Search Results: Photography from The Wild Muse

Cologne: Konemann, 1995. Volume 1. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cologne: Konemann, 1995. Thick 4to., 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", 480pp., illustrated throughout with stunning black and white historical news, sports and theater photography. Text in English, German and French. Black cloth with gilt spine and cover titles, red endpapers. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

NY: Rizzoli, 2004. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Rizzoli, 2009, first printing. Folio, 9 3/8" x 12 1/4", 207pp., full color photographs by Nathan Farb. "Since its inception as "forever wild" in the 1880s, New York's Adirondack Park has served as a model of conservation for the world. The Nature Conservancy, a nonprofit organization devoted to protecting the diversity of life on Earth and preeminent Adirondack photographer Nathan Farb here team up to reveal feats of nature that the human eye on its own would not perceive. In the tradition of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter, Farb renders the most miniscule detail as clearly as the grandest vista." Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. Second Revised Edition. First Edition thus. Published NY: Simon & Schuster, 1969. first printing. Oversized folio, 11 1/2" x 13." Unpaginated text plus 136 b/w and color plates. Name on front end paper, few spots. Very good. . Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. Folio. Illus.

NY: Norton & Company, 1997. Hard cover in dust jacket and publisher's shrink wrap. Published NY: Norton & Company, 1997. 4to., 10 1/4" x 11 1/4", 224pp., illustrated with 93 full-color photographs. New in shrink wrap. "In this important volume, Christian A. Peterson finally gives the pictorialists of the first half of the twentieth century their due. He describes the backgrounds of the movement, their methods, the photo clubs they belonged to, and their work, illustrated here with ninety-three stunning reproductions. The movement seemed to die out, Peterson suggests, with the rising popularity of 35mm photography in mid-century, when the care and slow working procedures required by large-format cameras became unpopular. 93 full-color photographs." . Hard. New/New. 4to.

NY: Pantheon Books, 1983. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Pantheon Books, 1983, first printing. Square folio, 12 1/4" x 12 1/4", xii+192pp., illustrated with 127 exquisite full color photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1980. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Doubleday, 1980, first printing. Folio, 11" x 14 1/4", 208pp., illustrated throughout with full page/bouble page photos of Avedon, Horst, Beaton, Penn, Steichen, De Meyer and Turbeville, chosen by Vreeland, with her descriptive text and commentary. Red cloth with gilt tiles, pictorial endpapers. Slight shake to a couple of leaves near the center of the book, else near fine, clean, bright, tight, unworn in near fine dust jacket with price of $35.00 intact. . 1st. Hard. Very Good Plus/Very Good Plus. Folio.

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993, first printing. Square 4to., 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", xxxiii+426pp., Illustrated with b/w photographs. "For twelve years beginning in 1951, the United States government conducted above ground testing of nuclear weapons in the deserts of Nevada. For more than four decades it has tried to cover up the human and environmental devastation wrought by this testing. In American Ground Zero, Carole Gallagher has penetrated the veil of official secrecy and anonymity to document the incredible untold story of the Americans whose misfortune it was to live downwind of the nuclear detonations - those citizens described in a top-secret Atomic Energy Commission memo as "a low-use segment of the population" - and of civilian workers and military personnel exposed to radiation at the Nevada Test Site." Inscribed by author on title page. Some dust foxing on top and front edge of… Read More

NY: McGraw Hill, 1979. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: McGraw Hill, 1979, first printing. 4to., 9 3/4" x 10 3/4", 216 pp., 160 photographs, 56 in color. Very good in very good minus, dust jacket with moisture riplle on front panel, edgewear.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1979. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: McGraw-Hill, 1979, first printing. 4to., 9 3/4" x 10 3/4", 216pp., illustrated with color and b/w photos. cream cloth with gilt titles. Mild moisture line on portion of front edge of first 10 sheets, else very good plus, clean, bright. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to.

NY: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap), 1997. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap), 1997, first printing. folio., 9 1/2" x 12 1/2", 320pp., illustrations in full color. Mild sweating to cloth at crown else fine in fine dust jacket.. 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Fine. Folio.

NY: Viking, 1985. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1985, first printing. 4to., 9 1/2" x 12", 256pp., illustrated with more than 300 b/w and color plates from 80 photographers. Black cloth with silver spine titles, black endpapers. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with minor stain. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

NY: Random House, 1992. First U.S. edition. Hard cover in original cloth and dust jacket. Published NY: Random House, 1992, first printing. Oblong 4to., 11 1/4" x 10 1/4", 168pp., over 100 color plates of the US, England, Germany, Austria, Kenya and Egypt. Mustard cloth with blind embossed cover, brown spine titles. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

NY: Phaidon Press, 2001. First edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Phaidon Press, 2001, first printing. 12mo. wrappers, unpaginated. Fine. . 1st. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan and Morgan, 1973. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan and Morgan, 1973, first printing. 4to., 9 1/4" x 10 3/4", 160pp., illustrated with b/w photo plates. Inscription on fly leaf, else very good in very good dust jacket with a closed tear at the crown. . 1st. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

NY: Thames & Hudson, 1993. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Thames & Hudson, 1993, first printing. Folio, 10" x 13 1/2", 159pp., with 75 duotone illustrations. Riboud's masterly images are complemented by his own descriptive essay, along with texts on Angkor's recent history and its Buddhist foundations from Jean Lacouture, the celebrated writer, and Jean Boisselier, former curator of the National Museum of Phnom Penh. Together they present a moving portrayal of this mysterious wonder, a collage of timeless beauty and spiritual dignity scarred by contemporary brutality. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio.

NY: The Monacelli Press, 2006. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: The Monacelli Press, 2006, first printing. 4to., 9 1/2" x 11 5/8", 172pp., illustrated with color and b/w plates. Black cloth with silver spine titles, gray endpapers. "Cecil Beaton called him the best photographer in Britain; Lord Snowdon declared him a genius. It is no exaggeration to say that Angus McBean revolutionized portraiture in the 1930s, or that he immortalized the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Marlene Dietrich, and Elizabeth Taylor. Blending wit, drama, and fantasy with the consummate skill of a master photographer, McBean was the most prominent theater photographer of his generation and, along with Beaton, the last of the British avant-garde studio photographers. For the first time since his death in 1990, McBean's photographs of stars such as Vivien Leigh, Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, and Audrey Hepburn and his rarely seen color prints from the 1960s of the Beatles,… Read More

San Francisco: Scrimshaw, 1974. First Edition. Tade softcover. Published San Francisco: Scrimshaw, 1974. Small 4to. pictorial stiff wrappers. 95 pp., illus. b/w full page photos. Very good. . 1st. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued. Small 4to. Illus.

NY: New York Graphic Society, 1988. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: New York Graphic Society, 1988, first printing. 4to., 9 1/4" x 10 3/4", xii+402pp., 115 illustrations. The life of the photographer through his letters and works. Minor bump to top front corner, else fine, clean, unmarked in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. Hardcover in dust jacket. Published Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. Third printing (1986). Large 4to., 9 1/2"x 10 3/4." Brick colored cloth with silver foil lettering. xii+400 pages, with 277 b/w illustrations. Minor age spotting to top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. Note: due to weight of this book, Domestic Shipping Only.. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to.

NY: Dutton, 1978. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Dutton, 1978, first printing. Folio, 12 1/2" x 12 1/4", 168pp., numerous color plates, endpaper maps. Fine in fine dust jacket. . 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.