12 Selected Post Cards, Genuine Photos, Carlsbad Taverns, New Mexico
Carsbad, NM: Cavern Supply Company, Ca. 1930s. Fold-around printed envelope housing 12 rppc postcards of the caverns, all fine, envelope just a touch of wear and soil.
Photography
1880s photo album: 27 CDVs, 6 cabinet photos - London, Bayswater, Croydon, Folkestone, Harrogate, Eastbourne
Hardcover. 9.5 x 7.25 inches, full leather with clasp, very good, light rubbing and wear, plate pages show some foxing but the photos are all very good. With 27 CDVs, none of them identified by name, but photo studios are London (primarily the Hellis studio), Bayswater, Croydon, Folkestone, Harrogate, Eastbourne.....
1880s photo album: Jamestown & Rochester, NY, Los Angeles, Connellsville PA, Pittsburgh PA
Hardcover. 16 x 7 inches, velvet pillowed covers, good but not very good condition, some wear and tattiness. With 49 cabinet photos (5 x 3 images), with about half of them from Jamestown NY studios, another 10 or so from Rochester studios, perhaps 8 from Los Angeles, and the rest.....
1899-1905 photo album featuring 10 year old Helen's trip Montreal - Europe, Swiss Alps, Low Countries, England, Paris, Rhine
Album measures 6 inches wide, with over 70 photos, the best of them feature a girl around 10 named Helen boldly staring at the camera in the Swiss Alps, notably Andermatt, Ragatz, and near the Matterhorn; the shipboard photos are excellent -- the SS Rotterdam and the SS Virginian --.....
2 1898 cabinet photos of Rear Admiral C. C. Carpenter, Portsmouth NH, the year before he committed suicide
2 cabinet photos (both measure, including the mount boards, 6.5 x 4.25 inches), very good, light wear, one inscribed on the back by Carpenter, the other with the note "taken in summer of 1898." Information on Carpenter that follows taken from an obituary from a Boston newspaper of April 2.....
8.5 x 6.5 ca. 1900s photo of Brookside Furniture Co. horsedrawn moving wagon -- Cleveland??
On worn and chipped mounting, but the photo itself is very good and bright. Picked up in a NE Ohio antique store and research shows there was a Brookside Furniture Co. in the Cleveland area back then. Handsome photo with lots of personality.
Ca. 1869-1890s large photo album of Scotland, England, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Alps, etc.
Hardcover. 14.5 x 11.5 inches, black cloth binding with recent black cloth over spine, good condition, 77 photos, about half of which are large and take up the full page, the others fitting two-to-a-page, almost all professional commerial photographs sold to tourists, some annotated in pen underneath. It appears they.....
Ca. 1910s 19 x 15 framed photo of moving trucks -- some horsedrawn -- Harrison, New Jersey
Large vintage photo printed from a glass plate negative (not examined outside the frame), visible photo measures 19 x 15 inches, matted, framed and glazed, frame measures approx. 24 x 29 inches; very nice condition, recent matting, frame looks considerably older, slightly battered. Handsome photo showing the moving conveyances of.....
Ca. 1910s handsome photograph of the interior of a toy store: bicycles, dolls, stuffed animals and sundries
Photograph itself measures 7 x 5 inches, on gray stiff backing sheet measuring 9 x 7 inches. Near fine condition. No idea where this store is or when the photo was taken: some expert on bikes can probably date the picture from them. In the lefthand cabinet are dolls and.....
Ca. 1944 large framed photo of B-24 Liberator Bomber with hundreds of servicemen
Visible photo measures 19 x 15, framed and glazed in an old frame measuring 22 x 18. B-24s were in production from 1940-1945.
Charming 1910s photograph portrait of young girl with her Teddy Bear
No date or any other information, ca. 1910s just from the look. On 8 x 6 inch mounting card, photo itself measures 5.5 x 4 inches and shows a somber girl of seven years old or so, holding her Teddy Bear.
Figure Studies Annual number Eight ca. 1950s
NP: FS, Ca. 1955. Paperback. 11 x 8.5 inches, wraps, very good, light wear, 66 pp. of b/w nude photography. No date, looks to be mid 1950s.
