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Derrida, Jacques
Copy Archive Signature: A Conversation on Photography
Stanford University Press 2010. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item200grams ISBN:9780804760973 Stanford University Press paperback
Bookseller reference : 5761279 ISBN : 0804760977 9780804760973
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Cope Peter
100 Clever Ways to Make the Most of Your Camera
David & Charles 2012. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item600grams ISBN:9781446302163 David & Charles paperback
Bookseller reference : 5845323 ISBN : 1446302164 9781446302163
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Macaulay, Rose
Roloff Beny Interprets in Photographs Pleasure of Ruins
Holt Rinehart and Winston 1977. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1100grams ISBN:0030210917 Holt, Rinehart and Winston hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4313630 ISBN : 0030210917 9780030210914
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Susan Bright
Art Photography Now
Thames And Hudson Ltd 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1250grams ISBN:9780500289426 Thames And Hudson Ltd paperback
Bookseller reference : 5961045 ISBN : 0500289425 9780500289426
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Adams Ansel; Dean Nick; photography TLS
Collection of 7 Typed Signed Letters from Ansel Adams to Nick Dean
San Francisco and Honolulu 1958-1962. Fine. A Collection of 7 Typed Signed Letters from Ansel Adams to Nick Dean presented in three custom boxes as follows: Group of 5 Typed Letters Signed by Ansel Adams in custom box. Hawaii and California 1958. Five typed letters all of them signed by Ansel Adams with his handwritten corrections and asides. And too charming not to mention: Where letters have punch-holes for a 3-ring binder Adams doodles faces around the holes. Most are one page with text on both sides two are one page with text on the recto only. Dated 4 February 1958 to 7 July 1958 some are typed on Memos from Honolulu others on Adams' personal stationery imprinted with his San Francisco address. Adams covers the gamut -- from the personal to the professional from the highly technical to the more philosophical. He remarks on his readings Dylan Thomas and also writes "I am terribly worried about photography and my/our place in it. The MMA business under Steichen is a very depressing and destructive situation" but he also talks excitedly about film different types of cameras and darkroom chemistry and techniques. Includes an interesting list compiled by Adams for Dean of his nominations for an upcoming photography exhibition -- it offers 28 photographers 18 of which have little checkmarks in red ink next to them. Marginalia reveals the checkmarks to mean "AA choice -- Shhh!" Adams' passion for photography as well as the landscape are revealed again and again throughout. One aside: "All Washington is trembling with abject fear! I sent off a telegram in the form of a blast to the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce and to the Director of the NPS on the Tenaya Lake desecration. The battle is joined! I could not take any more of it. Tell Rosy to get the locals ready for a big fight!" / Typed Letter Signed by Ansel Adams. San Francisco 1961. Three pages typed on the rectos only the first on Adams' personal stationery imprinted with his name San Francisco address and phone number and the last two on plain white paper. Signed by Adams with a few handwritten asides and corrections. A dense wonderful letter addressed "Dear Nick and Zabette." Adams talks about the construction of his house in Carmel "road entrance about 1500 feet down the road from Edward Weston's place." and his rough year "I have been low in imagination and only medium in health" but the tone is overwhelmingly introspective philosophical serious and kind. Adams discusses the state of Modern Photography and Art at length what he feels his early influences and "breaks" were and how to make a living at creative photography while staying enthusiastic and true to oneself. Compelling and touching. In fine condition housed in a lavish custom box cloth backed in green morocco with gilt-stamped lettering on spine. / Typed letter signed by Ansel Adams. California 1962. Two full pages typed letter signed "Ansel" with his handwritten corrections and asides dated March 17 1962. On Adams' personal stationery imprinted with his name address 24th Avenue San Francisco and phone number. Addressed "Dear Nick" Adams congratulates him on an upcoming exhibit discusses a Polaroid book cameras Type 49 Type 55 P/N the completion of his house in Carmel health and injuries or lack thereof a De Cordova exhibit and Nick's critique of it and then goes on to examine the state of photography "commercial photography is getting worse." and other photographers including Minor "Jerry" and Don Worth. Perhaps best of all Adams' thoughts on Art are interspersed throughout including but certainly not limited to "I am beginning to think that the trouble with Art is when it becomes Art!" A wonderful letter revealing both the personal and professional sides of a renowned American photographer. In fine condition housed in a blue cloth chemise with gilt-stamped leather spine label. / Overall a spectacular collection -- all letters are in fine condition housed in 3 lavish custom boxes one for each year 1958 1961 1962. For further details please send us an inquiry. <br /> <br/><br/> hardcover
Bookseller reference : JC3695
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(Photography) Fotografias por Gonzalo Detry
Una Mirada Desde Villa La Angostura y Alrededores Spanish/English Argentina photography <br />
Buenos Aires: La Lay 1998 . First edition limited to 5000 copies. Hardcover. Near Fine in VG dust jacket. NF/VG. Oversize hardcover mustard color hardcover with minor wear clean tightly bound unmarked. Visible but light edge wear to the dust jacket clean spine not sunned. 144 pages illustrated chiefly in color. Text in Spanish & English except title which translates to: "A View from Villa La Angostura and Surroundings" <br/><br/>Experienced full-time bookseller since 1994. Images may be added by request. Questions welcome. La Lay hardcover
Bookseller reference : 24990 ISBN : 9505272014 9789505272013
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Richard Larson and James Olson [eds.]; Howard M. Berliant [photography]
I Have a Kind of Fear: Confessions from the writings of white teachers and black students in city schools
Chicago: Quadrangle Books 1969. Very Good/Very Good. Chicago: Quadrangle 1969. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's cloth in photo-illustrated price-clipped dust jacket; 139pp.; black and white photographic illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins including a few small chips and closed tears faint foxing to cloth heavier foxing to top textblock edge contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper and ownership address label to front pastedown else a Very Good internally clean and sound copy. <br /> <br /> Scarce publication documenting the often-fraught dynamic of the white teacher in a predominantly Black school system. The text consists of direct quotes from students and teachers accompanied by candid and often poignant portraits in the classroom. Though amply held institutionally the book is elusive in the trade. Quadrangle Books unknown
Bookseller reference : 31958
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Voorhees, Edward B. [The Rural Science Series - L. H. Bailey, Editor]
FORAGE CROPS FOR SOILING SILAGE HAY AND PASTURE - THIRD EDITION - Original 1913 Edition
New York: The Machillan Company 1913. HC. good olive cloth hardcover faint stain top edge. B&W illustrations. 384pp. The Machillan Company unknown
Bookseller reference : BOOKS074851I
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Schimmelman Janice G.
AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC PATENTS : The Daguerreotype & Wet Plate Era 1840-1880
Nevada: Carl Mautz Pub. 2002. Book. Illus. by Author. New. 1st Edition. 1st. ed. 2002 Soft cover with illustrated wraps 119 page book with black & white illustrations . List at $25.00 . Condition : New Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Carl Mautz Pub. paperback
Bookseller reference : 091507-K ISBN : 1887694218 9781887694216
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Van der Zee James Photography; Owen Dodson Poetry; Camille Billops Text; Toni Morrison Foreword
The Harlem Book of the Dead
Dobbs Ferry NY: Morgan & Morgan Inc 1978. Limited Edition. First edition first printing. Number 42 of 60 copies signed by James Van der Zee Owen Dodson and Camille Billops on the front pastedown dated 11/12/78. viii 85 pp. Bound in publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light wear at spine ends and corners small ink stain at right edge of front free endpaper and light toning to contents. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a few small closed tears to edges crease and spot of age staining at bottom corner of front flap and miniscule stain to base of spine at verso. <p>Throughout his legendary career as a Harlem Renaissance portrait photographer James Van Der Zee documented life and in these instances death. A unique and poignant monograph of funerary portraits that draw the viewer into a sorrowful pageantry of loved ones lost. Each portrait is seamlessly paired with an allegorical persona poem written in a fictitious voice of the dead. Rare in the signed limited hardcover edition. Morgan & Morgan, Inc unknown
Bookseller reference : 140947622
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Jill Duchess of Hamilton / Hart, Penny / Simmons, John / Berwick, Don (photography)
English Plants for your Garden.
