Search Results: Titles starting with F from Dawson's Book Shop

J.F. and C. Rivington, et al., London, 1788. Good: moderate overall wear to binding; small piece torn from margin of C3 affecting approximately 10 letters, gathering P partially sprung. fourteenth Edition 6 3/4 x 4 inches, [xxxiv], 329, [7, index] pages, contemporary calf with red morocco spine label, Includes engraved frontispiece and 196 woodcut illustrations, each measuring 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches, in pagination. Neat ink owner inscription dated 1796 on front free endpaper.

Havilah Press, Emeryville, 2002. Limited edition: 150 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, xx, 21 pages, boards with cloth spine, Facsimile reprint of a scarce 1871 pamphlet containing an account of Van Schaack's trip to Yosemite. With a foreword by James B. Snyder.

Humpy Press, Buffalo, (1975). Fine, Fine. First Edition, Limited Edition 6 in. x 12 in. x 5 in., [90] pages, Wrappers, No. 18 of 125 copies with original chromgenic photograph editioned, signed, and dated by the photographer. Singed and dated by the photographer on title page with Humpy Press blind stamp on title page.

slight abrasions to cover and edges.
Inscribed by Weston on half-title page, "To Bill and Zelda from Edward with his love. 10-19-47." William Holger was a friend of Weston from the 1930s when they met through the f/64 photography group. Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He helped Weston construct his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.
This is Weston's second monograph produced and designed by Merle Armitage with written contributions by Armitage, Donald Bear and Robinson Jeffers.
One of 1500 copies numbered copies, initialed by Weston on a separate sheet and pasted on the colophon leaf. This is an unnumbered copy noted in ink as "personal".

57 separate sheets composed of limitation sheet plus 56 sheets numbered I to LVI. Walter Crane did his drawings, layout and lettering in pencil and Goupil & Co. of Paris did the photo engraving and printing. The images measure 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches and are on mounts measuring 15 x 18 1/4 inches. The cover label is rubbed but legible. Some wear and darkening to the edges and margins of the mounts; foxing to limitation sheet and some faint darkening to the last sheet, all other engravings are clean and bright. Housed in a modern oak box. Dedicated to Charles Darwin by the author and artist. No. 163 of 300 sets of India paper proofs edition. Signed by Crane on limitation page.

Hale-Cushman & Flint, Boston, (1939 ). Very good in slightly worn dust jacket. First Edition 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 203 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket.

Yugensha, Tokyo, [1987]. Fine. First Edition 13 1/2 x 10 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth with cloth slipcase, paste down illustration from a Robert Frank photograph on front of slipcase, Printed in an edition of 500 copies with text in English and Japanese with 81 reproductions from photographs by Robert Frank. There are two variants for the paste down image on the slipcase. This copy features the image, "Champs Elysees, 1950" that is reproduced in volume one of "The Photobook" by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger on page 264. The other variant image is "Metro Stalingrade". The second book published by Frank's associate and friend Kazuhiku Motomura. This copy in mint condition with the original cardboard shipping container.

Haywire Press, New City, [1981]. Near fine, slight crease to lower corner of several leaves at the end of book. 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, cloth, spiral bound, corners slightly bent, Signed by Friedlander in pencil on premlinary leaf, Contains 40 full page reproductions of Friedlander's photographs handsomely printed by the Stinehour Press and Meriden Gravure Company.

Viking Press, New York, (1970). Very good. 12 x 9 inches, 224 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (edgeworn).

A Studio Book, The Viking Press, New York, (1983). Very good. 12 x 9 inches, 224 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, With a preface by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

Statni Nakladatelstvi, Prague, 1956. 9.25 in. x 6.75 in., Cloth, Dust Jacket (missing back cover of dust jacket), Signed and dated by the photographer in the year of publication, [47] pages of text, 232 gravure reproductions from photography by Sudek, mostly full page, [8] pages listing the name, date and negative format for each reproduction in the book

The Playworkers Studio, Hollywood, 1924. Good. 6 in. x 4 in., 80 pages, Wrappers, detached, Inscribed by the autor in pen on half-title page and dated "July 1924"., Paper yellowed

Yosemite Park and Curry Co., Los Angeles, (1938 ). Very good. third Edition 12 x 8 1/2 inches, unnumbered pages, wrappers.

California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1927. Fine: spot of light sunning (approx. 1 square inch) to top of upper cover. First Edition 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches, 183 pages, blue cloth with lettering in gold, Dust Jacket (front panel torn, chip to spine), Special Publication No. 2 of the Society, translated from the original manuscript housed in the Los Angeles Public Library. Includes 3 plates not in pagination and 3 pages of illustrations in text. Cowan (II) page 165. Kurutz item 185.

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1999. Fine. First Edition, Limited edition: 1 of 100 copies in cloth slipcase, each copy numbered and signed by the author on a special colophon page, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 268 pages, cloth, This landmark publication written by photograpic art and book collector, Mus White, details over 1400 books in the field of American and international juvenile literature illustrated with original photographs or related photo-mechanical processes. Establishing a critical link between photography and children's books, the bibliography also locates important and rare examples of fine art photography in the pictorialist, surrealist, and modernist genre.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1973. 10 in. x 8.5 in., 95 pages, Wrappers, Groundbreaking exhibition and catalogue making connections between visual culture and mass media.

University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, (1961). Very good. First Edition 9 1/8 x 6 1/8 inches, cloth, Two volume set in the original slipcase.