[HINE] Weller, Charles Frederick
8vo., xi, 342 pp., 96 illustrations, the majority from b&w photographs Bound in the publisher's plain green cloth, titled in gilt on the spine. There is slight rubbing at the spine head, foot and edges. A thin tide line along the blank top margin, which starts on the first blank leaf, extends only to the first text page. A very good copy. "In the important task of providing illustrations for the study, Mr. Lewis W. Hine, the exponent of 'Social Photography', has given invaluable generous aid as has also Mr. D. A. Glascoff. Others who have supplied photographs for the book are Eugenia W. Weller, Frank J. Cullen, Herbert Lewis and the author." p. 327 - 328. This is Hine's first appearance in book form.
[TRADE CATALOGUE] [CHARLES BESLER COMPANY]
Album of 25 leaves, 7 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, each of which have two black paper frames per recto and verso, which hold the photographs made from the lantern slides. There are 94 silver prints, 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches, of the 100 allocated slots, each with a gummed label with the handwritten stock number and location. The photographs are in very good condition while a few of the paper windows have short tears or lacking a piece of the frame; the cloth over boards album is worn and rubbed, the spine cover, which has a numbered label, is partially detached. For the salesman, carrying silver prints in an album was far safer than presenting glass lantern slides; certainly less cumbersome. This album of photographs, which are mostly from life, depict architecture, statuary and works of art, streets scenes from places in Italy and Croatia, including Venice, Pompei, Naples, Curzola, Trau, Messina, Capri, Florence, etc., Although neither the photographer nor publisher is identified, this album conforms to several in the same format, but from different regions, which are held in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library of the University of Virginia.
Man Ray
Folio, two unbound folded sheets to make [6] pp. text, with 10 photogravures plates 8 1/16 x 10 1/4 inches [20.48 x [26.03 cm] tipped to a stiff art paper mount 10 7/8 x14 3/4 inches [27.62 x 37.46] each with a titled protective vellum wrapper. The text and prints are laid-in a blank vellum folder, which is mildly creased, and laid-in the four-point printed paper portfolio. This copy has the complimentary slip from the CPDE, which is seldom included. Each plate bears the signature of Man Ray, which was signed in the original negative. This is copy number 409 from a total edition of 500 copies. A fine, near new copy. Aside from a slight bit of toning to the printed four-point paper folder, this is a fine, near new copy contained in a newly made gilt titled leather-backed cloth over boards chemise with matching cloth slipcase. In 1931, the Paris electric company, CPDE, commissioned Man Ray to produce a series of images promoting the various uses of electricity. The resulting portfolio of ten Rayogrammes was issued in 500 copies, which were distributed to the CPDE's best and prospective clients, and not commercially offered for sale. The photogravure prints made from original Rayograms are titled: Electricité, La Ville, Salle de Bain, La Maison, Lingerie, Salle a Manger, Cuisine, Le Souffle, Electricité, Le Monde. In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, Jeff R. Rosenheim, stated: "This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer." "Man Ray's ÉLECTRICITÉ is not only one of the most ravishing and sought-after of company photobooks, but it contains a cogent suite of photographs that the leading American Dadaist and commercial photographer himself never bettered." Parr and Badger, The Photobook: A History. Volume II, p.183.
Chappell, Walter
Vintage gelatin silver photograph 7 3/8 x 9 3/16 inches [18.54 x 23.34 cm.] The verso bears the printed label of the Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, which reads, " Walter Chapel Photograph/ Please return the Print to Gallery." Written in the photographer's distinctive hand, " Return to Walter Chappell, For one-time Repro only, 1958." A fine print. Walter Chappell (1925 - 2000) was affiliated with a long list of noted American photographers: Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Caponigro, Carl Chiarenza, et al. His association with Minor White, as a student, coworker at the George Eastman House, and with Aperture Magazine was one of his most enduring. He was represented by the Carl Siembab Gallery, one of the first galleries devoted solely to photography. In the early 1960s, the home he shared with his wife, the painter, Nancy Barrett Dickinson, was destroyed by fire, taking most of his negatives and prints. Photographs made prior to the fire are rare. This photograph was reproduced as plate XXXVI, the final image in, UNDER THE SUN: The Abstract Art of Camera Vision, By Nathan Lyons, Syl Labrot, Walter Chappell. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1960. "Chappell's Plate XXXVI suggests a galaxy in colliding upsweep. Whatever the photographic source, he has swirled a majestic rhythm of purest spontaneity." Barbara Morgan, 5 REVIEWS OF "UNDER THE SUN", Aperture, Volume 8, N0. 4, 1960.
Chappell, Walter
Vintage gelatin silver photograph 7 9/16 x 9 5/16 inches [18.98 x 23.65 cm.], printed prior to 1960. The verso is signed in pencil by the photographer in his distinctive hand, " Walter Chappell, Reproproof." A fine print. Walter Chappell (1925 - 2000) was affiliated with a long list of noted American photographers: Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Paul Caponigro, Carl Chiarenza, et al. His association with Minor White, as a student, coworker at the George Eastman House, and with Aperture Magazine was one of his most enduring. He was represented by the Carl Siembab Gallery, one of the first galleries devoted solely to photography. In the early 1960s, the home he shared with his wife, the painter, Nancy Barrett Dickinson, was destroyed by fire, taking most of his negatives and prints. Photographs made prior to the fire are rare. This photograph was reproduced as plate XXXIII, in, UNDER THE SUN: The Abstract Art of Camera Vision, By Nathan Lyons, Syl Labrot, Walter Chappell. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1960.
