Photography from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Chicago: Richard Gordon, c. 1984]. Original silver-gelatin print on matte photographic paper. Image area 8" x 12", on 11" x 14" sheet. Titled in ink in lower left margin; signed in ink lower right beneath image. Fine, unfaded print in a hinged gallery mat. A lovely profile portrait of Parks in conversation with American folk singer and… Read more about this item

New York: Friday, Inc, n.d. [c.1941]. No statement of edition or printing. Tall quarto (35cm); staple-bound, pictorial paper wrappers; 30pp; illus. Small nick to front cover, faint foxing visible on lighter portions; Very Good or better. Photos credited to SOVFOTO. Pictorial pro-Soviet propaganda sheet issued for the American home front, shortly after the U.S.-Soviet Alliance in 1941.… Read more about this item

[New York: Child Development Center of the Jewish Board of Family & Children's Service, Inc, 1987]. First Edition. Generic bookplate signed in ink by Maya Angelou loosely laid-in. Oblong quarto. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 16pp; illus. Very Good or better. Anthology of poetry by homeless women residents of New York City, with portraits by Elliot Schneider. Maya… Read more about this item

Sundsvall: Fotomuseet Sundsvall, [2006]. Tall quarto (42cm). Stapled card wrappers; [20]pp; illus. Fine. Text entirely in English. Exhibition catalog for a 2006 exhibition of graphics and photography relating to the Soviet pictorial journal "USSR in Construction" (originally published 1930-1941). Produced in imitation of the original magazine's oversized format.

Alameda, CA, 1950-1960's. Comprising: 55 black and white 8" x 10" photographs; 14 contact sheets, 8" x 10"; 27 smaller format black and white photographs; 4 snapshots; 1 35mm colour slide; 1 club or restaurant table photo in a decorated card sleeve; 2 signed 8" x 10" photographs from burlesque performers; 6 photos of other performers, friends etc.; 3… Read more about this item

New York: Scalo, 1994. First Edition. Folio. 14.5" x 11.5" Original publihser's pictorial boards. Titled in white to spine and front board. Minor rubbing and edgewear, strong, clean and bright, a very good, solid copy indeed. Perress's photographic Odyssey through Bosnia during early 1993, whilst working as a photographer for Magnum, was an attempt initially to understand the conflict,… Read more about this item

Belgium: Editions Assouline, 1992. First Edition. Quarto. 28cm. Publisher's photographic card wraps, titled in white to spine and front cover. 240pp. A near fine copy. Internally clean, inscribed by the designer to the title page: "Pour Geoffrey Holder Toute Son Sympathie, Azzedine Alaia" A sumptuously photographed behind the scenes record of Alaia's Summer 1992 show, produced by Alaia's close… Read more about this item

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1941. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's purple cloth boards, titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. Dustjacket. 224pp. A little light wear to the extremities of the cloth binding, some dulling of the gilt, most likely due to the pretty cheap gilt Dutton were using rather than actual wear and… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture / Museum of Modern Art, 1976. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Quarto (31.25cm); full black cloth, titled in silver, with a black & white photo inset onto the center of the front cover; [6],7-201,[3]pp; chiefly illus. Slightly musty from long storage, else very Near Fine, without dustjacket, as issued. Special Museum Edition of this monograph… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (29.75cm); light brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [176]pp; illus. Warmly inscribed on the title page in an early hand to Sol Libsohn (1914-2001), a documentary photographer and member of the New York Workers Film and Photo League: "For Sol Libsohn /… Read more about this item

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Small octavo (18cm); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 98pp; illus. Inscribed in a contemporary hand by Edwin and Louise Rosskam on the verso of the front wrapper to Sarah Libsohn, daughter of Photo League co-founder Sol Libsohn: "For Sarah / on her 16th birthday / from the Rosskams."… Read more about this item

Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1978. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Quarto (26.5cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [x],85,[1]pp; illus. Signed and inscribed by the three principal contributors to this volume: by Owen Dodson, in a contemporary hand, on the verso of the front wrapper ("To the Bartoks / Best always, Owen Dodson / Nov.12, 1978"), and by… Read more about this item

New York: Pantheon Books, 1989. First American Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28.75cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in grey on spine; dustjacket; [7],8-111,[1]pp; chiefly illus. Tiny remainder dot to upper edge of textblock, faint scuff to rear cover; very Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $35.00), with a thin, 2.75" scratch to rear panel; Near Fine. A volume… Read more about this item

Milan: Conde Nast, 1986. First Edition. Quarto (28cm). Pictorial paper wrappers; unpaginated. Near Fine in the original wrappers. Issued as a supplement to the Italian fashion magazine Per Lui; text in Italian and English. An unironic and unapologetic celebration of eighties America in all its richest, handsomest, and most vapid glory.

N.p. [Washington, D.C: Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army 1918-1919]. Small quarto (28cm). Presentation binding of half calf over dark brown buckram, titled in gilt on spine and front cover, personalized for "Major Tompkins" (see note); 278pp. Text printed recto-only; pages 83-266 comprised entirely of 164 original 8" x 10" photographic plates and 20 folding blueprints. Slight rubbing and soil… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture, Inc. / Grossman, 1969. First Revised and Enlarged Edition. Wrappered Issue. Small oblong quarto (21cm x 18.25cm); glossy photo-illustrated card wrappers; [4],vi,[182]pp; illus. Mild surface wear, touch of dust-soil to wrappers, with a hint of foxing to text edges, and a sticker from Grossman Publishers at lower rear wrapper; Very Good+ to Near Fine. "In The… Read more about this item

Paris: Pierre Seghers, Éditeur, 1949. First Edition. First Impression. Small quarto (24cm); original pale yellow paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; photo-illustrated endpapers; [5],6-135,[5]pp, featuring 130 photogravure images by Doisneau. Spine ends bumped, upper corners tapped, with wear to lower corners, gentle sunning to spine, with some of the usual light dust-soil to… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1966. First Edition. First Printing, softcover issue. Octavo (21.25cm); original printed card wrappers; [xiv],178pp, with erratum slip tipped in following the dedication page; illus. Modest wear and rubbing to wrappers (particularly along the joints), with a few tiny creases to extremities, and a hint of dust-soil to text edges; Very Good+. A collection… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 1971. First Edition. First Printing, wrappered issue. Oblong quarto (ca. 21cm x 28cm); glossy pictorial card wrappers; [8],9-196pp, illus. Modest external wear, some upward curl to right edge of front wrapper and left edge of rear wrapper, with faint, scattered foxing to wrappers and text edges, and $6.95 price partially blacked-out on front cover; Very… Read more about this item

Austin: University of Texas Press, 2018. Stated "first Hardcover Reprint, 2018." Quarto. Rough-woven tan cloth; dustjacket; 239pp; illus. Fine copy in fine, unclipped dustwrapper. A new-appearing copy. A series of interconnected critical essays, built around 100 images selected from the Winogrand archive at Center For Creative Photography.