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...
Launched in 2017 as a photographic competition to raise funds for the Dallas Arts District Foundation, this book features 91 selected works on the Dallas Arts District from 57 photographers of all experience levels. 176 pages. Oversized book, 11 X 11 inches, which will require extra postage for expedited and international delivery. View More...
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Boston, Little, Brown and Company (A New York Graphic Society Book): 1985
Seller ID: 11199
ISBN: 0821211315
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Mild wear to book and jacket, no tears or chips. 272 pages with Index and numerous technical drawings and photographs. Appendices include Appendix 1: Film Testing Procedures, Appendix 2: Film Test Data, Appendix 3: Chemical Formulas, Appendix 4: Filter Spectral Characteristics, and Appendix 5: Logarithms. 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...
288 pages with Index. Numerous color photographs of the Egyptian landscape from an aerial view. Facing photos of the Red Sea at the Contents section fold-out to reveal a four-panel panoramic view of the White Desert. A beautifully photographed document of Egypt. A large, heavy book; please inquire about rates if you require extra postage for expedited or international delivery. 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...
Publisher:
London, National Portrait Gallery: 1977
Seller ID: 11413
ISBN: 0904017141
Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good
Mild wear with some foxing inside the rear cover. Previous owner label inside the front cover. 136 pages with Index. Numerous photographs and color plates depicting the British Royal Family from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert to Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, and their children (Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward). Included is an Exhibition Guide for the exhibt (same title as book) 18 March to 2 October 1977. View More...
Publisher:
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...
Red cloth with white lettering in a French fold dust jacket. 128 pages with Index to Photographs. One-hundred twelve fine art photographs based on eleven projects of construction of buildings and other structures in Houston, taken from 1985 to 2007. Pages 17-118 comprise the color photograph collection for this book. Gertsman contributed the Preface, followed by Vision and Collaboration, by Tadd Tellepsen; Visionary Camera, by Ann Holmes; Beauty in the Details, by Barrie Scardino; To catch a moment of beauty, by Janusz A. Ihnatowicz; and Photographs of out-of-space, by Kristian Feigelson. Gera... View More...
Publisher:
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...
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...
Publisher:
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...
