MAKING CHICKEN SOUP.
NP: Humpy Press, 1972. Krims, Les. First edition. 24mo., (6) pp., plus 28 sepia photos, (5) pp. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. A step-by-step visual guide with Krims' mother as the bare-breasted cook. More
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PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHIQUES SUR ÉMAIL VITRIFIÉS ET INALTÈRABLES COMME LES PEINTURES DE SÈVRES PAR LAFON DE CAMARSAC.
Paris: Chez L'auteur, 1868. First edition. 8vo., 28 pp., occasional light foxing and mild creasing. A very good copy in the original printed wrappers. Laid-in is a 4 pp. illustrated brochure by Lafon de Camarsac promoting his ceramic portraits and showing the various sizes with corresponding prices; scattered foxing; else... More
THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS. MR. MUYBRIDGE REQUESTS THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY AT A RECEPTION GIVEN BY HIM TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO HIS WORK ON "ANIMAL LOCOMOTION," FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXAMINING THE PROOF IMPRESSIONS FOR THE PLATES. WEDNESDAY, 11TH MAY, TO WEDNESDAY, 25TH MAY, DAILY, FROM 8 A.M. to 6 P.M., AND FROM 7 TO 10 P.M.
[Philadelphia: The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1887]. Oblong card, 12.9 x 10.4 cm., printed verso only. Age-toned, else very good. The 781 plates for Eadweard Muybridge's monumental, ANIMAL LOCOMOTION: AN ELECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF CONSECUTIVE PHASES OF ANIMAL MOVEMENTS, 1872 - 1885, were completed for publication in 1887. "Specimen plates... More
JOHN BALDESSARI.
NY: Rizzoli, 1990. Baldessari, John. First edition. 4to., 256 pp., numerous b&w and color illustrations. A fine copy in dust jacket. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, which traveled to several other locations in the U.S. and Canada. This is... More
THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIFACTS OF TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN.
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1982. O'Sullivan, Timothy. First edition. 4to., xvii, 158 pp., 82 text illustrations, 64 full-page b&w plates. A fine copy in a near fine photo-illustrated dust jacket. Timothy O'Sullivan was an expeditionary photographer who accompanied the geological survey expeditions of Clarence King and George... More
TO MAKE IT HOME: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AMERICAN WEST, 1965-1986.
NY / Philadelphia: Aperture, in association with The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1989. Adams, Robert. First edition. 4to., 175 pp., illustrated with full-page b&w photos. A fine copy in the near fine photo-illustrated dust jacket. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition. More
LA PRESSE PHOTOGRAPHIÉE
Paris: Photographie de la Presse Artistique, [ca 1860]. 4to., lithographic title page and 25 of 26 [?] leaves of mounted albumen photographic portraits 9.5 x 6.5 cm, with lithographic borders and the names of the subjects printed below the images, a.e.g. All leaves are attached to linen tabs, as issued... More
HUELLAS DE LUZ: EL ARTE Y LOS EXPERIMENTOS DE WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT
Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia: Aldeasa, 2001. First edition. 4to., 381 pp, 250 b&w, and tinted plates from photographs. A fine copy in a lightly edge-rubbed photo-illustrated dust jacket. Published as the catalogue for an exhibition which was organized by the National Museum of Photography, Film &... More
SÃO PAULO 1900: IMAGENS DE GUILHERME GAENSLY.; Análise e interpretacão de Borris Kossoy.
[São Paulo]: Companhia de Projetos e Obras - CBPO: Livraria Kosmos Editora, 1988. First edition. Oblong 4to., 154 pp., 52 full-page plates after photographs, photo-illustrated endpapers. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket, housed in the publisher's plain card folding case. SIGNED and inscribed, "For Nathan Lyons... More
HISTOIRE DE LA DÉCOUVERTE DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE
Paris: Publications Photographiques Paul Montel, 1925. First edition. 8vo., 319, [1] pp., 99 illustrations from photographs, drawings and charts in text. Printed wrappers which are moderately stained; bump to the lower corner at the spine. A near very good copy. Georges Potonniée, a French photo-historian, set out to correct the... More
MODERN PRINTING PROCESSES: GUM-BICHROMATE AND PLATINOTYPE.; The Preparation, Printing and Developing of Gum Bichromate Papers. The Manipulation of Platinotype Papers by the aid of Glycerine and Bichloride of Mercury, etc.
Chicago: Geo. K. Hazlitt, 1900. First edition. 12mo., 66 pp., (12) adverts., 5 photographic plates tipped to colored mounts, other illustrations in text. A rubbed photographic plate mounted on upper board. The title page has been reattached on a tab; several ex-library stamps. A good copy. Includes 2 portraits by... More
PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC CONFERENCE, HELD IN NEW YORK, DECEMBER 4TH, 1890, TOGETHER WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS AS ADOPTED
NY: M.C. Bentham, Publisher, [1891]. First edition. 4to., [50] pp., photogravure frontispiece with tissue guard, portraits from photographs, adverts. Blank membership application bound in after p. 20. Decorative stiff paper wrappers, which are toned along the edges with some chipping at the base of the spine. A good or better... More
PÉTITS CLICHÉS ET GRANDES ÉPREUVES. GUIDE PHOTOGRAPHIQUE DU TOURISTE CYCLISTE
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1898. First edition. Small 8vo., viii, 139 pp. The printed paper wrappers are moderately age-toned, with a shallow crease at the lower tip and the publisher's price sticker affixed to the rear wrapper; else near fine and unopened. A complete guide to the equipment, sensitized materials... More
RESEARCHES ON LIGHT: AN EXAMINATION OF ALL THE PHENOMENA CONNECTED WITH THE CHEMICAL AND MOLECULAR CHANGES PRODUCED BY THE INFLUENCE OF THE SOLAR RAYS; EMBRACING ALL THE KNOWN PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESSES, AND NEW DISCOVERIES IN THE ART.
