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The Great River (Signed First Edition)
SYLVESTER, Frederick Oakes
Chicago, IL: 1911. First edition. Hardcover. Privately printed in an edition of only 400 copies bound in two tones of "Interlaken Vellum over stiff boards." Includes as a frontispiece an...
Water's Edge
CALLAHAN, Harry
Lyme, CT: Callaway Editions, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of his beach photographs from 1941 to 1980. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a number...
Stephen Shore: A Road Trip Journal (Signed Limited Edition)
SHORE, Stephen
New York & London: Phaidon Press, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. A limited edition of 3300 numbered copies. A reproduction of his journal as he traveled around the America in 1973...
The Sporting Club (Signed First Edition)
McGUANE, Thomas
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. His first book from the author of "Ninety Two in the Shade." A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed...
La France de Profil
STRAND, Paul & Claude Roy
Lausanne, Switzerland: La Guilde du Livre, 1952. First edition. Softcover. Text in French. The preferred edition of this classic book with text by Roy and photographs by Strand. A clean...
Dubuffet
FRANZKE, Andreas & Jean Dubuffet
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. Includes 376 illustrations including 102 color plates and with a dust jacket designed by Dubuffet. A fine and tight copy in...
Teenage Lust (Signed Second Edition)
CLARK, Larry
New York: Larry Clark, 1987. Second edition. Softcover. His second book, a controversial collection of gritty images. This edition includes extra images not found in the first printing. A clean...
Face of Washington Square
WATANABE, Sumiharu
Tokyo, Japan: Hashimoto Yuyudo, 1965. First edition. Softcover. One of the more under appreciated Japanese photography books of the era. Watanabe was one of the few Japanese photographers to travel...
The Great Hunt (Signed First Edition)
JORDAN, Robert
New York: Tor- Tom Doherty Associates Book, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Book two in The Wheel of Time series. A tight very near fine copy in a very...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage...
THOMPSON, Hunter S.
New York: Random House, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Ralph Steadman. His classic second book which was the basis for the trippy movie with Johnny Depp and Benicio Del...
Helen Levitt: Mexico City (Signed Limited Edition)
LEVITT, Helen
New York: Doubletake & W. W. Norton, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Limitied edition of only 200 numbered copies. Essay by James Oles. A collection of black and white images all...
The Baron in the Trees (Signed First Edition)
CALVINO, Italo
New York: Random Houses, 1959. First U.S edition of this powerful early novel. Monroe Wheeler's copy with a Christmas note which bears his handwritten gift inscription affixed to the front...
I Wonder As I Wander: An Autobiographical Journey
HUGHES, Langston
New York: Rinehart & Co., 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Further autobiographical matieral from the author of the "The Weary Blues." Hughes was one of the more important and influential African-American...
The New World (Signed First Edition)
BANKS, Russell
Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. His fourth book, a collection of short stories. A very near fine and tight copy with some very slight tapping...
Madonna at Ringside (Signed Limited Edition)
CREWS, Harry
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 47 from a limited edition of only 275 numbered copies. A fine copy in cloth boards. Issued without a dust...
Ten Poems (Limited Edition)
DOVE, Rita
Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, 1977. First edition. Softcover. One of approximately 200 copies of the first book from this former Poet Laureate. A very near fine copy in a...
Kunst der Sechziger Jahre 5. Erweiterte Auflage -...
Cologne: Wallraf-Richarts Museum, 1971. Fifth revised edition. The most complete and best edition of this extraordinary production. Text in German and English and illustrated throughout with tipped in color plates...
Self-Portrait U.S.A. (Signed Association Copy)
DUNCAN, David Douglas
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of black and white photographs taken at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and the Republican...
Particulars (Signed Limited Edition)
GOLDBLATT, David
Johannesburg: Goodman Gallery Editions, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 100 numbered copies in the deluxe edition. Issued in 4 editions of 25 copies with a choice of four...
Robert Doisneau's Paris
DOISNEAU, Robert
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. First edition. The simultaneous French wrappers issue. A beautifully printed book with the photographs printed in gravure. An internally clean and fine copy in...
