LET US NOW PRAISE FAMOUS MEN by Agee, James, and Walker Evans - 1941

NY: Viking, 1965. First Edition, first printing. Hard cover in original dust jacket. Published NY: Viking, 1965. 78pp. Illus. w/ 51 b/w photos by Levitt. Black cloth w/ white lettering, colored end papers. Oblong 8vo., 7 3/4" x 9 1/4." Photographs of scenes she witnessed in the streets of Harlem, Yorkville, and the Lower East Side, in New York City. Mild ex-office copy. "Department of Education" rubber stamp on front and rear f.l., "duplicate" written over front stamp. Small, blank pocket neatly glued to rear pastedown. No other markings. Book is clean, straight and tight with no signs of wear. Cloth and pages clean, no smudges or marks. Cover lettering bright and sharp. Minor bump curl to tips of fr. cover. Minute rubbing spot to lower tip. DJ is Very Good, NOT price clipped (price of $6.50) w/ mild fraying at crown/ heel, sl. edge curl, very light foxing spots on interior side with two areas of sweating at the interior front panel edge fold, some visible on inside… 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

Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. A fine copy. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images) plus 15 artist's proofs. The additional image is that found of p. 4 of the book. "The images in this book are not about the battles being fought on the ground. Rather, they examine this ancient method of providing one of the most basic elements of our diet; as primitive industry and as abstract two-dimensional human marks upon the landscape." - Edward Burtynsky. For this series, the photographer traveled to Gujarat, India, to make images of the Little Ranch of Kutch, a region that is home to more than 100,000 salt workers extracting around one million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the Arabian Sea each year. "Salt has been their main industry for the last four hundred years.… Read More

Yosemite National Park / Boston: Virginia Adams / Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Folio. Black card stock covers, with white lettering and EW decoration on front cover. White comb spiral binding. 79 pages, with 30 full page b/w photographic plates and excerpts from Weston's daybooks. Wear to all four corners, and scrapes at top of rear cover. Small repair to top of comb binding. Small ghost of sticker removal at top corner of Front FEP. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$10.00" price intact) is in one piece, but has loss at both spine ends, at middle of spine, and at bottom corner of both panels at spine. The dust-jacket also has a horizontal crease across middle (where it was folded and tucked inside book). Due to size, international shipping at cost.

Rat Hole, 2008. First Edition. Hardback. Collectable - Fine Condition. ~~Limited edition of 1,000~~Fine 1st edition 2008 Rat Hole hardback in slipcase, beautifully produced. Book itself in fine condition, minor handling-related discoloration marks to lower rear edge of slipcase only, bright and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Photography; ISBN/EAN: B001N9Z05C. The photos provided are of our own book, further photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 086025.. B001N9Z05C

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Plates Throughout. Xii + 7 "Portfolios" Of Plates. First Published In 1977, This Is An Entirely New Design By Ann Lampton Curtis, New Printing By Gardner/Fulmer Lithograph On Centura Gloss Paper Using New Higher-Quality Laser-Scanned Separations. Signed By Ansel Adams On The Half-Title, No Inscription. As New In As New Dj.

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

Westminster London: Archibald Constable and Co, 1900. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. vittorio sella. FIRST PRINTING of First UK Edition. Rebound in green cloth to resemble the original binding with original front cover title patch cleanly mounted in original position on front cover and original spine patches similarly mounted. Overall nice condition. Tight binding with no loose pages (the text block has been sewn into page gatherings = the stitching shows at the start/end of each gathering --> see photo). Gift inscription on front pastedown. No other former owner writing or marks in book. Based on the inscription, this book was given to Smoke Blanchard prior to his 1964 expedition to Mt St Elias, possibly by Vin Hoeman, beloved climber & mountaineering historian who perished in an avalanche on the 1969 Dhaulagiri expedition along with 6 others, though the "Love Always" seems a bit melodramatic. Smoke Blanchard's St Elias expedition was a 4-man… Read More

Yosemite National Park / Boston: Virginia Adams / Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First printing. Hardcover. Very good/good +. Folio. Black card stock covers, with white lettering and EW decoration on front cover. White comb spiral binding. 79 pages, with 30 full page b/w photographic plates and excerpts from Weston's daybooks. Wear to all four corners, and scrapes at top of rear cover. Small repair to top of comb binding. Small ghost of sticker removal at top corner of Front FEP. No names or marks. Illustrated dust-jacket (with "$10.00" price intact) is in one piece, but has loss at both spine ends, at middle of spine, and at bottom corner of both panels at spine. The dust-jacket also has a horizontal crease across middle (where it was folded and tucked inside book). Due to size, international shipping at cost.

Venice: Linea d'acqua, 2010. Limited edition Facsimile. Hardcover. very good. Linea d'acqua, Venezia, 2010. No. 213 of a limited edition of 250. size 20 x 14 x 2.5 inches, weight 20lb. Fernando Ongania published TWO large format volumes of brilliant photos of Venice. This facsimile combines all 185 photos of both volumes (read more below) --- Introduction Italian, 20pp, 185 plates. Includes a laid-in index of all 185 plates with the names of the buildings/locations and a brief description (in Italian) The condition.of the book and the plates is very good. The white cover has some spots and smudging. No slipcase. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within the US (a $75-$100 value!). Fernando Ongania published TWO large format volumes of brilliant photos of Venice. The first in 1891 titled 'Calli e Canali in Venezia" (with 100 photographic plates) and in 1895 'Calli e canali e isole della laguna' ((with 85 photographic plates of Venice and the islands in the lagoon. There are also 15… Read More