San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1931. Adams, Ansel. First edition. 8vo., (ii), photogravure frontis with tissue guard, 122 pp, adverts, 32 additional plates from photographs. Decorative stiff wrappers. Previous owner's neat name stamp on front wrapper and tile-page. Near fine. Laid-in is a 16 pp. announcement for the Thirty-First Annual Outing... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1929. Adams, Ansel. First edition. 8vo., (ii), photogravure frontis, 106 pp, adverts, 32 additional plates from photographs. Decorative stiff wrappers. Previous owner's neat name stamp on front wrapper and tile-page. Small chip and tear at the spine ends; else near fine. The photogravure frontis, Mount Robson... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1928. Adams, Ansel. First edition. 8vo., (iv), photogravure frontis, 106 pp, adverts, 32 additional plates from photographs. Decorative stiff wrappers. Short tears at spine ends; else near fine. The photogravure frontis, The Black Kaweah, and numerous other plates are by Ansel Adams. One of the advertisements... More
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1932. Adams, Ansel. First edition. 8vo., (ii), photogravure frontis with tissue guard, 134 pp, 32 additional plates from photographs and folding map. Decorative stiff wrappers. Owner's stamp on front wrapper and title-page; slight bump at rear tip; else near fine. The photogravure frontis, Mountain Hemlock, and... More
[Paris]: Chêne, 1986. Singh, Raghubir. First ed. Oblong 4to., [30] pp., 96 largely full-page color plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Faint residew from price sticker on the blank free endpaper and slight bump to a lower board tip. Very good. Raghubir Singh (1942 - 1999) lived and worked in... More
NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1947. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. First edition. Small 4to., 56 pp., 42 b&w photos. Tan paper over boards, titled in red ink. A fine copy in the lightly soiled illustrated dust jacket that is lacking few small chips and has a few short tears at the... More
Parisiis: Ex Typographia Firminorum Didot, 1855. First edition, as such. 12mo., xlvi, 299 pp., 18 mounted albumen photographs, and 2 double-page maps with tissue guards, a.e.g. Bound in a later full morocco, decorated with rules and corner ornaments in blind, patterned endpapers. The gutter is partially opened at the title-page... More
[Jaipur: Information Bureau, Government of Jaipur], 1948. First edition. 8vo., 75 pp., b&w photos. Illustrated red cloth, with printed dust jacket. Foxed at the bottom edge of the text block. There is slight red bleeding to the edges of the dust jacket from the red cloth; there are a few... More
Habana, Cuba: Tabacalera Cubana, S.A. 1935. First edition. Oblong folio, 43 leaves, with text on verso, and photographic cards on recto. 600 silver gelatin photographic cards, each 2 3/8 X 1 6/8 inches. Complete with all 600 cards called for. Original decorative paper over boards, titled on the upper board... More
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1982. Shore, Stephen. First edition. Oblong 4to., 63 pp., 49 full-page color photographs. A fine copy in the color illustrated dust jacket. These large format color photos from 1973 through 1981 were responsible for placing the photographer in the vanguard of the "new color photography." SIGNED by... More
New City, NY: Haywire Press, 1978. Friedlander, Lee. First edition. Oblong 4to., (6) pp., plus 137 b&w photo-plates. Cloth (issued without dust jacket). Aside from a few faint scuffs to the blue cloth, a fine copy. Boldly SIGNED by the photographer on the first blank leaf. Friedlander's first retrospective collection... More
London: Reedminister Publications Ltd. 1973. First edition. 4to., viii, 198 pp., 252 b&w illustrations. A near fine copy in dust jacket. Includes biographies of early practitioners. A useful reference. More
London: Faber and Faber, 1995. Clark, Larry. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (160) pp., chiefly illustrated with full-page color photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. The screenplay for a film directed by Larry Clark. Many of the numerous photographs that illustrate this volume are stills from the film, several others are by... More
[Rome]: Peliti Associati: Photo & Co. 1998. González Palma, Luis. First edition. Square 4to., unpaginated, profusely illustrated from color, and tinted photographs. A fine copy in cloth with photo-illustrated dust jacket. Luis González Palma (b. 1957, Guatemala), lives and works in Guatemala. He is an architect and artist, who creates... More
NY: New Amsterdam Books, 1990. First edition. 4to., 144 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and some color photographs. Glossy photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. The photographers are: Alicia Ahumada, Yolanda Andrade, Adrian Bodek, Pablo Cabado, Marco Antonio Cruz, Victor Flores Olea, Flor Garduño, Jose Hernandez Claire, Fabrizio Leon Diaz, Eniac Martinez... More
[Montreal]: Art Gallery of York University, [1981]. First edition. Oblong 4to., 35 b&w plates from photographs. Photo-illustrated glossy stiff wrappers. Fine. Toronto born photographer, Brian Condron, delights in the kitsch of Niagara Falls and those who came to see its wonders. Text in English and French. Limited to 550 copies. More
Tokyo: Parco, 1987. First edition. 4to., 94 unnumbered pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers issued with a plain mylar over-wrapper and printed obi, or wrap-around band. Publisher's related material laid-in. Slight rubbing at a few spots along the edges. Near fine. Photographer, filmmaker, painter, sculptor... More
Tokyo: Parco, 1987. First edition. 4to., 94 unnumbered pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers issued with a plain mylar over-wrapper. Publisher's related material laid-in. Near fine. Photographer, filmmaker, painter, sculptor, illustrator, costume and set design - all of which Steven Arnold employs in this collection... More
NY: Zabriskie Gallery, 1984. Roszak, Theodore. First edition. 4to., 58 pp., 24 leaves of b&w photographic plates. A fine copy in a photo-illustrated dust jacket; the plain mylar over wrapper has a tiny chip and one short crease. American sculptor, painter and printmaker, Theodore Roszak (1907-1981) was born in Poland... More
Milano: Selezione d'Immagini, 1981. First edition. square 8vo., 29 b&w plates from photographs, printed verso only, accompanied by a 3 pp. bilingual text (Italian and English) and a 2 pp. listing of one-man exhibitions. Slight bump at the crown; else a very good copy in a slightly worn and toned... More
NY: Tennant and Ward, 1935. Niepce, Nicephore. First U.S. edition. 8vo., (viii), 163 pp., (4) adverts. Cloth. Very light rubbing at the lower tips. A fine copy. Edward Epstean's translation into English of La vérité sur l'invention de la photographie. Reprint of 1867 edition published in Paris by the Library... More
[Albuquerque]: Bleak Beauty Books, 2016. First edition. 4to., 53 pp, illustrated from color and b&w photographs. Glossy photo-illustrated wrappers. Fine, as new. Boldly SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Burn Zone is a Cri de Coeur directed at the artist community and our youth asking them to join... More
[Albuquerque]: Bleak Beauty Books, 2016. First edition. 12mo., 85 pp., illustrated from color photographs. Printed paper over boards with an inset color plate on the upper board. Issued without a dust jacket. Fine, as new. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the title page. "Danny Lyon's newest work of fiction... More
NY: Powerhouse Books, 2007. First edition. 8vo., 191 pp., b&w plates from photographs. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated paper over boards, with a matching dust jacket. Boldly SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. A non-fictional account of James Ray Renton - thief, counterfeiter, and bank... More
[Zurich]: Edition Stemmle, 1996. First edition. Oblong 4to., 97 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. Fine in dust jacket. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. These compatible images, presented opposite each other on a single leaf, reveal what Gibson calls "overtones", a dialogue that results in a new... More