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1992257361Mexico City: NHV 1992. Magazine. 52p. includes covers 8x10.5 inches text in Spanish illustrated with full-frontal male nudes very good magazine in stapled glossy pictorial wraps. NHV unknown books
19751330513n.p.: Promontory Press 1975. Hardcover. Large Quarto; pp 123; VG-/G; white spine with black text; dust jacket has slight soiling toward edges; mild dings to edges; some toning to flaps; cloth shows only light wear to exterior; strong boards; text block has slight foxing to exterior edges; light foxing to few pages inside; profusely illustrated in color;. 1330513. FP New Rockville Stock. Promontory Press hardcover books
200530728San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery and Hasselblad Center 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Nearly square hardbound quarto. Issued without dustwrapper. Photographs by Friedlander taken in New York and France. One small corner bump else a near fine example. 55 pp. Fraenkel Gallery and Hasselblad Center hardcover books
2005108267St. Petersburg Florida: Salvador Dali Museum 2005. Hardcover. VG. White illus. cardboard with hot pink lettering; 179 pp. with photographs throughout. Parallel text in Spanish/English. Salvador Dali Museum hardcover books
19871326376Savannah GA: The Beehive Press 1987. Hardcover. Small Quarto; pp 263; G-/G-; black spine with white text; dust jacket has some soiling to exterior; several chips to edges; price sticker to rear flap; cloth shows few light damp stains to front; light soiling to edges; sturdy boards; text block shows slight shelf wear to exterior edges; frontispiece; some underlining and notations in ink to pages including pp 9-27 34 38 129; previous owner's name to half title page; profusely illustrated;. 1326376. FP New Rockville Stock. The Beehive Press hardcover books
200130962Edinburgh: Kunsthaus Bregenz 2001. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. Oversized clothbound book in dustwrapper 11 1/2 x 13" tall. Text in English by Eckhard Schneider Thomas Kellein and others. Illustrated in color and black and white. A near fine copy in dark gray cloth binding in very good printed dustwrapper with a one inch closed tear near top of front panel. A large and heavy volume. Kunsthaus Bregenz unknown books
199523999New York: Peter Blum Edition 1995. Second edition. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. Stated second edition of this oversized volume of photographs by Ruff with texts by Steven Holl Hans Kollhoff Rem Koolhaas Eduardo Souto de Moura and Theodora Vischer. Introduction by Terence Riley. Mostly black and white photos with a few tipped on color plates. Bookplate to inside front pastedown else a near fine clothbound copy in very good dustwrapper. A large and heavy volume. Additional shipping charges may apply. Peter Blum Edition unknown books
1930CAT209New York and Environs 1930. Excellent. We find scant information on Henry Reister a professional photographer operating throughout the New York metropolitan region in the early part of the century. His studio moved several times from the Bronx to Bridgewater New Jersey then to Woodlawn New York. This interesting and varied collection from his estate shows the type of work available to a professional photographer operating in New York during the period - architectural shoots product photography events and some portraiture. The opulent wealth of New York's upper classes during the 1920s is on display in Reister's architectural work which makes up a large portion of this collection. The burgeoning commercial age is also shown in his product photographs most notably a series of photographs of Remington typewriters a series of photographs of the newly created New York Telephone Directory two photographs of automobiles and a series of brightly-lit interior grocery store displays.<br /> <br /> Contents as follows:<br /> <br /> Seven images advertising typewriters with five showing a young woman posed with a Remington typewriter; five images of the New York Telephone Directory; five images of brightly lit grocery store interiors most focusing on elaborate lighting on a dairy display; two images of automobiles one showing a man in fine dress posed alongside an automobile the other showing a close-up of a license plate; thirteen varied product images including proto-modernist images of radiators an image of the Cory Smoke Telegraph Indicator three floral still lives and an opulently presented bowl of ice cream; forty-six architectural photographs including a rather stark series of institutional interiors including lavatories extravagant gardens the interiors of a bank on Broadway and high end domestic interiors; six photographs of the Yorkville Social Center Baby Parade of 1916; seven portraits including one of a worker holding two bolts several military portraits and an outdoor portrait of a couple in a garden; Eight scenes from Reister's personal life most relating to an automobile trip made with his wife in 1930.<br /> <br /> Overall a strong representation of pre-Depression New York with many iconic aspects of the city and its environs represented. Despite his low profile Reister was a proficient professional photographer and the images remain quite attractive and in generally very good to fine condition with a few showing small tears at edges. unknown books
