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The Image of the east: Nineteenth-Century Near Eastern Photographs by Bonfils From the Collections of the Harvard Semitic Museum
by Gavin, Carney E. S.; edited by Ingeborg Endter O'reilly
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- 1982
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Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Discussion of the importance & scope of the work of the Bonfils family, Huguenots who moved to Beirut in 1876, where they founded an important photographic studio, traveling & photographing notable sites and scenes, but also ordinary people, throughout the near east. Harvard's Semitic Museum appears to hold the largest organized group… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Vanguard: A Photographic Essay on the Black Panthers
by Baruch, Ruth-Marion & Pirkle Jones
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- 1970
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- 9780807005521
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Boston: Beacon Press, 1970. Photos of the Black Panther Party and their audience, taken in late 1968, after Baruch spoke to Kathleen Cleaver at an event; Eldridge Cleaver, notes Baruch in her introduction, asked, "Why do your photographs have feeling, and none of the work I've seen of us by other photographers has?" Baruch and her husband & collaborator Jones… Read more about this item Item Price
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California the Beautiful: Camera Studies by California Artists with Selections in Prose and Verse from Western Writers
by Elder, Paul; compiler
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- 1911
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San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1911. Anthology of verse & prose accompanying often-related photos of California architecture & natural beauty; authors include Joaquin Miller, George Wharton James, Charlotte Perkins [Gilman] Stetson, David Starr Jordan, Frank Norris, Bret Harte, Gelett Burgess, Gertrude Atherton, Adeline Knapp, Olive Harper, John Muir, Stewart Edward White, Helen Hunt Jackson, Charles Keeler; photographers include Oscar… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of Madison, the Capitol of Wisconsin; including the Four Lake Country to July, 1874, with an Appendix of Notes on Dane County and its Towns.
by Durrie, Daniel S.
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- 1874
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Madison: Author / Atwood & Culver, 1874. Early history of Wisconsin's capital city, based in part on settlers' reminiscences; including Indian troubles, traders, surveys, politics, schools, churches, Civil War, Capital buildings, railroads, boats. This is the rather scarcer illustrated edition, with 19 mounted albumen photos by "Jones" on ten leaves, including portraits, buildings, & views. Durrie was Librarian at the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Uncalled
by Dunbar, Paul Laurence
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- 1899
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New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1899. Dunbar's first novel of a white minister's struggles; not well-received by the critics of the day. Hardcover, as pictured, cover design by George Wharton Edwards. Second printing, 1899; first published the previous year. General wear, some rubbing & minor stains, endsheets tanned, bookseller's label (Crescent Book Store, Tipton, Iowa) inside front cover; neat… Read more about this item Item Price
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Modernist Women and Visual Cultures: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Photography and Cinema
by Humm, Maggie
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- 2002
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- 9780748616831
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Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002. Scholarly study of the photography of Woolf & Bell, as well as other women writing on cinema & visual culture, drawing "on a range of photographic, psychoanalytic and visual theory, on modernist criticism, and on extensive, original archive research", with many photos published here for the first time. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows… Read more about this item Item Price
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Fourteen American Monuments
by Friedlander, Lee
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- 1977
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New York: Eakins Press Foundation, 1977. Highlights of Friedlander's larger work, which featured 213 of his photos of public monuments & statues across the country; presumably issued as a souvenir or prospectus of the traveling exhibition noted in the brief text. Stapled oblong pamphlet, as pictured, with only light wear, no marks or creases. Text/plates clean; 12 pages counting the… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Manual of Photographic Chemistry, including the Practice of the Collodion Process.
by Hardwick, T. Frederick [Hardwich]
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- 1855
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New York: S. D. Humphrey, 1855. First American edition of this important early manual of photography, with sections on preparing & using salts of silver, development of the image by use of reducing agents, fixing the image, nature & properties of light, chemistry & photographic properties of the collodio-iodide of silver, positive & negative collodion photographs, theory of positive printing,… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Very Young Gymnast [with] A Very Young Skater
by Krementz, Jill
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- 1978
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- 9780394500805
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. Third and fifth titles in Krementz's groundbreaking & affirming series documenting skilled, talented & dedicated girls in sports. Each is a stated first edition (first printing), noting no later printings. Hardcovers in jackets, as pictured. Light wear to books; minor edge fading & bumps; Skater has a gift note; minor chipping & short tears… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon on the Colorado
by Porter, Eliot; edited bt David Brower
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- 1963
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San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1963. Sumptuous photography book, with the photographs printed on laquered Kromekote "to achieve maximum brilliance and fidelity", recording the spectacular gorge in remote Utah carved by the Colorado River, and flooded by the building of a dam in 1963; the book is a remembrance and a warning. Its prehistoric sites hurriedly studied before the dam was… Read more about this item Item Price
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Pro Stock Drag Racing of the 1970s Photo Archive: From Stockers to Doorslammers
by Koby, Howard V.
