Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1994. First Edition. Slight waviness, else Near Fine and unread in glossy full color perfect-bound wrappers. Includes contributions by Eva Sutton, Jonathan Green, Ben Davis, and others. An attractive copy.
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1998. First Edition. Slight waviness, else Near Fine and unread in glossy full color perfect-bound wrappers. Includes contributions by Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eikoh Hosoe, Helen Levitt, Inge Morath, and others. An attractive copy.
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 2000. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in glossy full color perfect-bound wrappers. An attractive copy.
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1936. Vintage sepia toned double weight photograph from the filming of the 1936 Universal Studios newsreel "You Can't Get Away With It." Shot in the office of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, on October 14, 1936, the photo shows Hoover filming his Assistant Director Clyde Tolson, as Universal Newsreel reps Charles Ford and.....
New York: J.J. Augustin, 1945. First Edition. A presentable copy. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight lean, with light foxing to the page edges. Jacket is lightly soiled, with light chipping to the extremities. Roth 101, p. 114-115. Parr and Badger, Vol. I, p. 200.
Paris: Jean-Michel Place, 1999. First printing of this edition, originally published by Reynal and Hitchcock in 1939. Husband and wife team Dorothea Lange and Paul Taylor were hired by the Farm Security Administration to document the 300,000 strong, Depression-era exodus, and the struggles theses migrant workers overcame in search of basic necessities. Near Fine in wrappers (softcover). Sticker shadow on.....
New York: Powerhouse, 2001. First Edition. Review copy with publisher's slip laid in. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
New York: powerHouse Books, 2003. First Edition. 105 tritone plates, previously unpublished and hand selected by the photographer. A collection of Helen Levitt's previously unpublished street photography taken in New York City. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1961. Archive of material belonging to set director Jim Payne, largely related to the 1961 Jerry Lewis film "The Ladies Man." With a typed letter signed by Jerry Lewis and a second typed letter signed by Bobby Darin thanking Payne for his work on "Too Late Blues" (1961). The archive includes a set dressing estimate totaling $15,246.00.....
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. First Edition. REVIEW COPY with publisher's slip laid in. Issued in conjunction with a traveling exhibition held between August 20 and December 18, 2003 in Syracuse, NY, Garden City, NY, Mexico City, and Rome. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Paris: N.p., 1936. Vintage borderless photograph from an anti-fascist meeting in Paris in 1936, featuring novelist Andre Malraux speaking on a microphone with Nobel Prize winner Andre Gide seated at a table next to him. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso, accompanied by holograph annotations in pencil, black ink, and red felt ink. Likely a photograph from a meeting of.....
Woodbury, New York: Barron's, 1980. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some foxing to the endpapers, preliminary pages, top page edges, and jacket verso, else a lovely, unread copy.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's slip laid in. A jarring look at the runaway children of Seattle's street culture, as commissioned by LIFE magazine in 1983. Mary Ellen Mark and reporter Cheryl McCall follow the lives of several disenfranchised youths, including a prostitute, a dumpster diver, and a drug runner, all under the.....
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1925. First printing of the photoplay edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from the film. Basis for the 1925 film, directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Dorothy Mackaill and John Bowers. The film is now considered lost. Very Good plus in a Very Good dust jacket. Contemporary owner name to the front endpaper. Jacket is lightly.....
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New York: Fluxus Editions, 1972. First Edition, one of 250 copies (this being No. 34). Although not called for, this copy SIGNED by Mekas on the verso of the front board. Designed by George Maciunas. Featuring poetry by Mekas alongside photographs of his native Lithuania. Published the same year as his documentary "Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania," about his.....
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2005. First Edition. One of 2000 copies. Near Fine with just a few hints of wear to the green velvet covered boards without dust jacket as issued.
San Francisco: Grapestake Gallery, 1979. First Edition. INSCRIBED by the photographer on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "To —-, / Enjoy! / Richard Misrach / April 12, 1979." 112 duotone plates. An eerie series of nighttime desert landscapes. Near Fine in illustrated wrappers. Some very light rubbing to the wrappers.
