Photography
YANGTZE REMEMBERED: The River Beneath the Lake. Photographs and Text by Linda Butler.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated throughout with full-page monochrome photographs printed on glossy stock; quarto, original tan cloth. 194 pp. "Yangtze Remembered is a portrait of the Yangtze River and its people before, during, and after the completion of the Three Gorges Dam." Nearly 1.3... More
THE PEOPLE OF MOSCOW: As Seen by Henri Cartier-Bresson
NY: Simon & Schuster, 1955. First US edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original white burlap boards. [7] pp. text + 163 b/w photo reproductions. Very good, quite clean and unworn, in moderately worn jacket with shallow chips at spine ends and corners of boards, light soiling. Front jacket flap states that Cartier-Bresson... More
GRANDS NUS
n.p. Editions Marval, (1999). First edition. Hardcover. Quarto, original cream boards, 143 pp. B/w photos throughout. Nudes studies by the master photographer. More
CHICAGO: YESTERDAY AND TODAY
Chicago: Felix Mendelsohn, 1932. First edition, Limited edition of 1000 copies, this #46. Hardcover. 159 pp., 4to, original maroon cloth with gilt title and cover ornaments. Illustrated with reproductions from photographs and engravings. Moderate wear to covers with bump to lower corner of front board, nick to fore-edge of front... More
HILL & ADAMSON PHOTOGRAPHS
NY & London: St. Martin's Press / Academy Editions, (1973). First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth; 16 pp. text + many full page reproductions from photographs. "The callotypes of Hill and Adamason are some of the finest as well as earliest photographs ever produced. The result of a brief association, from... More
SUBURBIA.
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, (1973). First edition, first printing, paperbound issue. Paperback. Original pictorial wrappers, quarto, unpaginated. Revealing, candid, surreal black and white photographs of denizens of the new sprawling suburbs in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. More
JOCK STURGES: New Work 1996-2000
Zurich - Berlin - New York: Scalo, (2000). First Scalo Edition. Hardcover. 111 pp, full-page monochrome photo reproductions on nearly every page (no text save photo captions), folio, original white cloth. Autographed by Jock Sturges on the title page. More
THE WORK OF ATGET: Volume I - Old France; Volume II - The Art of Old Paris; Volume III - The Ancien Regime; Volume IV - Modern TImes. [4 volumes, complete].
NY: Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), (1981; 1982; 1983; 1985). First edition. Hardcover. Original burgundy cloth; quartos; various paginations, profusely illustrated. A selection of images from the Museum's collection of some 5000 Atget prints and plates originally purchased in 1928 by American photographer Berenice Abbott from Atget's estate. More
A VANISHED WORLD
NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, (1983). First edition thus. Hardcover. Original brown boards; quarto; unpaginated text and 179 numbered b/w photos. Vishniac's photographs were taken in both rural and urban Jewish communities of Eastern Europe during the years 1934-1939; communities that were subsequently erased in the Nazi holocaust. More
CARLETON E. WATKINS: Photographs 1861-1874.
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery in association with Bedford Arts Publishers, (1989). First edition. Hardcover. Original natural linen cloth with title stamped in brown, quarto, (viii), 219 pp., including 111 fine reproductions of Watkins' photos. Fine, quite clean and unworn, in lightly soiled very good dustjacket. Includes Watkins' famous mammoth plate... More