Santa Monica Community Book
by Charles Warren
Illustrated with 48 plates of illustrations from photographs. A history of Santa Monica from the late 19th century to the the mid-1940s with biographies of the city's "leading men".
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Wild Scenes and Song-Birds
by C.W. Webber
x, 347 pages plus 20 leaves of chromo-lithograph illustrations and one leaf containing list of illustrations, 10 1/4 x 6 ¼ inches, cloth, chipped and torn at top and bottom of spine, rubber stamp of previous owner on front endpaper.Fifteen illustrations of birds and fauna by Mrs. C.W. Webber with five Native American scenes by Alfred Jacob Miller. The title page calls for 25 illustrations but the list of illustrations details 20 plates. This edition notable for being only... Read More
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Dwellers at the Source: Southwestern Indian Photographs of A.C. Vroman, 1895-1904
by Webb, William
Grossman Publishers, New York, 1973. Very good. First Edition 9 x 10 1/2 inches, 213 pages, cloth.
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All American: Family Albums
by Weber, Bruce
Little Bear, New York, 2003. Fine. First Edition, Limited edition 12 x 9 inches, Unpaginated pages, wrappers.
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Photographs From Five Decades
by Weston, Brett
Aperture, Millerton, 1980. 13.5 in. x 11.5 in., 131 pages, Cloth, Cloth with cloth slipcase, slight foxing to rear endpaper and last leaf. No. 156 of 400 copies signed by Brett Weston lacking the photograph of "Reeds, Oregon".
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Brett Weston: A Personal Selection
by Weston, Brett
Photography West Graphics, Carmel, 1986. Near fine. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 5000 14 x 12 inches, black cloth with Weston's signature stamped in silver on upper cover, Dust Jacket (near fine), Unpaginated.
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California and the West
by Weston, Edward
Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1940). Good. First Edition 11 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 127 pages, cloth, wear to spine extremities and corners, covers slightly shelfworn, previous owner's signature in pen (1944), darkening to inner covers near spine, A U.S. Camera Book, with 96 photographs.
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The Art of Edward Weston
by Edward Weston
Includes 39 leaves of plates from photographs by Edward Weston and a frontispiece portrait of the photographer by Brett Westion. This copy includes the cardboard slipcase in very good condition with some wear and chipping at edges. Edward Weston's first monograph and one of the most important American photography books of the 20th century. The design by Merle Armitage and printing by Lynton Kistler were based in Los Angeles. Weston's close friend Ramiel McGehee edited the literary contributions by Charles Sheeler,... Read More
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My Camera on Point Lobos
by Edward Weston
Dust jacket soiled, chipped and separated at spine and rear flap. Foxing to front endpaper otherwise contents very clean. Inscribed to Bill and Zelda Holger on front endpaper. Weston met Holger in the 1930s through the f/64 group. Holger was a construction supervisor in San Francisco and an amateur photographer. Holger helped Weston build his house on Wildcat Hill in Carmel. Laid into this copy is the August 1955 issue of the Carmel Pacific Spectator-Journal with a 3 page article on Weston's... Read More
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Fifty Photographs
by Edward Weston
slight abrasions to cover and edges. Inscribed by Weston on half-title page, "To Bill and Zelda from Edward with his love. 10-19-47." William Holger was a friend of Weston from the 1930s when they met through the f/64 photography group. Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He helped Weston construct his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel. This is Weston's second monograph produced and designed by Merle Armitage with written contributions by Armitage, Donald Bear and Robinson Jeffers. One... Read More
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California and the West
by Charis Wilson Weston and Edward Weston
slight wear and chipping to dust jacket primarily at edges. Rare copy of the first edition, first printing warmly inscribed by Charis and Edward in separate entries to William Holger. Holger met Weston through the f/64 group in the 1930s. He was an amateur photographer and a construction supervisor in San Francisco. Holger helped Weston build his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel. Laid in, formerly taped to inside front cover, is a photo postcard showing Ansel Adams photographing Edward Weston for... Read More
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An Eye Witness Account: The First Battle of Bull Run
by (Weygand, Phil)
Phil Weygand, [Dundee], 1967. Near fine. Limited edition: One of "about 125" copies, printed by Phil Weygand 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 inches, 36 pages, yellow pictorial boards, Signed by the printer, Not included in pagination are the colophon, folding frontispiece and folding facsimile letter. Bookplate of Raymond A. Smith.
