Photography

Milan: Versace SPA, 1999. Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine hardcover with a touch of handling wear in a Near Fine dust jacket with light shelf wear, protected by a custom-made clear acetate overwrap. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Photographs by Steven Meisel. 62 pages; color plates throughout; 10.25 x 13.25 inches. Text in English, Italian and French. The Versace catalogue presenting their 1999 spring and summer collection.

Art Data, 1997-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Very carefully read. Cover and dust jacket have the slightest of wear. Card slipcase is worn and marked. Heavy book so extra postage may be requested.

Printed photographs plates all the book. No pagination. About 80pages, About 1920-1930s. Some small tears and crisp on covers, but the interior pages and plates are fine.

1914 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. A Royal photographic album contains approx. 200 photographs explained in German on 53 leaves, by the photographer; Hermann Consten (1878 - 1967) who dedicated the album to the chief commander of the Ottoman army Anwar Pasha in 1914-1915. Gilt letters on dark green hard cover binding. For biography of the photographer see: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Consten .

Vietnam, Thailand, and elsewhere in Asia as well as the United States, Europe, and the Middle East ca. 1964-1974: Compiled by Jacob Harris, an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War, 1964 - 1974, 1964 - 1974. First edition. A large and remarkable archive of images from Vietnam and Thailand, covering the decade from the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the beginning of the buildup of American forces in Vietnam to a year before the evacuation of the American embassy. Most notable are the many images showing the training of local security forces by American civil and military advisors. The collection was compiled by Jacob Harris, an employee of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Public Safety (OPS), whose task was to train Vietnamese and Thai police and counterinsurgency forces. Most of the images, in the form of photographs and photographic slides, were created by Harris, his wife, or his associates, and illustrate… Read More

Approximately 3200 booking records (approximately 20 of which have been contemporaneously blotted-out) numbered 37888 to 41109 accompanied by individual 2 x 3 inches photographs and description of the person and their alleged crime. Full brown cloth. Front board separated at hinge (see image). Marbled endpapers. Index of names in alphabetical order. Lacking page 289/290. Heavy shelf wear given the size, weight and regular usage; moisture mark to lower edge. [52], 358 pp. 16.5 x 19.65 in.; 24 pounds (10.8 Kilo)

Album Odysséen. Photographies de Fred. Boissonnas. 1ère édition. 8 pp. + 265 héliogravures + 1 folding map h.t. 26,4x22,5 cm. Librairie Armand Colin, Paris, 1933.
--- (...) Les photographies qui sont reproduites dans ce volume sont l'oeuvre de Frédéric Boissonnas. C'est avec lui qu'au printemps de 1912, songeant à donner une nouvelle édition de ses Phéniciens et l'Odyssée, Victor Bérard entreprit de refaire le périple d'Ulysse dont, par une patiente étude, il s'était efforcé d'identifier toutes les étapes. Dans cette Méditerranée où rien ne change, il put retrouver intacts les sites et les paysages qui rendaient tout leur sens aux descriptions du Poète. (...)
Jean Bérard
--- Text in french. Captions in ancient greek, translated in french. A spot on front cover. Otherwise the book is fine.

Harry N. Abrams, 2018. New, still shrink wrapped/NEW. NEW, shrink-wrapped Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail, not slow Media Mail For more than 40 years, Sally Mann (b 1951) has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that explore the overarching themes of existence: memory, desire, death, the bonds of family, and nature's magisterial indifference to human endeavor What unites this broad body of work-portraits, still lifes, landscapes, and other studies-is that it is all "bred of a place," the American South Mann, who is a native of Lexington, Virginia, uses her deep love of her homeland and her knowledge of its historically fraught heritage to ask powerful, provocative questions-about history, identity, race, and religion-that reverberate across geographic and national boundaries Organized into five sections-Family, The Land, Last Measure, Abide with Me, and What Remains-and including many works not previously exhibited or published, Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings is a… Read More

