![Photobook] Richard Avedon : Made in France [Dovima with Elephants, Cirque d'Hiver]. Richard...](/pictures/thumb/BB2026.jpeg?v=1598143720)
San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 2002. First Edition (so stated). Glued Binding. First Trade Printing, one of 5,000 copies (there was also a "special" edition of 100 copies signed, numbered, and slipcased and issued with an original signed Avedon print). Essay by Judith Thurman. Royal 8vo (384 x 287mm): 56 unnumbered..... more
![Photobook] It was a Grey Day. Photographs of Berlin. Gerry BADGER, b. 1948](/images/noimage.png)
[Berlin]: Peperoni Books, 2015. First Edition (so stated). Hardcover. Oblong royal 8vo (243 x 300mm): 120 pp, including 49 full-color illustrations (of broken architecture, neglected parks, vacant lots, and discarded belongings) from photographs printed on rectos only (excepting frontispiece and plate on p. 114). Text in English and German. Publisher's..... more
![Photobook] Photographic Views of Warwickshire. Francis BEDFORD, 1815/](/pictures/thumb/BB2031.jpg?v=1568470108)
Chester: Catherall & Pritchard, Eastgate Row, n. d. [c. 1865]. Morocco. A fine album of views by one of the preeminent photographers of the nineteenth century. Oblong royal 8vo (180 × 249mm): 16 interleaved albumen photographs from collodion negatives, each mounted on card with gilt fillet border and title printed..... more
![Photobook] Gems of American scenery, consisting of stereoscopic views among the White Mountains....](/pictures/thumb/BB1987.jpeg?v=1598129283)
New York: Harroun & Bierstadt, 1878. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. A superlative example of one of only two recorded American books (the other is Stereoscopic Views of the Hills of New Hampshire, published in 1862) illustrated with stereographs and a built in "prismatic lens" stereoscopic viewer, a copyrighted combination. Crown..... more
![Photobook] Urformen der Kunst [Art Forms in Nature]. Photographische Pflanzenbilder. Hrsg. mit...](/pictures/thumb/BB2004.jpeg?v=1598136061)
Berlin: Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, 1936. Early Printing. Cloth-Backed Boards. "New Edition" of one of the founding works of the "New Objectivity" movement in Germany and one of the iconic books in the history of photography. Text in German. Royal 8vo (320 x 250mm): XVI, with 96 full-page, gravure-printed plates (many..... more
![Photobook] Perspective of Nudes. Bill BRANDT](/pictures/thumb/BB2065.jpeg?v=1598143725)
New York: Amphoto, 1961. Hardcover. First Edition of the 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 double-page)..... more
![Photobook] Quiet Days In Clichy. BRASSAI, Henry MILLER](/pictures/thumb/BB2121.jpg?v=1568503924)
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
![Photobook] London: with Ten Photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn [Inscribed]. G. K. CHESTERTON,...](/pictures/thumb/BB1964.jpg?v=1551966577)
Minneapolis: Privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and Alvin Langdon Coburn & their friends . . . by Chiswick Press, 1914. Limited Edition. Quarter-Cloth. Tall, slim 8vo: 19,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece (showing G. K. and Frances Chesterton with Edmund D. Brooks, the Minneapolis bibliophile who financed this book) and 10..... more
![Photobook] Moor Park Rickmansworth: A Series of Photographs. With an introduction by Lady Ebury....](/pictures/thumb/BB2122.jpg?v=1568504105)
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
![Photobook] Practical Lawn-Tennis. James DWIGHT](/pictures/thumb/BB1534.jpg?v=1504750133)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. First Printing. Decorative Cloth. Scarce First Edition of one of the first tennis books to show action photographs illustrating various racket strokes. Small 8vo: xvi,168,[6 adverisements]pp, with 25 full-page photographic plates, 6 tables and 4 text figures. Publisher's navy blue decorative cloth, upper cover..... more
![Photobook] [Civil War] [Confederate] The Last Parade. An editorial from the Richmond News-Leader...](/pictures/thumb/BB2300.jpeg?v=1599360902)
Richmond, VA: Whittet & Shepperson, 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. A pristine example of this "immensely moving essay" by a "great practitioner in the field" (Nevins), and one of the "200 most important Confederate books." (Harwell). Royal 8vo (320 x 240mm): 24 unopened leaves printed in brown black. with four tipped-in..... more
