Art, Architecture, Photography from Lux Libri

Original b&w photograph of downtown Saranac Lake in the 1960s. About 2.25 by 3.5 inches in a cream-color mat with an overall size of 8.25 by 11 inches. The view is looking up Broadway and a number of businesses are visible, including George L. Starks & Co., Blue Line Sport Shop, Alpine Hotel, Mark's Restaurant Bar and Grill, and Saranac… Read more about this item

Signed wood-engraved print from 1990 by John DePol (1913-2004), a prolific book illustrator and master engraver of the 20th century. The print depicts a scene from The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. It shows the narrator of the classic 1842 story being tormented during his imprisonment. Part of a DePol series commissioned for a 1991 limited edition… Read more about this item

Signed wood-engraved print from 1990 by John DePol (1913-2004), a master engraver and prolific book illustrator. The print depicts a scene from The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe. It shows the narrator of the classic 1842 tale seated before his inquisitors. Part of a DePol series commissioned for a 1991 limited edition book of 150 copies. This… Read more about this item

Self-published artist's book issued in 2011. Place not stated. Limited 1st edition. Signed by Mich Maroney in pencil on the rear pastedown and numbered 3 of 200 copies. A series of photographs inspired by Medieval books of hours. Taken on the Spring Equinox at Little Dodnash, a sheep farm in Suffolk, England that was the site of an Augustinian priory… Read more about this item

Vologda: Russkiĭ Sever-Partner, 1995. Apparent 1st edition. An illustrated guide to the historic city of Vologda in northwest Russia. Cyrillic Russian text with a one-page summary and list of illustrations in English. Numerous color photographs of art, architecture, icons, crafts, etc. 91 pages. Paperbound with stiff glossy covers. 11.75 x 8.25. VG with minor edge wear.

Leipzig: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, 1923. 1st edition. Limited to 500 copies on handmade paper. This is number 412. Three letters from Leipzig artists to Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726-1801, Polish painter and printmaker who spent most of his life in Germany. The letters are from Johann Friedrich Bause, Christian Gottlieb Geyser, and Johann Georg Penzel. Text is in German and printed… Read more about this item

Winchester, Mass.: Lee Art Gallery, [2005.] Brief introductory text by Mack Lee. Gallery catalog of b&w photographs from the heartland during the Depression era to the 1950s. Compelling images of rural Americana by Dorothea Lange, Wright Morris, Walker Evans, Gordon Parks, Edward Weston and others. 26 pages, (25 of them with captioned photos.) Oblong paperbound format. 6 x 8 inches.… Read more about this item

[Hanover, NH: Studio Art Exhibition Program, Dartmouth College, 2016.] 1st edition. Catalog of a 2016 Dartmouth exhibition by Eric van Hove (b. 1975), a Belgian conceptual artist born in Algeria, North Africa. Outer folder (12 x 9.5 inches) encloses an accordion-style foldout that measures more than 6 feet in length. One side is a panoramic color photograph of van Hove's… Read more about this item

Braunschweig: Waisenhaus-Buchdruckerei und Verlag, 1956. ***Signed presentation copy given to the first United States ambassador to West Germany. An illustrated book on the art and craft treasures of the historic city of Braunschweig, Germany. 104 pp. German text with 43 photographs in b&w. Quarto hardcover in dust jacket. 10 by 7.75 inches. VG with moderate wear. Sound, tight binding. With… Read more about this item

Self-published in 2008. Printed in Lewiston, Maine. 1st edition of [1,500 copies.] A collaboration by two sisters. Poems by Jasmine Lamb and several paintings in color by Rosy Lamb, an expatriate artist who lives and works in Paris. Signed and inscribed by Jasmine Lamb in 2013. Unpaginated. (40 pp.) Paperbound with stiff glossy covers. 8.25 x 8.25 inches. Near Fine… Read more about this item

Chicago: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001, in conjunction with the John Cleary Gallery of Houston. 1st edition. Large photography book / exhibition catalogue. Signed and inscribed by John Cleary (1937-2008), who supplied many of the photos and hosted the inaugural exhibit at his gallery. Promotional postcard for the Cleary Gallery exhibit is laid in. Compelling images by Photo League members. Taken… Read more about this item

[Queens, NY]: Kris Graves Projects, (2017.) Signed 1st edition. Not stated but limited to 300 copies. A book of photographs taken at the Women's March on Washington, DC, the main location for worldwide protests the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated. [68] pages. 9 by 6 inches. Nicely designed pictorial hardcover in Near Fine condition. Not issued with a dust… Read more about this item

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons and London: B.T. Batsford, 1943. 2nd edition, revised. (First published in 1939.) A study of the "life and work" of abbeys in the Middle Ages. Color frontispiece and b&w illustrations throughout, including two fold-out plans. xiv, 114 pp. Clothbound 8vo. VG/VG. Sound, tight binding. Lower front corner bumped. Some foxing of the color dust jacket and… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Marston Searle & Rivington, 1890. Slender clothbound hardcover. 100 pp., with index. VG with moderate wear and signs of age. Brief biographies of early Renaissance artists Ghiberti and Donatello, along with material on other Italian sculptors of the Pisan and Florentine schools. Nicely illustrated by b&w illustrations. One fold-out plate of The Second Door of the Baptistery,… Read more about this item

Original studio portrait by the noted Japanese art and commercial photographer, an important figure in the transition from pictorialism to modern photography in Japan. Full-length B&W portrait of a young woman in kimono with obi. Subject and date unknown, but evidently from the post-war era (circa 1940s to 1960s.) In the original folder from Ogawa Gesshu's studio. His name is… Read more about this item

Introduction by Miriam Tal in Hebrew and English. Printed in 1979. Place not stated, but probably Israel. A scarce catalog of early work by Israeli sculptor Doron Elia (born 1955.) Portfolio format with an outer folder containing the introductory text and 12 individual b&w photographic plates. Folder measures 9.75 by 7 inches. Photograph of the artist on the inner flap.… Read more about this item

Translated by Prof. W.E. Walz. London: B.T. Batsford, Ltd., (1929.) 1st edition in the scarce slipcase. Printed in Germany. Text is in English. A big, beautiful book containing 80 color plates of interior views of German castles and private houses. Six-page introduction by the German art historian Adolf Feulner (1884-1945.) The remainder of the book consists of views of "interiors… Read more about this item

Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus, 1941. A big, impressive volume in a custom binding. A collection of 304 full-page photographs of German architecture and landscapes in the interval between the world wars. Taken in the 1920s by German travel photographer Kurt Hielscher (1881-1948.) Printed in sepia tone and captioned in the lower margins. (Some captions in German only, but others with… Read more about this item

(NY): Harry N. Abrams, Inc., (2003.) Signed/inscribed 1st edition, 1st printing. VG in VG dust jacket. A lively non-fiction account of an art dealer's long quest to own an original painting by Andy Warhol. An illuminating view of the art world and the interplay of artists, collectors, galleries, auction houses, etc. 256 pages with index and appendix of Warhol values.… Read more about this item

(Madrid): Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, (1984). An illustrated exhibition catalog. With 140 b&w reproductions of work by Spanish artists from the 18th and 19th centuries. Introductory essay by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari and catalog entries by Juan Carrere Parrondo. All text is in Spanish. 142 pages. Quarto, 24.5 cm. Glossy printed wraps. VG+ with minor edge wear.… Read more about this item