To start off the New Year James Cummins Bookseller offers a selection of recent acquisitions and highlights in photography: photo books, photographic literature, cased images, and printed paper photographs, with many signed limited editions and unique items.
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Price: $2,500
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1977. Limited SIGNED facsimile edition, 756 of 950 copies, signed by Adams. Facsimile edition of Adams’s first book, published by the Grabhorn Press in 1930 and now extremely difficult to attain in its first printing. “Possibly the most famous of modern photographic works on..... Read More Item Details for Taos Pueblo Add to Wish List
Item #305666
Price: $750
n.p: September 15, 1852. Rare Signed and Dated Occupational Ambrotype of Two House Painters. Read More Item Details for Occupational ambrotype of two house painters, with brushes in hand Add to Wish List
Item #249833
![Item #263165 Avedon. Photographs 1947-1977. [With an essay by Harold Brodkey]. Richard Avedon](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/263165.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1435349550)
Price: $750
[New York]: Farrar Straus & Giroux, [1978]. First edition. Inscribed. A retrospective of Avedon’s portraite photography, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With a large inscription on the front flyleaf, “To Dr M— N— Avedon 9-30-78”. Read More Item Details for Avedon. Photographs 1947-1977. [With an essay by Harold Brodkey] Add to Wish List
Item #263165
Price: $500
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1864. Fourth edition, with half-title. Read More Item Details for Chimie photographique: contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par Des manipulations photographiques Add to Wish List
Item #319209
![Item #257008 Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America [with:] Sleeping Beauty II: Grief,...](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/257008.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1362602352)
Price: $1,200
Altadena, California; New York: Twelvetrees Press; Burns Archive Press, 1990; 2002. First editions. Sleeping Beauty II is inscribed by Stanley Burns and signed by him and co-author Elizabeth Burns. Read More Item Details for Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America [with:] Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement and the Family in Memorial Photography. American & European Traditions Add to Wish List
Item #257008
Price: $480
New York: Grove Press, [2000]. First Grove Press Edition. Read More Item Details for Tulsa Add to Wish List
Item #219817
Price: $750
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1897. Read More Item Details for La Triplice Photographique des Couleurs Et l'Imprimerie, Système de Photochromographie. Louis Ducos du Hauron : nouvelles descriptions théoriques et pratiques mises en rapport avec les progrès généraux de la photographie, de l'optique et des diverses sortes de phototirages soit industriels, soit d'amateurs Add to Wish List
Item #319210
Price: $11,000
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1959. First American edition. "In The Americans Frank has given us a vision of the United States that is as true or untrue as we care to make it. What is certain is that it changed the face of photography in the documentary mode …..... Read More Item Details for The Americans Add to Wish List
Item #302903
Price: $850
New City, New York: Haywire Press, [1981]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Flowers and Trees Add to Wish List
Item #300630
Price: $750
New York & London: Mitchell Kennerley, 1929. First edition. Inscribed to Percy MacKaye. Inscribed on ffep "To Percy MacKaye — To whom these pictures will bring back memory of our youth … from his friend Arnold Genthe. New York 1931." Genthe photographed MacKaye in costume for his play Sanctuary: A...... Read More Item Details for Isadora Duncan. Twenty-Four Studies. Foreword by Max Eastman Add to Wish List
Item #301357
Price: $1,650
Paris: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven et Cie. Librairie Internationale, 1865. First edition. QUARTO ISSUE WITH 30 PHOTOGRAPHS. The Photographs are : Les Tireurs de Sable (Frontispiece) - Vignette de titre - Entrée du Canal de Saint-Maur - Le lever de soleil - Sous une arche du pont de Joinville - De..... Read More Item Details for Le Tour de Marne. Décrit et photographié par Émile de la Bédollière et Ildefonse Rousset Add to Wish List
Item #309209
Price: $2,000
London: T & R. Willats, [1851]. First edition. Read More Item Details for Plain Directions for Obtaining Photographic Pictures upon Albumenized Paper and Glass, by Collodion and Albumen, etc., etc., including a second edition of A Practical Treatise on Photography … Part II Add to Wish List
Item #319203
Price: $10,000