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854. Second edition. 8vo., xx, 396 pp., hand-colored engraved folding plate, text diagrams. Newly bound in half calf and cloth, gilt title on spine. Owner's signature on title page, and small stain on the blank margin of p. xx. A very good... More
LA MÉTHODE DES PORTRAITS GRANDEUR NATURELLE ET DES AGRANDISSEMENTS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES MISE A LA PORTÉE DE TOUT LE MONDE
Paris: Chez L'Auteur, Palais-Royal, 1862. First edition. 8vo., 41 pp., full-page engraved frontispiece, plus (6) pp. Printed wrappers which are edge-chipped, show a faint stamp on the front, and staining on the rear. The text has light foxing and toning, with a small bump at the base of the spine;... More
HALF A PHOTOGRAPH.; Lyrics by Bob Russell. As performed by Kay Starr.
Los Angeles: Vesta Music Corporation, 1953. 4to., [4] pp. Pictorial self wrappers. "Waltz" penciled on front, several small creases at the tips; a good or better copy. "I saw half of a photograph, and it took my breath away. For that face on that photograph, was my love of yesterday..." More
GREENWICH VILLAGE: TODAY & YESTERDAY.; Photographs by Berenice Abbott. Text by Henry Wysham Lanier.
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1949. Abbott, Berenice, photographer. First edition. 8vo., xi, 161 pp., b&w photographs. A near fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket that has light edge-wear, price-clipped, and is lightly dust-soiled on the rear panel. Printed by sheet-fed photogravure with full tonality and rich blacks. More
HEINECKEN
Carmel, CA: The Friends of Photography in association with Light Gallery, 1980. Heinecken, Robert. First edition. Oblong 4to., 158 pp., 90 color and b&w plates, illustrated endpapers. Blind-embossed black cloth which is slightly faded as usual, titled in silver on the spine. A very good or better copy. Issued without... More
THE ARCHITECTURE AND ART OF EARLY HISPANIC COLORADO
[Boulder]: Colorado Associated University Press in cooperation with The State Historical Society of Colorado, [1974]. Adams, Robert. First edition. Oblong 8vo., vi, 234, (3) pp., 85 full-page b&w photos, map. A fine copy in a near fine price-clipped photo-illustrated dust jacket. First extensive survey of Hispanic building and art on... More
LA PHOTOGRAPHIE DES OBJETS COLORÉS AVEC VALEURS RÉELES.; MANUEL DES PROCÉDÉS ISOCHROMATIQUES ET ORTHOCHROMATIQUES.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1887. First edition. 8vo., ix, 193 pp., 2 plates, containing 2 photoglypties and 1 chromolithograph,15 illustrations in text. Original printed wrappers, which are soiled and chipped at the blank edges, mounted on a heavier stock and then newly bound in red cloth with a morocco spine label. Faint... More
JOACHI BROHM: KRAY
Leipzig: Edition der Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig im Plitt Verlag, Oberhausen, 1995. First edition. Oblong 4to., 120 pp., illustrated with numerous full-page color photographs, monotone photo-illustrated endpapers and a silk marking ribbon. Bound in gray cloth with a tiny smudge mark on the rear board; else a fine... More
HARRY CALLAHAN: PHOTOGRAPHS.
Santa Barbara: El Mochuelo Gallery, 1964. Callahan, Harry. First edition. Folio, 126 b&w photos with captions opposite. Silver lettering on black cloth. The pastedown are discolored as alway found due to the binders glue. Otherwise fine, as new copy in the matching cloth slipcase. Laid-in is a single printed sheet... More
AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
New York: Random House, 1993. AVEDON. First edition. Thick folio, 284 full-page b&w photos. Cloth, title with red and magenta lettering. Fine in printed acetate dw. Housed in the publisher's white card portfolio, titled in red ink. Avedon's "self portrait" through his body of work spanning nearly 50 years. More
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FLOH [cover title]
[Göttingen: Steidl Publications, 2001]. First edition. 4to., [176] pp., 95 b&w, 53 color, and 20 sepia plates after photographs. Beige cloth titled on the upper board and spine in blind. A fine copy in the publisher's card slipcase which show a few smudges on the printed label. Limited to 4000... More
PAUL DE NOOIJER: EEN OVERZICHT VAN ZIJN FILMISCH OEUVRE
's-Hertogenbosch: Het Noordbrabants Genootschap, 1991. First edition. 8vo., 95 pp., illustrated from color filmstrips. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Dutch photographer and film-maker, Paul de Nooijer, studied industrial design and began his career in advertising and illustration, later to become a freelance photographer. In many of his films and photos... More