Photography from Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959. Hardcover. Folio. Glossy paper over boards, original clear acetate wrapper, slipcase. 151pp. Numerous illustrations. Near fine/near fine/very good. Quite minor slipcase wear; ownership signature on rear flyleaf. Tight and quite lovely first edition of the first book by the fashion and portrait photographer (1924-2003), accompanied by Capote's provocative text. While copies signed by… Read more about this item

New York: Aperture Book, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly sunned. This tight and attractive first edition highlights the famous photog's best Native American images.

New York: Aperture Book, 1972. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with red lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 75pp). Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superb, tight and bright first edition of this slim selection of the famous photog's best Native American images.

Honolulu: Arizona Memorial Museum Association, 1989. Hardcover. Photographs by Wayne Levin. Small 4to. Black cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 100pp). Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. First edition of Number 91 in the "Bishop Special Publication" series, tight and bright. Extensive vintage and contemporary photographs illustrate this chronicle of the remote Hawaiian settlement where for generations victims… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 200pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations. Fine/fine. First edition -- a tight and pristine copy of this collection of Native American photographer Marmon's black-and-white images and his account of the Laguna people.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. Hardcover. 4to. White cloth with grey spine lettering, dust jacket. Extensive full-page illustrations (3 foldouts). Very good/very good. Touch of foxing to top 1" of otherwise near fine binding and top page edges; jacket faintly age toned; tiny abrasion to one image (only). A tight and nice first edition of this portrait… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth with ivory spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xv, 392pp. Numerous illustrations. Fine/fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Co, 1094. Hardcover. Illustrations by Hampton Institute Camera Club. Decorations by Margaret Armstrong. 8vo. Olive green cloth with gilt lettering and green, red and ivory decorative stamping. 144pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece photograph, numerous photographs, extensive pale green decorative text borders. Very good. Binding a tad edgeworn and corners faintly bumped, else overall tight… Read more about this item

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. xxii, 122pp. Frontispiece, extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of the noted Chicago photographer's images of his friend and collaborator, famed novelist Nelson Algren (1909-81) -- black and white photos often portraying the seamy side of life in Chicago, an aspect… Read more about this item

New York: Castle Books, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Grey paper over boards with black spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 358pp. Frontispiece, numerous illustrations, decorative page borders. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. A tight and nice reprint of the tenth and final volume of the 1957 Yoseloff edition -- itself a facsimile of the 1911 first edition.

New York: The Fairfax Press, 1977. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 512pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Fine/near fine. Quite attractive and tight facsimile reprint of the popular 1912 pictorial overview, critiqued by a lukewarm E.B. Long: "With a large number of Brady photographs included, Lossing's text forms… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock & Co Limited, 1939. Hardcover. Foreword by Horace Annesley Vachell. 4to. Beige textured paper over boards with brown lettering, dust jacket. (Ca. 50pp). Frontispiece, 32 full-page sepia-tone plates. Very good/very good. Binding ever-so-faintly edgeworn only, with text block tight and fine; jacket mildly edgeworn and age toned, with tiny chips at extremities. Handsome first edition of… Read more about this item

Dallas: Leisure Time Publishing, 1991. Hardcover. Preface by Lloyd M. Bentsen. 4to. Grey and black cloth with silver lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 90pp. Numerous full-page color illustrations. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this unusual photography and poetry collection, handsome inscribed and signed in blue ink by the poet-photographer on front flyleaf: "For Bob Malott -- / Best Wishes &… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1973. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Tan cloth with black lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Frontispiece, extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Superb and tight first edition of this well-illustrated study.

Beijing, China: Forbidden City Publishing House, 1995. Hardcover. 4to. Pale green paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 327pp. Extensive illustrations (some color). Near fine/near fine. Front pastedown ownership signature. Second printing of this exhaustively-pictorial photography collection depicting Chinese royals over many decades as you've never seen them, with text in both Chinese and English. Quite unusual.

Munich: Ludwig Simon, n.y.. Hardcover. Small 4to. Pale green cloth with dark green lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 200pp). Extensive full-page black-and-white illustrations. Near fine/very good. Ownership signature on front flyleaf; jacket a bit edgeworn, with rear panel scuffed. A tight and attractive later printing (undated, but first published 1960) of what's titled "This Is Italy" on the dust… Read more about this item

San Francisco: Cameron and Company, 1980. Hardcover. Wide 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 159pp. Extensive color illustrations. Near fine/near fine. Cooke provides the introductory text to this sumptuous collection of Cameron's plentiful bird's-eye views. First edition, tight and lovely.

Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1983. Hardcover. Wide small 4to. Green and grey cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 200pp). Extensive full-page illustrations. Fine/fine. Superb, tight first edition of this gathering of these four photogs' best work "Published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of The Christian Science Monitor.

New York: CollinsPublishers, 1993. Hardcover. 4to. Black cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 157pp. Extensive illustrations. Fine/near fine. Superbly tight and bright first edition of this sequel to Lieberman's 1974 classic "Farm Boy," a pictorial record of a farming family in northwest Illinois. On an inner flyleaf, Lieberman boldly inscribes and signs "For [ --- ], / Neighbors and new 'old… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1974. Hardcover. 4to. Red cloth with white spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 360pp. Frontispiece, 240 illustrations, pictorial (with text) endpapers. Very good/near fine. Inner hinges a tad delicate but holding. Tight, quite nice attractive first edition of this bestselling pictorial record of life in the rural northwest Illinois county called Jo Daviess --… Read more about this item