(Brooklyn, NY: Albertype Company), nd [1910]. Oblong folio. 36 views on 24 plates [rectos only]. Original gray wrappers (edges frayed, soiled), with mounted pictorial onlay on front wrapper, tied; some internal soiling, some corner wear to a few plates, a good copy. Large format viewbook of the Daytona area, featuring..... More
Columbia, (SC): USC Press, 1951. First edition. 4to. (10), 118 pp. Photographic essay on the Pee Dee watershed. A 28-page introduction by Dabbs and 83 captioned photos by Julien, each with a short description at the rear, illus. endpapers. Illustrated tan boards, illustrated dust jacket (price-clipped, unevenly faded at the..... More
Six different images (one is a duplicate, though printed lighter), mounted on stiff cardboard. No date. Cardboard margins are chipped & worn, though images are intact (save for a bit of the upper left corner of one photo). Four of the images are "Florida Views" (or merely "Florida") by Starbird..... More
No date (ca.1890s?). Four are stamped on verso "L.S. Morrison, Photographer, Orange City, Fla."; two have labels on verso "Morrison & Sussex, Orange City, Volusia Co., Florida., Photographers & Dealers in Florida Views, Curios, Reptiles, etc."; one is blank on verso. Pencil notes, also on verso, variously identify the photos..... More
Jan. 1943 - Jan. 1946. A group of 28 black & white photos, 8 x 10 in. (one slightly smaller), most stamped on verso with a date, file number, and brief historical explanation. Most of the images are from 1945. All are clear, bright. The PT Boat images, four from..... More
South Lancaster, MA: 1884 (?). Large format photograph, 10 x 8 inches, mounted on card stock (corner chipped, some other minor edgewear), picturing the two-story brick and clapboard building with two large entryways ("Hook & Ladder" and "Chemical" signs above), a horse-drawn truck, with hooks and ladders, in the foreground..... More
Atlanta, GA: Atlanta Chamber of Commerce (printed Lester Book & Stationery Co., Atlanta), nd [1907]. Published several times, 1900-1915. Oblong 8vo. (48) pp. Combination promotional and viewbook, 24 leaves picturing buildings in the city, businesses, schools, churches, private residences, etc., with descriptions or economic statistics printed on versos. This issue..... More
(Brooklyn, N.Y. Albertype Co.), nd [ca. 1910]. Published several times, 1900-1920. Oblong 4to. Title leaf and 24 leaves picturing buildings in the city, businesses, schools, churches, private residences, etc. [with blank versos]. Larger format than usually encountered for viewbooks with photo-gravures by the Albertype Company. OCLC locates five copies (Columbia..... More
(Columbus, OH: Ward Bros. c1884). First edition. Oblong 12mo. 24-panel series of sepia views of New Orleans, folded accordion-style, 13 panels bearing two views; survey, including some bird's-eye views, of public and private buildings, churches, monuments, hotels, steamboats, plantation life, cemeteries, schools, and recreational spots. OCLC locates several editions, but..... More
4 1/4 x 6 1/2 to 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches (mostly in the larger range), circa 1900, mounted on thick card stock in a contemporary album. Rich, striking images of St. Augustine's architecture, commercial district, hotels, beach fronts, fort, African-American business district and residential area, vegetation, and inhabitants..... More
Charlottesville, VA: [ca. 1924]. Photograph, 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches, picturing the statue that was conceived by Henry M. Shrady, completed by Leo Lentelli, and presented to the city of Charlottesville in 1924 by Paul G. McIntire, to serve as the centerpiece to the one-acre midtown park previously donated..... More
No date (ca. early 1900s). The photos were intended for sale to illustrate letters, "Un-mounted Views for amateurs, 3x3. 35 cts. per doz. Cheaper than to make them yourself." Examples here have been mounted on salmon colored decorated back boards, with the photographer's advertisements around the margins. One of the..... More
A group of 32 individual black & white photos, 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in., with captions in white ink in the margins and numbered in pen on verso, documenting the group's travels in Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. Accompanied by a 4pp. typed list of..... More
(New Orleans, LA: Washburn), nd [ca. 1880]. Photograph. Backmark: "Washburn / 109 Canal Street, New Orleans." Very good. (#5598). More
One photograph features the company at attention in front of a forested compound, each soldier standing at the side of his mount, rifles slung; the second pictures the soldiers in a defensive formation on an open field with trees in the background, the privates in a circle, with the officer..... More
Brunswick, GA: Vickers & Mann and Fleming & Bryant, nd [ca. 1910]. Eight of the cards were published by Vickers & Mann, the other 15 by Fleming & Bryant (10 of them numbered, not consecutively, as though from a series). Three cards darkened, as though sunned, several others with some..... More
Baltimore, MD: I. & M. Ottenheimer, Pub. n.d. (ca.1905?). Illustrated paperwraps. Oblong 8vo.; (31pp.). Photographic views of Washington, DC. Front wrap creased in two places (light creasing throughout from folding into a back pocket perhaps?); light edgewear. Very good. More
NP: np, No date. Early 1900s? Original photograph, 19.5 x 15.5 cm. image, mounted on stiff card stock, 30 x 35 cm. A small white ink number appears in the lower left corner of the image. A female instructor points at a blackboard filled with chalk images of musical notation..... More
Charlottesville, (VA): U. Press of Virginia, (c1986). First edition. 8vo. xiii, (2), 265 pp. Illustrated from photographs, primarily by Stieglitz, plates, portraits. Consideration of a "loose coalition of cultural radicals in pre-World War I New York City, [dreaming] of changing the world with pens, paint brushes, and new publications." Fine..... More
[Phoenix, AZ?]: The photographer, 2003. First edition, 1/500 copies, but noted in pencil on the final leaf "4/20 – printer's proof". 8vo. Title page, one page of text, 14 full-page and five double-page uncaptioned color photographic portraits of resident's of Phoenix's old Westward Hotel," converted into an assisted living home..... More
San Francisco, (CA): Chronicle Books, (c1993). First edition (the paperback issued simultaneously with the hardback). 8vo. 179 pp. Illustrated from photographs, plates, with captions. Norman's photographs "capture the fullness of empty space"; Norman (1905-1997) was an American photographer, writer, editor, arts patron, political activist, and protege of Alfred Stieglitz. Fine..... More
Various places in the Pacific, 1943-1945. 129 postcards (including a few duplicates), almost all 3 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches, including 83 black-and-white real photo postcards, 41 color real photo postcards, and four color illustrated postcards, picturing scenes of native life in Hawaii, surfers, a luau, hula dancers, pineapple fields..... More
The eleven views, printed on stiff card stock, bordered in orange, bear the publishing imprint of W.H. Cushing, "Opposite Putnam House, Palatka, FL., n.d. During the 1870's and 1880's Cushing is known to have issued 96 views of Florida. The scenes included here are a view of Mrs. H.B. Stowe's..... More
[Pakistan: ca.1930s-1940s, a few later]. Two albums with approximately 125 black and white snapshot photographs, most 2.5 x 4 in., belonging to the Daggitt family, with a few ms. notes on three portrait cabinet cards laid into one of the albums, identifying additional family members. The matching albums are approx..... More
New York: Huntington Press, 1932. First edition, 1/160 copies (this #117), this one signed by the author at the end of his short prose piece on page two. Large 4to. (8), 236, (1) pp. 117 portrait photographs, by the author, of prominent public figures, authors, athletes, entertainers, etc. (including Achmed..... More
