La Carte d'Après Nature (Signed)
by DEMAND, Thomas and Luigi Ghirri
London: MACK, 2010. Minor bump to fore-edge of fully-illustrated cloth boards; near fine.. First Edition (French version). Quarto. An impressive catalogue published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (Sep. 18, 2010 - Feb. 22, 2011), as curated by Thomas Demand. This copy SIGNED by Demand to title page in black marker. Adopting the title from an arts magazine edited by René Magritte in the 1950s, Demand assembles both writings and... Read More
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Mardi Gras in New Orleans: A Photographic Essay
by DEMORUELLE, Mickey
New Orleans: Self-published, 1972. Crease to lower corner of photo-illustrated wrappers, with general rubbing and edge-wear; a very good copy.. First Edition. Quarto. The second book self-published by Mickey Demoruelle of Mardi Gras street photographs; following his first such publication in 1970. The themes remain the same, as Demoruelle documents the youthful, bacchanalian celebrations on the streets of the French Quarter.
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Amsterdam tijdens den hongerwinter / Amsterdam During the 'Hungerwinter'
by [De Ondergedoken Camera]. OORTHUYS, Cas and Emmy Andriese, among others
Amsterdam: Contact / De Bezige Bij, 1947. Faint sticker residue to front pastedown and a few spots of foxing and light general wear; a very good copy in a very good jacket, complete, lightly foxed at the back panel, with several small tears, some of which have been repaired by tape. Quite a presentable copy of a book rarely found in jacket.. First Edition. Quarto. Pictures taken during the winter of 1944-1945 by leading members of the Underground... Read More
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La Banlieue de Paris
by DOISNEAU, Robert and Blaise Cendrars
Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. Minor smudging to printed cream boards; near fine. With a near fine example of the panoramically-illustrated jacket, showing only minor rubbing. Housed in quarter-leather slipcase with pull-tab chemise.. First Edition of the preferred version in cloth with dust jacket. Small quarto. The landmark first book from photographer Robert Doisneau, featuring 130 gravure images of Parisian suburbs in the aftermath of war, accompanied by an impassioned text from Blaise Cendrars. Punctuated by the marvelous dust... Read More
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The Ginger Man
by DONLEAVY, J. P.
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1955. Iconic green printed wrappers, with some rubbing and minor creasing to spine, else near fine. Housed in custom cloth clamshell case with leather lettering piece to spine.. First Edition. Duodecimo. First issue of J. P. Donleavy's controversial expat novel, retrospectively described by the author as "celebratory, boisterous and resolutely careless mayhem." With "Special volume / Francs: 1.500" printed to rear cover. Published as Number 7 of the infamous Traveller's Companion Series from the... Read More
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Žena ve svetle. [Woman in Light]
by DRTIKOL, Frantisek
Praha: E. Beaufort, [1930]. Orange cloth boards with printed label to front panel; save for some bowing to boards and tight binding, a near fine copy. In a remarkably sharp copy of the rare photo-illustrated jacket, with only minor scuffing to rear panel; fine. Housed in custom cloth clamshell case with leather lettering piece. An exquisite copy.. First Edition. Octavo. A masterpiece of interwar photobooks, with 46 black-and-white nudes blending Drtikol's pictorial sensibility with modernist lighting and staging.... Read More
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Exhibition of Paintings and "Assemblages d'Empreintes" Executed in 1954-1955 by Jean Dubuffet
by DUBUFFET, Jean
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1956. Side-stapled illustrated wrappers, with rough margin to front panel (as issued); fine.. First Edition. Square octavo. Exhibition catalogue. Contents: [14] pages, illustrated after black-and-white reproductions. With descriptive catalogue of 26 exhibited works.
