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Photographic Works of Chin-San Long
Taipei, Tawain: The Photographic Society of China, 1972. About 90 pages. 9-1/4 by 11-3/4 inches. A collection of works spanning sixty years of the pioneering Chinese photographer's career. Photographs reproduced in sepia, color and black-and-white. With text in English, French and Chinese. ISBN: 281AIB1047197.
Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 260848More details Price: $300.00 -
David Hamilton: Vingt-cinq ans d'un artiste
First Edition
Paris: (n.p.), 1992. 315 pages. A substantial retrospective of Hamilton's work, in black and white and in color. Most images are of his favorite subject, the young female nude. ISBN: B0019BYHQW.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 182181More details Price: $250.00 -
Images of War
First Edition
New York: Grossman Publishers, 1964. 175 pages. With text from Capa's own writings. ISBN: B0000CM7D5.
First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in cream cloth covers with indented "WAR" on front cover and black lettering on spine. In near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Minor only edge wear to book and jacket.
Book ID: 266561More details Price: $120.00 -
[Neizvesmnyy Boris Smelov]
First Edition
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center, 2006. 11 pages. 8-1/4 by 8-1/4 inches. A catalog from the exhibition "Unknown Smelov", presented by Russia's Museum of Nonconformist Art at the Pushkinskaya-10 Art Center from May 20 to June 18, 2006. The exhibition featured 70 photographs from a single collection of the works of the Leningrad photographer, Boris Smelov. Smelov (1951-1998) was persecuted by Soviet authorities and forced to exhibit work primarily in illegal underground exhibitions or abroad. This exhibit was a part of the rediscovery of Smelov. Three years later the Hermitage mounted a retrospective of his work, with another major show in 2018. Very scarce. Not found in OCLC, COPAC, or the Russian National Library. ISBN: 281AIB1043693.
First edition (first printing). Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 221046More details Price: $100.00 -
The Bullfight: A Photographic Narrative [Book and vinyl]
First edition
New York: CBS Legacy / The Macmillan Company, 1967. 10 by 9-1/2 inches. 90 black-and-white photographic reproductions of bullfighting, including the Spanish bullfighters Luis Miguel Dominguin and Antonio Ordonez, plus text by Mailer. With a 33-1/2 r.p.m record of Mailer reading from the text and a poem by Garcia Lorca.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light toning to the spine and edges and a sticker scar on the cover. Vinyl album fine. Plastic casing chipped at the corners.
Book ID: 267896More details Price: $100.00 -
Kosmos: A Portrait of the Russian Space Age
First Edition
(New York): Princeton Architectural Press, 2001. 176 pages. 11-3/8 by 9-3/4. Photo reproductions depicting "the invisible men and the secret masters behind the Soviet space exploration" -- from the essay. Images printed in color, one per page, sometimes recto only. Notes on the photos are cataloged in a 9-page section. ISBN: 9781568983080.
First edition (first printing). Brown cloth bound with a silk bookmarker. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Minor edge wear. Inscribed on the title page by Bartos to a former Ford Foundation exec: "with best wishes, Adam Bartos."
Book ID: 182711More details Price: $93.75 -
Ecstasy of Eden
First Edition
Los Angeles: Rho Delta Press, 1975. Unpaginated, but about 100 pages. 11-1/4 by 8-3/4 inches. A nude pictorial essay with short poetic text depicting a take on the story of Adam, Eve and Lilith. A follow-up to the photographer's earlier book, A Time in Eden. ISBN: 9780685658079.
First edition (first printing). Some edge wear; browning to pastedown endpapers from binder's glue, thus a very good copy in a dust jacket with some wear to spine head and a few short closed tears to the edges.
Inscribed by the author: "For Rod, Best wishes, Roy Dean." Provenance: Acquired from the estate of the singer, songwriter, and poet Rod McKuen, who sold millions of books and albums in the 1960s and 1970s.
Book ID: 146682More details Price: $93.75 -
Snowdrift, Tree -- Mammoth Lakes, California (Original photograph)
San Francisco: James Linden, 1985. Black-and-white photograph mounted on archival board in a folded sleeve with a poem by Basho printed inside. One of 80 numbered and signed copies. The negative was made in 1977. ISBN: 281AIB1049218.
Fine photograph and sleeve with paper tissue guard. Signed by the author. Number 24.
Book ID: 264766More details Price: $75.00 -
Of Women and Their Elegance [Press kit]
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980. Press kit for Mailer's imaginary memoir of Marilyn Monroe. Loose sheets in a box with 5 high-quality captioned photos from the book. With a photo copied note on publisher's letterhead noting "this press kit is being sent to you in lieu of galleys." With a 2-page typed and stapled note about the book by Mailer.
