To celebrate my tenth (10th) catalog I am having a sale. As you can see, everything is marked down to half price (or approximately so; I don\u2019t price in less than whole dollars). I have multiple copies of all of these titles, so, as Melvin McCosh, a renowned Twin Cities used-book seller, often said, \u201cYou Need These Books More Than I Do.\u201d Unfortunately, at these prices, I cannot offer any further discounts. These prices are in effect as long as I have multiple copies on my shelves; in other words, after one copy sells, the price for the remaining one goes back up. The books are in very good or better antiquarian condition; most are near fine and some are in their original shrink wrap (noted). Contact me if you\u2019d like detailed condition reports.<\/p>\n
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A standard selection of classic straight photographs by one of the few household names in fine photography. Edited by Liliane De Cock, with a foreword by Minor White. $35<\/span> $20<\/p>\n This large-scale book includes an introduction by Adams, a foreword by Wallace Stegner, and many high-quality illustrations. This copy inscribed and dated in the year of publication. $500<\/span> $250<\/p>\n Features photographs by Adams of California\u2019s Yosemite and other Western national parks, dating from the 1920s through 1960s, in their classic visual bravura. Includes an autobiographic foreword by Adams and an essay by author\/conservationist Paul Brooks. $150<\/span> $75<\/p>\n Revelaciones<\/em> was the catalog for a traveling exhibition, presented at eight American museums. It includes an introduction by MPA director Arthur Ollman, an essay by Nissan N. Perez, and a chronology of the artist; all text bilingual in both English and Spanish. A subsequent printing did not have the cover illustration tipped-on. $50<\/span> $25<\/p>\n The American Annual of Photography<\/em> was the longest-running and most significant photographic yearly published in the United States. It first appeared in 1887, and by the time of its demise in 1953 covered over half the lifespan of the photographic medium. It remains today a rich resource on three generations of photographers. Included were such early figures as Edward Bierstadt and Napoleon Sarony, pictorialists Gertrude K\u00e4sebier and Clarence H. White, and twentieth-century masters like Minor White. This index encompasses every credited article and photographic reproduction in the annual\u2019s sixty-seven volumes; over 3,500 names are alphabetically listed with citations. Privately printed in an edition of 500 copies. $25<\/span> $10<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Paul Anderson<\/em>, issue of The Archive<\/em>, May 1983 (no. 18), Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1983. Softcover, 11 x 8 \u00bd inches, 48 pages, 22 halftone illustrations. Largely devoted to Anderson, the periodical features a portfolio of his images and the essay \u201cPaul Lewis Anderson: A Life in Photography\u201d by Terence R. Pitts.<\/p>\n Paul Anderson: Photographs<\/em>, Guide Series Number Seven, Tucson: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 1983. Softcover, 11 x 8 \u00bd inches, 40 pages, 245 halftone illustrations. This reference work reproduces all the images by Anderson in the center\u2019s collection, representing over ten different processes and the following subjects: portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and Smith College. It includes a bibliography of his writings and reprints his 1915 article \u201cThe Education of the Photographic Artist.\u201d<\/p>\n The set of two: $30<\/span> $15<\/p>\n This is an early history of Western professional photographers, working on government surveys and in their studios to make cartes-de-visite, stereocards, and full-size albumen prints. Among those profiled are William Henry Jackson, Timothy H. O\u2019Sullivan, and operators in California, Idaho, Montana, Portland, Seattle, Denver, and Salt Lake City. $35<\/span> $20<\/p>\n Most comprise about 80 pages and measure approximately 11 \u00bd x 9 \u00bd inches. A long, uninterrupted run of one of the most important and long-lasting photographic periodicals ever published. After the 1975 death of founding editor Minor White, Michael E. Hoffman standardized its size and the magazine continues to this day as a high-quality quarterly.<\/p>\n Beginning with #77, which features the work of Josef Koudelka, the magazine was issued by number, rather than by volume. Numbers 78 to 81 are hardcovers. Many subsequent issues focus on specific topics and countries. Among the photographers given monographs (that often appeared simultaneously as hardcover books) were August Sander (#83-84, 1980), Josef Sudek (#117-118, 1990), Albert Renger-Patzsch (#131, 1993), and Paul Strand (#135, 1994). Issues 168 and 169 mark Aperture<\/em>\u2019s fiftieth anniversary, with many images and the four-part essay, \u201cVisions and Voices: A Celebration of Genius in Photography,\u201d by critic R. H. Cravens. The last issue offered here, #175, highlights photographs by Donna Ferrato, Rosemary Laing, Elaine Reichek, Doug and Mike Starn, and Paolo Woods.