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Near fine. Green pebbled leatherette album, 7 x 10 inches. Photos measure in the 2.75 x 4.5" - 3.5 x 5" rangemounted with paper photo corners on dry black paper with short, closed edgetears to the top of the first four leaves, with a small loss to the gutter corner of the first leaf; album and photographs otherwise Near Fine. Series with deckled edges have stamps on the verso: "10 point Nutone Process, Certified by the Photo Finishing Institutes" and "James Lett Co." dated June 1, 1936 and March 16, 1937" (the anniversary of the flood). Others unmarked. A sober and sublime collection of images showing the city post-deluge: fragile-looking steel mills, submerged trolley cars, men in canoes paddling across gas station signs, etc. The Great St. Patrick's Day Flood is considered the worst in the city's history, destroying over 100,000 buildings and paralyzing nearly every facet of life and industry. The album includes many views of Pittsburgh's downtown--famously situated at the confluence of the… Read More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine. Printed folder containing 8pp essay + 6 folded leaves with text facing each photograph; 7 photographs in total. A mild ex-library copy that does not appear to have ever been in circulation: card pocket to the inside cover, patch of discoloration across the spine as from a label. Otherwise Near Fine with faint sunning and creasing to the bottom of the folder with a bend to the bottom right corner throughout. Serving time for a drug charge, Lawson became an inmate photographer in the Joliet Prison Bureau of Identification, where he uncovered a stash of glass plate negatives from earlier inmate photographers ordered to produce photographs showing the humanitarian side of the prison for publicity. Stunning images from one of the most recognizable names in twentieth-century prisons, often referenced in literature and popular culture from mentions in 'The Blues Brothers' to Jack Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Edgar Lee Masters,… Read More

New York: Random House, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing of the stated First Edition. Cloth hardcover 4to, n.p. Introduction by Toni Morrison, afterword by Meyer Shapiro. Fine in a VG+ dust jacket that has some surface scuffing and sticker ghost on the rear panel. Incredibly lush color images from Bergman's road trip through the backroads of America with a 35mm camera, a classic photobook of modern American photography.

New York: Essential Books, 1944. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Hardcover 12mo, 258pp. Near Fine in VG clipped DJ with light soil. Profuse halftone illustrations. Includes: What Is Microfilming?; Highlights Of Microphotographic History; Uses And Advantages Of Microfilming; Processing Microfilm; Enlarging Microfilm; Reading And Filing Microfilm,

New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1950. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover 8vo, np. Photo essay of an aspiring model's plight, highlighting the lowbrow gigs and absurd concepts of products and their advertising campaigns. Striking photographs with bold graphic design, printed in black and white. A Very Good copy with rubbing wear and minor creasing to the covers. Dravneek was a commercial photographer who worked with model Pat Burrage for this cheeky satire. .

New York: Random House, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Stated first edition, 1999. Large hardcover 4to, 12.75 x 10 inches. Near Fine in VG dust jacket with modest rubbing and wear to the edges, including a 1-inch closed tear at the upper edge of the rear panel. Contents clean and unmarked. Nice first edition copy of this powerful collaboration.