Mill Valley, CA: Ozma Records, LLC, 2019. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 1 of 1500 copies - Book is in NF condition with trace edge wear noted, bumping to bottom corner, light scuffing to covers else a bright and solid copy. Book includes a Family Acid photo print perforated sheet of LSD blotter paper (undipped) with author's signature to the verso. SBB 11/20

Pirelli, 2014. Book. As New. No Binding. Limited edition Pirelli calendar in original box. The box measures 72,5 x 53,5 cm. The 2014 edition is in fact a previously unpublished calendar that was shot by Helmut Newton with the intention of releasing it in 1986. At the end Bert Stern's calendar version was produced in 1986 and Newton's photo collection was stored in the company's archives. The 2014 Pirelli Calendar is in line with the vision and layout of Newton's 1985 project and comprehends 12 black and white fine art photographs and a series of 29 behind-the- scenes shots. Susie Bick, Betty Prado, and Antonia dell'Atte model in the calendar. The calendar is kept in the original artificial leather sleeve. Still in publishers original cardboard shipping box. Rare collectors item in as new condition. .

Pirelli, 1997. Book. Fine. No Binding. Limited edition Pirelli calendar in original box. This is number 6103. 14 loose sheets of high quality photographs by Richard Avedon preceded by a transparent printed sheet. With a loose holder. Models a.o.: Monica Bellucci, Jenny Shimizu, Honor Fraser, Sophie Patitz, Ines Sastre, Anna K., Julia Ortiz. The calendar sheets are in perfect condition, box with light bump to lower left corner and light creasing. Box measures 70 x 45 cm. In original Pirelli cardboard shipping box. Rare. .

London: Trigraph Limited, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Brown cloth coverd boards in illustrated dustjacket. The two volumes of the first 1879 edition are combined in one in this edition. The text is reproduced in full, except for a few corrections, and so are all the photographs. The original layout has been revised for convenience. Contributions by Lady Hunt and Ialeen Gibson Cowan. Fronispiece portret of John Thomson. 59 reproductions of photographs with accompanying text by John Thomson. 3 pages with reproductions of engravings. The book is in near fine condition. Corners are sharp, pages are clean and bright. The dustjacket has light edge wear and creasing and 2 small tears to lower spine end (repaired with tape from the inside). xxiii [122 pp.], 32,5 x 25 cm. .

Melbourne: Currey O'Neil, 1983. Not paginated. 20.5cm x 21.5cm. Many colour photos by Ellis of sunbathers and Australian beach life along with his commentary. Pictorial card wrappers. The ex libris stamp of Beechworth artist Brian Seidel on flyleaf. Scarce. *One of the images in Life is a Beach is a rear view of an unnamed artist painting at Cathedral Rock, Victoria, in 1981. It is evident from a three-page feature article by Rennie Ellis in The Bulletin (December 26, 1989/January 2, 1990 issue) that that artist is Barry Humphries. In "No Glads By Request" Ellis photographs and discusses the work of Humphries, the painter. Also included with the book and Bulletin magazine is Mossgreen Gallery's fold-out brochure for its exhibition This Is The Show: Rennie Ellis, held at the gallery in early 2012. It features several striking images from the Rennie Ellis Photographic Archive and an article by Robert McFarlane. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.

Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha, 1970. 2nd printing. 12 mo. 53 pp. Originally published in 1966. The key difference being the removal in the second printing of the excess strip in the last page of the accordion fold-out. Some discoloration to the spine, else near fine in a silver, mylar-covered slipcase. The mylar is lifting around the opening else near fine. The contents are a continuous 25' plus fold-out of every building on both sides of the Sunset Strip. One of 5,000 copies.

The Harlem Book of the Dead by James Van Der Zee, Owen Dodson, and Camille Billops, foreword by Toni Morrison. 1978 Morgan & Morgan, first edition. Two open tears to front of the jacket, some discoloring to jacket in good condition, price sticker on inside board, some wear to spine, book in very good condition. Photographs, poems, and text of the mourning rites in Harlem in the last century.