Burke, Bill
I Want To Take Picture.
Atlanta : Nexus Press, 1987.
First edition. Folio, original glossy illustrated boards. Limited to 1,000 copies. Signed by Bill Burke. In fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-1684
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Sternfeld, Joel
American Prospects.
Houston : Times Books, 1987.
First edition of Sternfeld’s acclaimed first photobook. Oblong quarto, original cloth, with 55 plates. Fine in a near fine dust jacket that shows a small closed tear. Signed by Joel Sternfeld on the title page.
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Item Number: RRB-1440
Goldblatt, David; Courtney-Clarke, Margaret; Kench, John
Cape Dutch Homesteads.
Cape Town : Struik, 1981.
First edition. Original beige cloth. Signed by the photographer, David Goldblatt. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-1359
Samaras, Lucas
Samaras Album.
New York : The Whitney Museum of American Art and Pace Editions, 1971.
First edition of Samaras’ multimedia self-portrait, featuring a self-interview, autobiography, and hundreds of Polaroid images, both black-and-white and in color. Large quarto, original embossed pictorial cloth, mounted cover photograph. Association copy, inscribed by Lucas Samaras to Les Navarre on the title page. Navarre was the director of the Harry Abrams Art Gallery and a closeContinue reading "Samaras Album."
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Item Number: RRB-1371
Szarkowski, John
The Photographer’s Eye.
New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
First edition. Square quarto, original cloth. Inscribed by the author to Robert Lewis; former head of the Yale School of Drama, author, actor, and founder of the Actor’s Studio, “with warm good regards.” Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. The black jacket almost inevitably shows wear, this is a very nice exampleContinue reading "The Photographer’s Eye."
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Item Number: RRB-1115
Ruscha, Ed [Edward]
Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
Los Angeles : Edward Ruscha, 1966.
First edition, second issue of the artist’s classic work. Small octavo, original stiff self-wrappers, original slipcase. Association copy, inscribed by Ruscha to his aunt, “For Aunt Carol Ed Ruscha.” One continuous accordion-fold page composed of glued paper segments with black-and-white photographs of every building on the sunset strip. Near fine in a very good slipcase. AnContinue reading "Every Building on the Sunset Strip."
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Item Number: RRB-1012
Peress, Gilles; Michael Schulan; Susan Meiselas; Jeff Mermelstein
Here is New York.
New York : Scalo, 2002.
First edition of this work by the award-winning photographer. Thick oblong quarto, original illustrated boards, original slipcase. Inscribed by Gilless Peress. Illustrated with nearly 1000 full-color and black-and-white photographic plates with images by noted photographers such as Gilles Peress, Susan Meiselas and Jeff Mermelstein. Fine in a fine slipcase. Parr & Badger II, 232.
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Item Number: RRB-972
Peress, Gilles; Text by Eric Stover; Foreword by Richard Goldstone
The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar.
New York : Scalo , 1998.
First edition of this moving record of the atrocites that befell the Balkans in the 1990’s. Thick octavo, original illustrated boards. Signed by all three contributors: photographer Gilles Peress; Eric Stover, who contributed the text and Justice Richard Goldstone, who contributed the foreword. In fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-973
Peress, Gilles & Ghulam Husayn Saidi
Telex Persan.
Paris : Contrejour, 1984.
First French edition, published simultaneously with the American edition of the photojournalist’s first book. Folio, original stiff photographic wrappers, photographic endpapers. Inscribed by the photographer, Gilles Peress. In fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-969
Peress, Gilles & Ghulam Husayn Saidi
Telex Iran: In the Name of Revolution.
New York : Aperture, 1983.
First American edition, published simultaneously with the first French edition of the photojournalist’s first book. Folio, original stiff photographic wrappers, photographic endpapers. Inscribed by Gilles Peress. In fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-970
Owens, Bill
Suburbia.
San Francisco : Straight Arrow Press, 1973.
First Edition. Oblong quarto, original photographic stiff paper wrappers. Inscribed by Bill Owens on the front free endpaper, “For Dave Bill Owens Can you avoid Suburbia.” In very good condition. Laid in is the photographer’s business card.
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Item Number: RRB-948
Merom, Peter
The Death of the Lake.