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
by DULAC, Edmund (illustrator) and Edward Fitzgerald (translator)
London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited Publishers, n.d.. Foxing to the page edges, front and rear pastedowns, and several internal pages, else very good in red cloth in a very good jacket, with a few chips, several small closed tears, and fading to the front and rear panels.. Presumed later printing, red cloth, c. 1915. Quarto. A collection of poems attributed to the Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in plates... Read More
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Die Kalte Kraft (Signed First Edition)
by EDER, Martin
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004. Near fine in color illustrated boards with metallic silver text block.. First Edition. Quarto. INSCRIBED and dated 2004 with a swirl drawing by Eder. Color illustrations of Eder's work throughout.
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After and Before: Documenting the A-Bomb
by EDGERTON, Harold, Hilton Als, and James Elkins
New York: PPP Editions, 2003. Touch of rubbing to corners, spine ends; near fine in photo-illustrated boards.. First Edition. Quarto. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Roth Horowitz (Jan. 9 - Feb. 22, 2003). Illustrated with black-and-white plates documenting the atom bomb and its results at Hiroshima. With texts from James Elkins and Hilton Als.
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William Eggleston: At Zenith (Signed)
by EGGLESTON, William
Steidl, 2013. Blue cloth boards with color image affixed to front panel. Save for minor scuff near spine, a fine copy.. First Edition. Oblong quarto. SIGNED by Eggleston to title page in black marker. An elegant revisiting of William Eggleston's Wedgwood Blue series of cloud photographs, with 33 color plates. Introduced by a poem from Yeats and concluding with a short text from William Eggleston III, who edited the book.
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Island
by EHRHARDT, Alfred
Hamburg: Verlag Heinrich Ellermann, 1939. Spine and top corners tapped, else near fine in a close to near fine jacket, soiled at the rear panel, lightly chipped at the spine head, and nicked at the extremities.. First Edition. Small quarto. Collection of 104 photographs of Iceland belonging to the New Vision school that flourished in Germany between the wars. The images portray both the grandeur of the Icelandic landscape as well as the detailed abstraction of natural formations;... Read More
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Nicole Eisenman (Kunsthalle Zürich, 31.3 – 20.5. 2007)
by EISENMAN, Nicole
Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2007. A sharp copy in illustrated jacket; fine.. First Edition. Quarto. Published on the occasion of Eisenman's 2007 exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich. Thoroughly-illustrated after color images.
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Your House (Signed)
by ELIASSON, Olafur
New York: Library Council of The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. A fine copy in blue cloth boards with blind-stamped titles to front panel; housed in original drop-leaf cardboard box, with matching titles to lid. Accompanied by original string-bound prospectus (in original plain envelope), featuring two die-cut examples, an excerpt from Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland (1884), and an involved artist's statement from Eliasson, articulating an architectural metaphor of reading.. Limited Edition. Oblong folio. Number 93 of 255 copies,... Read More
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La Douceur de Vivre / Sweet Life (French edition)
by ELSKEN, Ed van der
Paris: Editions Cercle D'Art, (1968). Bottom corners gently bumped, else close to fine in a sharp, better than near fine jacket.. First French Edition. Large square quarto. Text in French, translated by Elaine Brau. Van der Elsken's tour de force photo travelogue, a series of images shot around the world as Van der Elsken and his wife traveled by freighter. One of the true avant garde masterpieces of the sixties, a wild mixture of grainy, sublime, and intensely... Read More
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Hundertfach: Bericht Einer Betrachtung
by (Elsnerdruck). KöCHEL, Bodo and Ehrhard Frühsorge
Berlin: Elsnerdruck, 1971. Light creases to the back cover, bit of edgewear; very good in screwbound wrappers with a printed acetate overlay.. First Edition. Square quarto. Artist's book celebrating 100 years of the Elsnerdruck printing company, showcasing the firm's sophisticated graphic rendering capabilities across 27 wildly imaginative page spreads, including two spectacular popup layouts.
