![Item #30487 Bartlett Sisters [1932]. Anonymous Photographer](/pictures/thumb/30487.jpg?v=1633973599)
N.p. [probably U.S.]: Unpublished, 1932. Original photographs. Unbound photographs. Two sepia-toned photographs showing nine women posing in 19th-century dress in a formal parlor. They are grouped differently in each photo. One is costumed as a man. "Bartlett Sisters 1932" is written in ink in the lower right of each photo..... More
![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
No place [Buffalo?]: No stated publisher, 1987. First edition. Soft cover. Six reproductions of photographs, printed in duotone on glossy card stock, laid in folder. Short texts by Reyner Banham, Anthony Bannon, and the photographer. Ca. 6 x 9 inches. Folder lightly soiled; price sticker removed from back; photos are..... More
Atlanta: Nexus Press, 1987. Burke, Bill. Limited edition. Hardcover. N.p., many duotone photos by Burke and other ills., some in color. Plasticized pictorial boards; no jacket, as issued. One of 1000 copies (unstated). The first edition of this remarkable artist’s book. Via photographs, diary entries, and collaged ephemera, Burke documented..... 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
![Item #30459 The Photograph and the Book V [Catalogue 105]; 19th Century Photographically...](/pictures/thumb/30459.jpg?v=1633973593)
Cambridge, MA: Charles B. Wood III, n.d. [2000]. First edition. Soft cover. 203 entries, all scrupulously described. Bookseller catalogue, continuing Wood's pioneering catalogues of books about and containing photographs. 79p, many ills. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. More
Cambridge, MA: Charles Wood, n.d. [2003]. First edition. Soft cover. 83p, many photos. Offers 221 illustrated books, albums, catalogues, and technical manuals, all described in scrupulous detail. More
New York (?): unstated, n.d. [1983]. First edition. Soft cover. 40p (including covers), many photos and line ills. Published as the catalogue for the "Preparing for War" section in the pioneering Terminal New York exhibition, which was held in the Brooklyn Army Terminal in 1983. Opening with an epigraph from..... 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
![Item #30265 The Paintings of Eduard Steichen [with 2 menus]. Anne Cohen DePietro, Mary Steichen...](/pictures/thumb/30265.jpg?v=1633973540)
Huntington, NY: Heckscher Museum, 1985. Steichen. First edition. Stapled paperbound. 48p, many ills., some in color. Laid in: erratum sheet; also 2 copies of the menu for The Lenders Dinner, June 28, 1985, catered by Frank Allison, Northport, NY. The menus are tried with lavender ribbon. Text by DePietro, and..... 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
Munich; Cologne: Galerie Klihm; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, 1972. Moholy-Nagy, Laszlo. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 8 pls. of photograms. Checklist of 24 photograms that were part of an exhibition of Moholy-Nagy's photographic work, which was shown at the Galerie Klihm, the Bauhaus-Archiv, and another site. With a short excerpt from..... More
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. Rand, Paul. Third edition, revised. Soft cover. 48p, many ills. Cover design by Paul Rand. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name. An iconic presentation of paintings, sculpture, photographs, graphic design, and furniture in the categories of abstract geometric form, geometrically..... More
Munich: Eigenthum und Verlag von Jos. Albert, n.d. [1866?]. Schnorr von Karolsfeld, Jos. Albert. First edition. Portfolio. 16p + 20 loose plates (mounted photographs). Scattered foxing and spotting, but the photos are overall clean, very crisp, and richly printed. Cover wear (front cover is detached). Ex-library (long ago), with title..... More
New York: Holly Solomon Gallery; Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1992. Wegman, William. First edition. Soft cover. [24]p, 12 pls., many in color. In fair original mailing envelope, with postmark and address label. Catalogue for 2 shows: New Paintings, Polaroids, and Drawings at Holly Solomon, and Early Black & White Photographs at Pace/Macgill..... More
1977. Ickovic, Paul. 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..... 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
New York: Iolas Gallery, 1959. Man Ray. First edition. Unbound sheet. Announcement of the May Ray exhibition at the Iolas Gallery in New York, November 9, 1959. One large sheet, folded into a gatefold format. Paper browned, handling wear, light edge wear and chips. Photo is fine. Ca. 17 x...... More
![Item #30178 Katalog 88, 92, and 93 [3 catalogues]. Jurgen Holstein Antiquariat](/pictures/thumb/30178.jpg?v=1633973521)
Pocking bei Munchen: Jurgen Holstein, [1983]. First edition. Soft cover. Cat. 88: Illustrierte Bucher Graphik und Plakate aus einem halben Jahrhundert, 1892-1942. 1983. 40 items with long descriptions and illustrations + 3 pages of additional books. Without the "Faltblatt" (brochure) on Russian children's books. Corners bumped. Cat. 92: New Acquisitions..... More
![Item #30102 News [1 of 60 signed copies]. Rosa Lachenmeier](/pictures/thumb/30102.jpg?v=1633973508)
Basel: BookART, 1993. Lachenmeier, Rosa. Limited Edition. Bolt-bound boards. N.p., many color ills., printed by photo-offset. No text except the front and back matter and month part-titles. No. 8 of 60 signed copies. The artist presents a monthly chronicle of world and other events via news photos collaged within global..... More
Paris: Le Courrier Graphique, 1956. First edition. Soft cover. 108p, many ills. and ads (some in flat color). Issue 86 of this French trade journal devoted to book design and the printing and publishing industries. Surveys a decade of French typography, fine press books, photography books, pocket books ("un probleme..... More
![Item #25240 Bayard [1 of 1590 copies]. Lo Duca](/pictures/thumb/25240.jpg?v=1633973457)
Paris: Prisma, 1943. First edition. Hardcover (original boards). 30p + 49 pls. followed by fold-out captions. No. 715 of 1590 copies. Ink name of previous owner, a Boston-area photographer. No d.j. (as issued?). The first book on Hippolyte Bayard, the early French photographer of the 1840s. Reproduces his portraits (including..... 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
