San Francisco: Beck-Gerlach Printing Company, Inc., 1931. 8vo., [14] pp. Stapled then bound into green wrapper with a decorative red and black border and a playing card tipped on. Designed and executed by C. Raymond Beran with a b&w frontispiece illustration by Alex. Stern. A closed short tear and creased... More about THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLATS
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 about QUINTI HORATII FLACCI OPERA, CUM NOVO COMMENTARIO AD MODUM JOANNIS BOND
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911. First U.S. edition. 8vo., frontis, 5 illustrations. Illustrated cloth. A very good copy. Murder and spirit photography are central to this work of crime fiction by the brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the Raffles series. More about THE CAMERA FIEND
Millerton: Aperture, 1982. Levenson. First edition. 4to., 71 pp., 33 full-page b&w photos. Fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that has one small closed tear at the top edge of the front and rear panel. Photographs of carnivals, sideshows and the characters who live and work in them. More about IN SEARCH OF THE MONKEY GIRL.; Stories by Spalding Gray
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 about A WAY OF SEEING. PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEW YORK.; With an essay by James Agee
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 about A WAY OF SEEING. PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEW YORK.; With an essay by James Agee
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 about UPSTREAM: FLY FISHING IN THE AMERICAN WEST
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 near fine, unopened copy. Housed in a newly made chemise... More about L'ANGE HEURTEBISE; POÈME AVEC UNE PHOTOGRAPHIE DE L'ANGE PAR MAN RAY
Danbury: Addison House, 1978. Michals, Duane. First edition. as such. 8vo., 10 plates. A fine copy in a dust jacket that is lacking five small chips at the corners and edges. Laid-in is a silver gelatin promotional photograph, the final image in the book. Number 424 of 1000 copies. More about HOMAGE TO CAVAFY.; Ten poems by Constantine Cavafy
Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1981. First edition thus. 4to., numerous full-page b&w photos with text opposite. Illustrated stiff wrappers. The front wrapper is lightly creased, and the lower left corner on the rear wrapper is creased, else a near fine copy. SIGNED by the Photographer on the..... More about GOD'S COUNTRY AND MY PEOPLE
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 about THE CAPTION: THE MUTUAL RELATION OF WORDS/ PHOTOGRAPHS
London: William Heinemann, 1898. Nicholson, Wiliam. Limited Library edition. Folio, verse and 12 full-page color lithographic plates, original tissue guards. Color illustrated paper over boards with parchment spine. The binding is very slightly age-toned. The endpapers are moderately spotted which have lightly transferred to the opposite leaf only. An unusually... More about AN ALMANAC OF TWELVE SPORTS; WITH WORDS BY RUDYARD KIPLING
Mexico, D.F. Editorial Nueva Imagen, 1984. First edition. Square 8vo., 57, [1] pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers, which have a few shallow creases at the spine and a tiny snag at the base of the spine. Very good. Photography is a reoccurring theme in the work of... More about ALTO EL PERÚ
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 about PICTURE PALACE
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 about FITCHER'S BIRD
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 about AARON SISKIND PHOTOGRAPHS, JOHN LOGAN POEMS
[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 foredge. Housed in publisher's cloth slipcase. A fine, as new copy, issued without a dust jacket. Aaron Siskind, 1903 - 1991, was... More about SONG OF THE OPEN ROAD.; With photogravures by Aaron Siskind
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 about THE POETIC LOGIC OF ART AND AESTHETICS.; In collaboration with Stephen Aldrich, 1972
(Stockton, NJ: DeSIGNED and printed at the Carolingian Press, 1972). Sommer, Frederick. First edition. Square 12mo., 20 leaves, printed recto only. Printed stiff wrappers. Fine. SIGNED. A collection of aphorisms, with: WORDS SPOKEN IN MEMORY OF RICHARD NICKEL AT A GATHERING OF HIS FRIENDS. This copy is SIGNED by Frederick... More about THE POETIC LOGIC OF ART AND AESTHETICS.; In collaboration with Stephen Aldrich, 1972
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 and stained on rear, else very good. A collection of aphorisms, with: WORDS SPOKEN IN MEMORY OF RICHARD NICKEL AT A GATHERING OF HIS FRIENDS. More about THE POETIC LOGIC OF ART AND AESTHETICS.; In collaboration with Stephen Aldrich, 1972
Steichen, Edward. Hand-pulled photogravure on tissue, 8 X 6 1/4 inches, archivally matted. Fine. The image is a fine richly-toned photogravure from CAMERA WORK 42/43, 1913. More about ANATOLE FRANCE, 1913
Baltimore: The Theatre Guild, 1995. Stieglitz, Alfred. Original poster for the play staring Stacy Keach and Margot Kidder, 22 x 14 inches, printed in color on heavy stock. Slight bump at one corner, else fine. This "The Great American Romance" initially toured in 1995 with revivals ongoing to this date... More about STIEGLITZ LOVES O'KEEFFE; FLOWERS AND PHOTOS
London: Printed for Robert Horsfield, 1761. First English edition. 16mo., [Part I] 130 pp.[ dated 1761]; [Part II] 126 pp. [dated 1760], 1 p. advert. Contemporary full calf, with the spine expertly repaired; board edges are rubbed. Previous owner's name on endpaper, few light pencil notations, light foxing and offsetting... More about GIPHANTIA: OR, A VIEW OF WHAT HAS PASSED, WHAT IS NOW PASSING, AND DURING THE PRESENT CENTURY,...
Babylone [Paris]: n. p., 1760. First edition. 16mo., [Part I] [2], 176 pp; [Part II] [2], 174 pp. Contemporary full mottled calf, with the spine in six gilt-decorated compartments; hinges partially cracked but firm; rubbing at the edges and chipping at the corners. Moderate foxing or soiling. A near very... More about GIPHANTIE
NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1942. Weston, Edward. First edition thus. 2 volumes. 4to., xxix, 123 pp.; 124-264 pp., 50 photographic plates. Illustrated boards with leather labels. There are barely perceptible spots of light rubbing at base of the spines and on the leather spine labels, otherwise these are fine... More about LEAVES OF GRASS.; With an introduction by Mark Van Doren and photographs by Edward Weston