New York: Art in America Inc, 1970. Softcover. May/June 1970. The feature this month is on Mormon art and architecture. Contains work by: Dan Graham, Mike Selif, Robert Morris. This issue includes an original offset lithograph title Spirals by Alexander Calder and is in fine condition. A near fine and tight copy with creasing and wear to the corners. Item #161646 More
Price: $60.00
Orange County, CA: privately printed, 1971. First edition. Small oblong softcover. One of only 500 copies. An odd artist's book with black and white photographs of hamburger patties from various fast food chains and restaurants on a small scale. A very good plus copy with some minor spotting to the stapled wrappers. Signed by Cumming on the verso of the front panel. Laid in is a copy Mike Mandel's baseball card of Robert Cumming. (Parr & Badger v2, 146-147) An uncommon book and especially so when signed. Item #161638 More
Price: $850.00
New York: Congreve Publishing, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Turbeville's first book, a collection of highly stylized black and white and color photographs that have a grittiness that starkly contrasts with the beauty of the subjects. A near fine copy in photo illustrated paper covered boards in a very good plus dust jacket that has some very minor wear and some slight soiling. Still, a nicer than usual copy of this terrific but underappreciated book. Item #161630 More
Price: $75.00
Berkeley, CA: Wesley B. Tanner / Moe's Books, 1995. First edition. Broadside printed in three colors that measures 11" wide x 9" high. Features the title poem which was included in "The Collected Poems of James Schuyler." Printed as a gift for New Years by Moe's Bookstore in Berkeley. A very fine copy. Item #161629 More
Price: $30.00
Pasadena: Twelvetrees Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. First printing of 4,000 copies. A beautifully produced book of some of his classic images of Jazz musicians. Essay by Leonard Feather and witah an afterword by Terry Southern. Includes 95 gravure plates. A very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some foxing to the verso. Item #161628 More
Price: $125.00
New York: Knoll Associates, Inc., 1950. First edition. Spiral bound softcover. Catalog designed by Herbert Matter. Broken down into sections on: Chairs, Tables, Chests, Cabinets, Beds, Desks, Offices, and Textiles. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs of a who's who of products by important designers like Pierre Jenneret, Florence Knoll, Mies Van Der Rohe, George Nakashim, Isamu Noghuch, Eero Saarinen and others. A very good plus copy in spiral bound wrappers with some minor wear and with some vintage pen notations about retailers to the last page. Despite the minor flaws, a very nice copy of an inherently fragile book that was meant to be used a sales tool. Item #161626 More
Price: $500.00
Lincoln, NE: Society for Photographic Education, 1979. First edition. Softcover. Volume 17, Number 3, Fall 1979. Includes images from: Anne Noggle, Jane Reece, Richard Misrach's desert images, Rudy Bender, and Tom Petrillo. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. Item #161623 More
Price: $15.00
Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press - Little, Brown & Company, 1994. First edition. Folio sized hardcover. First printing. This remains one of the best monographs on Watson. A beautifully printed book by Callaway Editions with 246 quadratone plates A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Watson on the title page with his typical large and florid signature. Item #161620 More
Price: $300.00
Chicago, IL, Minneapolis, MN, and New York: Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with Walker Art Center and Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974. First edition. Softcover. 24 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 9 through April 28, 1974 at Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago then June 16 through July 28, 1974 at the Walker Art Center and finally September 6 through October 23, 1974 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Foreword by Stephen Prokopoff. Essay by Whitney Halstead. Includes, with the covers, 24 illustrations with 4 in color. A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers. An early catalog of this important Chicago imagist who was part of the Hairy Who. Item #161619 More
Price: $45.00
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. First edition. Softcover. 119 pages. 119 pages. Essays by both Gohlke and John C. Hudson. A moody and striking collection of black and white photographs of grain elevators and the surrounding areas. A very fine copy in wrappers. An as new copy and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. Item #161618 More
Price: $100.00
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 417 pages. Text by Herta Wescher translated by Robert E. Wolf. A massive monograph with 396 illustrations including 40 tipped in color plates. A tight near fine copy in very good dust jacket that ha some soiling to the rear panel and some other minor wear. Still one of the best books on the subject. Item #161617 More
Price: $85.00
New York: Home Economics Department- American Can Company, 1936. First edition. A company booklet aimed at educating children about coffee with images by Bourke-White. Includes 11 of her black and white photographs along with a guide to making a coffee project book and two pages of tests and a reader reply card. All of the components are in very near fine condition in a clean near fine folding cardstock holder that has some very slight wear. Uncommon with only 2 copy listed in OCLC. (Parr & Badger v2, 184). Item #161613 More
