B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, with some beginning toning, especially to the front cover. "His was a world of mountains and woodlands and the vast, timeless reach of the western landscape. If a country as a limitless as this can ever be said to have posed for its portrait, certainly the photographer behind the camera was Ansel Adams." Due to the extreme weight of this book, postage will have to be determined at... View More...
B&W Photographs; Special edition "prepared for Time /Life Books subscribers with the signature of the photographer" This copy is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, with some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners. Adam's signature is on a bookplate adhered to the front endpaper. "Ansel Adams took his first photographs of Yosemite Valley at the age of fourteen, using a Box Brownie. Since that day more than sixty years ago the Sierra Nevada has dominated the mind, a... View More...
Color Illustrations; Limited to 2500 copies, this is number 1632, signed and numbered by the author. Pink silk covered boards with a pink silk tray case. The book is in Very Good+ condition. The slipcase has unfortunately, got marks / ground-in dirt to the top and bottom covers, though not the sides. The book itself is mostly clean and bright. There are two spots with fingerprints on the front cover, and two light fingerprints on the the rear cover, along with a few tiny spots of discoloration that look vaguely like rust. The text pages are crisp and clean. This is copy # 1632 of the worldwide... View More...
B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription by the author, on the title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author View More...
B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The reverse of the front endpaper has a previous owner's inked gift notation. The price clipped dust jacket is in clean, crisp condition. This book includes an introduction by Margery Mann. "Imogen Cunningham took her first photograph in Seattle in 1901, following instructions which she obtained from the International Correspondence School. She learned commercial platinum printing in the studio of Edward Curtis an... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a small format booklet / magazine with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Good only condition. The covers have noticeable toning and spotting, mostly to the spine. The top inner hinge corner has water spotting that has stuck the pages together. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a small chip to the top edge that has affected several pages. "Kodakery was a monthly periodical about photography, a journal for amateur photographers published by the Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, New York. Its articles covered topics of popula... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This is a small format booklet / magazine with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The booklet is in Good only condition. The covers have noticeable toning and spotting to the spine and bottom corners. The top inner hinge corner has water spotting that has stuck the pages together. The text pages are generally clean and bright. "Kodakery was a monthly periodical about photography, a journal for amateur photographers published by the Eastman Kodak Company Rochester, New York. Its articles covered topics of popular photography and were richly illustrated with photos. The f... View More...
B&W and Color Illustrations; This edition was published in 1999 in Cairo, Egypt. The book in Fine condition and has clamshell case. Possible True First Edition - published prior to the 2000 issue by the American University in Cairo. Both case and front cover of the book have photographic pastedowns. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The clamshell case in Very Good+ condition and has several spots of light discoloration / rubbing. "Félix Bonfils (8 March 1831 ? 1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle Ea... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "With the invention of photography in the 1830s, the possibility of capturing the events of war to enhance public awareness was first explored. Although ideally photographers would have liked to accurately record the rapid action of combat, the technical insufficiency of early photographic equipment in recording movement made this impossible. The daguerreotype, an early form of ... View More...
B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several small edge nicks, tears and wrinkles. The spine ends and corners of the dust jacket has wrinkles and edge wear. "The saga of America's western frontier has an endless fascination. Countless stories, both fact and fiction, have been told of the heroism, drama, and tragedy of the settlement of the West." View More...
B&W Photographs; This edition is paperback. Spine ends & corners of book covers have a bit of light bumping and rubbing. The spine joints of the book cover have some light, but noticeable wear and there is some light rubbing and edge wear to the edges of the book covers. There is one very small bump / nick to the top front cover of the book by the spine joint. The rear cover of the book has a couple of lightish scratches. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are a solid green color. Overall, a very good+ copy. "To call Dorothea Lange a Documentary Photographer is an overs... View More...
B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This copy is missing the accompanying slipcase. Purple / Burgundy cloth covered boards have gilt lettering and decorations (in the style of the Gilded Age) to the front cover and spine of the book. There is some light / faint spotting (water spotting) to the top edges of the book cover which can only be seen if you hold the book at an angle. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The book is illustrated throughout with reproductions of actual pho... View More...
B&W and Color Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge nicks, tears and some ground-in dirt. There is a large chip to the top spine end of the dust jacket. "The fascinating world of photography is reviewed for you in this new and exciting edition of U. S. Camera Annual 1963. Presented in glorious color and black and white, the Annual allows you to be an eyewitness to the great pictures recorded on film during the past ye... View More...
B&W and Color Photographs; This is an oversized paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean and bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some light rubbing to the spine joints (especially where the staples are). The text pages are clean and bright. "Mission San Xavier del Bac (Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Na... View More...
Color & B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text block is slightly loose. The text pages are clean and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has some beginning fading to the spine but is otherwise clean and crisp. "Since its invention in the nineteenth century, photography has been the subject of ongoing critical examination and dispute as well as the focus of enormous popular fascination. Interest in the history, theory and practice of photography has never been more intense than i... View More...
B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine - condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a slight slant to the spine of the book. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's book plate adhered to the front endpaper. The dust jacket is crisp and clean with the exception of some light toning / fading to the spine. "In 1942, Edward Steichen - at sixty-two already a legendary figure in photography - tried to enlist in the United States Navy. Although his age raised a few eyebrows (and doubts) , Ste... View More...
B&W Photographs; This is an oversized paperback book (folio sized) . The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. This edition is limited to 4000 unnumbered copies. The cardstock covers are in generally clean bright condition, but there is one crease to the rear cover, and some light curling to the corner edges. The text pages are clean and bright. The text pages are clean and bright. "In 1949 Teske left Olive Hill and moved to a small studio in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. He launched into a series of creative photographic experiments in which he both manipulated a... View More...
