Below is a short list of some of our more interesting titles. This list is updated every week.
Manchester: Contemporary Bookshop, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. 10 pages. Includes a single poem along with a tipped in black and white illustration. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some fading to the spine, light soiling and minor edge wear and tears. Uncommon. Item #148870 More
Price: $175.00
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 with some slight curving to the edge of the front board. Signed and very warmly inscribed in the year of publication to author and editor of Poetry Magazine Henry Rago. A terrific association copy. Item #116400 More
Price: $300.00
New York & Ithaca, NY: Hudson Hills Press in association with Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. 227 pages. Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of Mitchell's works. Text by Judith E. Bernstock. Includes 118 color plates along with 8 black and white illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. A fresh copy. Item #135456 More
Price: $250.00
Los Angeles, CA: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2009. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 88 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 31 through August 9, 2009. Foreword by Michael Brand. Acknowledgments and essay by Judith Keller. Includes 55 color and 15 duotone illustrations. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by Callis on the title page in the year of publication. Uncommon signed. Item #151975 More
Price: $150.00
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1996. First edition. Hardcover. Letter D from a deluxe limited edition of 26 lettered copies. A very fine copy with cloth boards and leather spine in a fine slipcase and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Issued without dust jacket. Signed by Casey. Item #114918 More
Price: $200.00
New York: Scalo, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. 272 pages. An examination of the first portion of Witkin's career with text by Celant. Includes over 100 images. A fine copy in a very near fine with a tiny edge tear to the top of the rear panel. Signed and inscribed by Witkin on the front free endpaper in the year of publication to a Chicago gallerist. Item #139156 More
Price: $200.00
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Number 30 of 30 copies of this deluxe edition. Preface by Jeffrey Hoone and with an afterword by Amitav Ghosh. A nicely designed book by John Gossage and Chao. A collection of 77 color photographs by Chao. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and and in a fine yellow clamshell box. Signed by Chao in the book. Includes an original color photograph of Tin Tao Liang that appears in the book on page 11. Print is in fine condition and is signed by Chao on the verso. Item #149964 More
Price: $500.00
New York: T.J. Maloney Co., 1949. First edition. Hardcover. 64 pages. A look at the photo-techniques and images of Connell who was a well known Hollywood photographer as well as a teacher. Includes numerous black and white images. A fine and tight copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the top of the front panel. Signed and inscribed on the title page: "For Leo Salkin, I must admit that it seems like more than twelve years- Will Connell." The recipient was an animator for Disney and MGM and also directed the Mel Brooks movie "The 2,000 Year-old Man." A very nice association copy. Item #126699 More
Price: $300.00
New York: Jonthan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 115 pages. Cowley's first collection of poetry. A very good copy in blue cloth boards with some very slight wear, fading to the spine and a very attractive vintage bookplate to the front pastedown. No dust jacket. Signed by Cowley on the front free endpaper in a very legible hand. Uncommon thus. Item #132986 More
Price: $250.00
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Basis for the movie with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes. A fine copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. Signed by Crichton on the front free endpaper. A very nice copy. Item #120317 More
Price: $150.00
London: Architectural Association, 1990. First edition. Large softcover. 99 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at ran at the Architectural Association in the Autumn of 1990. Essay by Andrew Higgott. Includes numerous black and white images. A near fine copy in wrappers with a small gift inscription on the half title page in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #148740 More
Price: $150.00
New York: The Viking Press, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Delillo's eighth book, a National Book Award winning novel. A very near fine copy with a slight tap to the bottom edge of the rear board in a near fine dust jacket with some very slight wear. Signed by Delillo on the front free endpaper. A nice copy of one of Delillo's best books. Item #160561 More
Price: $400.00
Danbury, NH: Addison House, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Julia Scully. The first monograph of Mike Disfarmer's photographs. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with some very slight wear but none of the usual fading. A much nicer than usual copy. Item #148619 More
