TASCHEN, October 2012. Hardcover. George Eastman's career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932, and left his house to the University.....
Kneisle, 1919. Photograph. B/W photograph, 6.75 x 10 inches. Anna Louise Strong (1885-1970) was a journalist and activist known for her reporting on and support of the communist movements in The Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. She was recalled from the Seattle School Board in 1918 for.....
Detroit News, 1997. Photograph. B/W photograph, taken 1942. Republished Mar 16, 1997. Photograph shows a group of Afro-Americans gathering before a home with snow on the ground. The Sojourner Truth Project was a proposed 200 unit building in Detroit to alleviate wartime housing shortages. It received backlash from white homeowners.....
Long Beach Independent Press Telegram, 1965. Photograph. B/W photograph, 7 x 9 inches. Bob Shumway (1930-2012) was a staff photographer for the Long Beach Independent Press Telegraph 1956-1977. A near fine copy. Caption pasted on rear: 'AP Newsfeatures Photo. Please credit. (For use Sunday, May 9, with APN Photo, Essay.....
Denver Post, 1965. Photograph. B/W photograph, 7.75 x 10 inches. James Clark was sheriff of Dallas County, Alabama, 1955-1966. Photograph shows Clark hung in effigy with Wanted sign hanging around the neck and a group of marchers moving along the sidewalk in front of a building. A near fine copy.....
Associated Press, 1965. Photograph. A near fine copy. Stamp in ink on rear: 'Bob Scott Associated Press, Staff Photographer, P. O. Box 1013, Denver, Colorado'. Typed at top: 'Clark, Jim Sheriff 11-2065u'.
Scrimshaw Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume I: pp. 1-160; Vol. II: pp. 161-320. Illustrations in B/W with 2 tipped-in color illustrations, one each volume. 10.5 x 13.25 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine copies in cloth with pasted photograph on front of each volume. Slight fading to spine.....
Chester Kessler, 1959. Photograph. B/W photograph, 8 x 10 inches, of Stacton sitting a chair before an abstract painting. David Stacton (1923-1968) was a novelist, poet and painter, who spent considerable time in the San Francisco Bay Area. Chester Kessler (1919-1979) studied photography at the Los Angeles Art Center School.....
n.p., n.d., ca. 1880. Photograph. Albumen photograph, 6 x 8 inches, on 9.4 x 12 inch cardboard mount. Image is of the city looking towards the mountains in the background. Very good copy. Two spots along mountains in distance.
Miethke & Wawra, n.d., ca. 1880s. Photograph. Albumen photograph, 5.4 x 8 inches, on 9.3 x 12 inch cardboard mount. The gloriette (a building in a garden erected on an elevated site) was built in 1775 to (allegedly) improve the view from the Schonbrunn Palace. A near fine copy.
(the author), 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 217 pages. 9-1/2 by 8-1/2 inches. Illustrated with more than 200 full-page reproductions of Palmquist's tintype collection, now housed at the Beinecke Library, at Yale. Limited to 300 copies. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in pictorial wrappers (paperback).
Artia Prague, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, 119 pages. B/W photographic illustrations by many different photographers. Introduction in English, German and Czech. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a good only dust jacket. Jacket is worn, tanned and torn along spine margin.
?Grafiche Damiani, n.d., ca. 2007. First Edition. Photograph. 7 x 10.5 inch B/W photograph of Doherty on 9.5 x 12 inch sheet. From project 'I Won't Give Up' by Doherty and Paleari. Paleari is a photgrapher and documentary filmmaker who followed Doherty and the band Babyshambles from 2004-2006. The project.....
1980. Photograph. Oblong format 8 x 10 inch color photograph of Miller and Stoldowsky at Miller's home. Taken May 1, 1980, one of the last photos of Miller who died June 7, 1980. 'Red' Stoldowsky owned Baroque Books from 1972 to his death in 1998. He was a great friend.....
Chris Felver, n.d. ca. 1970s. Photograph. B/W photograph, 8.5 x 12 inches, printed on 11 x 14 inch paper. Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a poet who spent most of his life in San Francisco, often identified with the poets of New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. He was a......
Oxford University Press, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. 308 pages. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a dust jacket with light toning to the edges else fine. This is a book about the way that artists--both writers and photographers--approach their subjects and the choices they must.....
Northland Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 109 pages. B/W photography. Oblong format, 9.25 x 12.25 inches. First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Dust jacket with mild surface wear and small closed tear at rear top spine edge.
n.d., ca. 1870-1880s. Vinyl. 30 photographs, 20 CDvs and 10 trintypes, in blue cloth album with clip lock. Album covers are worn and torn. Cardboard photograph holders are gilt-edged. Album was manufactured by George M. Pitcher, Philadelphia.
n.p., n.d., ca. 1910. Photograph. 11 color photographs of scenes in the Philippines, probably done by an American. 11 photographs, 10.25 x 13.5 inches. Some of the scenes are identified on rear: Country Club (covered open porch with tables and chairs and seated group); Caudou San Estoban Road Ilocos, Kilometer.....
Princeton Architectural Press, October 2013. Hardcover. At the turn of the twentieth century, photographic technology and an American culture of optimism and self-celebration combined to create what Luc Sante calls the "strange and compelling medium" of panoramic group photography. Organizations famed and obscure from the Anti-Saloon League of America and.....
Earl-Broady Studios, 30. First Edition. Photograph. B/W photograph, 10 x 13 inches, printed on thick paper, 11 x 14 inches. Blanche Creighton made a vaudeville tour with Al Jolson in 1920: 'In the summer of 1920 Al Jolson put together his own revue..., and co-wrote the script with Andy Lewis.....
Verlag DSB Dr. Wolf Strache, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. 82 text pages with 120 plates, a few in color. First edition (first printing). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Clear plastic wrapper over dust jacket. Housed in brown cardboard slipcase with paper label on spine.
Camera Craft, 1912-1929. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Each issue about 50 pages with multiple pages of ads. Numerous photographic illustrations in each issue. Vol. XIX, No. 1, January, 1912; Vol. 22, No. 11, November, 1916; Vol. XXXII, No. 2, February, 1925; Vol. XXXII, No. 5, May, 1925; Vol. XXXIII, No.....
American Amateur Photographer, 1896. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Each issue about 44 pp. with additional pages of ads. Numerous photographic illustrations in each issue. First editions (first printings). Very good copies in illustrated wappers (paperback). Covers present for all issues although front cover of No.2 and rear cover of No.....
American Photographic Book Publishing Co., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 172 pages. B/W and color illustrations by 77 photographic artists. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Endpapers are browned. Dust jacket is mildly soiled with edge and corner wear and area of water.....