A compelling image of Dr. Walker, wearing her usual frock coat, trousers, a necktie, and her Congressional Medal of Honor. The image dates from her lecture tour of Great Britain in 1866 and 1867. Walker (1832–1919) obtained a medical degree in 1855 and practiced medicine into her old age. During.....

First edition. A large format photobook reproducing Nachtwey's grim black-and-white images of famine, war, and human suffering. Introduction by Luc Sante. 11 by 15 inches. 480 pages. First edition (states "First published..." on colophon). A near fine copy in the publisher's black cloth binding; no dust jacket, as issued.

First Edition. A monograph devoted to Breuer's pole photos, published to accompany Breuer's first exhibition in the US. This sequel to Logos, Warehouses, and Containers includes 24 full-page, full-color Poles images, plus a number of small reproductions in the introduction. Breuer is a German photographer. 68 pages. First edition (first.....

Second Printing. An account of African American life on Lang Syne, one of the largest plantations in South Carolina, written by the novelist Julia Peterkin and photographed by New York heiress Doris Ullman. "Ullman's soft-focus photos—rendered as tactile as charcoal drawings in the superb gravure reproductions here—straddle Pictorialism and Modernism.....

A two-volume collection of work by Peter Beard. Volume I (576 pages) reproduces collages of found objects, photographs, Beard's writings, ink, and paint. Volume II (168 pages) is devoted to an illustrated interview with Beard conducted by Steven M.L. Aronson (text in English and French and German translation); a facsimile.....

First Edition. Illustrated with 64 full-page, full-color plates of often beautiful scenes of environmental destruction. 11 by 13 inches. 160 pages. With several introductory essays and an interview with the photographer. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

First Edition. The book "consists of 64 portraits of "Lucybelle Crater"...played by Meatyard's wife Madelyn wearing a cheap dime-store mask...paired with various family members and friends wearing one of those transparent masks that have an aging affect on wearers... This book is, in a way, Meatyard's purest statement. He was.....

A full-length cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth with the caption, "I sell the shadow to support the substance." This is one of Truth's last portraits, taken when she was in her eighties and purchased in bulk to sell at events, hence the caption. During the Civil War, Truth took.....

A three-quarters-length seated portrait of trade union advocate and economist George Gunton (1845–1919). Gunton was born in England and emigrated to the US in the 1870s. Gunton wrote a treatise on the eight-hour work day and the economics books Wealth and Progress and Principles of Social Economics. He also published.....

A mounted photograph of the Spanish dancer Carmencita, who was a popular entertainer in New York from 1889 to 1895. She posed for portraits by John Singer Sargent and WIlliam Merritt Chase. In 1894, Thomas Edison asked her to dance in front of his new motion picture camera. According to.....

First Edition. The second African American photobook according to Carla Williams in her essay, The Black Photographers Annual in Aperture 223 (the first was Roy DeCarava's Sweet Flypaper of Life, in 1955). The author is a poet, photographer, filmmaker (The Black Indians of New Orleans documentary), and a professor at.....

A boudoir cabinet card of men posing in the left side of a Chinese grocery store displaying vegetables for sale in barrels and bins. From other images of the same store we know that to the right, not very visible in this image, was the butcher. This is an uncommon.....

A trade catalog of lamps designed by Ray See under the See-Mar brand name of mid-century modern furniture, featuring 25 original 8-by-10-inch black-and-white photographs of lamps in furniture showroom settings, followed by a three-page price list ($35 to $150). These contents are housed in a three-prong paper folder with title.....