Search Results: Photography from Little Sages Books, ABAA

Newark: Dr. Alex Werner, 1901. First Edition. Wraps. Very good. 8pp in illustrated green paper wrappers. Rear cover split at corner tip. None recorded in OCLC or trade at the time of this writing. 

Farmington , 1981. Staplebound. Very good. 28p. + printed wrappers, 4to stapled. Black and white photography featured.

Miami: Miami Dade Community College, 1987. First Edition. Staplebound. Very good. Stapled softcover photography book, b/w with text by local writers exploring facets of the social fabric of Miami Haitian community and diaspora. Six copies found in OCLC holdings.

Amsterdam : Oostvogel , 1999. Limited Edition. Very good. Amsterdam : Oostvogel , 1999. Limited Edition. Very good. 46pp., 21 x 30 cm. One located in institutional domestic holdings at MOMA. Here, the special edition with inclusion of original signed/limited photograph by the Dutch Post War/Contemporary Artist

Herefordshire , 1925. Cloth. Very good. 92p album with over 210 photos, predominantly vernacular snapshots of friends, day trips, canoing, swimming, picnics, studies and grounds of campus including outdoor woodworking, views from Dinedor,Mrs. Fox (a teacher), Goodrich Castle, tennis, theatrical productions, class photos, 'Eason' and the Pigeons many reunions into the 1930s including Wye at Capler, Brum, Whit, Grosmont, Holme Lacy etc. The teacher training college began in 1902, offering two year certifications, later three. It stood as the only institute of higher learning in Herefordshire throughout the 20th century.A female only academy for most of it's existence, it dissolved by 1978, becoming Royal National College for the Blind until 2013.

Boston: Photograph and Minette Rooms, 1870. First Edition. Card. Fine. 22 Winter Street Studio, Boston. Painted bird's nest, egs, leaves, ferns and fruit.

Hamburg : Mare, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. Iconic photobook by Russian born Magnum photographer. He works regularly for the international press, particularly for Geo, Actuel and The New York Times Magazine. White publisher's cloth, glossy photographic dustjacket. With pictorial stories of Norway, Canada, Siberia, Greenland, Russia. Text in German. 136pp.

Chicago, 1960. Card . Very good. Housed in Triangle Service photography folder

California , 1920. Photograph . Very good. 8" x 10" original black and white

Missouri: Hixon-Connelly Studio, 1916. Photograph. Good. 8" x 10" Platinum/Palladium process photographic print of Kate Morgan, signed Hixon-Connelly in white. A stunning photograph with rich, deep tones and exceptionally high brights. The Hixon-Connelly partnership yielded a bevy of Vaudeville and theatre subjects. Highlights included Valeska Suratt for Fox and Ruth St. Denis in Theatre Magazine. At one time with four branch studios as well as primary in Kansas City. Known for dark, half shaded, intense prints, keen on dramatic negative manipulation yielding profound shadow expression and drama, in an era of still repose popularized in portraiture. 'Kate Morgan with Wallis Clark' written in pencil to rear, uncredited actors in Frank Capras It Happened One Night. Small loss, lower left corner.

Ceylon , 1910. Card . Very good. Original photograph on card, signed on reverse and housed, not mounted in cardboard frame.

1997. Hardcover. Very good. 96pp., large quarto 9" x 18" hardcover, to accompany exhibit at Espaces des Blancs Manteaux. Photographic boards, text in French.

Lima: Biblos SA, 2003. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition. Limited to 3000 copies. Large, oversized dual text (Spanish/English) folio, full color photographic decadence. Glossy, fresh with exceptional representation of the photography of Renzo Uccelli, noted Peruvian mountaineer and artist. He died creating such art, at age 36 in the Peruvian forest while executing air photography of his beloved country. Forward by Fernando de Szyszlo, with texts by Manongo Mujica, Rafo Leon, Rossella Di Paolo, Antonio Cisneros. Designed by Marie Isabel Musselmann Garcia, photographic management/curation by Alejandra Proano Polar.

New York, 1920. Paper . Very good +. The story of City Hospitals land is ominous, now laying in ruins to the East of Manhattan and highlighted by some as an architecturally distinct ghost tour. Approximated by completed construction, dress of subjects and presence of Queensboro bridge, the photos post-date 1909. Possibly the first time many of the residents were the subject of photography, or the first photographic documentation of the island on site. Through the 19th century, then known as Blackwells island, the island housed several hospitals and a prison, built from the stone underfoot. Buildings included the New York City Lunatic Asylum, The Smallpox Hospital, later the gothic lighthouse built again by convict labor, the last prisoners leaving the island by 1935 when Rykers is erected. During the outbreak of smallpox, the island became known as Pest Island, when nurses and workers were scarce the prison population contributed to the operations of the site. Termed Welfare Island in 1921,… Read More

. , 1930. First Edition. Photograph . Very good. Four signed photographs, one Gordon Grant lithograph image 'Ironsides', signed, one Charles Robert Patterson lithograph, 'Signaling for a Pilot', signed.

Japan , 1945 . Card. Very good. Three black/white photographs showing African American and Causasian Navy men dancing with local Japanese women in both western and traditional dress. December, 1945.

Miami: Author, 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 21 unbound pages within custom clamshell box, bound in rich brown Asahi book cloth, with 20 archival pigment prints tipped in, with the addition of a signed and numbered original photogravure image, 2” x 3” and corresponding solarplate, original to this Limited Edition of 35 + 5 Artist’s Proofs. Designed, printed and assembled by the artist using Fabriano and Canson papers. A continuation of Dakhnovskaia-Lawton’s project “Wondering about Pictorialism” done on a more accessible scale, including twelve new images. This strategy unifies the intimacy of the image and the format of the book into a new, contemporary approach. Dakhnovskaia-Lawton’s inspiration was originally drawn from the 19th century pictorial aesthetic and Stieglitz’s “Camera Work” magazine, as she embarked on a long journey in trying not only to comprehend the intricacy of the old-fashioned aesthetic but also in… Read More

Miami, 2010. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 32pp., French accordion binding with 16 folded pages, 6x6", housed in Fabriano paper jacket. Title printed in black on a front cover, in an edition of 75 signed and numbered, each with twelve archival pigment prints, tipped in. Designed, printed and assembled by the artist using Fabriano and Canson papers. A continuation of Dakhnovskaia-Lawton’s project “Wondering about Pictorialism” done on a more accessible scale, including twelve new images. This strategy unifies the intimacy of the image and the format of the book into a new, contemporary approach. Dakhnovskaia-Lawton’s inspiration was originally drawn from the 19th century pictorial aesthetic and Stieglitz’s “Camera Work” magazine, as she embarked on a long journey in trying not only to comprehend the intricacy of the old-fashioned aesthetic but also in an attempt to bring it into contemporary life. In this project, by emphasizing… Read More