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2009rif. 201638New York: Aperture 2009. First edition and first printing. Hardcover 119 pages. Measures 11.5" wide by 14" high. Features text by Eugenia Parry. Includes 65 color images. A very near fine copy in gray cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. Aperture unknown books
1991rif. 180271Paris France: Centre national de la photographie avec le concours du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication 1991. Softcover. VG. Black glossy covers. 17 pages 63 pages of plates : illustrations. text in French. Includes bibliographical references. Centre national de la photographie, avec le concours du ministère de la Culture et de la Communication paperback books
1967rif. 76761Bucaresti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. illustrations folding plan folding map 271p. Original light green cloth. dj. 25cm. Jacket scuffed and edge-worn. "Rejected by Tozzer Library" stamped on endpaper. Romanian text. Excavations of Dridu culture. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania hardcover books
2013rif. 210613Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports 2013. Softcover. VG. Matte softcover book with the title in green down a black spine. The book has French flaps. Pages: 3 4-363. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. October 6 2013-March 2 2014 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles April 9-August 25 2014." Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports paperback books
2013rif. 203215Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports 2013. Softcover. As New. Matte softcover book with the title in green down a black spine. The book has French flaps. Pages: 3 4-363. Profusely illustrated with color images. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. October 6 2013-March 2 2014 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles April 9-August 25 2014."This richly illustrated book tells the first full history of the calotype embedding it in the social context that crucially formed it: Britain's changing fortunes intricate class structure ever-growing industrialization and new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates many have never before been published or exhibited. And the histories of 500 calotypists most previously unknown are detailed in the volume's biographical dictionary a valuable work of far-reaching scholarship the further demonstrates the major role played by the paper negative in mid-nineteenth-century Britain."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Photography and an age of paradox -- The formative years : the calotype in the 1840s -- The great exhibition of 1851 -- Battling patents and gaining legitimacy -- The calotype finds its place -- Subjects fit for the camera -- British sensibilities 1855-1857 -- Echoes of the grand tour -- Under an Indian sky -- Commercialism advances the calotype declines. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports paperback books
1983rif. 315340Princeton: Princeton University Press 1983. hardcover. fine/near fine. Black & white photographic illustrations throughout. 284 pages. Square 4to cream cloth d.w. slightly edgeworn. Princeton: Princeton University Press 1983. Author's inked gift inscription and autograph on half-title page. A fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. Princeton University Press unknown books
1987rif. 326226Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago 1987. First. paperback. very good. Gustave Le Gray. 184 pages Oblong 4to photographic wrappers lower corner sligthly crushed effecting pages. Chicago: Art Institute. 1987. First Edition. Very good. Art Institute of Chicago unknown books
1994rif. 213036Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms Publishers 1994. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Printed in an edition of 5000 copies. Features an introduction by Witkin and essays by Stanley Burns Eugenia Perry Janis Aaron H. Esman and James Crump. A collection of over 100 black and white images. A near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a very good dust jacket with some light rubbing and some foxing to the verso. Twin Palms Publishers unknown books
1991rif. 3370San Francisco. Bedford Arts. 1991. Square 4to. 1st Edition. Illustrated from photographs. Very Fine in Very Fine dustwrapper. Bedford Arts. unknown books
1997rif. 261586Santa Fe: Arena 1997. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Adam Fuss. Profusely illustrated in color and in black and white. tall 4to pictorial white boards d.w. Santa Fe: Arena Editions 1997. First Edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Inscribed by the artist in multi-colored pencil. Arena unknown books
2007rif. 319256New York: Edwynn Houk Gallery / Hans P. Kraus Jr. Inc 2007. Pamphlet. 12p. stapled wraps 8.75x12 inches profusely illus. very good exhibition catalog enclosed in a lightly soiled 9x12 inch folder. Edwynn Houk Gallery / Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc unknown books
2014rif. 1402112Farnham and Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Limited 2014. Hardcover. Large Octavo xv 261 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine black with white and gilt lettering. Exterior has extreme light wear including minor edge wear. Boards have very extremely light wear with mild tilt to the spine. Text block has very slight wear. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column L ND-L. 1402112. FP New Rockville Stock. Ashgate Publishing Limited hardcover books
2006rif. 41856Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms 2006. Limited First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. 1/1000. Folio 14 1/4 x 11 1/2". Unpaginated. 88pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth with blind-stamped lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers. Title page signed by both Robert Stivers and Eugenia Parry. In "Sanctum" Robert Stivers "takes us into alcoholic twilight. Shuddering exiles in watery purgatory the human figures as well as forests clouds plants works of art and even architecture seem never actually to have existed. Each photograph visualizes the anguished lament of the current that runs through him. All of this mirrors his dream books and journals where the trials of actual experience and his mind's nocturnal dream machinery are indistinguishable. Stivers' pictures are figments of his material philosophy of escape." From the Publishers. Sporadic faint scratches to dust-jacket. Pages slightly age-toned along edges. DJ in overall good binding and interior in very good condition. Twin Palms hardcover books
1983rif. 159209Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1983. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 284 pages. A scholarly examination of this early method of photography as it was used by French photographers like Gustave Le Gray Charles Negre Hippolyte Bayard and numerous others. Includes over 100 images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the bottom of the front panel near the spine and some other very minor wear. Princeton University Press unknown books
