The People of Moscow
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. Bound in publisher's off-white burlap, spine lettered in blue. Very Good+ with toned spine, a few paint flecks to front board, lacking dust jacket. More
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1955. First edition. Bound in publisher's off-white burlap, spine lettered in blue. Very Good+ with toned spine, a few paint flecks to front board, lacking dust jacket. More
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. First edition, first printing. 135pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket with light toning, light rubbing at extremities, a closed tear to the top edge of the front panel with light associated creasing, and a torn chip at the tail of the spine. A beautiful..... More
London: Chas. J. Sawyer, 1927. First edition, one of limited issue of 350 copies signed by Arthur Symons. Additionally signed by photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn at bottom margin of frontispiece photo of Thomas Hardy. 70 pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slight toning to spine. A...... More
London: Cassell & Co., 2001. First edition. Signed by both authors as well as original Sex Pistols Paul Cook and Glen Matlock, famous scenester Helen of Troy (Helen Wellington-Lloyd), Generation X & Sisters of Mercy bassist Tony James; photographer, journalist, and manager Leee Black Childers; photographer of radical movements Nat..... More
Racine, WI: W.D. Harney, Photogravure Publisher, 1910. Edition de luxe, single-volume, probable first edition issued around the time of a nine-volume wrappered issue (also "de luxe" according to the publisher) with the slightly different title Art Work of Seattle and Western Washington but with the same photos. 77 leaves of..... More
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2014. First edition. Signed by Bevan Davies on a slip visible through a window in the rear board; an unnumbered copy issued alongside a run of 350. Bound in silk with white lettering. Fine in Fine dust jacket, housed in Fine publisher's silk slipcase with a...... More
London: Big O Publishing, 1978. First edition. 96 pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, slight wave to pages along upper corner, light shelf wear. An uncommon early book on punk, with many black-and-white photos of first generation punk bands from the UK and the US including The Buzzcocks..... More
Santa Barbara: Arabesque Books, 1981. First edition. (One of 1,500 copies in the deluxe cloth issue.) Quarto. 238 pp. Quarto. Linen with mounted and matted color photo on front cover. Fine in very Near Fine acetate dustjacket. Just hint of cloudiness and rubbing to jacket, tiny nick near head. An..... More
Boston: [No Publisher], ca. 1879. The classic Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass and perhaps the best-known image of him, as it was used for the frontispiece of this third autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, which was published in 1881. Albumen photograph measuring 3 3/4" x 2 on original..... More
London: Georgnes Newnes Ltd., 1920, 1921, 1923. The saga of mystery author Arthur Conan Doyle's involvement in the famous "fairy photographs," one of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, unfolds in three issues of the popular British magazine The Strand. Ironically, the creator of arch-logician Sherlock Holmes was publicly..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901. First edition, first printing. Signed by Paul Laurence Dunbar on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with elaborate stamping to upper board and spine; with title page in BAL State A, and a deposit copy thus; lacking the dust jacket..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Eggleston on the title page. Publisher's faux leather with pictorial inset on front cover, titles in gilt. Near Fine, with light wear to cover, lean to spine, corner clipped from title page and previous owner..... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1988. First edition, limited issue, #32 of 150 copies thus, numbered and signed by Elliott Erwitt on the preliminary limitation page. Includes the original silver gelatin print of the cast of the western film The Misfits, also signed by Erwin, laid in. 255..... More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. First edition, first printing. Signed by Walker Evans and inscribed to photographer and collector Arnold Crane. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with white paper spine label with titles printed in black. Endsheets marred by removal of tape, else Fine. In a...... More
[Various Places]: [No Publisher], 1920-1960. A large and in-depth collection of approximately 3,500 original photos from a post-revolutionary Russian exile "prince" of aristocratic bearing and aspirations but not pedigree, Michael Evlanoff. He gained notoriety for his marriage to cosmetics pioneer Elizabeth Arden in 1942. It would end two years later..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with shallow fading to spine at top end, several very faint scratches to the cloth at the front cover, gilt lettering to spine..... More
Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine, with slight lean to binding, light toning to..... More
Paris: Robert Delpire, 1958. First edition, first printing of Robert Frank's iconic photobook, preceding the American first edition published by Grove Press by nearly a year. Signed by Robert Frank on the title page. Text in French. Bound in publisher's original laminated boards with illustration by Saul Steinberg. Near Fine..... More
Tokyo: Yugensha / Kazuhiko Motomura, 1972. First edition, signed by Robert Frank and inscribed to a former owner. Folio. Bound in publisher's original black cloth boards lettered in white, in black cloth-covered slipcase with photo onlay; caption booklet in Japanese laid in. Near Fine with light wear, small abrasion to..... More
New York: The New York Times, 1959. First and only edition, first printing. Very Good. Light toning and light soiling to covers, wear at corners and spine ends, and "Robert Frank Photos" hand-written to spine. Ink mark underlining Robert Frank's name in the introduction. Pages toned and several hinges over-opened..... More
New York: Aperture, [1978]. Presentation copy signed by Robert Frank on the half-title, inscribed to former owner "an old book on my 60th Birthday New York City Nov. 9 1984 good luck [signed] Robert Frank." 178, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth, front stamped in blind, spine lettered in..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1959. First edition, first printing. Signed by Robert Frank and inscribed to "MacDowell Aug .18.02 For Mr William Banks under trees in a wonderful country Robert Frank". William Banks was the longest standing board member of the MacDowell Colony, which is the oldest art colony in..... More
New York: Aperture, 1986. First edition. Presentation copy signed by Nan Goldin in purple ink in the year of publication, inscribed "For Cornell [Capa] - who hopefully can deal with reality with no fictionalizing, as i'm sure he can, in the capa name[,] my pleasure to meet you - Nan..... More
[Printed by Harold Snelling], [c. 1920]. A complete collection of five photographs of the Cottingley Fairies taken by Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright between 1917 and 1920. One of the greatest photographic hoaxes of all time, perpetrated by two young cousins age 16 and 9. Armed with a camera, the..... More
[Philadelphia]: [No Publisher], 1970s-1980s. Ca. 1970s-1980s. A large archive of fashion photography of Black women by African American photographer Arthur E. Grobes (1931-2020). 153 loose photographs, 107 of them shot in color and measuring 9.75" x 8, and 46 in black and white measuring 7"x5. Most with a single mount..... More