CLICK! Our featured books for spring are photobooks, photographic artist's books, and other works of interest for their photography. Some landmarks, some outliers.
All photos are in black and white unless otherwise noted. If there's no photo here, we can easily send one. And please browse our Art topics for more related books that aren't listed here.
2010. Aronson, Judith. Likenesses: With the Sitters Writing about One Another. Manchester, UK: Lintott Press 2010. 132p, many large photos by Aronson printed in duotone. Fwd. by Charles Saumarez Smith, formerly head of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery. Very good paperbound. Signed by the photographer. ** Compelling...
1980. Baronio, Joyce. 42nd Street Studio. NY: Pyxidium Press 1980. Stated first edition. N.p., ca. 40 photos. Texts by Baronio and Linda Nochlin. Good hardcover (plasticized boards). A little skewed due to its size. Lacks d.j. ** Large portraits of the sex-entertainment women and men who visited Baronio's Times Square...
1953. Bidermanas, Izis. Gala Day London. London: Harvill Press 1953. 148p, many photos by "Izis." Very good hardcover in good d.j. (edges worn, scraped spot on front). ** Atmospheric, sometimes poignant photos of Londoners, plus related thoughts or verse by 22 prominent writers on what makes London special: Betjeman, Eliot...
1932. Blossfeldt, Karl. Art Forms in Nature: Second Series. Examples from the Plant World Photographed Direct from Nature. NY: E. Weyhe 1932. xiii pp. + 120 large pls. Very good to fine hardcover (blue-green cloth, stamped in gilt). In good d.j. (chipped, soiled). Small shelf label on jacket spine, From...
1929. Blossfeldt, Karl. Urformen der Kunst: Photographische Pflanzenbilder. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, n.d. [1st pub. 1928]. No date or edition statement, but clearly an early printing. Ed. and introd. by Karl Nierendorf. xvii pp. + 120 large pls. Very good hardcover (blue-green cloth, stamped in gilt). Endpapers soiled; hinges slightly cracked...
Capek, Karel. Daschenka oder das Leben eines jungen Hundes. Berlin: Bruno Cassirer, n.d. [1935? 1948?]. 95p, many line ills. and photos by the author. Very good hardcover in fair d.j. (soiled, torn). Translated from Czech. ** The life of Capek's engaging fox terrier puppy in words and pictures. Originally published...
1966. Cendrars, Blaise, and Robert Doisneau. La Banlieue de Paris. Paris: Seghers 1966 (1st pub. 1949). 142p, 24 photos by Robert Doisneau. Good paperbound (average shelf wear). ** Cendrars's evocative description of tough postwar life in the suburbs of Paris, followed by Doisneau's equally evocative photos of Aubervilliers, Montrouge, Ivry-sur-Seine...
1996. Dan, Wynn. 100 Pages: Words + Pictures. NY: Wynn Dan 1996. [100]p, many photos. No text. Very good small paperbound. ** Generally soft-focus photos of streetscapes and everyday objects, almost all of them featuring words or numbers (signs, labels, dials, etc.). Printed in a bluish-black ink. Striking design, by...
1999. Duarte, Carlota. Odella: A Hidden Survivor. University of New Mexico Press 1990. N.p., many pls. Very good paperbound. Signed by Odella Chatal; presentation from Duarte. ** A moving photographic essay about a 60-year-old woman who had lived more than half her life in institutions and now was living on...
1991. Fessler, Ann. Art History Lesson. Baltimore [Author] 1991. [12]p, several ills. Very good stapled paperbound (light handling wear). ** Long before the Me Too Movement, Fessler juxtaposed art historian H.W. Janson's commentary on Poussin's philosophy of art ("The highest aim of painting, he believed, is to represent noble and...
Paterson, Dave. Finlay, Ian Hamilton, and Dave Paterson. The Boy's Alphabet Book. Toronto: Coach Press 1976. [56]p, 26 pls. printed in blue-black ink. Fine paperbound. One of 1000 copies. ** An alphabet book consisting of Paterson's photographs of "actual objects" that were made by Finlay: toy boats, aircraft, guns, tanks...
2007. Friedlander, Lee. Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes. NY: D.A.P. 2007. N.p., 89 large photos beautifully printed by Meridian Printing [not Meriden Gravure]. Very good hardcover with mounted photo on front cover; lacks d.j. ** In 1989 Phyllis Lambert commissioned Friedlander and two other photographers to take pictures in the parks...
2006. Hai Bo. [The Northern Series]. NY: Max Protetch Gallery 2006. N.p., many large color photos by Hai Bo on 16p. Foreword by Leng Lin. Very good oblong hardcover (boards). Top corners bumped, light shelf rubbing. No d.j., probably as issued. Gallery press release laid in. Text in English and...
