The New Americans: Immigrant Life in Southern California
Pasadena: NewSage Press, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Glossy card wrappers; 175pp; illus. Tight, clean copy, Near Fine. More
Pasadena: NewSage Press, 1988. First Edition. Quarto (29cm). Glossy card wrappers; 175pp; illus. Tight, clean copy, Near Fine. More
New York: L. Kahan Gallery Inc / African Arts, [1978]. First Edition. Small square quarto (20.25cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 104pp.; chiefly photographic illus. Faint spine crease else Near Fine. More
London: Methuen, [1949]. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); original cloth in pale grey pictorial dust jacket, red topstain; xv,[1],194pp.; 32 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, map in text, illustrated endpapers printed in red. Some wear to jacket extremities, spine quite toned, else Very Good overall. Isherwood's travel..... More
Yonkers-on-Hudson: World Book Company, 1929. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20.5cm). Grey cloth stamped in blue and yellow; [xiv],314pp; black and white illustrations. Twelve pencil signatures to endpapers, all dated 1929-1933. A sound volume, externally lightly rubbed and with mild dustsoil, internally clean: Very Good. Pioneer Life Series. Autobiography by..... More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1940). First Edition. Autographed by W.H. Jackson on front endpaper. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth hardcover; brown top-stain; dustjacket; xii,341pp; frontispiece and 15 inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones). Tight, clean, Near Fine copy, with top-stain deep and even. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced..... More
Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press, [1982]. First Edition. Jacobi was among the greatest portraitists of the Twentieth Century, and Albert Einstein was arguably her most famous subject – Jacobi’s 1938 portrait of Einstein in his Princeton study is certainly among the most iconic photographic portraits of its time, and probably the..... More
[West Kingston, Jamaica: Brothers of the Poor / Eventide Home Institution, 1981]. First Edition. A book produced to raise donations for the Eventide Relief Fund in the wake of the horrific May 20, 1980 fire, which tore through a building on the campus, killing 157 people. The Eventide Home Institution..... More
Yakima, WA: The Yakima Herald-Republic, 2010. First Edition. Slim quarto (27cm); b/w pictorial paper wrappers; 82pp. Wrappers show minor handling wear and toning, with rubbing and creasing about the spine. Interiors clean and tight; a Very Good+ copy. Published as a supplement of The Yakima Herald-Republic, this magazine (released April..... More
Berlin: Janssen Verlag, 1995. First Edition. Quarto (28cm x 22cm). Pictorial paper wrappers (paperback); 128pp; illus. Very Good copy; shelf wear to extremities; slight soiling to bottom corner textblock, else clean and tight. Second volume of "Männer von hinten" comprising 128 photographs of "rear-views" of men by 30 photographers from..... More
Kobe: Tamamura Photographic Studio / T. Takagi, N.d. (ca 1910). Oblong octavo (18cm x 26cm). Original silk-covered boards, bouond with red silk cord; 19 colored collotype plates. Gift inscription from an N.L. Thacker on verso of title page, dated 1914; child's ownership inscription on verso of final plate ("Ermy Tharp..... More
Tokyo: Fuji Color Photo Company, Ltd, 1956. Edition and printing not stated. Octavo. Pictorial flexible boards; single leaf of text (bilingual, English & Japanese) with ten mounted 35mm color transparencies. About fine. Eighth in a series of similar photographic books from Fuji, each containing 10 color transparencies on a different..... More
Tokyo: Nihon Sekijuji-sha, 1958. Later printing. Editions of this book were published throughout the 1950's by the Japanese Red Cross Society (Nihon Sekijuji), in hopes of promoting the organization and a better understanding of its purpose in the new postwar, non-Imperial Japan. Mainly it is a memorial album, packed with..... More
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1991). First Edition. First printing. Quarto (26cm). Gilt-pictorial cloth; dustjacket; 210pp, illus. Fine, in a crisp attractive dustwrapper with some mild surface scratches to rear panel, Near Fine. First publication of photographs by George Trager and Clarence Grant Morelodge, a pair of "itinerant photographers" who..... More
[N.p.; photographer unidentified; 1965]. Exceptional inscribed portrait of Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson as President and First Lady; almost certainly taken on the occasion of LBJ's signing of the landmark Immigration Act in October of 1965 – other depictions of the event, which took place on Liberty Island, show him..... More
Vienna: Wien : Höhere Graphische Bundes-Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt Wien XIV, 1973. First Edition. Scarce, brief catalogue of works by Theo Jung (1906-1996), who joined Ben Shahn on the photographic staff of the FSA in 1936. In the 1940s Jung independently produced a series of documentary photographs of Harper's Ferry, West..... More
Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993. First Edition. Slim folio (30.5cm.); publisher's cloth tape-backed boards, color photographic plate mounted to upper cover; [2],25pp.; six photographic plates mounted to grey card stock in text. Some wear from handling, including short closed tear to upper cover fore-edge not approaching text, else Very..... More
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (29.25cm); full red cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 191,[1]pp; illus. Light wear to extremities, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $50.00), with some old sticker residue over the printed price; modest..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Russell Wilder, Richard Stockwell, Eunice Fuller Barnard, David Demarest Lloyd, William Henry Chamberlain, Otto Zoff, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[417]-472; illus. Light shelfwear, toning to spine, with a seminary's embossed stamp to first 4 pages..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1945. First Edition. Contents include contributions by William Haber, Philip Murray, Beulah Amidon, Bradley Buell, John N. Andrews, James T. Shotwell, Hillier Kreighbaum, Harry Hansen, and others. One large internal photograph by Dorothea Lange. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[385]-424; illus. Shelfworn, wrappers soiled, with..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1939. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Audrey Grannenberg, Victor Weybright, Michael M. Davis, Frank Waugh, M.L. Brown, Ralph Borsodi, Arthur Pollard, Richard Neuberger, Raymond Brandt, Leon Whipple, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[417]-464; illus. Light wear and dustiness to wrappers, with a...... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1941. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Richard Neuberger, M.L. Wilson, Paul McNutt, Russell Wilder, Henry Sherman, Lewis Hershey, Claude Wickard, Henry A. Wallace, Frances Perkins, Thomas Parran, Allan A. Michie, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[365]-412; illus. Light wear to extremities, touch..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1943. First Edition. Special issue, "From War To Work," the eight installment in magazine's "Calling America" series. Contents include contributions by Stuart Chase, A.F. Hinrichs, Samuel Fels, Elmo Roper, Beardsley Ruml, Sidney Hillman, Frieda Miller, Marriner S. Eccles, Maxwell Stewart, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1941. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Kathryn Close, Beulah Amidon, A. Maude Royden, Dexter Masters, Russell Lord, Heinz Soffner, Leon Whipple, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[669]-716; illus. Shelfworn, evenly toned and a bit dusty, with wear and a short split at..... More
New York: Survey Associates, Inc., 1940. First Edition. Contents include contributions by Victor Weybright, Vera Micheles Dean, Wilbert Snow, Beulah Amidon, Francis Hackett, Avis Carlson, Francis Biddle, and others. Quarto (29.5cm); pictorial wrappers, stapled; pp.[369]-416; illus. Toning and shelfwear, a few tiny nicks, with some splitting along spine-fold; penciled phone..... More
New York: Aperture, 1997. First Edition. Slim quarto (31cm.); publisher's boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; 94pp.; chiefly photographic illus. A Fine copy in original shrinkwrap. (Bibliographical data taken from OCLC no. 37825876.) The collected World War II photographs of the Red Army photographer. More