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New York: Art In America /. Very Good. 1970. First Edition. Paperback. Volume 58, Number 6; 178 pages; Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers slight curling at corners of front wrapper. Cover by Lucas Samaras. Issue features a wonderful original offset lithograph by Robert Rauschenberg printed at Triton Press. Feature article: Autopolaroid by Lucas Samaras. Samaras was born in Kastoria, Greece. He studied at Rutgers University on a scholarship, where he met Allan Kaprow and George Segal. Samaras participated in Kaprow's "Happenings," and posed for Segal's plaster sculptures.[2] Claes Oldenburg, in whose Happenings he also participated, later referred to Samaras as one of the "New Jersey school," which also included Kaprow, Segal, George Brecht, Robert Whitman, Robert Watts, Geoffrey Hendricks and Roy Lichtenstein. Samaras previously worked in painting, sculpture, and performance art, before beginning work in photography. He subsequently… Read More

Seattle: Grimm's Photo Service. Near Fine. 1950. Brochure. Black and white photograph taken at the Annual Banquet of the American Association of Law Libraries, which took place in Seattle, Washington. Three couples are pictured. One of the couples is Mr. Francis Xavier Dwyer (then Asst. Law Librarian, Library of Congress) and wife. Laid-in is a typed letter addressed to Mr. Dwyer and signed by Dennis A. Dooley, State Librarian, on letterhead of "The Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Library, State House, Boston" and dated August 16, 1950. The letter their long association and admiration. There is an additional snapshot laid-in depicting two couples standing on the platform in front of a train -- likely Mr. and Mrs. Francis X. Dwyer and Mr. and Mrs. Dennis A. Dooley. All are housed in a manila envelope sent from Grimm Photo Service to Mr. Francis X. Dwyer. .

Arlington: Privately Printed. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 200 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial boards in dustjacket with some edgewear and chipping at extremeties. Compiled from a series of a hundred articles which appeared weekly beginning in March 1957 on the editorial page of the Northern Virginia Sun. Illustrated with 190 photographs. .

Arlington: Privately Printed. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1959. First Edition; Fifth Printing. Hardcover. 200 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial boards in dustjacket with some edgewear and chipping at extremeties. Compiled from a series of a hundred articles which appeared weekly beginning in March 1957 on the editorial page of the Northern Virginia Sun. Illustrated with 190 photographs. .

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.. Near Fine. 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Interview by Andy Warhol. A fabulous collection of 61 of Kayser's colour photographs of artist. OCLC: 7567371 Some of the artists include Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Marc Chagall, Sonia Delaunay, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, Louise Nevelson, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, John Cage, Chuck Close, Ralph Goings, James Rosenquist, and Frank Stella. .

New York: Duell, Sloan And Pearce. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 112 pages; New York: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; Second Printing. Autograph; 112 pages; Inscribed and Signed by the author, clean and secure in original tan cloth binding lettered in burgundy, illustrated map endpapers in photo-illustrated dustjacket; release stamp on dedication page, otherwise near fine in very good dustjacket with some edgewear, shallow chipping, closed tear at top rear flap. Illustrated with 80 photographs by the author. Inscribed by the author -- "For / Donald Sultree Welles / who too would have found / Bali a profound and moving / esthetic experience. With warm / good wishes. / Philip Hanson Hiss / Sarasota, Florida / 10 May 1962" Philip Hanson Hiss III (1910-1988) was a photographer, author, and world traveler, who served in the Far Eastern Division of the Office of Strategic Service (OSS) during World War II. Hiss… Read More

Washington: National Geographic. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; Illustrated with 200 portrait photographs by Diana Walker. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page. As a Time magazine photographer covering the White House through four presidential administrations, Diana Walker enjoyed incomparable access to the world's major movers and shakers. Going behind the scenes and photographing her subjects over the course of years, she captured Presidents and their families in wonderfully candid moments and world leaders in the course of momentous events. Walker's way of engaging people and inspiring their trust results in portraits that are refreshingly spontaneous and open-giving viewers the feeling that they've met each subject personally. Many of those portrayed are notables in politics, industry, science, entertainment, and the arts-from Ronald Reagan to Steve Jobs; from Lillian Gish to Princess Diana and Prince Charles;… Read More

New York: Burr Publishing. Good. 1904. First Edition. Paperback. Contents clean and secure in original wrappers tied by cord at spine. Wrappers worn and chipped at edges. One plate with short tear at inner margin; one illustration possibly lacking. Fifteen portrait photograph plates, including W. K. Vanderbilt (American heir, motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman), Nela Bergen (American actress and singer), Louise Gunning (American soprano singer), Julie Opp (American stage actress), etc. 28 full page "panoramic" photographic views, including, Yale University Football Squad, Princeton University Football Squad, Yale-Princeton Football Game, Lafayette Football Squad, West Point-Yale Football Game, Cornell Football Field, Cornell Football Field, Winter Bear Hunting on Raquette Lake, Meadow Brook Hunt Club, etc. Two pages with two illustrations each. .

Manakin-Sabot, VA: Brookview Farms. Near Fine. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Autograph; Signed by Author .

