Search Results: Titles starting with B from Dawson's Book Shop

Several sections missing from rear dust jacket of volume 1. Archival tape repairs to inside of dust jacket of volumes 1, 2 and 5.
Complete five volumes in first edition of Adams influential series of technical books on photography. A projected sixth volume titled Twelve Photographic Problems was never produced. A sixth technical volume titled Polaroid Land Photography Manual was published in 1963. Titles include:
Camera and Lens, 1948, stated first edition.
The Negative, 1948, stated first edition.
The Print, 1950, stated first edition.
Natural Light Photography, 1952, no later printings stated.
Artificial-Light Photography 1956, no later printings stated.
Each volume signed by Adams on the preliminary blank leaf or the half title, dated "7-17-83" and dedicated to a previous owner.

All volumes 9 x 6 inches. Cloth, with dust jackets, some dust jackets worn and chipped, volume 2 missing sections at spine. Polaroid Manual has library numbers on spine of dust jacket and rubber stamp of San Francisco Public Library at top edge of text and verso of title page. All six volumes signed or inscribed by Adams on preliminary blank or title page.Various editions and printings of Adams first comprehensive series of books related to the technical aspects of photography. Editions include, Camera and Lens, 1948. First edition. The Negative, 1971. Fifth printing. The Print, 1968. No edition or printing stated. Natural-Light Photography, 1965. Fifth printing. Artificial-Light Photography, 1971. Fifth printing. Polaroid Land Photography Manual, 1963. No edition stated.

MIT Press, Cambridge, (1985). Very good. 11 1/2 x 9 inches, 315 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (slight wear to outer edges).

Astro Artz, Los Angeles, 1983. Fine. First Edition 10 x 7 inches, 87 pages, cloth.

Liveright, New York, (1974). Very good. 10 x 7 inches, 312 pages, cloth, light sunning to spine, cardboard slipcase with printed paper label, Illustrated by Lorence Bjorklund.

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, 1974. Fine. 9 1/2 x 8 inches, unnumbered pages, wrappers, Exhibition catalogue. Essay by Germano Celant.

Good Book Press, Santa Cruz, 1987. Fine. Limited edition: One of 30 copies 2 7/8 x 1 inches, [20] pages, wooden planks, silver band, Accordion-folded, printed in black, blue and red. Housed in a velveteen bag. "For everything there is a season and a time . . . ".

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1975. Fine. Limited edition: One of 150 copies, printed and bound by Vance Gerry 2 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches, [36] pages, decorative boards with paper cover label, Dust Jacket (small tape-mended tear to lower edge of front panel), Laid in is Cheney's 2-leaf printing of "Hickory Dickory Dock" in Greek.

Macmillan Company, New York/London, 1968. Near fine with the exception of small stain at bottom edge of half title page from bookplate previously attached, also light offsetting from book plate on inside front cover. First Edition 9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches, 94 pages, wrappers with very light wear to edges, Signed by the photographer in felt pen on half title page and dated 2008, Lyon's documentation of his years with the Chicago Outlaw Motorcyle Club is a classic in the field of American photography books.

History of African Americans in the San Bernardino region of Southern California.

635 pages, 12 x 9 inches, cloth, some soiling, corners worn and bent.Laid in are two printed lists/brochures from the paper company.

Glasgow: H. Robinson & Co., 1837. 7 5/8 x 4 inches, xx, 75 pages, original yellow printed wrappers, small hole in front wrapper, moderate soiling to wrappers, uncut edges, housed in cloth slipcase and chemise. This pamphlet is from The Book of the New Moral World, which was originally published in 7 parts between 1836-1844, by the famous utopian socialist Robert Owen.

Mitchell Kennerly, New York, 1916. Very good. 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches, xvii,227 pages, cloth, some fading and soiling.

PPP Editions/Roth Horowitz, New York, 2001. Fine. First Edition 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, 305 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Trade edtion of the first book to seriously look at 20th century photography books as masterworks of content and design. Features essays by Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Frankel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss, and Nigel Wakefield.

Signed and dated by Adams on half-title page. A very nice copy of this fragile book.

Adams' project documenting the life of Japanese American internees at Manzanar during World War II.
Lacking the dust jacket as issued but a rare copy in boards. This copy also has an inscription from Adams in pen to Bill and Zelda Holger dated November 1945. Vintage inscriptions from Adams are uncommon especially for this book.
William Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He was also an amateur photographer involved in the f/64 movement in the 1930s. Holger attended many of Adams' early Yosemite Workshops.

Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, 1893. Good. 9 1/2 x 6 inches, 361 pages, original wrappers bound into modern decorative boards with leather spine, front cover of wrappers present but not bound in, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Botany: Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium, Vol. 4, November 29, 1893. Lacks map.

Ami Guichard, Lausanne, 1966. 9 in. x 11 in., 126 pages, Cloth, Cloth cover with gold stamping

115 pages plus 11 leaves of plates, 8 ½ x 6 inches, cloth with gold stamping. "The primary purpose of the author in issuing this monograph is to place in circulation a limited number of reproductions of a few very rare prints relating to the early history of New York-a field in which the author began collecting thirty years ago, and to which after many diversions he has returned again and again with renewed interest."This volume also includes a double page facsimile of the map/survey made by James Lyne and printed by William Bradford in 1731 which, in 1893, was in the collection of the author.

Photography West Graphics, Carmel, 1986. Near fine. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 5000 14 x 12 inches, black cloth with Weston's signature stamped in silver on upper cover, Dust Jacket (near fine), Unpaginated.