Carmel: The Friends of Photography, 1981. DeCarava, Roy. First edition. Member's edition. Square 4to., 192 pp., 82 full-page b&w plates with captions opposite. Cloth, with photo-illustrated dust jacket. A very good copy. The dust jacket is edge-worn and chipped, with a few tears, particularly at the crown. SIGNED by the... More about ROY DECARAVA: PHOTOGRAPHS.; Introduction by Sherry Turner DeCarava
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 about THE POET ASSASSINATED.; Translated by Ron Padgett. Illustrations by Jim Dine
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1982. O'Sullivan, Timothy. First edition. 4to., xvii, 158 pp., 82 text illustrations, 64 full-page b&w plates. A fine copy in a near fine photo-illustrated dust jacket. Timothy O'Sullivan was an expeditionary photographer who accompanied the geological survey expeditions of Clarence King and George... More about THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIFACTS OF TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Doisneau, Robert. First U.S. edition. 4to., 143 pp., text and b&w photos. Cloth in illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in dust jacket. More about THREE SECONDS FROM ETERNITY.; Translated by Vivienne Menkes
Cologne: Rudolf Kicken Galerie, 1983. Drtikol, Frantisek. First edition. Small 4to., 48 pp., 67 b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. Drtikol's nudes. Printed in an edition of 1500 copies. In English. More about DRTIKOL.; Introduction by Daniela Mr zkov
NY: Grossman Publishers, 1972. Kertész, André. First edition. Oblong 8vo., 224 pp., 218 b&w photogravure plates, 3 pp. notes and chronology. Fine in the illustrated dust jacket that has a 1/2 inch closed tear along the blank top edge. This copy bears the neat signature of Alan Winer, photographer and... More about ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ: SIXTY YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 1912-1972
NY: The Viking Press, 1980. Duncan, David Douglas. First edition. 4to., 152 pp., fully illustrated from b&w and color photographs. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. A marvellous and intimate portrait of the artist by one of his close friends. More about VIVA PICASSO: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 1881-1981
Tempe, Arizona: Richard Dixon, Publisher, 1974. Dutton, A.A. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (2) pp. plus 13 folding pages containing numerous b&w photos. Pictorial wrapper around spiral bound leaves. Aside from the neat signature of Alan Winer, photographer and former administrator of the Visual Studies Workshop, this copy is fine. "One... More about THE GREAT STONE TIT
Tempe, Arizona: Richard Dixon, Publisher, 1974. Dutton, A.A. First edition. Oblong 8vo., (2) pp. plus 13 folding pages containing numerous b&w photos. Pictorial wrapper around spiral bound leaves. SIGNED by the photographer. Dusting to the white wrappers, else a near fine copy. "One of the truly amazing facts... is how... More about THE GREAT STONE TIT
Washington, D.C. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2000. Dutton, Allen. First ed. 4to., 61 pp., 48 b&w photographs. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition of Dutton's photographs. Essay by Jane Livingston and introduction by Paul Roth. Using both his own photographs and from those in archives circa... More about STRANGE BUT TRUE: THE ARIZONA PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALLEN DUTTON
Washington & London: Published for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994. Eakins, Thomas. First edition. 4to., xii, 235 pp., with 241 illustrations, comprised of 173 b&w, 52 duotones and 16 tritones from photographs. A fine, as new copy in the illustrated dust jacket, sealed... More about EAKINS AND THE PHOTOGRAPH:; WORKS BY THOMAS EAKINS AND HIS CIRCLE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE...
NY: Grossman, 1972. Eakins, Thomas. First edition. Oblong 4to., viii, 214 pp., 291 photos. Fine in illustrated dust jacket, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. More about THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THOMAS EAKINS
Paris: Arthaud, 1984. First edition. 4to., 111 pp., chiefly illustrated from b&w and handcolored photographs. Laid-in is a 4 pp. text and list of plate in both English and Japanese. Slight bump to the upper board tip; else near fine in the color illustrated dust jacket. The work of two... More about MUKASKI - MUKASHI: LE JAPON DE PIERRE LOTI:; PHOTOGRAPHIE PAR BEATO ET STILLFRIED
Cambridge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1979. Edgerton, Harold E. First edition, Deluxe. Oblong 4to., (xii), 177 pp., color and b&w photos. A fine copy in the photographically illustrated dust jacket that has two short spots of rubbing at the fold of the inner flaps. Housed in a special... More about MOMENTS OF VISION: THE STROBOSCOPIC REVOLUTION IN PHOTOGRAPHY
NY: Harry N. Abrams, (1987). Edgerton, Harold. First edition. 4to., 168 pp., 138 b&w and color illustrations. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket with related ephemeral items laid-in. SIGNED and dated upon publication by the photographer. Inventor of the modern electronic flash and strobe, Harold Edgerton in his... More about STOPPING TIME: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HAROLD EDGERTON.; Foreword by Harold Edgerton; text by Estelle...
