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New York Graphic Society, 1973. Stated first edition. Blue cloth, gilt titles. A collection of B&W photos on coated paper by a former Farm Security Administration official illustrating daily life and hard times during the Great Depression. Book very good plus with little wear. DJ very good with several repaired tears to reverse, price clipped. 191 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.… Read more

Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960. Seventh printing of the 1960 edition published by Houghton Mifflin. Black cloth, gilt titles. . Revised edition with additional new photographs and a foreword by Walker Evans. Book unread and very good plus with some edge spotting to photos (on coated paper). DJ likewise very good plus with a bit of edgewear, remnants of sticker over… Read more

Hill and Wang, 1967. First printing of this edition. With B&W photos by Roy DeCarava and text by Langston Hughes. A collection of very memorable and well-known photos on life in Harlem. A very good plus unread copy with mild sunning to cover near spine, slight foldwear, some light spotting at edges. Rare. 96 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very… Read more

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Fifth printing of the trade softcover edition. Photos of Nin and friends in B&W and on coated paper. Very good plus with light shelfwear. Unpaginated.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Simon & Schuster, 1966. Stated first printing. Lyrics and music recorded by Guy & Candie Carawan and subjects photographed in B&W by Robert Yellin. With a preface by Alan Lomax. Music in vocal score. Book sound and very good with soil and stains to cover but text block clean. Rare in first. 191 pp.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.… Read more

Lucerne, Switzerland: A. Bucher, 1971. May 1971. Cover: Balthasar Burkhard photo. In this issue: Portfolios with essays by Roland Schneider, Francois and Jean Robert, Balthasar Burkhard. Very good with aging to cover. 56 pp.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Taos, NM: Lenny Foster, 2000. Date approxmate, no date given. Photographic print pasted on 5x7 greeting card, blank inside. Signed in pencil by photographer in lower right hand corner. Very good plus with small bump at bottom of centerfold. . 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Aperture, 2005. First printing. Folio size. Pictorial binding, matching DJ. A collection of photos taken at a mental health facility around 1970. With an Afterward by Doon Arbus, the photographer's daughter. Book unread, fine. DJ likewise fine. SW removed only to photograph. Unpaginated.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

Prestel, 2010. First printing. Bright blue cloth, gilt titles. Folio size. From an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art and including a lengthy explanatory essay by the editor. Many of Ginsberg's photos include his commentary and notations. Book unread, fine. DJ likewise near fine with hint of shelfwear. 137 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

David Akiba, 1978. David Akiba, 1978. Thirteen xerox process B&W photos with title page, colophon and matboard backing in cardboard box with pasted titles plate. Signed by photographer on rear colophon with a notation that this unnumbered signed edition was produced with the assistance of Joseph Wiellette. Contents near fine; box very good minus with waterstain at front, edgewear,.Very, very… Read more

Bulfinch Press/National Gallery, 1999. First printing of this second edition. Oatmeal linen, black titles. Printed on specially-manufactured matte finish photo paper and printed in Italy. High quality production made possible with a grant from the Eastman Kodak Company. Oversized quarto; heavy weight owing to paper thickness. Book unread with small bump at foreedge, DJ in like equivalent condition. 246… Read more

Bulfinch (Little, Brown), 2006. Stated first edition. With a Foreword by Gordon Parks, an Introduction by Cain Hope Felder and essays by Barbranda Lumpkins Walls, Rev. Cardes H. Brown, Jr. and Rev. Dr. Lawrence N. Jones. Afterword by Bishop John Hurst Adams and an Epilogue by Rev. Dr.. Beecher Hicks, Jr. B&W photos of African-Americans in houses of worship and… Read more

U.S.A.: Trinity University Press, 2007. First printing assumed. Oversized landscape quarto. B&W landscape photos that seek to capture the fragility of terrain in the American West. Book unread, as new in pub's shrinkwrap. 136 pp.. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Fine.

Dove Tail Books, 2000. No printing statement; first assumed. A book of 30 detachable B&W postcards with landmarks identified on reverse. Included are Brooklyn Bridge, Carnegie Hall, Ellis Island, Statue of Liberty, Grand Central Station, Times Square, Guggenheim Museum, etc. Unused, near new.. 1st Edition.. Soft Cover. Near Fine.

Boston, MA: Photographic Resource Center, 1985. Date approximate, no date given. Folded portfolio on coated card stock. Contains four color photographs and a poem by Robert Francis. Very good with sunning to cover. Rare. . 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

U.S.A.: Atria / Simon & Schuster, 2005. First printing. Quarto. A collection of his poems and photographs on facing pages.Unread, as new in like DJ. 128 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

U.S.A.: University Of Iowa Press, 2007. First printing. Black cloth, gilt titles, decorative endsheets. With B&W photos by Everett W. Kuntz. A photo-essay on small-town Iowa in the 1940s. Book unread, as new. DJ likewise as new. 106 pp.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

U.S.A.: S. Greene Press, 1971. Red cloth, gilt titles. First edition (NAP). Oversized quarto. A collection of B&W photos on matte finish paper of men, women and children in various guises. Captions identify subjects by name and tribe (when known). A brief introduction by the editor explains the origin of the collection. Book very good with some disparate spots to… Read more

U.S.A.: Random House, 1971. Stated first edition. Brown cloth, black/gilt titles. Front board stamped with photo illustration. An album of period photos of Mississippi during the Depression, with brief explanatory text by Welty. Book near fine with light top edge soil, mild fading to boards at edges. DJ very good plus with a couple of faint spots, price clipped. 112… Read more

U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. First printing. Aqua cloth over beige cloth boards, gilt titles. Inscribed on title page. Includes 51 essays by well-known writers, including: Tim O'Brien, Maxine Kumin, Robert B. Parker, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., John Ciardi, Richard Wilbur, John Ciardi, Henry Beetle Hough, Anne Bernays, Archibald MacLeish and John Updike. Book very good with faint musty odor, light… Read more