An important pre-World War I photographer, von Gloeden utilized body makeup, controlled lighting, special filters and tints to create elegant homoerotic portraits, for which his models were well paid. The full-length nudes, of boys ranging in age from early childhood to young adult, present the form frontally in all but..... More

NP: 1942-1945. Paperback. 62 silver-gelatin photographs by Zdenek Tmej, including four self-portraits, twenty-two images from his 1946 book "Abeceda Dusevniho Prázdna*" (some of which are flopped in the publication), some similars to images chosen for the book, with others taken on May 5, 1945--the first day of the Prague uprising..... More

Cologne: Tolksdorf & Friebe, 1994. Original photograph(s). Loose leaf. Elephant Folio (24 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1 1/8"). 5 matted photographs. 10/20 of edition of 20 + VII. Original powder blue paper-covered box with printed labels on cover and inside cover, housing a b/w photograph and four C-Prints. All..... More

Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (235 by 155 mm). Sumptuously illustrated with 49 double-page and 23 quadruple-page black and white photogravure images on 190 pages; each quadruple-page image presented as gatefold on 2 folded leaves. Black paper boards (with barest rubbing), lettered in white at spine; photo-illustrated..... More

Portland: Nazraeli Press, 2010-2016. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Each title contains a separate exhibition-quality original print, protected in archival plastic foil, signed and AP applied by the artist. Six Folio Boxes comprising 36 volumes (14 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 3 1/4"). Limited to one hundred numbered copies. A set..... More

Paris: Jeanne Walter, 1931. Limited First edition. Softcover. 1/1000. Quarto. Unpaginated. 40 unpaginated double-sided printed leaves (including 72 pages of photographic images). 4 of the leaves as issued (8 pages of photographs) are missing. Photo-illustrated wrappers with blue lettering on the front cover and spine. Protected in modern mylar, housed..... More

Paris: Leon Crémiére, 1866-1869. First edition. Hardcover. Folios. Vol.1 (1866): 104pp. (interleaved throughout with 37 un-numbered plates) - Vol.2 (1866): 105-256pp. (+ 37 plates) - Vol.3 (1867): 235, [1]pp. (+ 35 plates) - Vol.4 (1867): 237- 332pp. (+ 34 plates) - Vol.5 (1868): 96pp. (+ 35 plates) - Vol.6 (1868)..... More

Paris: Librarie du Petit Journal, 1866. First edition. 1/60. Quarto (27.3 by 23 cm). [8], 68 pp; 19 hand-colored albumen prints (approx. 10.5 by 8 cm; 1 mounted at main title, 18 mounted on unnumbered leaves of heavy card stock with serpentines). Main title, secondary series title dated 1865 (each..... More

NP: NP, 1958. Only edition. Spiral_bound. Signed and numbered 2/20 Sam Makarius 58. 4pp., 20 photographic plates. Original photo-illustrated, spiral-bound boards with black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Contains 20 original, spiral-bound silver gelatin prints by Sameer Makarius (1924–2009), the Egyptian born, Argentinean painter, designer and decorator. Having..... More

London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 1/400. Elephant folio. 16pp. (+ 26 plates). Dark blue pebbled buckram boards with gilt lettering and ruling on the front cover and spine. #151 from a limited edition of 400 copies, numbered on the colophon at the front. We have not..... More

Paris: Henry Cremenitz, [ca. 1886]. First edition. Hardcover. Folios. Red cloth over grey paper portfolios, with black lettering on the front covers. String-tied. 97 loose plates. This remarkable and historically important collection is comprised of 113 original b/w photographs taken between 1883-1886 in the area of Northern Vietnam by French..... More

NP: NP, [1930]. First edition. Softcover. The original photographs range from 7" x 9" to 6 1/2" x 6 1/2". ca. 1930. Verso of photos with stamp of "Photographische Bildkunst Lazi, Stuttgart - Diemershalde 48" and "Architekt DWB. BDG. C. A. Ruedenauer Stuttgart". Five of the photos with paper remnants..... More