String-bound, oblong book with edge wear and short edge tears. Small piece of the rear cover missing near the string binding (see photo). 29 black and white photographs of the shrine at Toshogu, Japan. Some still have tissue guards, many do not. No date, circa early 1900s. Includes a color map: Ground Plan of the Nikko Shrines. Someone neatly penciled numbers and lines corresponding to the buildings, which are labeled in Japanese. Photograph captions are in English and Japanese. The shrine complex dates back to the 1600s, has more than a dozen buildings, and contains both Shinto and Buddhist e... View More...
166 pages, lavishly illustrated with photographs celebrating the International Year of the Earth. Index of photos follows the text. Spanish and English text. Edición a cargo de Andrés Gamboa; [traducción: Richard Rees]. Scarce; OCLC locates no copies. View More...
131 pages with many full-page color photographs from the Western Plains states of Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico. From the publisher: "Peter Brown's photographs of the open spaces at America's heart reveal a complex landscape both beautiful and powerful, meditative and dynamic, vast yet intimate." Signed on the half-title page by the photographer, Peter Brown, to the previous owner: "To ___ / with best wishes / Peter Brown / December 1999" View More...
Light shelf wear to book. The dust jacket is chipped and rubbed and protected in a new Mylar cover now. Pages renumbered within each chapter. Altogether about 200-300 pages. Illustrated with numerous black and white photos and diagrams. View More...
Gray cloth with black lettering and graphic. French fold dust jacket. Limited Edition 1655/2001. Beautifully photographed scenes from around Monroe Louisiana by Jenny Ellerbe, a pediatric intensive care nurse by training, who uses her obsession with photography to explore her complex relationship with Monroe, the place she calls home. 45 plates followed by an Afterword from Ellerbe. SIGNED on the title page: "To Michael / J Ellerbe" Large, 13 inches square. Will require extra postage for expedited or international delivery. View More...
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico Press: 1992
Seller ID: 03748
ISBN: 089013233x
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Photographic documentary about Mexican healer Jose Fidencio Sintora Constantino (1898-1938) from Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico and those who continue to pay homage to him more than 50 years after his death. Preparing medicines form herbs and plants, Nino Fidencio became a popular healer, and after curing visiting Mexican president Plutarco Elias Calles of a serious illness, he became his country's most celebrated curandero. Photographs and interviews by Dore Gardner, essay by folklore consultant Kay F. Turner, Ph.D. 135 pages, illustrated with 50 duotone photographs. View More...
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Bremer Landesmuseum Fur kunst- Und Kulturgeschichte (Focke-Museum): 1985
Seller ID: 02373
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Light bubbling in a few spots of the front cover laminate, else Fine.116 pages, illustrated, indexed. Museum exhibit of historic photography, Germany. View More...
Brochure for Skeeter Hagler's 1980 Pulitzer Prize winning collection of photographs documenting the cowboys at the Pitchfork 6666 and JA ranches in the Texas Panhandle. Twenty photographs in black and white and color comprise twelve-pages on thick, cardstock pages. The brochure was designed by Joe Ing & Friends, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. It was also produced and printed in Dallas. There is no date, but apparently pre-Internet as no web or email addresses are indicated. Quite possibly, this elegant brochure is from the 1980s as a promotional piece for the photographer and his Pulitzer Prize winni... View More...
Light browning to edges of page block. Jacket slightly rubbed. Presented in special slipcase, and brochure laid in the book, with the compliments of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in commemoration of the opening in 1880 of their New York office. Preface by Michel Bagot, translated from the original French into English. Book design by Francisco Hidalgo. A collection of Francisco Hidalgo's photographs, which collectively convey the spirit of Hong Kong in 1980. Ninety-six color photographs, many full-page, with a black and white thumbnail index at the back of the book. No page num... View More...
