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19259251Kent WA: Clark's Photo Studio 1925. 8" x 10". Tape repair to top right corner other small tears and creases glue residue on back good/very good. <br /> <br /> Black and white photograph of the Kent Washington Fire Department posing on their firetrucks. The Kent Volunteer Fire Department was formally established in 1912 though it existed informally as early as 1892. This photo is dated around 1925 as it features the Howard-Cooper pumper they acquired that year after passing a $5000 bond. Photograph taken by Lloyd W. Clark of Clark's Photo Studio also in Kent. Clark's Photo Studio unknown
195254018Luzern: Genossenschaft Photoausstellung 1952. First edition. 8vo. xxxii 56 2 pp. over 55 leaves of b&w plates illustrated adverts. Photo-illustrated stiff wrappers. Very good. Published as the catalogue for this major exhibition which included many of the prominent photographers working world-wide. Title and text in German French and English. Scarce with WorldCat listing only four copies; ICP being the only North American location. Genossenschaft Photoausstellung unknown
200262869Syracuse: Syracuse University Department of Athletics 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Very Good. Very Good; see scans and description. Syracuse: Syracuse University Department of Athletics 2002. "And the Rush Goes On" a vintage 2002 large 35" x 24" Syracuse University football poster signed by 2 of the 6 featured players Troy Nunes and Clifton Smith. Other featured players are David Tyree who made that famous catch for the Giants later on Will Hunter Chris Davis Mike Shafer. The six large feature shots are in full color; a panel dividing them into two rows shows smaller b&w shots of seven more players see scans. Very Good; bright and clean but folded as originally presented to me at a 'Cuse football banquet and with notable moderate crinkle as well; minimal wear at a few fold intersections. No pin holes no tape. Still as bright and colorful as when new - and extremely scarce in any condition. Collectible 2-signature SU football piece. Ships folded in a new sturdy protective box - not a bag. L311 <br/> <br/> Syracuse University Department of Athletics unknown
18880005513Toronto: William Bryce 1888 . Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Good. 60 views on 57 litho plates. Folding map: "Map of the Dominion of Canada Showing Railway Connections from Atlantic To Pacific". Oblong 32mo 57pp. grey-blue pictorial scenic cloth needs to be recased. two short closed tears in margin of the folding map. <br/><br/>Issued as Bryce's Tourists' Illustrated Handbook to the Canadian Dominion. This work dated December 1888 reproduces Queen Victoria's commendatory note for Mr. Bryce done May 2 1889. Excellent views across Canada including the Falls of Niagara. William Bryce hardcover
2008029705UK: Quercus: 2008. 223 pages. "A stunning collection of 120 visionary photographs by the greatest landscape photographer of the 20th century." FINE- HARDCOVER FINE- DUST JACKET. Lower corners of this book are bumped does not affect text. . Hard Cover. Fine-/Fine-. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Quercus: Hardcover
1985A33985Boston MA: Little Brown & Co / A New York Graphic Society Book. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0500541116 . B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with some beginning toning especially to the front cover. "His was a world of mountains and woodlands and the vast timeless reach of the western landscape. If a country as a limitless as this can ever be said to have posed for its portrait certainly the photographer behind the camera was Ansel Adams." Due to the extreme weight of this book postage will have to be determined at time of ordering. "Ansel Easton Adams February 20 1902 April 22 1984 was an American photographer and environmentalist. His black and white landscape photographs of the American West especially Yosemite National Park have been widely reproduced on calendars posters books and the internet. Adams and Fred Archer developed the Zone System as a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print. The resulting clarity and depth characterized his photographs. He primarily used large-format cameras because their high resolution helped ensure sharpness in his images." . Little Brown & Co / A New York Graphic Society Book hardcover
1994071005-MNew York New York U.S.A.: Bulfinch Pr 1994. Book. Illus. by Author. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st. ed. 1994 Hardcover with the dust cover with text and 109 black and white photos by Adams on the South West . Condition : Book is Near Fine / DJ is Very Good with a repaired arch. tape small rip on the back of the dust cover . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Bulfinch Pr Hardcover
17-0357Carmel CA : Friends of Photography 1982. 4to. 16 pp. Glossy stapled wrapping. Very Good. B&W prints throughout. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz 1919-2019. Carmel, CA : Friends of Photography, 1982. unknown
196214193Sierra Club. 1962. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very good a short end page gift notation. Fine internally. Good dust jacket price clipped some soiling spine end chip. Dust jacket is in a protective cover. Large oversized book additional postage may be required. ; Full page photographs.; 103 pages . Sierra Club hardcover
1994036204Little Brown and Co.: 1994. 135 pages illustrated in b&w and with an Introduction by John Szarkowski. "For sixty years Ansel Adams photographed among the great peaks of Yosemite National Park and the High Sierra range- the "range of light".". FINE HARDCOVER FINE- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine-. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" Tall Oblong. Little Brown and Co.: Hardcover
2005367609San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket 234 pages with 164 tritone photographs. beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new. Turning Back: A photographic journal of Re-exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Record # 367609 Fraenkel Gallery hardcover
