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Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Grey wraps with lettering on covers, blank spine. Bound sheets are uncut, 30, [6] ad pp. + 14 photograph plates of artwork (2 photographs by Stieglitz). This issue includes the first published writings by Gertrude Stein, wherein she pens two essays discussing the work of Matisse and Picasso. It was largely through these two essays that Americans were first introduced to these two artists. This issue begins with an Editorial by the Editor (Stieglitz) wherein he states the reason for this issue is to (through Stein's essays) Introduce Post-Impressionism as the chronological successor to Impressionism. The two photographs of Picasso sculptures were taken by Stieglitz. There are three sheets of ads at the rear, following the plates. Near New with chipping to edges of covers (overhanging stiff wraps called yapp edges)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Stieglitz, Alfred (ed.). Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly. The editor, New York, 1912.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this issue, No. 37. Small 4to (11 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches). 48 pp. 9 portrait photogravures; 12 pages of ads for business related to photography. This issue devoted to the work of the 19th-century British photographer David O. Hill (1802-1870), whose work "will continue to establish a standard of taste and style." The nine photogravures on Japanese tissue after photographs by Hill (from the photographer's original paper proofs) were printed by T.&R. Annan Sons, Glasgow, a firm noted for fine photogravures. Institutional bookplate, stamped "withdrawn," on front pastedown. Orig. wrappers (the spine mostly perished). (#7777).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.