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Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth, stamped in black with the caption title, "A Celebration of H.D. and Marianne Moore by POESIS: a journal of criticism. First edition of this special double number devoted to H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) and Moore. Tips ever so slightly rubbed, else near fine. Contributors include Robert Duncan, Alicia Ostriker, Barbara Guest, and Emily Wallace, among others. This copy seems to have been specially bound, perhaps for the noted speakers at this symposium.

[New York: Rapho-Guillumette, 1956. One large borderless gelatin silver print original film candid production still with the photographer's ink-stamp credit to verso, 13.25 x 10.25 in. (34.25 x 26.25 cm) depicting James Dean in character as "Jett Rink" from the film Giant, having a laugh with his director, George Stevens. Very good or better.  Sanford Roth (1906-1962) was an internationally renowned photographer whose work has appeared in many publications including: Time, Life, Look, Fortune, Paris-Match, Elle, Der Stern, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. His photographs of James Dean still appear regularly in books, magazines and other works all over the world. His work has been exhibited at the Museum Of Modern Art, New York, Chicago Art Institute, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art and San Francisco Museum Of Fine Arts, amongst others. Roth first met James Dean on the set of Giant and they immediately became friends. Dean often visited the Roth's at home; poignantly, Roth was in the car behind James… Read More

London: Aurum Press, 2003. Tall octavo. Cloth with gilt spine. Family genealogy on front and rear endpapers. xv,[1],320pp. Forty black & white plates, many full-page. Prologue, list of illustrations, endnotes, and index. Fine in fine dust jacket.  Cameron was at the center of a circle of English artists and writers who shaped a generation of Victorian culture. Working in the 1860s, when photography was still in its infancy, Cameron defied the conventions of the scientific photographic establishment to insist that photography could be an art form.