2003350033New York : Matthew Marks Gallery 2003. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 116 pages softcover 52 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills. Produced in conjunction with a 2003 New York gallery exhibition this is a somber volume that reproduces fifty-two photographs taken by Robert Adams between 1974 and 1984 of everyday folks traversing parking lots and city streets in the metropolitan Denver area. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 350033 Matthew Marks Gallery paperback
2003350034New York : Matthew Marks Gallery 2003. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 116 pages softcover 52 duotone illustrations. Designed by Catherine Mills. Produced in conjunction with a 2003 New York gallery exhibition this is a somber volume that reproduces fifty-two photographs taken by Robert Adams between 1974 and 1984 of everyday folks traversing parking lots and city streets in the metropolitan Denver area. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 350034 Matthew Marks Gallery paperback
2005450304San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket 234 pages with 164 tritone photographs. beautiful copy still in shrinkwrap. Like new. Turning Back: A photographic journal of Re-exploration is published to coincide with the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Record # 450304 Fraenkel Gallery hardcover
1989402222New York: Aperture 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 176 pages. Hardcover. Features 136 black & white photographs by Robert Adams. Poem by Cid Corman and an essay by Adams. Beautifully reproduced landscape images. Very good in very good unclipped dust jacket. Clean unmarked pages. Record # 402222 Aperture hardcover
191815182London: Henry Greenwood & Co 1918. Softcover. good. Third edition. 5" x7.25" pp 26 7 ads in original cardstock wrappers wth later cloth tape on spine. Ownership stamps on cover and title page a few penciled brackets in the margins. Instruction on a popular style of portrait photography that "removes from the picture the look of the ordinary photograph and gives it the appearance of work done by a draughtsman." Discussess background and lighting doctoring negatives selecting paper developing modifying prints and finishing.This edition not found in OCLC. Henry Greenwood & Co unknown
2006352468New York : PowerHouse Books 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur the gold the hats the cars. They are the original macks the original players. They are Big City pimps—the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind Gentleman of Leisure originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia’s and a defined sense of self. Record # 352468 PowerHouse Books hardcover
2006352467New York : PowerHouse Books 2006. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur the gold the hats the cars. They are the original macks the original players. They are Big City pimps—the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind Gentleman of Leisure originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia’s and a defined sense of self. Record # 352467 PowerHouse Books hardcover
19-6492San Francisco CA: Adolph Gasser Photography 1996. 8vo. 11 pp. Soft Covers. Very Good. Scarce manual in plastic binder. Original documents. From the library of the renowned camera emporium Adolph Gasser Photography of San Francisco which closed after 60 years in March 2017. Gasser was a full service camera and audio/video equipment store an onsite multi-media equipment rental house with an on-site photo lab. Located in San Francisco's SOMA district for over 60 years Adolph Gasser had long been a staple among professionals and hobbyists for sales and rental of still and video cameras lighting and motion picture equipment. San Francisco, CA: Adolph Gasser Photography, 1996. paperback
2000404409Boston: Bulfinch Press 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover 319 pages mostly b&w photographs some color essays by 7 contributors including Henry Miller. Beautiful copy in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Record # 404409 Bulfinch Press hardcover
1970000206New York: Praeger 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Unpaged. Bound in yellow cloth in black dust jacket printed in orange. Illustrated with black and white photographs by John T. Hill. Forward by Ignacio Bernal. Introduction by Michael D. Coe. Very Good 1/8" stain through first few pages minor age-toning to upper edge of several pages photographs sharp and clean in Good price-clipped dust jacket 1/2" closed tear and several small gouges to upper right corner of back cover light overall scuffing. <br/><br/> Praeger hardcover
49570Phoenix AZ: David Bull Publishing 2008. First edition with a 1 present in the number line; folio; black cloth covered boards with gilt lettering and illustrated endpapers hardcover; black and white and color photographic illustrations; very good in a very good dust jacket. Phoenix, AZ: David Bull Publishing, 2008 unknown
1997079369New York: Rizzoli International Publications Inc 1997. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. A comprehensive history of Thonet furniture with full color photographs of furniture through the years. Includes designs for parquet flooring photographs and drawings of bending forms from Biedrmeier to Bauhaus from bent wood to tubular steel. Frontispiece Chronology from 1796-1985 Index 160 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Hardbound blue boards gold text title on spine. Dust jacket cover photograph of bent wood lounger with title front and spine. Like new. Full refund if not satisfied. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc hardcover
19821123227Boston: Little Brown and Company 1982. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Photographer on t.p. First Edition. red bind-stamped cloth pp. xi110; illustrated minor wear to d.j edges signed by Alinder on title page A New York Graphic Society publication with photographs by Jim Alinder words by Wright Morris and an introduction by Ansel Adams. Printed by The Stinehour Press Size: 4 to. 28 cm. Little, Brown and Company Hardcover
198268366California Academy of Sciences. 1982. Reprint. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. Light rubbing to covers offset ink from verso photo visible on rear cover. Binding tight and straight inner pages clean and unmarked.; 16 pages . California Academy of Sciences paperback
