New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated) of Aarons's classic work, capturing (in photographs taken for Vogue, Vanity Fair, Town & Country and other publications) members of the privileged class at play in Newport, Bermuda, Gross Pointe, Vail, and other locales. Royal 8vo (336 x 257mm)..... more

New York: E. Weyhe, 1930. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this high point of twentieth-century documentary photography, from the library of one of the foremost documentary photographers. Preface (in French) by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Royal 8vo (267 x 207mm): [4],23,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Atget by Berenice Abbot, 96 full-page sepia..... more

Chester: Catherall & Pritchard, Eastgate Row, n. d. [c. 1865]. Morocco. A fine album of views by one of the preeminent nineteenth century photographers. Oblong royal 8vo (180 × 249mm): 16 interleaved albumen photographs from collodion negatives, each mounted on card with gilt fillet border and title printed in brown..... more

New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. First Edition of this seminal work in which Brandt's "formal inventiveness and keen eye for the surreal are most evident." (Roth 101) With preface by Lawrence Durrell and introduction by Chapman Mortimer. Squarish royal 8vo (275 x 240mm): 14,[2], with 90 numbered gravure plates (some..... more

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing (U.S. issue, with "Scribners" to tail of spine) of the photographer's first book, introduced by Raymond Mortimer. Royal 8vo (235 x 180 mm): 8pp, with 63 full-page captioned gravure plates by Brandt. Publisher's glazed photographically illustrated boards, spine..... more

Minneapolis: Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends . . . by Chiswick Press, 1914. Quarter-Cloth. Limited Edition of this landmark of of early 20th-century photography. Tall, slim 8vo: 19,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece (showing G. K. and Frances Chesterton with Edmund D. Brooks, the..... more

London: Elkin Matthews, Cork Street, 1915. First Edition. One of Coburn's "most exquisite interpretations" (Newhall), with twenty photogravures in the pictorialist style of the "grandest 18th-century mansion in Hertfordshire taken" (Pevsner), made while Coburn was teaching photography to Moor Park's owner, Lady Emilie Ebury. With an introduction by Lady Ebury..... more

New York: Karma and Glenn Horowitz, Bookseller, 2014. Hardcover. Limited Edition of this previously unpublished one-act play inspired by global climate change, with seven full-page color plates from photographs by Richard Prince, from his "Upstate" series. One of only 125 copies bound in cloth from an edition of 1000 copies..... more

New York: R. H. Russell, 1900. First Edition. Quarter-Cloth. First State (RHR monogram on front cover, the R's having short tails) of this photo documentary, several decades after Reconstruction, of African Americans still on plantations in the old South. Royal 8vo (361 x 232mm): [4]pp, with 46 illustrations (many full-page)..... more

[London]: [Magnum Photos in association with The Photographers' Gallery], [1999]. Limited Edition. Card Covers. True First Edition, No. 183 of 350 print-on-demand copies (numbered on front cover and first page of text), issued to accompany an exhibition at the Photographers' Gallery, London, to demonstrate the potential of Xerox's new xerographic..... more

London: Alfred W. Bennett A. W., 1866. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Edition of this foundation work on the glaciers of the Swiss Alps, and one of the earliest books illustrated with original photographs. Royal 8vo (267 x 209mm): xii,243,[1]pp, with 28 albumen silver prints by Ernest Edwards, including frontispiece..... more

Bournemouth: Published and printed by the Author and by Pardy & Son, 1931. Quarter-Calf. Scarce first (and only) edition, reproducing in book form Goodacre's section maps of the moon's surface, with exhaustively detailed descriptions of features. Royal 8vo (244 x 175mm): [4],364pp, with 27 plates from Goodacre's map (two keys..... more

London: Boot, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of this compilation of Hinde's postcard images of Butlin's holiday parks, a chain of seaside resorts providing affordable holidays for "ordinary" British families, with photography by Elmar Ludwig, Edmund Nägle, and David Noble. Royal oblong 8vo (239 x 297mm): 127,[1]pp, chiefly color..... more