Paris: Chez Henri Colas, Éditeur; Bordeaux: Chez Rousseau Frères, 1944. Albin-Guillot, Laure. First edition. 4to., 16 titled folders with texts printed in grey-green ink, with multicolored border lines, each containing a loose original signed 31 x 25 cm. Fresson print; several are on colored emulsions. All 16 fascicles are contained..... More
circa 1903. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. Original gum bichromate over platinum photograph, 8 x 6 inches. Minor chipping along the edges, else fine. The photographer has SIGNED this print with his blindstamp monogram. In 1902, the twenty-year-old Alvin Langdon Coburn opened his own studio in New York on Fifth Avenue. He..... More
Nueva-York: Jorge Russell, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 138 pp.; 90 pp.; 47 pp.; 99 wood engravings in text, with a full-page chromolithographic plate with gilt titling (transfer from opposite leaf has darkened the plate). Printed wrappers with some wear to edges; conservation to spine. Wrappers are worn at the edges..... More
Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1939. Edgerton, Harold E. First edition. 4to., 203 pp., color frontis and b&w plates. A fine copy in the color illustrated dust jacket that is missing one small piece at the spine end and is lightly rubbed. Harold Edgerton was the inventor of the modern..... More
NY: Double Elephant Editions, 1991. Fink, Larry. First edition. Folio, [1] p. text, plus 15 original gelatin silver prints 13 x 18 inches, archivally window-matted to 19 x 23 inches. All are housed in a cloth clamshell box. The box is bumped at the tips and foredge, and the cloth..... More
London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1976 - 1997. First editions. 4tos. Printed stiff wrappers. 84 issues. Volume 1, No. 1 to Volume 21, No. 4. A long and unbroken run. Very good to fine. A scholarly journal, largely concerned with the early history of the medium, and the historical through..... More
Privately Printed for the Author, 1946. Eakins, Thomas. First ed. 8vo., 162 pp., frontispiece. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Largely based upon interviews with Eakin's students and other unpublished sources. Includes material on his photographic work with Eadweard Muybridge. More
Ingelheim am Rhein: C.H. Boehringer Sohn, 1966. Renger-Patzsch, Albert. First edition. Folio, 34 pp., plus 62 full-page b&w photo-plates, captions opposite. Cloth. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy in the plain cardboard slipcase, which is showing slight wear. Attractive photographs of rock formations along the coast, in the..... More
Millerton, NY: An Aperture Book, Publication made possible by United Technologies Corporation, 1981. First edition. 4to., 111 pp., b&w captioned photographs. A near fine copy in a pictorial dust jacket. INSCRIBED presentation to Grace Mayer from Bruce Davidson. Includes photographs by: Bischof, Capa, Cartier-Bresson, Davidson, Erwitt, Koudelka, Morath, Stock and..... More
NY: Camera Work, 1909. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 4to., 54 pp., complete with 10 hand-pulled photogravures, (12) pp. adverts. Custom binding of full tan calf, with black and gilt label on front and stamped leather label on spine. The original printed wrappers are bound in. Fine. Six photogravures by..... More
[ca. 1920s]. Ulmann, Doris. Original platinum photograph, image size 8 x 6 in, [ 20.3 x 15.2] ] tipped to board, with archival window overmat, 16 x 20 inches. SIGNED in pencil on the board below the photograph by Doris Ulmann. The Rev. H.M. Wharton was the compiler and editor..... More