1985. Zweig, Janet. Heinz and Judy: A Play. [Author, with support from the Photographic Resource Center of Boston University] 1985. [20]p, many photos, a few in color. New hardcover (boards and cloth spine); no d.j., as issued. ** A rather sinister play, illustrated with unsettling shadows of partial hands, profiles... More
2004. Tomoko Yoneda. Between Visible. Tucson: Nazraeli Press 2004. 1st ptg. [32]p, 9 large photos. Very good hardcover, with photo mounted on front cover. No d.j. (as issued?). One of 1000 copies. ** Based on the photographer's visits to many archives, each photo shows a detail of an original creation... More
1961. Stoll, Jerry, and Evan S. Connell, Jr. I Am a Lover. Sausalito: Angel Island Publications (Contact Editions) 1961. 2nd ptg. N.p., 128 photos by Stoll. Good paperbound in worn but scarce belly band that proclaims, "128 Photographs that reach the Heart of San Francisco." ** Short text by Connell... More
1974. Stokes, Telfer. Spaces. London: Weproductions 1974. N.p., many photos. No text. Good small paperbound (light shelf rubbing). ** Everyday objects, buildings, and landscapes photographed and combined in shifting scales and viewpoints. The result is a disorienting narrative with a logic of its own. Can be sent outside the U.S.... More
1975. Snow, Michael. Cover to Cover. Halifax: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; New York University Press 1975. [315]p, many photos by Snow and others. Very good paperbound. Title page printed on a half sheet of translucent vellum. No text. ** "A veritable Russian doll of representational strategies, a.... More
1975. Smith, W. Eugene, and Aileen M. Smith. Minamata. NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1975. First edition. (An Alskog-Sensorium Book) 192p, many photos printed by Rapoport. Very good hardcover in very good d.j. (slightly rippled from original tight shrinkwrap). In about the last 20 pages, tiny blobs of binding glue... More
2012. Shook, Melissa. My Suffolk Downs. Boston and Cambridge, MA: Pressed Wafer and Kat Ran Press 2012. Ca. 60p, many black-and-white photos. New paperbound. ** An evocative look in "poems and photographs" of backstretch life at the soon-to-disappear Suffolk Downs racetrack in East Boston. The "poems" are based on the... More
1973. Sander, August. Men without Masks: Faces of Germany 1910-1938. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society 1973. Stated first U.S. edition. Introd. by Golo Mann, biographical essay by Gunther Sander. 314p, 218 gravure photos (also reproduced as small identification photos on foldout pages), 27 text photos, mounted frontispiece portrait of... More
1985. Rio Branco, Miguel; text by Jean-Pierre Nouhaud. Dulce Sudor Amargo. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica 1985. N.p., ca. 80 large color photos. Very good paperbound (slight shelfwear, spine faded). In Spanish. ** Haunting photographs in saturated color of daily life in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. Rio Branco is... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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.... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
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... More
2006. Dickinson, Emily]. Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: A Facsimile Edition. Harvard University Press 2006. 206p, 424 specimens shown in 66 large color photos. Very good hardcover (covers lightly shelf scuffed); lacks slipcase. Texts by Leslie A. Morris, Judith Farr, Richard B. Sewall, and Ray Angelo (catalogue). ** Beautifully produced "facsimile of... More
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... More