1930WRCAM56103Various locations in Oregon and Alaska 1930. Approximately 325 photographs twenty postcards and real photo postcards a linen- backed map of Alaska and a few assorted ephemeral items all housed in a contemporary leather satchel. Generally minor wear some chipping to about twenty photographs. Overall very good. A treasure house of silent cinema photography from the Pacific Northwest and Alaska featuring over 300 images from THE CHECHAHCOS and other films produced in the orbit of the film's director Lewis H. Moomaw all retained by one of his crewmen Guerney William Hays. <br> <br> THE CHECHAHCOS released in 1924 was the first feature film shot in Alaska. "Cheechako" is a native word referring to a "greenhorn" or someone newly arrived in the mining districts of Alaska or northwestern Canada. A melodramatic tale of the Klondike Gold Rush the was directed by Lewis H. Moomaw of the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation. The story was based in part on the experiences of the film's producer Austin E. Lathrop known as "Alaska's first home-grown millionaire." The film has been preserved in the National Film Registry and can easily be viewed on the internet. Offered here is a large collection of photographs and other ephemera once belonging to a CHECHAHCOS crew member named Guerney William Hays 1880-1952 including film stills snapshots from the set and other images of Alaska scenery. Many of the images match up with scenes from the completed film. The subject matter includes all that might be expected from a film produced in and about Alaska: glaciers dogsleds saloons archvillains and damsels in distress along with shots of the crew and technology that made the film possible. <br> <br> The largest and most professionally-produced photographs in the collection are eighty 8-x- 10-inch prints almost all of them clearly from the CHECHAHCOS shoot with twenty-one stamped on the verso by the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation and with either a printed or manuscript title written along with the stamp reading "The Chechakos" the spelling of which was later tweaked to its release title. One of the stills shows the entire company of the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation about 150 people in the snow beside their Pullman cars; two banners for the film company hang outside the rail cars. A separate shot of the film company shows their train at the entrance to McKinley Park with a banner hanging on the train reading "Private Car Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation Entrance to McKinley Park on the Alaska Railroad." Other stills show scenes from the film shots of the cast and crew preparing to start scenes posed scenes clearly intended for use as publicity stills cast group pictures behind-the-scenes shots of the cameramen and other crew with various equipment photographs of empty interiors perhaps to be used for continuity a few featuring the dog sled teams and more. In addition to documenting the production these images also present a rare view of Alaska in the early-20th century. <br> <br> The remaining 240 images most of which measure approximately 3 x 5 inches were likely not formally produced by the film company for use as publicity but are in fact production photographs and still stand as valuable visual documentation of the early filmmaking process. While some of these photos are more of the vernacular sort the great majority of the images show a mixture of preproduction production and set-related photographs from the film company's time in Alaska shooting THE CHECHAHCOS and from other production's attached to the career of Lewis H. Moomaw the film's director. A great number of these images were likely produced as working production photographs - executed for the use of the company during the shooting process scouting for locations documenting costumes set continuity set construction what might today be called craft services suggesting or documenting potential camera set-ups or as studies for potential publicity stills and more. While not created as traditional publicity products these images capture the early filmmaking process both in front of and behind the camera presenting a quite uncommon slice of film production history. The fact that they were produced during the production of a film in Alaska make them an even more valuable source of information on the filmmaking process in the 1920s in a most unusual place. Production stills are produced in very small quantities compared to publicity stills are often unique or close to unique records of a production have a much lower survival rate and are keenly sought after as historical records of the filmmaking process. <br> <br> One of the few captioned photographs shows four wives of the CHECHAHCOS cast and crew on a fishing expedition including Moomaw's wife and Mrs. Guerney Hays. A few other photographs show an actress posing with crude dummies that were apparently about to be sent to their doom in a canoe scene in the Alaskan wilderness. Other production photographs from Alaska feature scenes on glaciers one of which shows the exact spot from a moment in the opening minute of the film a young girl with a giant Alaskan crab who is also pictured in the larger professional images and is in the film film crews poised on icy ground dog sled teams identified locations in Skagway and more. <br> <br> One of the other films pictured here is likely CALL OF THE ROCKIES 1929. This western was filmed in Oregon the usual home of the filmmakers involved in the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation with Moomaw as supervising producer. CALL OF THE ROCKIES was directed by Raymond K. Johnson one of the cinematographers on THE CHECHAHCOS and features two actors identified in pencil captions on the verso of photographs present here: Russell Simpson and Jim Mason. There are numerous photographs featuring a western wagon train and