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B1. Andrews, Ralph W. Photographers of the Frontier West. Their Lives and Their Works. Seattle: Superior Publishing Co., 1965. First Edition. DW. VG. $45
B2. Andrews, Ralph W. Indian Primitive. Northwest Coast Indians of the Former Days. Seattle: Superior Pub. Co., 1960. DW. VG. $25
B3. Avery, Sid. Photographs. Hollywood at Home: A Family Album 1950-1965. Text by Richard Schickel. NY: MJF Books, 1990. First edition. DW with chips. VG. $15
B4. Barry, Les. Hasselblad Photography. NY: Universal Photo Books, 1960. DW. VG. $10
B4a. Bleeker, Sylvester. GENERAL TOM THUMB'S 3 YEARS TOUR
OF THE WORLD BOOKLET! Great 144 page booklet of Gen'l Tom Thumb's 3 Years
Tour Around the World, Accompanied by His Wife-Lavinia Warren Stratton,
Commodore Nutt, Miss Minnie Warren, and Party by Sylvester Bleeker. Copyright
1872 by PT Barnum. Back cover is missing, spine is mostly chipped off, some page
corners folded, but all the rest intact and a fabulous read with many
illustrations. G+. $250
B7A. Combs, Barry B. Westward to Promontory. Building the Union Pacific across the plains and mountains. A Pictorial Documentary. New York: Garland Books, 1969. DW. VG. $27.50
B7B. Cowan's Auctions, Inc. Historic Americana, June 8-10, 2005. Huge
auction catalog, 1418 items, many, many fabulous photographic images of in all
formats. VG. $10
B7C. Darrah, William Culp. Stereo Views-A History of Stereographs in American and
Their Collection. Gettysburg, Pa: Times and News Publishing Co., 1964. The first Darrah
book. Indispensable to any collector. Signed by Darrah on the title page. VG. $125
B7D. Darrah, William Culp. Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography.
Gettysburg, Pa: WC Darrah, 1981. E with DW. $65
B8. De Sormo, Maitland C. Seneca
Ray Stoddard, Versatile Camera-Artist. Saranac Lake, NY: Adirondack
Yesteryears, Inc., 1972. Signed by author. First edition. Mint in dust jacket. $60
B8A. De Sormo, Maitland C. The
Heydays of the Adirondacks. Saranac Lake, NY: Adirondack Yesteryears, Inc.,
1975. Inscribed and signed by author. Mint in dust jacket. $60
B9. Eaton S. Lothrop, Jr. A Century of Cameras from the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1973. DW. VG. $35
B9B. Forsee, Aylesa. William Henry Jackson, Pioneer Photographer of the West. NY: The Viking Press, 1964. First edition. DW. E. $25
B10. Frank, Waldo, Lewis Mumford, Dorothy Norman, Paul Rosenfeld & Harold Rugg (eds.) America & Alfred Stieglitz, A Collective Portrait. NY: The Literary Guild, 1934. First Edition. VG. $40
B10A. Gernsheim, Helmut and Alison. The
Recording Eye. A Hundred Years of Great Events as Seen by the Camera 1839-1939. NY: G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1960. First American Edition. DW with wear and chips in
protective plastic wrapper. G. $15
B11. Gilbert, George. Collecting Photographica. The Images and Equipment of the First Hundred Years of Photography. NY: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1976. DW. $45
B12. [Gleason, Herbert]. The Western Wilderness of North America, Photographs by Herbert Gleason. Intro. & commentary by George Crossette. Barre, Mass.: Barre Pubs., 1972. E. $27.50
B12A. Haas, Ernst. In America. NY: The Viking Press, 1975. First
edition. DW, VG. $15
B13. Horan, James D. Mathew Brady, Historian with a Camera. NY: Crown Pub. Inc., 1955. DW with tears. VG. $25
B13A. Hurley, F. Jack. Portrait of a Decade. Roy Stryker and the Development
of Documentary Photography in the Thirties. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University, 1974. This is the story of the remarkable Roy Stryker, director of
the historical section of the Farm Security Administration, and his amazing
staff of photographers: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, Ben
Shahn, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, John Collier, Jr., Jack
Delano, John Vachon, and others. DW with some tears and wrinkles but intact and
covered with plastic protector. VG. $85
B14. Iles, George. Flame Electricity and the Camera. Man's Progress from the First Kindling of Fire to the Wireless Telegraph and the Photography of Color. Toronto: The Publisher's Syndicate, 1900. Worn & rubbed. $20
B14A. Jammes, Andre. William H. Fox Talbot. Inventor of the Negative-Positive Process. NY: Collier Books, 1973. Paper. VG. $18.50
B16. Josephy, Alvin M., Jr. Black Hills, White Sky. Photographs from the Collection of the Arvada Center Foundation, Inc. Pictorial volume about the Black Hills of South Dakota. NY: Times Books, 1978. DW. VG+. $45
B17. [Keppler, Victor] Victor Keppler Man + Camera-A photographic autobiography. NY: Hastings House, 1970. Slipcase. VG. $35
B18. Kilgo, Dolores A. Likeness and Landscape. Thomas M. Easterly and the Art of the Daguerreotype. St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 1994. DW. E. $95
