Search Results: Photography from Long Brothers Fine and Rare Books, ABAA

Seattle: Associated Students of the University of Washington, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Earl F. Campbell, Frank A. Kunishige. 4to. Pp. 436. Index. Illustrated throughout with drawings, some in colors, and black & white photo reproductions, some tipped in. Bound in black and green cloth with a heavy gilt-embossed illustration on cover and spine. Color illustrated endpapers. Owner signature on front endpaper; slight soiling to preliminaries; cover edge-wear. Features a 13-page photo essay titled Shades of Night at Washington by Asakichi Kunishige, Known as Frank Kunishige, the Japanese-American photographer was a founding member of the Seattle Camera Club. During WWII Kunishige was incarcerated at both Camp Harmony and Minidoka.A couple photos capture aspects of Suzzallo Library, the best building on campus, the construction of which caused cost-overruns that, ostensibly, caused the dismissal of both Carl Gould, founder of the University's School of Architecture, and the University… Read More

Seattle: Associated Students of the University of Washington, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Earl F. Campbell, Frank A. Kunishige. 4to. Pp. 436. Index. Illustrated throughout with drawings, some in colors, and black & white photo reproductions, some tipped in. Bound in faux leather black cloth, color embossed illustration, a la Rockwell Kent, on cover and spine. Color illustrated endpapers. Owner signature on front endpaper is that of John Rupp, the distinguished Seattle lawyer and civic leader. Features a photo essay titled Silver Days at Washington by Asakichi Kunishige, Known as Frank Kunishige, the Japanese-American photographer was a founding member of the Seattle Camera Club. During WWII Kunishige was incarcerated at both Camp Harmony and Minidoka. One photo captures the recently-completed Suzzallo Library, the best building on campus, the construction of which caused cost-overruns that, ostensibly, caused the dismissal of both Carl Gould, founder of the University's School of… Read More

Seattle: Associated Students of the University of Washington, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Pp. 436. Index. Illustrated throughout with drawings, some in colors, and black & white photo reproductions, some tipped in. Bound in faux leather ivory cloth with blindstamped design on cover and spine. Color illustrated endpapers. Slight wear to cover with lower edge a trifle darkened, else a bright, fresh copy. Features an artistic rendering of the 1936 Olympics gold-medal winning 1936 University of Washington Crew on a two-page spread with photos of their heads imposed in a comic fashion. They are Herbert Morris, Charles Day, Gordon Adam, John White, James McMillin, George Hunt, Joe Rantz, Donald Hume and Robert Moch. In addition, four pages are devoted to the crew's triumphant 1936 season, with photos of all crew members as well as coaches Al Ulbrickson and Tom Bolles, and George Pocock, the renowned designer and builder of shells and sculls. Evidence of the Great Depression is noted in… Read More

New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. Illustrated with reproductions of black & white and color photos. Half blue cloth over black paper covered boards, titles stamped in silver foil on the spine, 'A' stamped in blind on the front cover, 'Z' on the back, photo-illustrated endpapers, author signed in ball point ink on the title page. In the color photo illustrated dust jacket with price intact ($17.95) on the front flap. First printing. A Weimaraner alphabet featuring the artist's dogs including Fay Ray and offspring Battina and Chundo. Twenty-six page spreads with (verso) black & white Polaroids of dogs arranged in letters and (recto) large-format color Polaroids illustrate a word beginning with that letter.Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Skagway: P. E. Kern Gold and Silversmith, 1905. First Edition. Stiff wraps. Good. 16mo. Title page followed by a total of 24 photogravure plates. Gravure-printed cover, blindstamped, featuring a harvest of mountain goats. Binding was with ribbon ties through three holes on spine. Disbound, with wear to extremities of cover, including two-thirds separation at spine. Striking photos presented with great clarity. Gravures created by Albertype Co., Brooklyn, depicting Images of Northwest Coast artifacts, mining subjects, and views of Alaska cities, including Sitka, Juneau, Skagway, White Pass, etc. Peter Kern was of Swiss background; after apprenticing in the jewelry business and working in the Midwest, he struck out for El Paso, where he acquired land. In the late 1890s he joined the gold rush, then set up shop as a jeweller in Skagway. By 1910 he returned to El Paso. This booklet contains a photo of Kern standing next to mastadon tusks in front of his Skagway shop. Uncommon: OCLC locates only six… Read More

Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Good+. 4to. Pp. 231. Illustrated with rotogravure reproductions of black & white photographs. Introduction by Jean Millier. Text in French and English. Brilliant red cloth, titles stamped in pink on the cover and spine, red bookmark ribbon bound in: merest hint of age toning to edges, leaves crisp and bright. In the two-color photo illustrated dust jacket: small edge chips and age toning across the top and bottom. A bright copy. Photographer De Fenoÿl organized several exhibitions of photographs in the first few years of the Centre Pompidou. This first and only album in a projected annual series is not an exhibition catalog but seeks "to present the evolution of photographic vision from the beginning up to today" without using well-known images. Text and bibliography by Christiane Caujolle. Work by Victor Regnault, Félix Teynard, Émile Puyo, Theo Blanc and Antoine Demilly, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Umbo, Paul… Read More

New York: Merlin House, 1973. First Edition. Stiff Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Oblong 4to. Pp. 165, [10]. Iavishly illustrated with black & white photographs by Avedon, many full-page. Laminated wrap illustrated with photographs. Lightly rubbed, spine bottom chipped. From the collection of Seattle arts patrons Bagley and Virginia Wright, signed by André Gregory: "Love to my two friends, The Mad Hatter André." All about Gregory's most (in)famous collaborative avant-garde theatre production, with the Manhattan Project in 1970: Arbus interviews with the cast, text of the play, and Avedon studio photos of moments from the finished production.

Millerton, New York: Aperture, Inc, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Pp. 142. Bibliography. Lavishly illustrated with full-page black & white photo reproductions. Bound in black cloth, spine stamped with gray lettering. Gray endpapers. Top edge foxing. Illustrated laminated dust jacket. An Aperture Monograph published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition first held at the Brooklyn Museum, March - May 1977.

New York: The American Annual of Photography, Inc, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Clear removable archival protector.. Illustrated throughout with works of photographers, diagrams, plans, etc.. Author's Edition" Small 4to. Pp. xxxvi, 296. Ads in front and rear. Frontis. portrait. Decorated endpapers. AEG. Brown cloth with stamped lettering in black on front cover, gilt on spine. Front hinge starting. Lavishly reproduces the work of prominent photographers of the year. Includes portraits by Alice Boughton and one by Louis Fleckenstein titled "Nature Man of Palm Springs.

Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1976. Limited Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to. Pp. 155. Selected and with an introduction by Anita Ventura Mozley. With 128 duotone 200-line photo reproductions. Gray-green cloth, blind stamped panel, embossed silver foil titles, gray-green endpapers. In the laminated illustrated dust jacket. Errata sheet laid in. Edition limited to 3500, of which 1500 were cloth bound. Endpaper edges mildly age toned. Jacket front 1-inch closed tear. Mozley selected prints from the R. Joseph Monsen Collection for exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum and wrote the introduction giving a clear vision of the development of the medium in America. Jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1933. Sixth Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Good+/Fair. Folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black & white halftone photo reproductions. Photo-illustrated paper covered boards printed red and black. Copyright page states Sixth Printing, code L-H (November 1933): board edges rubbed through, leaves minimally age toned, ffep pencil inscription effaced. In the price-clipped dust jacket repeating the cover design: edges rubbed and chipped, spine darkened. A popular culture history in pictures, many from services such as Brown Brothers and Culver. Running commentary by Harpers Magazine associated editor Allen, author of Only Yesterday on post-WWI pop culture. Scarce in dust jacket, which is now preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

Göttingen: Steidl, 2017. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Near Fine. Oblong 8vo. Unpaginated. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. Tri-tone gravure reproductions of black & white photographs. Black cloth, titles stamped in light gray on the spine. In the black & white photo illustrated dust jacket with red promotional band. Photos taken 1955-56, first published in France in 1958, then with Kerouac's introduction in the US in 1959. This Steidl edition produced in collaboration with the photographer and beautifully printed in Germany, was first published on the work's 50th anniversary in 2008.Dust jacket and red promo band are now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

New York: Crown Publishers INC, 1988. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. Near Fine. 4to. Pp. 160. Laden with black & white photography. Photo credits. Bound in stiff printed, glossy wraps with a black & white photograph of Warhol on cover. Corners sharp. An especially well preserved copy of this document of party-people in New York and elsewhere. Who knew Warhol threw parties in other cities? Among the Hollywood illiterati? The superbly literate Bette Davis, enjoying a drink and a cigarette.

