Photography

Hardcover. NY, Epicenter Communications / Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. "contains over 230 of the most compelling photographs and images of healers in the battlefield, many of them in color, culled from over one hundred archives in more than a dozen countries... Beginning with Matthew Brady's photographs of surgery at Antietam during the Civil War... through two world wars, to Vietnam, the Gulf War, and regional struggles ongoing today." Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. 9 1/8 X 12 inches. Three essays 1) "The Art of the Human Document: Russell Lee in New Mexico" by J.B. Colson, 2) "John Collier, Jr.: Cultural Diversity and the Camera" by Malcolm Collier, 3) "Jack Delano and the Railroad Photography Project in New Mexico" by Jay Rabinowitz. Photographs follow by Russell Lee, John Collier, Jr., and Jack Delano. All photographs B&W and beautifully reproduced.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she's reading, the graves of beloved heroes--William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus. Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith's unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, and a husband's Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are photos from Smith's archives of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafes, a notebook always nearby. In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world. With over 365 photographs taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer.

Hardcover. US, Schirmer/Mosel, 1st, 2010-02-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Text in German. English language booklet included. Text by Kurt Forster. Color photos of Berlin's unseen corners.

Softcover. NY, Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 106 pages, color plates throughout. SIGNED/INSCRIBED BY STANLEY BURNS on the title page. Japan, an island nation isolated until the mid-nineteenth century, opened its doors to foreign photographers in the 1860s. These photographers presented a visual cultural kaleidoscope of Japanese life to an eager outside world. The 160 photographs in this volume are curated from tourist albums and presented in the typical sequence. The modern reader will experience Meiji Japan in the way of a nineteenth century armchair traveler. While photographers in other countries were marketing sepia-toned prints, photographers in Japan took advantage of local artists and had their prints exquisitely painted. As with all hand-rendered artworks, quality varied; many photographs were executed so well as to challenge modern color photography. Photographers were limited by government restrictions and many scenes were set in studios rather than in real life. Despite the limitations, tourists visiting the country could purchase albums filled with colorful renditions of Japan's peoples and places. The carefully staged and approved photographs promoted an idealized and romanticized vision of Meiji Japan. Modernization and industrialization changed the country dramatically and the last vestiges of the disappearing feudal culture are captured by the camera. These intriguing photographs are beautiful multi-media artworks representing a vanished world. Clean copy.

Softcover. US, Turner, 1st, 2008-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Text in English and Spanish. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Featuring work by Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Avedon, Man Ray, El Lissitzky, Aleksandr Rodchenko and dozens more of the most outstanding photographers of the twentieth century. Analyzes photography as an artistic medium from 1900 to 2000-paying particular attention to the myriad ways that human beings have been portrayed across the years.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with minor wear. 104 pages with 55 beautiful, luminous black & white plates, accompanied by selected texts from Adams, Emerson, and other poets and naturalists, chosen by the Editor, Janet Swan Bush. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Chris Boot, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Monograph of color portraits shot with a 5x4 camera at the Folsom Street Fair in SF and Easter weekend in Berlin, about 70 nude and semi-nude fetish gear photos of gay men, near fine limited first edition of 1200 copies.

Hardcover. NY, Quantuck Lane Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The human (and sometimes non-human) hands are, with the possible exception of the eyes, the most expressive parts of the body, asking for more or less, telling us to come or to go, asking questions and answering them, scolding, rewarding, searching and finding, and, at their most intimate, loving and lustful. Hands reward us, calm us, feed us, and scratch our backs. They intimidate, bless, encourage, and stop us. They soothe, caress, and sometimes go where they shouldn't. We may take hands for granted. But Elliott Erwitt does not. Here is Erwitt at his most serious-and-yet-whimsical best, giving us the moments which, without hands, would not exist. 100 duotone images.

Hardcover. New York, Graphis Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 106 pages, 45 full-page nude photographs by the Hungarian-born photographer Ferenc Berko, who worked in in Aspen Colorado since 1949. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 161 color photographs by Arnold. Dust jacket with light wear. This book represents the result of two years traveling the USA. Arnold was a member of Magnum and though born and raised in the US, spent some 30 years in Britain; this was her way of reconnecting with her birth country and thus provides a look at US culture in the late 1970s/early 80s. Eve Arnold (1912-2012) was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951 as the first women, and became a full member in 1957. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 154 pages. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Whatever his subject matter, rubbish bins or the human body, Edmund Teske (1911 - 1996) used the medium of photography: its film, chemistry, optics and mechanics to create serious, reflective and often composite works of art. This volume accompanied an exhibition of his photographs at the J Paul Getty Museum in 2004. As well as over 110 illustrations, the book contains Julian Cox;s biographical and critical essay and an interview with Teske's close friend of 30 years, the artist George Herms.

