[NY: c1970]. Original silver gelatin photograph, 9 x 9 inches, printed on double weight photographic stock 11 x 14 inches. Tipped-on to museum board with window over mat 14 x 18 inches. Fine. Stamped in ink on the blank reverse of the photograph" Laurence Fink / 55 Chrystie Street /..... More
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1876. First edition. 8vo., 74 pp., plus 2 leaves with 3 plates, 2 of which are in color. Original decorative paper wrappers. Scattered foxing, wrappers creased, slight soil. The title page bears the stamp of the Paris distributor. A good copy. Housed in a new quarter tree calf..... More
[New York]: Lustrum Press, 1972. Frank, Robert. First U.S. edition. 4to., 100 unnumbered pages of b&w photos and text by the photographer. The copy of Alan Winer, photographer and former administrator of the Visual Studies Workshop. A fine copy. Frank's most personal statement. More
NY: The Scovill & Adams Co., 1887-99, 1902-53. First editions. 4tos., variable paginations, b&w photos. 65 volumes. A near complete run, lacking only 2 volumes (1900,1901). Various bindings; most in the publisher's stiff wrappers, a few of which have been repaired, and a few bound in publisher's cloth over boards..... More
NY: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. Friedlander, lee. First edition. Folio, 213 b&w photos on unnumbered leaves. Cloth titled in black and gilt. The publisher's binding resembles a personal photographic album, with the leaves gathered on screw posts. A fine, as new copy, still in the original shrink-wrap and the..... More
NY: The Eakins Press Foundation, 1976. Friedlander, lee. First ed. Folio, 213 b&w photos on unnumbered leaves. Cloth titled in black and gilt. The publisher's binding resembles a ledger or personal photographic album, with the leaves gathered on screw posts. A fine, as new copy. Friedlander documents the statues in..... More
NY: Callaway Editions IV, 1982. Friedlander, Lee. First edition. Square 4to., 62 full-page duotone photos. Fine in a toned, near fine dust jacket. Limited to 1000 cloth bound copies, SIGNED by Friedlander. In 1979, Friedlander was commissioned by the Akron Art Museum to document the industrial area of the Ohio..... More
NY: Haywire Press, 1981. Friedlander, Lee. First ed. Folio, 40 plates, printed on heavy stock and spiral bound into a cloth binding, titled on the front board. A fine copy. This copy is SIGNED by the photographer. More
Carmel/San Francisco: Friends of Photography, 1972 - 1994. First editions. Varying sizes from oblong 8vo. to folio; varying paginations. Largely illustrated from b&w and color photographs. Illustrated wrappers. 55 numbers in 53 issues, lacking No. 11 and 21. Number 6 shows moderate cockling and staining; mild toning to the wrappers..... More
Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1938. Evans, Walker. First edition. 4to., 98 pp., illustrated from photographs. A very good copy. The photo-illustrated dust jacket has a few chips and pieces lacking and shows light soiling on the rear text panel. One of the earliest books to be illustrated by the photographers..... More
Praha: Pressfoto, 1979. Funke, Jaromir. First edition. 4to., [11], pp. text pamphlet, with 12 b&w silver gelatin, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches, or the reverse, loose as issued. Housed in a illustrated stiff paper folder. The paper portfolio is slightly toned on the blank rear panel, with the photographs..... More
Paris: J.J. Dubochet et Cie, 1844. First edition. 8vo., iv, 248 pp., illustrations in text. Contemporary binding of quarter red calf with marbled paper over boards, gilt rules and titling on spine. In the last 50 pages there is intermittent chemical splashing, primarily to the blank margins; still a very..... More
Paris: Alexis Gaudin, 1861. First edition. 12mo., 212 pp. Quarter calf and marbled paper over boards, original printed wrappers bound-in. Occasional staining which is more pronounced on the last 15 pages. A very good copy. This manual provides a short history of the discovery and instructions for making daguerreotypes, glass..... More
Paris: N.-P. Lerebours; Bachelier; London: Claudet, MAI 1842. Third edition. 8vo., 77 pp., large folding plate, [1], [16] catalogue. Quarter morocco and marbled boards with the moderately soiled original printed wrappers bound-in. On pages 7 and 10, a short closed tear at the blank gutter margin has been repaired with..... More
Paris: A. Guyot, 1834. Fifth edition. 8vo., 203 pp., 5 folding engraved plates. Contemporary binding of quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards; raised bands with gilt detail and titling on spine; all edges marbled. Slight wear to tips; pages toned with moderate intermittent foxing, which is more pronounced on..... More
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
Paris: Au Bureau du Cosmos et Chez Delahaye, 1855. First edition. 8vo., 104 pp. Printed wrappers are slightly edgeworn and show age-toning. Very good or better. Housed in a new quarter cloth and pastepaper clamshell box. Stéphane Geoffray (1827-1895) banker, lawyer and photographer, was the inventor of the waxed paper..... More
Rochester, NY: George Eastman House, 1952 - 1997. First editions. 4tos., 8vos., and oblong 8vos. 3 bound volumes containing Vol. 1, No. 1 (1952) through Vol. 9, No. 2 (1960); plus 92 loose issues in wrappers, comprising Vol. 10, No. 1 (1961) through Vol. 40, No. 1 (1997). Lacking only..... More
(Stockholm: Bröderna Lagerström Boktryckare, 1920). Goodwin, Henry B. First ed. 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
[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
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
(Göteborg): Gumpertska konsthandelns förlag, n.d. (ca. 1865-1870). First edition. Folio, with 12 (7 x 8 1/2 inch) original gold-toned albumen photographs on printed stiff paper mounts (12 1/ 4 x 16 1/2 inches). Calf-backed gilt-stamped and decoratively embossed cloth folder. Lightly faded, worn and rubbed at the edges, else very..... More
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
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
[Prague]: Ceskoslovenske Filmove Nakladatelstvi, 1947. Hak, Miroslav. First edition. Small 4to., 17 pp., plus 46 richly toned b&w photogravures. Illustrated stiff wrappers. Moderate rubbing along the joint of the front wrapper, with light creasing at the top and bottom edges. Miroslav Hak, 1911 - 1974, was first trained as a...... More