1986rif. 208485Paris: Musee des Arts Decoratifs and Flammarion 1986. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 191 pages. Text in French by Eugenia Parry Janis and Josiane Sartre. A catalogue raisonne of the collection of the Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs. A near fine copy with some bumping to the top of the spine and in a very good plus dust jacket with some tears and wear to the top of the spine. Musee des Arts Decoratifs and Flammarion unknown books
1979rif. 158477First edition. Small 4to. Edited with a preface by James Hatcher. Illustrated with numerous photographs and facsimiles. Dust jacket unclipped; small chip to spine top. Very good. 97 pages. No signatures or bookplates. University of Alabama hardcover books
1989rif. 27914Madrid: Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good- with bad bump at head of spine causing a tear at the head of the front joint; the bump has also left a small horizontal crease on the spine. Granell has glued to the pastedown endpaper a signed and inscribed note "To Franklin and Penelope Rosemon our very dear great friends . Eugenio and his wife Amparo."; 4to 9" - 11" tall; 250 pp . Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA hardcover books
2013rif. 171990Athens: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports 2013. Hardcover. VG/VG: Never read as new. HARDCOVER edition. Black embossed cloth with color pictorial dustjacket. 363 pp. Mainly color illustrations maps plans. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at the National Gallery of Art Washington D.C. October 6 2013-March 2 2014 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles April 9-August 25 2014."This richly illustrated book tells the first full history of the calotype embedding it in the social context that crucially formed it: Britain's changing fortunes intricate class structure ever-growing industrialization and new spirit under Queen Victoria. Of the 118 early photographs presented here in meticulously printed plates many have never before been published or exhibited. And the histories of 500 calotypists most previously unknown are detailed in the volume's biographical dictionary a valuable work of far-reaching scholarship the further demonstrates the major role played by the paper negative in mid-nineteenth-century Britain."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Photography and an age of paradox -- The formative years : the calotype in the 1840s -- The great exhibition of 1851 -- Battling patents and gaining legitimacy -- The calotype finds its place -- Subjects fit for the camera -- British sensibilities 1855-1857 -- Echoes of the grand tour -- Under an Indian sky -- Commercialism advances the calotype declines. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports hardcover books
1987rif. 185763Chicago IL: The Art Institute of Chicago / The University of Chicago Press 1987. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 184 pages. Published in conjunction with a show that ran September 18 through December 6 1987. An examination on one of the most important French photographers of the 19th century. Includes 150 tritone plates and text illustrations. A clean and tight near fine copy in cloth boards in a close to near fine dust jacket with a few tiny edge chips and tears. Internally a clean copy of this terrific book. The Art Institute of Chicago / The University of Chicago Press unknown books
1989rif. 210143Minneapolis MN and New York: Walker Art Center and Rizzoli 1989. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 189 pages. Published in conjunction a nationally circulated exhibition organized by the Walker. Features a foreword by Martin Friedman and essays by Eugenia Parry Janis Max Kozloff and Adam D. Weinberg. Includes images by Dieter Applet Bernhard Blume Mary Beth Edelson Joseph Jachna William Klein Ralph Eugene Meatyard Duane Michals Lucas Samaras Michael Snow Patrick Tosani Anne Turyn and Francesca Woodman. A very near fine copy in black cloth boards and in a fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Adam D. Weinberg on the title page and with laid in related ephemera. A very nice copy and uncommon signed. Walker Art Center and Rizzoli unknown books
1979rif. JC2861Boards of Trustees for the University of Alabama 1979. Paperback. Very Good. Wraps; illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author on the dedication page to Douglas Fairbanks Jr. 1909-2000 an American actor his credits include Gunga Din and a highly decorated naval officer of World War II. Also includes a laid-in postcard addressed to Fairbanks at his home in Palm Beach advertising the performance of TALLULAH. Boards of Trustees for the University of Alabama paperback books
1998rif. 213032Santa Fe NM: Twin Palms 1998. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 196 pages. Features an essay by Eugenia Parry. A retrospective collection of disturbing images that Witkin personally selected from his large body of work. Includes 92 four color plates and lists of selected exhibitions and selected publications. A tight near fine copy cloth boards with some of the usual flaking to the spine lettering and in a near fine photo illustrated cloth slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Twin Palms unknown books
1979rif. 420498Alabama: The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama 1979. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Edited by James Hatcher. Quarto. Perfectbound in wrappers. Near fine with fading along the spine and on part of the front wrapper. Inscribed by the author to the Tony Award-winning actress Marian Seldes: "for Marian Eugenia." Seldes starred with Bankhead in the ill-fated Tennesee Williams' play The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore which was Bankhead's final Broadway production. Laid in is a belly band with blurbs about the book from Mary Martin Helen Hayes. Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Vincent Price and Paul Green. (The Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama unknown books
2011rif. 214428Santa Fe NM / Chicago IL: Radius Books / The Art Institute of Chicago 2011. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 129 pages. Published in conjunction with a traveling show that began at The Art Institute of Chicago and then went on to San Francisco and Philadelphia. Text by Eugenia Parry and Elizabeth Siegel. Includes numerous black and white images. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket. As new and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautifully printed book. Radius Books / The Art Institute of Chicago unknown books
1965rif. 07681THE BELOVED INVADER Lippincott 1965 first edition slight rubbing to the spine edges else fine in like full color pictorial dust-wrapper. This the authors first novel takes place in St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia. From the library of philanthropist Stanley Kresge and INSCRIBED to his wife by the author. Lippincott unknown books