1951. Hayward, John, introd. Literary Britain Photographed by Bill Brandt. London: Cassell 1951. 1st ed. Ca. 200p, 100 full-page photos. Good hardcover (bottom cover corners bumped, small white stain to top of front cover, slightly skewed) in fair d.j. (rubbed, edges torn). ** Brandt's moody photos of landscapes and buildings...
1977. Ickovic, Paul. In Transit. Boston: Odeon Editions 1977. Stated first edition. [54]p, 53 pls. Texts by Kathryn Ungerer and Patricia Griffith. Fine hardcover in fair d.j. (creased, edges torn). ** Photos of men and women passing through New York, Paris, Boston, and other cities: on the street and in...
1986. Ickovic, Paul. Kafka's Grave and Other Stories. NY and Nairobi: Okapi Editions 1986. [84]p, 37 large black-and-white photos printed in tritone by Meriden Gravure. The text is printed in letterpress by Stinehour Press. Fwd. by David Mamet. Mint oblong hardcover (photo mounted on cover), in original shrinkwrap and shipping...
1990. Imes, Birney. Juke Joint. University Press of Mississippi 1990. 1st ed. 16p + 70 large color pls. Introductory essay by Richard Ford; afterword by Imes. Very good hardcover in very good d.j. ** Presents a "previously unexplored domain, the black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta country, and transforms...
1971. Kertesz, Andre. On Reading. NY: Grossman 1971. 1st ed. [64]p, ca. 60 pls. Fine hardcover in very good unclipped d.j. (slight shelf soil and edge wear, spine yellowed as usual). ** A book to lose yourself in, as do Kertesz's subjects. It never fails to enchant. Can be sent...
1994. Klein, William. In and Out of Fashion. NY: Random House 1994. Stated first U.S. edition. 256p, hundreds of photos by Klein, many in color. Preface by Klein; afterword by Martin Harrison. Good hardcover (plasticized boards). No d.j., as issued. A little skewed because the book is too heavy for...
1977. Krementz, Jill. A Very Young Rider. NY: Knopf 1977. Stated first edition. N.p., many photos by the author. Very good in very good unclipped d.j. (front flap creased). ** A photographic look at the horse show world of a young hunter-jumper equestrian, Vivi Malloy. Follows the author's bestselling A....
1992. Meisels, Penina, and Michael Cronan. Polo. San Francisco: Collins 1992. 112p, 100 hand-tinted color photos by Meisels. Very good hardcover (plasticized boards) in very good translucent vellum d.j. (short closed tear to top front). Text also by Meisels; elegant book design by Cronan. ** Beautiful photos and evocative text...
1958. Miller, Wayne. The World Is Young. NY: Ridge Press 1958. 192p, many gravure photos. Good hardcover (spine faded and lettering dull); no d.j. ** Loving documentation of the joys and sorrows of childhood from toddler to teenage days. Text by Miller on how he prepared the book; also quotes...
1951. Morgan, Barbara. Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp. NY: Morgan & Morgan 1951. Stated first edition. 160p, many gravure photos. Very good hardcover; no d.j. ** In her Photographer's Note, Morgan writes that the book "is the fruit of fifteen years' experience with children's camp life...
1978. Pruszkowski, Krzysztof. Barierka. Paris: Contrejour 1978. N.p., many photos. Good small paperbound (cover soil; a few page corners very lightly creased or bumped; overall internally very good). ** Photos of portable police barricades in place and in various uses for pedestrian and crowd control; all or mostly in Paris...
1973. Rice, Brian, and Tony Evans. The English Sunrise. NY: Quick Fox (A Flash Book) 1973. 1st U.S. ed. (1st pub. in U.K. 1972). N.p., 76 color photos by Evans. Very good paperbound (covers shelfsoiled, lightly sunned). ** Collection of colorful sunrise motifs on signs, window and door treatments, gates...
![Odella: A Hidden Survivor [presentation copy]. Carlota Duarte.](/pictures/thumb/A5303.jpg?v=1553606051)
![The Boy's Alphabet Book [1 of 1000]. Ian Hamilton Finlay, Dave Paterson.](/pictures/thumb/A6182.jpg?v=1553603532)
![Literary Britain Photographed by Bill Brandt [1st ed. in d.j.]. John Hayward, introd., photos...](/pictures/thumb/A6155.jpg?v=1553605814)
![On Reading [1st ed. in d.j.]. Andre Kertesz.](/pictures/thumb/A6183.jpg?v=1553603535)
![A Very Young Rider [1st ed. in d.j.]. Jill Krementz.](/pictures/thumb/A6184.jpg?v=1553603536)
![Summer's Children: A Photographic Cycle of Life at Camp [+ photo]. Barbara Morgan.](/pictures/thumb/A6200.jpg?v=1553604532)
![Barierka [Barricades]. Krzysztof Pruszkowski.](/pictures/thumb/A6150.jpg?v=1553605812)