Hartford, Connecticut; Paris; New York: James Thrall Soby; Cahiers d’Art; Random House, [1934]. First edition, second issue with cancel title with fictitious "Deuxième édition" designation. Man Ray Photographs Signed by the Artist. Inscribed first edition of the definitive contemporary collection of Man Ray’s photographs, with 101 gravure reproductions of photographs..... Read More Item Details for Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934 Paris / Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. With a Portrait by Picasso. Texts by Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Selavy [Marcel Duchamp], Tristan Tzara Add to Wish List
Item #311706
Price: $10,000
Taschen, 2011. No. 635 of 750 copies. signed by Paul McCartney. Read More Item Details for Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs Add to Wish List
Item #314787
Price: $900
New York: Delacorte Press, [1966]. First edition. With Photograph Inscribed by Stravinsky. With an original portrait photograph of Stravinsky by McDowell loosely inserted, inscribed by Stravinsky to friend Miranda Massoco Levy. Miranda “Mirandi” Massoco Levy (1914-2011) was the doyenne of Sante Fe cultural life, instumental in the success of the..... Read More Item Details for Double Exposure Add to Wish List
Item #255990
Price: $2,000
Printed 1977. Photograph by celebrated dance photographer Barbara Morgan of Martha Graham as One Who Dances and Merce Cunningham as March, in a 1940 performance of Letter to the World Letter to the World premiered on August 11, 1940 and was based on the life of Emily Dickinson. It has..... Read More Item Details for Letter to the World ("Dear March, Come In!") Add to Wish List
Item #309454
Price: $2,500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946. First edition. "Very happy to hear you are now at home with THE INHABITANTS" Part one of Morris' groundbreaking photo-fiction trilogy depicts his native Nebraska as a depopulated world of dilapidated ruin and desolation. Thomas Mann wrote to Morris: "What these courageous pictures show..... Read More Item Details for The Inhabitants Add to Wish List
Item #220825
Price: $150,000
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1887. A Major Landmark in photography. The first edition of this rare and important photographic work is a landmark in the evolution of the medium, and in the role of mechanical reproduction on the fine arts. Although the complete set of images for Animal Locomotion totaled..... Read More Item Details for Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements Add to Wish List
Item #312983
Price: $250
[San Francisco: Feraon Publishers, 1967]. First edition of the author's first book. This is van Peebles first book, attributed to Melvin Van, came from an article and a series of photographs taken by Ruth Bernhard. Read More Item Details for The Big Heart Add to Wish List
Item #319669
Price: $750
Boston: A New York Graphic Society Book. Boston: Little Brown and Company in association with Callaway Editions, 1988. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed by Penn on the half-title to Doris Bry in 1988. Read More Item Details for Issey Miyake Add to Wish List
Item #302367
Price: $7,500
New York: ca. 1930]. A striking image, reminiscent of Berenice Abbott's work in its juxtaposition of new and old New York City. Sherril Schell (1877-1964) was an American photographer best known for his architectural photography, especially of New York City. He had a studio in London in the early 1900s-1910s..... Read More Item Details for News Building no. 7 Add to Wish List
Item #238449
Price: $750
New York: MoMA, 1955. First edition, deluxe issue. Read More Item Details for The Family of Man. The photographic exhibition created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art. Prologue by Carl Sandburg. Introduction by Edward Steichen Add to Wish List
Item #314850
Price: $20,000
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, [1877-88]. First edition. The first edition of this pioneering use of photography for sociological study. The Scotsman Thomson (1837-1921) spent the decade 1862-1872 traveling in and producing some of the finest early photographic images of the Far East. After resettling in Britain, he..... Read More Item Details for Street Life in London. With Permanent Photographic Illustrations Taken from Life Expressly for this Publication Add to Wish List
Item #314998
Price: $250
Tokyo: Nobuhiko Katamura. Hysteric Glamour, 1998. Read More Item Details for Hysteric no. 9. Osamu Wataya. Cover title: Renoir Add to Wish List
Item #302260
Price: $2,600
New York: 18 Beekman Place, nd, ca.1923. A group of compelling, artistically composed photographs by New York heiress Joan Whitney Payson (1903-1975), member of the influential Whitney family, co-founder and first owner of the New York Mets, and prominent patron of the arts. She was the daughter of Payne Whitney..... Read More Item Details for A group of 7 photographs by the New York heiress Add to Wish List
Item #315330