B19. Mailer, Norman. Marilyn. Grosset & Dunlap, 1972. First Printing. DW. VG. $45
B22. Moss, George H., Jr. Double Exposure. Early Stereographic Views of Historic Monmouth County, NJ and Their Relationship to Pioneer Photography. Sea Bright, NJ: Ploughshare Press, 1971. Small plastic viewer not included. $85
B22A. Naef, Weston J. in collaboration with James N. Wood. Era of Exploration. The Rise of Landscape Photography in the American West, 1860-1885. Boston: The New York Graphic Society, 1975. First Edition. DW with protective plastic sleeve. Excellent copy of this seminal work on American Western Photography. $150
B23. Neely, Mark E. Jr. and Harold Holzer. The Lincoln Family Album. NY: Doubleday, 1990. First edition. DW. E. $45
B24. Newhall, Beaumont. The Daguerreotype in America. NY: NY Graphic Society, 1968. DW. VG. $35
B24A. [New York] New York Then And Now. 83 Manhattan Sites Photographed in the Past and Present. Captions by Edward B. Watson. Contemporary Photographs by Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976. Paper. $10
B24B. [New York] Black, Mary. Old New York in Early Photographs. 196 Prints, 1853-1901 from the Collection of the New York Historical Society. NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976. Paper. $15
B24C. Nicol, Philippe. MIDGETS PALACE BIOGRAPHICAL
BOOKLET. This 32-page booklet measures 6" x 4 1/4". It is titled
Biographical Sketches of Count and Countess Philippe Nicol and their son
Philippe Jr. The Midgets Palace was located in Montreal and this booklet is in
both English and French. I have shown scans of the two sides of the cover page,
one in each language. I have shown all of the interior pages of the English
section. The French section has the exact same pictures with French text. E. $50
B25. Petrie, Francis J. Roll Out
The Barrel. The Story of Niagara's Daredevils. Erin, Ontario: The Boston Mills
Press, 1985. Paper. E. $10
B26A. Phillips, Sandra S., Richard Rodriguez, Aaron Betsky, & Eldridge M.
Moores. Crossing the Frontier. Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to
Present. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Chronicle Books, 1996. Paper,
VG. $35
B26. Pollack, Peter. The Picture History of Photography from the earliest beginnings to the present day. NY: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1969. Revised and enlarged edition. 700-page huge tome. DW. VG. $65
B27. Rowe, Jeremy. Photographers in Arizona 1850-1920, A History & Directory. Nevada City: Carl Mautz Pub., 1997. DW. E. $45
B29. Sandburg, Carl. Lincoln Collector. The Story of the Oliver R. Barrett Lincoln Collection. NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1949. DW. VG. $35
B30. Scharf, Aaron (comp. by). Pioneers of Photography. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1976. DW. VG. $25
B31. Seelye, John. Mark Twain in the Movies, A Meditation with Pictures. NY: The Viking Press, 1977. DW with tears, VG. $15
B32. Smith, Margaret Denton, and Mary Louise Tucker. Photography in New Orleans, The Early Years, 1840-1865. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. DW. E. $25
B33. Sobieszek, Robert A. and Odette M. Appel. The Spirit of Fact. The Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, 1843-1862. Boston & Rochester: David R. Godine & The International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, 1976. DW. VG. $100
B34. Steinem, Gloria. Photographs by George Barris. Marilyn. NY: Henry Holt & Co., 1986. DW. VG. $20
B35. Swann Galleries. Photographs, Wednesday, April 7, 1993. Catalog for Public Auction Sale. $10
B36. Swann Galleries. Photographs, Tuesday, October 8, 1991. Catalog for Public Auction Sale. $10
B37. Swann Galleries. Photographs, Monday, October 5, 1998. Catalog for Public Auction Sale. $10
B38. Szarkowski, John. Mirrors and Windows. American Photography since 1960. The Museum of Modern Art, NY. Paper. E. $17.50
B39. Thomas, D.B. The First Negatives. An account of the discovery and early use of the negative-positive photographic process. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1964. 42 pps. Water stained at bottom third of booklet. Paper. $5
B40. Weinstein, Robert A. and Larry Booth. Collection, Use, and Care of Historical Photographs. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1977. First edition. DW. VG. $60
B42. Willsberger, Johann. The History of Photography. Cameras, Pictures, Photographers. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1977. DW. VG. $40
B42A. Wilson, G.W. & Co., Photographers, Aberdeen. Photographs
Scottish Scenery. Green leather bound, measures 7 1/4" x 10 1/8." Contains 10
mounted images, one to a page, all but 2 pages are separated from the spine.
