New York: Comet Press / Max Kalish / M. A. Kallis, 1938. First Edition Limited to 500 copies. 4to. 43 full-page photographic plates; Index. Foreword by Emily Genauer; Editing And Design by M. A. Kallis; Photography by Paul Hexter. Tan linen cloth covered boards with title label on front cover;..... More
[El Monte, CA]: Latin American Village, 1948. First Edition. Large 4to (12 x 9 in.). 15, [1] pp. Illustrations. Product offering TLS from Margaret Rasmussen and 2 single sheets describing new series, laid in. Printed at La Puente Valley Journal. Cream printed staplebound wrappers. Age-toning; spine starting to split; foldline;..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, 1982. First Edition. 4to. [16] pp. 10 black & white photographic images by Ansel Adams. Introduction and acknowledgements by Thomas J. Logan; Essay by Mary Alinder. Photographic cream wrappers. A fine copy. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 19 through April..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1964. 1st. Single 7 1/2" x 18 1/2" glossy heavy stock (folded to 7 1/2" x 9 1/4"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Rocks and Limpets, Point Lobos, 1963." Printed by Lawton Kennedy. A fine copy in original printed envelope with Virginia and Ansel Adams..... More
San Francisco: Published by the author, 1958. 1st. Single 7 1/8" x 19" glossy heavy stock (folded to 7 1/8" x 9 1/2"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Morning Glories, MAssachusetts." Printed by Lawton Kennedy, San Francisco. A fine copy in original printed envelope. Inside on page facing the photograph is..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1971. 1st. Single 10 1/4" x 15" glossy heavy stock (folded to 10 1/4" x 7 1/2"). Photo-reproduction of Adams' image "Tree Against Sun: Yosemite National Park," photographed in 1966. A fine copy in original printed envelope with Virginia and Ansel Adams return address..... More
[San Francisco]: Published by the author, 1978. First Edition. Single 12" x 18" glossy heavy stock (folded to 12" x 9"). Photo-reproduction of one of Adams' iconic images "Monolith, the Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley." Printed by Pacific Lithograph Company. A fine copy. Inside on page facing the photograph..... More
New York: E. Weyhe, 1935. First Edition Limited #288 of 500 copies. 4to. vi, 155 pp; 24 plates from photographs by Edward Weston, Soichi Sunami, Ben Pinchot, Ch. Rudolph, Marcus Blechman and H. Hewitt. Original color lithograph (numbered and signed) drawing directly on stone by the artist, Elise. Edited by..... More
Single sheet (10 x 14") folded (10 x 7"). Black & white photograph of "Fern Spring Dust, Yosemite Valley, California" on front cover. Printed inside lower front is the photograph title, Polaroid Type information, and photolithography by George Waters, San Francisco; otherwise no writing internally. More
New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1947. Second Edition. 4to. Green cloth portfolio-box, string tied, housing 40 loose prints (8 in color) and yellow wrappers with xv pages and [6] pp List of Plates & Catalog of Prints. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Company and The Golden Eagle Press..... More
Philadelphia: Women's Committee for the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; (xi), 253pp; illustrated with 9 b/w photographs.. A Very Good copy (offsetting to front pastedown and ffep) in original green cloth lettered in gold and ruled in blind. 'This story of the Philadelphia Orchestra has been written during..... More
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Culver City: 1982. This lot includes a hand-addressed invitation from the President Ronald Reagan White House to actor Robert De Niro on the occasion of Kennedy Center Honors to George Abbott, Lillian Gish, Benny Goodman, Gene Kelly, and Eugene Ormandy on December 5, 1982. Parenthetically, the lot also includes several..... More
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. First Edition. SIGNED by Ansel Adams. Folio; 97pp. Illustrated with thirty views of U.S. National Parks from Maine to Hawaii (printed recto identified on facing pages and with photographic notes for each image at the end, along with a...... More
Will A. Kistler Company, 1935. First Edition, Limited Edition No. 395 of 500 SIGNED copies. SIGNED by the author on the colophon. Also INSCRIBED "This copy for Mrs. Leopold Stokowski just back from the Spanish Main. Merle Armitage, 1936". Square small 4to. 111 pp. Frontispiece portrait after a photograph by..... More
Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, 2015. First Edition. 4to. 112 pp. Color and black & white illustrations. Stiff color printed wrappers in fine, new condition. Catalogue for exhibition held at the Monterey Museum of Art April 30 - September 28, 2015, 'Lasting Impressions—Pedro de Lemos' the first exhibition that celebrates one..... More
1966-67. Alan Searle, once the lover of Lytton Strachey, was W. Somerset Maugham's private secretary and companion beginning in the 1940s. He lived with Maugham in his Monte Carlo villa and remained with him until Maugham's death in 1965. In his final years, Maugham made an unsuccessful attempt to disinherit..... More
Boston, MA: New York Graphic Society, 1974. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams with a Merry Christmas greeting from Carmel. Oblong folio. 127 pp. Foreward by Wallace Stegner. Black cloth in publisher's photo-illustrated dustjacket and publisher's brown slipcase. The book and dustjacket are in fine condition; partial splitting along rear..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. INSCRIBED by Ansel Adams with a Merry Christmas greeting from Yosemite Valley. Oblong quarto. 116 full-page plates of Adam's photographs reproduced by double impression offset lithography - accompanied by 28 pages of text. Red and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket. A fine..... More
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979. First Edition. SIGNED by Ansel Adams on half-title page. Oblong quarto. 116 full-page plates of Adam's photographs reproduced by double impression offset lithography - accompanied by 28 pages of text. Red and blue cloth in photographic dustjacket. A fine copy (slight fading along board..... More
Monterey, CA: The Monterey Jazz Festival, 1963. First Edition. 8 1/2" x 11". 32 pp. Includes photographs and biographies for the festival's many performers, such as: Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul, and Mary, The Weavers, The Rooftop Singers, Barbara Dane, The Modern Folk Quartet, Kajsa Ohman, The New Lost City Ramblers..... More
Vancouver: Charles van Sandwyk Fine Arts. Artist's Proof Copy. Original hand-colored copper plate etching on textured cream paper (7 1/2" x 5 3/4", etching in center measures 5" x 3 3/4"). SIGNED by Charles van Sandwyk in lower right corner; marked 'A.P' in lower left corner. More
La Habana Vieja, Cuba: Ediciones Bolona, 2012. First Edition. INSCRIBED to a photographer friend by Alex Castro. 4to. 127 pp. Text in Spanish. Essays by ArmandoHart Dávalos; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Eusebio Leal Spengler; and Rafael Acosta de Arriba. Striking photographs (both color and black & white) of Fidel Castro dating..... More
Vienna: Österreichischen Staatsdruckerei, 1950. First Edition. Quarto; 135pp plus plates. A Very Good copy in light blue linen and grey paper-covered boards; upper board titled in grey, spine in gold in somewhat worn and tape-reinforced dust jacket. Bookplate of author, publisher and bookplate collector Clare Ryan Talbot to front pastedown..... More
New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1940. First Edition. SIGNED by Edward & Charis Weston. 4to. 127 pp. Black & white photographic prints by Edward Weston with commentary by Charis Weston. Black cloth with silver lettering. Some wear to extremities and minor spotting to covers; a very good copy in..... More