Tokyo: Shobunsha, 2000. Boards. A pristine copy of this 2000 deluxe edition, limited to 500 copies and including a mounted, tipped-in Polaroid print SIGNED BY ARAKI. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Fine dustjacket. Also includes the original wraparound band (or obi), which is also in Fine condition. The book..... More
New York: Deitch Projects, 1998. Decorative Cloth. A clean, bright copy of the 1998 1st edition. Near Fine in its original decorative cloth. Octavo, 57 pgs., crisp gravure plates thruout. More
Germany: Te Neues Verlag, 2000. Pictorial Cover. An As New copy of the 2000 1st German edition. Bright and Fine in its pictorial cloth. Folio, 161 pgs. Dual text in German and English. More
New York: Random House (A U.S. Camera Book), 1940. The 1940 stated 1st edition of this seminal guide to technique in color photography, written and illustrated by the formidable Modernist photographer Paul Outerbridge. A solid, very presentable copy to boot. Tight and VG+ (with mild offsetting at the pastedowns) in..... More
1972. A warm, gracious 2 pg. ALS from the photographer Paul Strand, referencing --among other things-- an evening with Hart Crane. Strand is patiently responding (from France) to a Vietnam vet (whose 2 letters are here included) who asks if he and his wife might work for an aging Strand..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Boards. A tight, crisp copy of the 1975 correct 1st edition. INSCRIBED BY PETER BEARD (in Oct. 1976) AND INCLUDING A DRAWING IN HIS HAND OF 2 HIPPOS at the front free endpaper. A very sharp, near-pristine copy to boot. Solid and Near Fine..... More
Paris: Galerie Kamel Mennour, 1999. Original wraps. The catalogue based on the 1999 exhibition at Paris's Galerie Kamel Mennour. Crisp and Near Fine in its pictorial wrappers. Quarto, Preface (in both English and French and titled "Forever Young") by Jerome Sans. This copy subtly stamped by and from the library..... More
New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. Cloth. The 1976 true 1st edition, in its much more elusive hardback. Tight and Near Fine to Fine, with no writing or markings of any kind internally. And in a crisp, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with a degree of foxing and soiling along the panel..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1980. Cloth. The 1980 signed/limited. #31 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY PHILIP TRAGER at the limitation. FURTHERMORE, THIS COPY IS ALSO WARMLY INSCRIBED BY PHILIP TRAGER on the title page. (It's lacking "the original photograph printed and signed by the photographer" though). Clean and Fine..... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1977. Cloth. INSCRIBED BY PHILIP TRAGER on the title page. A solid copy to boot of the 1977 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with several small closed tears along the panel edges and one small chip (smaller than a...... More
Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1931. Original wraps. The 1931 edition of this impressive, short-lived French annual issued out of Paris and lasting only 11 years in this original incarnation. 124 lavish full-page gravures by the likes of Doris Ulmann, Man Ray, Edward Steichen, Paul Outerbridge, Munkacsi, Lee Miller, Laszlo..... More
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1929. Cloth. The 1929 stated 2nd edition of this seminal photographic study of plants and flowers, IN ITS UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Loosely translated from its German as "Archetypes of Art", Karl Blossfeldt's groundbreaking portraits, all in rich, lavish gravure, highlight the brilliance --and the beauty-- of..... More
The Jargon Society, 1974. Cloth. A significant Association copy: SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY THE POET JONATHAN WILLIAMS, WHO FOUNDED THE JARGON SOCIETY AND PUBLISHED THIS POSTHUMOUS RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD TITLE. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1974 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its oatmeal..... More
Tokyo: Little More, 2010. Original wraps. A near-pristine copy of the 2010 1st edition, SIGNED BY REIKO KRUK at the first blank endpaper. Clean and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with very light creasing along the panel edges and just a touch of light scuffing to the front..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1978. Pictorial boards. INSCRIBED BY RICHARD AVEDON along the front free endpaper. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the 1978 stated 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in a clean, price-intact, Near Fine example of the printed acetate dustjacket. Folio, with..... More
New York: Random House, 1999. Pictorial boards. SIGNED BY RICHARD AVEDON on the front pastedown (behind the dustjacket's front flap). A crisp, very pleasing copy to boot of the 1999 stated 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a touch of light soiling --and..... More
New York: Farrar , Straus and Giroux, 1976. Cloth. SIGNED BY RICHARD AVEDON IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION along the front free endpaper. A solid, very well-preserved copy to boot of the 1976 stated 1st edition. Clean and Near Fine (very light offsetting along the edges) in a crisp, price-clipped, VG+ to Near..... More
New York: Art Advisory Services, Inc. (Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner), 2003. 1st. Decorative Cloth. An As New copy of the 2003 1st edition. #56 of only 100 copies issued. Fine in a bright, Fine pictorial dustjacket AND in publisher's additional translucent wax dustwrapper, which is also Fine and sealed..... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1998. Cloth. SIGNED BY TONI MORRISON, who contributed the Introduction to this first-rate collection of (mostly) street portraits by photographer Robert Bergman. A pristine copy to boot of the 1998 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Fine dustjacket. Highly evocative and moving..... More
New York: Random House, 1941. Cloth. The 1941 stated 1st printing, IN THE UNCOMMON PICTORIAL DUSTJACKET. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, price-intact, VG- to VG dustjacket, with light chipping --including several small closed tears-- and light creasing along the panel edges. Still though, very presentable. Quarto, Robert Capa's..... More
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1974. Cloth. A tight, very sharp copy of the 1974 1st French edition. Clean and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a bit of wear to the laminate along the front flap-fold. Quarto, Tony Ray-Jones's crisp black-and-white plates. More
New York: The New York Times, 1959. Boards. The 1959 1st (and only) edition of one of Robert Frank's most elusive --and most fragile-- titles and his first published work after the triumph of "The Americans". Published by the New York Times as a promotional for potential advertisers, "New York..... More
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986. 1st. Cloth. The 1986 stated 1st editon of this Robert Frank catalogue. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG dustjacket, with light soiling at the panels, several small closed tears along its top-edges and light foxing along the fore-edges. Tall quarto..... More
Boston and Houston: Little, Bown and Company/The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1986. Cloth. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ROBERT FRANK TO JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHER YUICHI HIBI on the title page. A crisp, very sharp copy to boot of the hardback catalogue based on the February-April 1986 exhibition at Houston's Museum of Fine..... More
The New York Times, 1963. 1st. Hardcover. The 1963 1st edition, in the glassine dustjacket. Tight and Near Fine in a completely-intact, VG dustjacket, with a perfectly circular light coffee ring at the front panel. Octavo, wonderful photographs thruout by Robert Frank. More
