Tokyo: Asahi Shimbun, (1934). First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. [4],320,[1]pp. Pistachio cloth with title in black on cover and spine, French title on rear board. Map front and rear endpapers. Profusely illustrated 1930's Japanese propaganda publication. The Manchu State was a constitutional monarchy in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia. In 1931... More
Tokyo: Little More Co., Ltd., 2001. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. [132]pp. Original bellyband over photo-illustrated dust-jacket and blind wrappers. Illustrated with 129 color photographs, "Utatane" is Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi's first book which led to her national and international breakthrough, and for which she received the prestigious Kimura Ihei... More
Paris: Edité par "SOC" pour la Société Générale de Fonderie, 1931. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/1000. Folio. Unpaginated. Uncut. Original gilt decorated green wrappers. Exquisite trade catalogue printed on filigraned Montval paper, and edited for the French Société Générale de Fonderie. This work is profusely illustrated with 4 color tipped-in..... More
Berlin: Rudolf Haufe, 1943. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 132 pp. Original tear-off calendar with color photograph on cover. Complete with mostly b/w photographs with circus and entertainment motives from various European photographers and circus archives. Few stills from film productions, some in color. One b/w portrait of Adol Hitler by... More
NP: NP. Softcover. Oblong Quarto. 20, 20 plates. Original illustrated string-bound heavy and textured mauve, uncut wraps with mauve lettering on cover. Collection of 80 postcard size (3 1/2 x 5 1/2") color and b/w reproductions of photographs and artwork depicting trains from the mid 19th century into the 2000s... More
Frankfurt: Kohlkunstpresse, 1968. First edition. Softcover. Folio (9 1/2 x 12 3/4"). Unpaginated. [200]pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of double-, and full-page b/w photographic reproductions of a woman's bare rear by Gunter Rambow. This work was privately published by Gunter and its release was possible since the... More
South Dennis, MA: Steven Albahari, (2004). Numbered, limited first edition (Trade edition). Hardcover. Number 154 of 915 Classic Series copies signed, numbered and boxed. Folio. 171, [2]pp. Original red silk with illustrated paste-down on cover and black lettering on spine. Book housed in its original cream cloth clamshell box. Red... More
Berlin & Frankfurt: Im Gemeinschaftsverlag von Volk und Reich Verlag G.M.B.H. und H. Bechhold Verlagsbuchhandlung, (1937). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 23,200,25-29,[3]pp. Paper-covered boards with blind-stamped name of author, and title in black on cover and spine. With original photographic dust jacket. Dr. Paul Wolff's most famous and best work on..... More
Boston: J. B. Millet Company, 1897. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Elephant Folio (16 1/4 x 12 3/4"). v, 382pp., double-sided, of running numbers through 15 sections in 3 portfolios. Red cloth box portfolios with gilt lettering on spine and string ties containing 5 stapled sections each, with illustrated wraps and... More
![Studies in Black [SIGNED WITH AN ORIGINAL SILVER GELATIN PRINT]. Tony Butcher, Peter Adam.](/pictures/thumb/38908.jpg?v=1434442544)
London: Tony Butcher, 2002. Limited First edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Large quarto. 134pp. Original black cloth, with silver lettering on spine. Book housed in its matching publisher's slipcase. An original 9 1/2 x 7 1/2" silver gelatin print resting at pocket on inside of front cover. Half-title blind-stamped and hand-signed by... More
![Wien; Die Perle des Reiches [3-D]. Dr. Ernst Holzmann.](/pictures/thumb/10841.jpg?v=1434441256)
München: Raumbild - Verlag Otto Schönstein, (1941). First edition. Hardcover. 4to. 126 pp. Cream cloth with Vienna code of arms stamped in red, black and gold on front cover. Gold lettering on cover, red and black lettering on spine. 100 b/w stereographs and a stereoscope resting in lowered pockets inside..... More
Worms: Verlag von Christian Herbst, Hofphotograph Worms, ca. 1913. First edition. Softcover. 8vo. Oblong. Unpaginated. Original green wrappers with decorative string binding. Full page b/w reproductions of photographs of the 'Old Jewish Cemetery' in Worms, Germany. Text in German. Binding with very small white smudge on cover. Minor foxing and... More
Stuttgart: von Klemm & Beckmann, 1904. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Uncut. Original string bound wrappers with a photographic reproduction affixed to each front cover. Text pages within a decorative frame. Each volume contains 20 tissue-guarded captioned plates, with tipped-in toned photographic reproductions of female nudes in artistic study scenes... More
