Praze: Aventinum, 1947. First edition. 8vo., 62 pp, and 64 photogravure plates, double-page map endpapers. Plain tan card wrappers, lightly worn. Photo-illustrated dust jacket also lightly worn at the edges. A near fine copy with printed wrap-around band laid in. Jaromír Funke, the masterful Czech photographer, has contributed handsome photogravure... More about PETKRÁT KOLÍN
Praha: Odeon, [1970]. Funke, Jaromir. First edition. 8vo., 29 pp., 132 full-page photogravure plates. A light bruise to the lower front board tip: else very good copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. The dust jacket has three closed tears which have been repaired on the blank reverse. Jaromir Funke, 1896... More about JAROMIR FUNKE: FOTOGRAFIE
Munich: Nazraeli Press, 1994. First edition. 4to., 53 pp., chiefly illustrated with b&w and one color plate after photographs. A slight bruise to the lower front tip; else a near fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. Includes a brief text by the photographer, notes on the plates, a biography... More about DER ANATOMISCHE ENGEL
NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. First edition. Oblong small 4to., 152 pp., 125 b&w photos, 4 in color. A fine, as new copy in dust jacket. Published as the catalogue for a traveling exhibition which originated at MoMA. More about HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE EARLY WORK
NY: The Museum of Modern Art, 1987. Cartier-Bresson, Henri. First edition. Oblong small 4to., 152 pp., 125 b&w photos, 4 in color. A fine copy in a near fine photo-illustrated dust jacket. Published as the catalogue for a traveling exhibition which originated at MoMA. More about HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: THE EARLY WORK
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1986. Galgiani, Phillip. First edition. Square 8vo., (8) folding pages, 20 b&w images. Spiral bound illustrated stiff wrappers. The copy of the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, with its neat stamp on the title-page. Near fine. An installation by this... More about SIMPLE CONJUNCTIONS.; Text by James Welling
Boston: NYGS / Little, Brown and Company, 1982. Garnett, William. First edition. 4to., xvii, 183 pp., profusely illustrated with color photos, pictorial endpapers. Fine in a slightly wrinkled, photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the photographer. "For over thirty-five years, Garnett has been photographing the American Landscape from the... More about THE EXTRAORDINARY LANDSCAPE: AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF AMERICA.; Introduction by Ansel Adams. Boston
[San Francisco]: Sun in Scorpio/ Flash Publications, 1993. Gatewood, Charles. First edition. 4to., 64 unnumbered pages, full-page b&w plates from photos. Fine, as new in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Limited to 2000 numbered copies, SIGNED. A compilation from Gatewood's various "bodies" of work: Sidetripping in New Orleans, pierced bodies, tattoos, and... More about CHARLES GATEWOOD PHOTOGRAPHS: THE BODY & BEYOND
(San Francisco): Sun in Scorpio/ R. Mutt Press, 1992. Gatewood, Charles. First edition. 4to., 61, (2) pp., b&w photos. Fine in photo-illustrated dust jacket. Limited to 2000 numbered copies, SIGNED. Once again, Gatewood confounds with outsider images - men and women who tattoo and pierce all places and spaces of... More about PRIMITIVES: TRIBAL BODY ART AND THE LEFT-HAND PATH
NY: Mitchell Kennerley, 1913. Genthe, Arnold. Enlarged second ed. 8vo., ix, 208 pp., 91 gravure plates. Gilt-embossed cloth. A few light spots of foxing on the endapers and adjacent leaves, else a very good copy. A prime example of the concealed miniature hand held camera used to document a society... More about OLD CHINATOWN: A BOOK OF PICTURES.; Text by Will Irwin
NY: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1908. Genthe, Arnold. First edition. 8vo., (x), 57 pp., frontis, plus 46 full-page b&w photos. The binding is moderately rubbed and soiled, more so on the spine. The mounted photograph on the front cover is lacking a small chip at the edge, and there is... More about PICTURES OF OLD CHINATOWN.; Text by Will Irwin
Self published, 1973. Gerlach, Monte H. First edition. 8vo., 12 photographic plates, printed recto only. Printed stiff wrappers. Very good. Monte H. Gerlach began his photographic career as a photojournalist in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1971. For two years he was an Assistant Photographer for Playboy Enterprises,Inc, and by 1976 he... More about A PHOTOGRAPHIC SAMPLER
