New York: Philipp von Zabern, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. xv, 71pp., 53 plates, 5 of them folding. Original textured brown cloth with black lettering on cover and spine. Cream endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. Text generated from the notes of Herbert Winlock. Plans by Walter Hauser, Gouverneur M. Peek and Dieter..... More
San Francisco: Trinity Properties, 2016. Limited edition. Hardcover. 1/500. Folio. 609 (1)pp. Original textured blue cloth with three color photographic inlays immersed into columns shape as a Roman three, with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine. Housed in a matching slipcase with same photographic inlays. Ted endpapers with white printing..... More
Tel-Aviv: Hedim, 1925. Limited First edition. Softcover. Baruch Agadati, oman ha-rikud ha-ivri (artist of Hebrew dance): 1/100. Folio. Original blue cloth gilt-lettered boards with Cubist-inspired front paste-down. Illustrated title page. Calligraphic Hebrew introductory text in black and red. The major work on the legendary Russian-born Israeli dancer, illustrated with a...... More
Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie. Librairie Internationale, 1866. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. (3 leaves), 71 (4)pp. 22 plates with full page Albumen prints, including frontispiece, 2 in-text prints, 1 on title page, 1 b/w map. Original pebbled blue cloth with gilt-framed, gilt-illustrated cover and spine, both with gilt lettering..... More
Zaandam, Holland: Bruynzeel, (1947). First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 126pp. Gray quarter cloth over gray paper-covered boards with gilt- and blind-stamped title on cover, gilt lettering on spine. Photographic endpapers. Published on the 50th anniversary of the Dutch timber factory Bruynzeel. The company was founded in 1897 by Cornelis Bruynzeel Sr..... More
Warsaw: Galeria Wspólczesna/ Biuro Wydawnicze "Ruch" 1967. First edition. Softcover. Small quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrated red, white and black wrappers, with black lettering on the front cover. This publication is a catalog for the exhibition of the same name held at the Galeria Wspólczesna in Warsaw, November- December 1967. The head..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1957. First edition Ex-Library. Hardcover. Quarto. xvii, (2) 224pp., 174 plates, 14 in color, 36 unnumbered plates with analysis of patterns. Original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device. "The excavation was carried out in 1933 and 1935 by two former..... More
New York: Time Inc. Home Entertainment, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Signed "Ali" on front free endpaper at a Book Soup event with his photographer Howard L. Bingham in 1993, Hollywood. Due to the effects Parkinsons Disease had taken on Ali's health he signed the book with just "Ali." Quarto. 192pp. Original..... More
Stockholm: Journal, Stockholm. First edition. Hardcover. 1/1500. Quarto. Unpaginated, 63 plates. Original gray cloth with red and black lettering on cover and spine and and color photograph laid into debossed frame on cover. Photographs of people from Claren's immediate surroundings. Parr/Badger, vol. 3 page 269, describes the photographs as "portraits..... More
Los Angeles: Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, 1923-1925. First edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio. Separated hardboard (MDF) covers housing three loose string-tied softcover volumes and and total of loose plates. As originally issued, the set contains a total of 75 plates of finely-produced b/w photographic reproductions of images of English domestic..... More
Jerusalem: Rubin Mass, 1983. Second revised. Hardcover. Large 4to. 71pp. (1). Blue cloth with gold lettering on spine in original printed green dust jacket. Frontispiece photographs of a ketubbah document. A guide to buying Jewish antiques. Chapters are divided according to ritual objects and geographic regions. An earlier edition of..... More
Chicago: Art Photography Magazine, n.d. [ca. 1951?]. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 64pp. Spiral-bound, glossy photo-illustrated sepia-toned wrappers, with white lettering on the front cover. This is volume two of the Figure Photography Annual special issue, published by Art Photography Magazine. Profusely illustrated throughout with the gorgeous b/w nude photography of..... More
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. 35, [3]pp. Original illustrated and pictorial wrappers over stiff paper covered boards. Pictorial endpapers. Half-title and title-page in red and black lettering. Fascinating work being a compilation of "sensual poems" by Paul Eluard, accompanied with 12 b/w photographic reproductions of nude women in the..... More