Publisher:
Mexico, IBM, Lindero Ediciones, S.A. de C.V.: 2000
Seller ID: 06865
ISBN: 9685343055
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Light rubbing to the jacket's rear panel, else Fine. 153 pages with Bibliography and an illustrated catalog of Hinojosa's photographs that appear in the book. Text in Spanish. Seventy-three beautiful photographs from Javier Hinojosa document Mayan architecture and culture in this companion book to the photography exhibit of the same name. View More...
One page removed. Minor toning at bottom edge of rear cover. Otherwise fine in a printed acetate wrapper.Unpaginated collection of Sid Grossman's photographs in color and black and white, published after his death. Accompanying poems/text by Millard Lampell. View More...
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Paris, Editions du Pont Royal (Del Duca-Laffont): 1961
Seller ID: 09462
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Good
The corners and spine ends are worn. The spine is slightly cocked. The binding is tight and the book is clean and free of any marks or writing except for a gift inscription inside the front cover. 126 pages of illustrations and black and white photographs of Paris street scenes, with corresponding text (poem, song, prose, etc.) from 27 French artists, such as Charles Trenet, Robert Rocca, and Pierre-Jean Vaillard. Preface by Jacques Prevert. Foreword by Maurice Chevalier. Facsimile signatures of all the contributors are on the book's rear cover. French language text. View More...
A fine copy in French fold dust jacket. Bookstore label (Books Inc, Houston) on the front free endpaper. 23 pages of text listing and describing the 98 color plates (jacket write-up states 108, but only 98 in this publication) that follow--photographs of people and places in Afghanistan. Translated from the original French into English by June Wilson. Edited by Daniel Wheeler. View More...
Publisher:
Syracuse, New York, Jupiter Press: 2000
Seller ID: 07563
ISBN: 0963949411
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Near Fine
A collection of black and white photographs from exhibiting artist and Assistant Adjunct Professor at Le Moyne in Syracuse, David G. Moore. 75 pages with Selected Bibliography. Gary Hesse, in his introduction, compares this collection to Moore's previous work, saying that, as in his previous work, Moore explores religious themes. However, this collection examines the spiritual world more than the physical world, relying less on overt religious symbols. View More...
Publisher:
Boston, Little Brown & Company for New York Graphic Society: 1988
Seller ID: 08539
ISBN: 0821217119
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Very Good
Boards lightly rubbed at the tips and ever so slightly bowed. The tail of the spine has a small tear, as does the dust jacket in the same place. The dust jacket is protected now in a clear Mylar cover. Seventeen-page Foreword by Porter followed by 87 full-page, color photographs from Porter. View More...
Couple of faint stains near the top of the dust jacket (front panel), otherwise a fine, clean copy. 168 pages of color photographs of scenes around Kuwait, with an Introduction (in English) by the photographer. Signed to the previous owners of the book. Oversized book that will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
Hinge cracking at the title page, otherwise about fine in like jacket. Comes with the publisher's slipcase in near fine condition. About 13.5 inches oblong. Notes by Giosue Chiaradia. Unpaginated. Oversized book that will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
Publisher:
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University Press: 1996
Seller ID: 10520
ISBN: 0807120219
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
Price-clipped jacket, otherwise a fine copy. Signed on the half-title page by photographer Julia Sims. Introduction (33 pages) by John Randolph Kemp followed by Sims' color photographs. 142 pages with Index. From the publisher: "Veiled behind dense drapes of Spanish moss, walls of wondrous Cyprus trees, and accessible only by boat, Manchac Swamp is a wilderness jewel hidden deep in the heart of Louisiana. This volume showcases the many moods, flora, and fauna of this hidden world." Oversized book, which will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
Publisher:
San Raphael, California, Channel Photographics: 2010
Seller ID: 08864
ISBN: 0977339920
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Fine
A photographic essay on multiracial America. Photographs and interviews by Mike Tauber. Intorduction by Rebecca Walker. Foreword by Ann Curry. Essay by Alan H. Goodman, Ph.D. View More...