New York: Wittenborn and Co, 1970. First American Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. Three-column text in German, English, and French. Copiously illustrated with lavish black-and-white photography throughout. Bound in blue cloth with white lettering stamped on front cover and spine. Slight foxing to endpapers. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket. First American edition of the author-artists' first book, published the same year as Dusseldorf edition.The Becher's methodical documentation of blast furnaces, grain silos, cooling towers, gas tanks (here, "Gas-holders") and other industrial structures, presented in lush-but-dispassionate photography that established a new form unto itself. Equal parts architectural photography, historical record, conceptual art and art-for-art's sake, their work was striking enough to be collected by major museums. A handsome copy. Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve. .

New York: Harmony Books, 1984. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Near Fine. 4to. Unpaginated. Full-page color photo reproductions. Introduction by Henry Geldzahler. Stiff paper color photo illustrated wraps. Crisp and square, binding tight, spine tail minimally sunned. The New York street artist's energetic ephemera captured alive by his photographer friend Tseng Kwong Chi. A well-preserved first edition copy.

Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Art Photogravure Co, 1900. First Edition. Embossed Printed Wraps. Very Good. Folio. Unpaginated. Illustrated throughout with black & white gravure photographs on recto, tissue guards. Each volume side stapled and wrapped in embossed faux alligator paper printed in brown with gold lettering. Various minor chips to covers, especially spines, and creases. The first volume has uneven fading. A charming celebration of Washington State upon it's eleventh year of statehood. The greater focus is on the state's natural splendor, but occasional photographs feature the emerging built environment, viz., the Madison Park plate, presenting one of Seattle's more exclusive neighborhoods. SMITH, 311. SOLIDAY II, 1069 ("Mainly composed of full-page plates, but a few pages of text are scattered through with work.").

[New York]: Pace Gallery Publications, 1981. First Edition. Stiff printed wrappers. Very Good+. Hans Namuth. 4to. Unpaginated. Foreword by Calvin Tomkins. Illustrated throughout with black & white photography by Hans Namuth. Bound in stiff printed wraps. Covers with light, superficial scratches. Corners sharp. Exquisite photos of artworld luminaries spanning the Cold War era.

New York / Rochester: Random House / Kodak Professional, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Folio. Pp. 235. Illustrated with black & white and a few color photo reproductions. With biographies, chronology, and index. White cloth, titles and photo reproductions in black & white, orange endpapers. In the color photo illustrated dust jacket: light scuffs. Photographer Avedon and interviewer Arbus began collaborating on this book in the late sixties. Dust jacket preserved in a clear, removable archival sleeve.

(New York): Aperture Foundation, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good. Nan Goldin. Edited with Marvin Heiferman, Mark Holbron and Suzanne Fletcher. Oblong 4to. Pp. 144. Illustrated with 125 color plates. Bound in blue cloth, letters blindstamped on front cover, in gilt on spine. In the photo-illustrated dust jacket. A solid copy with dust jacket showing a trifle fading to spine, light rubbing. (Please see photos.). First printing of the first edition of Goldin's groundbreaking collection documenting her life amid the gritty East Village No Wave scene. Includes a few photos of illustrious figures from that scene, including doomed lovers Cookie Mueller and her husband Vittorio at their wedding, not long before both died, victims of the AIDS epidemic.The most important photo book of its decade. In his New York Times review, Andy Grundberg wrote, "What Robert Frank's 'The Americans' was to the 1950's, Nan Goldin's 'The Ballad of Sexual Dependency' is to the 1980's."Dust… Read More

New York: Gotham Book Mart, 1972. First Edition. Stiff illustrated wrappers. Near Fine. Emil White, William Webb. Small 4to. Unpaginated. Saddle stapled stiff textured yellow wraps, titles in black, with a mounted Emil White painting litho reproduction on the front cover. Gray endpapers. Illustrated with William Webb b&w photo reproductions. A bright copy. Poem first printed in The World #24, Winter 1972. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with an acid-free backing.