[Fairmont, West Virginia?]: [n.p.], [ca. 1938]. Souvenir folder (6.5" x 4.25"); nine black and white photographs. Leporello binding with folding olive mailer wraps. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities with a few tiny tears and some fading along edges. Photos clean and unmarked. This copy never addressed or mailed. Mailable..... More
![Item #10584 Secession: AA Bronson 1969-2000 [Signed Letter]. AA Bronson, Friedrich Tietjen, ed](/pictures/thumb/10584.jpg?v=1644005541)
Vienna: Wiener Secession, 2000. First Edition. Laid-in note signed and inscribed: "Dear Brenda—I wanted you to have the catalogue of my new (solo!) work. Best regards, AA Bronson." Quarto (30x21cm); 40pp. Photographs throughout. All text in parallel German and English. Black card covers over sewn gatherings. Title and author's..... More
Brooklyn, NY, et al: ca. 1925-1933. Oblong octavo (15.5x23.5cm.); string-bound self-wrappers adorned with decorative wooden beads; 22pp. filled nearly to completion with fifty-seven (57) original photographs and two news clippings, many captioned in white ink manuscript. Leaves a bit brittle with shallow loss to bottom fore-edge corners of first two..... More
N.p.: ca. 1900. Oblong octavo (15x21cm.); hand-made photo album of contemporary ribbon-bound linen boards; [12]ll. of stiff card stock to which are mounted twenty-four (24) cyanotype photographs measuring ca. 9.5x12cm, occasionally captioned in a later hand with ballpoint pen. Boards a bit bowed, minor soil to binding and interior, otherwise..... More
Berlin: VeneKlasen/Werner, 2013. First Edition. Small Quarto (18x14cm); 49pp. Full-page reproductions on every page. Saddle-stapled self-cover booklet. Very slight twist to the staple-binding edge, a result of storage pressures. All pages otherwise pristine. This is the catalog of the Alsoudani show at the (then) VeneKlasen/Werner gallery in..... More
Fairbanks and Chatanika, Alaska: Huey Foto / Huey and Hyland Foto, 1909-1910. Two original photographs from the 1909 and 1910 midnight baseball games held in Chatanika and Fairbanks, Alaska. Mounted on black cardstock with "Chatanika Alaska July 4th One A.M. 1909" to first and "Midnight Ball Game Fairbanks-vs-Chatanika. June 19-1910..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2007. First Edition with full numberline. Quarto (12.25" x 11.75"); 639pp. Photos throughout. Photo-illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Boards rubbed and a bit bumped at corners and spine ends, with a very faint curve to front board. Light thumbprinting to edges of textblock. Binding is..... More
Stanford and Cambridge: Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the MIT Press, 2018. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24.5x2.5cm); 232pp, including bibliography. Contact sheets reproduced ad infinitum, with many additional background and documentary images of Warhol-istic monkey business on every page. Photographic covers on heavy pasteboard with case binding over..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. Deluxe Edition. Small quarto; 199pp. Photos throughout. Black leather boards with mounted photo to cover and gilt lettering and rules. Gilt page edges and ribbon bookmark, with moire endpapers. Boards very faintly shelfworn, and a few light scuffs to gilt page edges. Binding is..... More
New York: Blast Books, 1997. First Edition (published simultaneously in hard- and softcover). Oblong Quarto (23x25.5x1.5cm); 159pp, including appended transcripts of media reports on the crimes committed by those in the photographs. Seventy mugshot pairs, reprinted full-page from the original glass plates. Coated photographic wrappers over sewn gatherings. Covers clean..... More
![Item #6601 The Splendors of Tibet [Signed to William Safire]. Audrey Topping, Seymour Topping, fwd](/pictures/thumb/6601.jpeg?v=1598480682)
New York: SINO Publishing Company, 1980. First Edition. Signed by Topping on front free endpaper to William Safire with inscription, "For Bill - We read you regularly in The Lhasa Times and thought highly of your column. Best Wishes Audrey + Top." Quarto. 185 pages plus index. Color..... More
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1985. First Edition. Large square quarto (30cm.); publisher's black pictorial card wrappers; 143pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, tiny creases at bottom fore-edge corners of first three leaves, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by Aron on title page. More
Carmel-by-the-Sea: The Friends of Photography and the Weston Gallery, 1979. Oblong Quarto (23x28.5x1cm); partially paginated 32pp + [104pp]. Fifty-one full-page plates in sepia B&W with additional background and reference images. Photographic card covers over sewn gatherings. Front cover with a convex horizontal bow toward fore-edge, with some smudging to back..... More
