Cape Town, SA: Gallery Press, 1985. Hardcover first edition - A book initiated by the International Service Committee of the Goodwood Rotary Club in South Africa - designed to show that the Rotary Club is just one of the many groups of people, cutting across all boundaries of race and creed, who do care in South Africa. 120 pages, large format, 11 1/2 by 8 inches, bound in glossy illustrated boards with a photograph by Alberts on the cover.

Sacramento, California: Crocker Art Museum, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - Exhibition catalog, January 14 - March 6, 1994. Includes a long essay by the artist himself as well as essays by exhibit curator Janice Driesbach, focusing on the evolution of his work and by Kenneth Baker on "Painting against the Current." Illustrated with 32 full-page full color plates of his works from the early, more clearly narrative, paintings as well as his later studies of fish. SIGNED by the artist William M. Allan inside the front over. 60 pp, printed on heavy gloss stock, measures 9 3/4" square.

Sacramento, California: Crocker Art Museum, (1994.). First edition - Exhibition catalog, January 14 - March 6, 1994. Includes a long essay by the artist himself as well as essays by exhibit curator Janice Driesbach, focusing on the evolution of his work and by Kenneth Baker on "Painting against the Current." Illustrated with 32 full-page full color plates of his works from the early, more clearly narrative, paintings as well as his later studies of fish. 60 pp, printed on heavy gloss stock, measures 9 3/4" square.

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee [Printed by Bolger], (1999.). First edition - Catalogue of an exhibition of newly commissioned art works by eight artists - Magdalena Abakanowicz, Alan Berliner, Wendy Ewald, Leon Golub, Pepon Osorio, Gilles Peress, Fred Wilson and Terry Winters - based on their research of, and responses to, 50,000 photographs in the archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-96696490X.

Tarrytown, NY: Marshall Cavendish . (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Award-winning photo-essay on murals from the cave paintings to colonial church murals, to the masterpieces of Diego Rivera, Orozco and other Mexican masters, the singing walls in American cities and graffiti. The vibrant photos - three to four on each spread - vary between broad shots, close-ups of details, and images of a variety of people either creating or viewing the paintings. Most of the works are in the United States, and many are from Latino and Hispanic communities. The paintings capture the spirit, pride, and history of the individuals depicted. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Ancona with a small drawing. Oblong format. 48 pp. ISBN: 0-761451315.

New York: Aperture, (2005) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third volume (out of five) of the work of this revolutionary photographer to be published posthumously, and the only one which focuses on a single topic. It consists of photographs taken at residences for the mentally retarded between 1966 and 1971, places she kept going back to every few months or so, to picnics, dances, on Halloween, in the years just before her death. Includes an afterword by her daughter, Doon Arbus. Large format, unpaginated. ISBN: 089381623X.

New York: Watson-Guptill / Art Directors Club of New , 1947. Hardcover first edition - Introduction by Edward L. Bernays. Includes work by Jacob Lawrence, Matthew Liebowitz, Ben Stahl, Thomas Benton, Jan Balet, Dong Kingman, Carol Blanchard Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Cecil Beaton, Grandma Moses, Andrew Wyeth and many others - most in black and white but some in full color. Small quarto, illustrated throughout, some in full color, most in black and white. Includes index of artists and of advertisers. 190 pp of the exhibits plus list of artists and 11 additional pages showing how the ads actually appeared in the magazine and full page ads for advertising agencies and others. 316 pp.

New York: The Quantuck Lane Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - A photographic look at Harlem's disappearing landscape, as it becomes more gentrified and more "sanitized." Illustrated with almost 100 full color, full page and very evocative photographs. Introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley Large square format. 120 pp. ISBN: 0-971454876.

Toronto: Viking Press, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of full page black and white photographs of more than one hundred Canadians who have excelled in the arts, as entrepreneurs, as athletes and more - including Leonard Cohen, Wayne Gretzky, k.d. lang, Yousouf Karsh and many others. A bilingual edition with brief introductions to each person in both English and French. A project of the Photographers and Friends United Against Aids. List of photographers with notes on each. Large format, approx 9 1/2 inches by 12 inches. 216 pp. ISBN: 0-670-864757.

Seattle: The Mountaineers Books, (2003). SIGNED first edition - A book which takes us to a beautiful, wild - and endangered - land. Includes a foreword by Jimmy Carter, poem by Terry Tempest Williams and significant long essays by Peter Matthiessen, Fran Mauer, William H. Meadows, and more. SIGNED by the photographer and author Banerjee on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with full color photographs throughout, many full page. Maps. Large square format. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-898864380.

New York Harper Collins (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Photographer Arturo Pattern and writer Russell Banks collaborate on this work which evoke the inhabitants of the small New England town of Pattern, Maine. Includes thirty-seven glossy black and white portraits, 73 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0192348.

