N. p., ca. 1900? Evident albumen print measuring a scant 5 x 8 inches on a plain dark mount measuring 8.88 x 11.88 inches. Conifers and a small fenced garden and a hat placed neatly at the foot of a tree. Handling a number of these photographs suggests that the..... More
Salt Lake City, Utah: Juvenile Instructor Office, 1889. First edition. 8vo (8.75 x 6.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, 208 pages. Engraved frontispiece portrait. A presentation copy, with a somewhat later ink inscription on the front blank, “Dear Mr. Lewis: I am honored in the request. Yours Sincerely..... More
Portsmouth, N.H. Printed by Beck & Foster; sold by the Author, No. 2, Ladd-street, and James F. Shores, No. 1, Market-street; by the Christian Preachers in the United States; and the Booksellers, 1816. First edition. 8vo (6.88 x 4.25 inches), contemporary calf, 406, [2] pages, gathered in sixes. Frontispiece portrait..... More
Philadelphia: Printed for James Humphreys, and for Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1808. First American edition. 8vo (8.5 x 5.13 inches), two volumes in one (as published, pagination continuous), original sheep, black morocco spine label, gilt lettering, 430 pages. “Five gallons of salt water, of the temperature of 44 deg. were..... More
Whitesboro [N.Y.]: Published by the Oneida Institute, 1841. First edition. 8vo (7.63 x 5 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt lettering, vii, [1], 408 pages. A collection of various sermons and lectures and writings from the abolitionist educator Green (1795-1874), some with anti-colonization content, published under the imprint of the..... More
New York: Stringer & Townsend, 1854. First edition. 8vo (7.63 x 5.25 inches), original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt lettering, 432 pages. Frontispiece and pictorial title page. An anthology of six sea yarns from various sources, including John W. Gould’s “Cruise of a Guineaman” (piracy and slave-trading off the African coast)..... More
Boston: Walker, Wise and Company, 1860. First edition. 8vo (7.75 x 5.25 inches), original blind-stamped deep purple or brown cloth, gilt lettering, 274, [2], 8 pages. Light essays and criticism on subjects from physical culture and the benefits of the public library, to humorous sketches on religious prohibitions of amusements..... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1857. First edition. 8vo (7.63 x 5.25 inches), original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt decoration and lettering to the spine, 329, [1], [6] pages. “The object which the writer of the following pages proposes, is, to advocate the teachings of the Scriptures. In his opinion..... More
[Bloomington, Illinois, ca. 2010-2018]. 20 signs on card stock measuring 40 x 28 inches; 20 signs on card stock measuring 28 x 20 inches. Additional signs on foam board, cardboard, and an example on corrugated wax box stock with a wooden handle attached. The signs measuring 40 x 28 generally..... More
Boston: American Metric Bureau, 1877. Second edition. 8vo (9.25 x 6 inches), original brick red cloth, gilt lettering, 70, 13, [1] pages. Folding color plate, illustrations in the text. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper, “Prof. E. C. Pickering with compliments of Jno. Pickering Putnam.”..... More
Boston: Printed for the Author, at the office of S. N. Dickinson, Washington-st. 1831. First edition. Small 8vo (6.19 x 3.88 inches), contemporary (likely original) maroon sheep spine, drab boards, gilt lettering, 191, [1] pages. “Reader, I will now say to you, that last November, after having taken legal advice..... More
[New York]: Lustrum Press, (1984). First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, 12 x 9 inches, 96 pages. Illustrated after photos by Malanga throughout. A stated homage to Balthus, but cf. Warhol, the Factory, erotica, the IBM Selectric, etc. We here assert that a perfervid glaze of light perspiration and access..... More
[Niagara Falls, Ontario: n. p., ca. 1860s]. Evident albumen print, 6 x 7.94 inches on a slightly larger plain cardstock mount. A moderately early tourist photo, presumably from one of the many studios that sprung up beside the falls. The shrubbery here and the very falls themselves tremble in the..... More
Yokohama: K. Tamamura, [after 1883; ca. 1890s?]. Sepia print, 4 x 5.69 inches, gilt-edged mount measuring 6.5 x 4.13 inches. Tamamura imprint stamped in gilt below the image. Tamamura moved his studio to Yokohama in 1883 and was a popular creator and vendor of Japanese tourist images. More
N. p., ca. 1910-1920. Evident gelatin silver borderless print, 6 x 4 inches. A pleasing image; a certain vaudeville sensibility informs this perhaps promotional photograph. Small dot of ink spilled onto the image. More
N. p., ca. 1930? Black and white print on paper, 5.5 x 3.5 inches. More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1991). First edition. Paperback. Original stiff wrappers, 9.5 x 12 inches, 151, [3] pages. Illustrated, largely after photographs by Goin. “Alamagordo. Trinity. Enewetak. Frechman’s Flat.” The aesthetic satisfactions of landscape photography meet the documentary impulse filtered through the ironies of restricted access and environmental destruction..... More
N. p., ca. 1910-1920? Black and white photograph on Cyko real photo stock, 5.5 x 3.5 inches. With age appropriate contemporary pencil scribbles and rough writing on the verso. Postally unused. More
N. p., ca. 1920s? Black and white print on thin paper, 3.38 x 5.25 inches. The scenery suggests a western landscape. A baby buggy sits opposite a rough large tent; an evident Model T pokes its nose out from behind a covered wagon. More
N. p. n. p., ca. 1950s. Black and white print on paper roughly trimmed to 3.38 x 4 inches. A pip, a nonpareil, a keeper—a portrait of man cut from the Liebling mold, who here faces the camera in a genial manner. His shirt is open at the collar and..... More
[Michigan]: L. F. Heath, Artist, [ca. 1890s]. 7.63 x 9.25 inches on a mount measuring 11 x 13.75 inches. Mount blind-stamped below the photograph with the photographer’s device, “L. F. Heath, Artist.”. An attractive and somewhat vertiginous portrait (given the depth of field) from a presumably itinerant commercial photography project..... More
New York: Rizzoli, (1981). First American edition. Hardcover. Original black boards, 11.94 x 9.5 inches, 139, [1] pages. Illustrated from photographs throughout. Original dust jacket. A work evidently long in production, first conceived by the innovative German-born emigré American photographer sometime in 1959 but left unpublished at his death in..... More
[Paris]: Editions de Pierre Belfond, (1968). First edition. Hardcover. Original light green-gray cloth, 11.88 x 9.63 inches, unpaginated. Illustrated from black and white photos by Clergue throughout. Original pictorial dust jacket. Female nudes in the water and on the sand at the seashore. Boldly signed by Clergue in black autograph..... More
New York: Harper Colophon Books, (1975). First edition. Paperback. Original pictorial white wrappers, 8.25 x 9.5 inches, unpaginated. Illustrated from photographs by Stack throughout. A photo documentary of Marine training on Parris Island, shot with a critical eye, from a former Marine turned photographer. Small black ink mark (perhaps remainder..... More
[Keytesville, Missouri: n. p., ca. 1890-1900]. Albumen print measuring 5.88 x 4.13 inches on an unprinted, rounded corner mount measuring 6.25 x 4.25 inches. The usual bibliographical sources suggest that the county seat of Chariton County, Missouri, had the Chariton Courier as its longtime newspaper in this era, along with..... More
