[TRADE CATALOGUE] [CHARLES BESLER COMPANY]
SALESMAN’S SAMPLE ALBUM OF LANTERN SLIDES
Charles Besler Company, [Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: 1910
- $650
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.
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FRANK BRANGWYN AND HIS WORK, 1910
Shaw-Sparrow, Walter 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. SIX MARYLAND ARTISTS, A STUDY IN DRAWINGS Introduction by George Boas.
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. EARLY AMERICAN STENCILS ON WALLS AND FURNITURE
Waring, Janet 4to., xv, 149 pp., errata slip. Profusely illustrated; seven tipped-in color stencil samples, b&w plates, color decorations. Cloth with color stencil illustration mounted on front, gilt-title on spine. Two one-inch tears to the blank top margin of the title page; five-inch long semicircular wedge lacking from the rear panel of the dust jacket. Otherwise, this is a fine copy. One of 800 copies. MARCEL DUCHAMP: 66 CREATIVE YEARS From the first painting to the last drawing. Over 200 items.
Schwarz, Arturo 4to., 103 pp., b&w illustrations. Owner's bookplate affixed to the blank free endpaper has cause wrinkling. Otherwise, this is a fine copy. Illustrated wrappers. The two hundred and sixty-two items are listed chronologically and include the Schwarz Catalogue Raisonné number, medium, dimensions and other information if issued in an edition.
THE BIRTH OF VENUS
Sommer, Frederick Oblong folio, 3 loose leaves comprised of a title sheet, colophon, and quotation from Genesis; with five dust grain hand-pulled photogravures, made from the original negatives. Image size from 9 x 10 inches to 9 1/2 x 11 inches, mounted on archival boards 15 1/4 x 13 1/2 inches. Laid into a cloth clamshell portfolio with paper label. Fine. This is the first endeavor into photogravure prints by Frederick Sommer: they are collages from anatomical engravings; they are both eerie and lush. Each print is SIGNED and numbered by the artist and limited to 95 portfolios plus proofs; this is portfolio no. 3.
UNTITLED GELATIN SILVER PRINT
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.
NEGLECTED NEIGHBORS STORIES OF LIFE IN THE ALLEYS, TENEMENTS AND SHANTIES OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
[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.- $225
- $225