Berkeley: University of California, 1988. First edition. 4to., xi, 361 pp., numerous b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. A fine, as new copy. Portrays America in the last years of the Great Depression and the first years of World War II in nearly three hundred images by Lange, Delano, Evans, Vachon..... More
Austin: Published in cooperation with the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery by the University of Texas Press, 1985. First edition. 4to., x, 164 pp., numerous b&w photos. Pictorial paper over boards. A very good copy. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. More
Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1993 and 1998. First edition. 8vo., 225 pp., b&w and color photographs. Housed in publisher's cloth slipcase and boxed with 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.) Accompanying CD-ROM entitled: La fotografia, una storia per immagini : Fratelli Alinari, 1852-2000. (Florence: Fratelli Alinari, 1998). Fine, as new..... More
NY: MOMA, 1981. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 152 pp., 82 plates (9 in color), 38 reference illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. INSCRIBED by the author. More
Boston: Boston Book & Art Shop, 1962. First American edition. 4to., 258 pp., 244 full-page b&w plates. Previous owner's neat signature on the blank front free flyleaf, else very good in dust jacket. More
Leuven, Belgium: Davidsfonds, 1955. First edition. 8vo., 271 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs, other figures in text. Illustratedf stiff wrappers. Largely unopened. Fine. Published upon the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Gevaert photoworks. Text in Dutch. More
North Plainfield, New Jersey: Fleetwood Museum of Art and Photographica; New York: American Photographic Historical Society, 1990. First edition. 12mo.13, [1] pp., illustrations from b&w photographs. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Fine. More
Paris: Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière; Félix, Alcan, Éditeur, [1887]. First edition. 16mo., 192 pp., illustrations in text, 1 screened photogravure. New front wrapper in facsimile, with conservation to title page; the first and last few pages are edge-chipped with a few short tears (no loss of text). A good copy..... More
NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1984. First edition. 4to., 247 pp., over 330 color and b&w photo-illustrations. Silver-titled black cloth. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. A comprehensive survey, one of the first to cover this important field; the author identifies the dominant forces and the leading figures in each..... More
Washington, D. C. National Gallery of Art; The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989. First edition. Oblong folio, xviii, 510 pp., hundreds of photos in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Very good. A massive exhibition catalog, with text and bibliography by Sarah Greenough, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck..... More
Fort Lauderdale: Museum of Art; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; NY: Abbeville Press, 1987. First edition. 4to., 272 pp., frontis, profusely illustrated with b&w and color photos. A fine copy in dust jacket. An extensive survey based on a major exhibition of the same title; includes essays..... More
NY: Oxford University Press / International Center of Photography, 1982. First edition. 4to., xii, 198 pp., fully illustrated from color and b&w photos and other illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers which are slightly rubbed. A very good copy. An incomparable historical survey. This is the catalogue that accompanied the exhibition which..... More
Ixelles: A. Cnophs Fils; Bruxelles: Librairie Universelle de Rozez, 1881. First edition. 8vo., 19 pp. Printed paper wrappers. Very good. OCLC locates four copies; Bibliotheque Nationale de France, University of Arizona, National Gallery of Art, University of Texas, Harry Ransom Center. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. First edition. 4to., xiii, 364 pp., numerous illustrations. A very good or better copy in a spine-faded pictorial dust jacket. Forty-six critical essays on the Pictorialist by a well known contemporary of the movement. An essential addition to the study of Alfred Stieglitz, his..... More
London: Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 1976 - 1997. First editions. 4tos. Printed stiff wrappers. 84 issues. Volume 1, No. 1 to Volume 21, No. 4. A long and unbroken run. Very good to fine. A scholarly journal, largely concerned with the early history of the medium, and the historical through..... More
Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1998. First edition. 4to., 365 pp., profusely illustrated in b&w and color. A near fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. Krone (1827-1916), known for his portraiture, landscape interest in science and astronomy; in 1847 he fixed an image of a shooting star on a daguerreian plate;..... 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
London: Times Newspapers Limited, 1973. Hill, David Octavius. First edition. 8vo., unpaged, plus 64 full-page plates with captions. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Previous owner's name monogram stamped in ink on the half-title page. Wrappers lightly soiled, else a good copy. More
Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. First edition. Large 4to., xv, 490 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Fine, as new in dust jacket and shrinkwrap. Catalogues each of the some 1,850 works in The Cleveland Museum of Art collection and illustrates about 1,100 of them. More
New York: Viking Studio, 2002. First edition. 4to., ix, 133 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. More
London and Glasgow: Richard Griffin and Company, 1854. Fourth edition, revised. 8vo., endpaper adverts front and rear, series title page, chromolithograph frontispiece, xii, 329 pp., [2] pp. adverts, 87 b&w engraved figures, 1 b&w engraved chapter vignette, followed by 32 pp., illustrated CATALOGUE OF PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS Sold by John Joseph..... More
Boston: Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1850. Daguerre. First American edition. 12mo., 388 pp., [24] pp. adverts. Decoratively blind-embossed cloth; gilt-titled spine is lacking the top and bottom inch and been laid-down on new cloth. Ex-library and withdrawn from an academic library with their bookplate affixed to the front pastedown and..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. 8vo., vii, 303 pp., 32 pp. adverts, hand-colored engraved folding frontispiece, text diagrams. Recased in the decoratively blind-stamped publisher's original cloth. The lower edge of the binding is rubbed with rounding at the tips. A very good copy. "Robert..... More
London: Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. First edition. 8vo., vii, 303 pp., 32 pp. adverts, hand-colored engraved folding frontispiece, text diagrams. Publisher's blind stamped cloth titled in gilt on the spine; small tears to the spine have been expertly repaired; tips and edges are rubbed through to..... More
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1853. 8vo., 485-610 pp., plus illustrated adverts. Original printed paper wrappers; a one-inch portion of the lower spine has been repaired with matching paper, lower blank tip of the front wrapper lacking, as is a short piece near the top. Very good. Housed in..... More