Photography-Photo Essays from Gargoyle Books

New York, New York: MacMillan Company, 1942. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. Chronicle of a four-year expedition to Melanesia in attempt to document the lives of the "primitive" tribes living in the Solomon Islands, in 416 pages with map endpapers in front + scattered pen-and-ink illustrations & stunning black-and-white full-page photos of various… Read more about this item

1971. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Collins, Paul. An attempt to present "a personal, intimate portrait of Africa as it really exists today both in the city & in the bush,'' with the "special sympathies" of black photographer Collins, who journeyed with his infant son & writer Lee to trace this ancestors over… Read more about this item

Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1970. First Softcover Edition . Soft cover. Very Good+. Published in 1970 in the midst of the ongoing Vietnam War, this booklet is a photo essay of the US Marines in action, highlighting combat operations, civil action programs, & aviation. Black & white photos on every page. Softcover 8vo (11" x 8.5")… Read more about this item

Santa Monica, California: General Publishing Group, Inc., 1997. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. So rad! This is an insider's look at the evolution of modern beach culture & the sport that gave rise to it, in 216 pages with Index, lavishly illustrated on nearly every page with full-color & black-and-white photos. Foreword by Bruce Brown,… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Promontory Press, 1971. First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Curtis, Edward S.. Collection of writings by North American Indians, arranged chronologically, that capture the essence of Native American life & culture. In 185 pages, with entries accompanied by vintage duotone photos by the renowned Western photographer Edward S. Curtis. Author's first book.… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Time, Inc., 1936. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Premiere issue of the magazine that would define American culture for the next half century, published as a weekly until 1972, then in intermittent special issues, & finally as a monthly until it ceased publication altogether in 2000. Launching the careers of… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1936. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Bourke-White, Margaret (Photographer). Documents the origins & growth of the chemical manufacturing industry in the early 20th century United States, with 17 plates featuring stunning black-and-white photographic images by then-rising-photojournalist Bourke-White. Still unknown at the time, she did not even merit a… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1963. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/VG-. Bourke-White, Margaret (Photographer). Autobiography of the pioneering American woman photographer, chronicling her life, career, & ongoing battle with Parkinson's disease. In 383 pages, with black-and-white photos by the author throughout. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1963, this hardcover… Read more about this item

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.: Chronicle Books, 1999. First Edition First Printing 1st Printing. Soft cover. Fine. Exposes the lurid truth about the City of Angels as it really was back in the days of noir, from the period after WWI to the beginning of the Cold War, roughly 1920s01950s. From "crime lords, corrupt cops, seers, mystics, & kooks,… Read more about this item

Graphis U.S., Inc, 1997. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Schatz, Howard (Photographer). Stunning photographic tribute to dancers & ballerinas, a majority nude, all "masterpieces of kinetic sculpture,'' the images "a mutual exaltation in which photographer, dancer, & observer collaborate." Interestingly, the photographer began his career as an ophthalmologist. He brings his unique eye to the… Read more about this item

Thistle Hill Publications & Vermont Folklife Center, 2001. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. A stark black-and-white photographic travel journey & tribute to the most rural area in Vermont: the hardscrabble Northeast Kingdom, with the photographer & writer drawing on their more than 30 years in the area to chronicle changes the devastating changes to this… Read more about this item

Japan: Yoshihiro Nishiyama, 2005. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. As New/As New. A photographic tribute--in both black & white & full color--to the Little People of America, captured by Etsuko ("Angela") Enami at a national conference in Toronto attended by 2000+ members of this organization (a nonprofit designed to help people with dwarfism) from all over the… Read more about this item

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, Inc., 1968. Paperback Original (PBO) . Soft cover. Very Good. Both celebrated & reviled, the film on which this book is based, created by Swedish director Vilgot Sjöman, has gone down as one of the most significant pieces of cinema in the 20th century, the first movie to be branded with… Read more about this item

Boulder, Colorado: Arts Alternative Press, 1993. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Balog, James. Another in the author/photographer's collection of books that document the relationship between animals, humans, & the natural world. This one offers color photos of men, women, & children--all naked--with chimpanzees, their closest living relative. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1993, this… Read more about this item

Bantam Books, 1985. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Very Good. A "photo-packed scrapbook" of the acclaimed, unique singer from Brooklyn, NY, who rose to fame in & came to characterize the 1980s. In 42 pages + 2 pages of biographical info/album details. A FIRST EDITION, first printing, from 1985, this softcover small 4to has decorative stiff… Read more about this item

Berlin, Germany: Verlag Haus am Checkpoint Charlie Berlin, 1981. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Multilingual book offers a history of the Berlin Wall, specifically, "a documentation in pictures of the military ring around West Berlin, its development from "August 13th", 1961 up to today with the most important events." In 113 pages, with 168… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Freedom Editions, 1996. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Tasteful & tantalizing collection of lesbian erotica/soft porn images captured by a wide array of lesbian photographers, primarily stark & revealing black-and-white photos, interspersed with some color, complemented by Introductions by both editors & quotes by subjects & photographers throughout. Photographers of note include… Read more about this item

Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1995. First Thus . Soft cover. As New. Bourke-White, Margaret. Bourke-White's stunning black-and-white photos of "the impoverished victims of the southern system of sharecropping" in the American South in the 1930s are brought to life with text from southern author Caldwell. In 54 numbered pages + unpaginated sections of photos. Orig. published… Read more about this item

New York, New York: Manhattan Post Card Publishing Co., Inc., 1930. First Edition First Printing . Soft cover. Near Fine. Travel guide comprised of black-and-white photographic images of New York City, designed as a promotional piece showing how the city had grown since the turn of the 20th century, featuring images of key buildings-the Empire State Building, Rockefeller… Read more about this item

University of Georgia Press, 1945. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Charlot, Jean. Comprehensive look at the three large murals created by fresco painter Jean Charlot while he was artist-in-residence at the University of Georgia, 1941-1944. Unpaginated, with profuse black-and-white photographs, Introduction by Lamar Dodd, & Commentaries by the artist . One of only 2,500 copies printed… Read more about this item