Photography from Walkabout Books

10.75" x 15.5" post-bound album with 122 original photographs and 5 lithographic prints from photographs affixed to both sides of 24 thick cardstock leaves (some additional blank leaves at the end).  Backstrip of album lacking, boards detached but present. Internals very good.  Contains a mix of professional and competent amateur photographs ranging in size from 9" x 11.5" down… Read more about this item

Very good. 10" x 13" sting-tied cloth album containing 119 photographs, of which 86 are relatively large and appear to be professional and 33 are amateur snapshots. The professional photographs are a mixture of albumen, gelatin silver, and platinum prints.  Most have penciled captions. They range in size from 4" x 6" to 8.25" x 10.5", with the… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12.5" x 9.5", in original cloth boards with title in gilt, later contrasting cloth spine and corners. Some abrasion to edges of boards, foxing to title page and a few tissue guards; binding tight, plates clean. Includes very brief introductory text ("These views of Algiers… Read more about this item

Post-bound album containing 27 linen-backed silver prints showing (with one exception) residential and institutional construction projects completed using granite supplied by the North Carolina Granite Company of Mt. Airy. NC. The exception is a photo of a stack of flagstones at the quarry. Each photo is 7.5 x 9.5 inches, and nearly all have identifying information on the front.… Read more about this item

Very good. 7" x 11" string-tied album containing 190 corner-mounted photos., most measuring 3.25" x 5.5". Some blank spots where photos were removed, a few images damaged, but condition is very good overall. This interesting album appears to have been compiled by a man from Calgary, Alberta, who was employed in the railroad industry before serving in the… Read more about this item

Boudoir card (5" x 8") albumen photo on the mound of "Richardson, Artist" showing a team of horses pulling a large model factory building with the words "Glenwood Mills Dress Silks" on the roof. Not further identified, but most likely the Glenwood Mills in Easthampton, Massachusetts, which, according to an account in the Fitchburg Sentinel, began manufacturing dress silks in… Read more about this item

Portland, Oregon: Davidson Photo, 1883. Very good. 5.5" x 8" albumen photograph on a 9.25" x 12" mount. Titled "Cabinet Gorge, Clark's River, looking down stream," with further caption for the series: "Scenery Along the Line of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, Clarke's Fork Division." Credited "Davidson, Photo. Portland, Oregon." Very good condition, with small chips at corners… Read more about this item

Very good. Original 8 x 10 photograph, uncredited and undated, showing five parade floats with messaging from the John F. Barker Produce Company, a Phoenix-based fruit and vegetable wholesaler incorporated in 1914. This photo may date from April 1925, when an article in the Arizona Republic notes the company's participation in a "Prosperity Parade" held as part of… Read more about this item

Softcover. Very good. Softcover student notebook, 8.25 x 6 inches, containing 51 b/w photographs (2.5" x 3.5") mounted on graph paper leaves, most with handwritten captions in Vietnamese. Dated 1972 on the front cover (with additional handwritten titles or notes we have been unable to decipher). Two items stapled together are laid into the notebook, both in French,… Read more about this item

Very good. Three 8" x 10" photographs, one credited on the verso to Orby G. Kelley Jr., a photographer who worked for the Virginian-Pilot newspaper (Norfolk, VA) in the 1950s, the other two unmarked. The credited photo is an informal portrait of Charles Manuel Grace (1881-1960) -- born Marcelino Manuel da Graça and popularly known as "Sweet Daddy… Read more about this item

Very good. Original 6" x 8" black and white photograph on a 10" x 12" mount, captioned "Mairposa Co. Exibit" (sic) and credited "Simon & Robinson Photog." Very good condition, blank on the back. Undated, but ca. 1915 based on the period when Simon & Robinson were active. Their firm is described in a 1913 promotional book for… Read more about this item

Softcover. Very good. 7" x 11" strong-tied photograph album containing 35 snapshots (3.5" x 5") corner-mounted one per page, rectos only. A small album without captions, but with good documentary content. The first two images are a nice Juneau street scene and a shot of the Alaska Air Transport Terminal in the Juneau harbor. These are followed by… Read more about this item

Softcover. Very good. Hand-made calendar composed of 12 sheets of 7" x 5.25" cardstock, two-hole punched at top for hanging. Small printed calendar page affixed to each sheet below an original cyanotype photograph measuring about 3.25" x 4.5" (sizes vary slightly). Most photos have a penciled caption written on the back of the card. Front page toned and… Read more about this item

Istanbul: Cumhuriyet Matbaasi, 1939. Softcover. very good. 11.25' x 7.5", unpaginated, but ca. 200 pp, consisting entirely of reproduced photographs, each with a caption (in Turkish). A good copy with creasing and chipping to wrappers, one crack in binding. An interesting and uncommon assemblage of images documenting the public appearances of Mustafa Kamal Atatürk, the first President of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black, 1869. Hardcover. Good. Author's edition, "with all his introductions, various readings, and the editor's notes." 375 pp + extensive publisher's catalogue illustrated with many engravings from drawings by Birket Foster and John Gildert, as well as 11 original albumen photographs. A good copy bound in original blue cloth decorated in black and gilt,… Read more about this item

New York: Scovill & Adams Company, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 426 pp + ads, in original cloth binding decorated in gilt and black. Rubbng to extremities, front free endpaper loosening; all else very good. Volume 41 in the Scovill Photographic Series. Includes both theoretical and practical information. Described in "The Photo-Miniature" (Vol. 4, Issue 2) as… Read more about this item

San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", [60]pp, with 26 halftone photographic plates. Original paper-covered boards with mounted cover illustration. Some chipping to paper over spine and fore edges, upper corners rubbed, library stamp on front free endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown, illustration clipped from another source pasted to rear free endpaper.… Read more about this item

11" x 14" photograph showing members of the American Samoan Delegation--headed by famed Machu PIcchu explorer Hiram Bingham--being received by local chiefs, as a Samoan man films the proceedings. A slightly different version of this image (with the Samoan photographer removed) was published in a 1931 U.S. Government report with the caption "County Chiefs Leiato of Fagaitua and Faumunia… Read more about this item

5" x 10" cloth album (labeled in the back as a "Ward's Album for Unmounted Photographs") with thirty-six 2.25" x 6.75" photographs inserted each side of 18 thick cardstock leaves. A few of the images have some hand-coloring. Leaves were original mounted on cloth stubs, but the cloth has deteriorated and the leaves are now laid in loose. Otherwise… Read more about this item

New York: Leo Castelli / Castelli Graphics, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. [108] pp, with 51 b/w illustrations from Baltz' photographs. Ex-library, with typical markings. One corner of rear board bumped, otherwise nice condition -- clean, tightly bound, unmarked, with minimal handling wear. No dust jacket. One of the most important books of the New Topographics movement --… Read more about this item