Search Results: Photography from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Milano?]: Alfieri Editore, 1974. First Edition. Square quarto (24.5cm.); original cloth in white dust jacket; unpaged; chiefly illus. Rear jacket panel a bit dust-soiled, textblock somewhat foxed, else Very Good or better. Exhibition catalog featuring works by members of the Alliance. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shan with their estate label to front pastedown.

New York: World Publishing, (1967). First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Textured cloth; dustjacket; 120pp; illus. Tight, straight, and clean; a Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap); complete but with overall rubbing and light soil; Very Good. Photo-essay documenting everyday life for American G.I.s in Vietnam by the noted Texas journalist, aviator, and radio personality.

[Seattle]: Pacific Northwest Labor History Association, [1986]. First Edition. Quarto (30.5cm.); publisher's white photo-illustrated staplebound card wrappers; unpaginated; photographic illus. Light toning to extremities, brief soil to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Wall calendar issued by the Washington State AFL-CIO.

Budapest: A38 Kulturalis Kht, 2008. First Edition. Small quarto; thick card wrappers; [152]pp; illus. Fine. Bi-lingual text (Hungarian & English). Anniversary volume for the A38 "Culture Ship", a repurposed Ukrainian rock barge now moored on the Danube and used as a performing arts space. Extensively illustrated with color portraits of concerts and performers.

New York: New York Photo-Engravers Union No. 1, 1944. First Edition. Quarto (28.5cm.); original brown blind- and gilt-embossed cloth; unpaged; illus., mostly photographic, a few in color. Boards a bit rubbed, else Near Fine. Scarce WW2-era year book honoring current and former members of the Union, including those who were serving the country as well as members who served in WW1. Quite attractively produced and compiled by Edward White, Union President. OCLC locates 5 copies as of June, 2016.

[New York: New-Week, 1934]. Newsstand advertising placard, approx. 12" x 9". Printed in black and yellow on heavy card-stock, recto-only. Light wear at edges; corners rounded; Very Good. Montage of photos illustrating the issue's feature on "Labor Strife;" includes central image of boxer James J. Braddock working out in preparation for his famous fight against Max Baer; others of "Violence in San Francisco," dustbowl photograph "Praying for Rain." Attractive and unusual piece of Depression-era publishing ephemera.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1990. First American Edition. Quarto (35.5cm x 27cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in silver on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; slighly bumped edge of lower back board, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight slight shelf wear to extremities. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 328 illustrations, including 244 color plates, 75 line drawings, and 9 maps.

London: Collins Harvill, 1990. First U.K. Edition. Quarto (35.5cm x 27cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 320pp; illus. Very Good copy; slighly bumped corners; faint dampstain to spine and upper board exteriors, else clean and tight. Very Good dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities; wrinkled top spine panel. A photographic journey through the landscapes and cultures of the Horn of Africa by photographers Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher, supported by an informative text by Graham Hancock and line-drawings of the artifacts and architecture of the region. 320 pages of color photographic reproductions.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (26.75cm); brown paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red on spine, and decorative emblem embossed to front cover; dustjacket; 168pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine, lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Photographic study of Basotho painted houses in Southern Africa.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1989. First printing of the Revised and Expanded Edition. Quarto; cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Fine copy in a crisp, unworn dustwrapper. A much expanded and updated version of the Carawans' 1966 classic, included many new photographs by Ida Berman, Gary Hamilton, and others.

N.p. (Kilbourn, Wisconsin?), [ca 1901]. Oblong octavo (6-1/2" x 9"). Bound album of 17 mounted silver-gelatin photographs, most 5" x 7" (two smaller) on heavy pasteboard mounts. Captioned (but one); unsigned; apparently the work of a talented amateur or possibly a professional photographer (see note below). Binding worn, with losses at spine ends and corners; internally quite good, though one photograph has fallen victim to the work of an infant graffiti artist (fortunately working in pencil; the image is not entirely defaced); another image, the first in the album, is slightly faded and aged. Overall Very Good and apparently complete as assembled. Of the seventeen views, eight are of the 1901 Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. The remainder (but for one, a view of Niagara Falls) are scenes in Wisconsin, which would appear to be the photographer's home. Though unsigned, the work is of a constistently high quality, printed from large-format negatives, suggesting a talented (and… Read More

Munich: Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (32cm x 24.5cm). Black cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in red on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 21, [3], plus 81pp of photographic plates; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Fine dustwrapper; appears new. Published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition "Aleksandr Rodchenko--The New Moscow" organized by the Sprengel Museum Hannover in cooperation with Margarita Tupitsyn 1999-2000. 81 b&w plates of a series of photographs by Aleksandr Rodchenko.

Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1986. Quarto (36cm x 24.5cm). Gray cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in black on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; [96pp]; illus. Fine copy; appears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities. Retrospective of Australian actress and photographer Alice Springs' (June Newton) portraits. 54 photographic reproductions in b&w.

London: British Film Institute, 1986. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 446pp; illus. Review copy, with publisher's slip. Spine slightly faded, else Fine.

New York: Little Bear Press, 2008. First Edition. Reportedly one of 5,000 copies. Quarto; tape-bound photographic wrappers; unpaged; illus. A few red smudges to spine, else a Near Fine copy. Eighth installment of Weber's lavishly-produced "All-American" series, with chapters featuring Nina Simone, Oatsie Charles, and Zevulon Glixman, with text by David Halberstam, Stephen Dunn, and others.

New York: Bonanza Books, [ca 1968]. Reprint. Quarto (28cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 101pp. Very Good. A Christmas gift to Ben Shahn from Walker Evans, with a long and personal gift inscription: "Dear Old Dr. Ben - This book I've just found seems to be just for you. I hear we're about to see you, at last: what a pleasure. I'm a doctor now, too, so it amuses me to name you. You've always been something of a doctor to me, anyway. And old? We're both that, I guess. Let's behave it. Nobody else dares. Merry Christmas / Much love, and to B. too / Walker / Nov 22, 1968." Despite opposing temperaments, and excepting brief fallings-out over the termination of Evans's FSA career and, later, over Evans's comparative apathy during the HUAC hearings, Evans and Ben remained close friends for life - a rare feat, as Shahn's long list of alienated ex-associates would attest. Evans's inscription, poking fun at his own and Shahn's honorary doctorates, reveals a sense of humor and affectionate indulgence which were by… Read More

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang Publishers, [1982]. First Edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 445. Folio (33.5cm.); original American flag-patterend cloth lettered in gilt in matching cloth clipcase; unpaged; photographic illus. throughout. Minor slice to rear panel of slipcase else a Fine copy. Signed by the author and photographer on colophon.

[New York]: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, [1998]. First Edition. Square quarto (26cm.); black simulated cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 295pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Boards a bit shelf-worn, rear jacket panel somewhat creased and cockled from damp, interior fine. Very Good and sound overall. Compilation of photographs of mostly African-American musicians taken from the 1950s to the 1970s.

London: Fulcrum Press, 1968. First UK Edition. Trade Issue. Slim octavo; olive green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 48pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, price-clipped, with some trivial wear to the extremities. Ginsberg's long poem written while traveling through Cambodia, illustrated throughout with photographs of the ruins taken by Alexandra Lawrence.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 400pp; illus. Trace of sun-fading to extremities of boards, but generally a tight, Near Fine copy in crisp, unworn dustwrapper. Posthumously-published autobiography, completed by Alinder and extensively illustrated from Adams' photographs.