Edward Weston: Photographs from the Collection of the...
CONGER, Amy & Edward Weston
Tucson, AZ: Center for Creative Photography, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Massive monograph, the catalogue raisonne of Weston's entire photographic output with 1826 photographs. A very near fine copy in a...
Minutes of the Last Meeting (Signed Association Copy)
FOWLER, Gene
New York: The Viking Press, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. A look at some of his contemporaries in Hollywood along with an "attempt to write the biography of Sadakichi Hartmann." An...
Tarantula
DYLAN, Bob
Madison, WI: nd. First edition. Softcover. A pirated edition of Dylan's first book. Presumably this edition was done prior to the Macmillan edition in 1971. Galleys of the book were...
Uncommon Places (Signed First Edition)
SHORE, Stephen
New York: Aperture, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. His landmark first monograph, a collection of 61 color photographs. A fine copy in very near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by...
Steps (Signed First Edition)
KOSINSKI, Jerzy
New York: Random House, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. One of his best novels. A very near fine copy with some light offsetting to the front endpapers in a very near...
Revolutionary Petunias & Other Poems (Signed First Edition)
WALKER, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. The second collection of poetry from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Color Purple." A fine and tight...
Skrebneski: Black White & Color (Signed First Edition)
SKREBNESKI, Victor
Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Foreword by Frank Zachary and with an introduction by Anthony Jones. Includes 67 black and white images and 42 color illustrations. A...
A Streetcar Named Desire
WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1947. Third printing. Hardcover. Drama critic Claudia Cassidy's copy with her ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Cassidy's positive reviews of Williams' play "The Glass...
The Diamond Cutters and Other Poems
RICH, Adrienne Cecile
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1955. First edition. Hardcover. The second collection of poems from this important American poet. A fine copy with a small bookstore sticker to the bottom...
Chicago, Chicago
ISHIMOTO, Yasuhiro
New York: Japan Publishing Inc., 1983. First edition. Hardcover. An important collection of images which differ completely from an earlier collection that Ishimoto published using the same title. A very...
Diary of Light 1912-1985/ Seventy Years of Photography
KERTESZ, Andre
Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. The Japanese issue with text in Japanese and captions in English. Still one of the most beautifully printed books on this master photographer...
122 Colour Photographs
HELMER-PETERSEN, Keld
Copenhagen: Schoenberg, 1948. First edition. Hardcover. Self-published by Helmer-Petersen. An early and important book of color photography that precedes the work of William Eggleston, Paul Graham and Joel Sternfeld. An...
Unto This Last (Limited Edition)
RUSKIN, John
London: George Allen, 1902. First edition thus. Printed at the Ballantyne Press in Edinburgh, Scotland. One of only 400 copies printed on handmade paper. A very good copy in vellum...
American Prospects
STERNFELD, Joel
New York: Times Books, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. His now classic first monograph with an introduction by Andy Grundberg and an afterword by Anne W. Tucker. A powerful selection of...
Records
RUSCHA, Edward
Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Printed in an edition of only 2000 copies. A collection of black and white photographs of album covers by Jerry McMillan...
Korea (Signed Limited Edition)
HEATH, Dave
Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. One of 200 numbered copies of this stunningly beautiful book with haunting images from the Korean War. A very fine as new copy...
The Face of Minnesota (Signed First Edition)
SZARKOWSKI, John
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1958. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. His second book, featured by Dave Garroway on the "Today" program which helped land it on the New...
Lord John 10: A Celebration (Signed Limited Edition)
ETCHISON, Dennis (editor)
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 160 from a limited edition of 250 numbered copies. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. An anthology of writings to celebrate 10...
Deeds of War (Signed First Edition)
NACHTWEY, James
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Robert Stone. His first monograph, a powerful testament to the impact of war. Simply put, Nachtwey is one of...
Paul Cezanne The Watercolors: A Catalogue Raisonne
REWALD, John - Paul Cezanne
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society - Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Text by Rewald that includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A...
Bravo 20: The Bombing of the American West...
MISRACH, Richard with Myriam Weisang Misrach
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. Includes numerous color photographs of this area of Nevada that was the site of numerous nuclear bomb...
