Summer Nights
New York: Aperture, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Slender square hardbound quarto. A volume containing 38 night landscapes. This copy is as-new and still sealed in original publisher shrinkwrap. First edition assumed. More
Photography Books
White Churches of the Plains; Examples From Colorado
Boulder: Colorado Associated University Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Square quarto. The first book by Robert Adams. Light bump to head of spine, else a fine, tight copy in clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Nice copy of this early work. Foreword by Thomas Hornsby Ferril... More
Listening To The River - Seasons in the American West
New York: Aperture, 1994. First edition. Cloth. Oblong clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 112 pp. A collection of photos by Adams alongside poems by Stafford. A new copy, still in shrink-wrap. Very faint sunning to a portion of the front panel. Otherwise a fine unopened copy... More
Lucien Aigner (Inscribed)
New York: International Center for Photography, 1979. First edition. Cloth. Small square clothbound quarto. 127 pp monograph on the photographer. Part of ICP Library of Photographers series. This copy INSCRIBED by Aigner on the title page. A good copy overall with foxing and somewhat heavy cover wear. A bit musty..... More
Notre Amerique
Paris: Espace Photographique De Paris, 1991. First edition. Cloth. Small clothbound 8vo. Issued without dustwrapper. Die-cut to front cover. Unpaginated. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A very good copy with sticker shadow to the rear cover. More
Mothermilk
New Jersey: A Focus 411 Book, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Oblong paperbound quarto. First paper edition of this slender volume of black and white photographs. No text other than the copyright information page. A fine copy in bound black wrappers printed in white. The book was dedicated by the artists..... More
Dokumentarfotografie aus den Vereinigten Staaten
Essen: Fotografische Sammlung Museum Folkwang, 1984. First edition. Paperback. 4to. Side-stapled wrappers. Scarce German exhibition catalog for a series of exhibitions of the works of documentarian photographers. Text in German by Sally A. Stein. 16 pp including printed covers. Illustrated in color and black and white. Some light wear to..... More
The Photographic Essay (Inscribed)
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1989. First edition. Paperback. Oblong paperbound quarto. The simultaneous first paperbound edition. 132 pp. Illustrated in color. With text by Erla Zwingle and Russell Hart. Introduction by Sean Callahan. A handsome very good copy. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED by Allard on the title..... More
The Queens
New York: Da Capo Books, 1975. First edition. Paperback. Paperbound quarto. Unpaginated. Stated first paperback printing. Illustrated in black and white of friends of Kiki Hall, a producer of revues for femaile impersonators. A handsome very good copy. More
Andre Kertesz - The Early Years
New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. First edition. Cloth. 16mo. Small clothbound volume in semi-opaque thin paper dustwrapper. 158 pp. With an essay by Robert Gurbo. Book includes 66 small black and white images by Kertesz. A fine example in fine unprinted paper dustwrapper. More
Dieter Appelt Imatge Primordial
Barcelona: Centre d'Art Santa Monica, 1990. First edition. Paperback. Slender paperbound 4to. Unpaginated. Text in Spanish and English by Marta Gili. Catalog from a 1990 barcelona exhibition. A very good example in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers. More
The Banquet
Tokyo: Magazine House, 1993. First edition. Paperback. Small softbound quarto in thick paper dustwrapper. A volume of senuous color photographs of food by the noted Japanese photographer. A handsome near fine copy in printed bound wrappers in a near fine photo-illustrated dustwrapper with one tiny nick at leading edge. Light..... More
Ikonta Story
Japan: 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Araki uses an Ikonta camera to produce snapshots for this book. Fine condition in near fine unclipped dustwrapper and rare wrap-around obi. Uncommon. More
Tokyo Lucky Hole
Japan: 1990. First Edition. Paperback. Fine first edition in small paperbound wrappers with original obi. The correct first edition of one of Araki's most controversial books. A fine copy in near fine obi. More
Tokyo Summer Story
Tokyo: Wides Shuppan, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. A book of Japanese street scenes. Not your typical Araki book of erotic photos. Thick quarto in fine condition. This copy SIGNED by Araki with his trademark self-portrait drawing. Fine condition in fine obi. Uncommon for such a recent work. Signed by Author..... More
Yoko My Love (Inscribed)
Tokyo: Asahi Sonorama Co, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition of this early work by Araki. Small oblong quarto. A very good example in printed charcoal boards. Some age spotting to the last couple of pages. The unclipped dustwrapper has a tape ment to the verso near top of spine..... More
Suited to the Part (Preliminary Promotional Book)
New York: Privately Printed, 2005. First edition. Paperback. Self-made promotional "book" sent to prospective publishers by the artist. Vello-bound and contained in a plasttic envelope. The proposed book of photographs according to the summary contained in this package is a "book project called Suited to the Part, a series of..... More
Untitled
New York: Aperture, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Hardbound folio size volume in dustwrapper. Stated first edition with complete number row. Minor shelfwear. A handsome very good copy in dustwrapper of this monograph of Arbus' intriguing black and white images. Sticker residue to rear panel of dustwrapper. Afterword by Doon Arbus..... More
Architectures of Herzog & de Meuron
New York: Peter Blum Edition, 1995. Second edition. Cloth. Stated second edition of this oversized volume of photographs by Ruff with texts by Steven Holl, Hans Kollhoff, Rem Koolhaas, Eduardo Souto de Moura and Theodora Vischer. Introduction by Terence Riley. Mostly black and white photos with a few tipped on..... More
British Isles (Signed)
Tucson: Nazraeli Press, 2002. First edition. Cloth. Wide clothbound quarto. Unpaginated. Introduction by Bill Jay. A fine copy. Issued without dustwrapper. SIGNED by the photographer. A large and heavy book. More
Pathologist
Amsterdam: Van Zoetendaal, No Date. First edition. Hardcover. Photo-illustrated hardbound book. One page of text at rear of volume. According to the author and photographer, "Pathologist is a documentation of the books my father gas collected about Nazism, the Second World War and the Holocaust." Fine condition. Protected in a...... More
The Work of Atget Old France Volume 1
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981. First edition. Cloth. First edition. Large quarto. 177 pp. Text by John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg. First volume (of four) documenting the photographic achievements of Atget. Prior owner name to front endpaper else a near fine copy in burgandy cloth binding in..... More
Sites Unseen (Inscribed)
Burlington, VT: Verve Editions, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 120 pp. Introduction by James Young. Illustrated with color photographs manipulated by Attie to great effect. Very good condition in very good dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the artist and dated in 1999... More
Avedon Photographs1947 - 1977
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First edition stated. Tall 4to. Essay by Harold Brodkey. Book contains 162 large format black and white portraits. A near fine copy in photo-illustrated boards (one corner with small bump) in very good clipped printed acetate dustwrapper... More
In The American West (Signed)
New York: Harry Abrams, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Folio size softbound volume. Over 13" tall. Essay by Laura Wilson at rear of volume. Unpaginated. One of Avedon's best. A very good copy in bound photo-illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Avedon and dated '85 (year of publication). A very large and heavy..... More