Childhood by HUNTER, CECILIA BULL and CAROLINE OGDEN. Verses By BURGES JOHNSON - 1912

New York: Longmans, Green , And Co., 1899. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv+ 147 pages 7 1/2 x 10 in. Twenty-six plates and sixty-six diagrams. Red cloth binding with beveled boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD: Very light wear to covers and spine, minimal sun darkening to spine. Edges of text block lightly foxed, several pages in on front and rear are foxed, foxing appears at the edges of some pages, binding is tight.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, Limited, 1888. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering front and spine, gilt decoration lower front cover. EX-Library with library stamp on title page, library bookplate on front free end-page, library card pocket on rear free end-page, library sticker pulled from spine leaving white patch (see photo), no other library marks. The plates are clean, not damaged, and do not have any library markings or stamps. Generally a clean, sound example of the book. The end-pages are the original coated green paper. The original tissue guards are present and browned as usual. The binding is sound and not loose or cracked. There is some foxing on some of the early pages and near the end, otherwise the book is mostly free of foxing. The book is complete with all pages and plates (nothing missing). The book measures 289mm tall x 209mm and has 180 pages, 22 photogravure plates of guide portraits on heavy stock paper… Read More

Brussels: Zeebrugge Museum Book. Illus. by Brusselle, Arthur ( Photographer ). Very Good +. Card Covers Sewn. Presumed First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Oblong. About fine but for minor bumping to peripheries, and a touch of rubbing to front cover title .3 hole string stitched binding. No date, ( circa 1917 - 1918 ). 24 pages of tipped in photos in excellent condition with tissue guards. . 42 photos. A few tissue guards creased.. Complete with notice page, in French and English, which relates the history of these remarkable photos, and identifies each one. A powerful documentation of submarine warfare..

Italy: Skira, 2011. First edition, issued without dust jacket. Hard cover in pictorial boards. Published Italy: Skira, 2011, first printing. Text in English and Italian. Square 4to., 9 5/8" x 9 5/8", 112pp., illustrated with full color photographs. "At the Venice Biennale of 2001, the Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich exhibited his now famous installation, Swimming Pool. In what appeared to be a fully equipped pool, people could be seen under the water, standing, talking and moving around seemingly without any need to come up for air. In Carlo Rocchi Bilancini’s photographs, some of these people finally surface. Untouched by their underwater ordeal, they continue their subacqueous activities as if nothing had happened." Fine. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to.

NY: J.J. Augustin Publishers, 1944. First edition. Quarto. 133 pp, nearly all full-page b/w photographs. Original cloth with scarce dustjacket. VG/VG, a clean, unmarked copy, binding firm; price-clipped jacket has small loss at top of spine & corners with a few tape repairs on the reverse of jacket. Horst's first book and uncommon in jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

San Francisco: Chronicle Press, 2000. Signed by Ruth Bernhard on the title page. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York City: The John Day Company. 1st printing. As New/fine. 218pp, black cloth w/gilt lettering on spine, photograph on dj Signed by George Hurrell as "Hurrell '77" and inscribed by author Whitney Stine "For Dietrich and Edward With our best regards --always, Whitney Stine" Text w/black and white photographs. Beautiful book of Hurrell's career as the top Hollywood photographer of his time, explaining his technique and including stories of many portrait sittings Signed on ffep by Hurrell and author of the text, Rare enough without signatures, very rare as first printing with both signatures

Kehrer Verlag, 2018. Limited Edition of 50 with print "Homeschooling. Hardcover. New, in publishers original packaging Ships from Hawaii with Priority Mail Limited edition of 50 with additional print "Homeschooling" (See photo 2) Signed and numbered InkJet Print on 308 gsm Hahnemühle Fine Art Photo Rag (image size 22 x 14,7 cm, sheet 23 x 17 cm) At the latest since the great success of his book At the Edge of the World (Kehrer 2015), the French photographer Alain Laboile is well known around the world among connoisseurs of black-and-white photography In his new photobook, Summer of the Fawn, he once again provides insight into the free and nearly fairy tale-like life of his family in a small village in the southwest of France Far away from social constraints, school stress, Facebook & Co, it always seems to be summer here, and his six children frolic barefoot in an enchanted garden, in which one encounters cats, grass snakes, and even a fawn Nevertheless, rules do indeed exist, even in fairy tales -… Read More

London: Trigraph Limited, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Brown cloth coverd boards in illustrated dustjacket. The two volumes of the first 1879 edition are combined in one in this edition. The text is reproduced in full, except for a few corrections, and so are all the photographs. The original layout has been revised for convenience. Contributions by Lady Hunt and Ialeen Gibson Cowan. Fronispiece portret of John Thomson. 59 reproductions of photographs with accompanying text by John Thomson. 3 pages with reproductions of engravings. The book is in near fine condition. Corners are sharp, pages are clean and bright. The dustjacket has light edge wear and creasing and 2 small tears to lower spine end (repaired with tape from the inside). xxiii [122 pp.], 32,5 x 25 cm. .

Ptarmigan Publishing Ltd, Devizes, Wiltshire 2002. FIRST EDITION. 4to. (11.4 x 10.2 inches). Illustrated with 115 beautiful colour photos and a couple of maps of the region. English text. Delux edition in Publishers full dark green morocco leather with gilt lettering to the spine and the front board decorated with the Oman coat of arms, below a royal crown, all in gilt. Green marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Green silk bookmark sewn in. Housed in a green morocco covered slip-case with the same gilt tooling to the front panel. A fine copy of this beautiful book, the first detailed study of the remote regions of Oman from Musandam in the north, to the Hajar Mountains, Dhofar and the Empty Quarter, via the coastline that extends some 1,000 miles. --- Only 3 copies listed on Worldcat, in Oman, UAE, and Lebanon.