Price: $750.00
New York: Ecstatic Peace Library / D.A.P., 2009. First edition. Small oblong hardcover. Number 326 of only 500 copies. Features text contributions by Jonathan Raymond and William T. Vollmann. A collection of 50 color photographs of the sub-culture of "freight hopping hobos." A near fine copy in black cloth boards with color plate affixed to the front cover and silver lettering to the spine and front cover but with some slight bumping to the bottom corner of the text block. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Kurland on the limitation page. A terrific book that hasn't gotten it's proper due and was never well distributed. Item #161611 More
Price: $500.00
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of a limited edition of 600 copies. The second novel to feature Harrison's terrific character Dalva and her family. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by Harrison on the publisher's tipped-in sheet. Item #161604 More
Price: $65.00
New York: Aperture, 1995. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. A terrific collection of images of life in New York's Central Park. Preface by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers. Features commentary by Marie Winn. Includes 60 duotones. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed by Davidson on the half title page. Item #161601 More
Price: $150.00
Lucerne, Switzerland: C. J. Bucher Ltd., 1976. First edition. Softcover. April 1976. 48 pages. The entire issue of this long running photograph magazine focuses on Czech photographer Josef Sudek. Features essays on Sudek by Allan Porter and Anna Farova and numerous black and white images. A near fine in wrappers with some minor rubbing. Item #161600 More
Price: $25.00
New York: Duschnes Crawford, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. February 1933. Includes an original limited edition woodcut by Emil Ganso titled The Bathers. Woodcut is 7 x 9 inches and is in fine condition with Ganso's name in the block. Among the articles in this feature there is a letter by Samuel L. Clemens otherwise know as Mark Twain another from artist Rockwell Kent under his pseudonym Hogarth, Jr. that features some of his illustrations. A very good plus copy in illustrated boards that are lightly soiled and with some minor wear to the base of the spine. No dust jacket as issued. Limited to 2500 subscribers. Item #161599 More
Price: $65.00
New York: Hudson Review, 1969. First edition. Softcover. 16 pages. A collection of poems translated by Aijaz Ahmad, William Stafford and Adrienne Rich. Forenote by Amhad. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with price increase sticker on the verso of the front cover. Item #161598 More
Price: $12.50
Denver, CO: The Croupier Press, 1969. First edition. Softcover. Slim collection of poems. An ex-library copy with stamps to the page edges and internally. Otherwise, a very nice copy. Item #161597 More
Price: $8.50
Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2014. First edition. Hardcover. The 88th entry in the One Picture Book series. Number 495 from an edition of 500 copies. Includes 12 four color plates along with a loose original color photograph. A very near fine copy with some very slight bumping to the top corners in the publisher's original ziploc bag. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by Soth on the verso of the photograph. A charming book of photographs all taken in Bogota by the Soth family when they went back 10 years after adopting their daughter there. Item #161596 More
Price: $100.00
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 631 pages. The eighth book, a novel from this National Book Award winning author. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Item #161594 More
Price: $20.00
Buffalo, NY: Leslie Krims, 1972. First edition. Small portfolio. Two long folded sheets of text with an essay by Robert A. Sobieszek. Includes 10 loose photo plates. Text sheets and plates in fine condition housed in very good plus hinged box that has some minor wear. Signed by Krims. A nicer than usual copy. Item #161591 More
Price: $300.00
Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1987. First edition. His third and perhaps best book. One of the more attractive volumes in Franklin series. A full leather binding that attempts to match the aboriginal motif in the book. Includes a special introduction by Chatwin not included in the trade edition. A very fine copy in full leather binding with all edges gilt and a silk book marker and still in the original shrinkwrap. Signed by Chatwin. An as new copy and still in the original shipping carton. Item #161587 More
Price: $125.00
New York: Jack Brussel, 1965. First edition thus. Hardcover. Introduction by Lee Revens. Includes 84 black and white drawings and 16 watercolors. An about very good copy with foxing to the page edges and internally as well in a fair dust jacket that has some toning to the spine and edges, some foxing and a tear/crease to the front cover. Despite the flaws a solid copy. Item #161586 More
Price: $25.00
Tokyo: Pawashoberu / Hatsubai Seiunsha, 2006. First edition. Oblong softcover. A collection of black and white photographs by Moriyama taken with a toy camera called a Polga which was modified to use Polaroid film. A very fine copy in wrappers and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. An as new copy. Item #161585 More
Price: $50.00
