Search Results: Photography from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Jo Anne Graddy, Kansas City, 1951; oblong 8vo, 48 pages. Photographic chronicle of the devastating flood which struck Kansas City on Friday the 13th, July, 1951, leaving 30,000 people homeless. Forty-six full-page dramatic b&w photographs. Very Good Plus, in photo illustrated wraps. Small name inscribed at the upper right corner of the front wrap.

Simon and Schuster, NY, 1959; First Edition; quarto, 258 pages. Captivating photographic study of Africa, from the Mediterranean to the Equator and from the Equator to the Cape Of Good Hope, encompassing North Africa and the Sahara, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, Ruanda, Urundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Union Of South Africa. Hundreds of beautiful photos of the land and peoples of Africa in both color and b&w. Very Good Plus, in illustrated boards. Clean, crisp, and bright.

Cameron and Company, San Francisco, 1980; First Edition, first printing; oblong quarto, 159 pages; red cloth; gold end papers. Magnificent series of large full-page color aerial photographs of London and environs, with informative text by Alistair Cooke. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp.

Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, 1989; First Edition, 192 pages; illustrated. The photographs of photojournalist Dan Weiner (1920-1959), chronicling the positive and negative effects on the lives of working Americans by the thriving post-war economy of the 1950’s. Weiner’s death at age 39, in an airplane accident while on assignment, prompted Edward Steichen to remark, "The small rank of fine photographers has been cruelly thinned by the loss of Dan Weiner." Informative background text on Weiner and his working methods by William A. Ewing, plus an in-context overview of the postwar period by author and anthropologist Lionel Tiger. A total of 154 b&w photographs, a number published for the first time here. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp, not price-clipped, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

NY Graphic Society/Little Brown, NY, 1988; First Edition; 4to, 402 pages; black cloth; silver titles; illustrated. Revealing collection of Adams’ extensive personal correspondence with friends and luminaries, such as Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, Beaumont and Nancy Newhall, Jimmy Carter, Gary Trudeau, and Edward Weston. Illustrated with over 100 Adams photographs, from sweeping landscapes to family snaps. Foreword by Wallace Stegner. Fine, clean, crisp, bright, sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind, in a Very Good dust jacket with moderate spine sunning. No chips, no price clipping.

Collins Publishers, San Francisco, 1989; First Edition; tall quarto, 166 pages. Magnificent color photographic study of mountain landscapes and mountaineering, by celebrated photographer/ adventurer Galen Rowell. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

Millwood Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 1985; First Edition; oblong 4to, 128 pages. Magnificent color photographic essay of Fiji’s Yasawa Islands by notable New Zealand photojournalist James Siers. Informative text includes history of the region as well as a Fijian language primer. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket. Inscribed and signed on the front endpaper and select internal pages by a number of Yasawa Islands natives in appreciation and farewell to the book’s previous owner, an American filmmaker. Also includes the warm inscription and autograph of Richard Evanson opposite his photographic portrait on page 69. Evanson is owner of Nanuya Levu island, renamed "Turtle Island" after purchase by him in the early 1970’s. Turtle Island is where both versions of the movie "The Blue Lagoon" were filmed. A beautiful book.

Simon & Schuster, NY, 1958; First Edition; 4to, 192 pages; illustrated. Visual essay on the Spanish bullfight, with photographs and narrative by Peter Buckley. One hundred and nine beautiful full-page b&w photos of bullfighters in action, including Domingo Ortega, Antonio Ordonez, Luis Miguel Dominguin, Manuel Jimenez (Chicuelo II), Rafael Giron, Cesar Giron, Manuel Baez ("Litri"), Antonio Borrero ("Chamaco"), Jaime Ostos, Gregorio Sanchez, and others. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has some minor tanning of the extremities. Crisp, clean, and bright, with no ownership signatures. A very nice copy.

Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1957; First Edition; 4to, 141 pages. Photographer Andre Martin’s essay of the mystical spirit of Andalusia, Spain-- its land, culture, religion and people, with the life and death struggle of the Spanish bullfight as guiding vehicle. Text by Jose Bergamon in both French and Spanish. Over one hundred compelling b&w photographs, most of them full-page, reproduced in rich gravure. Publisher’s English-translation leaflet for picture captions laid-in. Very Good Plus, in a VG- dust jacket that has a few small closed edge tears and a chip with associated tape repair at the upper left corner of the front panel.

The Brooklyn Museum/ Univ. of Washington Press,, NY, 1992; First Edition; large 8vo, 223 pages. Official catalogue for the photographic exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum in 1992. Over 120 compelling b&w images by photographer Consuelo Kanaga (1894-1978), with 51-page Kanaga biography at the front authored by Barbara Head Millstein. Chapter introductions and analyses by Millstein and Sarah M. Lowe, with complete titles and details for each photo, plus a 4-page bibliography at the back. Very Good Plus in stiff photo-illustrated wraps. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Clean, crisp, and bright.

