1910. [PHOTOGRAPHY - 20TH CENTURY] ORIGINAL PRESS PHOTOGRAPH - ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON NEW YORK CITY MAYOR WILLIAM JAY GAYNOR, 1910. American Press Association, event occurring August 6, 1910 (reverse of photo dated August 10). Silver gelatin print photograph, 6 9/16 x 8 1/2 inches. Small chip and slight creasing to..... More
1648. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] Moriyama DAIDO^. DAIDO hysteric no.6 1994. Tokyo, hysteric glamour, 1993. Large square folio, illustrated wrappers, 177 images (many double page) over 360 pages. Limited edition. This copy has a bit of mild creasing marks to the covers but overall in very good condition. Remarkable work in..... More
2006. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] MUDA Tomohiro. IN PRAISE OF JAPANESE BEAUTY: Japanese Aesthetics Through the Lens of Tomohiro Muda. (Tokyo): Coherence, (2006). First edition. Illustrated throughout with Muda's color photographs of Japanese cultural treasures, venerable examples of art and architecture. 136 pp. including illustrations, + errata slip laid-in. The text..... More
[19th century Japan - Album of 42 original tinted albumen photographs of Japan, Alaska and Sir G. Baden-Powell and Sir G. Dawson seal expedition in 1891] N.p. N.d. [c. late 19th C, 1891] Oblong 14 x 18.5cm album, disbound, accordion style. Paper mache over wood boards with an intricate..... More
2001. [PHOTOGRAPHY, Japanese] IZU, Kenro (photographs) & Clark WORSWICK (text). SACRED PLACES. Santa Fe: Arena Editions, 2001. First edition. Inscribed by Izu on title page. 187 pp. Oblong 4to., yellow cloth. Fine in near fine pictorial dust jacket, one 2 inch scrape to front cover, barely noticeable under mylar jacket..... More
1932. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Imada KINGO, editor. HANZAI KAGAKU Vol.3 #7 1932 JUNE. Published in Tokyo by Bukyosha. 8vo. size, printed wrappers. This magazine was only published for a short time, though it managed to include stories by important literary figures, wonderful photomontage and avant garde photo foldouts, strange erotica, tales of..... More
1937. [PHOTOGRAPHY] KIMURA Ihei. KOGATA KAMERA NO UTSUSHIKATA TSUKAIKATA. Tokyo, Genko^sha, Sho^wa 12 [1937]. 8vo. A master's handbook to photographic techniques, here on the use of the pocket camera. Kimura Ihei's second publication, from his early years. It includes the famous images of a market-day in Naha (Okinawa) as well..... More
1938. [PHOTOGRAPHY] To^kyo^ Shashin Kenkyu^kai. KENTEN GASHU^ Dai Ni-ju^-hasshu^. To^kyo^ & O^saka, Sho^wa 13 [1938]. Bound, Western-style in bold patterned wrappers. Many photo-illustrations. A catalogue of the 28th exhibition of photography held by the Tokyo Photo Research Society. The book itself is near perfect, the tied wraparound case is a...... More
