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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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 about Taos Pueblo
Price: $2,500
n.p: September 15, 1852. Rare Signed and Dated Occupational Ambrotype of Two House Painters. Read More about Occupational ambrotype of two house painters, with brushes in hand
Price: $750
![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&v=1669652033)
[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 about Avedon. Photographs 1947-1977. [With an essay by Harold Brodkey
Price: $750
Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1864. Fourth edition, with half-title. Read More about Chimie photographique: contenant les éléments de chimie expliqués par Des manipulations...
Price: $500
![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&v=1669651748)
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 about Sleeping Beauty: Memorial Photography in America [with:] Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement...
Price: $1,000
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1897. Read More about La Triplice Photographique des Couleurs Et l'Imprimerie, Système de Photochromographie. Louis...
Price: $750
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 about The Americans
Price: $11,000
New City, New York: Haywire Press, [1981]. First edition. Read More about Flowers and Trees
Price: $850
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 about Isadora Duncan. Twenty-Four Studies. Foreword by Max Eastman
Price: $750
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 about Le Tour de Marne. Décrit et photographié par Émile de la Bédollière et Ildefonse Rousset
Price: $1,650
London: T & R. Willats, [1851]. First edition. Read More about Plain Directions for Obtaining Photographic Pictures upon Albumenized Paper and Glass, by...
Price: $2,000
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 about Man Ray Photographies 1920-1934 Paris / Man Ray Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. With a Portrait by...
Price: $10,000
[New York]: The Rock Foundation, [1986]. First edition, no. 106 of 500 copies of the Deluxe Edition, printed by the Stinehour Press, with an extra SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH by Lynn Johnson. George Plimpton’s Copy. “Here within sight of the bue shadow of New England’s industrial seaboard ten miles to the north..... Read More about Men's Lives. The Surfmen and Baymen of the South Fork
Price: $1,750
Taschen, 2011. No. 635 of 750 copies. signed by Paul McCartney. Read More about Linda McCartney. Life in Photographs
Price: $10,000
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 about Double Exposure
Price: $900
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 about Letter to the World ("Dear March, Come In!"
Price: $2,000
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 about Animal Locomotion. An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements
Price: $150,000
[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 about The Big Heart
Price: $250
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 about Issey Miyake
Price: $750
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 about News Building no. 7
Price: $7,500
New York: MoMA, 1955. First edition, deluxe issue. Read More about The Family of Man. The photographic exhibition created by Edward Steichen for the Museum of...
Price: $750
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 about Street Life in London. With Permanent Photographic Illustrations Taken from Life Expressly for...
Price: $20,000
Tokyo: Nobuhiko Katamura. Hysteric Glamour, 1998. Read More about Hysteric no. 9. Osamu Wataya. Cover title: Renoir
Price: $250
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 about A group of 7 photographs by the New York heiress
Price: $2,600