2000. London Frances Linkcoln Limited 2000. 23 cm x 28 cm. 176 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes the following: Foreword by Dame Miriam Rothschild / Preface by John Brooks / Gardening With Native Plants / Herbaceous Flowers / Trees Shrubs and Climbers / A New Deal for Native Plants / Suppliers of English Native Plants etc. "This work offers a checklist of English native plants providing gardeners with the full range of indigenous trees shrubs flowers herbs grasses and ferns that merit a place in private and public gardens. The authors show how gardeners can play a part in conserving England's plant heritage. Local plants can lend gardens a sense of place and local identity as well as providing havens for birds butterflies and other animals. By growing garden-worthy natives with exotic plants even the smallest outdoor space can be a living larder for wildlife while contributing to the conservation of England's plant heritage." Amazon hardcover
Bookseller reference : 72351AB ISBN : 0711214352 9780711214354
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[Photography] [Automobiles]
Archive of 62 vernacular photographs of Volkswagens shot in postwar Germany largely of Type 1 Volkswagen Beetles circa early 1960s
N.p.: N.p. 1960. Archive of 62 vernacular photographs likely taken by an American GI stationed on a US base in postwar Germany with 57 of those photographs depicting a fascination with Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle cars that borders on obsession.<br /> <br /> At least three different Beetles are depicted in the collection including a myriad of artfully-shot close-up's of body damage interiors badges and cars undergoing repairs. <br /> <br /> Likely shot between 1962 and 1965 as evidenced by the style of license plate found on the cars which was in use for US military vehicles in Germany during that time. The photographer is seen in one photograph in front of a mirror that states "Portrait of a Soldier" one of a handful of non-VW related images that also include images of roadways an office lobby and an Audi.<br /> <br /> Full gallery of images available for viewing on request.<br /> <br /> All photos 5 x 7 inches Very Good plus or better condition. N.p. unknown
Bookseller reference : 145805
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Patrick, Judy
Arctic Oil - Photographs of Alaska's North Slope
Alaska: Judy Patrick Photography 2014. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Signed by the author in silver pen on the front free-endpaper "To Kate & Justin Thank-you for being such gracious hosts and guides. I'm thankful that our paths crossed!!! Judy Patrick . And I hope to see you in Alaska!" Oversize gray hardcover with silver titles in dustjacket. A very good copy with no indication of printing. Sunning to the top and bottom edges of the boards and a bit of crimping spineward otherwise a clean bright copy in solid binding. The dustjacket is also quite good but with the remnants of a sticker to the top of the rear panel and some scuffing to the shiny panels. 144 pp. full color photography of the oil platforms pipelines and workers on Alaska's remote north slope. <br/><br/> Judy Patrick Photography hardcover
Bookseller reference : 2434 ISBN : 0989577996 9780989577991
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Michael Freeman
The Digital SLR Handbook 3rd Edition
Ilex 2011. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN:9781907579448 Ilex paperback
Bookseller reference : 4312955 ISBN : 1907579443 9781907579448
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Wolf Sylvia
Julia Margaret Cameron' Women
Yale University Press 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1950grams ISBN:9780300077810 Yale University Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4312842 ISBN : 0300077815 9780300077810
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Packham, Chris
100 Things That Caught My Eye
Blink Publishing 2014. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item1300grams ISBN:9781905825837 Blink Publishing hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4312990 ISBN : 1905825838 9781905825837
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Melville, Joy
Julia Margaret Cameron: Pioneer Photographer
Sutton Publishing Ltd 2003. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item350grams ISBN:9780750932295 Sutton Publishing Ltd hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4312846 ISBN : 0750932295 9780750932295
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Ang, Tom
Photography
Mitchell Beazley 2016. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN:9781784721350 Mitchell Beazley paperback
Bookseller reference : 4312921 ISBN : 1784721352 9781784721350
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Edwards, Dorothy Lee (Photography by Carroll Snell.)
Oscar the Business Rabbit
E.P. Dutton 1940 3rd printing. Square hardcover 71pp. Very good no dust jacket. Photographs. Some ghosting to the endpapers. Photography by Carroll Snell. Juvenile Business Juvenile. E.P. Dutton Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 159258
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Fletcher, Bob (text, photography, design); Shope, Irvin (illustration and cover artist); Greene, Amsel (photography)
Montana Headin’ for the Hills
Helena Montana: Montana State Highway Department 1937. Fletcher Bob text photography design; Shope Irvin illustration and cover artist; Greene Amsel photography<br /> Headin’ for the Hills Helena Montana: Montana State Highway Department 1937<br /> <br /> 8.5 x 11 inches Stapled pictorial wrappers<br /> 28 pp. Heavy crease at old center fold light soiling to rear wrap internally fresh and bright. Very Good. <br /> <br /> A rare and lovely collaboration by a host of noted creators issued by the Montana State Highway Department in 1937 to promote travel and tourism in the state. Heavily adorned with photographic images and wonderful illustrations the book provides a conversational account of Montana highways and the scenic wonders statewide.<br /> <br /> The primary author of this work Bob Fletcher was per a bio on the Montana Department of Transportation website known as “Montana’s Roadside Historian†and was “the perfect man for the job†to help boost tourism in the “Treasure State†after the Great Depression. Born in Iowa in 1885 Fletcher moved to Montana in 1908 and was hired as an engineer by the State Highway Commission in 1928. He spent over a decade writing the state’s tourism promotional material and with the department graphic artist and noted painter Irvin “Shorty†Shope designed and built over 100 highway markers many of which still stand. Fletcher also published the first of the state’s colorful highway maps in 1934 designed and built visitor centers at Montana’s ports of entry and established a roadside museum program. He authored a collection of cowboy poetry like this book also illustrated by Shope as well as a seminal work on the Montana cattle industry “Free Grass to Fences†in 1960. One of his poems was purchased by Cole Porter and became the basis of the famous song “Don't Fence Me In." Fletcher died in 1972. <br /> <br /> The cover image by Shorty Shope features a couple traveling with a dog waving from their automobile as they pass several riders on horseback and a pack string. A member of Cowboy Artists of America Shope 1900-1977 lived in Montana and worked as a cowboy before beginning his artistic career. His usual subjects were cowboys the Blackfoot Indians mountains and deserts and all his works have a distinctly western look. This image was reused for the cover of the Summer 2024 issue of “Montana: The Magazine of Western History.†Shope’s work has frequently been sold at auction.<br /> <br /> The book also features photography by Miss Amsel Greene a longtime schoolteacher in Helena. She is best known for her book “Pullet Surprises†composed of students’ malapropisms and misinterpretations in language as well as a widely-used textbook in word study and vocabulary-building “Word Clues.†One of Fletcher’s poems is printed at the rear.<br /> <br /> A rare wonderful introduction to Montana highways and sights. No holdings were found in OCLC but a Google search revealed a copy at Texas A&M University. Montana State Highway Department unknown
Bookseller reference : 1873
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The Editors of Photography Magazine
Photography Annual 1953
The Ziff-Davis Publishing Company. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. art photography periodicals A readable intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. The Ziff-Davis Publishing Company unknown
Bookseller reference : SB09L-00231
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Editors of Photography Magazine
Photography Annual 1954
Ziff Davis Books. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. art photography periodicals A readable intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Ziff Davis Books unknown
Bookseller reference : SB09L-00230
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Gregory, photography by Harri Peccinotti Vitiello
SPOLETO VIVA
Mobil Oil Italiana. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket italy small town culture Mobil Oil Italiana unknown
Bookseller reference : S25P-00112
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Editors of Photography Magazine