other images of the traditional western which either appeared in CALL OF THE ROCKIES or perhaps one of Moomaw's other films produced in Oregon in the 1920s - UNDER THE ROUGE 1925 or FLAMES 1926 the latter of which climaxed in a raging forest fire and featured an early screen appearance by Boris Karloff. <br> <br> All of the postcards feature Alaskan scenes or subjects and were most likely acquired while the film company was shooting in Alaska or produced for them while they were there. This is the case for at least one of the postcards - a Christmas greeting with the banner at bottom reading "Compliments of the Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation." The final item of note here is a folding linen- backed map of Alaska issued by the Alaska Steamship Company. The map measures about 21 x 30 inches and was issued in 1917. It was almost certainly taken along to Alaska by Hays for the filming of THE CHECHAHCOS linen- backed either before-hand or while in Alaska to prevent damage from over-use. The entire collection of photographs and ephemera is housed in a period leather satchel. <br> <br> These photographs were collected and retained by Guerney or Gernie William Hays 1880-1952 who spent a career in the early film industry mostly in Oregon. Some pieces of ephemera bear his name and some of the larger stills are annotated "Hays" on the verso. His 1918 draft registration lists him as a motion picture operator in Portland and his obituary lists him as a member of the International Alliance of Stage Employees. His only film credit in the Internet Movie Database is for THE CHECHAHCOS for which he is credited with "sets and lighting" and also an uncredited supporting role on screen. One of the larger-format photographs features a crew member in a cramped equipment room with dozens of lights and mounds of cables; this is almost certainly Hays himself or perhaps one of his assistants. One of the photo developer's envelopes bears the name of Hobart H. Brownell the cinematographer of THE CHECHAHCOS. Two of the photographs here are inscribed to Hays - one from the actor Bert Sprotte in 1919 and the other from banjo player Eddie Peabody who has inscribed his portrait to Hays writing that "No finer stage manager I ever worked with." Another photograph shows Peabody's elaborate stage show. <br> <br> THE CHECHAHCOS remains an important early film for its authentic depiction of Alaskan life. Movies about the great white north were popular with early film audiences but were usually filmed in California. When Lewis H. Moomaw proposed to shoot a film entirely in Alaska about the days of the Klondike Gold Rush in the territory locals in Alaska jumped at the chance to find him funding. Upon arrival in Anchorage fully half of the town showed up to greet the film company. The cast and crew would spend three months filming in and around Anchorage the small mining town of Girdwood on Childs Glacier Abercrombie Rapids and Eyak Lake. The film premiered in the Empress Theatre in Anchorage on December 11 1923 and played to packed houses across Alaska the next year. Sadly the film never found a large audience in the continental United States playing occasionally over the next two years before falling into obscurity. The film was essentially lost until the year 2000 when a print was restored by archivists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Three years later the film was selected for preservation by the National Film Registry. <br> <br> The Library of Congress's press release when they selected THE CHECHAHCOS to the National Film Registry describes the film as such: "This independent regional film was the first feature film produced in Alaska and is renowned for its spectacular location footage of the lonely and unfathomable Alaskan wilderness frenzied dogsled pursuits and life-and-death struggles on the glaciers." <br> <br> A wonderful collection of great historical interest for early film scholars and of the history of Alaskan cinema. hardcover books
19151530San Francisco: Waters Company 1915. Very good. 393 silver gelatin photographs each 8 x 10 inches. Each image annotated in pencil on verso corresponding to numbered index sheet. Formerly mounted with remnants of glue on verso. Images generally clean with minor wear and soiling. Several images lightly creased. An extensive photographic archive from the R.J. Waters Company of San Francisco depicting nearly 400 ships from the turn of the century. Vessels range from 19th century clipper ships to the seven-masted behemoths of the early 20th century together with a few schooners whaling barks and the odd steamer or two. Many are British with a good representation of American-built vessels as well as ships from France Germany Australia Sweden and other nations. The ships are sorted here alphabetically and correspond to a numbered print issued by the Waters Company and present here which is titled "Collection over 500 Photographs of Sailing Ships." A further note asks that you "Kindly Order by Number" as each ship is noted with a number next to its name. The images themselves are notated accordingly with name and index number with ships occasionally having more than one view. Ships currently under sail are denoted with an "X". Many of the ships are sailing vessels from the 1880s and 1890s and provide historic detail about the wide variety of ships coming in and out of San Francisco's busy harbor. The views have been taken from various vantages resulting in views of the San Francisco harbor and shoreline as well as at least one shot of Alcatraz in the distance. Many of the vessels have secondary "biographical" information with them adding to the research value of the archive.