1997. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] SANAI Masafumi. IKITE IRU. Kyoto, Seigensha, 1997. Large square 4to., illustrated soft covers., "LIVING" is the tile - a series of fragmentary images of urban life, mostly in color. A mixture of the solemn and the silly captured with a penetrating eye. Provokes a real feeling... More about IKITE IRU
1990. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] TANAKA Kôtarô. YUME SENYA THE WORLD OF KÔTARÔ TANAKA TANAKA KÔTARÔ SHASHINSHU. Osaka, 1990. Large Folio, boards in slipcase. Signed by Tanaka, whose color exposures of fireworks' displays are quite interesting. Bilingual text. Fine. More about YUME SENYA THE WORLD OF KÔTARÔ TANAKA TANAKA KÔTARÔ SHASHINSHÛ
2000. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] TANUMA Takeyoshi. NINGEN BANZAI HANDS AND VOICES Photographs by Takeyoshi Tanuma. Tokyo, Creo Corporation, 2000. Folio, boards, illustrated throughout with color photos taken all over the world by Tanuma. Signed on the ffep by Tanuma. Fine condition in dustwrapper. More about NINGEN BANZAI HANDS AND VOICES Photographs by Takeyoshi Tanuma
1979. [PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPANESE] TERAJIMA Akiyoshi. TERAJIMA AKIYOSHI - SAKUHINSHÛ. Tokyo, TB Design, 1979, oblong 8vo. Boards, in cardboard slipcase, one of 1000cc. Signed by Terajima. About fine. More about TERAJIMA AKIYOSHI - SAKUHINSHÛ
[PHOTOGRAPHY - JAPAN] ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTHQUAKE OF 1923. Oblong 11" x 15" grey cloth cord-bound covers. 93 original b/w photographs 4 3/8" x 6" mounted on thick card stock, two per page.Bookplate to fly leaf reads "ex libris K. Sinkai". Boards are slightly... More about ALBUM OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE AFTERMATH OF THE KANTO EARTH QUAKE OF 1923
1979. (PHOTOGRAPHY). THE GLASS-HOUSE YEARS: Victorian Portrait Photography, 1839-1870. By Elizabeth Heyert. Montclair, NJ: Allanheld & Schram, (1979). First American edition. 4to., maroon cloth. Slightly soiled at front board. Near fine, in a mildly sunned dust jacket. More about GLASS-HOUSE YEARS: Victorian Portrait Photography, 1839-1870
1989. (PHOTOGRAPHY). HANA. San Francisco: Chronical Books, 1989. First American Edition. 4to., stiff pictorial wrappers. Fine, in a minimally soiled slipcase. More about HANA
1919. [PHOTOGRAPHY- JAPAN]. HOSHITA Eishô, photographer. SCENES ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAYS ZEN SHIBERI TESTUDÔ SHASHIN-CHÔ. Urajio [Vladivostok] Taishô 8 [1919] Contemporary oblong folio rebacked. Album of 250 photo illustrations of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Allied Siberian Expedition 1918-1922 ranging in size from 3 5/8" x 5 1/8" to... More about SCENES ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAYS
1967. [PHOTOGRAPHY]. LOOK AT US... Words by William Saroyan, Photographs by Arthur Rothenstein. New York: Cowles, (1967). First edition, later printing. Bookstore stamp to ffe. Fine, in a dust Jacket. More about LOOK AT US
1937. [PHOTOGRAPHY] KIMURA Ihei. KOGATA KAMERA NO UTSUSHIKATA TSUKAIKATA. Tokyo, Genkôsha, Shôwa 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 about KOGATA KAMERA NO UTSUSHIKATA TSUKAIKATA
1934. [PHOTOGRAPHY] OZAKI Sankichi. POOTOREETO NO UTSUSHIKATA PORTRAIT Tokyo: ARS, Shôwa 14 [1939]. 8vo. Techniques for portrait photography by Ozaki (1912-1994), an important photographer in pre-war Japan. From the ARS series of practical handbooks on photographic technique. The original edition. Some rubbing on the spine, else very good in rubbed slipcase. More about POOTOREETO NO UTSUSHIKATA PORTRAIT
1938. [PHOTOGRAPHY] Tôkyô Shashin Kenkyûkai. KENTEN GASHÛ Dai Ni-jû-hasshû. Tôkyô & Ôsaka, Shôwa 13 [1938]. Bound, Western-style in bold patterned wrappers. Many photo-illustrations. A catalogue of the 28th exhibition of photography held by the Tôkyô Photo Research Society. The book itself is near perfect, the tied wraparound case is a...... More about KENTEN GASHÛ Dai Ni-jû-hasshû
1881. [RAILROAD]. BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF LOCOMOTIVES. BURNHAM, PARRY, WILLIAMS & CO., PHILADELPHIA. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1881. Second edition. 153 pp. + 18 original albumen photographs, mounted on stiff paper. 4to., darkest burgundy cloth over beveled boards, stamped in gilt and black. Moderate shelfwear, cloth... More about BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS: ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF LOCOMOTIVES
