Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$13.68 + shipping
Description: Small quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD / DUST JACKET VERY GOOD. 309 pages. Signed by the author with a dedication on the half title page. Text is clean and unmarked. B/W photgraphic images throughout. Green embossed cloth board with silver lettering on the spine. Cover is bumped on the spine and corners. DJ is worn with some creases on the edges. Binding and hinges are firm.
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 305pp. Light foxing to page edges, else a very good hardback in a heavily sunned jacket.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition HB is VG+; clipped DJ has light wear at head/tail spine, sunned rear cover; internally clean and tight.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 309 pages, 4to. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers, heaving fading along edges and spine. DJ in mylar. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$29.97 + shipping
Description: Green cloth with silver lettering on spine and imprinted decoration on front cover; Grey pictorial dj.; 305 pp.; 100+ bw figures, 59 bw plates.
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed 'To Kerry and Hal- with affectionate good wishes to two talented mad persons- Estelle Jussim' on the half-title page. Well illustrated with black-and-white photos. Dust jacket has sun fading to edges, some rubbing, in a protective cover.
Seller: Manchester By The Book, Manchester-By-the-Sea, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 310 pp., 200 B&W photographs. Some discoloration and fading to the dustcover. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover.
Seller: Exquisite Corpse Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover. 8vo (265 x 197 mm), full green cloth, title in silver on spine, blind-stamped art nouveau ornament on front cover. 309 pp., numerous b&w illus. CONDITION: Very good, dust-jacket good, moderately worn with moderate discoloration and light foxing at the extremities; contents very good.
Seller: James Arsenault & Company, ABAA, Arrowsic, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, 310 pages, very good condition except dj spine is faded; no internal marks.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 309 pages. A fascinating look at this important early photographer. Includes numerous black and white illustrations. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very slight sunning to the spine. A much nicer copy than usual.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.87 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp [xii], 310. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout ISBN: 9780879233464 VG+ in VG d/w
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: large green embossed decorative full cloth hardcover 4to ~ 4º (quarto 8"x10"). large "coffee table" book, international or priority shipping will cost extra. dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. very fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. tiny ding on front, couple of faint scratches on rear, not torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (FPu1981 & nap). glossy b&w photo frontis. portrait. decorative title pg. 309p.+ colophon. glossy pages throughout. 59 full pages of b&w photo plates. other b&w photo plates throughout ("hundreds"). almost every page illustrated. notes to the plates. notes to the illustrations. notes to the text. bibliography. index. biography. art history. american history. history of photography. art books. ~ With this book a giant is finally given his destined place in the history of American photography and culture. Romantic, eccentric, innovative, a leader among the 1890's decadents, Fred Holland Day ( 1864~1933) was a dedicated aesthete whose life was as turbulent as it was tragic. At the turn of the century, everyone in photography recognized Day as the peer of Alfred Stieglitz. An inspiration to his good friends, the photographers Clarence White, Gertrude Kasebier, Edward Steichen, and Frederick Evans, and an influential exponent of photography as a fine art, he generously encouraged important talents, including his young cousin Alvin Langdon Coburn. One of the first Americans elected to the prestigious Linked Ring Brotherhood in England, Day introduced works by the 'New School of American Photography' to international outrage and applause in London and Paris. His own controversial subjects and the flamboyant costumes in which he dressed them (and himself) gave him the same kind of notorious visibility Haunted by his friend Oscar Wilde. Day took large risks: his images were new, their originality unmistakable. Moreover, his pictures were established with a technique and intensity that claimed new territory for photography. His exotic models included his protege Kahlil Gibran, one of many immigrant boys he guided. His fame grew apace, but fell into abrupt decline after a fatal falling~out with Stieglitz and a catastrophic fire that destroyed his Boston studio and virtually all his prints and negatives in 1904. Yet his later work was even more daring and remarkable. In his six years as a publisher (1893~1899), Day took equal risks. The Boston house of Copeland and Day imported the scandalous works of Aubrey Beardsley and Oscar Wilde, as well as the infamous Yellow Book. New poets, British and American, found welcome on their list. Stephen Crane's poetry epitomized Copeland and Day's courage and taste. Their passion for design ran a generous and innovative range, from the medievalism of William Morris to Art Nouveau. But Day, obsessed with photography, could not divide his creative life and so let Copeland and Day die. SLAVE TO BEAUTY rescues a major figure from a neglect his importance and his works hardly deserve, but which he invited by a puzzling self~imposed isolation during his later years (he spent the last sixteen years of his life as a Proustian exile in his bedroom). SLAVE TO BEAUTY is his first biography, and ~ more surprisingly ~ offers the first representative portfolio of his photographs. Estelle Jussim tells the truth about Day's curious relationship with the once famous poet Louise Imogen Guiney and the cabalistic occultism he shared with William Butler Yeats. The text is illustrated with hundreds of photographs of and by Day and his famous colleagues and friends.
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The artistic skills of this innovative, eccentric American photographer are woven into this biographical masterpiece. The striking quality of his original portrayals is brought to life in this outstanding work. A useful addition to the photographer's library and a practical reference work for art study. It contains drawings and many photographs. This copy is clean and tight with a hint of foxing on the page edges. The dust jacket has lightened due to exposure to light. Otherwise this is a near fine copy.
Seller: Cornerstone Books, Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. [x], 309p. Illustrated from photos. Silver-titled green cloth. Lifgt foxing to top and fore-edge, jacket sunned as usual, all else fine
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 50 numbered copies for James Cummins Bookseller. Signed by the author and binder. Illustrated with 59 half-tones. 309 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Quarter morocco and marbled paper over boards by Binder Gray Parrot Illustrated with 59 half-tones. 309 pp. 1 vols. 4to First edition, one of 50 numbered copies for James Cummins Bookseller. Signed by the author and binder.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Profusely illustrated; xi and 310 pp, pp. Small folio, black and white marbled paper-covered boards; leather spine and tips, corners slightly bumbed, otherwise a very good copy. One of 60 numbered copies signed by the author and by the binder, Gary Parrot
Seller: Franklin Gilliam :: Rare Books, A.B.A.A., Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: Copy number G of only 10 copies of the First Edition Deluxe, produced by James Cummins Bookseller, Inc., signed by Jussim and Gray Parrot, the Binder. Numerous illustrations. 1 vols. 4to. One of only 10 copies of the deluxe edition. Laid into a special pocket is: "The Photographic Work of F. Holland Day" (Wellesley, 1975, wrappers, Fine). Full black morocco with emblematic gilt tooling on covers, contained in quarter black morocco drop box by Gray Parrot. Very Fine Numerous illustrations. 1 vols. 4to Copy number G of only 10 copies of the First Edition Deluxe, produced by James Cummins Bookseller, Inc., signed by Jussim and Gray Parrot, the Binder.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.