<\/p>\n Run of 98 consecutive issues: $500<\/span> $250<\/p>\n This \u201cSpecial Edition for The Museum of Modern Art\u201d is the first printing, which includes the image \u201cTwo girls in identical raincoats, Central Park, N.Y.C,\u201d replaced in later printings by another picture. The book is one of the most important twentieth-century monographs on a photographer and Aperture has kept it in print nearly continuously over the last forty years. Edited and designed by Doon Arbus and Marvin Israel, it is an understated masterpiece. It features fifteen pages of quotations by Arbus and virtually all of her iconic square-format images of the unusual individuals she sought out and encountered on the street, including the highly-recognizable pair of twin girls on the cover. $250<\/span> $125<\/p>\n The entire front of the record sleeve reproduces Arbus\u2019s 1967 image \u201cPatriotic young man with a flag, N.Y.C.\u201d As was common among punk bands, Hellnation undoubtedly used the image without permission, as the Arbus estate is very controlling and the photographer is not credited. This Kentucky trio called itself \u201ckings of the motherfuckin\u2019 thrash,\u201d and, indeed, the record comprises nearly thirty short, fast, and furious songs that are nearly indistinguishable from one another. Mint condition, in shrink wrap. $25<\/span> $10<\/p>\n Volume I: Old France<\/em>, 1981. Hardcover (gold-stamped maroon cloth), 12 x 10 \u00bd inches, 180 pages, 120 halftone illustrations, dustjacket.<\/p>\n Volume II: The Art of Old Paris<\/em>, 1982. Hardcover (gold-stamped maroon cloth), 12 x 10 \u00bd inches, 192 pages, 192 halftone illustrations, dustjacket.<\/p>\n Volume III: The Ancien R\u00e9gime<\/em>, 1983. Hardcover (gold-stamped maroon cloth), 12 x 10 \u00bd inches, 188 pages, 119 halftone illustrations, dustjacket.<\/p>\n Volume IV: Modern Times<\/em>, 1985. Hardcover (gold-stamped maroon cloth), 12 x 10 \u00bd inches, 188 pages, 116 halftone illustrations, dustjacket.<\/p>\n The four-volume set that constitutes the most comprehensive study of the great Parisian photographer, based on MOMA\u2019s in-depth holdings. Includes intelligent essays by Hambourg and Szarkowski and extensive notes to the plates. Volume III features a fold-out chart with Atget\u2019s negative numbers and the dates and places of his pictures, made possible by the curators cracking his esoteric numbering code. All mint, in shrink wrap. $500<\/span> $250<\/p>\n This is the catalog for one of Avedon\u2019s earliest museum exhibitions, when he was considered largely a fashion photographer and not yet accepted by the art world. Comprised primarily of portraits, it was installed on walls painted silver and served as the major summer show for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1970. The catalog\u2019s complete contents, all present here, are: a translucent sheet with a statement by Avedon about his pictures of the Chicago Seven (a late addition to the show); ten reproductions of portraits, varying in size from 9 x 6 \u00bd inches (George Wallace) to 9 x 11 \u00bc inches (Generals of the Daughters of the American Revolution); a ten-page pamphlet with an introduction by the museum\u2019s director and curator Carroll T. Hartwell, text by Avedon, and biographical and bibliographical information on the photographer; and a folded sheet measuring 27 x 26 inches, with 240 thumbnail images of the pictures in the show. While elegantly designed by Marvin Israel, the contents do not fill the depth of the folder, so copies of this catalog are invariably flattened and in poor shape. This one is in fine condition, in a protective sandwich of boards. $100<\/span> $50<\/p>\n Among the images are foldout portraits of the Mission Council, Andy Warhol and members of the Factory, the Chicago Seven, and Igor Stravinsky. Includes an essay by Harold Rosenberg. $75<\/span> $35<\/p>\n Seventy-three portraits reproduced on pages 51-96, most of them one per page. Rolling Stone<\/em> commissioned Avedon to cover America\u2019s bicentennial presidential election, but he made portraits of a broad group of men and women that constituted the country\u2019s political leadership. Among the figures included are Jerry Brown, Jimmy Carter, Cesar Chavez, Lady Bird Johnson, Barbara Jordan, Henry Kissinger, George Meany, Ronald Reagan, Donald Rumsfeld, and George Wallace. The only text accompanying the pictures are dense biographies of the sitters. $40<\/span> $20<\/p>\n This book, with