Regina, Saskatchewan: Dunlop Art Gallery, 2013. Hardcover first edition - The second volume which surveys the Dunlap Gallery's past year of exhibits - Since the Gallery is a unit of the Regina Public Library it is appropriate that some of the exhibits were related to the book. Includes contributions from and about Sarah Abbot and Jeremy Drummond, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Nelson Henricks, Jinhan Ko, Alison S. M. Kobayashi, Deirdre Logue, David Poolman, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, and Steve Reinke; Joseph Anderson; Joi T. Arcand; Lee Henderson and Eve K. Tremblay; Kathleen Irwin and Jeff Morton; Carmela Laganse and more. A beautiful production printed on heavy glossy stock and illustrated in full color throughout. 176 pp.

London: Paul Hamlyn, (1969) dj. Hardcover first edition - A study of this late 19th century movement begun by William Morris and followed by the Scottish architect-designer Charles Rennie Macintosh, English artist Aubrey Beardsley and Spanish architect Antonio Gaudi. Includes 67 plates in full color. Translated from te Italian by Raymond Rudorff. 157 pp.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1995). SIGNED first edition - NSCRIBED on the half title page by both authors ("To --- All the best Pat Derby "71" & Mara") and SIGNED and dated in the year of publication by the photographer. Text by Peter Beagle and Pat Derby, illustrated with black and white photographs by Genaro Molina of Derby and others with the elephants. Pat Derby was the co-founder of PAWS (Performing Animal Welfare Society), with a refuge in Galt, California, where 71, a young and sickly elephant was nursed back to health, and Mara later found a home. Oblong format. 84 pp. ISBN: 0-884963969.

New York: Dover Press, (1967). First edition - An unabridged reproduction of the revised 1920 edition - this edition includes all of the plates - 157 plates - which had appeared in earlier editions, including two with color added for this book. Includes a prefatory note by H. M. Marillier. Large format.

New York: Crown, (1983) dj. Hardcover first edition - A survey of works by this artist who developed his own brand of German Expressionism, one which reflected his awareness of the political and social issues of his time - the first World War where he was a volunteer medical orderly, the Great Depression, the Weimar republic. Illustrated throughout with full color (including two tipped in color plates on the title page and on the first page) and black and white. Translated from the German by Lucas Lackner. Biography, bibliography, list of illustrations. Large format. 96 pp. ISBN: 0-517550008.

San Francisco / Tulsa, OK: Council Oak Books, (2000) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes over 150 images of sailors mostly from snapshots in private collections - although some are more formal and a few are large double page pictures - and never before reproduced. Many are early and mid twentieth century, US Navy sailors. Selected and with an introduction by editor. SIGNED by Bentley on the title pages. Square format. 109 pp. Photographic endsheets. ISBN: 1-571780947.

San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, (1957.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An unusual work for Ruth Bernard (published just a few years after she moved to San Francisco, where she spent the rest of her life): a photo-essay on San Francisco's cable cars and the people who ride them, narrated by young cable car gripman Melvin Van, with unposed black and white photographs by Bernhard on every page. The first book (written when he was just 25) by the independent African American film director and producer, Melvin Van Peebles. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Bernhard with the words "to one who knows" and dated January 24, 1958. A rather uncommon book, and especially so signed by Bernhard. Slightly oversized format, 10 1/4 inches tall by 7 3/16 inches wide. 78 pp.

Seattle: Museums West / University of Washington Press, (1998). First edition - Exhibition catalog which looks at the ways in which Indians have been portrayed by themselves and others from the early 1800s to the present. Paintings, sculptures, traditional native arts, and popular culture objects - neon signs, toys, automobiles, cigar boxes - are used to both reveal and challenge popular assumptions about native North Americans. Foreword by Peter Hassrick; introduction by Dave Warren. Illustrated in full color throughout. Large format. Index. xvi, 144 pp. ISBN: 0-295976756.

Chanhassen, MN: NorthWord Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A beautiful book by this award-winning photographer, one which "captures the magnificence of the Northern Minnesota Wilderness during summer. Beginning with the solstice, Brandenburg set out daily with his digital camera to document life in the North Woods. . Each page turn offers the opportunity to study the techniques of the masters - the soft focus of Arnold Genthe, the shapes and energy of Alfred Stieglitz, or the abstract form and flow of a Georgia O'Keeffe image." (Library Journal) Following the portfolio of photographs is an extended essay taken from the photographer's field notes which also comment on environmental issues affecting the Boundary Waters area. SIGNED on the half title page. Large oblong format. 150 pp. ISBN: 1-559710020.

S & P Printing, (1983). First edition - Includes ten paintings, each with notes by John Marburger. Includes a statement by the German born artist in which she says that she has been working toward "developing a symbolic language to express ideas that deal with the physics of light and energy." Chronology. Slim oblong format. 20 pp.

Chicago: D. M. Campana Art Co., 1943. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Includes advertisements for Campana art classes and other books. Index. 128 pp.

New York: The Studio Museum in Harlem / Harry N. Abrams, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautifully produced book, large format with 140 illustrations including 55 plates in full color. Included are the words of painters Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, and William H. Johnson, sculptor Meta Warrick Fuller and photographer James Van Der Zee and much more. Chronology of the Harlem Renaissance from 1919 to 1929, chronologies of the artists and an index. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-8109-10993.