Photography

San Francisco: Chronicle Press, 2000. Signed by Ruth Bernhard on the title page. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

Seattle: Henry Art Gallery / University of Washington Press, 2000. Signed and dated 2000 on the half-title page by Uta Barth. First edition / First printing. Illustrated boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket, a mylar jacket is supplied.

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.

London: Grey Editions, 1986. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine but for Prev. owner name in felt pen ( on ffep. ), minor bumping and slightest traces of edgewear to cover..

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.

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.

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… 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.

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)

London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. A lovely near-fine copy, the binding firm and bright. The contents with a previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown and a little spotting to the endpapers, are otherwise clean and fresh throughout. A superb example of a very scarce title. 8vo (21.8 x 15.7 cm). Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and decoration to the upper board and spine, gilt to all page edges. Illustrated with 20 mounted albumen prints. FIRST EDITION of one of the earliest works of poetry to be illustrated by photography. The anthology combines extracts from authors including Keats, Clare, Wordsworth, Cowper, and Longfellow, with mounted photographs depicting idyllic scenes of contemporary rural life by the renowned stereographer William Morris Grundy (1806-1859), to create a harmonious interweaving of verse and imagery. Grundy was born in Birmingham, moving to Sutton Coldfield in 1850. Initially taking up photography as a hobby in 1855, he went on to achieve… Read More

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.

Book with all pages present, without creases/tears. Worn outer cover. Owner's signature covered in black pen on second title page (does not affect content). 216 pages, 21.8 x 29 x 2.7 cm / 5.24 x 0.98 x 8.46 inches This new collection of Peter Lindbergh's photographs presents his work from the past ten years. The prolific fashion and portrait photographer is one of the leading commercial artists of our day. His special subject are women.

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..

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. .