Memento Mori by Jirasek, Vaclav; Bohdan Chlibec; Mojmir Hornya; Robert V. Novak; Ivan Pinkava - 1998

New York: Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. Signed by author in green ink on title page.
Good/Good.
This selection of articles originally published in The New Yorker (1934 - 1939) is edited by Irving Drutman. It is a remarkably mordant overview of uppercrust pre-war London with very numerous black and white photographs.
1/4 black cloth over red paper-covered boards. Gilt titles to spine.

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2012. Original archival color print signed by Stephen Shore on the back is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. 500 copies. This copy is an Artists Proof. Taupe laminated boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket. The 73th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.

New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979. A very good plus copy with some light spotting to sheet edges (not affecting open sheets), the dust jacket clipped and with two closed tears to upper front panel edge. 8vo. 255 pages. Color and duotone photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, first printing, inscribed by Morath and Miller (signed by both) on the title-page. Documenting their trip to China right after the death of Mao and the fall of Jiang Qing and the Gang of Four, Morath and Miller's book provided rare insight into Chinese culture during this dramatic period of change.

Renowned for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was also one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and the period's finest photographer of children. From 1856 to 1880, Carroll took around three thousand pictures, the majority of which were portraits of family, friends, and colleagues. He also sought out and photographed celebrities of the day, including Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, Michael Faraday, William Holman Hunt, Henry Taylor, George MacDonald, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Ellen Terry, John Everett Millais, Charlotte Yonge, and Prince Leopold. Carroll's remaining output includes images of landscapes and architecture, works of art, and skeletons; assisted self-portraits; and other miscellaneous pictures. Today, his photographs are highly prized and fetch enormous prices at auction.This catalogue raisonne presents images of the nearly one thousand surviving photographs of Lewis Carroll-including many from… Read More

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2015. Original black and white Type-C print signed by Daido Moriyama in gold ink on the front of the image it is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. Number 437 of 500 copies. Metallic laminated boards. Very fine. The 90th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.

(Lausanne, 1966): Ami Guichard. First Edition. Oblong Octavo. 126pp. Illustrated by Jacques Henri Lartigue. An enchanting book of images of the early 20th century, with various sized photographs hand-mounted of early bicycles, gliders, airplane flight in France, and clothing fashions. and more. All captions penned in the humorous glib of a young boy. Bound in maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, childhood photograph in black and white mounted to front cover. A near fine copy.

Paris: Amyot, 1859. Livre. Illus. by Henri de la Blanchère. Bon. Bradel. Ed. originale. Grand In-8. Paris, Amyot, 1859. 29,5 x 19 cm (R), grand in-8°, 528 pp. + 10 planches hors texte portant des photogaphies contrecollées, dont une en frontispice, bradel en demi toile verte, pièce de titre, fleurons et filets doés, couvertures conservées, non rogné. Edition originale de cet ouvrage qui est l'un des premiers lives illustrés par la photographie. Bon exemplaire, malgré les couvertures un peu salies (la première est renforcée), le papier des planches hors texte bruni et quelques très rares rousseurs éparses sur papier bien blanc. (VICAIRE, IV, 551).

Scarborough, Ont: National Association for Photographic Art, Book. Very Good. Paperbound. 95 issues, pict. paper wraps, (on all but No. 1 & No. 3), the first 7 issues were titled National APA Camera Canada, Edited for 10 years by the world-renown author, photographer and workshop leader from New Brunswick, Freema Patterson. He was also one of the founders of NAPA, and Camera Canada. A near complete run missing only 1994-95 (8 issues), The magazine evolved from a very modest 16 pp lithographed matte paper effort produced in black & white only ( 1 st color issue appeared with No. 21, May 1974), to a very professional full color magazine with a circulation in the 1000's. The work of many accomplished photographers appeared on its pages over the years for example; No. 14 John de Visser, No. 28, March, 1976 carried a retrospective of Yousuf Karsh with a number of his most famous portraits appearing in full page format, No. 41,Sept. 1980, carried an article entitled " Pioneer Photographers… Read More

NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004. Signed first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Assouline Publishing, 2004, first printing. Folio, 10 1/2" x 13 3/4", 197pp., lavishly illustrated with color and b/w photos. Inscribed by Herrera on half title: "To Annette, Carolina Herrera." "Through the celebrated photography of Annie Leibovitz, Francesco Scavullo, Horst, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Mario Testino, as well as the words of friends, colleagues, and admirers sucg as Calvin Klein, Ian Schrager and Bianca Jagger, among others, Carolina Herrera is a portrait of one of today s most timeless designers. With an introduction by Hamish Bowles, this book tells the story of one of fashion s most remarkable women." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Signed By Artist. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. Folio.

"My Wallet of Photographs: The Collected Photographs of J. M. Synge" arranged and introduced by Lilo Stephens. [Dublin]: Dolmen Editions, 1971. Eleven hundred copies, of which 1050 are for sale, are printed. pp. xvi + 53 b. & w. plates (incl. frontis. tipped in), [7]. Hardcover, quarter black cloth with grey boards, gilt title on spine and gilt initials (J. M. S.) of Synge, on front cover (corners square, slight wear at bottom of spine, covers are unmarked, interior is clean & unmarked). dj., unclipped (a few marks on back cover, spine faded, some wear at top of dustjacket with a tiny tear at top of spine).Very Good+ condition. (Dustjacket is in Very Good condition).Size: 11" x 7 5/8" (28cm x 19.5cm).