Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Electa; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1982. Talbot. First edition. Folio, [3] pp., 12 full-page loose b&w plates from photographs with tissue guards. All contained in the publisher's four-point black card portfolio with printed label and white card slipcase... More
Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Electa; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1982. Carroll, Lewis. First edition. Folio, [3] pp., 12 full-page loose b&w plates from photographs with, tissue guards. All contained in the publisher's four-point black card portfolio with printed label and white card... More
Milano: Gruppo Editoriale Electa; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., New York, 1982. Nadar. First edition. Folio, [3] pp., 12 full-page loose b&w plates from photographs, with tissue guards. Slight scuffing to the publisher's four-point black card portfolio with printed label and white card slipcase... More
Berlin: Theobald Grieben, 1861. Third edition, revised and enlarged. 8vo., 168 pp., plus [8] pp. priced catalogue dated Mai 1861; 14 illustrations in text, and a tipped-in sample of albumen paper. Scattered foxing. Bound in a handsome quarter calf gilt, and marbled paper over boards at a later date. Very... More
Paris: A. Gaudin et Frère, 1856. Second edition. 8vo., 400 pp., plus 4 engraved folding plates and one heliogravure plate, which is detailed with a full tonal range, [3] adverts. Later binding of quarter calf gilt, and marbled paper over boards. The blank lower margin of the title page bears... More
Salt Lake City: Gibbs M. Smith/Peregrine Smith Books, 1985. First edition. Small 4to., 80 pp., over 60 b&w and color plates. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine, still sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Includes a historical survey and artists' statements. Eight of the plates are of unique pinhole cameras. Images by: Bea... More
Edinburgh: National Galleries of Scotland, 1981. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 4to., 220 pp., numerous illustrations in text, plus a profuse catalog of hundreds of small format reproductions of their calotypes. Pictorial stiff wrappers. One tiny scrape to the front wrapper foredge; a near fine copy. David Octavius Hill and... More
Boston: NYGS/ Little, Brown and Company, [1983]. Meyerowitz, Joel. First edition. Oblong small 4to., [vi], plus 63 full-page color plates from photographs, [5] pp. text. Black cloth, titled in red ink on the spine. A short closed tear to the blank red free endpaper; else fine copy in the lightly... More
Paris: J.J. Dubochet et Cie, 1844. First edition. 8vo., iv, 248 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary binding of quarter red calf with marbled paper over boards, gilt rules and titling on spine. There is intermittent chemical staining, largely concentrated to the last 50 pp., and primarily to the blank margins;... More
Paris: G. Masson, 1888. First edition. Thick 8vo.,frontis, 312 pp., 3 leaves of plates with tissue guards, 96 text illustrations. Publisher's cloth with decorative spine, t.e.g. Occasional faint foxing. A near fine copy. A well-illustrated survey, which covers all areas of photography: coatings, apparatus manipulations and applications such as high... More
NY: Robinson & Caswell, 1856. First edition. 8vo., xii, 175 pp. Decoratively blind-stamped cloth, gilt title. Light wear at the spine ends and tips, occasional foxing; front hinge partially opened, else very good. In 1850, the Rev. Levi Hill announced his "discovery" of producing a daguerreotype in color, which he... More
Paris: G. Masson, 1896. Second ed., revised and considerably enlarged. Thick 8vo.,frontis, xii, 791 pp., 5 leaves of plates with tissue guards, 346 text illustrations. Gilt-titled cloth. INSCRIBED by the author. A very good copy. Albert Londe, 1858-1917, was an influential French photographer and medical doctor and researcher. He was... More
Paris: Amyot, [1861]. First edition. 8vo., 330 pp., illustrations in text. Illustrated paper wrappers. Edgeworn, spine repaired, purple stains, primarily along the blank margin of the last 100 pages. A near very good copy. Housed in a custom made cloth clamshell box with decorative paper labels. Presented in nine parts... More
Paris: Georges Masson, Libraire-Éditeur, 1876. First edition. 8vo., 104 pp., illustrated; bound with: PHOTOGRAPHIE AU CHARBON. PROCÉDÉS EXPLOITÉS ET PERFECTIONNÉS PAR AD. BRAUN & CIE., 12mo., ix, 12 pp., figures in text. Quarter morocco and marbled boards, gilt decorations and title on spine within raised bands. The instruction booklet is... More
NY: Hirschl & Adler Modern, 1988. First edition. Small 4to., 116 pp., illustrated with color and b&w plates from photographs and drawing. Fine in stiff card wrappers. Published as the catalogue for an exhibition of 72 works. More
Jackson & London: University of Mississippi, 1986. First edition. 4to., 108 pp., 60 plates from b&w photographs. Fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that shows minimal wear. Contains a lengthy essay and Hine's captions to each photograph. More
London / NY: Phaidon Press Limited, 2005. First edition. Small 4to., [110] pp., over 50 plates from b&w and color photographs. Thewre is a tiny crease to the lower front tip and a tiny crease at the base of the spine. Fine in the photo-illistrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED by the... More
[London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1976. First edition. Small 4to., 95 pp., over 85 b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. The top corner of the front wrapper is creased. A very good copy. Photographs by Ian Berry, Chris Killip, Josef Koudleka, Marketa Luskacova, Dennis Morris and Patrick Ward. More
Rizzoli: Travelling Light, [1982]. First UK edition. Small 4to., 191 pp., b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. There are a few light, small creases to the wrappers. Very good. This volume is based on a series of edited interviews conducted by Diamonstein at the New School for Social Research/Parsons School of... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown and Company, 1982. First edition. Oblong 4to., 144 pp., chiefly illustrated with full-page color plates from photographs. Price sticker affixed to blank front pastedown; else near fine in the photo-illustraed dust jacket that has one tiny tear at the spine crown. More
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Millerton: Aperture, 1973. Weston, Edward. Re-issue of 1961 / 1966 First editions. 4tos., xiv, 214 pp., 32 b&w photos; xi, 290 pp., 40 b&w photos. Cloth. Top and foredge are moderately foxed; otherwise, a bright and near fine in dust jackets. More
NY: Da Capo Press, 1975. Re-issue of 1946 first edition. 8vo., unpaged, numerous b&w photographs. Fine in a lightly worn, illustrated dust jacket. A reproduction of the first edition from 1946; with an added title page and different illustration on the dust jacket. More
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison - Wesley Publishing Company, 1967. First edition. 8vo., xi, 196 pp., illusttrations in b&w. Fine in a dust jacket that is lacking a small piece of the rear panel and lightly worn. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1950. Adams, Ansel. First edition. 4to., xviii, 132 pp., 48 photo plates, map endpapers. A very good copy in an edge-chipped and lightly rubbed, pictorial dust jacket. This is the first edition illustrated by Ansel Adams of this classicof the American Southwest. More
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1968. First edition. 4to., 128 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs and drawings. Illustrated paper over boards. Fine in a lightly edge-toned illustrated dust jacket. This is the first Enhlish tranlation and the first illustrated edition of Apollinaire's satirical tale. More