Photography Annual 1953 Edition
Photography Magazine. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. In polypropylene bag. photography art periodicals A readable intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Photography Magazine unknown
Bookseller reference : SA15B-01125
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Dickerson, Heidi Cusick; Liden, Tom (Photography by)
Mendocino Roots & Ridges: Wine Notes from America's Greenest Wine Region
Mendocino Grassroots Publications. Collectible - Very Good. Signed Copy Collectible - Very Good. Paperback edition. Signed/Inscribed by author and photographer on title page. Mendocino Grassroots Publications paperback
Bookseller reference : SA15A-00931 ISBN : 0974893471 9780974893471
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DC Harrold (Photography, Captions and Poetry)
Tesse Are You Really a Cat: A Collection of Drawings and Photographs
Tesse Enterprises. Collectible - Good. Signed Copy Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Inscribed by DC Harrold on front endpage. Page edges foxed. In protective mylar cover. cats pictorial works Tesse Enterprises unknown
Bookseller reference : NA00A-01993 ISBN : 0317645544 9780317645545
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Dunwell Steve photography
Duke: a Portrait
Duke University. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. Photography Duke University Pictorial Works A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates stamps limited notes and highlighting or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs DVDs floppy disks or access codes may not be included. Duke University unknown
Bookseller reference : F13OS-00285
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Patterson, Freeman & Tom Smart & Terry Graff
Freeman Patterson: Embracing Creation
Fredericton N. B.: Goose Lane Editions & Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2013. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0864929056 . Stiff unmarked book in clean burnt-orange cloth; in merely rubbed dust jacket. Quite wonderful. ; 11.2 X 1.2 X 11.1 inches; 240 pages; Signed by Author . Goose Lane Editions & Beaverbrook Art Gallery hardcover
Bookseller reference : 66179 ISBN : 0864929056 9780864929051
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Crane Hart; Richard Benson Photography; Malcolm Cowley introduction
The Bridge : a poem SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR NEW IN PUBLISHER'S SHIPPING BOX
New York: Limited Editions Club 1981. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good in publisher's shipping box. 1/2000. Quarto 9¼" x 12¼" xx 2 70 1pp. Light gray cloth with lettering on spine in original glassine wrapper which has a couple of closed tears. Decorated paper covered slipcase with cloth top and bottom edges. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece. Beautifully illustrated with 4 full-page b/w photographs including frontispiece and 1 double-page b/w photograph. <br /> <br /> The Bridge: A Poem is a renowned work by Hart Crane first published in 1930 and celebrated for its ambitious scope and lyrical complexity. This 1981 edition published by the Limited Editions Club features a carefully crafted presentation that honors the original text while offering an enhanced visual experience. The poem explores themes of modernity history and transcendence weaving a narrative that connects the past and present through the metaphor of a bridge. "Fifty years after the book was first published little doubt remains that Hart Crane's The Bridge is a monument of American poetry". <br /> <br /> Copy number 20/2000. Signed by the photographer Richard Benson. Water stainings on the spine of the book and glassine wrapper. Also some sun tan on the spine of glassine wrapper. Bindings and interior in fine condition otherwise. Slipcase has some water staining and a couple of scuffs but in good condition overall. Slipcover's glassine wrap has a couple of rips. Limited Editions Club hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54648
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Demus, Otto; Max Hirmer (photography); Mary Whittall (translation)
Romanesque Mural Painting
New York: Harry N. Abrams 1970. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shipping box./as new. Quarto 9½" x 12" 654pp. Burgundy cloth boards gilt spine titles white dust jacket with color illustration in mylar cover. 102 color plates 232 b&w ilustrations. <br /> <br /> The Definitive study of Romanesque muyral painting in Italy France Spain England Germany and Austria by the outstanding authority on byzantine art. Although Romanesque painting has suffered heavily from destruction gamage and poor restoration an enormous amount still survives and displays amazing variety nobility and imaginative power. The fine photographs were specially made fo this by the celebrated Max Hirmer. Frontispiece Sant' Angelo in Formis. Apse. Christ Enthroned. Harry N. Abrams hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54666
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Robert D. Jacobsen; Nicholas Grindley; Gary Mortensen (photography); Robert Fogt (photography)
Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts AS NEW IN SHRINKWRAP
Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Arts 1999. First edition. Hardcover. As new in shrink wrap/new. Quarto 9½" x 11¾" 247pp. Black and burgundy photo-illustrated slipcase with white lettering. Matching photo-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on the spine. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering on the front cover and spine.<br /> <br /> This volume presents nearly one hundred examples of classical Chinese furniture donated to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Ruth and Bruce Dayton. The catalogue includes over 150 illustrations and provides historical and social context for hardwood and lacquer furniture produced primarily during the late Ming and early Qing periods. The entries written by Robert Jacobsen are accompanied by construction analysis and commentary from Nicholas Grindley. The book also features an introduction by Lark Mason and an essay by Mr. Jacobsen exploring the relationship between classical furniture and traditional Chinese architecture. Footnotes and a bibliography provide additional references for further study. "Produced in conjunction with the symposium Classical Chinese furniture and the built environment The Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Minnesota June 10-12 1999" from title page. <br /> <br /> Slipcase still protected with publishers original shrinkwrap. Only torn to allow access to the book. Minneapolis Institute of Arts hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54677
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Leibovitz Annie photography; Steve Martin introduction by
Annie Leibovitz SUMO series IN ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S SHIPPING BOX KEITH HARING DUST JACKET SIGNED
Cologne Koln: Taschen 2014. Limited first edition. Hardcover. Fine condition as new. 1/10000. 20x 27.5". Altas folio. Includes white archival gloves and the tripod book stand designed by Marc Newson as issued. This is #8616 from an edition of 10000 copies numbered on the colophon at the front and signed by Annie Leibovitz. Part Taschen's large format "SUMO" series the book was issued with 4 variant dust jackets: Whoopi Goldberg Keith Haring David Byrne and Patti Smith. Ours is the Haring dj.<br /> <br /> "When Benedikt Taschen asked the most important portrait photographer working today to collect her pictures in a SUMO-sized book she was intrigued and challenged. The project took several years to develop and proved to be revelatory. Annie Leibovitz drew from over 40 years of work starting with the viscerally intimate reportage she created for Rolling Stone magazine in the 1970s and extending through the more stylized portraiture of her work for Vanity Fair and Vogue. Celebrated images such as John Lennon and Yoko Ono entwined in a last embrace are printed alongside portraits that have rarely and sometimes never before been seen. Annie Leibovitz was able to present some of her famous group portraits in a format that proves that she is the master of the genre. Her pictures are at once intimate and iconic wide-ranging stylistically and also uniquely hers. Annie Leibovitz is often imitated particularly by younger photographers but her work is somehow immediately recognizable. The bookends of the Leibovitz collection are the black-and-white photograph of Richard Nixon's helicopter lifting off from the White House lawn after he resigned as president in 1974 and the formal color portrait of Queen Elizabeth II taken in a drawing room of Buckingham Palace in 2007. In between are portraits that make up a family album of our time: actors dancers comedians musicians artists writers performance artists journalists athletes businesspeople. Performance and power are recurring themes. A supplementary book contains essays by Annie Leibovitz Graydon Carter Hans Ulrich Obrist and Paul Roth and short texts describing the subjects of each of the over 250 photographs." - Publisher.<br /> <br /> Book is in fine as new condition and housed in the publisher's shipping box with original packing materials. Taschen hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54702 ISBN : 3836552388 9783836552387