![Photobook] 122 Farvefotografier / 122 Colour Photographs. HELMER-PETERSEN, eld](/pictures/thumb/BB2259.jpeg?v=1598195162)
København [Copenhagen]: Schoenberg, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of this foundational photobook, establishing color photography as an artistic medium ("The following reproductions have been selected from my attempts, through the medium of colour photography, to create pictures of somewhat greater aesthetic value than that usually aimed at by colour..... more
![Photobook] Mark Twain. With photographs by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Archibald HENDERSON, Alvin...](/pictures/thumb/BB2138.jpeg?v=1598143733)
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, [1911?]. Cloth-backed Boards. First American Edition (originally printed for Duckworth & Company, London, and here issued with cancel title page of Frederick A. Stokes, New York). Demy 8vo (210 x 146mm) xiii,[1],230pp, with two color plates from autochromes mounted on grey threaded card, eight unnumbered..... more
![Photobook] Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the...](/pictures/thumb/BB0846.jpg?v=1499796696)
Eton / London: Ingalton and Drake / Simpson, Marshall, 1868. First Edition. Original Cloth. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored albumen prints, mounted on cards, of stuffed birds. ("It was impossible at the time to photograph live birds due to the absence of the telephoto lens and extremely sensitive plates that..... more
![Photobook] Eisen und Stahl [Iron and Steel]. Albert RENGER-PATZSCH](/pictures/thumb/BB2005.jpeg?v=1598136062)
Berlin: Verlag Hermann Reckendorf G. m. b. H., 1931. Second Edition. Quarter-Cloth. Virtually pristine example of this cornerstone of "Neue Sachlichkeit" ("New Objectivity") photography, by one of its leading practitioners. Foreword by Albert Vögler. Slim royal 8vo (300 x 210mm): [14]pp, with 97 numbered and captioned photographs. Publisher's royal blue..... more
![Photobook] Schonheit im Olympischen Kampf [Beauty in the Olympic Games]. Leni RIEFENSTAHL](/pictures/thumb/BB1997.jpeg?v=1598136002)
Berlin: Im Deutschen Verlag, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing of Riefenstahl's "lavish," controversial photobook, a "masterpiece of the propagandist's art." (Parr & Badger) Royal 8vo (309 x 234mm): 282,[2]pp, complete with 273 full-page gravure plates captioned in German, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. Publisher's burnt orange coarsely woven cloth..... more
![Photobook] Berühmte Zeitgenossen in unbewachten Augenblicken [Celebrated Contemporaries in...](/pictures/thumb/BB1978.jpeg?v=1605318217)
Stuttgart: J. Engelhorns Nachf, 1931. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing of this pioneering photobook by one of the originators of photojournalism. Tall 8vo (250 x 185 mm): 46,[1]pp, with 116 full- and half-page plates with picture legends in German, English, French, and Italian on versos. Original French blue cloth..... more
![Photobook] Der ewige Schlaf : visages de morts [Eternal Sleep : Faces of the Dead]. Rudolf...](/pictures/thumb/BB2007.jpeg?v=1605370803)
Hamburg: Kellner Verlag, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing (of four) of this "gentle mediation on death." (Parr & Badger) In German. Tall, slim 8vo (339 x 237mm): unpaginated [24]ff, with 13 full-page black-and-white photographs. Publisher's scarlet paper-covered boards, spine and front cover lettered in black, small black-and-white photograph mounted..... more
![Photobook] Fotografien 1973 bis 1993 [Inscribed]. Stephen SHORE, b. 1947](/pictures/thumb/BB2006.jpeg?v=1598136063)
Munich / Paris / London: Schirmer / Mosel, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed First Printing of this catalogue for an important retrospective touring exhibition of the New York photographer's work. Edited by Heinz Liesbrock, with texts (in German) by Hilla and Bernd Becher, James L. Enyeart, and Thomas Weski. Oblong..... more
![Photobook] Teneriffe, an astronomer's experiment : or, Specialities of a residence above the...](/pictures/thumb/BB2112.jpg?v=1568496133)
London: Lovell Reeve, 1858. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Issue (publisher's 16-page catalogue dated January 1858) of the first book to be illustrated with stereo views. An edition of 1,000 was published in January, 1858, and a further 1,000 copies in July, 1858." (Gernsheim) Crown 8vo (187 x 120mm): xvi,451,[3],16,[4]pp..... more