Gods of Earth and Heaven by Witkin, Joel-Peter - 1989

Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1969. Book. Very Good+. Soft cover. First Edition.. Hollywood, CA: Heavy Industry Publications, 1969. First Edition . Very Good+/Very Good+. Clean soft coverbook with paper jacket over plain gray cardboard binding. "Crackers" printed in red on front cover of wrapper and on wrapper spine. 115 reproductions of black and white photographs by Ken Price, Joe Goode, Edward Ruscha. Story in photographs based on Mason Williams' story "How to Derive The Maximum Enjoyment From Crackers," characters in photos include Tommy Smothers; Rudi Gernreich; Leon Bing; Larry Bell. Mason Williams text printed on rear inside flap of jacket. Pages and edges are clean; no names, writing or marks; very slight tanning to cardboard covers; no creasing or chipping. Jacket is lightly age-toned, no chips; small closed tear at top spine corner of jacket (under 1/2:). Size of book is approx. 10" x 7"..

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

London: Akfred W. Bennett, 1866. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ernest Edwards. FIRST EDITION 1866. Original blue pebbled cloth, AEG, gilt lettering front cover & spine, gilt decoration of box camera and ice-axe on front cover, gilt title frame front, gilt rules spine ends, debossed triple borders front & rear covers. Diffuse grubbiness covers, rubbed spine ends and corners, no owner writing or marks on any pages, solid binding, paper cracked inside hinges but hinges strong and not broken (mess is solid and tight), some foxing in places but considerably less than what is frequently found for this book. The book measures 275mm tall x 215mm, and has 243 pages, 28 b/w photos, map. This is probably the earliest mountaineering book to use photographs as illustrations. Account of the author's excursion to Bernese Oberland with the purpose of photographing the mountains and the climbing. The group was comprised of 5 men and 4 women, plus the famous guide Christian Almer,… Read More

Cleveland: George A. Exline, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in very good dust jacket and good original box. Glassine dust jacket with wrinkle to front panel and small closed tear from rear inside flap; box seperated at 2 of 4 corner-joints, with large scrape from bottom. Overall quite presentable.. 4to. 9.25 x 12.25 in. Unpaginated. Black quarter-cloth over black & white decorative folk cloth, with black cloth title label inset on upper cover, titles in gilt; in original glassine dustwrapper. Presented in publisher's matching box. Fully illustrated with black & white photographs by Edouard Evartt Exline. ('Something of what the visitor saw, during the season of 1937, is to be found within the pages of this book.'). 'As long as the wild orchid blooms in the moss of Spring and the wind rips through the blue spruce on Winter mountain tops, the Smokies will be a land appart, for over all, in this Valhalla, is the hand of the Great Sprit, unchanging, everlasting.' One of 1000 numbered copies.… Read More

London: Henry Greenwood & Co., 1911. Very Good+ condition. Clean and bright. SEE PHOTOS. Hardcover. Hinges are perfect. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are unmarked but for occasional scattered foxing. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 5.25" wide x 7.25" tall x 2.5" thick. Profusely illustrated with over 1000 photos, drawings, samples of photographic paper, etc. Comprehensive coverage of the latest developments in equipment, technique, developing, enlarging, with incredibly detailed price and product lists, advertisements for lenses, cameras, photo equipment, services and supplies, Kodak, info on manufacturers, photographic societies, camera clubs, obituaries, list of principal books on photography, etc. Incorporates the "Year Book of Photography and Amateurs' Guide." Has several indexes. Bound in the original dark green cloth, gold embossed on front and spine, within blind stamped borders.. First Edition.… Read More

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

New York / Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown, 1983. Signed by Paul Camponigro on the front-free end-paper, placed and dated: Santa Fe 3/28/89. Also inscribed by the photographer: To Donald Fleming -- with all best wishes. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Non-laminated jacket is rubbed as usual, but has no tears.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. 144 pages, colour illustrations, col. maps; 25 x 35 cm. ASSOCIATION/PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by Edmund Morris and dedicated to the photographer, Macduff Everton/half-title page. Near-fine copy, with light edgewear to boards and dust jacket, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "'Macduff Everton updates travel photography in the same way that Ansel Adams updated 19th-century photography of the West. He captures strange and eloquent moments in which time, and the world, seem to stand still.' - Andy Grundberg, New York Times. Only a handful of photographers have succeeded in capturing the majestic landscapes of the American West. Now, Macduff Everton takes his place among them, with magnificent panoramic photographs that deserve to be viewed alongside those of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter. Everton's lush, romantic pictures - each a cinematic tour-de-force of light and color - present… Read More

Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones de la Presidencia de La República / Editorial Arte, 1978. Limited, deluxe first edition. Hard cover in dust jacket and hardwood slipcase, limited to 20 Roman numeral numbered copies, copy number XVIII. Text by Carlos Gottberg in Spanish, with English translation at end of book. Published Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones de la Presidencia de La República / Editorial Arte, 1978. Oblong folio, 12 1/4" x 10", unpaginated, illustrated with 232 black and white photographs of Thea Segall. Bound in blind embossed black leatherette, pictorial endpapers. "Thea Segall came to Venezuela to take pictures in the tropical light and ended up capturing the country's ancestral culture in images. The Romanian artist, who received the National Photography Award in 2003, understood the importance of preserving a memory for the Venezuelan nation." Near fine in near fine dust jacket and hardwood slipcase. . 1st. Hard. Near Fine/Near Fine. Folio. Numbered,… Read More