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Albert, Honore Paul Joseph d', duc de Luynes; Louis Vignes (photography); Henri Joseph Sauvaire (photography); Jardin (photograp
Voyage d'exploration à la Mer Morte à Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain Journey of Exploration to the Dead Sea Petra and the Left Bank of the Jordan AN INCUNABLE OF PHOTO-MECHANICALLY ILLUSTRATED BOOKS
Paris: Arthus Bertrand 1874. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Four volumes folio 36 by 27 cm text volumes 36.2 by 28.6 cm atlas. Complete with a total of 99 plates in various media. Text in French; copious transcriptions of Arabic inscriptions in the second volume. 4 IV 388 pp. in-text illustrations throughout; 6 222 6 pp; 4 VI 326 pp.14 plates numbered I-XIV: 2 double-suite chromolithographic maps 2 double-suite chromolithograpic arrays of geologic sections; 2 steel-engraved arrays of geologic sections; 8 full-page lithographic specimen plates; Atlas: 4 pp; 67 plates documenting the journey of the Duc de Luynes: 3 unnumbered steel-engraved plates - 1 large folding map colored 1 folding itinerary colored 1 double-suite plan of the iron sailing vessel; numbered I-LXIV - 64 hand-pulled b/w photogravures on steel 1 double-suite by Charles Nègre after photos by Jardin and Louis Vignes; 18 plates documenting the journey of Christophe Mauss numbered I-XVIII: 1 double-suite steel-engraved itinerary 3 steel engraved site plans 1 colored 14 tinted lithographs by Eugène Ciceri after photographs by Henri Sauvaire 8 mistakenly attributed to Louis Vignes.<br /> <br /> Later half light brown morocco over marbled boards gilt spine with raised bands; marbled endleaves; original blue printed wrappers preserved along with the backstrips the three text volumes. Text leaves intermittently foxed throughout often in light-moderately toned large blotches. Plates clean and fresh with only occasional touches of soiling or faint foxing almost exclusively confined to the margins; large folding map and folding itinerary in the Atlas with more notable light foxing. A very good set with fine plates.<br /> <br /> First edition of this comprehensive report on one of the most important scientific and archaeological missions of the nineteenth century the 1864 expedition to the Dead Sea undertaken by the visionary art collector archaeologist and scientist Honoré Paul Joseph d'Albert duc de Luynes 1802-1867. Along with an atlas containing 78 reproductions of photographs by Louis Vignes 1831-1896 Jardin fl. 1864 and Henri Joseph Sauvaire 1831-1896 this work documents "the first systematic attempt to survey and photograph the geological features and cities of the Dead Sea basin in present-day Jordan. In addition to mapping the Dead Sea area the expedition made significant contributions to the geological and paleontological knowledge of the region and also to an understanding of the chemical composition of the lake's waters" GRI. Louis Vignes a lieutenent-commander in the French navy and director since 1860 of the port in Beirut was chosen by de Luynes as photographer for the expedition because of his knowledge of the Levant. "Vignes began to photograph immediately upon arrival in Beirut and continued to do so during the ride south throughout Sidon Tyre Nablus and Jerusalem. From March 14 until May 29 the party sailed the entire Dead Sea on a special iron vessel designed by Vignes to be dismantled for easy trasportation" Perez.<br /> <br /> A preliminary account edited by Vignes appeared as Extrait des notes d'un voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte dans le Wady Arabah sur la rive gauche du Jourdain et dans le désert de Palmyre Paris: H. Plon 1865. This work essentially comprised a key to the two maps drawn by Vignes with assistance from Dr. Gustave Combe. The larger of the two maps charted the Jordan Rift Valley from the southern end of the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Akabah; the second map depicts the Dead Sea and its immediate vicinity. "In addition to tracing the expedition's routes place names elevations vegetation land conditions natural features and many other geomorphic and climatic details are recorded on the maps" GRI. In the Atlas volume of the Voyage these two maps have been combined into a single map printed surface: 69.7 by 28.8 cm. In 1866 de Luynes made a second expedition to the region accompanied by the archaeologist Christophe Edouard Mauss and Henri Sauvaire; their account was published the following year in the Bulletin de la Société de Géographie as "De Karak à Chaubak. Extrait d'un Journal de voyage."<br /> <br /> De Luynes' full account of the expedition is found in the first volume of the present report. The two parts of the second volume comprise Louis Vignes' account of the journey from Petra Jordan to Palmyra Syria along with the account of the 1866 journey from Jerusalem to the Crusader castles in Jordan at Kerak and Shoubak Montréal written by Mauss and Sauvaire. The third volume contains the report prepared by the noted geologist Louis Lartet 1840-1899 who would go on to discover the first Cro-Magnon skeletons. It is accompanied by chromolithographic maps and arrays of geological and paleontological elevations along with finely detailed lithographic specimen plates. The entire production was posthumously edited by Melchior marquis de Vogüé 1829-1916.<br /> <br /> A member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres de Luynes was a philanthropist with enormous inherited wealth and deep interdisciplinary interests many of which are on display in the present work: the study and collection of Greco-Roman antiquities notably from Phoenicia and Palestine and the pursuit of scientific interests in chemistry geology and photography. In 1856 de Luynes initiated a competitionin in conjunction with the Societé Française de Photographie to find the best method of photomechanical reproduction. Two people were short-listed for the prize: the chemist and photographer Alphonse Louis Poitevin for his method of photolithography; and the pioneering photographer Charles Nègre 1820-1880 whose photogravure method "produced beautiful prints but was even more complicated and unwieldy in practice the Poitevin's method" Parr & Badger. Although Poitevin was finally awared the prize in 1867 de Luynes chose Nègre to process the 64 reproductions which appear in the first suite of images in the Atlas. "The Duc's decision was clearly based on aesthetics" as Nègre's photogravure process actually improved upon the albumen prints by Vignes "which tended to be high in contrast and lacking shadow detail" Parr & Badger. These 64 photogravures are arranged according to the expedition itinerary starting at Beirut and concluding with a view of the source of the Hasbany River. These images along with views of Nablus the ruins of Araq el-Emir the fortified hilltop palace Machaerus the rock-cut architecture of Petra the Greco-Roman ruins of Gerasa and views of the tributaries and source of the Jordan River are "among the earliest photomechanical reproductions of photographs from the Holy Land" Nir. Along with John Thomson's Illustrations of China and its People 1874 Voyage d'exploration à la mer Morte 1868-1874 is a "key work" in the early development of the photobook. "Amongst the best early French photographers" Charles Nègre "was a leading figure in the development and employment of photomechanical processes. These early methods were still labour-intenseive and could be termed hand-craft processes but they represent another significant step in the industrialization of the photographic process -- a step towards the halftone block and the photobook as we know it today" Parr & Badger.<br /> <br /> A note on the dating of this work: Title-pages undated; the publisher's avertissement in the first volume dated "Constantinople août 1874." N.B.: Rohricht dates the work 1871-1876; the Bibliotèque national de France dates the Atlas 1871; The Getty Research institute dates the entire production 1875; several libraries date the geological survey volume 1877. References: P. Foliot "Louis Vignes and Henry Sauvaire Photographers of the Expedition of the Duc de Luynes" History of Photography 1990 vol. 14 no. 3 pp. 233-250; Getty Research Institute "Duc de Luynes Archive and Related Photographs by Henri Sauvaire" via website; Hannavy Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography I pp. 982-5 Nègre; Y. Nir The Bible and the Image 1985 p. 89; Parr & Badger I pp. 19 33; N. Perez Focus East Early Photography in the Near East 1988 pp. 180 Jardin 229 Vignes; Rohricht 2824.<br /> <br /> Full title and imprint: Voyage d'Exploration a la mer Morte a Petra et sur la rive gauche du Jourdain par M. le Duc de Luynes. Oeuvre posthume publiée par ses petits-fils sous la direction de M. le Comte de Vogüé. Relation du Voyage. Paris: Arthus Bertrand Éditeur Libraire de la Société de Géographie 21 rue Hautefeuille 21 Tome deuxième De Petra a Palmyre par M. Vignes. Voyage de Jérusalem a Karak et a Chaubak par MM. Mauss et Sauvaire; Tome troisième Géologie par M. Louis Lartet; Atlas. Arthus Bertrand hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54520
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Way CJ. Charles Jones paintings; William Notman photography C. J.