Hardcover. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Blind-stamped 'watered silk' cloth with title in gold on cover. Decorative endpapers. Illustrated with 16 (mainly full-page) photogravure prints in sepia tone. Each plate protected by tissue guard. Evidently a memory-book for a sports rally held in Sokol in 1912. The photos show the stadium, sporting... More
Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated dustjacket over black cloth with blind-stamped initials to front cover. Beautifully produced first edition of phtographs by Bruce Weber, limited to 5,000 casebound copies in wraps. The photographs are reproduced by sheet-fed gravure with additional halftone colors on... More
![Gods of Earth and Heaven [SIGNED]. Joel-Peter Witkin, John Yau, Gus Blaisdale, photogr., text.](/pictures/thumb/23714.jpg?v=1434441553)
Altadena, California: Twelvetrees Press, (1989). Numbered, limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/100. Sm. folio. Black cloth with silver-stamped cross on front and rear, gold lettering on spine, front- and back board. Housed in matching slipcase (slipcase without gold lettering, as published). Signed by Witkin on printed dedication page. Color frontispiece. Illustrated... More
NP, n/d. 2000 Calendar. Pictorial cover. Illustrated with 13 (incl. cover) b/w reproductions of photographs of industrial architecture by German artists Bernd & Hilla Becher. Photograph on front measures 16 1/2" x 19". The Becher's are among the most influential artists of our time and for more than 40 years... More
New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1996. Limited edition. Calendar. 1/2000. 11x5.5". Oblong curved clear plexiglas case with 55 individual loose sheets. This is copy #803 from a limited edition of 2000 copies.The loose sheets each depict a week of the year, accompanied by work from known photographers, designers and artists. According... More
[Budapest]: NP, [1946]. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (10 3/4 x 8 1/4"). 146, [2]pp. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over blind paper covered boards. Illustrated with 80 striking photogravures (including 4 double-page), and several charts, this scarce monograph was published a year after the end of WWII, and documents the reconstruction of... More
![Wald-, Baum- und Vordergrund-Studien [Die Quelle IX.]. Martin Gerlach, and Photographs.](/pictures/thumb/38528.jpg?v=1434442484)
Wien: Gerlach & Wiedling, ND (ca 1905). First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 1 leaf (Title), 80 loose plates (as issued). Original illustrated cloth portfolio, with string ties. Collection of 80 striking artistic landscape photographs depicting forests, trees, meadows, gardens and foregrounds. Martin Gerlach's splendid photographs are reproduced in collotype, and... More
Prague: Ceskoslovenske Filmore Nakladatelstvi, 1947. Softcover. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps protected by modern mylar. 15 pages of text, 46 pages of full-page b/w reproductions of photographs by Czech artist Miroslav Hak, taken between 1935-1945. Introduction in English and Czech by Lubomir Linhart. Minor creasing on wraps. Very good condition. Scarce. More
Minneapolis: Hayward & Dahlen, 1926. Photo-illustrated booklet of Native Americans, signed and inscribed to E. A. Drake and Rec Drake by author, 1936. Text accompanying the photor eproductions is somewhat humorous, even satirical, for example: "Stalwart young bucks and agile maids - Unkempt squaws with their raven braids." More
Berlin: VDA Wirtschaftsunternehmen G.m.b.H, (1935). First edition. Softcover. Quarto. Original pictorial wraps, rear cover in heavy card stock. Unpaginated (80 leaves, printed on recto only). Scarce National Socialist propaganda calendar by the Volksbund für das Deutschtum im Ausland und the Deutschen Ausland-Institut. Both are German cultural organizations that promote German..... More
Praha (Prague): Verkehersministerium - Ministerstvo dopravy, 1940-1941. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. 80pp; 104pp. Original quarter vellum over photo-illustrated paper covered boards, with black lettering to spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Title page in red and black lettering. Published by the Ministry of Transportation, these two volumes are the 1940/1941, and 1941/1942 editions... More
Buenos Aires: Guillermo Kraft Limitada, 1949. Limited edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes. 1/5150. Folio. Unpaginated. Gilt decorated maroon cloth in original dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Color frontis map. This work of a German emigré photographer is an attempt to capture the diversity of Argentina's life, land, and architecture. Some rubbing and... More