![Item #30484 Northampton Street, Easton, Pa. [windowed souvenir mail card]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30484.jpg?v=1633973598)
New York: Rotograph Co., 1905. No stated edition. Postcard. Souvenir mail card featuring a windowed set of smaller views. Here the metal clasp holds an accordion-folded strip with 12 photos of sites in and around Easton--The Circle, Delaware River Bridge, Court House, Library, and Lafayette College (several). The main scene..... More
London / Liverpool: Barraud Studio, n.d. [ca. 1890]. No stated edition. Mounted photograph. Image is ca. 7 x 10 inches on damaged cardboard mount (ca. 10 x 14 inches). On the mat are printed Barraud's name and addresses plus "W & S Ltd" and "Permanent." Image has trivial wrinkles (from..... More
Geneva: Christian Braillard (printer), 1983. First edition. Soft cover. [48]p, many color ills. Poetic text by Butor and an explanation of the series and its production by Pretre. One of 1500 trade copies. In French. Catalogue for two exhibitions of Jean-Claude Pretre's Offenbach series held in Basel, 1983 (including..... More
Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1998. Cratsley, Bruce. First edition. Hardcover. 170p, 143 duotone photos. Back of jacket rubbed, chipped; bottom of back of jacket torn. Definitive monograph of Cratsley's moving body of work, published in the same year that he died of HIV/AIDS. Sculpture and other objects, street scenes..... More
Compiled in Rockland, MA: Unpublished album, 1920-28. Album. The album is 11 x 12 ½ inches. 143 pages, filled with about 450 journal entries and souvenirs. The items are all glued to the pages or tipped into the binding. Several postcards(?) have been removed. The gutter of the album is..... More
Sausalito, CA: Windgate Press, 1985. Moulin, Gabriel. First edition. Hardcover. 208p, 171 large photos. Cover edges sunned, outer pages slightly foxed; bottom fore-edges stained. Moulin (1872-1945) was a prominent society and architectural photographer, who documented the lavish private estates and gardens of wealthy San Francisco Bay Area families--first with glass-plate..... More
Milwaukee: Kalmbach Pub. Co., 1947. Fox, Charles Philip. First edition. Cardboard covers, plastic comb-bound. [36]p, many photos by Fox; one foldout page. How the circus "moves about from one city to another in a single night, and how in only a few hours it explodes from tightly packed wagons on..... More
![Item #30402 [Photograph of A. Monroe, Fine Groceries, Fruits & Produce, ca. 1900]. Instantaneous...](/pictures/thumb/30402.jpg?v=1633973577)
New York: Instantaneous Photo View Co., n.d. [ca. 1900]. Photograph. Ca. 6 x 4 inches on mount that is ca. 8 1/2 x 6 inches. The mount is poor quality cardboard; the bottom right corner is close to chipping off. Sepia-toned photograph showing the storefront and sidewalk display of A...... More
Berkeley: Arts & Crafts Press, 1999. Dow, Arthur Wesley. Limited edition. Sewn soft cover in self wrappers. Two pamphlets, laid in tri-fold cloth portfolio, which is lined with blue paper and closed with a ribbon and wood button. 26, 30p, each with many ills., a few color plates tipped in..... More
Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1998. Morell, Abelardo. First edition. Soft cover. 63p, many large photos. Evocative photographs made while Morell was artist in residence at the Gardener, "revealing the extraordinary in the ordinary." Texts by poet Simic and Gardner curator Jennifer R. Gross. More
Boston: New York Graphic Society for Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. 260p, 314 duotone photos printed by Rapoport Printing Co. Jacket spine faded. With an essay by Therese Thau Heyman. Seminal survey of the nature of western landscape and many aspects of its..... More
Cambridge, MA: Harvard Cooperative Society; printed by The Albertype Company, Brooklyn, n.d. [early 1930s]. No stated edition. Soft cover, bound with original cord. N.p., 24 large gravure plates + cover. No text except for identifying captions. Owner's ink name on cover. Lovely views of an empty, tranquil Harvard Yard and..... More
New York: Rizzoli, 2002. Oelbaum, Zeva. First edition. Hardcover. 96p, many photos printed in sepia duotone. Instead of a jacket, a sheet with information about the book is mounted to the rear cover, as issued. Oelbaum was inspired by a student teacher's century-old botany journal that she found in Maine..... More
Paris: Andre Bonne, 1951. First trade edition. Limp paper-covered boards. Cover reads: Album du Marechal Petain. N.p., many gravure photos and other ills., many from Petain's personal collection. Marginal dampstain to last few pages. Jacket soiled, chipped. Celebration of the life of Petain--World War I hero of Verdun, Prime Minister..... More
![Item #31100 [Dedication of Cobbs Hill Reservoir, Rochester, New York, 1908?]. Unknown photographer](/pictures/thumb/31100.jpg?v=1662420844)
N.d. [ca. 1908]. No stated edition. Unbound. Large high-quality professional photograph, in sturdy mat and shrinkwrapped. Photo is ca. 16 x 20 inches, mat is ca. 21 x 15 inches. Photo is either laid down or mounted on black paper. Not examined under the mat. Civic pride on display here!..... More
![Item #30914 [Thirteen Photographs of New England House Interiors, ca. 1905]. Unknown photographer](/pictures/thumb/30914.jpg?v=1651511466)
N.d. [ca. 1905]. Unbound mounted photos. Printed in sepia on matte paper, all mounted on lightweight brown paper. All ca. 8 x 10 inches. Several small scrapes on three photos (the worst one is shown in photo 4). The photographs lovingly document a two-story home somewhere in New England. They..... More
New York: Aperture, 1986. Coburn, Alvin Langdon. First edition. Hardcover. 80p, many large plates. Comprehensive survey published to accompany the exhibition organized by the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Out of print in both hard and soft cover. More
![Item #30372 Carmel-by-the-Sea; In Story and Picture [cover title]. Emil White, ed](/pictures/thumb/30372.jpg?v=1633973570)
Big Sur, CA: Emil White, 1961. First edition. Stapled soft cover. 40p, 1 map and many black-and-white photos, including many by Art McEwen and Olivia Young, and a few by Morley Baer and Wynn Bullock. Covers in color. Back cover is creased and worn; small stains to lower covers; internally..... More
