Fine Photobooks From An Important Private Collection
Catalog Information: 200 lots with images
Lot 1: JACOB A. RIIS
JACOB A. RIISHow the Other Half Lives. New York: Charles Scribners's Sons, 1890. Octavo (193 x 131 mm). 43 illustrations, 18 of these halftone black and white photographs. (Faint browning in the margins, and occasional light spotting.) Original blue [...more]
Lot 2: THOMAS ANNAN
THOMAS ANNANThe Old Closes and Streets of Glasgow. T. & R. Annan & Sons, 1900. Folio (384 x 280 mm). 50 photogravures, with guards. (Occasional light soiling and spotting.) Original navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, arms in gilt on front co [...more]
Lot 3: ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
ALVIN LANGDON COBURNLondon. London: Duckworth & Co. and New York: Brentano's, 1909.Folio (407 x 307 mm). 20 hand-pulled gravures mounted on heavy grey paper. (Light scattered spotting in text.) Expertly re-backed and re-cornered to style, preserv [...more]
Lot 4: ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
ALVIN LANGDON COBURNMen of Mark. London and New York: Duckworth & Co, and Mitchell Kennerley, 1913.Quarto (305 x 235 mm). 33 photogravures (tissue guards browned, a few of these with tears or creases). (Occasional light spotting mostly in text ma [...more]
Lot 5: ALVIN LANGDON COBURN
ALVIN LANGDON COBURNLondon. Text by G.K. Chesterton. London: Privately printed (at the Chiswick Press) for Alvin Langdon Coburn and Edmund D. Brooks and their friends, 1914.Octavo (218 x 153 mm). 10 mounted photogravures. Original cloth-backed boards [...more]
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