with an essay by the artist's daughter. A fine, as new copy in illustrated dw, still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautifully printed edition of Diane Arbus' final series of work, it is entitled "Untitled,"..... More
Orlando, Austin, New York, etc: Harcourt, Inc, 2008. Arbus, Diane. First edition. 8vo., 274 pp., b&w photos in text. Fine, as new in photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED by the author, Gregory Gibson. Gregory Gibson, an author and antiquarian book dealer, has written a page-turner of a tale - how a...... More
Mercedes, Argentina: Imprenta de la Aspiracion, 1877. First edition. 8vo., 80, (1) pp. Pamphlet with new paper spine. Upper edge unevenly trimmed. Title page is reinforced on the blank verso with paper, as is the rear wrapper, with soiling to the title page. Modest chipping at the edges of a...... More
Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun Publishing Company, 1979. First edition. 4to., 172, [11] pp., 168 pull-page b&w plates from photographs, followed by text in Japanese. Brown cloth, titled in gold and white ink, with a protective acetate dust jacket printed in tan ink, housed in the publisher's printed cardboard box with closing..... More
[Paris]: Chene/Hachette, 1979. First edition. 4to., [8], 172 pp., chiefly illustrated with b&w plates from photographs. The is a tiny bruise to the lower front board tip, not affecting the text block. A near fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. More
Joinville le Point: Pierre Jean Balbo, (1975). Atget, Eugene. First edition. Oblong 8vo., ca. 150 pp., b&w illustrations in text, 70 full-page sepia-toned photo-plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Tiny bump to the upper tip. Very good. Provides a biography of Eugène Atget; text in French and includes bibliographical references. Limited to..... More
NY: MOMA, 1981 - 1985. Atget. First edition. 4 volumes. 4tos. VOLUME I, OLD FRANCE. 1981. 171 pp., 120 plates and 79 reference illustrations. VOLUME II, THE ART OF OLD PARIS. 1982. 191 pp., 116 plates and 84 reference illustrations. VOLUME III, THE ANCIEN REGIME. 1983. 188 pp., 120 plates..... More
[Paris]: Gallimard / Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2010. First edition. Oblong 4to., 314, [4] pp., over 200 b&w and tinted illustrations fom photographs. Paper over boards with inset illustraion on the front cover. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine. Published as the catalogue for the exhibition held at the Bibliothèque..... More
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Paris: Librairie Plon, [1904]. Demachy. First edition. [First Series] Folio, half-title, [v] consisting of illustrated title page, preface and table of contents, with 48 photogravure plates tipped to a variety of white and colored stocks, with printed tissue guards. Stiff wrappers illustrated and printed in colors. The plates are bright..... More