26 volumes of varying pagination, illustrations in b&w, bound in decorative printed wrappers. All fine and housed in two card slipcases with silver titled spines, issued by the publisher. 1. Architecture: a catalogue of books and drawings -- 2. Books and drawings before 1800 -- 3. Public building. Part 1 -- 4. Public building. Part 2 -- 5. Standard works and books of reference -- 6. Books, drawings, engravings and related objects -- 7. Standard works -- 8. Furniture -- 9. Bridges -- 10. Eighty English books, drawings and manuscripts: from Inigo Jones to the Crystal Palace -- 11. The early eighteenth century.-- 12. General reference standard sets and periodicals -- 13. Dictionaries and encyclopedias -- 14. The gothic of gothick -- 15. Dutch architecture -- 16. Seven pillars of architecture: Vitruvius, Alberti, Serlio, Palladio, De l'Orme, Villalpando, Scamozzi -- 17. Landscape gardening and the picturesque -- 18. Magazines and periodicals -- 19. A miscellany of general works -- 20. The use of iron in construction and decoration: with a supplement of trade catalogues from foundries and ironmongers -- 21. Enraved ornament -- 22. Churches of Italy -- 23. Palaces and villas of Italy -- 24. Plans for London -- 25. The Society of Dilettanti, neo-classical taste and Greek Revival architecture. And Index. With Catalogue 20, The name of the firm changed to Weinreb & Breman Ltd.
Balder, Alton Parker
4to., xix, 155, addenda slip, [2] pp. A very good copy in the original dust jacket that is lightly spotted and dusty, and shows chipping and short tears at the edges. The six artists are: Jacob Glushakow, Reuben Kramer, Herman Maril, Keith Martin, Aaron Sopher and Glenn Walker. Additionally, this copy has original signed ink sketches by Reuben Kramer and Aaron Sopher on the front pastedown and flyleaf, and is signed and dated in the year of publication by Aaron Sopher, Reuben Kramer and Keith Martin.
8 volumes 4to., varying paginations, color and b&w illustrations. Printed wrappers. Fine. Housed in the publisher's card slipcase, which is cracked along one side at the bottom joint. The complete catalogues for the auction of Andre Breton's collection: Livres I, 7-9 Apr. -- Livres II, 9-11 Apr. -- Manuscrits, 11-12 Apr. -- Numismatique, arts populaires, 14 Apr. -- Tableaux modernes, sculptures, estampes, tableaux anciens, 14 Apr. -- Tableaux modernes, sculptures, estampes, tableaux anciens, 15 Apr. -- Arts primitifs, 17 Apr. -- Photographies, 15-17 Apr. Additional shipping charges will be applied for this 8 volume set.
4to., xiv, 259 pp., color and b&w plates with printed tissue guards, t.e.g. Crack to the front endpaper, rear hinge and endpaper repaired. A near very good copy. The appendix include an extensive catalogue of painting, drawing, and etchings, as well as a bibliography. Inscribed by Frank Brangwyn to A. S. Levetus, an English critic and the Viennese correspondent for the STUDIO, and the author of, FRANK BRANGWYN: DER RADIERER, Vienna: Rikola Verlag, 1924.
4to., [80] pp. catalogue of 350 lithographs, etchings and other prints, illustrations in b&w. Estinates sheet laid-in. Paper over boards, which are moderately worn and soiled. This auction was conducted May 25 - 26, 1971 and included works by Degas, Ensor, Gaugin, Laurencin, Manet, Matisse, Picasso, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse Lautrec, et al.
White, Clarence H.
Hand-pulled photogravure, 7 7/16 x 4 3/16 inches [18.89 x 10.50 cm] printed on tissue, tipped to the original laid paper leaf, 11 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches [29.85x 20.96 cm]. Fine. The image is a fine full-tone photogravure from CAMERA WORK 3, 1903. Clarence H. White (1871 - 1925) was born in West Carlisle, Ohio and moved to Newark, Ohio in 1887. An early interest in art was thwarted by his parents. Employed by a wholesale grocery firm, he began making photographs after a visit to the Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893. In 1898, he exhibited ten photographs at the First Philadelphia Photographic Salon, which brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and other Pictorialists. By 1899, he was exhibiting widely, acting as a juror for salons, and organizing exhibitions of Stieglitz, Day, Keiley, Käsebier, et al. In 1906, he moved to New York, assisting at the Photo-Secession Galleries. In 1907, he collaborated with Stieglitz on a series of portrait and figure studies, which were subsequently published in Camera Work, and began his first appointment as a lecturer in photography at the Teachers College, Columbia University - followed in 1908 with an appointment at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and in 1914, he opened the Clarence H. White School of Photography, New York. As a teacher he profoundly influenced the art and technique of a number of important photographers, including: Margaret Bourke-White, Anton Bruehl, Laura Gilpin, Dorothea Lange, Paul Outerbridge, Ralph Steiner, Karl Struss and Doris Ulmann.
Seven volumes 4to. of varying paginations, illustrations in b&w. Printed wrappers. Price lists laid-in. Near fine. The issues are as follows: Catalogue 17, Meistergraphik :darunter Bestände der Sammlung der Fürsten von Liechtenstein, Teil IV, 1986; Catalogue 23, Neunzig druckgraphische meisterwerke von Schongauer bis Goya, 1988 [no price list included]; Catalogue 26, Singuläre Werke der Altermeistergraphik, 1990; Catalogue 27, Meistergraphik aus vier jahrhunderten Altdorfer-Wechinger, 1991; Catalogue 28, Kunst auf Papier: 1480-1846, 1992; Catalogue 31, Druckgraphische raritäten :Meckenem - Redon, 1995; Catalogue 36, Geistliches und Weltliches, Kontemplation und Lebenslust: niederländische und flämische Druckgraphik 1550-1690, 2000 [no price list included].