<br /><br />R.J. Waters 1856-1927 was a California native who first opened a photo studio in Virginia City Nevada in 1886. He opened a commercial photography studio on Sutter Street in San Francisco in 1892 and ten years later added a business partner and changed the name to R.J. Waters and Company. The firm claimed to "photograph anything and anywhere" and as a result had a wide array of images on offer including handsome panoramic views of San Francisco both before and after the Great Earthquake. Maritime photography seemed to have been a matter of opportunity and Waters seems to have spent time both aboard ships and down at the docks making an effort to photograph every substantial vessel which entered San Francisco Bay. There was certainly a market for images of sailing vessels as evidenced by the present archive and its index card and the present archive may have been a shop file used for ordering prints. Altogether an interesting study of maritime history emphasizing San Francisco's importance as a port of call for international trade. Waters Company books
1935152255Los Angeles: N.p. 1935. Archive of material regarding a pair of prospective African American child actors including four black and white photographs of the children four autograph letters signed from a "Madame Fay" variously addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Smith and an unnamed "Mr. Agent" and one typescript letter unsigned but seemingly from one of the Smiths responding to Fay's previous correspondence. Two photographs with the stamp of Adair's Studio at 4105 Central Avenue on the verso. <br/><br/>Fay's letters which identify the children as twins broadly discuss her hopes of securing acting representation for the twins facilitated by the Smiths who seem to have had some connections within the film industry. The letters also frankly address Fay's financial hardships noting "I don't expect much for myself in the start buy if I only know that I have a Dependance I will feel safer. I don't think I shall ever be able to go into any ones kitchen and the lisence is so high for readings that unless I can't find any other sorce of Deasent living I hardly know what to do" sic all. Fay's note about licenses for readings as well as her distinctive moniker suggests that she also worked as a medium or psychic in addition to having previously worked for the Smiths.<br/><br/>In her single letter to the unnamed agent Fay reiterates her desperation and states that she previously took the children to noted film and television comedy producer Hal Roach. She goes on to state her preference for the children working with a white agent and avoiding "the Central ave. agents". Central Avenue and 41st Street was the heart of African American life in Los Angeles in the early and mid-20th century a populous region commonly referred to as the "Black belt of the city" home to a rapidly growing African American community as well as numerous Black-owned enterprises. <br/><br/>As a whole the archive presents an interesting and emotive glimpse into life on the edges of Depression-era Hollywood as well as the numerous difficulties and limitations faced by African Americans in gaining entry into the film industry.<br/><br/>Photographs approximately 7.5 x 9.75 inches. Letters varying sizes. All materials generally Very Good plus lightly age-toned with some dampstaining to the letters. N.p. unknown books
199115629Italy: Biblos Edizioni 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Wide oversized quarto. A book of sumptuous color photographs with text in Italian featuring the natural and architectural splendor of Arcipelago Del Leone. English and German translation section at rear of book. A very good copy in pictorial silver boards with cloth spine in matching silver pictorial dustwrapper. This is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage charges may apply. <br/><br/> Biblos Edizioni hardcover books
1946009405Privately Published 1946. First Edition. Red Cloth Spine/Paper Boards. Very Good -. Red cloth spine black and white pictorial paper-backed boards. Lower corners bumped faint stain to top spine end confined to that area. Internals near fine. A rather unique example of the early photographic work of "Mr. Conservative" the Republican libertarian sympathizer known both for his 1964 presidential campaign against Lyndon B. Johnson and for his opposition to the Christian right's takeover of the party especially on issues like gay rights and abortion. One of his books of photography Barry Goldwater and the Southwest 1976 was worthy enough to receive an introduction by Ansel Adams. Privately Published unknown books
200710364Kolkata: Laurens & Co Press 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. One of 333 hand numbered copies in slipcase. Folio. A book of daguerreotypes by Fuss based on engravings by William Blake. All elements in fine condition. "Signed" by Fuss with his fingerprint to colophon page. Beautiful artist book. Laurens & Co Press hardcover books
200131789Bloomington: Indiana University Press 2001. First Edition. Quarto 28.5cm.; original simulated cloth boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xi3312pp.; color and black and white photographic illus. throughout. Just a hint of wear to jacket panels else Fine. Inscribed and signed on title page: "For Kitty - Nancy Sweezy / Sam Sweezy. Indiana University Press unknown books
199241114London: Tauris Parke Books 1992. First English Language Edition. Folio 31.5cm.; publisher's simulated cloth in black photo-illustarted dust jacket; 249pp.; color photographs throughout. Jacket lightly worn at corners with short closed tear to top edge of upper panel not quite touching text else Very Good and sound overall. Translated from the original French. Tauris Parke Books unknown books
