Photography

Washington, D. C.: National Geographic, 2004. Signed on the half-title page by two National Geographic Photographers: William Albert Allard, placed and dated Seattle Oct '04. Also signed by Annie Griffiths Belt placed and dated Seattle May 05. First edition / First printing. Brown paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Edition Stemmle, 1996. Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine clothbound hardcover with a touch of wear at the edges in a Near Fine dust jacket with a touch of shelf wear. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Light Years is Ralph Gibson's the first retrospective monograph of the artist's unique, dream-like images. Gorgeous printing. Photographs by Ralph Gibson; Edited and with an introduction by Peter Weiermair. 199 pages; 92 b&w plates; 12.25 x 9.5 inches. Text in English.

New York: Power House Books / A Blind Spot Book, 2002. First edition / First printing. Ivory cloth with picture tipped to front board in chipboard slipcase. Very fine in very fine slipcase.

New York / Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown, 1983. Signed by Paul Camponigro on the front-free end-paper, placed and dated: Santa Fe 3/28/89. Also inscribed by the photographer: To Donald Fleming -- with all best wishes. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Non-laminated jacket is rubbed as usual, but has no tears.

1910 Digressions of Elihu Vedder Illustrated Rome Biography Versailles Florence

American symbolist artist Elihu Vedder (1836-1923) is best known for his illustrations of the Rubáiyát. Vedder had a home in Rome after the financial success of his 1884 Rubaiyat work on the Isle of Capri. Vedder describes this book as
"containing the quaint legends of his infancy, an account of his stay in Florence, the garden of lost opportunities, return home on the track of Columbus, his struggle in New York in war-time coinciding with that of the nation, his prolonged stay in Rome, and likewise his prattlings upon art, tamperings with literature, struggles with verse, and many other things, being a portrait of himself from youth to age. With many illustrations by the author."

This 1910 edition includes Illustrated with 108 B&W etchings, engravings, gravures, drawings, and photographs by Elihu Vedder!

Item number: #7548
Price: $350
VEDDER, Elihu
The digressions of V. : written for his own fun and that of his… Read More

Santa Monica, CA: Ram Publications / Huntington Library, 1997. Signed on the title page by Michael Kenna. Additionally inscribed: To Michael, with very best regards, September 12, 97. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth. Fine in fine dust jacket, with a hint of fading to the dust jacket spine. A lovely production.

With a preface by Théophile Homolle. Translated from the French by Charles Frederic Hardy. First english language edition. 132 pp.+ 40 full-page photogravure plates with printed tissue guards and 86 illustrations in the text. 39x31 cm. Éditions d'Art Fred. Boissonnas, Genève, 1920. There are printed of this work on fine hand-made paper, prepared specially for this edition, 300 copies, of which this copy is No. 15. (Additional postage due to heavy weight) --- François Frédéric Boissonnas, nicknamed Fred (1858-1946) came from a Swiss family of photographers. An enthusiastic trekker, he started out on his journey from Geneve together with his inseparable friend and travel companion, Greek scholar Daniel Baud-Bovy, rector in the Geneva school of Fine Arts. From their first journey in 1903 until 1920, carrying a baggage of stereotypes on Greece passed on by travellers of the previous centuries, they toured and took photographs everywhere, from Epirus to the Peloponnese and from Ithaca to Olympus and… 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)

UKRAINIA Tolstoi, Count Lyof N.: The Cossacks: A Tale of the Caucasus in the Year 1852. First English Edition, 1888 Walter Scott, 24 Warwick Lane, Paternoster Row, London. Translated from the Russian by Nathan Haskell Dole. Summary: A novel of the Caucasian War 1817-1864. Used. Good- Condition/ No DJ. Blue Boards gold titling and ornamentation. Imperial Russian crest stamped in gilt at center front. A solid copy. Light foxing to endpapers. Toning. Fabric at top of spine missing. RARE/SCARCE.

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.

Vancouver: BC Photographer, 1975. Book. Very Good +. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Essentially fine but for some superficial rubbing to the covers. Internally fine. The 4 issues of this quarterly for 1975 . Quite scarce..

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. .

Consisting of 28 titles, all under the direction of Chris Marker, are the complete English edition of the Petite Planète travelogues, published by Vista Books and Viking Press, including very scarce titles, and unique in its entirety.In the post-war era of the early 1950s, Chris Marker intended to create a series of books to combat the disorientation that occurred as a side effect in a world of increasing accessibility.
Nearly a decade after World War II, Marker and a group of friends, including Juliette Caputo, established the Petite Planète series under the umbrella of Éditions du Seuil
and published the first issue on Austria in 1954. This series of books is intended to serve as an instruction manual for living on a small planet, similar to the manuals in the Regards Neufs series published by Peuple et Culture and Éditions du Seuil.
Chris Marker noted that, "we see the world escape us at the same time we become more aware of our links with it."
Instead of following clichés and national… Read More

Paris: Monograph and The Platinum Image, 1998. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Bound in grey cloth with silver lettering on front cover and spine. In photo-illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated with over 190 original black & white prints made by Michael Trevillion and Ron Oliver. Essay 'Scenes from Childhood' by Paul Ryan. From the library of Donald H. Mader with his bookplate pasted on the front paste down. Light tanning to page edges. 205 pp., 32 x 25 cm. .