Art
Béjart by Béjart.
New York: Congdon & Lattès, Inc., (1979). First American edition. 4to, original black cloth, 253, [3] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Photos of the French dancer and choreographer by Colette Masson, accompanied by text in Béjart’s hand and other explanatory text. More
Werner Bischof 1916-1954.
Boston: Bulfinch Press Book, (1990). First American edition. Folio, original dark gray cloth stamped in black, 255 pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. A detailed survey of the work of the Swiss photojournalist and original MAGNUM photographer Bischof. More
White Motif: The Cyclades Islands of Greece.
Ann Arbor: Goodrich Press, 1991. First edition. 4to, original dark gray linen stamped in silver, [8], [84], [4] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. 42 photos, abstractions from Greek churches and other built and natural features of the Cyclades Islands. More
The Pilgrim’s Progress from this World to that which is to come.
London: The Book Society, [ca. 1860-1870]. 16mo, original wrappers imprinted with an advertisement for an exhibition of paintings by J. W. Bain at Tremont Temple in Boston, “accompanied by songs, music, and lecture,” 384 pages. Frontis. A curious promotional giveaway, a cheap London edition of Pilgrim’s Progress with wrappers advertising..... More
Walker Evans First and Last.
New York: Harper & Row, (1978). First edition. 4to, original gray cloth, 199, [5] pages. Illus. A 220-photo survey of the career of one of the great American photographers. Small remainder stamp to the lower edge of the text block. Old remainder book shop price sticker to the iside of..... More
Original autograph ink letter, signed Vivien, to one Sir James, accompanied by a series of accomplished and amusing pen and ink drawings.
[Nice? Monte Carlo?], n. d., but ca. 1920s. 2 pages on a single leaf of blue stock, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, approx. 145 words. A breezy letter redolent of fashionable Bohemian wealth living slightly beyond her own means, a presumably English woman on the Riviera thanking one Sir James for..... More
Hartland: Change in the Heart of America.
(Hartland, Michigan): Galbraith-Scott Publications, (1985). First edition. Large 8vo, original tan linen, gilt lettering, 199, [1] pages. Illus. throughout. Original dust jacket. Documentary photography of this small Livingston County, Michigan town. A presentation copy, inscribed in ink by the photographer D. James Galbraith and by Susan Scott Galbraith, dated November..... More
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“Boxcar Art.” [In:] Railroad Magazine. Vol. XXVI, No. 2. July, 1939.
New York: Frank A. Munsey Company, 1939. First edition. 8vo, original color pictorial wrappers, 144 pages on pulp, illus. Incunabular American graffiti tagging, a three-page article on early railroad car graffiti artists and a survey of the artwork and stylized signatures of the hobos and railroad workers who marked up..... More
Fabrications: Staged, Altered, and Appropriated Photographs.
New York: Abbeville Press, (1987). First edition. 4to, original linen stamped in red and yellow, 206, [1] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Detailed survey of 58 American and European photographers working with altered or staged photos. Wegman, Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Boonstra, etc., with biographies. Teal endpapers and late-Eighties typography..... More
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German Luth. Church [caption title near lower edge].
[Des Moines, Iowa, 1910]. Original watercolor view of a Lutheran Church (largely obscured by trees) and a horse-drawn milk truck, approx. 7-1/2 x 12-1/2 inches. Later ink notation on the verso, "Lutheran Church across the street from where Mama Clarke lived at 610 W. 3rd St. Des Moines, Iowa in..... More
Single sheet advertisement, "Trade Mark Bronze Vessels, Various Flower Pots, Ornamental Table and Shelf Standing Pots . . . Manufactured by Shokaken."
[Tokyo: n. p., ca. 1885?]. Broadside, approx. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. A pleasing variety of display types, the proprietor of Sanseysha, no. 19 Takeka Wacho, Shinbashi Street, Tokio, Japan, urges all who might wish to purchase Shokaken bronze vases, etc., to "call at my shop your visits when you have..... More
The Book of Beth . . . Contributions from Cornell Capa, Bengt Börjeson, Beth R., Svend Heinild. Translation by Ellen Bick Meier.
New York: Aperture, (1989). First American edition. Oblong 8vo, original blue-gray boards, 107 pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. The Swedish Tulsa—psychologist and photographer Klich documents the life of an addict and prostitute, Beth H. over a three-year period. More
Understandings: Photographs of Decatur County, Georgia . . . Introduction by Alex Harris.
Chapel Hill: Published for the Center for Documentary Photography, University of North Carolina Press, (1981). First edition. Oblong 8vo, original rust-orange cloth, 115, [3] pages. Illus. Orignal dust jacket. A deep dive into the work of a Decatur County documentary photographer. Small ink note “Cat ‘87” on the rear paste-down..... More
Celebrations: An exhibition of original photographs . . .
New York: Aperture, Inc., 1974. First edition. 4to, original blue cloth, silver lettering, 82, [1] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Photobook collection of an exhibition at MIT, March 1 to March 30, 1974. More
A Gift of Light: Photographs in the Janos Scholz Collection.
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, (2002). First edition. 4to, original dark mustard-yellow cloth, 195, [2] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Issued in conjunction with this extensive collection of 19th century European photographs. More
P. H. Emerson: The Fight for Photography as a Fine Art.
New York: Aperture, (1975). First edition. Oblong large 8vo, original green cloth, 266 pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. An attractive monograph on this pioneering photographer. More
Handsome gilt-printed lithograph admission ticket for an exhibition of two Selous paintings, 1. Jerusalem in Her Grandeur with the Triumphant Entry of Christ into the Holy City. 2. Jerusalem in Her Fall as Now Viewed from the Mount of Olives. Two Grand Pictures by H. C. Selous, Esq. . . . From Monday, 3rd September 1860, & Following Days, at McClure & Son's Gallery, 100. Buchanan Street, Glasgow.
Glasgow: n. p., 1860. White heavy paper stock printed in violet and gilt, approx. 5 x 6.5 inches, blank completed in contemporary autograph ink. "N.B. To prevent overcrowding, those not having cards, will be charged sixpence each admission." An example of a lovely admission card to a Glasgow exhibition of..... More
Precisionism in America 1915-1941: Reordering Reality.
(New York): Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in Association with The Montclair Art Museum, (1994). First edition. 4to, original glazed purple boards, 160 pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Exhibition catalog of a show that included Ralson Crawford, Paul Strain, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, etc. More
Ordinary Miracles: The Photography of Lou Stoumen . . . Introduction by William A. Ewing.
Los Angeles: Hand Press, (1981). First edition. Folio, original white linen stamped in black, 101, [1] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. Retrospective of street photographer Lou Stoumen, annotated by the photographer, issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the Allentown Art Museum. More
Looking Back: Memoirs and Photographs . . . Foreword by Michael Rowell.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1991). First edition. Large 8vo, original green cloth stamped in silver, 281, [1] pages. Illus. Original dust jacket. A survey of the work of this friend of Stieglitz, Abbott, Minor White, Helen Levitt, etc., with extracts from his journals. More