Dusseldorf: Edition Marzona. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. Softcover. Autograph; 46 pages; Clean and tight in original binding in very nice dustjacket. OCLC: 16703185 Amazing photographs combining people & objects, vaguely reminiscent of Hans Bellmer. Pidder Auberger (1946 - 2012) was a German visual artist and photographer who studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy (1970-1975). He worked as a freelance artist and lived in Dusseldorf and in the Westerwald. His work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions. ; Signed by Photographer; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Baltimore: Photo Card Printing. Very Good+. 1920. Ephemera. Postcard; 1 pages; Subject:Interior of E. S. Leadbeater & Bro. Apothecary - Alexandria, Virginia with two gentlemen standing behind the counters on either side in front of shelves filled with bottles [Prohibition?]. Type: Real Photo Post Card (RPPC) Location: Alexandria, Virginia U.S.A. Era: Divided back, standard size,White Border (c. 1915-1930) Printed by: Photo Card Studios, 108 North Greene Street Baltimore, Md. Condition: Unposted, quite nice condition. Edward Stabler started the business in 1792. Stabler sold to a variety of city and country residents – from Martha Washington to Robert E. Lee, the local doctor to the local farmer. His son William took over in 1831. John Leadbeater was William Stabler's brother-in-law, and he took over the business in 1852. here is a legend that Robert E. Lee was in the store when he received the orders to put down John Brown's raid in 1859. His… Read More

New York: Stroefer and Kirchner. Good. 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. 229 pages; Decorative cloth binding is extremely worn at spine and extremeties; spine roughly repaired; contents are quite nice - clean and complete; all edges gilt. With all Twelve Portraits of the Poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Addison, Pope, Goldsmith, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Byron, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson. OCLC 2548960 The handsome portraits are produced photographically and onlayed to the pages within printed borders (albumen type). Walt Whitman drew from Joseph Gostwick's book German Literature for his ideas on Hegel and Niebuhr. .

Paris: Galerie de Photographie de la Bibliothéque Nationale. Very Good+. 1972. First Edition. Paperback. Card portfolio with photographic image on front cover and . Printed single sheet printed on card stock listing the 46 photographs in the exhibition, 4 pages of text (essay by Michel Tournier), 11 full page photographic plates by Boubat printed on glossy treated paper, loosely laid-in. OCLC: 78310386 .

Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. Near Fine. 1985. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Clean and tight in original wrappers. Photographs taken in Santa Barbara by six noted contemporary photographers - Walter Cotton, Larry Fink, Lee Friedlander, Mary Ellen Mark, Richard Misrach, Richard Ross. OCLC: 14956225; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

Tokyo: Asahi Optical Co Ltd.. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. 4 p.l., 347 & [1] pages; Publisher's white buckram, spine and front cover boldly lettered in gilt (Japanese and English letters). Fine, in a dust jacket which shows only minor short closed tears at the spine ends and corners. A brilliantly printed photo book, with fine plates in b/w and color. Text entirely in Japanese, except for the half title leaf, (recto and verso) just before the title page, and the dust jacket. There are bold red "chop" stamped signatures of a former owner on the front blank, otherwise unmarked, clean and tight. .

National Geographic. Very Good. 1923. Ephemera. Photograph; 1 pages; Vintage Panorama of The Great Wall of China Near Nankow Pass depicting various people along this stretch of the wall. The panorama is about 44 inches long and 9.5 inches tall, accordion pleated into 8 panels. One fold has a 1/8" tear at the white border with a tiny hole (not affecting the image). .

Cambridge: Harvard School of Law. Very Good. 1931. 1 pages; Photograph of the faculty of Harvard Law School from 1931, probably taken in March. Dean Roscoe Pound is seated center of front row. Very Good condition in brown envelope with name and address of original owners on one side and a pencilled draft of a poem on the other. Original owners - Francis X. Dwyer and his brother Walter Dwyer and Madeline Rose Dwyer all of 162 Lakeview Ave.; Cambridge, Mass. Francis Xavier Dwyer (1902 - 1987) received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1923 and an M.A. the following year. After obtaining a law degree from Northweastern University, Dwyer returned to Harvard where he was a librarian at the Law Library from 1931 until 1941. Subsequently, he spent decades as a librarian at the Law Library of Library of Congress. Roscoe Pound was Dwyer's mentor and colleague for many years both at Harvard Law Library and the Library of Congress Law Library. Dwyer was co-author of a widely used… Read More

New York: Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery. Fine. 1994. First Edition. Paperback. 20 pages; New York: Fine. 1994. First Edition. Menschel Photography Gallery 36; 20 pages; Clean and secure in original pictorial stapled wrappers. Catalogue issued to accompany the exhibition of photographs by Jolene Rickard a Turtle Clan member of the Tuscarona Nation Territories. Illustrated. Fine in pictorial wrappers. With an introductory essay by Amy Hufnagel. Illustrated with eighteen reproductions of photographs. . ; Art and Art History, Photography, Most Recent Listing .

Paris/Geneve: Editions d'Art Boissonnas / Librairie Jean Budry & Co. Very Good. 1926. First Edition. Paperback. Autograph; 140 pages; Inscribed by the author on half-title to Major Anderegg from F. Feyler, dated 1926, otherwise clean and tight in original printed wrappers, some minor wear to wrappers at spine. Illustrated with wonderful photographs by Fred Boissonnas. Frédéric Boissonnas (1858 - 1946), was a Swiss photographer, from a family of artists in Geneva. His father Henri-Antoine Boissonnas (1833-1889), founded a photographic studio in 1864. Frederic lead the workshop from 1887 to 1927. In 1919 he founded the publishing house Boissonnas SA. His second son, Henri-Paul Boissonnas (1894-1966), succeeded him in the direction of the firm from 1927 to 1969 and from 1969 to 1990 management was entrusted to the son of Henri Paul, Gad Borel. Overseas shipping can be arranged for an additional charge. ; Signed by Author .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; 182 pages; Warmly inscribed and SIGNED on half-title by MARTHA GRAHAM to Roger Stevens. Also SIGNED by both the AUTHOR and the PHOTOGRAPHER on titlepage. The owner Roger Stevens was founder and director of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and a founder of the National Endowment for the Arts. Illustrated with nearly 200 wonderful photographs by Martha Swope. ; Signed by Biographee .