2008. RICHFIELD, Robert. A PIVOTAL PERSPECTIVE. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ROBERT RICHFIELD. (New York: Alan Klotz Gallery, 2008). Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated with 30 color plates showing Richfield's multiple-panel 360? panoramic photographs of urban and industrial views, train stations and gardens, and interiors of shops and restaurants. A 13 by 24"... More about PIVOTAL PERSPECTIVE
19. LEGRAND, Edy. ROUGET, Bernard, photographer, et al. ESQUISSE D'UN PORTRAIT DE LA MAROCAINE. [N.p., n.d., but perhaps Casablanca: Societe Shell du Maroc, circa 1950-1960]. Text in French. [16] pp. essay by Francois Bonjean, illustrated by Edy Legrand, accompanied by a group of 8 black and white photographs by Bernard... More about ESQUISSE D'UN PORTRAIT DE LA MAROCAINE
1869. SCOTT, Sir Walter. THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1871. Re-issue of the Author's edition, with 11 mounted albumen photographs, and wood engravings after Birket Foster and John Gilbert. [10] + 375 pp. 8vo., pebbled back morocco stamped in gilt and blind, with King's College... More about LADY OF THE LAKE
1918. [SIBERIAN EXPEDITION]. Teikoku Gunjin Kyôiku-kai, editors. SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHÔ. Tôkyô, Taishô Tsûshinsha, Taishô 7 [1918] Oblong folio, bound western-style in cloth, gilt. Illustrated throughout in collotype. Photos and cations on the International Siberian Expedition in support of the Whites against the Red Army, in which the Japanese played..... More about SHIBERI JIHEN KINEN SHASHIN-CHÔ
SMITH, Hamilton. ANNALS OF SCIENCE, BEING A RECORD OF THE INVENTIONS, AND IMPROVEMENTS IN APPLIED SCIENCE. Conducted by Hamilton L. Smith, A. M. Cleveland: Printed by Harris, Fairbanks & Co., 1852(-1853). Thirteen issues containing early articles and notices about photography. Most issues are 16 pp., except for Vol 2, No... More about ANNALS OF SCIENCE. 13 ISSUES
1890. STANLEY, Arthur Penrhyn. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co. [n.d. ca. 1890]. 361 pp. 8vo., purple and white cloth stamped in gilt. Frontispiece (illustration) plus 18 tipped-in plates, 13 of which are gelatin silver prints, the rest being b/w illustrations. All but two... More about HISTORICAL MEMORIALS OF CANTERBURY
1966. STEINBECK, John. AMERICA AND AMERICANS. Photographs edited by the staff of Studio Books,The Vicking Press.New York: The Vicking Press, (1966). First edition. Profusely illustrated throughout, some color. 207 pp. 4to., bound in half blue and half green cloth, gilt title at spine, endpaper maps. A little foxing along the... More about AMERICA AND AMERICANS
1889. MUIR GLACIER BEFORE DEVASTATING CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS TABER, I. W. [photographer]. ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF MUIR GLACIER AND MORAIN, GLACIER BAY, ALASKA. 8 x 9.5 inches, mounted on 11 x 14 inch board. Photo captioned at bottom: "4582. View of Muir Glacier and Morain, Glacier Bay, Alaska. Copyrighted by... More about PHOTOGRAPH: VIEW OF MUIR GLACIER AND MORAIN, GLACIER BAY ALASKA
1936. Unknown Japanese photographer. Photos of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. n.p.: n.p., 1936. A collection of loose b/w and sepia photographs ranging in size from 30 x 19.5cm to 1 small photo of 8 x 10cm. 55 photos are 16.5 x 12cm - 25 x 20cm and 75... More about PHOTOS OF 1936 BERLIN OLYMPICS
1969. Gakusei Ranyū Jiken Genba Shashin. 学生乱入事件現場写真. Showa 44 [1969]Spiral bound photo scrapbook of a student demonstration on November 13th, 1969 in Tokyo, Japan. Handwritten Japanese captions. 26 pages with 2 photos per page (1 photo missing) for a total of 51 black and white photos 8 x 12cm, complete... More about Gakusei Ranyū Jiken Genba Shashin. 学生乱入事件現場写真
1856. CARTE DE VISITE PHOTOGRAPH OF THE AUTHOR. VERY, Lydia L. A. POEMS. Andover [MA]: W. F. Draper, 1856. Inscribed by the author on front flyleaf, dated 1882; carte de visite portrait of author, (signed by Very on the verso), mounted to same page at bottom right corner. (there is... More about POEMS