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The Selkirk Range
by Wheeler, A.O.
Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa, 1905. Good. First Edition 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, cloth, sunning to spine, wear to spine extremities, corners bumped, With an accompanying atlas of map plates. Owner's signature and stamp in ink.
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From the Mundane to the Magical (Ltd. Ed.): Photographically Illustrated Children's Books, 1854-1945 and Beyond
by White, Mus
Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1999. Fine. First Edition, Limited edition: 1 of 100 copies in cloth slipcase, each copy numbered and signed by the author on a special colophon page, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 268 pages, cloth, This landmark publication written by photograpic art and book collector, Mus White, details over 1400 books in the field of American and international juvenile literature illustrated with original photographs or related photo-mechanical processes. Establishing a critical link between photography... Read More
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The Tramp Printer
by Wilkin, King
Ash Ranch Press, San Diego, (1987). Fine. Limited edition: One of 126 copies 1 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches, 36 pages, decorative blue imitation leather, With an original woodcut by Don Hildreth.
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Edward Weston Nudes
by Charis Wilson
creases to dust jacket on front and rear inner flaps. Inscribed to Bill and Zelda Holger by Charis Wilson, Cole, Neil and Brett Weston on title page with Edward's facsimilie signature. A card pasted to the inside front cover indicates the book was acquired at a book signing in Carmel on December 11, 1977. William Holger was an amateur photographer and construction supervisor from San Francisco who met Weston through the f/64 group in the 1930s. He helped build Weston's home on... Read More
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Pictorialism in California, Photographs 1900-1940
by Wilson, Michael G.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, (1994). Very good. 11 x 9 inches, 149 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket.
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The First of May: A Fairy Masque, Presented in a Series of 52 Designs
by John R.Wise,
57 separate sheets composed of limitation sheet plus 56 sheets numbered I to LVI. Walter Crane did his drawings, layout and lettering in pencil and Goupil & Co. of Paris did the photo engraving and printing. The images measure 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches and are on mounts measuring 15 x 18 1/4 inches. The cover label is rubbed but legible. Some wear and darkening to the edges and margins of the mounts; foxing to limitation sheet and some... Read More
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Joel-Peter Witkin
by Witkin, Joel-Peter
Ministere de la Culture, Madrid, 1989. Fine. 8 x 8 inches, 117 pages, maroon cloth with embossed illustration on front cover, Inscribed by the photographer in felt pen on half-title page, Elaborate exhibition catalogue for the Centre National de Photographie in Paris. There are beautiful red tissue guards with printed text facing many of the illustrations of Witkin's drawings and photographs. Text in French.
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Pasadena, California: Historical and Personal. A Complete History of the Organization of the Indiana Colony
by Wood, J.W.
The Author, Pasadena, 1917. Very good. First Edition 9 x 6 inches, 565 pages, cloth, slight soiling, small crease to cloth on rear cover, Inscribed by the author to H.E. Stetson on the front endpaper and dated February 20, 1924.
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[Chinese Boy, San Francisco]
by Max Yavno
Vintage gelatin silver photograph measuring 4 1/2 x 3 ½ inches on cardboard mount measuring 9 3/4 x 7 ½ inches, signed by the photographer in pencil on mount below image. Reproduced on page 17, The San Francisco Book published in 1948. Yavno, a student of documentary photography and the social landscape, started his career in photography during the late 1930s working for the Works Progress Administration in New York City. Like many young photographers in New York during... Read More
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View From Twin Peaks
by Max Yavno
Vintage gelatin silver print measuring 7 x 13 inches dry mounted to Hi-Art Illustration Board measuring 9 x 15 3/8 inches, signed in pencil by the photographer on the mount below image, lower right. Illustrated on page 93 of The San Francisco Book, (1948) and plate 26 in The Photographs of Max Yavno, (1981). Yavno, a student of documentary photography and the social landscape, started his career in photography during the late 1930s working for the Works Progress Administration in... Read More
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William Albert Allard: The Photographic Essay
by Zwingle, Erla
Bulfinch Press, Boston, 1989. Very good, small pen mark on inside front cover. First Edition 9 1/2 x 10 inches, 132 pages, wrappers, light foxing along edges, Introduction by Sean Callahan.
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