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Mexico City: Libreria Madero, 1969. First Mexican Edition, preceding all others. Slim quarto, perfect-bound softcover. A cornerstone of Latin American pop photography, and included in "The Latin American Photobook." Designed by Vicente Rojo, with photographs by Hector Garcia, one of the most important Mexican photojournalists. A private edition published by a prominent Mexico City bookstore and distributed gratis to its clients.....
N.p. N.p., 1963. Archive of eleven double weight photographs of Chubby Checker in concert, apparently unpublished, by noted photographer Michael Montfort, from his estate. All but one of the photographs are bear the stamp of German weekly newspaper "Bild am Sonntag" crediting Montfort, and a separate date stamp of "5.8.63." Born in Freiburg, Germany, Michael Montfort began his career working as.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Original single weight, black and white photograph of jazz pianist and composer Erroll Garner by photographer Michael Montfort, apparently unpublished, from the photographer's estate. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Michael Montfort began his career working as a photojournalist for German magazines such as "Stern," "Quick," and "Bild am Sonntag." In addition to shooting numerous rock and jazz.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1960s. Original single weight, black and white photograph of jazz bassist and composer Steve Swallow by photographer Michael Montfort, apparently unpublished, with Montfort's copyright stamp and the label of German magazine "Jazz im Bild" on the verso. From the photographer's estate. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Michael Montfort began his career working as a photojournalist for German magazines.....
Helena, MT: Riverbend, 2002. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Illustrated in color throughout with Murphy's striking winter photography.
Gottingen: Steidl, 2004. First Edition. INSCRIBED and DATED in the year of publication by the author on the title page. A collection of photography by the former member of The Hollies, which has become something of a second career for the musician. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
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Chile: Nascimento, 1954. First printing of this edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 680) SIGNED by the author. This copy retains the scarce insert on green paper that was issued with all copies, a bibliographic note on the genesis and publication history of the poem by Jorge Sanhueza. The first definitive edition of the poems, including the.....
England: N.p., 1936. First Edition. Oblong octavo. Publisher's stiff brown wrappers, black titles. A collection of twenty-four monochrome photographs of the province of Andalusia in Spain. The region produces some of the finest olives available, a large proportion of the world's olive oil, and Seville oranges. This volume was published during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Laid in is a......
Los Angeles: Floyd Clymer, 1949. First Edition. Photobook compiling images, illustrations, and information from the first three issues of Veda Orr's self-published, mimeograph "Lake Pictorial" Hot Rod annuals. With eight full page illustrations by artist Dick Teague, all dated 1947. In 1937, after being introduced to the sport by her husband, legendary drag racer Karl Orr, Veda Orr became the first.....
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1973. First Edition. 108 pages of duotone plates, covering the Northern California suburban sprawl of the 1960's and 1970's. Very Good plus in pictorial wrappers. Some light rubbing and creasing to the wrappers, and offsetting to the front wrapper at the verso.
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, 2000. First Edition. Fine and unread without dust jacket as issued.
London: Phaidon, 1999. First Edition. A collection of amusingly, and occasionally surreally, bad postcard images from the United Kingdom, as compiled by photographer and journalist Parr. SIGNED by him on the last page. Tap to the lower front corner, else Fine without dust jacket as issued.
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London: Phaidon, 2001. First Edition. A collection of amusingly, and occasionally surreally, bad postcard images from Germany, as compiled by photographer and journalist Parr. SIGNED by him on the last page. Near Fine, with light rubbing to the extremities, without dust jacket as issued.
Boston: Phaidon Inc. Ltd., 2002. First Edition. The first ever monograph released celebrating the career of British Magnum photographer Martin Parr. Fine and unread with no dust jacket as issued.
New York: Quantuck Lane Press, 2008. First Edition. Signed by the photographer, Philip Perkis, on the title page. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. 280 pages, 125 duotone photographs.
Paris: Cocinor, 1961. Collection of 2 vintage snapshot photographs of Alain Resnais on the set of the 1961 film. With holograph annotations in pencil and a press agency stamp on the verso of each. An enigmatic, dreamlike film, about a man and a woman who meet at a party, where he insists they have met before, and she that they.....
