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PROULX, Annie
London: Fourth Estate, 1998. First edition. Softcover. The first separate edition of this story that originally appeared in the New Yorker. The basis for the brilliant Ang Lee Movie which...
POWERS, Richard
New York: Beech Tree Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. His inventive first book in which Powers imagines the lives of the three farmers from the famous August Sander's photograph. A....
O'CASEY, Sean
London: Macmillan, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. A very near clean fine and tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a faint tape shadow on the front and...
DUNCAN, David James
San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1983. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. Apparently the second issue in orange printed wrappers.The first book of fiction published by The Sierra Club. A....
FRIEDLANDER, Lee
New City, NY: Haywire Press, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Friedlander's self published first solo book preceded only by a collaboration with Jim Dine. This slim monograph collects 42 self-portraits of...
DAS, Taraknath
New York: B.W. Huebsch, Inc, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. A bright very near fine copy with some very light foxing to the foredge in a near fine dust jacket that...
HONOUR, Hugh
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcovers. Two volumes with 379 and 306 pages. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. Part 1 is in very near...
BELLOCQ, E.J., John Szarkowski (editor) & Lee Friedlander...
New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The now classic book of 34 photographs of prostitutes from New Orleans' Red-Light District, edited by John Szarkowski...
WOODSON, Carter Godwin
Washington, D.C. The Associated Publishers, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. Includes numerous illustrations. A very good plus copy with some minor foxing to the page edges and endpapers and a small...
CALLAHAN, Harry
Chicago: Press of The Institute of Design, 1961. First edition. Softcover. The first full monograph to feature Callahan's photographs. Includes 17 of his multiple exposures as well as a brief...
OHARA, Ken
Tokyo: Tsukiji Shokan Publishing Co. Ltd. 1970. First edition. Softcover. Minimal text in Japanese and English. A striking collection of black and white photographs of extreme close-up portraits with the...
GOREY, Edward
Fantod Press distributed by Gotham Book Mart, 1973. First editions. Softcovers. Three volumes, all letter K from only 26 lettered copies. Text and illustrations by Gorey. All three booklets are...
WHALEN, Philip
Minneapolis, MN: Bookslinger at The Toothpaste Press, 1979. First edition. Broadside that measures 9 7/8" x 12 3/4". Copy 109 out of 125 numbered copies. A fine copy. Signed by Whalen. Item #111520
SOMMER, Frederick
Denver, CO: The Denver Art Museum, 1987. First edition. Softcover. One of 3000 copies. Essay by Stephen Aldrich. An exhibition catalog. A very fine copy in illustrated wrappers. Item #110910
HOMES, A.M.
New York: Macmillan, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Her impressive debut novel. The dust jacket features blurbs from David Foster Wallace, Madison Smartt Bell and Hilma Wolitzer. A very near fine...
WOOLF, Virginia and Vanessa Bell
London: The Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of only 1000 copies. Includes 4 woodcuts by Vanessa Bell who also designed most of the dust jackets for...
WESTON, Edward
Silver gelatin print of one of Weston's more iconic images. Originally taken in 1930 this print was done by his son Cole Weston. The image measures 9.5" x 7.5". On...
WILLEFORD, Charles
Montclair, NJ: Pegasus Rex Press, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. This novel is based on the Son of Sam killer. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A very fresh and...
IRVING, John
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Copy 155 from an edition of only 250 that were specially bound and numbered. One of Irving's most...
MCPHEE, John
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Mcphee's seventh book, which deals about his Scottish heritage. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A....
FRIEDLANDER, Lee
New York: Haywire Press, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. An exquisitely printed collection of black and white photographs. A fine copy in a spiral binding with purple cloth. Signed...
FRIEDLANDER, Lee
Minneapolis: Cray Research Inc. 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Commisioned by Cray as a gift to their employees to mark the fifteenth anniversary of the company. A very fine copy in...
NURA (Nura Woodson Ulerich)
New York: American Studio Books, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. An about very good copy with some slight wear to the yellow boards, the front panel of the dust jacket had...