an essay by Harold Brodkey, was published in conjunction with a retrospective of Avedon portrait and fashion photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. $500<\/span> $250<\/p>\n This folded poster was for a show at the museum, presented March 5 to May 4, 1980. One side features large images of Loulou de La Falaise, Marcel Duchamp, and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, while the other is a collage of over twenty portrait and fashion images. $50<\/span> $25<\/p>\n This book was produced on the occasion of a traveling exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. It was edited by Mary Shanahan and has essays by Jane Livingston and Adam Gopnik. Mint condition, in shrink wrap. $75<\/span> $35<\/p>\n This booklet promoted a portfolio of fifteen original photographs by Baltz being published by Castelli. It reproduces all the images and gives information such as edition number and paper and box materials. Two thousand of these booklets were printed. Laid into this copy is a press release about the portfolio and an announcement for an accompanying exhibition at Castelli. $75<\/span> $40<\/p>\n Baltz\u2019s assessment of the wholesale construction of a development of new homes outside of Salt Lake City. He reveals a wasteland that once it was covered with residential and commercial buildings only \u201cincreased the sense of starkness and desolation.\u201d A key body of work and book from the \u201cNew Topographics\u201d movement. Gus Blaisdell provides the essay \u201cSkeptical Landscapes.\u201d Printed in an edition of 3,000 copies. $500<\/span> $250<\/p>\n The book is filled with full-bleed color photographs by Beard of his richly collaged diary pages. While they feature his distinctive handwriting, there is an overabundance of visual material, such as newspaper clippings and photographs, plus three-dimensional objects placed on the pages before he photographed them. Includes two short essays and an artist\u2019s chronology, in Japanese. The copyright page states, \u201cCatalogue for show \u2018Diary,\u2019 From a Dead Man\u2019s Wallet: Confessions of a Bookmaker.\u201d $650<\/span> $325<\/p>\n Beaton\u2019s extensive documentation of the decade-long renaissance of creative impulses after World War II. His photographs, drawings, and writing covers world renowned figures in art, literature, dance, theater, music, philosophy, and politics. Many text pages are printed on heavy, colored paper. $50<\/span> $25<\/p>\n This was the first substantial examination of the work of Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908). Based in what is now the city of Wisconsin Dells, Bennett made a name for himself photographing the unique rock, cliffs, and caves of the Wisconsin River, and was primarily responsible for the public image of the dells in the late nineteenth century. A family-run business from the start, the H. H. Bennett studio is still in existence today. MOMA curator John Szarkowski proclaimed that his work \u201cwas a portrait of America discovering an identity with the wild world,\u201d and reflected an \u201cawakening to the poetic uses of the land.\u201d $30<\/span> $15<\/p>\n The subtitle, in classic nineteenth-century fashion, describes the book\u2019s subject in detail: \u201cAn album on the Saint-Gaudens Memorial on Boston Common honoring black and white men together who served the Union cause with Robert Gould Shaw and died with him July 18, 1863.\u201d An elegant book, with text printed by the Stinehour Press and rich halftone illustrations by Meriden Gravure. Includes the text of Frederick Douglass\u2019s 1863 call \u201cMen of Color, to Arms,\u201d an essay by Lincoln Kirstein, and a list of the regiment members. According to Eakins Press, this book inspired the 1989 film \u201cGlory.\u201d Mint condition, in shrink wrap. $75<\/span> $35<\/p>\n Published five years after Bischof\u2019s death at less than forty, this is an early overview of his work. It features his documentary photographs, in both black-and-white and color, from India, Japan, New York, Mexico, Peru, and elsewhere. Among them is an image of a Peruvian boy walking and playing the flute, perhaps his most recognizable picture. The text is by Manuel Gasser and the illustrations are printed in high-quality gravure. Swiss photojournalist Werner Bischof (1916 -1954) was a prominent member of the Magnum photo agency. $75<\/span> $35<\/p>\n Introduction by Bhupendra Karia and Manuel Gasser, followed by pictures by and letters from Bischof from Germany, Eastern Europe, England, India, Japan, Korea, Indochina, and Peru. Signed by Bishof\u2019s son, Marco. $35<\/span> $20<\/p>\n Foreword by Miriam Mafai, with a short passage from Bischof\u2019s diary. Bischof\u2019s photographs show the destruction and rebuilding efforts in Germany, France, and other European countries, between 1945 and 1950. Werner Bischof (1916 – 1954) was a leading photojournalist and member of the Magnum photo agency during his short life. $30<\/span> $15<\/p>\n Exhibition catalog that features work from sixteen bodies of work, dating from 1965 to 1978, among them perhaps his best known, \u201cIn Front of Saint Patrick\u2019s Cathedral.