FIFTY YEARS OF PAINTING by Ruscha, Edward - 2009

New York / Evanston: Harper & Row, 1970. First Edition . Blue Cloth. Fine Book/Very Good + DJ. B/W Photographs Throughout. 252 Pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Book Fine, No Wear But Thin Strip Of Aging To Tops Of Endpapers. Signed By Duncan On The Half Title Page, No Inscription. Dj Near Fine, Wear To Dj At Some Places Along Top And Bottom Edges, 3/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Rear Panel, Price Clipped.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/As New. Plates Throughout. Xii + 7 "Portfolios" Of Plates. First Published In 1977, This Is An Entirely New Design By Ann Lampton Curtis, New Printing By Gardner/Fulmer Lithograph On Centura Gloss Paper Using New Higher-Quality Laser-Scanned Separations. Signed By Ansel Adams On The Half-Title, No Inscription. As New In As New Dj.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, And Rivington, Limited, 1888. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Original red cloth with gilt lettering front and spine, gilt decoration lower front cover. EX-Library with library stamp on title page, library bookplate on front free end-page, library card pocket on rear free end-page, library sticker pulled from spine leaving white patch (see photo), no other library marks. The plates are clean, not damaged, and do not have any library markings or stamps. Generally a clean, sound example of the book. The end-pages are the original coated green paper. The original tissue guards are present and browned as usual. The binding is sound and not loose or cracked. There is some foxing on some of the early pages and near the end, otherwise the book is mostly free of foxing. The book is complete with all pages and plates (nothing missing). The book measures 289mm tall x 209mm and has 180 pages, 22 photogravure plates of guide portraits on heavy stock paper… Read More

London: Akfred W. Bennett, 1866. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ernest Edwards. FIRST EDITION 1866. Original blue pebbled cloth, AEG, gilt lettering front cover & spine, gilt decoration of box camera and ice-axe on front cover, gilt title frame front, gilt rules spine ends, debossed triple borders front & rear covers. Diffuse grubbiness covers, rubbed spine ends and corners, no owner writing or marks on any pages, solid binding, paper cracked inside hinges but hinges strong and not broken (mess is solid and tight), some foxing in places but considerably less than what is frequently found for this book. The book measures 275mm tall x 215mm, and has 243 pages, 28 b/w photos, map. This is probably the earliest mountaineering book to use photographs as illustrations. Account of the author's excursion to Bernese Oberland with the purpose of photographing the mountains and the climbing. The group was comprised of 5 men and 4 women, plus the famous guide Christian Almer,… Read More

Salzburg: Fotohof, 2000. First printing. 4to. 143 pp. Black cloth. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Slightest wrinkling to jacket at head of spine.

New York / Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown, 1983. Signed by Paul Camponigro on the front-free end-paper, placed and dated: Santa Fe 3/28/89. Also inscribed by the photographer: To Donald Fleming -- with all best wishes. First edition / First printing. Brown cloth spine, beige paper-covered boards. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Non-laminated jacket is rubbed as usual, but has no tears.

[Moscow]: State Publishing House of Graphic Arts, October 1932.. Folio (41.5 x 30cm). Pictorial wrappers. A good copy only: the extreme lower forecorners are a bit creased and occasionally ragged; the front wrapper has the lower extreme fore- corner chipped away and, there is a short tear near the toe of the spine resulting in the loss of the extreme lower spine corner of the lower wrapper and last leaf; there is a small chip in the lower wrapper at the spine crown; there is an 11 cm internally mended tear in the rear wrapper up from the lower edge and another internally mended 7 cm tear in the fore-edge, each with small chips associated; and one panel of the enormous center four panel gatefold is neatly separated along the fold; still, a reasonably good copy of an issue seldom found in ideal condition. Founded by Maxim Gorky and published in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1941 (and 1949), under the general editorship of G. Piatakov. An important issue of this innovative periodical, devoted to the… Read More

[Texas] Eskildsen, John Peter. Eight Original Photographs of the Rio Grande Valley. [McAllen, Texas]: [Eskildsen Studio] [Circa 1920s]. 5 x 7 inches. Marked in the negative. One photo with small stain, else very good.
Scarce original photographs by early 20th-century Texas photographer John Peter Eskildsen, who worked in the Rio Grande Valley in the 1910s and 1920s. The Eskildsen Studio was located in McAllen, Texas. Images are titled: The Rooth Farm Home; Palm Heights – McAllen, Texas; The H. P. Hansen Farm Home; Llano Grande Lake and Stewart Club House; A Farm in the Valley; High School McAllen Tex.; The Ware Farm Home; & The Beautiful Shaw Home Near Mercedes Tex.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2000. 144 pages, colour illustrations, col. maps; 25 x 35 cm. ASSOCIATION/PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by Edmund Morris and dedicated to the photographer, Macduff Everton/half-title page. Near-fine copy, with light edgewear to boards and dust jacket, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. "'Macduff Everton updates travel photography in the same way that Ansel Adams updated 19th-century photography of the West. He captures strange and eloquent moments in which time, and the world, seem to stand still.' - Andy Grundberg, New York Times. Only a handful of photographers have succeeded in capturing the majestic landscapes of the American West. Now, Macduff Everton takes his place among them, with magnificent panoramic photographs that deserve to be viewed alongside those of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter. Everton's lush, romantic pictures - each a cinematic tour-de-force of light and color - present… Read More

1/1/1937. Hardcover. 1st printing; inscribed by Margaret Bourke-White on half title; no dust jacket; tan cloth covers with title in red box on cover and spine; covers soiled and scuffed; hinges weak; endpapers foxed; text clean. G