Publisher:
Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1964. First Edition, stated.
Seller ID: 60850bd
Quarto, charcoal gray cloth (hardcover), 192 pp. Near-Fine in a like, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: Picture Gallery Pioneers is a photo-history of the photo industry and its infancy in the West, a picture gallery of pre-Civil War wagon trains and railroads... of pueblos and tent towns; of Denver, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Yellowstone and Yosemite; of placer mining and camps and other Western Fronts; and of the old picture galleries themselves. View More...
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New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1989. First Impression.
Seller ID: 4320s
Square octavo, green cloth & blue boards, silver letters, 134 pp. B & w illus. Fine in like dust jacket. A photo-journalist tribute to American ranching and Farming, set in southwestern New Mexico. ÔIn words and pictures, the author and photographer portray a community with deep pioneer roots and tell the story of the people who live there today, people determined that the way of life they know and love will not perish...' View More...
Second edition. Folio, gilt-stamped green cloth (hardcover), [xviii], [ii], 120 plates. Photogravures. Good; spine a bit dull, some shelf wear, especially to head and foot of spine. View More...
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Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1999. First Edition.
Seller ID: 60810bd
Signed by the Author. Quarto, russet cloth (hardcover), 252 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Exposing the Wilderness explores New York State's Adirondack Mountains through the lives and images of six early-twentieth-century postcard photographers who left a revealing visual legacy of the region and its culture just after the turn of the century. Robert Bogdan combines a richly descriptive text with striking illustrations to create vivid biographical sketches of these pioneer photographers who worked their individual styles to illuminate the Adirondacks, its inhabitants, a... View More...
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Ochopee, FL: Big Cypress Gallery, (2002). Second Edition.
Seller ID: 50596fd
Signed by the Photographer and dated 1/17/2009. Oblong octavo, silver-stamped black boards (hardcover), [iv], [44] pp. Thirty-seven photographic plates with captions and occasional commentary. Fine in Fine dust jacket. View More...
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Paris: Arts Et Metiers Graphiques, March 1933. First Edition.
Seller ID: vas5306
Text in French. Quarto, spiral-bound, stiff green wrappers, [132] pp, 118 Heliogravure reproductions. Color neogravure frontis plate by Man Ray. Good+, with wear to wrappers, including quarter sized chip to lower cover of upper cover (interior not impacted). This oversized volume will require additional fees for overseas shipping -- please check the United States Postal Services website to research fees for a Priority International Medium Flat Rate Box. View More...
Publisher:
Sydney, N.S.: Gordon Photographic Ltd., [1985]. Second Edition.
Seller ID: 16151scs
Folio, green boards (hardcover), gilt letters, glossy pages, full-color photographic illus., [94] pp. Near-Fine, with former-owner stamp and small notation to ffep, in a Fine dust jacket. View More...
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Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1982. First Edition.
Seller ID: 5635fd2
Square 4to, cream cloth. Photos throughout. Fine in dust jacket. Photography. Large volume will require additional postage for international orders. View More...
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New York: Villard, 1997. First Edition, stated.
Seller ID: 51205bd
Oblong quarto, tan boards (hardcover), gilt letters and stamped illustration to upper cover, [xi] 112 pp + [iii] pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From dust jacket: Fred and Don Imus grew up on a 35,000 -acre cattle ranchin Arizona. On trips with their parents throughout the Southwest, they came to love their surroundings: from the red rocks of Sedona to the Grand Canyon at sunrise, from the white sands of New Mexico to the Hopi reservation at Second Mesa, to monuments great and small. The area seduced them, so much so that the brothers have devoted endless hours and adve... View More...
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Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (1972). First Edition.
Seller ID: 9985gcs
Signed by the Author (Joe A. Bailey). Octavo, black textured boards (hardcover), silver, gilt, & red letters, xix, 347 pp. Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: The Ògolden ageÓ of the American 35mm camera coincided with three tumultuous decades in American history. Born in the depression years of the 1930s, the American 35mm reached maturity during World War II. If you are a Òcamera bugÓ today, or if you were one during those years, you will delight in the story Lahue and Bailey present in these pages -- the story of an energetic and innovative America and an era when ... View More...
Octavo, paperbound (full-color illus. stiff red wrappers), 96 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges. From lower cover: A camera that could take several photographs at one sitting was invented in France in the 1850s. As a means of producing a good, cheap likeness it surpassed anything that had gone before. The finished pictures were mounted on small cards of 2 1/2 by 4 inches: this was the size of visiting cards and the photographs came to be known as Ôcartes-de-visite'. Slow at first to be appreciated, once Queen Victoria and her family had been photographed in 1860 -- and the prints... View More...
Publisher:
New York Graphic Society, 1968. Revised Edition.
Seller ID: 60811bd
Quarto, yellow cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 176 pp. Very Good+, with light foxing, in a Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The Daguerreotype in America is the lavishly and beautifully illustrated history of the earliest days of photography, from the discovery of Daguerre to the complete acceptance of the new art in America. From 1839 to the outbreak of the Civil War, thousands of daguerreotypes were taken all over the United States. There was not a city that did not boast one or more ÒDaguerrian Artists,Ó and not a village or hamlet unvisited by the traveling dag... View More...
Publisher:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1999.
Seller ID: 60821bd
Quarto, paperbound (stiff, photo. illus. gold wrappers), 359 pp. Near-Fine, with lightly rubbed edges. Contents: Foreword by Kenneth Finkel; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Glossary of Early Photographic Terms; Directory of Photographers; Index by Location; Sources. View More...
