San Diego: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1990. Cloth. #25 OF ONLY 99 COPIES ISSUED IN THE UNCOMMON HARDBACK EDITION (AND STATED 1ST EDITION), EACH SIGNED BY MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO. Tight and VG+ in its gray cloth, with wonderful pictorial onlay at the front panel. Light foxing at the front panel's..... More
Schirmer/Mosel and D.A.P., 2004. 1st. Hardcover. The catalogue based on the December 2004-February 2005 exhibition at Paris's Jeu de Paume Gallery. Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Text by Hripsime Visser and Urs Stahel, 160 pgs., 69 color plates. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Cloth. The 1956 1st American edition, in the uncommon hardback (not to be confused with the more common French edition in stiff wrappers and dustjacket). Clean, tight and VG+ in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with a 1" chip at the spine crown. Otherwise..... More
Sunday Promotions Inc., 1972. 1st. Original Wraps. A crisp, bright copy of this 1972 photographic promotional of The Rolling Stones' 1972 "Exile on Main Street" Tour. Clean and Near Fine in its stapled, pictorial wrappers. Oblong quarto, high-quality black-and-white photos thruout, including nice shots of Mick Taylor and Bobby Keys..... More
Gottingen, Germany: Steidl, 2008. 1st. Cloth. An immaculate copy of the catalogue based on the January-April 2008 exhibition at Paris's Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson. Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Octavo, wonderful black-and-white and color Saul Leiter photos thruout. More
Tokyo: Baseball Magazine Co., Ltd., 1969. Original Wraps. 2 wonderful 1969 Japanese monthlies (issues #2 and #3) documenting the life and the place of the Sumo wrestler in Japanese culture. Both issues bright and VG+ in their pictorial wrappers. Quartos, handsome gravure photography thruout. More
Timezone 8, 2007. 1st. Original Wraps. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 2007 1st edition. Bright and Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Oblong quarto, haunting photography (calligraphy) thruout. More
Mexico: Archivo Casasola. Decorative Cloth. Exhaustive history of the Mexican Revolution, published in the early 1940s in Mexico in 5 clothbound volumes and in its native Spanish. Overseen by Augustin Casasola, each of the 5 volumes consists of 5 wrappered "cuadernos" (notebooks), which, bound together, make up each volume of..... More
Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 1984. Hardcover. A tight, very solid copy of the 1984 1st German edition. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of creasing along the front flap-fold. Tall quarto, 152 pgs., 170 illustrations. More
Princeton, NJ: 1951. Wonderful original photograph of an Ivy League football game played at Franklin Field in Philadelphia on Oct. 13th, 1951 between Princeton and Penn. The photograph captures the dramatic moment when #83 (Frank McPhee) is just about to reel in the ball and make "the catch that beat..... More
New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1914. Original wraps. Issue #44 of "Camera Work", published in March 1914. A surprisingly well-preserved copy, with far less creasing and none of the loss one usually encounters in the brittle, Edward Steichen-designed wrappers. A solid, VG+ copy, with very light soiling to the front panel..... More
Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1968. Cloth. A bright, very sharp copy of the 1968 true 1st edition (with the text in Spanish and the laid-in booklet with the English and French translations). Clean and Near Fine to Fine in a crisp, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Alicia D'Amico's and Sara..... More
Altadena, California: 1990. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN GINSBERG TO NOTED BOOK PRINTER AND PUBLISHER JIM CAMP (SYNAESTHESIA PRESS) on the title page. An all-but-pristine copy to boot of the 1990 stated 1st edition, limited to 5,000 casebound copies. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine to Fine dustjacket. Folio..... More
Center for Creative Photography/The University of Arizona Press, 1992. Cloth. A lovely copy of this exhaustive, major 1992 Edward Weston catalogue, essentially constituting the photograher's catalogue raisonne. All-but-pristine. Clean and Fine in a bright, Fine dustjacket. Thick quarto, over 1,800 crisp black-and-white images (with captioning) all told. More
Munich: Mahnert-Lueg Verlag, 1981. Original wraps. A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1981 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers, with very light bumping at the upper tips. Quarto, gritty, moving black-and-white photos thruout. Text in German. More
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1982. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ANDRE KERTESZ on the title page. A very sharp, near-mint copy to boot of the 1982 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. Quarto, Kertesz's beautiful black-and-white photography thruout. More
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1939. Original wraps. The 1940 edition of this impressive, short-lived French annual issued out of Paris and lasting only 11 years all told in this original incarnation. 90 lavish full-page gravures by the likes of Brassai, Bill Brandt, Philippe Halsman, Louise Dahl Wolfe, Florence Henri..... More
Gottingen, West Germany: Andreas Muller-Pohle, 1980-1987. Original wraps. An impressive selection of the earliest issues of this photographic quarterly, published out of Gottingen, West Germany. 28 of the first 30 issues, including issue #1 from Jan-March 1980. All 28 issues are clean, bright and Near Fine to Fine in their..... More
New York: PPP Editions and Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001. Cloth. SIGNED BY ANDREW ROTH, THE EDITOR, on the title page. A handsome copy to boot of the 2001 1st trade edition. Crisp and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, 305 pgs. Lavishly produced and attractively formatted. An..... More
New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ANNIE LEIBOVITZ IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION TO FASHION DESIGNER NORMA KAMALI. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1991 stated 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine translucent dustjacket. Folio, 232 pgs. More
Morgan and Lester, Hardcover. ****FROM THE LIBRARY OF PHOTOGRAPHER SLIM AARONS**** The complete 5 vol set. All vols. 1st editions, except vol. 2 (2nd ptg.). All vols. solid VG+. Octavos, just shy of 600 pgs. all told. Although not stated, these came from the personal library of Slim Aarons. More
New York: MITchell Kennerley, 1913. Decorative Cloth. A wonderful Association copy. WARMLY INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper BY ARNOLD GENTHE TO HARRISON FISHER (1877-1934), American illustrator of the first-rank. A sharp copy to boot of the 1913 2nd printing. Solid and VG+, with bright gilt-lettering to the front panel..... More
New York: Doubleday & Co., 1971. 1st. Original Wraps. 1971 1st edition. Eight crisp black-and-white folio prints, bright and very clean, housed in a paper chemise and publisher's pictorial slipcase. Part of Doubleday's ambitious 1970 project called "Eight Photographs", which also included work of Edward Weston, Les Krim, Jerry Ueslsmann..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 1977. Cloth. SIGNED BY ARTURO SCHWARZ (and scarce as such) on the title page. A sharp, well-preserved copy to boot of the 1977 1st American edition. Solid and VG (with light scuffing along the spine) in a bright, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. Square octavo, 384 pgs., vivid..... More
Lucerne and Frankfurt: Verlag C.J. Bucher, 1971. 1st. Cloth. A tight, clean copy of the 1971 1st edition. Near Fine in a bright, Near Fine pictorial dustjacket. Tall quarto, 313 pgs., crisp black-and-white portraits thruout. Also includes a Near Fine example of publisher's unprinted cardboard slipcase. More