North American Scenery. Being Selections from C.J. Way's Studies 1863-64 12 ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS
Montreal: W. Notman 1864. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg-. Elephant folio. 18x13". 14 leaves including 12 plates unpaginated. Period brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. All edges in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page with decorative text printed in a number of different period typefaces. All addition text throughout is finely printed in a cursive typefont.<br /> <br /> An album consisting of a series of 12 mounted albumen photographs reproducing original paintings of landscapes in New England and Northeastern Canada by British artist C.J. Charles Jones Way 1835-1919. During his career Way was noted for his depictions of North American and European landscapes and seascapes. From 1858 Way settled in Montreal where he established an art studio and often collaborated with pioneering Montreal-based photographer William Notman 1826-1891 who had set up one of the most noted early photography studios in the city. Here Notman photographs Way's work with a keen eye and attention to detail. Locations depicted in the images include: the White Mountains New Hampshire Mount Desert Island Maine The Gaspe Coast Quebec Levis/Quebec City Montreal and Niagara Falls. The final five images show areas in the vicinity of Saguenay River Quebec. <br /> <br /> Each of the 12 plates is tissue-guarded with the images and text caption below in landscape orientation. Plates measure approx. 17 3/4 x 12 3/4". The photographs themselves vary slightly in size but most measure approx. 10" x 6". Table of plates at the front.<br /> <br /> Binding with light sunning to the spine and edges of the covers. Covers with some light scratches and a few small stains. Head of spine rubbed with some light cracking along the front hinge. Interiors mostly clean with a few sporadic instance of light smudges and/or stains to the endpapers and/or margins of plates. Images throughout clean and vibrant. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. W. Notman hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54488
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Meyerowitz, Joel (Photography); Maggie Barrett (Text)
Cézanne's Objects
Bologna: Damiani 2017. First edition. Hardcover. very good to fine condition. Small Folio. 111p. Original gray cloth with color-illustrated plate laid to cover black lettering on spine. Color-illustrated endpapers. Beautifully illustrated with Meyerowitz full page color photographs throughout. Introductory text by Maggie Barrett. Beautiful collection of color photographs inspired by Meyerowitz's visit of Cézanne's studio in Aix-en-Provence. Contains a thumbnail catalog of photographs included at rear with Meyerowitz biography and list of solo exhibitions. Light bump at upper foredge corner of front cover. Else in fine condition. "After studying art art history and medical illustration at Ohio State University he worked as an art director in advertising in the early 60's. In 1962 Robert Frank made photographs for a booklet Joel designed and it was while watching Frank work that he discovered that photographs could be made while both the photographer and the subject were in motion! The power of this observation made him quit his job immediately; borrow a camera and go out onto the streets of New York to see what the world looked." Biography. Damiani hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54511 ISBN : 8862085648 9788862085649
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Friends of Photography, et al
Untitled #1 through #15 missing #9
<p>This set of 12 volumes is in very good condition. There are no markings in the book. Two volumns cover 2 each 2 & 3 or in one volume and 7 & 8 are in one volume. Includes highlights from: Edward Weston Lee Friedlander Anthony Hernandez Joseph Jachna Andre Kertesz Robert Rauschenberg Robet Heinecken Wynn Bullock Peter Thompson Ansel Adams and many more with essays and commentary from other well known critics and artists in the field. Ships within 24 hours.</p> Friends of Photography paperback
Bookseller reference : 16013NAP
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Duncan, Isadora; Arnold Genthe and Edward Steichen (photography); Sheldon Cheney (editor & introduction)
The Art of the Dance INSCRIBED BY ISADORA'S FIRST STUDENT
New York: Theatre Arts Inc 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 12 147 1pp. Plus 33 plates. Original tan linen over blue paper-covered boards with paper labels on front cover and spine. Vignette on title page. Facsimile signatures of Isadora Duncan on front & rear pastedowns. Illustrated with photographs by Arnold Genthe and Edward Steichen and reproductions of original drawings by Leon Bakst Antoine Bourdelle José Clara Maurice DenisGrandjouanAugust von Kaulbachvan Deering Perrine Auguste Rodin Dunoyer de Segonzac and Abraham Walkowitz. Inscribed and signed on the front free endpaper by Maria-Theresa Duncan dated October 8th 1940. Spine a bit browned with head & spine a bit chipped. Spine label browned & chipped but no loss of lettering. <br /> <br /> Maria-Theresa Duncan nee Kruger 1895-1987 was one of six young dancers legally adopted by Isadora Duncan and known as ''les Isadorables.'' She first came to Isadora Duncan's attention as a child dancing in a Christmas pageant. <br /> <br /> "Not a dancer was Isadora but a prophet speaking the unique world language voicing a beauty not only immense and sublime but within the reach of and understood by the mass." Raymond Duncan. "Isadora was to me something at once magical and elemental like dawn at the edge of the sea pine trees in a quiet moonlight grove or bells ringing from far undefineable distances." Mary Fanton Roberts. Theatre Arts, Inc hardcover
Bookseller reference : 52695
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Lockwood, Charles and Jeff Hyland (text); Randolph Harrison; Brian Wolman (photography)
The Estates of Beverly Hills: Holmby Hills Bel-Air Beverly Park
Beverly Hills: Beverly Park Gatehouse 1984. First edition. Hardcover. near fine/near fine. Oblong Folio. 161pp. Beige cloth in original pictorial dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of color photographs as well as a few photos in sepia tone by Randolph Harrison and Baton Wolman showing lavish estates in Beverly Hills. Dj slightly dusted. Bottom edge of binding lightly age toned otherwise fine.<br /> <br /> "This book is devoted to the estate properties of Beverly Hills Holmby Hills Bel-Air and Beverly Park. Within the 20-mile area bounded by Doheny Drive on the east Wilshire Boulevard on the south the San Diego Freeway on the west and Mullholland Drive on the north only 129 properties are estates. There are 31 in Beverly Hills 22 in Holmby Hills 15 in Bel-Air and 61 in Beverly Park. Most of the residences shown in this book are "hidden estates" concealed by walls and foliage to insure their privacy. Few of these properties have ever been published before." <br /> <br /> "Charles Lockwood has written six books about American architecture and cities. Co-author Jeff Hyland is a local historian and a Beverly Hills Realtor. Both have written extensively about Beverly Hills Holmby Hills and Bel-Air. Beverly Park Gatehouse hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53955 ISBN : 0961383607 9780961383602
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Hori, Masumi (堀真澄 撮影, photography by)
京都 Kyoto PORTFOLIO W/ 30 LOOSE PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES
