Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book; Little Brown and Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over photo-illustrated paper covered boards, with red lettering to front cover. Rear endpaper handsigned and dated ('89) by Victor Skrebneski. A retrospective of the work of the fashion photographer most famous for..... More
Long Beach: California State University, 1980. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 71 (1)pp. Original silver stiff wraps with gray lettering on cover and spine. Frontispiece. Signed Frederick Sommer on title page. Catalog for a traveling exhibition from April 1980, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle, to July 1981, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington..... More
Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 94 (10)pp. Original black buckram with de-bossed black lettering and color print laid to cover, gray lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Color frontispiece. Soth famously arrived on the international photo scene with his first book "Sleeping by the Mississippi," considered one of..... More
Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 94 (10)pp. Original black buckram with de-bossed black lettering and color print laid to cover, gray lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Color frontispiece. Signed by Alec Soth on title page. Famously arrived on the international photo scene with his first book "Sleeping..... More
New York: Newmarket Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 96pp. Original photographic dust-jacket over black cloth with silver lettering on spine. Photographic endpapers and title page. Title page inscribed and signed by Photographer David James (signed 'David.") The remarkable behind-the-scenes photographs of the making of the movie are married to..... More
Zurich: Gebr. Fretz AG, [1927]. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 x 9 1/2"). [8]pp (Text), 28 leaves (Photographs). Original tan cloth, with embossed lettering on gilt to front cover and spine. Splendid collection of 28 landscape photographs taken in the Engadine, where renown Swiss photographer Albert Steiner* lived and worked..... More
Grinnell, Iowa: Grinnell College, 2011. First edition. Softcover. Oblong Sextodecimo. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps in color with black lettering on spine. Photo-illustrated title page. All photographs are archival prints from digital composites. "For her [Liz Steketee], a photograph is not simply "taken," but it is built, crafted, compiled, often..... More
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (8), (1) 51 (3) leaves. Original tan half-cloth over light brown boards with black lettering on cover and spine, in original, photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. Housed in plain light brow cloth slipcase. Album with fifty-one photographs of..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms, [2006]. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/1000. Folio (14 1/4 x 11 1/2"). Unpaginated. [88]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over black cloth, with blind-stamped lettering to spine. Decorative endpapers. Title page signed by both Robert Stivers and Eugenia Parry. In "Sanctum," Robert Stivers "takes us into alcoholic..... More
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Paris: Editions Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 20 loose leaves (title-page + nineteen plates numbered 2 to 20, some coated and some un-coated), as issued. Original photo-illustrated paper portfolio. Cover photograph mounted on stiff paper portfolio. Book housed in a custom-made green cloth clamshell-box, with title..... More
Lausanne: Éditions Clairefontaine, 1962. First French language edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 151, [1]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over grey cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover. This volume features Paul Strand's 105 beautifully sequenced photographs taken from his 1954 visit to the rugged island of South Uist, off the west..... More
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1980. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/450. Folio. 256pp. Original grey cloth, with white and black lettering on spine and front cover. Book housed in its matching slipcase. Strand's classic book on the landscape and people of New England, originally published in 1950, but printed with better detail in..... More
Praha (Prague): Družstevní práce, 1932. First edition. Softcover. Octavo . Unpaginated. [28] leaves (5 5/8 x 8 1/4") mounted on an heavy orange cardstock (6 x 8 3/4"). Rare 1933 calendar featuring 27 striking photographs (including front cover) by Josef Sudek, selected and compiled by Ladislav Sutnar, and reproduced in..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (13 1/2 x 14 1/2"). 191, [1]pp. Original tan cloth, with white lettering to spine and front cover. Laid in in an envelope containing a 13 x 11" frameable reproduction print of a photograph in the book and exhibition: Aspens..... More
Madrid: Dalpine, 2015. First edition. Softcover. Small Folio (12 1/8 x 8 5/8"). Unpaginated. 48 plates. Original stiff textured wraps, photo-illustrated front cover with blind-stamped and white lettering on back cover. All edges grass green. "A Child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands; How..... More
Berlin: Reichsbahnzentrale für den Deutschen Reiseverkehr, 1930. First edition. Softcover. Small Quarto. 95 (1)pp. Original gray illustrated wraps with white ruling and black lettering on cover. 49 striking full page photogravures, including covers, of German industrial sites and technical accomplishments. The front cover of this photographic jewel dedicated to the..... More
Praha (Prague): Zádruha, 1946. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. 81 leaves. Facsimile photo-illustrated dustjacket in subtle blue tones, white lettering on the front cover, black lettering on the spine, protected by modern mylar. Stiff beige paper wrappers. "Abeceda Dusevniho Prázdna" (The Alphabet of Spiritual Emptiness) offers an extraordinary look inside..... More
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, (1961). Limited First American edition. Hardcover. 1/60. Large quarto. XXIII, [1], 146pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over illustrated black cloth, with white lettering on spine. Original lithograph frontispiece by Marino Marini, signed by him in pencil on lower left margin. Eduard Trier, one of the foremost..... More
![Item #44696 Haus der Deutschen Kunst, 1933 [WITH 20 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS]. Paul Ludwig Troost,...](/pictures/thumb/44696.jpg?v=1547766005)
NP: NP, [1937]. Hardcover. Oblong quarto (9 1/2 x 11 3/4"). [3] leaves (blank), [20] leaves (Photographs), [3] leaves (blank). Original gilt-stamped brown morocco presentation binding with circular designs and gold lettring to front cover. Raised bands. In twenty striking photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann (Adolf Hitler's personal photographer), this photo..... More
New York: Summit Books, 1986. First printing. Hardcover. Folio. 283, [1]pp. Original pictorial dust-jacket over blue cloth, with gold lettering on spine, and blind-stamped lettering on front cover. Lavishly illustrated in full color, "Jewish Folk Art" authoritatively examines the role that this art has played in Jewish culture, from birth..... More
Paris: Joseph Foret, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (7 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 156, [4]pp. Uncut. Contemporary full burgundy morocco with gold lettering and ruling to spine. Raised bands. Marbled endpapers. Ribbon marker. Original photo-illustrated wrappers bound in. Fly leaf inscribed and signed by the author to Frederic Stern, a...... More
Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. 1/3000. Folio. Unpaginated. Original red cloth with black lettering and publisher's device on spine, in photo-illustrated dustjacket in color, black lettering and publisher's device on spine. Bright red endpapers. Color frontispiece. Design by Jack Woody and Arlyn Eve Nathan. "This book..... More
Melbourne: The Lee-Pratt Press, 1939. First edition. Softcover. Quarto (10 1/8 x 7 1/2"). [16]pp (Text), [12]pp (Plates). Original decorative wrappers. Photo-illustrated title. Official catalogue of the International Camera Pictures exhibition held in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1939. This catalogue features the b/w photographic reproductions of 12 of the 351..... More
New York: ICP (International fund for Concerned Photography), 1971. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto (8 1/2 x 10 7/8"). 20, [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition of photographs by renowned Russian-American photographer Roman Vishniac (1897-1990), best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews..... More
Paris: Société Anonyme Les Illustrés Français, 1933. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8"). 105, [3]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers, with white lettering to front cover. This scarce issue of "Témoignages de Notre Temps" (Witness to our Time), is a loving and moving tribute to Jewish life and culture..... More