Sheets fine. Box with some discoloration to cover photo illustration and a bit of wear to the edges with a tear to one corner.
Book ID: 267824More details Price: $65.00 -
Africa
First Edition
Boston: Bulfinch Press / LIttle, brown and Company, 1994. Unpaginated, but about 140 pages with some leaves printed one side only. Oblong, 14-1/2 by 12-1/4 inches. Seventy-five duotone photograph reproductions of people, landscapes and animals of Africa. Also released in a deluxe, slipcased edition of 300 copies. ISBN: 9780821221211.
First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with minor scratches on the cover and a small bump to one corner, thus near fine. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 164262More details Price: $62.50 -
Helmut Newton, Sex And Landscapes
Cologne: Taschen, 2004. 112 pages. Photographic illustrations in color and black-and-white. 13 x 10 inches. ISBN: 9783822835067.
Very Good
Book ID: 77134More details Price: $50.00 -
Sleepless Nights
First Edition
(New York): Congreve, 1978. 150 pages. 8 by 10-1/2 inches. Photography monograph of images shot in Paris, New York and Los Angeles. Photographs reproduced about equally half in color and half black-and-white. ISBN: 9780671246297.
First edition (first printing). Some spotting to end papers and title page, thus a very good copy, in a dust jacket that is lightly faded at the spine, thus near fine. [JSP04]
Book ID: 162374More details Price: $50.00 -
Horst Portraits: 60 Years of Style
Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2001. ISBN: 9780810941632.
Very Good
Book ID: 130864More details Price: $45.00 -
Portraits
First Edition
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1976. 19 page essay by Rosenberg followed by full-page B/W photographic plates, some folding. ISBN: 9780374236380.
First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Mild edge and corner wear.
Book ID: 264481More details Price: $40.00 -
Beyond the Wall: The Lost World of East Germany
First Edition
Boston: Little, Brown Company, 1999. 128 pages. Roughly 11 by 11 inches. Marsden's grainy black-and-white photographs of East Germany shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, accompanied by short explanations and observations by McLaren. ISBN: 9780316645386.
First edition (first printing). Near fine in a slightly spine-faded, else near fine dust jacket. British dust jacket, priced in pounds.
Book ID: 76533More details Price: $40.00 -
Male Nudes
First Edition
Paris: Fitway Publishing, 2005. 143 pages. 10 by 14-1/2 inches. Photo reproductions mostly in color. ISBN: 9782752801616.
First English edition (first printing). A Near fine hardcover copy; no dust jacket. Bump to one corner with a small tear to the paper cover. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 235358More details Price: $40.00 -
Portraits From a Village (1977-1979)
First Edition
Greece: N.P, n.d. 4 pages of commentary, in Greek and English. 16 loose black-and-white photographs in folder. ISBN: 281AIB1047986.
First edition (first printing). The illustrated brown folder with black lettering is partially torn on right hand edge. The 16 photographs and the text are fine.
Book ID: 262900More details Price: $40.00 -
Portraits From German Political Life (Volume 3)
First Edition
(Pfullingen, Germany): (Gunther Neske), 1968. [232] pages. About 10-1/2 by 13-3/4 inches. The photographer's large format, intimately detailed black-and-white portrait photographs of German politicians and industrialists leading and rebuilding the country in the first decades after the Second World War. English text. The third volume following Portraits from German Intellectual Life (1965) and Portraits of German Economic Life (1967). ISBN: B007EF865A.
Presumed First edition (first printing) no subsequent printings noted. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that is worn at the edges with closed tears at the head of the spine and bottom rear corner. Near fine plain slipcase. A large, heavy book.
Book ID: 123572More details Price: $31.25 -
The Tri-X Chronicles
First Edition
San Francisco: Tea Lautrec Litho, 1972. Glossy paperbound, profusely illustrated with photographs. About Viet-Nam, and the anti-war movement in the San Francisco Bay Area. ISBN: 281AIB0024816.
First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Small chips to front cover where price sticker may have been. Signed by the author.
Book ID: 15881More details Price: $30.00 -
Mark Ruwedel: Written on the Land
First Edition
North Vancouver, Canada: Presentation House Gallery, 2002. 63 pages. Photographs reproduced in black-and-white. Essay by Lopez reprinted from his book, Crossing Open Ground. ISBN: 9780920293560.
First paperback edition (first printing). A fine copy in wrappers (paperback).
Book ID: 264763More details Price: $30.00