Tel Aviv : Davar, 1961.
First edition. Folio. Near fine in a very good dust jacket that shows a chip to the top of the back panel. Photobook II; Parr & Badger. Scarce.
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Item Number: RRB-881
Lyon, Danny
Conversations with the Dead.
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970.
First edition of Lyon’s photobook on convicts, including life in a Texas prison. Oblong, quarto. Original, illustrated wrappers as issued. In good condition with some wear to the foot of the spine and overall light soiling. Inscribed and dated by Danny Lyon. Roth 101; Parr & Badger, Photobook II.
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Item Number: RRB-823
Levitt, Helen; Essay by Francine Prose
Crosstown.
New York : Powerhouse, 2001.
First Edition of this handsome retrospective paying tribute the photographers work. Large quarto, original gray cloth with cover photographic plate, illustrated throughout. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. In near fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-808
Levitt, Helen; Essays by Robert Coles
In the Street.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1987.
First edition of the photographer’s second major photobook. Quarto, original cloth. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not to be confused with the more common paperback edition. Helen Levitt and the author James Agee first collaborated in 1945 on a documentary film set in Harlem, called “InContinue reading "In the Street."
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Item Number: RRB-810
Claxton, William and Berendt, Joachim E
Jazzlife [Jazz Life].
Offenburg : Burda Druck und Verlag, 1961.
First edition of Claxton’s seminal photobook on jazz. Quarto, original black cloth, pictorial front endpapers. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. Presentation copy, inscribed by the photographer on the half-title page, “For _______, William Claxton.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-393
Laurents, Arthur & Stephen Sondheim
Anyone Can Whistle: A Musical Fable.
New York : Random House, 1965.
First edition of this classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Warmly Inscribed by both Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim on the half-title page. Fine in a near fine bright jacket without the fading usually encountered with the spine.
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Item Number: RRB-762
Starr, Ringo & Harry Nilsson
Son of Dracula.
: Blackwood Music, 1974.
First edition of this original work. Quarter, original wrappers. Signed and dated by Ringo Starr on the front panel, “Love Ringo 05.” In near fine condition.
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Item Number: RRB-3245
Townshend, Pete & Barnes, Richard
The Story of Tommy.
Middlesex, England : Eel Pie Publishing, 1977.
First edition of this work by the legendary member of the Who. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by Pete Townshend on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-1658
Babbitt, Milton; Edited by Stephen Peles
The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2003.
First edition of the compilation of the essays of the great composer Milton Babbitt. Octavo, original boards. Inscribed by the composer, “For ____ _____, With Warmest greetings, from Milton Babbitt 6/18/08.” Fine in a fine dust jacket.
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Item Number: RRB-1280
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The Writings of Longfellow.
Cambridge : Riverside Press, 1886.
Octavo, three-quarters leather, 14 volumes. Top edge gilt, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruled to the front and rear panel, marbled endpapers. One of 500 numbered copies. This is set number 144. It also includes the three volume Final Memorials of Longfellow by Ticknor and Company published in 1887. All volumes areContinue reading "The Writings of Longfellow."
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Item Number: RRB-3612
Gordimer, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
London : Jonathan Cape, 1988.
First British edition of this collection of writing by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Nadine Gordimer on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Edited and introduced by Stephen Clingman.
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Item Number: RRB-546
O'Hara, John
The Works of John O’Hara.
New York: : Random House, .
First editions. Octavo, 16 volumes. Elegantly bound in three quarter red morocco. Gilt titles and tooling to the spine, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers. An attractive group.
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Item Number: RRB-4370
Fielding, Henry
The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.
London : Printed for A. Millar, 1749.
First edition, first issue, one of a first printing run of only 2,000 copies with errata leaf in volume one, the errata uncorrected, and all cancels and final blanks, K12 in volume one and R12 in volume three (Rothschild 850). Octavo, 6 volumes, bound in full crushed morocco by Bayntun, red and black morocco spineContinue reading "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling."
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Item Number: RRB-3894
Peress, Gilles; Text by Eric Stover; Foreword by Richard Goldstone
The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar.
$1,250.00
RRB-973
Gordimer, Nadine; Edited by Stephen Clingman
Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places.
$75.00
RRB-546