Price: $250.00
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. 128 pages. Introduction by Wilfrid Sheed. An early collection of Erwitt's black and white images. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Erwitt on the title page in the year of publication. A nicer than usual of the much less common cloth issue. Item #143921 More
Price: $250.00
Dusseldorf: Elger Esser, 2009. First edition. Large oblong hardcover. Number 135 of 250 copies from a total edition of 1000. A collection of 24 color images of Australian shipwrecks accompanied by a text insert with an excerpt from Goethe. A fine copy in a fine slipcase and in a fine cardboard box that is numbered as well. Signed by Esser. A beautiful production. Surprisingly uncommon. Item #150810 More
Price: $500.00
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. First printing of 5000 copies and with the errata slip. Essay by Lincoln Kirstein. A powerful selection of Evans photographs, many of which were derived from his work for the FSA. This monograph was published for the first one man photography show at MOMA and it remains one of the most important and influential photobooks ever. An about good plus copy in black cloth boards that have some spotting to the front board and with the paper spine label rubbed and worn so that most of the wording is no longer visible. Internally a clean and fresh copy but lacking the errata slip. No dust jacket. (Parr & Badger v1, 114-115, Roth 98-99). Item #152882 More
Price: $350.00
Manchester, United Kingdom: Cornerhouse Publications, 1988. First edition. Oblong softcover. Text by Rupert Martin and with an afterword by Maureen O. Paley. Includes 29 color images by Fraser. A very near fine copy in wrappers. Signed by Fraser on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. A very nice copy of this underrated book that is uncommon signed. Item #155835 More
Price: $150.00
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 1000 copies. A collection of 35 four color plates. A very fine copy in cloth boards with color plate affixed to the front board. Signed by Goicolea on the title page. No dust jacket as issued. Still in the publisher's shrinkwap slit open to verify signature and edition. Item #154256 More
Price: $175.00
Santa Fe, NM: Twin Palms Publishers. First edition. Hardcover. Number 3 of only 100 copies. Goicolea's third book, a collection of 100 four color plates of his drawings and photographs. A fine copy in a fine cloth slipcase. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Giocolea on the limitation page. Item #158308 More
Price: $200.00
Millerton, NY: Aperture, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. A depressing look at suburban life, whereas Owen's book "Suburbia" was somewhat optimistic Hare's images are dark and poignantly show the ennui in middle America. A fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the top of the back panel and some other very minor wear. A much nicer than usual copy of a surprisingly uncommon book. (Parr & Badger v2, 23). Item #106580 More
Price: $750.00
New York: Vanguard Press, Inc., 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Review copy with slip laid in. A collection of 38 poems along with 25 section prose/poem memoir. Includes a copy of the July 1975 issue of Poetry magazine where this book was reviewed rather harshly by Joseph Parisi. Also included is a typed letter in a hand addressed envelope from Heyen to Parisi in which Heyen savages Parisi and his review. A highly amusing and vitriolic response to a nasty review. All components are in near fine condition or better. Item #112826 More
Price: $200.00
Franfurt am Main / Koln: Portikus / Walter Konig, 1992. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Published in conjunction with an exhibition. Text in English and German with a foreword by Martin Hentschel and Kasper Konig. Essay by Gregorio Magnani. Includes numerous color images. A near fine copy with some very slight bumping to the top corners in a close to near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears and slight wear. Uncommon. Item #138943 More
Price: $150.00
Weis, Austria: Most Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. First printing of 1000 copies. An attractive collection of 27 black and white images. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket and in a fine silk clamshell box. Signed by Hoflehner on the title page. Includes an original black and white photograph that is signed by Holehner on the verso and in a white matte. The photograph is in fine condition as well. Item #155584 More
Price: $450.00
Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of some of Ishimoto's later color images. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket and with a fine wraparound band. Signed by Ishimoto on the title page. A very attractive production. Item #151458 More
Price: $175.00
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1976. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of 48 gravure images of some of Karsh's iconic portraits. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by Karsh on the front free endpaper to another photographer in 1977. Item #143771 More
Price: $250.00