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Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 56 pages of text followed by [xiv] of advertisements. The overhanging (yapped) edges of the original printed gray wrappers/covers are mostly lacking, as is commonly found. The spine is mostly intact but suffers from thin lines of vertical cracking, a few tiny bumps, and minor creasing and soiling; protected in archival mylar. The inner front hinge is cracked but remains attached and functional. There is cracking to the textblock, remaining intact but delicate. Small damp stain to the bottom edge of the lower margin on page 19/20, similarly affecting several of the final pages of advertisement. Issued with 6 plates by David Octavius Hill [in collaboration with Robert Adamson], one plate by George Davidson, one plate by Paul B. Haviland, one plate by Marshall R. Kernochan, and one plate by Alvin Langdon Coburn; COMPLETE. The plates are clean and are free from creasing, foxing, spotting, toning and damage unless described below; minimal offsetting to the blank pages facing each plate. Except as described below, the original double spot-mounts of each image and the original double spot-mounts of each mounting page remain intact. Plate I). The Minnow Pool. II). The Bird-Cage. III). Portraits-A Group. IV). Portrait-The Gown and the Casket. V). Mrs. Rigby. VI). Newhaven Fisheries. I). [Davidson] Houses near Aix-les-Bains. I). [Haviland] Portrait-Miss G.G. - triple spot-mounts intact, with a small stain to the bottom of the mounting and facing blank pages. II). [Kernochan] Ponte Vecchio-Florence - mounting page is detached and has minor soiling/darkening to the fore edge. I). [Coburn] On the Embankment. Associate editors include Joseph T. Keiley, Dallet Fuguet, John Francis Strauss, and J.B. Kerfoot. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 48 pages of text followed by [xii] of advertisements. The overhanging (yapped) edges of the original printed gray wrappers/covers are mostly lacking, as is commonly found. The spine is almost entirely intact, with minor creasing and soiling. The front cover has a small area of discoloration/darkening at the top corner of the front wrapper. Protected in archival mylar. Issued with five photogravure plates by Herbert G. French, and four photogravure plates by Clarence H. White in collaboration with Alfred Stieglitz; COMPLETE. The plates are clean and are free from creasing, foxing, spotting, toning and damage unless described below; minimal offsetting to the blank pages facing each plate. The original spot-mounts of each image remain intact. Plate I). Winged Victory - mounting page is detached. II). Egyptian Princess. III.) Iris IV). Illustration, No. 18. V). Illustration, No. 22 - top mount of mounting page is detached. Plate I). Experiment 27. II). Experiment 28 - tiny crease to bottom corner of image. III). Miss Mable C. IV). Torso. Associate editors include Joseph T. Keiley, Dallet Fuguet, John Francis Strauss, and J.B. Kerfoot. First edition.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
STIEGLITZ, ALFRED. Camera Work: Issue Number 26. Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1909.
Price: US$3900.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION of issue number 26 of Camera Work, containing 8 original photogravures, including 6 by Alice Boughton, 1 by J. Craig Annan, and 1 by George Davison. Edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz. Texts by Benjamin De Casseres, A. Chameleon, Charles H. Caffin, Oscar Wilde, Alice Boughton, Paul B. Haviland, and J. Nilsen Jaurvik. Containing articles entitled Caricature and New York by Benjamin De Casseres, Modern Chiaroscural Deficiencies and Their Influence on Pictorial Art by A. Chameleon, Irresponsibility in High Places by Charles H. Caffin, Photography, A Medium of Expression by Alice Boughton (reprinted), The Photo-Secession Gallery by Paul B. Haviland, and International Photography at the National Arts Club, New York by J. Nilsen Jaurvik. Also containing the complete Photo-Secession Members' List as well as Oscar Wilde's The Artist in its entirety. New York: Alfred Stieglitz, 1909. Quarto (9" x 12", 23cm x 35cm), original grey wrappers. General edge wear to wrappers, otherwise in exceptionally good condition. RARE.
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
STIEGLITZ, ALFRED. Camera Work: Issue Number 27. Alfred Stieglitz, New York, 1909.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION of issue number 27 of Camera Work, complete with 9 original photogravures, including 5 by Herbert G. French and 4 by Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz in collaboration. Edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz. Texts by H. G. Wells, Benjamin De Casseres, Bolton Coit Brown, Charles H. Caffin, Paul B. Haviland, Herbert G. French, Oscar Wilde, and Alfred Stieglitz. Containing articles entitled Pamela Colman Smith by Benjamin De Casseres, Seeing Things by Bolton Coit Brown, American Indifference by Benjamin De Casseres,
Seller: Manhattan Rare Book Company, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.