Kyoto 京都: Kyoto City Hall 京都市役所 1921. First edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Oblong quarto. 30 loose plates. Housed in a yellow cloth portfolio with bone fasteners. White label with text in Japanese and English in black lettering pasted on the front cover. Silver-speckled interior flaps<br /> <br /> This extremely scarce undated Taisho-era photographic collection was created by the government of the City of Kyoto for promotional purposes and was never for sale. The portfolio is comprised of 30 loose plates of beautiful high quality b/w collotype images showing famous sites from around the Kyoto area each measuring 11x 14 1/4". Each image is protected by a tissue guard with printed bilingual text in Japanese and English including a title number and a short single-paragraph description. <br /> <br /> Places shown include the Imperial Palace 京都御所 Fushimi Inari-taisha ä¼è¦‹ç¨²è·å¤§ç¤¾ Sanjusangen-do 三åä¸‰é–“å ‚ Temple of thirty-three bays Toyokuni Shrine 豊国神社 Kiyomizu-dera 清水寺 Yasaka Shrine å…«å‚神社 Sanjo Ohashi bridge 三æ¡å¤§æ©‹ Cherry blossoms at Maruyama Park 円山公園 Ginkaku-ji 銀閣寺 "Temple of the Silver Pavilion" Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺'Temple of the Golden Pavilion' Shimogamo Shrine 下鴨神社 the Arashiyama district åµå±± the rapids on the The Hozu River ä¿æ´¥å· Hozugawa and many others. Also shown are gatherings for festivals such as the Aoi Matsuri è‘µç¥ Jidai Matsuri æ™‚ä»£ç¥ and the Gion Matsuri ç¥‡åœ’ç¥ as well as images showing the Miyako Odori 都をã©ã‚Š.<br /> <br /> The interior right flap contains a bilingual table of contents and the interior middle flap contains publication information in Japanese.<br /> <br /> Portfolio with light rubbing to extremities as well as some minor scratches smudges and/or stains. Interior clean. Minor age toning to the very edges of a few plates with images unaffected clean and vibrant throughout. The captioned tissue guard for the first plate is torn but still holding. The tissue guard for plate 26 is detached but present with text unaffected. Portfolio in very good- interior in very good condition overall. Photography here is credited to Hori Masumi. This means the images here were likely taken by an unnamed photographer or group of photographers from the studio of the deceased Meiji-era Kyoto photographer Hori Masumi 1826-1880. The name of Hori Masumi continued to be credited for photography into at least the first decades of the 20th century including much documentary photography work on behalf the city government of Kyoto.<br /> <br /> Although undated it was published sometime in the Taisho era 1912-1926. Kyoto City Hall (京都市役所) hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53936
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Cervantes, Enrique A. (text and photography by)
Loza Blanca y Azulejo de Puebla 2 Vols.
Mexico: NP 1939. Limited first edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. 822/2000. Quarto. xi 303 3pp. 331 5pp. Bound in green half-leather over green cloth boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spines. Decorative endpapers. Original tan textured heavy stock paper wrappers with black blue-framed lettering on a label pasted to front covers bound in. A comprehensive academic study of the traditional ceramic art of the Mexican state of Puebla specifically "white ware and tile". The work is profusely illustrated throughout with countless mounted color and b/w photographic reproductions of the ceramics. It also contains lithographically printed illustrations in blue and black throughout detailing the various artists seals/markings on the works. Text in Spanish. Light wear along edges of bindings spines somewhat sunned. Blocks very lightly age-toned. NP hardcover
Bookseller reference : 54085
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Ichida Soichi Photography
Operatives Welfare. The Kanegafuchi Spinning Co. Ltd
Kobe Japan: Printed by S. Ichida 1909. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Oblong Quarto. 4 6pp. 17 plates with tissue guards one folding. Original anthracite string-bound with tassels cloth-covered boards featuring circular print with floral image in black and gray gilt lettering encircled in gilt protected by modern mylar. Gilt edges. Light blue endpapers. Decorative endpiece. Contains table of contents at front followed by a brief outline of the Kanegafuchi Spinning Company's welfare work and a page titled "box for suggestions." Illustrated with seventeen striking collotypes showing the architectural structure the production and social activities.<br /> <br /> The seventeen photogravures show the exterior of the facility including one folding plate the School for Female Operatives the Kindergarten a flower display by female operatives the dining hall the bath room tenements two visuals of retail shops the exterior and interior of the infirmary the exterior and the interior of the recreation hall the playground and the nursery. The publication was issued on the occasion of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Esposition with Japan and Canada featuring the only pavillions at this fare. Soichi Ichida was a Kobe photographer and printer specialalizing in souvenir albums. The Kanagafuchi Spinning Company was established in 1887 as the Tokyo Trading Company. After a buyout in 1890 the name was changed to Kanegafuchi Spinning Company.<br /> <br /> The company adopted the "Mutual Relief System" with a structure recognized in Europe and America and instituted "Welfare Work" including educational work in the so-called "Operatives' School" and a School for Female Operatives. It provided a Kindergarten published two semimonthly periodicals facilitated a lecture and recital program and provided tutors for Japanese etiquette for females. In addition the company provided relief for the sick injured and deceased by the "Kyosai Kuminai Mutual Relief League" dormitories for female and male operatives sanitary and recreational programs an annuity and savings program and a counseling program. The Boxes for Suggestions are installed throughout the facility a further indicator of the tight-nit Japanese business structure.<br /> <br /> Very light wear along edges of binding. Endpapers light age-toned along edges block with minor age-toning in margins not affecting images. Some tissue guards with light creasing. Printed by S. Ichida hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53551
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Brugiere Theo Photography
Visitez I' URSS Visit the USSR Anniversary Tours
Paris: Wagons-Lits 1927. Original document. Loose leaf. Near fine condition. Folded Broadside 14 1/1 x 16 3/4". Four-fold original travel advertising broadside illustrated with photo-montage in sepia-tone brown and white lettering protected by modern mylar. <br /> <br /> Travel agency offering vacation trips to the USSR by train plane or cruise throughout the year including a package to the celebrations of the anniversary of the Russian Revolution on October 17 Anniversaire des Journées de 1917. Destinations offered in this advertisement are Moscow Leningrad the Crimea the Caucasian Riviera Soviet Armenia the Ukraine incl. Kharkiv Odessa and a Volga cruise. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Théo Brugière.<br /> <br /> Contains stamp of "Wagons-Lits // Cook" World Travel Organization Cannes. The Belgium railcar manufacturer Wagon-Lits bought the British travel agency Thomas Cook & Sons in 1927 an effort by the Belgium manufacturer and operator of theOrient Express to focus more on the travel business. Minor wear. Wagons-Lits unknown
Bookseller reference : 51027
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(Photography: Italo-Ethiopean War)
Personal Photo-Album of Isadore Nebenzahl - War Correspondent for Agence Havas
NP: NP 1930. Original photographs. poor to very good condition. fair to fine. Oblong Quarto. 23 plates with tissue guards. String bound photo album remains of leather fitting on cardboard. Personal photo-album of Isadore Nebenzahl war correspondent for Agence Havas later: French News Agency in Ethiopia containing 310 b/w original photographs documenting Ethiopia during the Second-Italo-Ethiopean War of 1935. The photographs measure 3 1/2 x 2 1/2" with one measuring 9 x 6" Son of the emperor and one at 3 1/4 x 5 1/4" <br /> <br /> Some 200000 Italian troops invaded Ethiopia in October 1935 under the command of Italian Marshall Emilio de Bono who was soon replaced by General Pietro Badoglio by Mussolini. The Ethiopian forces were defeated and on May 7 1936 the Italian King Victor Emmanuel III was declared emperor and the provinces of Eritrea Italian Somaliland and Abyssinia Ethiopia were united to form the Italian province of East Africa. The fighting between Italian troops and rebels continued until 1939.<br /> <br /> The British war correspondent George Steer had reported on the use of chemical weapons by the Italian forces and subsequently had been deported together with Nebenzahl and other reporters on grounds of anti-Italian propaganda and espionage see original Reuters bulletin of May 18th 1935 enclosed in the album. The Reuters bulletin was covered by several newspapers including the New York Times mentioning Steers and Nebenzahl in their reporting. Several of the photographs included in this album show Isadore Nebenzahl.<br /> <br /> The photographs depict everyday life in Addis Abebba show Nebenzahl and his colleagues in business settings or on portrait photographs construction sites armed patrol activities gatherings and diner settings military personnel official events actions to extinguish fires friends and families airplanes during air raids victims and destruction from air raids army exercises refugees and troops train stations and ships the harbor and navy ships an airfield and scenarios on the ship after being expelled.<br /> <br /> The album includes a small set of documents and photographs loosely laid in:<br /> <br /> 1. Two official press credentials Service des la Presse for Isadore Nebenzahl both with passport photo of Nebenzahl<br /> <br /> 2. A photograph of what seems to be the son of Heila Selassie laid in with two other photographs.<br /> <br /> 3. A formal invitation of the Foreign Ministry of Ethiopia for Isadore Nebenzahl to attend an evening at the "Noveau Palas Imperial".<br /> <br /> The leather padding of the front cover of the album is missing the back padding barely attached with heavy wear along edges. Front cover cardboard with water staining along top edge not affecting album or photographs. Light age-toning. The binding in overall poor photos and interior in good to very good condition. Binding protected in modern mylar. NP unknown