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Property Rights (Signed)
by EPSTEIN, Mitch
Göttingen: Steidl, 2021. Fine in silver stamped red cloth boards in a fine jacket.. First Edition. Large quarto. SIGNED by Epstein to the title page. Recent photographs dating from 2017- 2020, broken up into nine different series: Standing Rock, Borderlands, Lancaster Stand, Fires and Floods, Mauna Kea, Tree of Life, Black Lives Matter, Monuments, and Property Rights.
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[Sad, Mad, Glad... Afraid]
by ESS, Barbara
Self-published, circa 1997. Fine copy. Scarce, with single OCLC record located (Minnesota), albeit with only four photographs/emotions.. Artist's book. Duodecimo. SIGNED and hand-numbered as 5 of 25 copies. In a more elemental way than Gillian Wearing (Signs That Say What You Want Them to Say), Barbara Ess here photographs performed emotions: sad, mad, glad, anxious, ambivalent, afraid. Contents: 6 hand-trimmed gelatin silver prints (2 x 2 inches) affixed to staple-bound leaves with gelatin silver print covers, reproducing an... Read More
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This Happened Yesterday: Friday, August 20... Thursday, October 21 (Inscribed Set)
by ESS, [Barbara]
[New York: Self-published], [1982]. Corner stain to wrappers of final volume, else a fine set. All contents housed in original plastic zippered bag with printed label to front, which is further INSCRIBED by Ess ("For Jean-Noel / xxxx / B. Ess") with date of 11/5/82. Scarce, with single OCLC record located at NYPL.. First Edition. Octavo. A conceptual, ten-volume suite of zines from photographer, musician, editor, and educator Barbara Ess, with fully-illustrated contents ranging from 12 to 20... Read More
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Orange Grove
by ETHRIDGE, Roe
New York: Andrew Kreps Gallery, 2005. Fine in stapled photo-illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Thin quarto. 16pp. SIGNED by Ethridge. Color images of an orange grove gone bad.
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Spare Bedroom
by ETHRIDGE, Roe
N.p.: Privately published, 2004. Covers a bit rubbed and yellowed as is often the case with this sensitive book; close to near fine in photo-illustrated laminated boards.. First Edition. Small quarto. Edition of 1000 copies. SIGNED by Ethridge. This self-published first book masterfully deconstructs the concept of linear narrative by presenting a seemingly unrelated combination of photographs, reproductions from catalogues, and images following a furniture commission. Ethridge’s slightly skewed color sensibility gives these scenes a heightened energy that... Read More
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
by EVANS, Walker and James Agee
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Some scuffing to black cloth boards, with minor blemish at joint; close to near fine. In an unclipped copy of the illustrated jacket, with typical fading to spine, minor edge-wear, and slight creasing to crown; also close to near fine.. First Edition. Thick octavo. It's a testament to Evans' vision that thirty-one of his photographs—bound in the front of a book published with little fanfare, and set against the backdrop of over 450... Read More
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Life Size
by FALLS, Sam
New York: Karma, 2012. Fine in printed wrappers; sealed in the publisher's shrinkwrap.. First Edition. Falls's acclaimed compilation of photographs taken in and around Los Angeles, reflective of his conceptual approach to nature, his use of natural light, his attuned color sensibility, and his incisive sense of composition.
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Life Size (Signed Deluxe Edition)
by FALLS, Sam
New York: Karma, 2012. Fine in painted boards.. Deluxe Edition. Quarto. Number 22 of a limited edition of 25 copies, SIGNED by Sam Falls; each copy with unique covers. Falls's acclaimed compilation of photographs taken in and around Los Angeles, reflective of his conceptual approach to nature, his use of natural light, his attuned color sensibility, and his incisive sense of composition. With multicolor hand-dyed cloth boards cut from original paintings.
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Problems with Decomposition (Signed)
by FALLS, Sam
London: Morel Books, 2012. A fine copy in blue wrappers with color print affixed to front panel.. First Edition. Slim quarto. Juxtaposition of painted-over color photographs of car tires and fruit. "Remember the potato prints you did at school? Well that's kind of what this is." Printed in an edition of 1000.
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