New York: Longview Foundation, 1963 & 1964. First editions. Two numbered issues, 4tos., 98, [2] pp.; 98 pp. Illustrations from photographs, paintings and drawings in b&w. Volume One, Number One with the front wrapper in color by Larry Rivers. Volume One, Number Two with the front wrapper illustrated from a...... More
[Tempe]: School of Art, Arizona State University, 1984. First edition. Small 8vo., [20] pp., 4 full-page b&w illustrations. Stiff wrappers. Fine. "The purpose of this book will be to begin a list of early fiction books for children that include some aspect of photography". "...this list includes the name of..... 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
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First U.S. edition. 8vo., frontis, 5 illustrations. Illustrated cloth. A tiny crease at the lower front board tip, with a water stain on the spine and tiny one on the front board. A near fine copy. Murder and spirit photography are central to this work..... More
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press in cooperation with the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1989 - 1992. First editions. 15 numbered issues, 8vo., approximately 124 pp., occasional illustrations in b&w. Printed stiff wrappers. Several issues are moderately foxed along the top edge only. Near fine. A scholarly journal concerened..... More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1970. Mackintosh, Graham. First edition. Folio, six broadsheets, 19 x 12 1/2 inches, printed in colors from linoleum blocks. Housed in cloth portfolio with multicolor illustrated paper labels. A slight touch of toning at the upper edge, near fine. The broadsheets illustrate Lear's texts: The Jumblies;..... More
NY: Viking, 1965. Levitt, Helen. First edition. Oblong 4to., 78 pp., 50 photo-plates. Bound in black cloth, the lower tip is rubbed through. The photo-illustrated dust jacket has two closed tears and a few chips and wrinkles along the lower edge of the front panel. Still, a good or better..... More
NY: Viking, 1965. Levitt, Helen. First edition. Oblong 4to., 78 pp., 50 photo-plates. Bound in black cloth. The photo-illustrated dust jacket has light wear along the top edge, with slight damp-wrinkling on the front panel and some staining on the blank reverse. This copy bears the signature of photographer, Richard..... More
NY: Aperture, 2000. First edition. Square 4to., unpaginated, chiefly illustrated from b&w photographs. A fine, as new copy in the photo-illustrated dust jacket, sealed in the publisher's shrink wrap. More
Paris: Librairie Stock, 1925. Man Ray. First edition. Folio, [22] leaves printed recto only, with photogravure frontispiece by Man Ray. Loose as issued in printed wrappers. The frontispiece has left a transfer on the colophon leaf as is usual. A fine, unopened copy. Housed in a newly made chemise of..... More
Terezín: Památnik Terezín, 1968. Matoušek, Ota. First edition. 8vo., [17] pp., 8 plates. Stitched printed wrappers it the printed dust jacket, which is toned and discolored at the fore edge. Ota Matoušek (1890 - 1977) born in Pilzen, Czechoslovakia, Matousek studied at the Prague Academy from 1910 to 1915. During..... More
London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company / Charles Griffin and Company, 1861 - 1865. Mixed editions. A mixed set of first and later printings, comprised of Volumes 2-4 of the first printings, 1861 - 1862, and Volumes 1 - 3 of a later printing [1865] . All are illustrated with wood-engraved..... More
Vienna: Edition Tusch, 1975. First edition. 4to., 321, [1] pp., fully illustrated with color and b&w plates, t.e.g. Color printed patterned cloth; the dust jacket is slightly worn at the spine ends. The copy of Swiss political writer Armin Mohler, with his neat stamp on the reverse of the title..... More
Reprinted by Permission, from Aperture, No. 1, Copyright 1952 by Minor White, 1952. 8vo., 15 pp., 1 photo illustration. Printed wrappers which are soiled, else a very good copy. A scarce ephemeral off-print from the first issue of Aperture. In this essay, Nancy Newhall establishes the need for a literacy..... More
Richmond: West & Johnson, 1863. First edition thus. 12mo., xiii, (i), 14-216 pp., with 12 plates (two folding). There are childish pencil scribblings on the table of contents, and on 3 of the plates. Pale blue cloth with the original paper label affixed to the upper board. The paper label..... More
New York: Printed at the Sign of the Eagle, Pelham Press, 1901. First edition. 12 mo., [2], 22 pp., illustrations and rubricated capitals with added hand painted gold. Stitched paper wrappers, printed in black and red, toned, small stain on the rear, and moderately worn. The text leaves are uncut..... More
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition. 8vo., 359 pp. Fine in the price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. A fictional account of Maude Pratt "a character larger than life, coarse, sensitive, unforgiving, strangely admirable, a genius of the photograph" - from the dust jacket blurb. More
NY: Cowles, 1967. Rothstein, Arthur. First edition. 8vo., v, 203 pp., gravure printed plates from b&w photographs interspersed with text. A near fine copy, lacking the dust jacket. The photographs span Rothstein's career, from the WPA through his editorship at LOOK Magazine. More
London: Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1864. First edition. Small 4to., xii, 120 pp., 8 leaves of albumen photographs, and a miniature albumen photograph mounted on the title page. Publisher's gilt decorated cloth over bevelled boards, a.e.g. The leaf with the albumen frontispiece is detached and laid-in. Scattered light foxing..... More
Vintage gelatin silver contact print photograph 10 x 8 inches. Slight silvering along the edges, light wear at the corners and a subtle dimple near the bottom. Blindstamped "Nicholas Muray, New York" near the bottom right corner. Stamped in ink on the blank reverse "PHOTO BY MURAY" and "MRS. NICKOLAS..... More
NY: Rizzoli, (1992). Sherman, Cindy. First edition. as such. Small square 4to., (32) pp., 15 color photo-illustrations. A fine copy in dust jacket. Based on a tale by Brothers Grimm. More
Rochester, NY: Visual Studies Workshop, 1976. Siskind, Aaron. First ed. 8vo., 34 pp., 15 b&w photos. Plain stiff wrappers, in printed dustjacket. Near fine. Printed in an edition of 600 copies and handbound at the Visual Studies Workshop. More
[NY]: Limited Edition Club, 1990. Siskind, Aaron. First edition. Folio, unpaged, with 6 full-page hand-pulled photogravure plates, 10.5 x 10.5 in., bound in. Cloth with morocco spine and fore edge. Housed in publisher's cloth slipcase. A fine, as new copy, issued without a dust jacket. Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991)..... More
Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1964. First edition. 12mo., 22 pp. Fine, as new in the publisher's dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies. More
Stockton, NJ: Designed and printed at the Carolingian Press, 1972. Sommer, Frederick. First edition. Square 12mo., 20 leaves, printed recto only. Printed stiff wrappers. Wrappers slightly dusty, else fine. A collection of aphorisms, with: WORDS SPOKEN IN MEMORY OF RICHARD NICKEL AT A GATHERING OF HIS FRIENDS. More