Wien und Leipzig: Verlag Dr. Hans Epstein, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 18 (1)pp., 96 plates. Original light blue cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Photographs of Dresden by Franz Fiedler with a brief historical sketch of Dresden, in particular its history under the emperors Friedrich August I...... More
New York: Theatre Arts, Inc., 1924. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 21 (1)pp., 40 plates. Original black paper-covered boards with black lettering in cream paper label of cover. This work documents the visualization by Bel Geddes for his hoped for production of the devine comedy. After creating models for each scene..... More
Jerusalem: Printed by Azriel Press for Keren Ha-Yesod, 1942. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto. (11 3/4 x 9"). Unpaginated. 14 pages each. B/w photo-illustrated wrappers with photomontage and red and black lettering on the covers. These scarce promotional pieces of ephemera published by the Karen Ha-Yesod fundraising organization were issued..... More
Zug, Switzerland: Sportswear International Verlag AG, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 124 (3)pp. Original white paper-covered boards and black lettering, with photo-illustrated dustjacket, black lettering on spine. An illustrated history of American Jeanswear highlighting the three original American jeans makers Levi Strauss & Co., H. D. Lee, Inc., and Wrangler..... More
Berlin: DZ Bank, 2003. Limited edition. Hardcover. Oblong Octavo. 79 (1)pp. signed Elias Hasso on title page with original singed and numbered # 12/15 photograph (7 x 9 3/8"), protected by plastic bag, laid in. Original photo-illustrated boards with black lettering on cover and spine. Gray green endpapers. Publication generated..... More
Wels, Austria: Most/Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Signed Josef Hoflehner on title page. Folio (13 7/8 x 12"). Unpaginated. Original black textured paper-covered boards with blind-stamped lettering on cover and spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, blue lettering on spine. "Figurative minimalism effectively dominates Josef Hoflechner's photographs. How far this minimalism..... More
Buenos Aires: Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1947. First edition. Softcover. Octavo. 247pp. [1]. Photo-illustrated black white and red printed wrappers, with black lettering on the spine. Published by the Central Union of Polish Jews in Argentina, this publication is a socio-historical survey of Jewish life in prewar Poland..... More
Gouda: Drukkerij v/h Koch & Knuttel, 1959. First edition. Softcover. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 8"). Unpaginated. [24]pp + 3 transparent colored acetate pages. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Illustrated title page. This splendidly produced booklet was intended as a promotional New Year's gift of publisher Koch & Knuttel, in Gouda, Holland, the..... More
Amsterdam: The Institute Art Research/ Cinubia Production/Manfred Heiting, 2008. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Unpaginated. Red cardboard slipcase with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Black belly band with red lettering. Double-sided leporello binding with heavy cardboard covers, white and red lettering on black on the front, white..... More
New York: Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 337 (6)pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering on spine in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with white lettering on spine. Photographic endpapers, recto and verso. Frontispiece photograph. Groundbreaking look into the New York art scene of the 1960s. "New York has..... More
Tokyo: 集英社 (Shueisha), 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Folios. Vol.1: 198pp. [6]. Vol.2: 198pp. [6]. Vol.3: 198pp. [6]. Red buckram boards with debossed gilt stamped motifs on the covers (each different), and gilt lettering on the spines. Protected in thick glassine wrappers. Volumes housed in black buckram photo-illustrated slipcases. Photo-illustrated endpapers..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. (xxiii) 515pp. 3/4 brown pebbled leather, over beige cloth boards, with gilt ruling. Gilt lettering, tooling and raised bands on the spine. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece of a b/w illustration showing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Frontispiece protected by tissue-guard. Captivating..... More