1910180618004Racine WI: W.D. Harney Photogravure Publisher 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. Edition de luxe single-volume probable first edition issued around the time of a nine-volume wrappered issue also "de luxe" according to the publisher with the slightly different title Art Work of Seattle and Western Washington but with the same photos. 77 leaves of photogravures with tissue guards plus leaves of text printed on rectos only with illustration on title page and photo on first page of text. Full leather with four raised spine bands ruled and lettered in gilt. About Very Good with leather rubbed along edges chipped at foot exposed tips with small corner tear to bottom front corner hinges a little taxed by heavy pages but holding a few tissue-guards torn and creased. An oversize volume featuring many beautiful Pacific Northwest photographs by Asahel Curtis brother of Edward Curtis. OCLC currently notes ten institutional copies of the two editions of this work stating this particular edition de luxe has "108 photogravures-- 83 credited to Asahel Curtis 4 credited to Walter Averett 1 each credited to Brent Gifford Grant Humes and A.H. Barnes and 10 uncredited. The photogravures are printed in various hues from sepia to grey and many have tints of blue and grey." Scarce in this format. W.D. Harney, Photogravure Publisher hardcover books
19792163New York: AMPHOTO/American Photographic Book Publishing 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 128 pp with b/w illustrations from photographs index. Slight wear to edges else a fine copy. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear and has a few small chips. According to the jacket Rothstein's photographs "have been praised as 'demonstrations of photojournalism at its best - the the wide variety of subjects in the brilliance of interpretation and in the consistent technical quality.' For the first time Rothstein presents his previously unpublished photos taken in China during and after World War II. AMPHOTO/American Photographic Book Publishing hardcover books
19821311637Societes Mobil au Cameroun 1982. Hardcover. Square Octavo; VG/VG-Hardcover; Cream spine with black text; Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket slight rubbing and minor marks to surfaces of jacket fraying and age toning to jacket sides; Boards are strong and clean vivid red board with yellow star boards are strong and clean binding solid ivory toned pages pp 94 has a crease; Text block clean in French language vivid full color illustrations; 156 pp. 1311637. FP New Rockville Stock. Societes Mobil au Cameroun hardcover books
1980007219Boston: New York Graphic Society 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition in gray cloth. Foreword by Henry Geldzahler. A fine copy in near fine unclipped dustwrapper. This copy both SIGNED and separately INSCRIBED by Newman and uncommon thus. Signed by Author. New York Graphic Society hardcover books
201120308Sweden: Libraryman 2011. First edition. Cloth. Fine. Wide clothbound book. A slender volume of color photographs by Nagase Sayo. This is copy 216 of 300 hand-numbered examples. Fine condition in beige cloth printed in white. Issued without dustwrapper. <br/><br/> Libraryman hardcover books
1975211680San Francisco: Rainbow Cattle Co 1975. Calendar. 32p 11x8.5 inches landscape format calendar for 1975-1976 organized by Zodiac sign beginning with Aries on March 20th 1975 some inked notes in last pages crinkled last page due to dampness. good in spiralbound wraps. The Rainbow Cattle Co. opened in 1974 and changed its name to Zeitgeist in 1986.This is a lightly-worn and used copy of a scarce San Francisco gay bar item filled with classic mid-seventies styles. Rainbow Cattle Co unknown books
200416069Neutral Bay Australia: Chapter & Verse 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good . Large hardbound quarto. 204 pp. Introduction by Andrew Sayers. Black and white photographs of artists in their studios and natural environs by Weight. Includes photos of seventy-five different Australian artists. A very good copy in dustwrapper. This is a large and heavy volume. Additional postage charges may apply for international buyers. <br/><br/> Chapter & Verse hardcover books
198422244New York: Lustrum Press 1984. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Original bound wrappers. 4to. First edition of Malanga's volume of erotic photographs paired with his poetry. 96 pp. A near fine copy. This copy has been nicely INSCRIBED BY MALANGA and dated in 1986. He inscribed the book to Harry Amdur an amateur photographer and longtime owner of ModernAge Photo. Paperbound original volume. <br/><br/> Lustrum Press paperback books
1910604517<p>"Clarence H. White" boldly penned in black fountain pen ink on his Clarence H. White 5 West 31st Street letterhead New York January 19 1910. 14" x 6 1/4" 3 pages on one leaf folded to make 4 sides. Together with the original holograph mailing envelope stamped with a 2 cent Washington stamp and postmarked New York N.Y. January 19 1910. Fine. To author Horace Traubel 1624 Walnut Street. Philadelphia Pennsylvania. In part: ". . . I am sending 2 prints of your portrait ordered by Gable & Sons to you . . . I am sending with them a print for you & one for Mrs. Traubel - and one for Gertrude. To you I am sure they will mean as much . . . I was sorry not to get some new negatives of Mrs. T and Gertrude but I again with their . . ."</p> unknown books
