NY: Scovill and Adams, 1897. Sixth edition, eighth thousand. 8vo., 215 pp., illustrations in text. Publisher's decorative illustrated paper wrappers. Previous owner's neat stamp on the title page; a small sliver is lacking from the blank rear wrapper; else near fine. This manual leads the reader through darkroom procedures, printing... More
New York: Scovill Manufacturing Co., 1877. First American edition. 8vo., xvi, 326 pp., 24 adverts, frontispiece portrait and over 77 illustrations in text. Errata slip. Blind-embossed and gilt-titled original cloth which is lightly worn at the spine ends, with mild foxing to the preliminary leaves to the title page; else... More
NY: Scovill & Adams Company, 1893. First edition. 8vo., 4 pp. adverts, 87 pp., 8 pp. adverts, illustrated. Publisher's cloth, illustrated in gilt and black, titled in gilt on the spine; lightly worn. The first leaf and blank of the publisher's adverts is soiled and chipped at the gutter, also... More
Paris: A. Loiseau Fils, 1874. First edition. 8vo., iv, 39 pp., illustrations in text. Illustrated paper wrappers. Very light foxing with one small instance of marginalia in pencil; the front wrapper is detached, chipped and soiled, and the pamphlet has a soft vertical crease. Housed in a newly made clamshell... More
Paris: C.H. Mendel, [1896]. First edition. 12mo.,[iv], 102 pp., 2 adverts., portrait frontis of Professor Röntgen, 2 full-page plates from photographs, 16 figures in text, mainly wood engravings. Original illustrated paper wrappers; titled on spine. Pages slightly toned with an ex-libris label affixed to blank reverse of the front wrapper... More
Halle a.d. Saale: Wilhelm Knapp, 1913. First edition. 4to., (i), 187 pp., 7 plates and facsmiles. Printed stiff wrappers which are chipped at the foredge and along the spine with partial separation, but holding firm. Internally, a very good and unopened copy. A survey of early writings concerning photography, from... 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
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
[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