Titles of the images are: Abbotsford, from the River; The Study, Abbotsford; The
Library, Abbotsford; Melrose Abbey from the South; Melrose Abbey from
South-East; Melrose Abbey, The Chancel; Dryburgh Abbey; Dryburgh Abbey from the
Cloister Court; Dryburgh Abbey from the East; & Dryburgh Abbey by Catherine's
Window from the West. G. $75
B43. Wollensak Optical Co. Rochester, New York. Wollensak Photographic Shutters & Lenses. Catalog and Price list 1909-10. 32-page illustrated catalog with decorative cover. VG. $45
M1. This lot consists of 25 as-new issues of
"The Photographic Collector" magazine that became "The
Photographic Historian" magazine in the mid-80’s. Here’s
what’s included in the lot and some of the contents of the issues (Many of these
issues are available as individual copies as well. Please inquire regarding your
interests):
Vol. 2, Nos. 2-4. 1981-82. The Oglalla Sioux Indian Company; Value Guide to
Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Tintypes; Kilburn Bros.; California Stereographs;
Vol. 3, Nos. 1-4. 1982. Anthony, Kilburn, Daguerreian Zoo, Watkins, Graves and Craven
Images;
Vol. 4, Nos. 2-4. 1983-84. Union Forever!; Photograph Cases; Watkins’ New Series
Stereographs; Negretti & Zambra; Children of the Battlefield;
Vol. 5, Nos. 1-4. 1984-85. LJM to SFB-The Beginnings of Daguerreotyping in America;
Centennial Expo.; Pioneers of Color Photography; Medical Photography in America; Death of
a Rebel Raider;
Vol. 6, Nos. 1-4. 1985. The Music Makers, Portraits of a Union Soldier, Sioux War of
1876, Firemen in Early Photographs, Mosaic CDVs;
Vol. 7, Nos. 1-4. 1986-87. Early Photographers in Siskiyou County, Ca.; Geronimo;
Imagemakers of the Modoc War: Louis Heller and Eadweard Muybridge; California Cameramen;
Vol. 8, Nos. 1, 3, 4. 1987-88. Ambrotypes; Seth Kinman; California’s ‘Mr.
Peeps;’ Value guide to Stereographs; Watkins, A Biography.
There is a wealth of information and great reading in these 25 issues. $125
The following lots are partial volumes or
single issues of Stereo World magazine. They are all original issues, not reprints. They
are all in VG-E condition and may come with some of the original inserts.
M5. Vol. 12, Nos. 1-5. March-April 1985 through Nov.-Dec. 1985. 5 Issues. Dinosaurs through the Stereoscope; St. Louis, Then and Now; William Henry Jackson; JJ Reilly; The Heart of Alfred A. Hart; Celebrities of Nook Farm. $25
M9. Vol. 16, No. 2. May-June 1989.
Single Issue.
Color Issue. The Raisins in 3D. $10
M10. Vol. 17, Nos. 2, 3, 5, 6, May/June 1990, July/August 1990, Nov./Dec.
1990, & Jan/Feb 1991. 4 Issues. Canadian
Stereo Library; The Apollo Stereo Record; Niagara Falls; Shaker Stereo; Stereo Tintypes;
Easter Island. $25
M11. Vol. 18, Nos. 1, 2, & 4. March-April 1991, May-June 1991, & Sept.-Oct. 1991. 3 Issues. Les Theatres De Paris; McKinley in Arizona; Holmes and his Stereoscope. $15
M12. Vol. 19, Nos. 1 & 3. March-April 1992, & July-August 1992. 2 Issues. The Oakland Fire; Comet Orbits in 3D; Leica 3D Gold; Stuffed & Tinted. $15
M13. Vol. 20, Nos. 5 & 6. Nov.-Dec. 1993 & Jan.-Feb. 1994. 2 Issues. George Lewis, Keystone's Last Stereographer; Martin Mason Hazeltine. $10
M14. Vol. 21, Nos. 1 & 3. March-April 1994 & July-Aug. 1994. 2 Issues. 3D LA Earthquake of 1994; '92 Winter Games; Two Men of Vision.. $15
M16. Vol. 23, No 2. May-June 1996. 1 Issue. Seneca Ray Stoddard; William H. Jackson in Books. $7
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