Horst Portraits 60 Years of Style; Selected with an Essay by Terrance Pepper. Notes on the Plates and Chronology by Robin Muir

(New York), Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp. 211 with index; Black and white and color photographs; black cloth lettered in white in a dust jacket. Foreword by Charles Saumarez Smith. The portraits of Horst P. Horst. Some previously unknown and unpublished portraits appear here. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 13369

Catalogue: Photography

Bendavid-Val, Leah

Song without Words, the Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy

Washington DC, National Geographic, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp; 239, (i), colophon; profusely illustrated with sepia toned and color photographs; beige cloth and white paper covered boards lettered in gilt, genealogical endpapers, in a dust jacket. Through never-before-seen photographs and intriguing personal diaries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Sophia Tolstoy and her husband, Leo Tolstoy—one of the greatest authors of all time—set against the grand and terrifying backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise. Between 1885 and 1910, Countess Tolstoy made more than a thousand photographs representing her entire world—from artists to aristocrats to peasants to family, from the Crimea to Moscow to the family estate 100 kilometers to the south. She also kept detailed diaries, which sweep us into fashionable balls and local gossip..magical scenes of winter in Russia..and devastating famine in the countryside. Sophia's works deepen our understanding of the era as well as of this amazing woman, who had thirteen children, battled a troubled marriage, and, though blessed with a creative life of her own, was so devoted to her husband's career that she hand-copied his great works Anna Karenina and War and Peace many times over. Near fine/near fine.

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Book number: 18617

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Literary Biography Russian History

Beny, Roloff

Odyssey: Mirror of the Mediterranean

New York, Harper & Row, 1981. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto; 371pp. 133 color plates, 162 duotone plates, 42 linecuts and 7 maps. Text and anthology by Anthony Greece; Mediterranean. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 11140

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Photography; Travel; Greece; Mediterranean.

Frank, Bernard

Mieux Vivre; No 9; Septembre 1938; la Voile

Paris, Mieux Vivre, 1938. Only Edition. Wraps. 16mo; pp; unpaginated, (16); illustrated with sixeen photographs, two of which are after photos by Brassai; original printed pictorial paper wrappers. Little magazine published by a pharmaceutical company, text in French. Unusual. Very good .

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Book number: 16356

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Advertising; Photography; France;

Gardner, Pauline & A. Blake Gardner

Vermont Wilds, a Focus on Preservation; Photographs by A. Blake Gardner, Foreword by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy

Pownell Vt, Storey Communications, 1991. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; pp; x, 134; nicely illustrated with color photographs; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. Photographs truly capture the wild nature of Vermont. Good + .

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Book number: 19233

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Vermontiana

Giles, Henry

Human Life in Shakespeare

Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 286; original photographic frontispiece portrait of the author; original green cloth with beveled edges, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, brown coated endpapers. Preface and seven chapters titled as: "The Growing and Perpetual Influence of Shakespeare," "Human Life in Shakespeare," "Man in Shakespeare," "Woman in Shakespeare," "Shakespeare's Comic Power," "Shakespeare's Tragic Power," and "Shakespeare's Personality." Books with original photographs are a collectible area in themselves. Very good .

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Book number: 17485

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Literary Criticism Shakespeare

Hill, L.L.

Treatise on Heliochromy; or, the Production of Pictures, by Means of Light, in Natural Colors; Facsimile Edition with an Introduction by William B. Becker

State College Pa, Carnation Press, 1972. Facsimile Edition of the 1856 printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (xx), xii, 175; frontispiece; black cloth decorated in blind, lettered in gilt. Embracing a full, plain, and unreserved description of the process known as The Heliotype, including the author's newly discovered collodio-chrome, or natural colors on collodionized glass. Very good .

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Book number: 18824

Catalogue: Photography

Hooper, Marion

Life Along the Connecticut River

Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1939. First Edition. Quarto; pp; 120; beautifully illustrated with sepia tone photographs by Lewis Brown, Ralph Day, Newell Green, R. D. & M. E. Snively & Cortlandt Luce; blue cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Introduction by Charles Edward Crane. Regarded as the first Coffee-Table Book", the Stephen Daye Press managed to survive and then succeed publishing books on New England centric themes, antiques, the seacoast, lighthouses, craftsmanship, professions such as logging etc. Quite scarce in a dust jacket. faded with a three quarter inch tide mark along the bottom edge, internally a bright clean copy, jacket is chipped with loss at top left corner & rear edge and bottom left corner, overall a good or better copy.

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Book number: 18157

Catalogue: Photography

Keywords: Vermontiana New Englandiana

Moch, Cheryl, Editor

Feels Like Home, Fond Remembrances in Words and Pictures; with an Introduction by Allan Gurgannus

Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Square octavo; pp; xvi, 128, index; illustrated with black and white photographs; burgundy cloth and cream paper covered boards in a pictorial dust jacket. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18879

Catalogue: Photography

(Original Photographic Frontispiece)

William Earl Dodge 1858 - 1884

(New York, Gillis Brothers & Turnure Art Age Press, 1884. Only Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 60; original photographic portrait frontispiece; pebbled brown cloth lettered in gilt. A memorial book of this grandson of one of the "Merchant Princes of Wall Street". He was a Princeton graduate and had married into the Harriman family. Very good .

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Book number: 17966

Catalogue: Photography