Moment of Light: Photographs by Clara Sipprell
New York: John Day, 1966. First Edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the photographer in 1969. More
[Book #36488P]
New York: John Day, 1966. First Edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, price-clipped dust jacket. Inscribed by the photographer in 1969. More
[Book #36488P]
New York: Aperture, 1969. First Edition. About fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by Smith on the title page, “To Bernie, Who, with his understanding and consideration contributed much to the doing of this book. Thanks Gene.” Although “Bernie” is unidentified, it might have been Bernard..... More
[Book #37187P]
New York: Pantheon, 1947. First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips. The long-time New Yorker Magazine writer changed her first name from the disliked Isabel Ann to Andy as homage to E.B. White, familiarly known as “Andy.”. More
[Book #32152P]
New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. An expansion of the much lauded 1978 edition, published on the occasion of the museum’s acquisition of seventy-four photographs from the Portrait. The printer’s copy with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. More
[Book #36492P]
Providence: Matrix Publications, 1980. First Edition; trade issue. Spine faded, else fine in a very good publisher’s slipcase. Signed by Callahan on the half title. More
[Book #26924P]
Each is identified in ink on the verso and dated 1895. One is of a gravestone and three seaside images are captioned “The Churn,” “Rocks,” and “The Head.” Approximately 3 3/4” tall x 5” wide; mounted on a slightly larger card. Quite faded; good. More
[Book #27191P]
Each is identified in ink on the verso and dated 1895. One is of two children playing in the sand, adults in the background; the other is a wide view of the beach, hotels in the distance. Approximately 3 3/4” tall x 5” wide; mounted on a slightly larger card..... More
[Book #27192P]
London: A. W. Bennett, 1868. Bound in publisher’s full leather; heavily decorated in gilt and blind ; all edges gilt. Illustrated with fourteen original photographs which are mounted on bound-in, captioned leaves; minor rubbing and tears; an excellent copy. The photographers and authors (unsurprisingly, Burns is prominently represented) are identified..... More
[Book #37126P]
Zurich: Orell Fussli, 1931. First Edition. (Parr/Badger, v. 1, 130). Text in Hebrew and in German. Publisher’s photo-illustrated boards; minor rubbing; near fine. Illustrated with 65 images, many of them montages, of the ghetto in Vilnius, Lithuania. The photographer clearly held an unromantic view of life in the city where..... More
[Book #36330P]
Dallas: Daddy-O Productions, 1976. First Edition. Consisting of 150 individually captioned color xeroxes, with a signed copyright page and a leaf of introduction; bound into limp cowhide with decorative brads; the front cover is embossed with the title and Texas motifs (lone stars, horseshoes, broncos, roses) bordered by a stamped..... More
[Book #37193P]
Silver print; 11 x 14”; inscribed, legibly, but in dark ink on a dark background, “To Jimmy/ Weegee.” With the photographer’s address stamp, “Arthur (Weegee) Fellig” on the verso. A two page typed letter is included (November 31 [sic] 1950), signed, corrected and with a long postscript in the photographer’s..... More
[Book #19328P]
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1950. First Edition. Publisher’s stiff, spiral-bound wrappers. A little foxing of the first and last blank leaves; fine in the rare dust jacket, which is a little foxed and has had slight, nearly unnoticeable archival mending on the verso. More
[Book #30228P]