Cambridge, MA: MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology] Press, 1973. First Edition. Richards' first book, a monograph that consists of photographs taken in West Memphis, Arkansas, during his 1968 tenure with VISTA. An examination into the lives of African-American workers living far below the poverty line. One of the most important twentieth century photo books on American culture outside the mainstream.....
N.p. N.p., 1974. Vintage oversize double weight still photograph of Diana Ross from 1974. Photographer's rubber stamp to the verso. Featuring Ross sitting in a chair, a striped jacket thrown over the back. Ross is considered the most successful female musician in history, with 70 hit singles both from her work with The Supremes (one of the best-selling girl groups.....
Thalwil / Zurich: Stemmle, 2002. First Edition. Folio. Photographer Ruisinger collects several of her photographs of each photography icon, like Rene Burri, Ted Croner, Elliott Erwitt, Robert Frank,Helmut Newton, and many others. Black-and-white throughout, many full-page photographs. Text in English. Very Good plus in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Slight spine lean, light toning to the top page edges.....
N.p. N.p., 1922-1927. and the photographs here, mostly of native islanders, are likely from the first of those journeys. The fourth and fifth volumes contain photographs of the Middle East. The fourth features numerous photographs of French Foreign Legionnaires, in addition to locals, and are taken in Saudi Arabia, primarily in and around the city of Jeddah. The fifth is.....
Villefranche: Produits Bonthoux, 1938. 12mo. First Edition. Text in French. Near Fine in illustrated saddle-stitched wrappers. Contains sixteen photogravure illustrations after photographs from Brassai, Docteur Wolff, George Besson, and others. An attractive copy.
N.p. N.p., 1962. Vintage oversize photograph from the Off-Broadway cabaret show "Phase 2," circa 1962. With the stamp of "Horizon" magazine on the verso, along with holograph annotations crediting photographer Morton Shapiro, and noting the photographs inclusion in the January 1962 issue. French-American actress Lucienne Bridou would star in both the Broadway and film versions of "A Funny Thing Happened.....
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945. First Edition. Good plus in black and white photo illustrated boards with no dust jacket. Paper to the spine is splitting and torn, extremities lightly toned and bumped. A presentable copy, illustrated in black and white throughout.
New York: W.W. Norton / Lyndhurst Book, 2001. First Edition. A selection of W. Eugene Smith's "Pittsburgh Project;" a year long photographic exploration of the city as commissioned by journalist Stefan Lorant. A touch of rubbing at the crown, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
New York: Filmmakers' Cinematheque, 1965. An archive of two original posters for Don Snyder's multi-media presentation, "Spectro-Mach 1," along with extensive manuscript annotations, diagrams, and charts. Instructions include visual and aural cues for projectionists and musicians, detailed instructions for presentation sequence (numbered 1 to 13 across the versos of the two posters), random project development annotations, and a handwritten note.....
Aspen, CO: Baldwin Gallery, 2006. First Edition. One of 1000 numbered copies (this being No. 916) with a unique rice paper dust jacket printed and hand assembled by the artists. A wonderful, artist-designed catalog issued in conjunction with a 2006 Baldwin Gallery exhibition of photographically "snowflakes" by Doug and Mike Starn. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket...
Houston, TX: Random House / Times Books, 1987. First Edition. Joel Sternfeld's cross country road trip told from the back of a Volkswagen camper. A stunningly warm and uniquely American array of landscapes. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket moderately faded at the spine panel, and lightly rubbed at the extremities. Parr and Badger Vol II.....
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art / Callaway Editions, 1983. First Edition. 73 tritone plates. The quintessential work of Alfred Stieglitz, including essays by Sarah Greenough and Juan Hamilton. Fine and unread in beige cloth boards in a Near Fine dust jacket. Some very light foxing to the jacket's rear panel, and light fading at the spine.
New York: Aperture, 1979. Revised edition. Fine in perfect-bound self wrappers. Numerous b/w illustrations, includes a bibliography and an index.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002. First Edition. Two volumes. A chronological reference of Alfred Stieglitz' work, spanning the length of his illustrious career in American photography. Both volumes Fine and unread with no dust jacket in a Fine linen slipcase as issued, and housed in the publisher's shipping carton. Shipping billed at cost.
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. Fine in a bright, Near Fine dust jacket.
