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APERTURE. Number 78.
Millerton, N. Y.: Aperture, Inc. 1977. 8pp. Illus. Hard cover. A fine copy. Includes Julia Scully's MIKE DISFARMER, HERBERT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS; Max Kozloff's JOEL MEYEROWITZ; Andre and Marie-Therese Jammes' EGYPT IN FLAUBERT'S TIME; Catherine Duncan's PAUL STRAND, THE GARDEN: VINES AND LEAVES. TS027.
$25.00
CEYLON
London: Lincolns - Prager Publishers Ltd. (1950). 255 pp. Introduction by L.C. Van Geyzel. Technical note by Bernard G. Thornley. Hardcover w/ dust jacket. Dust jacket worn at edges, points, and seams with large chips to the top inch of the spine. There is also a large reddish stain to the rear panel. Spine quite soiled. Personal library stamp on the title page, and a large inscription on the first fly leaf. Edge points worn to boards. There is some staining to the verso of the last five illustrations (not affecting the actual plates -- just on the rear). Some scattered foxing throughout, not affecting the plates.
$500.00
EXPOSURE METER MANUAL.
Scenectady, NY:General Electric Company. 1942. 97pp. Illus. Spiral binding. Light wear at edges, otherwise a very good copy. GE manufactured the G-E exposure meter. On the title page GE informs its clients that meters would no longer be available for civilian use until after the War.
$5.00
GRIFFITH JONES. AN EARLY PHOTOGRAPHER OF PORT DINORWIC.
[34]pp. Soft cover. Illustrated. Besides being a convert to photography at the end of the 19th. century Griffith was an employee of the Dinorwic Slate Quarries and recorded much of his surroundings. Other photographs touch on special events in Caernarfonshire, and of his family and friends.
$10.00
PHOTOGRAPHS OF NEW YORK INTERIORS AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY. Text by Clay Lancaster
NY:Dover Publications. (1976). 153pp. Illus. Soft cover. A very good, tight, clean copy. TS003.
$15.00
PICTURE TAKING AIDS.
Rochester, NY:Eastman Kodak Company. 1938. 36pp. Illustrated catalogue. Self-wrappers. In very good, clean condition
$10.00
PRACTICAL PHOTOGRAPHY. No. #6.. HOW TO MAKE PORTRAITS.
Boston:American Photographic Publishing Company. (1917). 5th edition, rewritten and enlarged. 62pp. + (8)pp. adverisements. Wrps. A near fine copy with some very light soiling to covers.
$15.00
THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY.
With an introduction by Beaumont Newhall. New York:Morgan & Morgan. (1970). 139pp. Reprint of 1849 edition in exact facsimile, including binding. Binding shows some light wear to the edges and spine but otherwise in very good condition. Interior is clean, bright and free of stray markings. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$20.00
ANSEL ADAMS IN THE LANE COLLECTION
Boston:MFA Publications. (2005). Stated 1st printing. 176pp. Softcover. Front cover's lower outside edge is creased and turned otherwise in very good condition. Internally, light soiling and age toning to outside edge of 1st free end-page, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Published in conjunction with an exhibition in 2005 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
$35.00
ANTIQUITY AND PHOTOGRAPHY. Early Views of Ancient Mediterranean Sites.
Los Angeles:J. Paul Getty Museum. (2005). xiv+226pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket in very good, clean condition. *"Antiquity and Photography explores the relationship between the new medium of photography and the emerging science of archaeology. The book is handsomely illustrated with panoramic images created by some of the first photographers to travel to ancient sites around the Mediterranean."...dj.
$50.00
BUKHARA: CAUGHT IN TIME
(Reading, UK):Garnet Publishing Limited. (1993). 159pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket in very good, clean condition.
$75.00
CALIFORNIA THE BEAUTIFUL. Camera Studies by California Artists with Selections in Prose and Verse from Western Writers
San Francisco:Paul Elder and Company. (1911). 1st edition. (75)pps. Illustrated with 37 tipped in photographs. Hardcover. Quarter bound with corse cloth (burlap) and light brown boards with title in gilt to front cover and a paste down photograph, lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear along edges. Internally, an inked inscription to Inez from Edna and Porter Garnett to 1st free end-page, but otherwise pages clean and bright. The binding is tight and hinges intact. *Porter Garnett was prominent in west coast literary activities and fine printing, as well as co-founder of The Lark with Gelett Burgess.
$150.00
GHOSTS IN PHOTOGRAPHS. The Extraordinary Story of Spirit Photography
New York:Harmony Books. (1978). 152pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Green boards lightly soiled with pages edges lightly soiled, otherwise a very good, clean copy inside and out. No previous owners marks or signatures. The binding is tight with hinges intact. The dust jacket is lightly shelfworn with light edgewear but otherwise in very good condition.
$35.00
LOTTE JACOBI
Danbury, NH:Addison House. (1978). 1st edition. Illustrated. Signed/Inscribed by photographer on title page. Hardcover with dust jacket. Beige boards lightly soiled along edges. Internally clean, with inscription to title page but otherwise free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is in good condition, lightly soiled and shelfworn with wear (including small chips and tears) to spine ends, edges and all folds. It is not price clipped.
$50.00
NAKED CITY
New York:Essential Books. (1945). 1st edition. 246pp. Illustrated with many photographs. Hardcover. Beige boards slightly soiled and shelfworn with a name printed in ink on the front board. Edge points gently bumped and spine ends worn. Internally, end-papers are decorated with photographs of the photographer getting his boots on and working out of his trunk (which doubled as his dark room/office). The dedication page has a tear at the bottom where it was roughly seperated from the copyright page and the last page has some inked writing on it. The paper throughout is slightly age toned. The binding is tight but the front hinge has started. *Arthur Fellig was a noted street/crime scene photographer, nicknamed Weegee, "a phonetic spelling of ouija, because of his frequent, seemingly prescient arrivals at scenes only minutes after crimes, fires or other emergencies were reported to authorities" (Wikipedia)
$195.00