Bookseller reference : 52798
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[Tibbitts. HC.] (photography by) H. C.
San Francisco California. Site of the Proposed Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915 Celebrating the Completion of the Panama Canal w/ 25 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS GEORGE C. PERKINS' COPY
San Francisco: H.C. Tibbitts/ Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co 1910. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Oblong quarto. 12 x 8". Unpaginated. 3 pages of text 25 photographic plates. Dark brown pebbled leather boards with gilt lettering on the front cover gilt tooling along the edges of the front and back cover. Period floral endpapers.<br /> <br /> This photographic work takes the form of a proposal for the city of San Francisco to host the Panama–Pacific International Exposition celebrating the impending completion of the Panama Canal. The work was compiled by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co. Initial text praises the ongoing reconstruction and recovery effort of the city in the wake of the 1906 Earthquake and details the amenities offered by the city to tourists. The text is finely printed including a decorative woodblock initial printed in black and red. The following 25 plates of original b/w silver-gelatin photographs by photographer Howard Clinton Tibbitts 1863-1937 highlight not only the beauty of the city of San Francisco but also showcase the grandeur of the state of California and all that it would have to offer prospective visitors to the Exposition. There are also a few images of other locations of natural beauty in the Western United States that would also appeal to tourists. Each photograph measures 8x6" on the plate is printed on heavy stock mat photo paper and contains captions.<br /> <br /> Images included here are: San Francisco business district including the Mills Building and the Merchant Exchange Post Street SF Lotta's Fountain SF St. Francis Hotel SF Hotel Fairmont San Francisco Montgomery Street near Post SF Post and Market Street SF Spreckels Temple of Music at Golden Gate Park SF theatre district SF the banking district SF including the Bank of California and the Alaska Commercial building Chinatown SF park at Union Square SF construction of a YMCA SF Sutter street near Grant SF Powell and Geary St. SF SF Bay Mount Tamalpais with the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway in the foreground Bridal Veil Meadows in Yosemite Wawona Tree of the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite Mount Shasta Lake Tahoe Mission San Miguel Yellowstone Falls The Grand Canyon The Capitol Building in Sacramento.<br /> <br /> Binding with some rubbing and light chipping to extremities including the head and tail of the spine. Interior with some minor to light sporadic staining mostly confined to the margins of the pages and plates. All images clean and vibrant save for one plate which contains more extensive foxing including some on the photograph itself. Binding in good interior in very good condition overall. Quite scarce. Binding protected in modern mylar. Howard Clinton Tibbitts 1863-1937 was a San Francisco based American photographer. Over a 40 year period beginning in 1892 Tibbits produced notable work documenting the American West Canada and Mexico while working for the Southern Pacific Railroad. His work shows the natural landscapes cities towns and industry which helped promote the grandeur beauty and innovations of the Western United States.<br /> <br /> It is unclear how many copies of this work were produced or if it was ever sold to the public. Known copies are bound in presentational bindings with the recipients name on the front cover. Many of the recipients were notable American politicians including copies given to congressmen such as Henry C. Loudenslager Walter I. Smith and Ben Johnson. Our specific copy is especially significant and relevant as it was given to George C. Perkins 1839-1923 who at the time was serving as the United States Senator for California and had previously served as the 14th Governor of California from 1880 to 1883. H.C. Tibbitts/ Panama-Pacific International Exposition Co hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53538
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Levitt, Helen (photography by); James Agee (text)
A Way of Seeing
New York: Viking Press 1965. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Oblong octavo. 78pp. Original photo-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering on spine and front cover. Black cloth boards with white lettering on cover and spine. Olive green endpapers. "A Way of Seeing presents the work of one of the finest lyric photographers of our time with a text by one of our finest prose writers. Helen Levitt's remarkable pictures of New York streets and people comprise in James Agee's words "an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing and a major poetic work." Taken over a number of years beginning in the early 1940s the 51 photographs in this book - many of them of children and of the poor many taken in Harlem - reveal the face of the city as it was and is and are an enduring image of existence as this artist sees it." Publisher. Images finely reproduced in b/w photogravure. <br /> <br /> Dust jacket with some light creasing and rubbing to extremities. Small abrasion along the bottom edges of the jacket with a result 1/4" loss of the image. Binding clean and tight. Interior with some sporadic light staining in the margins of the text portions with some text underlined and marked in pen. Image pages all still clean and vibrant. Dj in very good- binding in very good interior in good. Viking Press hardcover
Bookseller reference : 53241
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Opie, Catherine (Photography); Jessica Hough (Ed.); Harry Philbrick (Foreword)
1999 / In And Around Home SIGNED
Orange County: The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Large Quarto. 127pp. Original pidgeon blue cloth with color print laid to cover and white and red lettering on cover and spine. Black endpapers. Signed by Catherine Opie on half-title. Catalog for the exhibition tour starting at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum 2006 travelling to the Orange County Museum of Art 2006 the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland 2006 and the Weatherspoon Art Museum 2007. Designed by Lorraine Wild and Victoria Lam. With an introduction by Elizabeth Armstrong. <br /> <br /> "In the pairing of Catherine Opie's series 1999 with her recent photographs from In Around Home 2005-5 the depopulated countryside of America's rural past coexists with the raw vitality of a diverse urban neighborhood. 1999 harks back to Walker Evans's and Dorothea Lange's Depression-era images of the rural countryside.Opie's recent photographs of her neighborhood in In and Around Home reflect a similar empathy while showing us the importance of and the variety in the urban and domestic landscape of the contemporary city." Armstrong With texts by A. M. Homes and Jessica Hough. Contains exhibition history and list of works in this exhibition at rear. The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum hardcover
Bookseller reference : 52439
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Goldin, Nan (Photography); Nan Goldin & Taka Kawachi (Eds.)
