Photography
Chinese Encounters
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches; 247 x 195 mm), 252, [4] pages in blue cloth, silver titles to spine, in a photo-illustrated dust jacket. INSCRIBED on the half title to William and Rose Styron..... More
Bookbinding
Philadelphia: Barnes, Richard H., ca. 1960. Oblong photo album measuring 13 1/2 x 10 inches (340 x 255 mm), 12 leaves containing 8 photos each, for a total of 96 photos, title to front cover written in pencil, metal comb binding. This album shows 96 color snapshots..... More
The Cubans
Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong Quarto (12 x 9 inches; 305 x 225 mm), 191, [1] pages in a slipcase. SIGNED by all three contributors on the title page: Jack Beckham Combs (photographs), Jennifer L. McCoy (foreword), and Julie E. Sweig (essay)..... More
Switzerland
New York: Underwood and Underwood, ca. 1904. Case measuring 8 x 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 inches containing 100 stereoviews mounted on gray concave card stock. Gilt lettering to spine. A complete set of 100 stereoviews of Switzerland featuring black-and-white photos of the late 1890s and early 1900s. Each has..... More
FSA Photographs
Carmel, California: The Friends of Photography, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. Quarto (11 x 9 1/4 inches; 280 x 235 mm), 48 pages, in stiff wrappers featuring the author's photographs. SIGNED by Marion Post Wolcott on the title page. Fabulous photos documenting rural poverty during the Depression. Marion..... More
The Committed Eye: Alexander Alland's Photography
New York: Museum of the City of New York, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Catalogue for an exhibition of photographs by Alexander Alland (1902-1989), mostly featuring his New York City photos. Informative essay by Bonnie Yochelson, the curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New..... More