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No Place: Not published, 1926. Black-and-white photograph of sculptor Isamu Noguchi, tool in hand, contemplating Undine (Nadja), his best-known early sculpture, of a sinuous young woman. Image about 4¼ by 6 inches (106 by 153 mm) framed & glazed both front & back, as found; the frame is about 5½ by 7¼ inches (135 by 183 mm) with a brass… Read more about this item

Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Discussion of the importance & scope of the work of the Bonfils family, Huguenots who moved to Beirut in 1876, where they founded an important photographic studio, traveling & photographing notable sites and scenes, but also ordinary people, throughout the near east. Harvard's Semitic Museum appears to hold the largest organized group… Read more about this item

Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. Photos of the Black Panther Party and their audience, taken in late 1968, after Baruch spoke to Kathleen Cleaver at an event; Eldridge Cleaver, notes Baruch in her introduction, asked, "Why do your photographs have feeling, and none of the work I've seen of us by other photographers has?" Baruch and her husband & collaborator Jones… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1911. Anthology of verse & prose accompanying often-related photos of California architecture & natural beauty; authors include Joaquin Miller, George Wharton James, Charlotte Perkins [Gilman] Stetson, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Adeline Knapp, Olive Harper, John Muir, Stewart Edward White, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles Keeler; photographers include Oscar… Read more about this item

Madison: Author / Atwood & Culver, 1874. Early history of Wisconsin's capital city, based in part on settlers' reminiscences; including Indian troubles, traders, surveys, politics, schools, churches, Civil War, Capital buildings, railroads, boats. This is the rather scarcer illustrated edition, with 19 mounted albumen photos by "Jones" on ten leaves, including portraits, buildings, & views. Durrie was Librarian at the… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Dunbar's first novel of a white minister's struggles; not well-received by the critics of the day. Hardcover, as pictured, cover design by George Wharton Edwards. Second printing, 1899; first published the previous year. General wear, some rubbing & minor stains, endsheets tanned, bookseller's label (Crescent Book Store, Tipton, Iowa) inside front cover; neat… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Scholarly study of the photography of Woolf & Bell, as well as other women writing on cinema & visual culture, drawing "on a range of photographic, psychoanalytic and visual theory, on modernist criticism, and on extensive, original archive research", with many photos published here for the first time. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows… Read more about this item

New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1977. Highlights of Friedlander's larger work, which featured 213 of his photos of public monuments & statues across the country; presumably issued as a souvenir or prospectus of the traveling exhibition noted in the brief text. Stapled oblong pamphlet, as pictured, with only light wear, no marks or creases. Text/plates clean; 12 pages counting the… Read more about this item

New York: S. D. Humphrey, 1855. First American edition of this important early manual of photography, with sections on preparing & using salts of silver, development of the image by use of reducing agents, fixing the image, nature & properties of light, chemistry & photographic properties of the collodio-iodide of silver, positive & negative collodion photographs, theory of positive printing,… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Third and fifth titles in Krementz's groundbreaking & affirming series documenting skilled, talented & dedicated girls in sports. Each is a stated first edition (first printing), noting no later printings. Hardcovers in jackets, as pictured. Light wear to books; minor edge fading & bumps; Skater has a gift note; minor chipping & short tears… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. Sumptuous photography book, with the photographs printed on laquered Kromekote "to achieve maximum brilliance and fidelity", recording the spectacular gorge in remote Utah carved by the Colorado River, and flooded by the building of a dam in 1963; the book is a remembrance and a warning. Its prehistoric sites hurriedly studied before the dam was… Read more about this item

Hudson, WI: Iconografix, 2005. Scarce collection of photos from the glory days of drag racing. Oblong paperback, as pictured. Light wear, clean & unmarked, minor chipping to the edges. 126 pages + 2 pages publisher's ads; mostly captioned photos, b/w & color. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 10¼" by 8½".

México D.F. [Mexico City]: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989. Monograph on the influential Mexican photographer, one of the publisher's Colección Río de Luz series. Text in Spanish. Oblong paperback, as pictured. Stated Primera edición (first printing). Covers rubbed, minor wear, small dent to front cover, minor tanning to pages. Text/plates clean; [96] pages; 64 b/w plates. Text in Spanish.. First… Read more about this item

No Place: [author] / Blurb, 2008. Reproduces trhe author's large collection of amateur photographs of (mostly) women in swimsuits, "Sifted from albums and shoeboxes", from the 1890s or so in to the 1950s, with a very few more recent, mostly b/w or sepia-toned, a few in color. Self-published through the Blurb website in 2008, no longer available there, nor can… Read more about this item

Annandale, VA: Charles Baptie Studios, 1996. Photographic account of the airline from its early days, "A Pictorial review of some of the times in the life of a once great airline"; Baptie, a notable photojournalist, worked in PR for the company before its merger with United. Hardcover in jacket as pictured; stated second printing. Light wear to book; jacket shows… Read more about this item

Berlin: TACO, 1987. Compilation of stereographic nudes, featuring many small reproductions in stereo, some enlarged single images. INCLUDES the original thick plastic glasses. The cover title is Stereo Akte - Nudes - Nus 1850-1930. Text in German, French, & English; first published (in French only) two years earlier. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Shows minor wear, some indentations inside… Read more about this item

Beloit, WI: Beloit Historical Society, 2002. Collection of b/w photographs of this small industrial city on Wisconsin's southern border, most with captions. Thin paperback, as pictured. Light general wear, minor edgewear to spine, minor crease to front cover. Interior clean; 120 pages of captioned b/w photos, introduction by Bill Behling.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Stuart D. Klinger,… Read more about this item

Budapest: Helikon Publishing, 2005. Photo book of Transylvania, concentrating on its Hungarian past, with a few historical photographs of a long-vanished way of life - most of the pictures were taken by Tóth in 2003 & 2004. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, jacket shows a bit of rubbing; six-line gift note on title page. text clean;… Read more about this item

Rosholt, WI: Rosholt House, 1976. Historic photos of Wisconsin, circa 1890-1915; another handsome production from the industrious Rosholts, offering pictures mainly from the towns of Rosholt, Franzen, & Elderon in Marathon County, with a chapter on Stevens Point in central Wisconsin (mostly a bit more recent); featuring Lumberjacks, Farmers, Shopkeepers, etcetera. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows light wear,… Read more about this item

Seebruck am Chiemsee: Heering-Verlag, 1971. Technical manual on the M-series Leica cameras, including their lenses, films, & filters; exposure, flash photography, close-up photography; films and their development, enlarging, color photography, projection; other Leica models. Stated second editiuon, hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; ink name; jacket edgeworn with light chipping, external tape 'repair', old sticker adhesive on… Read more about this item