Wolf (Signed First Edition)
HARRISON, Jim
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971. First edition of his first novel. Adapted into a movie with Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer. A near fine copy without the usual remainder...
Corps Memorable (Signed Association copy)
CLERGUE, Lucien
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1965. Later printing. Stiff cardboards with a dust jacket illustrated by Picasso. A collection of 12 of Clergue's classic nudes together with poetry by Paul Eluard. A...
Players (Signed First Edition)
DELILLO, Don
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. His fifth novel in which a staid New York couple are changed forever by a terrorist attack that forces them to...
A Few Palm Trees
RUSCHA, Edward
Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1971. First edition. Softcover. Printed in an edition of only 3900 copies. A close to near fine copy in black wrappers that have some slight...
Chicago, Chicago
ISHIMOTO, Yasuhiro
Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. His second major monograph. Foreword by Harry Callahan. While the book was released in 1969, the images are all from the 1950s and...
My Dog Skip (Signed Limited Edition)
MORRIS, Willie
New York: Random House, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies printed for distribution to friends of the author and publisher. His classic book that was made...
Heart Songs (Signed First Edition)
PROULX, E. Annie
New York: Scribners, 1988. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first book of fiction, a powerful collection of short stories from the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning "The Shipping...
Diane Arbus
ARBUS, Diane
New York: Aperture, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Artist and photographer Bea Nettles copy with her ownership signature to the front free endpaper. Posthumously released monograph on this influential photographer which...
Dialogue With Solitude (Signed Limited Edition)
HEATH, Dave
Toronto: Lumiere Press, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. The second limited edition. One of only 100 copies. This comes with a gravure print of "Washington Square, New York City, 1958." A...
The Blood of the Parade and Other Poems
GIFFORD, Barry
London: Silverthorne Press, 1967. First edition. Softcover. The first book, a collection of poetry from the author of such quirky classics as "Wild at Heart." A very near fine copy...
The Haunting of Hill House
JACKSON, Shirley
New York: Viking, 1959. First edition of perhaps her best book which has been adapted a number of times in to movies. A very near fine bright copy in a...
From Here to Eternity
JONES, James
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. His classic World War II novel which won the National Book Award. The basis for the movie with Burt...
Vertigo (Signed First Edition)
SEBALD, W. G.
London: Harvill Press, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first of his novels to be published in English. He went on to win the National Book Critics Circle Award...
April Twilights and Other Poems (Signed Limited Edition)
CATHER, Willa
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First edition thus. A limited edition of this revised edition of her first book. This edition is expanded from the original with new poems...
Some Los Angeles Apartments
RUSCHA, Edward
Los Angeles, CA: Anderson, Ritchie & Simon, 1970. Second edition. Softcover. Printed in an edition of 3000 copies. A clean near fine copy in an about very good glassine with...
Quo Vadimus? or The Case For the Bicyle
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,...
Interview With the Vampire (Signed Advance Reading Copy)
Rice, Anne
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Advance reading copy. Her terrific first book. Made into a movie with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst. An about...
Roll Jordan Roll
ULMANN, Doris & Julia Peterkin
New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933. First edition. Hardcover. The trade issue, preceded by a deluxe edition of only 350 copies. Text by Peterkin and 70 photographs by Ulmann. An...
Poketown People or Parables in Black
TYBOUT, Ella Middleton
Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. A collection of short stories written in African-American dialect. Illustrated in color by Frank verbeck and Beulah S. Moore. An close...
Powder Burn (Signed First Edition)
HIAASEN, Carl & William D. Montalbano
New York: Atheneum, 1981. First editon. Hardcover. The uncommon first book and first of three collaborations with Montalbano. A very near fine copy with a small publisher defect to the...
Door Into The Dark (Review Copy)
HEANEY, Seamus
New York: Oxford University Press, 1969. First edition. Review copy with review slip laid in. The second collection of poems from the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature...
Five Girls
HASKINS, Sam
New York: Crown Publishers, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Along with his other books "Cowboy Kate" and "November Girl" this book helped to capture the raw energy and beginning...
