![Item #54379 LETTER TO BOB [ROBERT SHERRILL]. Gay Talese](/pictures/thumb/54379.jpeg?v=1672093689)
Typed Letter Signed "Gay." One page 7.25 x 10.5 inches, on his personal letterhead, Oct 9th, 1973, to Bob [Robert Sherrill] friend and editor of the New Journalism at Esquire. Old folds. Very good. Gay Talese writes to Bob Sherrill (1925 - 2007) his editor at Esquire,as well as Tom..... More
1868. Folio [18 x 22 inches] vintage albumen composite of 36 photographic portraits, with four addition small oval albumen portraits, recto mounted with blank verso. Titled with letterpress; one of the small portraits has a pasted on name, likely a correction. Light surface abrasions to the small individual portraits. The..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1983. Alexandra. First edition. Small 8vo., [14] pp., 4 b&w photos. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Queen Alexandra, was the eldest daughter and second eldest child of Prince Christien of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbury-Glucksburg; she married Edward, Prince of Wales in 1863. By the time the Danish..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1983. Ricca, Barbara Lynn. First edition. Small 8vo., [24] pp., 6 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Ms. Ricca, a native New Yorker and graphic designer, recounts the limitations imposed upon Victorian ladies, which have evolved from being told, how, what and when..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1984. First edition. Small 8vo., [20] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. "The purpose of this book will be to begin a list of early fiction books for children that include some aspect of photography". "...this list includes the name of..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1985. First edition. Small 8vo., [18] pp. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Eliot Porter, William Eggleston, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Walker Evans, Joel Meyerowitz, et al., express opinions concerning the use of color versus b&w photography for documentation purposes. No. 16 of the History of..... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1991. First edition. 8vo., [34] pp. Stiff wrappers. Fine. No. 29 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 300 copies. More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1986. First edition. Small 8vo., [36] pp., 3 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. Includes a bibliography. No. 21 of the History of Photography Monograph Series; limited to 200 copies. More
Frankfurt am Main: Englert und Schlosser, 1929. First edition. 4to., p. 45 - 64, illustrations from b&w photographs. Printed wrappers with later paper spine. Wrinkled along the top edge from moisture, with small pulls on the top blank margin of the reverse of the front wrapper and first leaf; moderate..... More
London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1864. First edition. Small 4to., xii, 120 pp., 8 leaves of albumen photographs, and a miniature albumen photograph mounted on the title page. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth over bevelled boards, a.e.g. The leaf with the albumen frontispiece is detached and laid-in. Scattered light foxing..... More
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