XXX: 30 Porn-Stars Portraits by Greenfield-Sanders, Timothy; Gore Vidal - Introduction - 2004

New York: McDowell, Obolensky, 1957. First English language edition / First printing. Black cloth. About fine with one small corner crease to the front free endpaper in near fine dust jacket with only a slight amount of laminate peel that is so common to this title.

(Lausanne, 1966): Ami Guichard. First Edition. Oblong Octavo. 126pp. Illustrated by Jacques Henri Lartigue. An enchanting book of images of the early 20th century, with various sized photographs hand-mounted of early bicycles, gliders, airplane flight in France, and clothing fashions. and more. All captions penned in the humorous glib of a young boy. Bound in maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, childhood photograph in black and white mounted to front cover. A near fine copy.

New York: Belier Press [1980], 1st edition. (Periodical) Very good. Over 120 photographs in black and white, duo-tone and full color (8 pages) covering every facet of her carreer, including previously unpublished nude photographs. The bottom part of the book has been damp and is a bit wrinkled (no loss to image quality). Includes 5 pages of publisher's ads. Also known as Bettie Page. (Erotica, Bondage, Erotic Photography, Fetishes, High Heels, Nude Photography, Nylon Stockings, Pin-Up Photography).

New York: Longmans, Green , And Co., 1899. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv+ 147 pages 7 1/2 x 10 in. Twenty-six plates and sixty-six diagrams. Red cloth binding with beveled boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: Very light wear to covers and spine, minimal sun darkening to spine. Edges of text block lightly foxed, several pages in on front and rear are foxed, foxing appears at the edges of some pages, binding is tight.

New York: North Point Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. xix, 376 pages. First Edition. SIGNED by the late Charis Wilson in ink on the half-title. Illustrated, primarily from vintage photographs, including some by Weston, and other well-known photographers. Frontis portrait of Weston and Wilson from black and white photograph. Index. Small quarto. Cloth-backed gray boards, with silver spine-titling. Charis Wilson was the daughter of novelist Harry Leon Wilson (Merton of the Movies). Starting as Edward Weston's secretary and model, she married him in 1939, divorcing in 1946. From the jacket, "A memoir long awaited in the arts community, Through Another Lens tells the story of the life Edward and Charis led on the California coast from 1934 to 1945, a period 'in which more was done than some accomplish in a lifetime,' as Weston once described it in a letter." Includes material on Robinson Jeffers, Ansel Adams and more. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar… Read More

New York: Belier Press [1980], 1st edition. (Periodical) Very good. Over 120 photographs in black and white, duo-tone and full color (8 pages) covering every facet of her carreer, including previously unpublished nude photographs. The bottom part of the book has been damp and is a bit wrinkled (no loss to image quality). Includes 5 pages of publisher's ads. Also known as Bettie Page. (Erotica, Bondage, Erotic Photography, Fetishes, High Heels, Nude Photography, Nylon Stockings, Pin-Up Photography).

New York: North Point Press, 1998. First edition. Cloth-backed Boards. Fine/Fine. xix, 376 pages. First Edition. SIGNED by the late Charis Wilson in ink on the half-title. Illustrated, primarily from vintage photographs, including some by Weston, and other well-known photographers. Frontis portrait of Weston and Wilson from black and white photograph. Index. Small quarto. Cloth-backed gray boards, with silver spine-titling. Charis Wilson was the daughter of novelist Harry Leon Wilson (Merton of the Movies). Starting as Edward Weston's secretary and model, she married him in 1939, divorcing in 1946. From the jacket, "A memoir long awaited in the arts community, Through Another Lens tells the story of the life Edward and Charis led on the California coast from 1934 to 1945, a period 'in which more was done than some accomplish in a lifetime,' as Weston once described it in a letter." Includes material on Robinson Jeffers, Ansel Adams and more. A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket, now in a clear mylar… Read More

San Francisco: D.A.P./ Fraenkel Gallery, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Dust Jacket. Fine/New. Photography by Lee Friedlander. No Flaws or Blemishes but the book plate of art collector Robert Allen Lewis. Throughout his life he was an active collector of art focused on contemporary and outsider works. Still Gift Quality. 200 pages; 192 duotones. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car an actual "form" for making photographs. Driving across most of the country's 50 states in an ordinary rental car, Friedlander applied the brilliantly simple conceit of deploying the sideview mirror, rearview mirror, the windshield and the side windows as a picture frame within which to record the country's eccentricities and obsessions at the turn of the century.

70 pp. + 4 photographies de F. Detaille h.t. Photographies dans le texte de P. Pouget. Dessins de St. Lamarche. 33x25 cm. F. Detaille, Éditeur, Marseille, 1921. Ex libris.
--- Three-quarter leather (private binding). Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Some scuffings on the bindings, mostly at the edges. Very tight binding, pages and engravings bright and clean.

Fine copy with a nice presentation ( signed ) by Hambourg. Scarce