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[Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Charles Besler Company, 1910. Album of 25 leaves, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, each of which have two black paper frames per recto and verso, which hold the photographs made from the lantern slides. There are 94 silver prints, 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, of the 100 allocated slots, each with a gummed label with the handwritten stock number and location. The photographs are in very good condition while a few of the paper windows have short tears or lacking a piece of the frame; the cloth over boards album is worn and rubbed, the spine cover, which has a numbered label, is partially detached. For the salesman, carrying silver prints in an album was far safer than presenting glass lantern slides; certainly less cumbersome. This album of photographs, which are mostly from life, depict architecture, statuary and works of art, streets scenes from places in Italy and Croatia, including Venice, Pompei, Naples, Curzola, Trau, Messina, Capri, Florence, etc., Although neither the photographer… Read More

NY: Aperture, 1987. First edition. Samaras, Lucas. Oblong 4to., 183 pp., b&w and color photos. Fine in color illustrated dust jacket.

San Francisco: Journal of Commerce Press, 1890. [Reprint of 1850, with additions]. 24mo. [5 7/8 x 4 1/4 inches], 139 pp., adverts affixed to pastedowns. Publisher's full pebbled cloth, titled in gilt on the upper board with the slightest of wear at the spine ends; a near fine copy. The first edition of 1850 is exceedingly rare; this third printing of 1890 includes additional pages of omitted names, with two "Donahues" added. Howes K-134.

Venezia: Scuola Grande die Carmini, 1982. First edition. 4to., 104 pp., chiefly illustrated from color and b&w photographs. A fine copy in a moderately rubbed dust jacket. The photographers are: David Armanino, Gianni Berengo-Gardin, Franco Fontana, Oliver Gagliani, Paolo Monti, Fulvio Roiter, Frank Spadarella, Tom Vano.

Millerton: Aperture in association with Verlag Zwolftes Haus, Berlin, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Baltz, Lewis. Square 4to., 58 b&w photographic plates, (12) pp. text. A fine copy in the illustrated dust jacket, with printed acetate over wrapper which is moderately rubbed as usual. Limited to 1200 copies. SIGNED by the photographer on the title page. The effects of urbanization on the landscape by this pioneer of the New Topographics.

Tokyo: Gallery Gan, 1997. First edition. 4to., 4 pp., 9 b&w plates from photographs, plus text on reverse of the stiff wrappers. The wrappers are creased. Very good. Captions and text in both Japanese and English. OCLC locates six copies.

Tokyo: Gallery Gan, 1997. First edition. 4to., 4 pp., 9 b&w plates from photographs, plus text on reverse of the stiff wrappers. Very good. Captions and text in both Japanese and English. OCLC locates six copies.

Hamburg: Altonaier Museum, Norddeutsches Landesmuseum, 1978. First edition. Paperback. Square 8vo., 72 pp., illustrations in text, plus (52) leaves of plates (two or four photos per page). Illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. This exhibition catalog provides a concise description of the invention of photography; it then covers German marine photographers, their images from fishing vessels through large cruise ships. A few of the photographers whose work appears in this catalog are the following: Oscar and Theodor Hofmeister, Hans Breuer, Georg Koppmann, John Thiele, W. Sander & Sohn, Dr. R. Lütgens. Atelier Schaul (Hamburg), and others. Prepared for an exhbition of photography of ships from the collection of the Altonaier Museum in Hamburg; includes bibliographical references.

[Japan, 1960. Black ceramic decanter trimmed in silver, approximately 8 1/2" H [with flash stopper] x 3" W x 4" D . The flash attachment is tipped in cork and serves as the stopper. A novelty replica of a twin tens reflex camera. Fine. There is no prevision to prevent double exposures and multiple shots.

Philadelphia: James W. Queen & Co, 1888. First edition. 8vo., 266 pp., volume title page, illustrated with numerous engravings, charts, and formulas, with a photographic frontispiece at the start of each issue. Volume 1, comprised of 9 monthly issues, April - December, 1888. Ex-libris of The Camera Club Library of New York affixed to the front pastedown. Marbled endpapers. Newly rebacked in cloth, with original cloth over boards, and morocco tips. Moderate staining to 6 leaves, mostly near the gutter from an inserted object, else very good. Edited by Joseph J. Fox, it is comprised of practical data, recent patents, and formulas for the professional or advanced amateur photographer, with reviews of events conducted by various camera clubs and societies. Koelzer's PHOTOGRAPHIC AND CINEMATOGRAPHIC PERIODICALS, 1840 TO 1940 states that only 3 monthly issues were published. WorldCat indicates this periodical ceased with Volume 2, No. 2, February 1889. Only three institutions have the complete run in the… Read More

New York: Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1985. First edition. 4to., 128 pp., illustrated from b&w photographs. Near fine in the illustrated dust jacket. Edited with an Afterword by Gerard Malanga. Foreword by Robert Creeley. Gerard Malanga interviewed 32 artists working with photographs on the interface between photography and voyeurism. The edited texts include previously unpublished images.

