Berlin: Im Rembrandt-Verlag, (1958). First edition. 8vo, original linden-green cloth, [95] pages, illus. Original dust jacket. East and West Berlin as seen in photographs by two American photographers. Text in German and English. Early secondhand price in felt-tip pen to the front free endpaper. More
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, (1989). First edition. 4to, original black cloth, silver lettering, 141 pages + 100 illustrations. An excellent survey of the daguerreotype. This copy without the dust jacket. More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, (1977). First edition. Folio, original silver-stamped black cloth, 540 pages, extensive illus. Original dust jacket. A substantial book. Old camera store price sticker to the inside front flap of the jacket. More
(New York): HarperStyle, (1996). First edition. Folio, original glazed paper boards, 143 pages, illus. Original fold-out dust jacket. A vaguely fetishistic look at the white t-shirt in photograph and history. More
(Oxford): Basil Blackwell, (1985). First edition. 8vo, original black cloth, 261, [1] pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. An academic study of the psychology and conventions of photography. A few contemporary ink notes in the rear. More
New York: Pantheon, (1987). First American edition. Folio, original gray cloth, 247 pages. Illus. Original pictorial dust jacket. Remainder mark to the lower edge of the text block. More
New York: St. Martin’s Press, (1979). First edition. 8vo, original black quarter cloth, gray boards, 192 pages, illus. Original dust jacket. On being and becoming a male model. Includes gay content, with accounts of nude modeling for Blueboy magazine and one model’s story of coming out (and taking his mother... More
New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo, original blue cloth, 139 pages, illus. Original price-clipped dust jacket. Early scholarly treatment of what is now known and revered as the vernacular photograph. More
New York: New York State Council on the Arts, 1971. First edition. Unbound 4-page brochure, 14 x 11 inches, 50 loose plates as published. Original printed slipcase. A portfolio of black and white photographs by Tress taken in the New York metro area in 1969 and 1970, “part of a.... More
[London]: Taylor, Printer, 93, Brick Lane, Bethnal Green, [1859]. First edition. Broadside, approx. 10 x 7.25 inches on stock falling somewhere on the fragile side between India paper and tissue paper. Small woodcut device. A rousing slip ballad attacking the fashionable elite and touting the controversial radical English attorney Edwin... More
[Berkeley: n. p. 1969]. First edition. Single sheet printed in black ink on the recto and green ink on the verso, 11 x 8.5 inches, illus.; single sheet printed in blank ink on one side only, 11 x 8.5 inches, illus. “We have been in the streets since they put... More
Baltimore: Printed for Thomas, Andrews, and Butler, 1799. An early American edition of this French novel. 12mo, original sheep, red leather spine label, gilt lettering, 215 pages. A translation and evident adaptation of a popular Robinsoniade, Ducray-Duminil’s Lolotte et Fanfan, with a shipwrecked military man washed up on a rocky... More
Geneva, N. Y. Rice Brothers Co. [ca. 1905-1915?]. Oblong 8vo, black cloth over card-stock wrappers, original black tape spine, gilt lettering, 76 chromolithograph illustrations of plant and fruit varieties with explanatory text on the verso. A handsome nurseryman’s sale sample book, produced by Rochester Litho. Co. in Rochester, N. Y.... More
New-England: Printed for the Proprietor, February—, 1813. A later but still fairly early New England edition of this evergreen sex manual. 12mo, original calf, gilt ruled spine, red leather spine label, gilt lettering, 264 pages. “For the first, when married persons design to follow the propensions of nature for the... More
![Before and After; or, the Life Story of Fred L. Wilcox [wrapper title]. Conversion, Alcoholism, Convict Narratives, Tramp, Fred L. Wilcox.](/pictures/thumb/18002.jpg?v=1493240839)
(Muncie, Ind. Published by the Gospel Team of the Y. M. C. A. of Muncie, Ind.), [ca. 1914-1917?]. First edition. Original pictorial self-wrappers, approx. 6.38 x 3.25 inches, [12] pages. Illus. With a halftone portrait of Wilcox in his prison suit on the front wrapper. First person narrative from Wilcox... More
North Tonawanda, N. Y. Buffalo Outdoor Specialty Co. [1964?]. First edition. Side-bound stapled yellow wrappers, 14 pages, approx. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Illus. “The experienced craftsmen of Buffalo Outdoor Specialty Company proudly present the largest selection of the most unusual and exclusive miniature golf course obstacles now available for the... More
[Canterbury, N. H. n. p. n. d.]. First edition. Text to one page of a pearl-colored bifolium, 7.5 x 5.25 inches. An uncut label (perhaps a proof or sample?) for Shaker herbs, likely mid-late 19th century; the digitized example at Hamilton College has been trimmed to approx. 2.75 inches square. More
[N. p.]: Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry Co. [1943]. 8vo, original wrappers, 47, [1] pages. Illus. On canning everything from apples to frogs’ legs, with detailed instructions and recipes for canning using the V-43 pressure canner—made with sheet steel instead of the usual aluminum to help the war effort. “The V-43 ALL-AMERICAN... More
Portland, Main: Published by L. N. Nelson Company, 1903. First edition. Oblong 8vo, embossed green pictorial wrappers highlighted in gold, [32] pages. Illus. A curious joke book in a cheap arts and crafts format, the design and content suggesting a cheap gift for a nephew on his tenth birthday, this... More
Coulee Dam, Washington: n. p. [ca. 1942?]. First edition. Card stock menu, approx. 9.75 x 6 inches, printed menu with additional mimeo typescript menu stapled in, with an additional typed dinner menu laid in. An attractive if simple design, evocative of the 1940s. The Green-Hut evidently opened in 1938 and... More
Wetzlar: Ernst Leitz. 1929. First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 31, [1] pages. Illus. On enlarging equipment, reproduction tools, and lenses for Leicas. More
(Weimar: Panses Verlag, 1933). First edition. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, 40 pages. Illus. An extensive catalog for the German catalog comany (in English), with details on lenses and shutters, and evidently published the year the first Voigtländer “Brilliant” cameras were introduced. More
![Wie arbeitet man mit Leitz “Leica”-Kamera [wrapper title]. Photography, Leica, Ernst Leitz.](/pictures/thumb/17986.jpg?v=1492121130)
Wetzlar: Ernst Leitz, (1930). First edition. Small 8vo, original pictorial brown wrappers, [20] pages. Illus. A manual on how to use the Leica camera, this pamphlet from the manufacturers of the original Leica, Ernst Leitz Optische Werke in Wetzlar. (February 1930 date at the foot of the final page.) Pamphlet printed in Leipzig. More
Ciudad Trujillo: (Editora del Caribe, C. por A.), 1955. Second Edition. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, 41, [3] pages. Illus. (including a vignette portrait of Trujillo). An ephemeral text aimed at promoting adult literacy, printed on cheap paper and tending (as with much in the Dominican Republic) to the glorification... More
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd for The New Era, (1942). First edition. 12mo, original wrappers, 81, [1] pages. Both a detailed study of pioneering social work (the care of displaced children during war time) and in Freud’s ideas of child analysis and emotional attachment. Small neat contemporary ink ownership... More
