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

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

Berlin: 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 with..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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