's-Hertogenbosch: Het Noordbrabants Genootschap, 1991. First edition. 8vo., 95 pp., illustrated from color filmstrips. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Near fine. Dutch photographer and filmmaker, Paul de Nooijer, studied industrial design and began his career in advertising and illustration, later to become a freelance photographer. In many of his films and photos... More about PAUL DE NOOIJER: EEN OVERZICHT VAN ZIJN FILMISCH OEUVRE
London: David Nutt, 1895. Emerson, P.H. First edition. 4to., vi, (ii) 165 pp., 16 plates with printed tissue guards. White linen, stamped with title and decorative motif, calf-backed with titling in gilt. The plates are printed on a handmade Japan vellum paper and are very fine, with all printed tissue... More about MARSH LEAVES. WITH SIXTEEN PHOTO-ETCHINGS FROM PLATES TAKEN BY THE AUTHOR
NY: Aperture, 1975. Emerson, P.H. First edition. Oblong 4to., (vi), 266 pp.,profusely illustrated from b&w photographs. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket. A very thorough study of this noted photographer, often referred to as the "father of Pictorialism." Published as the catalogue for a major exhibition held at..... More about P.H. EMERSON: THE FIGHT FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AS A FINE ART
(Gütersloh): Sigbert Mohn Verlag, (1961). Erfurth, Hugo. First edition. 4to., 31 pp., plus 64 full-page b&w photos. A near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. SIGNED and dated by Otto Steinert, with a printed invitation to the opening of the exhibition laid in. Erfurth (1874-1948) was especially noted for his..... More about HUGO ERFURTH BILDNISSE.; Preface by J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1938. Evans, Walker. First ed. Small 4to., 200 pp., 87 photographic plates, errata slip. Original cloth with printed spine label. There is moderate wear at the spine ends and three of the leading tips, with a tiny chip to the cloth covering the spine. Still... More about AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS.; Afterwords by Lincoln Kirstein
NY: Museum of Modern Art, (1962). Evans, Walker. Reissue of 1938 first ed. Small 4to., 195 pp., 87 photographic plates. Cloth, titled in gilt on the spine; a very good copy. The photographically illustrated dust wrapper is lightly soiled,lacking a few tiny chips at the top of the spine, and... More about AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS.; Essay by Lincoln Kirstein
NY: Eakins Press, 1966. Evans, Walker. First edition. Square folio, 12 gravure plates with tissue guards. Grey cloth, titled in white ink on the spine with a printed paper label on front cover. A fine, as new copy. More about MESSAGE FROM THE INTERIOR.; With an afterword by John Szarkowski
NY: Eakins Press, 1966. Evans, Walker. First edition. Square folio, 12 photogravure plates with tissue guards, 1 leaf with titles of the photographs, 1 leaf with afterwords. Grey cloth, titled in white ink on the spine with a printed paper label on front cover. Faint toning at the blank margin... More about MESSAGE FROM THE INTERIOR.; With an afterword by John Szarkowski
NY: Pantheon Books, 1989. Evans, Walker. First American edition. Small 4to., 111 pp., frontis, small format text illustrations, 80 full-page b&w photographs. A fine, as new copy in the illustrated dust jacket, sealed in the original shrink-wrap. Selected from over 400 photos taken by Evans in prerevolutionary Cuba. More about WALKER EVANS: HAVANA, 1933
NY: Harper & Row, 1982. Evans, Walker. First ed. 4to., 239 pp., b&w photographs. A fine copy in illustrated dust jacket. More about WALKER EVANS AT WORK.; 745 PHOTOGRAPHS TOGETHER WITH DOCUMENTS SELECTED FROM LETTERS, MEMORANDA,...