Handsome 1870s-1880s leatherbound photo album, Illinois studios: Sandwich, Somonauk, Elgin, Plano, Chicago, Aurora, Earlville
Hardcover. Album measures 11 x 8.5 inches, good to very good, clasp intact, light rubbing and wear to binding, some of the pages have torn slots where the photos would fit, but mainly very good. Hardly any names of the people are given, but the photo studios are almost all.....
Lot 48 original 1900s-1930s cabinet photos: British Peerage, Nobility, Lords and Ladies
Most of the photos in very good condition, mostly mounted, some not, almost all identified on the versos, probably part of the collection of a NY press photo repository in the old days. Mounts measure approx. 6.5 x 4.5 inches, photos measure -- usually -- 6 x 4 inches approx.....
Sto Let Ceske Fotografie, 1839-1939
Praze: Umelecko-Prumyslove Museum, 1939. First printing. Paperback. Paperback, illustrated (some in color), 175 pp. + ads., clean unmarked text, Very Good+ copy, light rubbing to tips and edges, minor discoloration to some pages of the text. Our copy in protective mylar. Rare book. Digital images available upon request...
Very long panoramic photo: Trap Shoot at Butler, Indiana, September 27, 1915
Kendallville, IN: Sullivan photo studio, 1915. Photo measures approximately 47 x 7.5 inches, in old frame that measures approximately 50 x 10 inches. Condition of photo is good with general light surface soil, some old shallow stains along very top edge of photo, and along left border of photo evidence.....
Berenice Abbott Photographs
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. First printing. Paperback. Printed paper wrap, quarto, 176pp., heavily illustrated in b&w. Book has small scuff to spine foot on rear joint, binding tight, text clean bright and unmarked. No DJ.
Lives I've Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White
Cleveland, OH: Arc Press, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. First printing, 1983, Number XI of XXV copies signed with facsimile lithograph signature of Minor White and directly by Abe Frajndlich (as well as personal inscription from Frajndlich), accompanied by signed silver print of "Minor in Leather Jacket". Oblong quarto, bound in.....
Yosemite and the Range of Light -- signed
New York: New York Graphic Society, 1980. Second printing. Hardcover. Oblong folio, cloth backed boards in dust jacket, fine copy, signed on special bookplate on flyleaf, in original mailing carton.
Photographs of the Southwest: Selected Photographs made from 1928 yp 1968 in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas and Utah
Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1976. First printing. Red cloth boards in dust jacket, 108 plates, no page numbers.
Death Valley
San Francisco: 5 Associates, 1959. Second edition. Paperback. Second edition, 1959, paperback, quarto, 55pp., illustrated in color and b&w. Book VG with shelfwear and mild edgewear, spine worn, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked with mild crease to bottom corner throughout. No DJ.
Double Feature
New York: Kent Gallery, 2008. First edition. Hardcover. octavo, white boards in dust jacket, book and jacket are in very good + condition, jacket shows mild edgewear, book shows light overall wear, 91pp.
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project
Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 2012. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Illustrated in color and b&w. Minor shelfwear to wraps, with contents clean and bright.
Marcellus Shale Documentary Project
Pittsburgh, PA: Pittsburgh Filmmakers, 2012. Paperback. 8vo, paperback. Illustrated in color and b&w. Minimal shelfwear to wraps, with contents clean and bright.
Group of 37 German and American photography brochures, pamphlets, catalogs, instruction manuals, etc. for camera, lenses, film and darkroom products, 1910s-1930s, plus large handful of leaflets, flyers, brochures and advertising
Various Places: Agfa, Leica, Leitz, Contax, Zeiss, Ansco, Hammer Dry Plate Co., Rolleiflex, G. Cramer Dry Plate Co., Voigtlander-Inos, Kodak, Welta, George Murphy, R. J. Fitzsimmons, Schneider, etc. 1910s-1930s. Paperback. Group of 37 pamphlets, brochures, catalogs, instructional guides, product descriptions, flyers, manuals, all on cameras, lenses, photographic paper and supplies.....