Minamata by Smith, W. Eugene; Aileen M. Smith - 1975

Art Data, 1997-10-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Very carefully read. Cover and dust jacket have the slightest of wear. Card slipcase is worn and marked. Heavy book so extra postage may be requested.

Various Photographers , 1930. A group of 32 photographs, 30 b&w and 2 color, ranging in size from 4" x 6" to 7" x 9 1/2", 10 circa 1930's, the rest 1957-1997, 8 SIGNED ( signees to be determined). Credited photographers are: Ginger Gamage, Forbes, Jay Dee (Ft. Worth, TX), V. Sladon, (NYC), and John Lindquist. Some of the photos have writing verso identifying the subjects, including one of Svetlova with Claudio Arrau and Mantovani. Several appear to be other noted people in the world of dance. And the 1930's photos, several of which are signed, appear to be friends of Svetlovas. Marina Svetlova ( 1923-2009) had a carrer in ballet that began as a child in 1931 and carried into the 1960's. She was a soloist with the Original Ballet Russe and a ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. In 1969 she became a Professor of Ballet and chairwoman of the ballet department at Indiana University in Bloomington until 1992, gaining a reputation as a major educator in dance. A… Read More

Altadena, California: Twelvetrees Press, 1989. Limited Edition. Texts by John Yau and Gus Blaisdell; author's afterword. Hardcover. Small folio. Black cloth with silver-stamped cross on front and rear, housed in matching slipcase. Color frontis. Illustrated with 4 color plates, 44 photographic reproductions in halftone and 4 b/w reproductions of drawings. Fine in Fine slipcase. One of 100 signed and numbered copies (#57)

London: Trigraph Limited, 1985. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 2nd Edition. Brown cloth coverd boards in illustrated dustjacket. The two volumes of the first 1879 edition are combined in one in this edition. The text is reproduced in full, except for a few corrections, and so are all the photographs. The original layout has been revised for convenience. Contributions by Lady Hunt and Ialeen Gibson Cowan. Fronispiece portret of John Thomson. 59 reproductions of photographs with accompanying text by John Thomson. 3 pages with reproductions of engravings. The book is in near fine condition. Corners are sharp, pages are clean and bright. The dustjacket has light edge wear and creasing and 2 small tears to lower spine end (repaired with tape from the inside). xxiii [122 pp.], 32,5 x 25 cm. .

1/1/1937. Hardcover. 1st printing; inscribed by Margaret Bourke-White on half title; no dust jacket; tan cloth covers with title in red box on cover and spine; covers soiled and scuffed; hinges weak; endpapers foxed; text clean. G

Italy, 1880. Book. Illus. by James Anderson. Very Fine. No Binding. 1880's , Roma ,Itlay . James Anderson , Bromide / Chloride print size 10" x 12" . by James Anderson . We have the right and left view of the monument tomb . The angels are just beautiful to look at .This one # 2217 is a very fine print with great contrast . You can purchase both #2217 and #2218 for one cost. Printed in the photo at the bottom " 2217 - ROMA - Dettaglio del Monumento degli Stuart - Canova _ Chiesa di S. Pietro ". GibbsBooks.

Italy, 1880. Book. Illus. by James Anderson. Very Fine. No Binding. 1880's James Anderson , Roma , Italy , Bromide / Chloride print . size 10"x 12" with a hard backer board by James Anderson . Printed in the photo at the bottom " 8604 - FIRENZE - Santa Cecilia - Donatello - ( da copia ) - Museo Nazionale - Anderson - ROMA ". See more of this art at : GibbsBooks..

Washington ,DC.: Smithsonian Press / N.M.A.A., 1995. Book. Illus. by Various Artist. New. 1st Edition.. Washington,DC,1st. ed. 1995,hardcover,red cloth with a past down photo,240 page in a custom made slipcase .One of the finest books ever published on the daguerreotype .With more then 150 masterpieces of art , some of which have never been published before.This is the catalog for the exhibition of the National Museum of American Art on Daguerreian photography that showed in 1995 A very short printing and rare book now out of print.Condition ,Very Fine. Size: 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

Göttingen: Steidl, 2016. A fine copy. Oblong folio (36 x 29 cm) 31 color photographs. Cloth; slipcase. Additional photograph in cloth chemise. DELUXE LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 copies signed by Burtynsky with an original photograph, from an edition of 150 (three sets of 50 copies, each with one of three images) plus 15 artist's proofs. The additional image is that found of p. 4 of the book. "The images in this book are not about the battles being fought on the ground. Rather, they examine this ancient method of providing one of the most basic elements of our diet; as primitive industry and as abstract two-dimensional human marks upon the landscape." - Edward Burtynsky. For this series, the photographer traveled to Gujarat, India, to make images of the Little Ranch of Kutch, a region that is home to more than 100,000 salt workers extracting around one million tons of salt from the floodwaters of the Arabian Sea each year. "Salt has been their main industry for the last four hundred years.… Read More

1/1/1937. Hardcover. 1st printing; inscribed by Margaret Bourke-White on half title; no dust jacket; tan cloth covers with title in red box on cover and spine; covers soiled and scuffed; hinges weak; endpapers foxed; text clean. G