Automagic
Berlin: Only Photography, 2009. Folio (13 x 12 inches). 120 pages. Original purple cloth; printed dust jacket. Number 407 of 500 copies signed on the colophon by Metzker.
New Arrivals
Aaron Siskind 100
New York: powerHouse Books, 2003. 13.25 x 10 inches. 174 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original red cloth, with photograph mounted on the front cover. First edition.
Juke Joint
Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. 10 x 11 inches. 125 pages. Color photographs. Black cloth; pictorial slipcase. Deluxe issue, one of 26 lettered copies (from an edition of 126) signed by Birney Imes and Richard Ford (who wrote the introduction). This is letter "M". "In this spectacular.....
Faces of Our Time
Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1971. 12 x 9.5 inches. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, signed by Karsh on the front free endpaper.
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Paul Strand: A Retrospective Monograph The Years 1915-1946 [and] 1950-1968
New York: Aperture, 1972. Two volumes, 4to. Purple buckram; slipcase. Deluxe limited issue, number 17 of 100 copies, "specially bound in buckram and stamped in genuine gold, signed by Strand."
Ralph Gibson 1960-2012
Korea: Goeun Museum of Photography, 2014. Exhibition catalogue, including biography and list of collections. Text in Korean and English. Black-and-white photography. 8.25 x 11.75 inches. Original light-gray boards. "This catalog contains photos that provide a holistic view of Ralph Gibson's photographic features, such as surrealism expressed in a straight way.....
Observations
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1959. Folio. 151 pages. Original pictorial boards; acetate wrapper; printed slipcase. First edition of Avedon's justly celebrated first book. Roth 101, pp. 148-9.
Japan
Tucson AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2003. Folio (13 x 13 inches). Original red cloth; Japanese style black cloth folding case with toggles. First edition, signed by Kenna on the half-title. The 93 tritone plates are reproduced 1:1 from the original sepia toned silver gelatin prints. One of 4000 copies of the.....
Fifty Photographs
New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Folio (12 x 9.5 inches). 16 pages text. 51 plates (the last a portrait of the artist by Cole Weston). Cloth-backed, heavy beveled boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 1,500 copies (this is number 253), initialed in ink on a separate.....
Land of the Free
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1938. 8vo (9 x 7 inches). Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket reproducing a photo by Willard Van Dyke. First edition, first printing of this important collection of FSA photographers accompanying MacLeish's poem. In his endnotes, he writes that the book is "the opposite of.....
Brothel
New York: Mantis, 2007. Oblong (8.5 x 12 inches). Original black cloth; folding case covered in red silk from India. Signed in gold ink on the half-title. One of 1,000 unnumbered copies. This is the original work created in India that led to her Academy Award-winning documentary Born into Brothel.....
Shooting the Russian War
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. 8vo. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, a fine association copy, inscribed by Bourke-White to the celebrated children's author Munro Leaf (1905-1976), author of dozens of children's books, and best remembered for the classic "The Story of Ferdinand." Bourke-White inscribes the book on.....
Josef Sudek Fotografie
Prague: Statni Nakladatelstvi Krase Literatury, 1956. Text in Czech. 8vo. Original tan cloth; dust jacket. First edition of "one of the finest books of photography ever made. In its classic, clean design, exquisite photogravure printing, and attention to detail, it is the perfect vehicle for the full range of Sudek's.....
Humility, Concentration & Gusto. A Profile of Marianne Moore
Brooklyn: Pratt Ad Lib Press, 1960. 4to. 21 pages. Woodcut illustrations by Richard Bennett. Printed wrappers. Number 264 of 300 copies. Produced under the supervision of Fritz Eichenberg at Pratt in celebration of Moore receiving the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 1959.
Tell me, tell me
New York: Viking Press, 1966. 8vo. 57 pages. Quarter cloth; pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Abbott A30.1.
The Fables of La Fontaine
New York: Viking Press, 1954. 8vo. x, 342 pages. Cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Marianne Moore: "M.M. from M M with love / Dear Margaret, I I hope I am right in feeling that you would care to have this. Diffidantly, Marianne." Moore has.....
O To Be a Dragon
New York: Viking Press, 1959. 8vo. 37 pages. Original two-toned cloth; dust jacket. First edition, first impression. Signed by Moore on the front free endpaper, and dated Sept. 17, 1959 [the date of publication] on the copyright page. Abbott A17.1.
The Pangolin and Other Verse
London: Brendin Publishing Company, 1936. 8vo. Illustrated by George Plank. Decorated paper over boards. First edition, one of 120 copies. Abbott.
The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore
New York: Macmillan Company / Viking Press, 1967. 8vo. xiv, 305 pages. Cloth; dust jacket; blue cloth chemise and slipcase. First edition. Abbott A32.a1.
The Arctic Ox
London: Faber & Faber, 1964. 8vo. 52 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. First edition, printed in an edition of 1,500 copies. Abbott A23.
Letters from the Ford Motor Company
New York: [The Spiral Press for] The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958. 8vo. Wood engraved plate by Leonard Baskin. Original gilt-lettered cloth-backed boards; original slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 550 copies. Abbott A16.
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Marriage. [Manikin number 3]
New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. 8vo. [20] pages. Original printed wrappers, stapled. First edition, Monroe Wheeler estimated that 200 copies were printed, mostly for presentation. Laid-in: Glenway Westcott, "Miss Moore's Observations," folded two-leaf review of Moore's 'Poems' (present in all copies examined by Abbott). Abbott A2.
Andy Warhol: Portraits of the 70s
New York: Random House / Whitney Museum, 1979. 4to. 141 pages. Color plates. Original black cloth; slipcase with portrait. Deluxe issue, one of 200 copies signed by Warhol, this is copy 143. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney, 20 November 1979 to 27 January 1980. Edited.....
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Avant Garde Magazine [Complete Run, Nos. 1-14]
New York: Avant Garde Media, 1968-71. Fourteen issues, square 4to. Original printed wrappers. "Avant Garde is a seminal, but somewhat overlooked by a wider public, magazine, which broke taboos, rattled some nerves and made a few enemies. The magazine was the brainchild of Ralph Ginzburg, an eager and zealous publisher.....
The Buck in the Snow
New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1928. 8vo. vi, 69, [1] pages. Cloth, printed paper spine label; dust jacket (unclipped, $2.00 price present). First edition.