Ecrits 1963-1990 (Signed Limited Edition)
JUDD, Donald
Paris: Daniel Delong, 1991. First edition. Softcover. Limited edition. Copy 42 of only 75 numbered copies. Text in French. A collection of Judd's writings. A fine copy in a very...
The Venice Notebook (Signed Limited Edition)
WRIGHT, Charles
Boston, MA: Barn Dream Press, 1971. First edition. One of only 26 lettered copies that were specially bound. A very near fine copy in red cloth binding. Signed by Wright...
Firstborn (Signed First Edition)
GLUCK, Louise
New York: The New American Library, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first book, a collection of poems from this Pulitzer Prize winning poet. This copy was owned by...
Sweet Life
ELSKEN, Ed Van Der
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. A gritty and powerful collection of photographs taken over the course of a 14-month trip around the world. A very near...
Physiognomy (Inscribed Association Copy)
SELIGER, Mark
Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press - Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Introduction by Eric Bogosian. A collection of 97 color and 91 duotones. A very near fine copy...
A Good Day To Die (Signed First Edition)
HARRISON, Jim
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. His scarce second novel. A fine copy with the usual thin black remainder mark on the bottom edge in a fine...
Tanze von Anna Pawlowa im Bilde
PAWLOWA, Anna (Anna Pavlova)
Dresden: Carl Reissner Verlag, 1931. First edition. Text in German. Includes 32 images of this famous Russian ballerina. Includes sepia toned photographs by Ernst Schneider, Hanse Hermann, and E.O. Hoppe...
The Hunters (Signed First Edition)
SALTER, James
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. His first book, a somewhat autobiographical novel about fighter pilots set during the Korean War. Adapted into a movie with Robert...
Run River (Signed First Edition)
DIDION, Joan
New York: Ivan Obolensky, Inc., 1963. First edition. Hardcover. Her first book, a novel from the author of the National Book Award winning author of "The Year of Magical Thinking."...
Conversations With The Dead
LYON, Danny
New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1971. First edition of one of his more important books. Subtitled: "Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054." A...
Subjektive Fotographie & Subjektive Fotographie 2
STEINERT, Otto
Bonn: Bruder Auer, 1952 & 1955. First edition. Hardcovers. Two volumes that both look at the formalist approach to photography in the European group Fotoform. Includes among others Man Ray,...
Carnival Strippers
MEISELAS, Susan
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1976. First editon. Hardcover. Her important first book. A very good plus copy with some light foxing to the first and last few pages...
Gunter Grass: Etchings and Words 1972-1982 Graphics and...
GRASS, Gunter and Anselm Dreher (editor)
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Large folio. Text and 116 illustrations from the 1999 Nobel Prize winner in Literature. A fine and tight copy...
Inferno
NACHTWEY, James
New York: Phaidon, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Introduction by Luc Sante. A massive monograph divided into 9 sections each showing the horrors that war, famine and indifference has...
Dream On Monkey Mountain and Other Plays (Signed...
WALCOTT, Derek
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. First British edition. Hardcover. A collection of five plays from the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. A clean very near fine copy in...
Dolan's Cadillac (Signed Limited Edition)
KING, Stephen
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Copy 619 from a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies. A short story that was later included in his book "Nightmares...
Picasso's Sketchbook
BOUDAILLE, Georges - Pablo Picasso
Paris & New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1960. First edition. Spiral binding in cloth portfolio case. Limited edition of only 1000 copies. A facsimile of one of Picasso's sketchbooks with...
Inner Weather
JOHNSON, Denis
Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, 1976. First edition. Softcover. One of only 600 copies of his second book, a collection of poems. From the author of theNational Book Award winning...
Out of The Silent Planet
LEWIS, C.S.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1945. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. The first volume in the Space Trilogy. First issue. A clean and tight very near fine copy in an about...
Ancestors (Signed First Edition)
MAXWELL, William
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. A very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by Maxwell in the month of publication to...
Interior America
HARE, Chauncey
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...