Hollywood: Hal Wallis Productions / Paramount Pictures, 1962. Vintage photograph of director John Sturges and actors Laurence Harvey, Gary Merrill and Michael Wilding on the set of the 1962 film. Mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on Ronald Kirkbride's 1959 novel (also a 1960 paperback published by Monarch, an early sleaze publishing house). A Eurasian photographer named Ivan (Harvey).....
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1978. First Edition. A posthumous celebration of the famed Czech photographer, Josef Sudek, and a selection of some of his greatest works. Introduction by Anna Farova. Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket lightly faded at the spine and extremities, with some faint creasing along the edges of both panels.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992. First Edition. 90 full color and 20 duotone illustrations. A compilation of family photography, including Larry Sultan's own memorabilia and visual artifacts. From the publisher: "Part family album, part visual novella, the book explores complicated, emotional issues about the nature of photography that are side-stepped by most photographic books." Fine and unread in a......
New York: Harper and Row, 1964. First Edition. A multipart account of the building of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket with light toning and a few short closed tears.
N.p. N.p., circa 1931. Archive of 14 vintage photographs of movie theaters circa 1931. Each with a holograph pencil notation on the verso identifying the theater and city. Three photographs with the photographer's stamp bearing his name and Reading, PA address on the verso. Films by Warner Brothers, Fox, Columbia, Paramount, and RKO are represented in the archive. Seven of.....
New York: Aperture, 1982. First Edition. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Jacket is lightly soiled with minor edgewear and a couple of small closed tears.
Gottingen: Steidl, 2002. First Edition. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. 49 full page, four-color plates. A series of images taken in and around Tunbjork's hometown and other middle-class enclaves in Sweden, capturing simultaneously the familiarity of the every-man as well as the underlying uniqueness rarely attributed suburban sprawl. Fine and unread in pink linen boards with no.....
Chicago: Columbia College, 1980. First Edition. Very Good plus in wrappers.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966. First Edition. 153 duotone plates. Contains 179 pages of beautiful photogravure illustrations and photos by Van der Elsken, documenting the artist's 14-month tour around the world. Text printed on brown textured paper. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Lengthy owner.....
New York: Visionaire Magazine, 2011. First Edition. Oblong octavo, eleven volumes contained in black leather book strap. One of 5,000 copies. Each volume is a children's book by contemporary artists and photographers including John Baldessari, Karen Kilimnik, Kirsten Dunst, Douglas Gordon, Pierre Huyghe, Mario Bellatin, James Franco & Carter, Ugo Rondinone, John Giorno, Viktor & Rolf, Richard Phillips, Cecily von.....
New York: Aperture, 1994. First Edition. Some minor rubbing to the top edges of the boards near the backstrip, else Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. Unpaginated.
Paris: Migra, 1959-1962. Five issues of "Le Guide de la femme" (roughly, "Woman's Guide"), a mid-century Parisian periodical published with the patronage of French author, journalist, politician, and noted feminist, Louise Weiss. The periodical, not unlike similar publications of today found on wire racks at grocery checkout lines, was produced by and for France's modern Woman, "at the forefront of.....
N.p. N.p., 1951. Vintage oversize black-and-white double weight photograph of Orson Welles by British photographer Jane Bown. Photographed during the same shoot as one of the most iconic Welles portraits of all time, the renowned director is seen here in a simple suit and tie. The photo was taken during his period of self-imposed European exile, after both his 1947.....
Boston: Little, Brown, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Paris: Centre Cultural Americain, 1978. Original two sided poster for an exhibition held at the Centre Cultural Americain in Paris from December 7, 1978 through January 13, 1979 by noted film still photographer Bob Willoughby. INSCRIBED by him on the front to his neighbors: "Deirdre [and] Michael / with all good wishes / Bob Willoughby." Full provenance available. After studying.....
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's slip laid in. A posthumous study of W. Eugene Smith's illustrious career. Some very light rubbing to the jacket, else Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket.
Los Angeles: Merrill Publishers / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, with original red wraparound band present (also Fine). A lovely copy.
Los Angeles: Merrill Publishers / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2001. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket, with original red wraparound band present (also Fine). A lovely copy.