Paris: Braun & Cie Éditeurs, 1932. Gerstmann, Robert. First edition. Thick 4to., frontis with tissue guard, 66 pp., plus 280 photogravures plates, 4 pp. index, folding map. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear along the foredge of the first two blank leaves; slight wear at the tips. A near fine and... More about CHILE.; 280 GRABADOS EN COBRE
NY: Aperture Foundation / The Professional Photography Division of Eastman Kodak Company, 1991. Gibson, Ralph. First edition. Folio, 119 pp., 101 full-page color photos. A fine copy in a slightly toned near fine dust jacket. Boldly SIGNED and inscribed by the photographer on the first blank leaf. Images of architectural... More about L'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE.; Introduction by Marguerite Duras
NY: Lustrum Press, 1983. Gibson, Ralph. First edition. 4to., (79) pp., numerous full-page b&w photos. Cloth with photo-illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy. SIGNED by the photographer. A perfect title for Gibson's style of image-making - concise phrases in a narrative form. More about SYNTAX
(NY): Aperture, in association with the International Center of Photography, (1987). Gibson, Ralph. First edition. Folio, vii, 150 pp., b&w and color photos. A fine copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by the photographer on the first white preliminary leaf. Gibson's stark and highly charged photographs from... More about TROPISM
Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1984. Gilbert & George. First edition. 4to., 143 pp., frontis, over 100 b&w and color illustrations. Illustrated stiff wrappers which have a few shallow creases. Near fine. Produced in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition. Includes full descriptions of the 67 exhibited works, an... More about GILBERT & GEORGE
NY: Aperture, 1986. Goldin, Nan. First edition. Oblong small 4to., 144 pp., full-page color photos. A fine copy in like dust jacket. A narrative self-portrait in text and photographs of the photographer and her friends in the most candid of events. This is the photographer's first book. More about THE BALLAD OF SEXUAL DEPENDENCY.; Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holborn and Suzanne Fletcher
[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 about IL SILENZIO DEI MAYA.; Postfazione di Laura Leonelli
(Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerström Boktryckare, 1920). Goodwin, Henry B. First edition. Folio, 165, [166-187] pp., original etching frontispiece with tissue guard, title page vignette, 39 b&w photogravures with tissue guards, 9 reproductions of etchings with tissue guards, 2 leaves of music. Quarter calf and linen with gilt title, decorative endpapers, t.e.g...... More about VÅRT VACKRA STOCKHOLM; UTGIVET TILL FÖRMAN FÖR DANIEL FALLSTRÖM-FONDEN
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1985. Gossage, John. First edition. Oblong 4to., full-page b&w photographs. Mounted silver gelatin photo on cloth front cover. Slight cockling of the top blank margin from moisture; else a very good copy in the dust jacket that shows two small damp stains, a small crease, rubbing along..... More about THE POND.; With an essay by Denise Sines
New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, (1986). Gowin, Emmet. First ed. Folio, (36) pp., chiefly illustrated with b&w photographs. Plain stiff wrappers, in printed dust jacket with b&w photo mounted on front. A one inch band at the top of the front panel of the dust jacket is lightly faded, else a...... More about PETRA, IN THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN
NY: Knopf, A Light Gallery Book, 1976. Gowin, Emmet. First edition. Small square 4to., 101 pp., 68 b&w plates. Cloth with photo-illustrated dust jacket. Previous owner's neat signature on the blank front free endpaper. The dust jacket is lightly worn at the corners. A fine copy in a near fine... More about EMMET GOWIN: PHOTOGRAPHS
NY: Knopf, A Light Gallery Book, 1976. Gown, Emmet. First edition. Small square 4to., 101 pp., 68 b&w plates. Photo-ilustrated stiff wrappers. Fine, near new. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Emmet Gowin was born and raised in Danville, Virgina; you can smell the intimate and gothic fragrance... More about EMMET GOWIN: PHOTOGRAPHS
Praha: Státní nakladateství krásné literatury a umení, 1963. Hajek, Karel. First edition. 12mo., 31 pp., plus 69 b&w photogravures. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Wrappers are slightly rubbed; very good. A large selection of this noted Czech photographers images - primarily photojournalistic in subject, with a few modernist montages..... More about KAREL HÁJEK