New York: Gracie Mansion Gallery, 1986. First edition. 4to., [20] pp., 10 plates from b&w photographs. Stapled printed stiff wrappers. Fine. Cover title: Hope & Fear. Published as the catalogue for the exhibition held at the Gracie Mansion Gallery, February 27 - March 23, 1986. Essay by Ben Lifson... More
Neuchâtel: Ides et Calendes, 1995. First edition. 16mo. [17 cm x 12 cm] stiff card container with illustrated cover, which hold a text booket and an leporello folded, 11 panel sheet printed recto/verso, illustrated from photographs to make 22 plates. Publisher's plain glassine dust jacket. Fine. Text in French by..... More
Praha: TK, (KNT 7), 1962. First edition. 8vo., 28 pp., 4 adverts.11 plates from b&w photographs. Stapled printed wrappers. Wrappers are lightly rubbed and soiled. Tips of the first 10 pages are creased. Very good. An exhibition by more than 250 photographers, showing over 350 photographs, which were published in..... More
[Brooklyn, New York]. Approximately 35 pp., small 8vo., written from 1900 to 1903. Alice Morse Earle (1853-1911), was an American author who wrote chiefly about American Colonial history; her books include THE SABBATH IN PURITAN NEW ENGLAND, CUSTOMS AND FASHIONS IN OLD NEW ENGLAND, STAGE COACH AND TAVERN DAYS, and..... More
N.p. Agfa Ansco, 1942. First edition. 8vo., [14] pp., with five mounted original b&w gelatin silver photographs and one 4 x 6 inch color transparency, and includes a strip of an ozalid sound track. Cord-tied heavy blue paper wrappers embossed in blind and titled in gold ink. Offsetting and staining..... More
N.p. Agfa Ansco, 1942. First edition. 8vo., [14] pp., with 5 mounted original b&w and 1 color gelatin silver photographs, and includes a strip of an ozalid sound track. Cord-tied heavy blue paper wrappers embossed in blind and titled in gold ink. Housed in a paper envelope, which is titled..... More
Carlssons: Norstedt, 1998. Goodwin, Henry B. First edition. Folio, 178, [6] pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. A fine copy in fine pictorial dust jacket. Swedish photographer, Henry Buergel Goodwin (1878-1931) o was internationally renowned within the Pictorialist movement. His work included photographing the rich and famous,actors, landscape, street scenes..... More
Toronto: The Martlet Press, 1968. First edition. 4to., 29 unnumbered pages accordion folded and printed verso/recto. Chiefly illustrated with full-page b&w plates from photographs. Padded cloth over boards, with title label affixed to the front cover. Housed in a cloth over boards sleeve with title label affixed to the front..... More
[Japan: c. 1950 -1960]. Black ceramic decanter trimmed in silver, approximately 8 1/2" H [with flash stopper] x 3" W x 4" D . The flash attachment is tipped in cork and serves as the stopper. A novelty replica of a twin tens reflex camera. Fine. There is no prevision..... More
1 1/4 inch x 1 inch, faux leather binding with 8 gilt edged card leaves and endpapers, imprinted on the verso/recto with a gold oval medallion. Within the medallion on verso of the 8 leaves and endpapers is pasted an albumen photograph from a work of art depicting an intimate..... More
[Rochester]: The International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1977. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. First edition. Folio, [4] pp. text, 10 loose b&w silver gelatin photographs, printed on 11 x 14 inch paper to image sizes of 8 1/2 x 10 1/2, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, or the reverse..... More
Folio, 27 large format vintage [c. 1862 - 1875] albumen photographs mounted within ink rules, recto only. There are 21 photographs, approximately 10 1/4 x 11 1/2 inches, or the reverse, by Antonio Beato, 20 of which are signed in the plate; the remaining 6 photographs, approximately 11 1/2 x...... More
London: Dirk Nishen; Bath: Monmouth Calotype, 1989. First limited edition. 4to., 64 pp., 62 plates from photographs, errata slip at rear. Photo-illustrated paper over boards. There is an 1/8 tear at the base of the spine. A very good copy. Introduction by Robert E. Lassam. Part 1: A Clergyman's Oeuvre..... More
Paris: Aux Éditions des Cendres, 2015. First edition. 4to., 407, [7] pp., illustrated with b&w and color plates. Printed stiff wrappers with inner flaps, original glassine dust jacket. Fine, as new. The frontispiece is by Érik Desmazières. The essays are by thirty-nine noted scholars, some in French and English, other..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Evans, Walker. First edition. 8vo., [2], xvi, 471 pp. and 31 full-page b&w plates from photographs. Publisher's black cloth, spine titled in silver, lightly rubbed at the spine ends; small neat bookseller's ticket on the rear free endpaper. The dust jacket has had minor restoration..... More
Newport: Printed for the Monmouthshire and Caerleon Antiquarian Association by H. Mullock, 1872. First edition. 4to., [iv], errata slip, 87 pp., plus 13 albumen photographs [ approx. 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inches] mounted on 12 leaves. Brick red pebbled cloth, decorated in black and blind on the covers, spine..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1991. Silverthorne, Jeffrey. First edition. Small 8vo., [28]n pp., 8 full-page b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Silverthorne's photos juxtapose death and life, love and rejection. Photographs from the morgue, are but a few of his confrontational images. No. 30 of the History..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1989. Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin-Armand. First edition. Small 8vo., [20] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Duchenne produced the first medical text to be illustrated with photographs from life. No. 25 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1988. First edition. Small 8vo., [20] pp. Stiff wrappers. Fine. A history of, and practical formulary to reproduce William Henry Fox Talbot's photogenic drawing process. No. 23 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200 copies. More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. Vroman, Harry. First edition. Small 8vo., [24] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Vroman, known for his landscapes, traveled the Southwest in his 1936 Chevy, with a platform welded to the roof to gain a better perspective. In the..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. Vishniac, Roman. First edition. Small 8vo., [24] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Not unlike Edward S. Curtis, whose North American Indians stands as a last look at a vanishing group of people, Roman Vishniac walked over 5000 miles..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. Ben-Yusuf, Zaida. First edition. Small 8vo., [16] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Most of Zaida's work was accomplished between the years of 1895 to 1907. "Alfred Stieglitz was particularly fond of Ben-Yusuf's work and frequently published her prints..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1983. Bonine, Elias, A. First edition. Small 8vo., [16] pp., 3 full-page b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Bonine, known as a tent photographer for fifteen years, mainly photographed the Indians of the Colorado River area and landscape views of Pasadena. No. 2..... More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1990. First edition. Small 8vo., [40] pp. Stiff wrappers. Fine. No. 27 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200 copies. More
[Tempe, Arizona]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1986. Newton, Sir William. First edition. Small 8vo., xii, 157 pp., 23 plates. Stiff wrappers. Front wrapper shows uneven toning; else, near fine. Newton was a founding member of the Graphic Society in London. It was there in 1839 that he saw..... More