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st pbk, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format, 399 pages plus index. This book offers a powerful new perspective on a much photographed subject: New York City, Veteran news photographer Ralph Ginzburg assigned himself the daunting task of photographing a different news event in The Big Apple on 365 consecutive days. The result is a year-long, 510-image extravaganza of the high drama and grandeur that are the everyday life of Gotham. Clean copy.

Softcover. Vancouver BC, Arsenal Pulp Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 155 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. "One Ring Circus pays homage to the wrestling life: the sound and the fury and the die-hard fans who are often as colorful and outrageous as the wrestlers they clamor for."

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 116 pages with b&w images by Bresson. Oblong format. A collection of 90 black and white photographs commissioned by IBM "on man's continuing dialogue with machines." Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 139 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small tear to upper edge. Clean, tight copy. Foliage is an amazing plant book filled with artistic photos of "the architecture of nature." Close-up photos fill the 13" x 11" pages. From grasses and ferns, edibles, leaf coloration, cati and succulents, the essence of green, to seeds of change the reader is in for a visual treat.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. An illustrated biography of Smith by Ben Maddow. Includes a wide range of Smith's images and various subject matter and includes some of his most iconic images. A clean and tight very good copy in gray cloth boards. The definitive volume on W. Eugene Smith's life and work, containing his major photo-essays, the portrait work, and spanning his career from his days aboard an aircraft carrier, through the breadth of Pittsburgh, to the human suffering explicit in his last great essay from Minamata. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages in color and b&w. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. From the late '70s, Herb Ritts gained a reputation as a master of art and commercial photography. In addition to his portrait and fashion work for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Rolling Stone, he created campaigns for Calvin Klein, Coco Chanel, Gianni Versace, and Valentino Garavani. Churchward interviews Klein, Cindy Crawford, Elton John, Anna Wintour, Madonna, and Christopher Buckley and has many behind-the-scenes shots from photo shoots, parties, travels, intimate portraits, and moments with friends.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In 1918, August Sander meticulously photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all classes and types of people. During this time, Sander came under the influence of modern art and its intellectual practitioners whom he befriended in Cologne. Through his discussions with them he came to understand the importance of his portrait work and was encouraged to continue. He produced the first volume of an extended series he hoped would provide an exhaustive catalogue, but in the 1930s his work fell into disfavor and was banned by the Nazis. The photography of August Sander comprises an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography series, which includes 43 portraits of a cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists, is a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1ST, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 224 pages. Insightful essays and gorgeous portraits by one of contemporary photography's most remarkable artists.