N.p.: Suk Choo Kim, 1976. First edition. Kim, Suk Choo. Oblong 4to., unpaged, 39 full-page b&w photos. Black cloth, titled in white ink on the spine and front cover. Slight discoloration on the front and rear cover; gift inscription on the first blank leaf. A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. For six months in 1972 Kim traveled through the western states of the U.S., interacting with different people; after becoming acquainted, he asked them to scream and he took these photographs. "Why scream? It feels good." Limited to 1000 signed copies.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons / London: Methuen and Co, 1907. First edition. Large 8vo., xxviii, 327 pp., 49 plates with tissue guards, t.e.g. Three quarter morocco with five raised bands, titled in gilt on the spine. Slight rubbing at a upper tip. Fine. Issued in the series The Connoisseurs Library.

Toronto: Coach House Press, 1970. First edition. Small 4to., 9 full-page plates from b&w photos. Printed orange and black stiff wrappers. Slight creasing to the tips of the wrapper, with one small stain. Very good. An oversize facsimile of a Kodak snapshot album, including the prints having serrated edges. The photos show a talent contest on a school stage. OCLC lists 4 locations.

Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1984. First edition. Dingus, Rick. Oblong 4to., ix, 211 pp., profusely illustrated with b&w photos, maps. Fine in pictorial dust wrapper that is light struck at the spine and part of the rear wrapper, and shows moderate wear and rubbing at the spine. Klett was the Chief Photographer for this project; Gordon Bushaw and Rick Dingus were Project Photographers; and Ellen Manchester was the Project Director.

Riverside, California: California Museum of Photography, 1984. First edition. 8vo., 48 pp., b&w illustrations from photographs. Stapled photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. With the printed over-wrapper with the mailing label of John Szarkowski. Very good. The illustrated essays are by: Eugene Ostroff, Eaton S. Lothrop Jr., Peter Palmquist, Roy Flukinger, Robert G. Pins, and Edward W. Earle. Issued as CMP Bulletin Volume 4, Number 1.

Firenze: Alinari, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 4to., 189 pp., fully illustrated with b&w and tinted photographs. Printed paper over boards with a photographically illustrated dust jacket. Fine. An exceptional catalogue of nineteenth century photographs of the American West; with chapters by William F. Stapp and George P. Horse Capture.

Rochester: University Educational Services, International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1989. First edition. 8vo., 78 pp. Stiff printed wrappers. Upper tip of the front wrapper and first leaf are creased. Very good. Edited by William S. Johnson; revised and updated by Ann H. Stevens.

Boston: LIttle, Brown and Co, 1963. First edition. Ray, Man. 8vo., 402 pp., 36 b&w plates. A near fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket. Man Ray was at the center of the Dada and Surrealist movements, in New York and Paris, as a painter, but more importantly, as an innovator in photography - with and without the aide of a camera. His autobiography is an enjoyable read.

1950. Block print of a photographer under a darkcloth photographing a female nude, 15 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches, on laid art paper 17 1/2 x 13 inches. Signed in pencil beneath the image on the lower right corner; on the lower left, "autorsky tisk" [author's print]. Fine. Czech photographer and painter, creator of film posters and nudes. He was born on November 2,1925 in Prague and died in Prague on May 30, 2008. From 1941-44 he studied at the State Graphic School. At the same time, he attended evening courses of nude drawing in Platýz. After the war, in the years 1945 - 1950, he continued his studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in the studio of František Tichý (his classmates included Olbram Zoubek, Mikuláš Medek and Alena Ladová). Along with his commercial graphics for various magazines, Zden k collaborated on the creation of animated films. From 1967 to 1990 he was one of the first teachers of the newly established Cabinet of Photography at FAMU in Prague. His… Read More