SCAVULLO, Francesco and Seam M. Byrnes (editor)
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. A retrospective look at Scavullo's impressive career as a fashion photographer. Illustrated throughout with over 200 duotones. A tight close...
ANTONELLI, Paola
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1995. First edition. Original colored resin boards. 128 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 25 through August 27, 1995. Includes...
MOHOLY-NAGY, Laszlo
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. A reprint of the 1925 edition. Translated by Janet Seligman. Includes a note by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript...
ADAMS, Shelby Lee and Lee Smith
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 25 copies issued with an original photograph entitled "Jacob Girls." Narrative by Lee Smith that accompanies black...
ADAMS, Robert
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A terrific book of 46 black and white photographs. A very near fine copy with some bumping to the top corners...
BRAVO, Manuel Alvarez & Octavio Paz
Mexico City: Circulo Ediotorial, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Printed in an edition of 2200. A terrific pairing with Paz's spare text and Bravo's simple and elegant black and white photographs...
MCCARTHY, Cormac
New Orleans, LA: B.E. Trice, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 41 from a limited edition of only 325 numbered and specially bound copies. A very fine copy with quarter leather...
BELL, Marvin
Iowa City, IA: The Stone Wall Press, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 270 copies bound in grey cloth and printed on Arches paper. A clean near fine copy...
SUDEK, Josef
Prague: SNKL, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. A beautifully printed early monograph from this important Czech photographer with lush gravure printing. A very near fine and tight copy in a close...
HEMINGWAY, Ernest
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of his best novels, a semi-autobiographical work set in WWI. A bright close to near fine copy with...
PICASSO, Pablo & G. di San Lazzaro (editor)
New York: Tudor Publishing, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Includes essays and contributions by many of Picasso's friends, colleagues and scholars including: Paul Eluard, Guillaume Apollinaire, Man Ray, Dore Ashton, Brassai...
EUGENIDES, Jeffrey
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First edition. Softcover. Advanced Reading Copy. His very well received second novel which won the Pulitzer Prize. A very near fine unread copy...
LEICHTENTRITT, Hugo
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. A look at this important double bassoonist and longtime conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. An about very good copy with...
MANOS, Constantine
New York: The Viking Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of 112 striking black and white photographs taken in small villages and rural areas of Greece. A fine and...
HIRSCHFELD, Al
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. This remains one of the best books on the prolific and important cartoonist and caricaturist. Includes 189 illustrations including 32 in...
WINNINGHAM, Geoff & William C. Martin
(Houston): Mavis P. Kelsey Jr. 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Text by Martin and black and white photographs by Winningham. A very near fine copy...
WHITE, E.B.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. An early collection of his short essays. A very good plus copy with a few tiny tears to the spine ends...
FURST, Alan
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1988. Second printing. Hardcover. The first book in his espionage novels all of which have been set in the Europe of the 1930's and 1940's...
CAREY, Peter
New York: Random House, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. An early collection of short stories from the Australian winner of the Booker Prizer for his novels "Oscar and Lucinda" and "True...
VON UNWERTH, Ellen
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. An often gritty collection of black and white photographs many of which are nudes. A very near fine...
SAYLES, John
Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press - Little, Brown and Company, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. The first collection of short stories from this terrific writer and film director of "Lone Star"...
LIONNI, Leo
New York: Pantheon, 1963. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Lionni's fourth book which was a Caldecott Honor title. A fine copy with illustrated boards in a very near fine dust...
BARTH, R.L.
Omaha, NE: Abattoir Editions / The University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 102 from an edition of only 200 numbered copies pirinted by Harry Duncan on...
EULER-SCHMIDT, Michel and Roland Scotti - Oliver Jordan
Koln, Germany: Schuffelen - Vau Galerie, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 18 from a limited edition of only 50 copies. Text in German by Michel Euler-Schmidt and Roland Scotti. Includes...
COEL, Margaret
Niwot, CO: University Press of Colorado, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Her first novel. A mystery set in part in an Indian Reservation. A fine copy in fine jacket. Signed by...