Hardcover. London/NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, square format. Original photo-illustrated cover and spine, back cover black cloth, with white and black lettering on cover and spine. Contains nine hundred and thirty-seven photographs selected by Capa's brother Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, Capa's biographer. The chronologically arranged photographs constitute a documentation of twenty-two years (1932-1954) of Capa's work, featuring many catastrophic and dramatic events with brief commentaries. Risking his life over and over again Robert Capa is considered the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. He was the cofounder of Magnum Photos in 1947, an international photographic cooperative, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1947 for his work recording World War II. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. In the early 1950s, Berlin-born photographer Jurgen Schadeberg captured Nelson Mandela, (then a young attorney), singer Miriam Makeba and the nightlife in Sophiatown, a dynamic black neighborhood in Johannesburg. Revealing the poverty endemic to the majority of South Africa's black population became Schadeberg's chief focus. He arrived there in 1950, at the advent of apartheid, to work for Drum, the first magazine for black readers. In 1964, when Drum was banned, Schadeberg left South Africa for Europe and the United States, creating a body of portraits unique in their ability to cut across race, class and social standing. In 1994, Schadeberg created an iconic image of Nelson Mandela, by then the first black President of South Africa, standing at the window of his former prison cell on Robben Island, where he had been detained on charges of conspiracy from 1964-1982. Schadeberg, whose work has been highly influential to younger artists, now lives and works near Paris. This substantial volume collects 250 images from across his career.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. 168 pages, color photos. From 1989 to 1993, New York fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi granted the British photographer Nick Waplington rare backstage access to photograph every detail of the designer's fitting sessions in the weeks before his twice-yearly fashion shows. Combining Waplington's gritty verite style with Mizrahi's haute couture sensibilities, the resulting images offer a candid glimpse into the world of fashion when supermodels including Cindy Crawford, Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell reigned supreme. At the same time, Waplington set out to document the wildly creative nightlife of the '90s "club kid" culture in New York, juxtaposing his images of uptown style with downtown looks and taking pictures at some of the city's most infamous clubs, such as the Pyramid Club and Save the Robots. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Roy Kemp's previously unpublished burlesque portfolio presents thirty-nine dancers performing in authentic clubs and backstage settings in 1950s New York. This nostalgic collection includes nearly 250 never-before-seen black and white and color photographs of well-known dancers, including Tempest Storm, Liz O'Leyar, Murine, Rita Gable, and Princess Domay, as well as other sultry performers, quite famous in their heyday. Kemp's talents as a photojournalist provide a fresh perspective on the lives of burlesque performers in this golden era. An artist as well as an investigator, Kemp created striptease photo montages and composed biographies for several dancers, giving the reader an intimate feel for the campy burlesque culture. This time capsule depicts live performances and peeps into club dressing rooms, and offers unedited material from pin-up photo sessions. It is a must-have for aspiring dancers, aficionados, or any modern-day guy or gal who appreciates the style and grit of this fabulous art form.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 300 pages. This monograph, Signs, is dedicated to Nino Migliori, one of the old masters of photography who had a significant effect on the history of Italian imagery after World War II. Signs presents a broad range of his production which has always been marked by creativity, versatility, and innovation. Included here are Miglori's portraits, landscapes, architecture, street scenes, abstract imagery, and polaroids. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Aperture Book, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light yellowing to edges and light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. This book shows the life's work of one of the most brilliant photojournalists of our time, who raised the status of his craft to that of high art. In his bestselling autobiography, Unreasonable Behavior, Don McCullin told the extraordinary and sometimes harrowing story of how he grew up in north London's gangland and graduated from poverty to stardom as the most daring and self-sacrificing reporter of wars around the world - from Cyprus to Israel, the Congo and Biafra to Vietnam, Pakistan to Cambodia, Beirut to Iraq. But his interests go far beyond the battleground in all its degradation which he has captured so brilliantly. In this book he has collected some 200 of what he considers to be his best pictures. A few have become well-known icons, many have not been seen in a book before. They depict unemployed miners collecting coal from the beach at dawn, down-and-outs in the East End, the homeless in Bradford, but they also reveal a passion for landscape, especially in the mysterious light of India, and a moving contact between human beings in a harsh environment. DUE TO WEIGHT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. An acclaimed photographer's images and the words of Russia's foremost writers combine in an intimate record of the contemporary Russian experience: an intractable culture in the throes of irrevocable change. 30 color and 70 black-and-white photographs. This handsome photo album with Morath's own foreword and captions depicts a world to which many Russians in the grip of post-Soviet nostalgia long to return. Morath's Russia is devoid of Soviet excresence: no ugly concrete apartment blocks, Stalinist skyscrapers, or exhortative banners appear. Landscapes and street scenes are poetic and largely deserted. Sidetrips to Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, and Uzbekistan are subsumed under "Russian culture." The people shown are mainly artists and intellectuals, and portraits of embattled dissident writers (Nadezhda Mandelstam and Joseph Brodsky) testify to the moral support Morath and her husband Arthur Miller offered them in the 1960s. The album includes fond letters from Mandelstam and poet Andrei Voznesensky, as well as Olga Andreyev Carlisle's reminiscence of her 1967 trip to the Soviet Union with Morath. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Steidl Publishing, 1st thus, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & White is the definitive collection of Bruce Davidson's black and white photography, spanning a period of 40 years. This collectable five-volume set comprises re-prints of classic books of Davidson's poignant and purposeful imagery, some of them newly edited and expanded. 5 clothbound volumes in a cloth slipcase; volume 1 - Circus: 108 pages, roughly 80 tritone plates; volume 2 - Brooklyn Gang: 120 pages, roughly 95 tritone plates; volume 3 - Time of Change: 168 pages, roughly 145 tritone plates; volume 4 - East 100th Street: 168 pages, roughly 150 tritone plates; volume 5 - Central Park: 144 pages, roughly 90 tritone plates.4tos, cloth in slipcase. Gottingen, Steidl, 2012. Limited Edition of 2,000 sets. A certificate, hand signed and numbered by the artist at end of volume 1. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 96 pages, 50 color photographs. Since the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government has been quietly focusing on how to utilize the vast tracks of land that were sequestered as munitions plants during WWII. In Joliet, Illinois, Terry Evans has photographed one such plant, and it's surrounding landscape, creating a gentle sense of irony in these beautiful color landscapes, many of which are low altitude aerial photographs. Part of the Center for American Places Series. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 184 pages, illustrated in color, essays and an interview with the photographer. From his provocative Cover Girl series featuring photographic portraits of himself on the covers of popular magazines, to his writings on sexuality and identity, the work of Nigerian-born Ike Ude explores a world of dualities: African/postnationalist, photographer/performance artist, artist/spectator, male/female, mainstream/marginal, seduction/narcissism, and fashion/art. As an artist from Nigeria working in New York City, connected to the world of fashion and celebrity, Ude gives the political aspects of performance and representation a new vitality, melding his own theatrical selves and multiple personae with his art.