Conversations With The Dead (Signed First Edition)
LYON, Danny
New York: Holt Rinehard Winston, 1971. Second edition. Softcover. One of his more important books. Subtitled: "Photographs of Prison Life with the Letters and Drawings of Billy McCune #122054." A...
The Way We Die Now (Signed Limited Edition)
WILLEFORD, Charles
New York: Ultramarine Publishing Co, 1988. First edition. One of only 99 specially bound copies using Random House sheets with quarter leather spine and marbled boards. A very fine copy...
A Vanished World (Signed First Edition)
VISHNIAC, Roman
New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1983. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A powerful collection of photographs of European Jews prior to World War II. Includes a foreword by Elie...
Decade (Signed Limited Edition)
PIERSON, Markus
np: Rumbleseat, 1998. First edition. Copy 157 from an edition of only 400 copies. Includes text and numerous color illustrations. A very fine copy in spiral binding and in an...
The Ceiling of The Paris Opera
CHAGALL, Marc & Jacques Lassaigne
New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Includes an original lithograph as the frontis as well as one laid into a pocket in the back. There are also...
I Want Take Picture
BURKE, Bill
Atlanta, GA: Nexus Press, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. One of only 1000 copies. His best known and most important book that revolves around his travels in Southeast Asia. A fine...
The Perfect Childhood
CLARK, Larry
Zurich: Scalo, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. His somewhat controversial book which was to be published here but was suppressed. Includes images from his previous books as well as newer color...
Danse Macabre (Signed Limited Edition)
KING, Stephen
New York: Everest House, 1981. First edition. One of only 250 numbered copies. Hugo Award winner. A fine copy in a very near fine unprinted tissue jacket that has a...
Dis, Dat an' Tutter (Signed First Edition)
HENDERSON, Elliott Blaine
Springfield, OH: self published, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. A slim collection of poems. An about good plus copy in brown cloth boards that soiled and with some wear to the...
The Sweet Flypaper of Life (Signed First Edition)
DECARAVA, Roy and Langston Hughes
Washington D.C.: Howard, 1984. First edition thus. Hardcover. A larger and more accessible edition than the previous editions. Hughes provides the text for this book. A fine copy in near...
The Famished Road (Signed First Edition)
OKRI, Ben
London: Jonathan Cape, 1991. Uncorrected proof of the first U.K. edition of this Booker Prize winning novel. A very near fine copy in illustrated wraps. Signed by Okri on the...
Patterns from Nature
HORST, Horst P.
New York: J. J. Augustin Publishers, 1946. First edition. Hardcover. The second book from this Horst who was best known for his long career in fashion photography. This book clearly...
The Garden (Signed Limited Edition)
GLUCK, Louise
Antaeus Editions, 1976. First edition. Softcover. Number 6 of only 50 copies from a total edition of 500 copies printed at the Oliphant Press. A slim collection of 5 poems...
The Command to Look: A Formula for Picture Success
MORTENSEN, William
San Francisco, Ca: Camera Craft Publishing Company, 1937. First edition. Spiral bound softcover. 16mo. Includes text and numerous black and white illustrations by Mortensen. A very good plus copy in...
Wisconsin Death Trip
LESY, Michael
New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. First edition. Oblong hardcover. Interesting book of photographs by Charles Van Schaik from the late 1800's and early 1900's together with period news accounts and...
Hiroshima
TSUCHIDA, Hiromi
Tokyo, Japan: Kosei Publishing Company, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Text in English and Japanese. A collection of black and white images of the people from Hiroshima along with objects that...
The Book of 101 Books: The Seminal Photography...
ROTH, Andrew
New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Limited edition of 500 specially bound copies. While the choices in this book are highly subjective this...
Tribune Tower Competition
Chicago, IL: The Tribune Company, 1922. First edition. Hardcover. Includes all of the designs for the competition. An about very good copy with loss to the top front corner and...
Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits (Signed First Edition)
BEARD, Peter
Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Published to accompany a show at the Fahey/Klein Gallery. One of the better retrospective monographs on Beard, illustrated throughout with his...
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency
GOLDIN, Nan
New York: Aperture, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Her now classic first monograph. A clean very near fine copy with some very minor rubbing to the bottom edge of...
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