\u201d Chronology, interview, and bibliography. $25<\/span> $10<\/p>\n This is the first of four books Bodine produced of dramatic images in the Maryland and Virginia area. Printed in high-quality gravure, his pictures show the state\u2019s people, architecture, landscape, and water life. Includes a playful end paper map illustration by Richard Q. Yardley. A. Aubrey Bodine (1906 -1970) was a career photographer for Baltimore\u2019s Sunday Sun<\/em> and a successful pictorialist with some of the same pictures. $50<\/span> $25<\/p>\n Bodine\u2019s second book, now published by his own concern, but distributed by New York\u2019s Hastings House. His accessible images show many aspects of the bay, including recreational, commercial, and military uses. Includes a playful end paper map illustration by Richard Q. Yardley. A. Aubrey Bodine (1906 -1970) was a career photographer for Baltimore\u2019s Sunday Sun<\/em> and a successful pictorialist with some of the same pictures. $50<\/span> $25<\/p>\n This is one of five plays by Kennedy for which Boughton provided illustrations, between 1908 and 1917. The Terrible Meek<\/em> is the shortest of them, being a one-act play for three voices, performed in darkness. Edith Wynne Matthison, Kennedy\u2019s wife, played a peasant woman and is the subject of Boughton\u2019s portrait. Alice Boughton (1866 -1943) was a professional and pictorial photographer, working in New York, after apprenticing with Gertrude K\u00e4sebier. Alfred Stieglitz included six photogravures by her in the April 1906 issue of Camera Work<\/em>, most of them picturing nude women and children. The book\u2019s elaborate embossed cover was created by the Decorative Designers. $30<\/span> $15<\/p>\n A biography of the famous Civil War and portrait photographer by Komroff, a photographer in his own right. From the series \u201cBritannica Bookshelf: Great Lives for Young Americans.\u201d $30 <\/span> $15<\/p>\n During the late 1920s and thirties Madeline Brandeis wrote approximately twenty children\u2019s books in her series, \u201cThe Children of All Lands Stories,\u201d about subjects largely in Europe. In each, she followed the everyday life of a single child and his or her friends and family members. In addition, Brandies made photographs of the children on her travels, about forty of which ended up illustrating each book. Her hope was to educate American children about their counterparts across the Atlantic, in simple prose and accessible images. It seems that these books were printed in large numbers and were popular. According to her obituary in the New York Times<\/em> (June 29, 1937), Brandies died at the young age of 39, from injuries suffered in an automobile accident.<\/p>\n These hardcover books have cloth spines, printed paper over boards, and dustjackets. They were published by Grosset and Dunlap (New York), measure about 8 \u00be x 7 inches, run about 200 pages, and include about 40 halftone illustrations.<\/p>\n The Little Indian Weaver<\/em>, 1928.<\/p>\n The Little Swiss Wood Carver<\/em>, 1929.<\/p>\n Little Jeanne of France<\/em>, 1929.<\/p>\n The Wee Scotch Piper<\/em>, 1929.<\/p>\n Little Anne of Canada<\/em>, 1931.<\/p>\n The Little Mexican Donkey Boy<\/em>, 1931.<\/p>\n Little Tony of Italy<\/em>, 1934.<\/p>\n Carmen of the Golden Coast<\/em>, 1935.<\/p>\n Little Rose of the Mesa<\/em>, 1935.<\/p>\n The Little Spanish Dancer<\/em>, 1936.<\/p>\n Little John of New England<\/em>, 1936.<\/p>\n Little Pepito of Central America<\/em>, 1941, by Gladys Shaw Erskine.<\/p>\n Group of twelve: $50<\/span> $25<\/p>\n The co-authors give a brief history of photography\u2019s first eighty years in Brazil. Includes portraits of the Imperial Family and a map of the country keyed to a chronological grid with cities and photographers. The bulk of the book comprises biographies and pictures by fifteen Brazilian photographers, virtually all of them unknown to North Americans at the time. Among them: Milato Augusto de Azevedo, Victor Frond, and Marc Ferrez, the standout. This copy signed by author Naef. $75<\/span> $40<\/p>\n This elegant book features text by the photographer\u2019s daughter, Barbara, and notes by Bullock on some of the images. His somewhat mystical pictures, of figures, landscapes, and still lifes, are grouped by decade, from the 1940s to 1970s. Published a year before his death in 1972, it remains the classic book on Bullock. $300<\/span> $150<\/p>\n\n
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