Softcover. Nordlingen, Greno, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 82 pages, b&w portraits. GERMAN TEXT. Contemporary (1980s) photographic portraits of people from the St.Pauli district of Hamburg. Clean copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 32 pages, an exhibition catalog featuring 20 of the photographer's abstract images from the late 1940s and early 50s. White card wraps with a heavy paper dust jacket.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with a die-cut window. 180 pages with b&w photos. SIGNED BY NORMAN in a shaky hand on the front fly leaf. ALSO a signed note ("Dorothy") on her stationary taped to the rear endpapers. Newspaper review of book laid in.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 222 pages, color and b&w photographs of celebrities from 50 years of work. Small remainder dot on bottom edge.

Hardcover. London/NY, Frieze, London and Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Billy Name was the principal photographer of Andy Warhol's Factory. Now, All Tomorrow's Parties reproduces for the first time Billy Name's recently discovered photos of Warhol, his crowd, and the Factory years, images that give the era another dimensions. These color photos with their experimental use of weird color balances and diptych printing are uncannily contemporary. Together with Dave Hickey's essay and Collier Schorr's interview, Billy Name's photos reveal the Factory in all its intimate grunge and glamour. 135 photos, 122 in color. First 3 pages with mild wrinkling, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages, hardcover. Some of the photographer's finest unpublished work, in one volume. Most of the photographs were taken in New York City, Levitt's primary subject in the course of a seven-decade photographic journey (she spent some time in Mexico City, and the pictures she took there are collected in a book named after the city). Here are 110 photographs, 90 of them never before published, including portraits of her close friends James Agee and Walker Evans.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision.

Softcover. New York , Aperture , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Spring 1987. 78 pages. Includes an article with photographs by Lewis Baltz with text by Mark Haworth-Booth. Other articles feature works by Catherine Wagner, Lynne Cohen, Robert Cumming, Reagan Louie, David T. Hanson, and Kira Petrov. A near fine copy in wrappers.

Softcover. NY, Janos Gat Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 30 pages, b&w illustrations. For an exhibition held Feb. 12 - March 23, 2002. The photographs in this catalog were taken from 1944-1945 by Barney Rosset, then a young American Army photographer. Rosset documented the Chinese Army in their pursuit of Japanese troops following the Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi. The Japanese Army was pulling back from the Ichi-Go operation, the largest Japanese land campaign of the war, and Rosset joined Chinese troops at the deepest point of Japanese penetration (Kweiyang). After the war, Rosset became the proprietor of Grove Press, publishing authors often refused due to their controversial subject matter. Laid in are 2 identical postcards featuring the image on the cover of the catalog, Clean, bright copy, scarce.

Hardcover. Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Much of early Americana has been destroyed and lost forever. But occasionally, and almost miraculously, some parts of its survive. So it is with the photographs in this book. Saved from an ignominious end in the city dump, they chronicle and enliven the cowboy's life on the range. The result is a beautiful volume of real-life images of western cattlemen. These unretouched photographs taken from the original 5" x 7" negatives give an unprecedented look at life on the ranch and trail. We are presented with real people seen on the job. We see the costumes, the work, the everyday necessities of the range. And as the cowboys stare back at the camera or work with one another, the reader will get the sense of knowing them and their way of living. This is an important volume of history that every student of the Old West will cherish.

Hardcover. Carmel CA, Friends of Photography/Matrix, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 120 pages, 61 duotone photographs by Morris, beautifully reproduced. Limited to 500 copies SIGNED BY MORRIS. Dust jacket with fading to spine, price-clipped. In a lightly worn, rubbed cardboard slipcase.

Softcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages, color plates throughout. The blue plate special, meatloaf, a cheeseburger deluxe, a milkshake in a frosty mixing canister, a hot cup of joe--all served by a friendly face in a well-lighted aluminum tube. Such are the special joys of the American diner. And it was just these pleasures that photographer Stephan Schacher set out to document when he left New York on a journey through North America that would test both his stomach and his resolve. Schacher's mission: to feed his hunger only at diners, and to photograph both his meal and his server every time. The result is a unique and deeply human story--quirky and nostalgic and generous--of one man's quest to discover North America's diner culture and his own place in it. Traveling from a Jersey diner to the Canadian Rockies to a shoreside clambake shack on the Pacific Ocean, Schacher's culinary adventure is documented here with a wealth of visual materials. The author's arresting photographs of succulent steaks and greasy fries, of smiling waitresses in uniforms or jeans, and brightly colored plastic dishes and table mats are supplemented by maps showing the photographer's route across the continent.

Hardcover. Bellevue WA, Whalesong Collection, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio, glazed boards. More than 500 b&w photos of celebrities, includes portraits of Steve Martin, the Judds, Jodie Foster, Jane Fonda, Santana, Timothy Leary, Billy Wilder, Hugh Hefner, Jefferson Starship, Cher and Eugene Ionesco, among many others.

Hardcover. NY, Quantuck Lane, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. A sampling of the more than 100 authors is: Alice Walker; John Cheever; Saul Bellow (On Cover) ; Albert Murray; John Updike; Anne Sexton; Maurice Sendak; Joseph Heller; Tom Wolfe; Gwendolyn Brooks; Robert Penn Warren; Beryl Bainbridge; Eudora Welty; E. L. Doctorow; Doris Lessing; Margaret Drabble; Tony Kushner; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Joyce Carol Oates and many others.

Softcover. Aperture, 1st pbk, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 94 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages, Foreward by Tilda Swinton. As a newly active photographer in the 1990s, Shand Kydd fell into the party and opening scene of the Young British Artists, or YBAs, and participated in that crowd's growth and success by documenting his friends, including Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst. About 200 exposures in strict black-and-white capture art-society luminaries like Gilbert and George, Sam Taylor-Wood, Nan Goldin, Richard Prince, Juergen Teller, Maurizio Cattelan and Tracey Emin. Fine copy in the original color-printed, stiff-card wrappers, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. NY, Parkstone Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 256 pages. Never opened, still in original shrink wrap. Spotless copy. A collection of black and white images from New York's disco era. In the late 1970s, with only her Hasselblad and a telephoto lens, Veretta visited many of New York City's infamous nightclubs and captured the erotic energy of the peak disco era. Culled from over one thousand images, this collection of black and white photos is an entertaining, often breathtaking documentary of a unique moment in our history.

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 130 plates, color and duotone. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This beautifully produced volume features original, unpublished images by Annie Leibovitz, Richard Misrach, Sally Mann, William Wegman, Lee Friedlander, Mary Ellen Mark, Lynn Davis, Hope Sandrow, William Christenberry, Fazal Sheikh, Karen Halverson, and Terry Evans.

Hardcover. Zurich, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Edited by Karl Steinarth and with the text of his interview of Berko. Features essays by Colin Ford and Helmut Gernsheim. Includes numerous color and black and white images list of previous exhibitions and bibliography.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 56 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. A Couple of Ways of Doing Something replicates a deluxe limited-edition portfolio whose initial run was only 75 copies. This clothbound edition preserves the luxurious sensibility of the original with 22 extraordinary oversized daguerreotypes printed in rich tritone. Working with daguerreotype master Jerry Spagnoli to conquer the complexities of this venerable process, which yields images of astonishing detail and gravity, Chuck Close photographed many of the same artist-friends who have made regular appearances in his paintings over the years: Laurie Anderson, Lyle Ashton Harris, Cecily Brown, Gregory Crewdson, Carroll Dunham, Ellen Gallagher, Philip Glass, Bob Holman, Elizabeth Murray, Elizabeth Peyton, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman, James Siena, Lorna Simpson, Kiki Smith, James Turrell, Robert Wilson, Terry Winters, Lisa Yuskavage and himself. Each image is complemented by a poem on its subject by Bob Holman, the celebrated and widely published New York School poet who originated and hosted the famous Poetry Slams at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and now runs the Bowery Poetry Club. With the counterpoint of Holman's engaging poetry, the collected work becomes a transfixing group portrait of Close's influential and highly creative circle of friends and colleagues, as well as an exploration of a challenging photographic medium.