Photography from Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB

Approx. 8" x 10" Arizona Mary was the only woman engaged in ox teaming at the time. She can be seen in the foreground at the right. The 8" x 10" photographs are uncommon. The original glass negatives are at the University of Southern California, C.C. Pierce (1861-1946) took the original images. While he is best known for his… Read more about this item

Circa 189-?. a Very nice 10 x 8 1/2" photograph with cowboys leading herd. The landscape is unidentified but is like several Texas examples at the National Cowboy and Western Museum. The rounded W brand is difficult to identify since there have been over 20,000 cattle brands in the state. In very good condition with a piece torn away… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1999. First Edition. Quarto. Limited edition, 1 of 1000 copies. A bibliography of children's books, most with photographic images. The photographers include those such as Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, photographer, and publisher Frederic Bruckmann, Harry Whittier Frees and more, especially those who used pets that were dressed up and photographed. A fine copy bound… Read more about this item

(The Rock Foundation, np/1986). First Edition. Quarto. Pesentation copy. Limited to 500 copies numbered and signed by the author. The present copy is #426 Signed twice and with a Birthday greeting to a close friend. "For...." /My excessively generous/ and altogether excellent/fishing partner, drinking buddy/and fine-feathered friend=/Cheers, Abrazos/Love/"Big Dog"/(and Happy Birthday)/ dated March 2013. This book was given by… Read more about this item

Fort Worth, Texas; (1986): Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. First Edition. Thick Quarto. Frontispiece, 339pp., Beautifully illustrated in color and in black and white. This is the first book devoted to the life and work of one of America's finest photographer, Laura Gilpin (1891-1979). She loved photographing the American Southwest. She was best known for her photographs of… Read more about this item

Salt Lake City; (1991): Gibbs-Smith Publishing. First Edition. Quarto. Limited edition. No. 38 of 100 copies, signed by Cole Weston on the Title Page. For thirty years after Edward Weston's death, his son Cole continued to turn out prints according to his father's will to be stamped: "Negative Edward Weston, Print by Cole Weston". In the introduction Cole talks… Read more about this item

New York, (1940): G.P. Putnam's Sons. First Edition. Octavo. 341pp., Inscribed by the author. Jackson was an explorer, writer, photographer and painter who recorded the American frontier life for the government and whose pictures of the Yellowstone area were important factor in establishment of the national park there. Jackson was the first to record the frontier life and scenery… Read more about this item

Garden City, New York: Hanover House, 1959. First Edition. Quarto. 128 pages. Weegee's remarkable darkroom prints using ink were masterpieces not only of the inner part of New York, but he was also a printmaker--halftone/offset lithography/gravure processes and with much to teach the photographer. While this work is profusely illustrated with examples, he also explains the process to reach… Read more about this item

Two remarkable black and white photographs taken in Los Angeles during the visits of Roosevelt, his friend Meyer Lissner, Frank Daggett, the Director of the Exposition Park Museum, and Frank Shearer. Each photo identifies the four men with the date in pencil on the reverse. The first photograph shows the four leaving the museum. The second shows the four… Read more about this item

New York; (1979): Newsweek Books. First Edition. Octavo. With a photograph of an Asian child signed and inscribed by the author in a separate envelope. The book is 269pp., (3) pp. index. The author, a Pulitzer prize winner became UPI's Saigon bureau chief at the age of 24, won a Pulitzer prize at the age of 25 and was… Read more about this item

Cincinnati (1911): Jennings and Graham. First Edition. Octavo. 469pp. illustrated by the author with photographic images of various birds. The author "furnishes a historical and geographical setting for her study of what "Moses recorded in history, what Solomon said in his wisdom, what David sang in ecstasy and what Job cried out in his agony." Along with several other… Read more about this item

5" x 7" The original is in the Library of Congress in the Grantham collection (see below). As Jack London wrote about life in the slums of London's East End, he disguised himself as a stranded sailor. He describes them in The People of the Abyss where the poor hoped for the meager fare offered by the Salvation Army.… Read more about this item

1927. An 8" x 10" vintage movie photograph of Babe Ruth and his co-star Anna Q. Nilsson in the now lost film "Babe Comes Home". The photograph has attached the information from the Movie Company First National Pictures, Inc. with a short summary of the story. First National found this film was a huge hit at the box office.… Read more about this item

Boston; (1980): New York Graphic Society. First Edition. Oblong Quarto. 3rd printing. Signed by Adams on Time/Life bookplate. 28pp. text, with full page glossy photographic images following of the beautiful landscape of Yosemite, trees and mountains. Bound in 1/4 maroon cloth over blue cloth, spine lettering gilt, slight fading to edges, in unclipped pictorial dust jacket with two small,… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1944. Quarto. 95 unnumbered pages. Lt. Jack Dixon was the leader of the 150 Coast Guard photographers, and this was his first major work. Each picture captures a line of FDR's famous prayer which he recited on D-Day. Bound in beige paper covered boards lettered and decorated in red and black, boards bowed a… Read more about this item

New York; (1995): Random House. First Edition. Quarto. 256 pages, photo index, signed by photographer A. Liberman on the endpaper. Preface by Calvin Tompkins. Liberman's photographs include not only such major figures in the arts as Capote, Cartier-Brisson, Baryshnikov, Braque, Chanel, Picasso, Dior, Horowitz, Jasper Johns, Irving Penn, Arthur Miller, and many others but also his photographs of the… Read more about this item

Nursing Scrapbook from Hawaii in 1943 to the Government Hospital in Springfield, Missouri in the period just after World War II. There are 361 black-and-white photographs of which 147 are of nurses, others are nurses with their beaus, hospitals, other family. The key nurses are identified from the newspaper articles featuring them. Hawaii WWII/Springfield, Missouri Gov Rehab. Photographs are… Read more about this item

circa 1906, 8 x 5 photograph shows damage caused by the earth quake of the Memorial church on the [Leland] Stanford campus.

Each of the four original postcards were never mailed which because of their size (10 3/4" x 3 1/2") would not have survived postal handling. The Harwood Photo Service was in Medford, Oregon in 1925 and lasted until 1933 though these photographs would have been taken circa 1925-1930) [see Rogue Valley Photographers website]. The costs of… Read more about this item

4 pages (five with overwriting on page 3). Edward Pickering had just graduate from Harvard and became a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He later made the Harvard College Observatory known and became a leading writer on astronomy and after questioning Niels Bohr on atomic structure, he became convinced of Bohr's theories. He is writing to his… Read more about this item