![Item #11897 African Ark [Signed]. Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher](/pictures/thumb/11897.jpg?v=1640899595)
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1990. First U.S. Edition. Signed by Beckwith and Fisher with brief inscription on front free endpaper. Tall quarto. 320 pp. Color photographs throughout. Illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards stamped in silver. Light rubbing and some creasing to edges of dust jacket..... More
Paris: Art Press, 2005. Special Issue May 2005. Quarto periodical (28x21x0.5cm); 114pp, including bibliography. Densely illustrated throughout; advertising restricted to inside covers and three final pages. Entirely in French. Coated periodical-weight covers over lighter coated stock. Minimal paperblock curving, a seeming result of storage conditions, which were exemplary; spine..... More
Paris Vanves: Éditions du Chêne-Hachette Livre, 2011. Oblong quarto. 239 pages. Color photographs throughout. Green boards with spine stamped in white. Lacks dust jacket. Some light smudging to boards. Binding is sound. Front free endpaper and half title pages creased. Pages otherwise clean and unmarked. More
Rome: Gagosian Gallery, 2009. First Edition. Catalog brochure/poster (19x14.5cm folded; 75x56cm opened). Fourteen images. Unusually clean and crisp with only very faint hints of edgewear. This brochure/poster constitutes the catalog for the Cindy Sherman show held at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome 7 June to 19 September 2009... More
![Item #12344 Seeing Deeply [Signed]. Dawoud Bey](/pictures/thumb/12344.jpg?v=1644599169)
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018. First Edition. Signed by Bey with brief inscription at half title. Quarto. 394 pp. Photographic dust jacket. Black cloth boards stamped in white. Unclipped dust jacket gently rubbed at corners. Boards show very mild shelfwear, with a slight curve to front board..... More
Irvington, NY: Hylas Publishing, 2004. Second Printing. Quarto. 320 pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Photographic dust jacket and boards. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with some faint toning to verso. Boards show light shelfwear with some bumps along bottom edge. Front board bows slightly, but overall binding..... More
New York: Edward L. Wilson, [1881]. Presumed First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's plum pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; xv,[16]-366pp.; photographic frontispiece plus one additional leaf of plates, text illus. throughout. Cloth rather scuffed and discolored at extremities, some spotting to sizing, rear hinge starting, later (1941) ownership signature to half..... More
![Item #7961 Hemingway's Spain [Inscribed and Signed by the Photographer]. Ernest Hemingway,...](/pictures/thumb/7961.jpg?v=1606252636)
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Slim folio (30.5cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 159pp.; color photographs throughout. Light shelf wear else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by the photographer on half title: "To Phyllis / with fondest Love / Loomis." More
![Item #12431 Land [Review Copy] [Bookplate Signed and Inscribed by Fowles Laid in]. Fay Godwin,...](/pictures/thumb/12431.jpg?v=1645113331)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in tan photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxxii,127pp.; chiefly black and white photographs. Corners and spine ends bumped, else Very Good or better. Review copy with slip laid in. Bookplate inscribed and signed by Fowles in 1996 additionally laid in..... More
![Item #13636 Land [Signed by Godwin and Fowles]. Fay Godwin, John Fowles, Ian Jeffrey, essay, intro](/pictures/thumb/13636.jpg?v=1658786596)
London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1985. Limited First Edition of 1000 copies printed on Parilux paper, according to colophon at rear, numbered 190/920 in pencil. Signed by Fay Godwin and John Fowles at title page. Oblong octavo. 127 pp. Black and white photographs throughout. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Gray-green boards lettered in..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, n.d., ca. 1937. First American Edition. Quarto (25cm.); publisher's cloth in grey dust jacket, photographic element mounted to upper panel; [12],100pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Upper jacket panel slightly soiled and spine toned, small contemporary bookseller ticket to front free endpaper, else Near Fine in Very..... More
Bogota: CO: Villegas Editores, 1996. First Edition. Quarto. 147 pages. Photographic dust jacket. Mustard boards stamped in gilt. Color and photo photographs throughout. Black endpapers. Book-length photo essay on the history of Colombia, touching upon race, colonialism, and environmental degradation. Dust jacket is lightly worn at..... More