Couples and Loneliness
Kyoto: Korinsha Press 1999. Second printing. Softcover. Fine condition. Quarto. 123 9pp. Original color-illustrated stiff glossy wraps with black lettering on spine; housed in color-illustrated stiff wrap slipcase with white lettering on spine. Design by Hiroshi Ohmizo.<br /> <br /> "My work is about letting life be what it is and not trying to make it more or less or altered. What I'm interested in is capturing life as it's being lived and the flavor of the smell of it and maintaining that in pictures." Goldin An extensive array of "atmosphere" in color photographs as always ". from her personal life." Text in Japanese and English. Korinsha Press unknown
Bookseller reference : 52435 ISBN : 4771303428 9784771303423
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Reboux Paul Text; Jean Clair Guyot Photography
Hermès Sellier Trade Catalog
Paris: Hermès Sellier 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine to fine condition. Quarto. 16pp. Original boards in original dustjacket with intricately framed color photograph on original dustjacket with illustrated flaps protected by modern mylar. Hermès Ex-Libris offers this copy to Monsieur et Madame de Valroger names handwritten. Printed to heavy light green paper. <br /> <br /> Text by French author journalist and painter Paul Reboux 1877-1963. The high-quality photographic reproductions are by the famed French photographer Jean Clair-Guyot 1880-1956 including seven stunning full-page photogravures and photomontages of accessories on facing pages. First and only edition printed by Draeger. <br /> <br /> Stylish photographic production for Maison Hermès established in 1837 and renowned for its exceptional know-how. The catalog shows equipment for traveling outdoor sports riding and racing etc. as well as accessories for "modern women and men." Text in French. Dustjacket with very light wear along edges. Hermès Sellier hardcover
Bookseller reference : 52330
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Schatz, Boris (text); Yaakov Stark (illus.); Zadok Basan (photography); Menachem Ussishkin (introduction)
Bezalel: Zayn Fargangenheit Gegenvart un Tsukunft Bezalel: It's Past Present and Future SCARCE YIDDISH EDITION
Odessa: Tsiunistishe Kafike-Bibliatek 1910. First edition. Softcover. g- to g. 12mo. 43pp. 3. Illustrated tan and black paper wrappers. B/w frontispiece photographic portrait of Boris Schatz. <br /> <br /> This scarce Yiddish-languge work is an early illustrated monograph with the aim of promoting and raising money for the work of the pioneering Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. Founded in 1906 by Boris Schatz who wrote the text it was established as the first modern institute of higher learning in Palestine. Bezalel is the foundation of fine arts in Israel and is known as the most prestigious art institute in the country. The school is seen as an instrumental force in the development of modern Jewish art in the 20th century.<br /> <br /> The illustrations in b/w throughout including the elaborately decorated front cover along decorative head and tailpieces and large historiated initials in an indicative Jugenstill style are all by Bezalel-educated painter and typographer Yaakov Stark aka 'Ben David' 1881-1915. Also ampanying the text are numerous captioned b/w photographic reproductions after original images taken by photographer Zadok Basan 1882-1956. The images show the exterior and interior of the school including many pictures of the faculty and students in class. Introductory text by then chairman of 'the Committee to help Jewish Workers in Syria and Palestine' Russian-born Zionist leader Menachem Ussishkin 1863-1941. The final pages contain advertisements in Russian Yiddish and Hebrew.<br /> <br /> Main text throughout in Yiddish.<br /> <br /> Wrappers with some light stains a paper label pasted on the spine and a closed tear along the left side of the front cover. Ink stamp at the top of the front cover. Book block trimmed throughout the along the top edge resulting in occasional minor loss of text mostly just page numbers at the top. Interior with a closed tear to the frontispiece image. Age toning to pages throughout and a few instances of sporadic minor water spots with most images throughout clean. Smudges and stains to pages 42-43. Wrappers in good- interior in good condition overall. Yiddish title: בּצל×ל: זיין פ×רג×× ×’×¢× ×”×™×™×˜ ×’×¢×’×¢× ×•×•×רט ×ון ×¦×•×§×•× ×¤×˜<br /> Alternate spelling: בצל×ל: זיין פ×רג×× ×’×× ×”×™×™×˜ ×’×¢×’×¢× ×•×•×רט ×ון ×¦×•×§×•× ×¤×˜ <br /> Contributors: בוריס שץ יעקב שט×רק צדוק ב×ס×ן ×ž× ×—× ×וסישקין<br /> Publication: ×¦×™×•× ×™×¡×˜×™×©×¢ ק×פיקע-ביבלי×טעק ××“×¢×¡×¡× ××“×¢×¡× ×ª×¨"×¢<br /> <br /> Publication no.22 of the Tsiunistishe Kafike-Bibliatek Zionist Coffee House-Library.<br /> <br /> The text of this work was known to have been issued in two other editions in the same year from different publishers: <br /> "Betsalʼel toldotav mahuto va-Ê»atid" in Hebrew. Jerusalem published by Hotsaʼat Snunit and "Becalel: ego proÅ¡loe nastojaÅ¡Äee i buduÅ¡Äee/ Бецалел: его прошлое наÑтоÑщее и будущее" in Russian. Odessa published by Palestina". The Hebrew edition is text only published without illustrations. Only the Yiddish and Russian editions contain visual content. This Yiddish edition is the most scarce with no holdings on OCLC. Tsiunistishe Kafike-Bibliatek unknown
Bookseller reference : 52648
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Builder Levy (Photography); Paul Nyden; Walter Rosenblum (Texts)
Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner INSCRIBED
New York: Builder Levy 1976. First edition. Softcover. Very good to fine condition. Large Folio. 2 12 plates. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with black lettering on cover. Inscribed "To Steve Cohen: Good luck and best wishes to a fellow Photographers Forum Colleague and friend. Looking forward to seeing you again. I personally selected these rag print Sincerely Builder Levy Aug. 18 1979."<br /> <br /> "The photographer's craft by its very nature forces him Builder Levy to deal with the visible world and with tangible reality. He can use his camera to express the pleasures of place and person; or he may decide to use his art to reveal to protest and to fight poverty exploitation and disease. It is in this tradition that Builder Levy photographed in Appalachia. There he participated in the struggle of the mining community against a brutal economic and physical environment." Walter Rosenblum.<br /> <br /> Illustrated with twelve full page high quality offset reproductions of b/w photographs depicting Appalachian minors and their environment in the 1970s. Plate seven Andrew Kosto present in the complete set and a light gloss duplicate. Very light wear along edges of portfolio and minor age-toning. Builder Levy unknown
Bookseller reference : 52286
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