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- 2005
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- 9781583881415
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Hudson, WI: Iconografix, 2005. Scarce collection of photos from the glory days of drag racing. Oblong paperback, as pictured. Light wear, clean & unmarked, minor chipping to the edges. 126 pages + 2 pages publisher's ads; mostly captioned photos, b/w & color. . First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 10¼" by 8½". Item Price
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Mucho Sol
by Álvarez Bravo, Manuel; Teresa del Conte
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- 1989
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- 9789681632427
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México D.F. [Mexico City]: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1989. Monograph on the influential Mexican photographer, one of the publisher's Colección Río de Luz series. Text in Spanish. Oblong paperback, as pictured. Stated Primera edición (first printing). Covers rubbed, minor wear, small dent to front cover, minor tanning to pages. Text/plates clean; [96] pages; 64 b/w plates. Text in Spanish.. First… Read more about this item Item Price
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Vintage Swimsuits: Images from the Walker Photo Collection
by Walker, Rex P.
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- 2008
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No Place: [author] / Blurb, 2008. Reproduces trhe author's large collection of amateur photographs of (mostly) women in swimsuits, "Sifted from albums and shoeboxes", from the 1890s or so in to the 1950s, with a very few more recent, mostly b/w or sepia-toned, a few in color. Self-published through the Blurb website in 2008, no longer available there, nor can… Read more about this item Item Price
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Capital Airlines: a Nostalgic Flight into the Past
by Baptie, Charles
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- 1996
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Annandale, VA: Charles Baptie Studios, 1996. Photographic account of the airline from its early days, "A Pictorial review of some of the times in the life of a once great airline"; Baptie, a notable photojournalist, worked in PR for the company before its merger with United. Hardcover in jacket as pictured; stated second printing. Light wear to book; jacket shows… Read more about this item Item Price
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Der Akt in Der Photographie / The Stereoscopic Nude / Le Nu Stéréoscopique 1850-1930 [complete with viewer]
by Nazarieff, Serge
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- 1987
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- 9783892680253
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Berlin: TACO, 1987. Compilation of stereographic nudes, featuring many small reproductions in stereo, some enlarged single images. INCLUDES the original thick plastic glasses. The cover title is Stereo Akte - Nudes - Nus 1850-1930. Text in German, French, & English; first published (in French only) two years earlier. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Shows minor wear, some indentations inside… Read more about this item Item Price
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Century of a City: A Photographic History of Beloit, Wisconsin 1901-2000
by [Behling, Bill, et al; editors]
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- 2002
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- 9780972309004
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Beloit, WI: Beloit Historical Society, 2002. Collection of b/w photographs of this small industrial city on Wisconsin's southern border, most with captions. Thin paperback, as pictured. Light general wear, minor edgewear to spine, minor crease to front cover. Interior clean; 120 pages of captioned b/w photos, introduction by Bill Behling.. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Illus. by Stuart D. Klinger,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Transylvania: Fragile Wonder
by Miklós, György Száraz
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- 2005
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- Hardcover
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- 9789632088921
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Budapest: Helikon Publishing, 2005. Photo book of Transylvania, concentrating on its Hungarian past, with a few historical photographs of a long-vanished way of life - most of the pictures were taken by Tóth in 2003 & 2004. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book, jacket shows a bit of rubbing; six-line gift note on title page. text clean;… Read more about this item Item Price
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A Photo Album of the Past: Pioneer Scenes and Portraits From Central Wisconsin
by Rosholt, Malcolm and Margaret, editors
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- 1976
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Rosholt, WI: Rosholt House, 1976. Historic photos of Wisconsin, circa 1890-1915; another handsome production from the industrious Rosholts, offering pictures mainly from the towns of Rosholt, Franzen, & Elderon in Marathon County, with a chapter on Stevens Point in central Wisconsin (mostly a bit more recent); featuring Lumberjacks, Farmers, Shopkeepers, etcetera. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Book shows light wear,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Leica Book
by Kisselbach, Theo; translated by F. Bradley
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- Second Edition
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- 1971
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- Hardcover
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- 9783776325508
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Seebruck am Chiemsee: Heering-Verlag, 1971. Technical manual on the M-series Leica cameras, including their lenses, films, & filters; exposure, flash photography, close-up photography; films and their development, enlarging, color photography, projection; other Leica models. Stated second editiuon, hardcover in jacket, as pictured. Light wear to book; ink name; jacket edgeworn with light chipping, external tape 'repair', old sticker adhesive on… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emberek - City Folks: Snapshots of Budapest Life - Budapesti Életképek
by Endre, Friedmann
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- 2005
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- 9789639170933
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Budapest: Városháza, 2005. Photographs by this notable Hungarian photographer, mostly of street scenes in Budapest. Paperback. Light wear, but also light waterstain to the foreedge, causing light rippling to the rear cover & pages, not noticeably affecting the images. Brief essay by Mihály Gera, captions in Hungarian & English. 140 pages. . First Edition. Paperback. Good. Illus. by Friedmann Endre.… Read more about this item Item Price
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