Ridge Press, NY, 1962; 4to, 128 pages. Photographic essay of some of America’s most creative individuals engaged in their respective crafts: writers, actors, film directors, musicians, poets, painters, architects and sculptors. Captured in compelling b&w and color photographs by such notable Magnum photographers as Eve Arnold, Henri Cartier Bresson, Ernst Haas, Dan Budnick, Dennis Stock, Bruce Davidson, et al. Includes substantive essays by President John Kennedy, Dwight Eisenhower, Harry S. Truman, James Baldwin, Louis Kronenberger, Mark Van Doren, and Joseph Wood Krutch, all written expressly for this book, together with poetry contributions by Robert Frost and John Ciardi. Published in conjunction with plans to build the National Cultural Center in Washington, DC, later to become the Kennedy Center. Very Good Plus in a crisp and bright Very Good dust jacket that has a single small edge chip (1/2") in the blank margin of the back panel. Miniscule foxing on title page only.

Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1986; First Edition; 4to, 212 pages. James Sheriff Curtis’s renowned portrait portfolio of Native American peoples, consisting of 117 pages of text by Florence Curtis Graybill and Victor Boesen accompanied by 95 full-page reproductions of Curtis’s photos. Introduction by Harold Curtis. Fine, in photo illustrated wraps.

Aperture, Inc., New York, 1977; no statement of edition; quarto, 116 pages; illustrated; brown cloth; gilt titles. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a single eighth-inch closed edge tear. A clean, crisp, and attractive copy.

Little Brown and Company/ Bullfinch Press, Boston, 1990; First Edition; quarto, 141 pages; maroon cloth; silver titles. Prodigious collection of 141 photographs, the majority full-page, from Eisenstadt’s LIFE years as well as from his personal collection. Lengthy introduction by Bryan Holme. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good Plus unclipped dust jacket. No chips or tears. Clean and bright. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind.

Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY, 1931; 8vo, 106 pages; teal boards; teal end papers. Professional manual on the chemistry of photographic materials, including development, fixation, washing, reduction, intensification, and toning, with full formulas for each, plus complete instructions on the preparation and use of all solutions. Two page Table of Chemical Solubilities at the back. Very Good Plus, in the original printed brown paper dust jacket that has a 3" closed tear, repaired on the verso with japan paper. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, binding tight, sound, and square, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. A very nice copy.

Whittlesey House, NY, 1939; First Edition, second printing; 8vo, 239 pages; illustrated. Stimulating source of fresh ideas and techniques for photographs, authored by Jacob Deschin, writer of the "Camera Angles" column for Scientific American, contributing editor of Popular Photography from its inception, and camera editor for the New York Times from 1941 until his retirement. Twenty-four full-page photo illustration plates. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, corners sharp, no ownership signatures. In a clean and bright Very Good dust jacket that has a small (1/4") chip on the back panel adjacent the shoulder.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964; First Edition; 8vo, 406 pages plus viii page index at the back; brown and black cloth boards; gilt titles; turquoise end papers. Extraordinary life and career of pioneering photographer Frank Jay Haynes, who with his camera and portable darkroom chronicled the natural landscapes, towns, mines, farms, ranches, Indian camps, river boats, forts, and railways of the frontier West, and was appointed first official photographer for the newly created Yellowstone National Park, as well as its first concessionaire. Magnificently illustrated with 422 Haynes photos, including over 25 striking individual Indian portraits, many of them full-page. Of special note is a photo of Excelsior geyser in Yellowstone, greatest geyser in volume ever known to man. Taken in 1888, it is believed to be the only one in existence, as Excelsior ceased eruption that year. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a short transparent tape reinforcement at the top extremity of the spine… Read More

Aperture, NY, 1983; Quarto, 71 pages. Steven Shore’s exquisite color photographs of Claude Monet’s gardens at Giverny, commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Near Fine, in a clean and bright Very Good dust jacket that has a short tape repair on the verso of the front panel.

Metropolitan Museum Of Modern Art, NY, 1978; First Edition; tall quarto (14" x 11"), 128 pages. Fifty-one rich full-page gravure reproductions of photographs of Georgia O’Keeffe taken by Alfred Stieglitz from 1917 - 1930, with an eleven-page introduction by O’Keeffe. Complete index of all works shown, with dates, at the back. Printed in Monotype Bell and Bembo by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont, on Monadnock Caress paper. Plates by Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut. Binding by Publisher’s Book Bindery, Long Island City, New York. Fine, in gray boards with gilt titles. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. In the original Very Good slipcase which is clean, absolutely sound, with very slight sunning and miniscule wear. A desirable copy of the first edition, published by M.O.M.A. under the direction of O’Keeffe in conjunction with the Stieglitz exhibition that year, composed chiefly of prints from her… Read More

Ridge Press/ Summit Books, New York, 1977; Quarto, 208 pages; red cloth, orange titles. Large collection of bizarre b&w images from such photographers as Emmet Gowin, Les Krims, Peter Hujar, Paul Diamond, Duane Michals, Andre Kertesz, Bill Brandt, Edward Weston, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Arthur Tress, Brassai, Weegee, Jerry Uelsmann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Kerstel, Max Waldman, Allen A. Dutton, Clarence John Laughlin, Ellen Carey, Lucas Samaras, Robert Delford Brown, William Mortensen, and others, plus a number of daguerreotypes, cabinet cards, cartes de visite, and historic photos from the Civil War and Old West, all reflecting the lurid element of the macabre. Probing text by A.D. Coleman. Produced with a grant from the Art Critics Fellowship of the National Endowment Of The Arts. Signed by the author on the title page. Per the custom of Ridge Press, there is no statement of edition. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, bright, and sharp, in a Very Good dust jacket that has mild spine sunning. Not a… Read More