Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / The Riverside Press, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this tour de force of American photography and perennial classic of American journalism, a "highly experimental book, pushing the boundaries of the way documentary should treat the world." (Lionel Trilling, in the Kenyon Review..... more

[Berlin]: Peperoni Books, 2015. First Printing. Hardcover. First Edition (so stated), collecting photographs of back streets and dilapidated spaces in the Berlin neighborhoods of Mitte, Tiergarten, Wedding, and Kreuzberg. Oblong royal 8vo (243 x 300mm): 120 pp, including 49 full-color illustrations (of broken architecture, neglected parks, vacant lots, and discarded..... more

Leipzig: Verlag: H. Schmidt & C. Günther Pantheon-Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. First (and only) Printing of the final book in Blossfeldt's celebrated trilogy (with Urformen der Kunst and Wundergarten der Natur), showcasing "unfamiliar shapes from the vegetal worlds . . . as startling, elegant architectural forms." (Roth..... more

London: B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Pictorial Boards. First Printing (so stated) 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 and upper cover lettered in red..... more

Paris: The Olympia Press, 8, Rue de Nesle, 1958. Second Edition. Printed Wrappers. Second Edition of this short novel, celebrating love, art, and the Bohemian life, with 29 full-page photogravures (recto and verso, of which one verso only and one double-page photomontage) of Paris after dark by Brassai (pseudonym of..... more

Ithaca, N.Y. Andrus, McChain, 1869. Original Cloth. Scarce First (and only) Edition of this local guide with original albumen prints. Crown 8vo (179 x 111mm): 155,[3]pp, with ten mounted captioned photographs and table of measurements of the falls. Publisher's forest green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, covers elaborately paneled in..... more

Harlech [Wales]: D. H. Parry, 1920. First Edition. Paper-Covered Boards. Scarce first printing of Coburn's celebration of this otherworldly Welsh village to which he and his wife fled from London, growing vegetables and keeping goats. Oblong 8vo (174 x 232mm): [6],7-15,[1]pp, with 20 numbered collotype engravings in various tints from..... more

Washington, D. C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. From an edition of 2,000, with photographs by William Eggleston, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle, and essay by Jane Livingston. Also includes an exhibition checklist, full-page map of Sumter County, Ga., showing locations where photographs were taken, and..... more

New York: D. A. P. / Distributed Art Publishers, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Friedlander's homage to the extraordinary landscapes of the Sonoran Desert, signed by him on the half title. Squarish royal 8vo (304 x 297mm):106,[2]pp, including 94 full-page tritone photographic plates of thorny cacti, twisted trees..... 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