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SLICKROCK: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah.
Edition: Large trade paperback.
New York: Sierra Club/Charles Scribner's Sons, (ca 1974, c 1971). The classic book on Utah's Canyon Country, which combines stunning full-color pictures by landscape photographer and conservationist Philip Hyde with text by Edward Abbey - a book which captures the beauty of this area and makes an argument for the preservation of its wilderness. Introduction by John G. Mitchell, Sierra Club Books editor, preface by Hyde, includes a map of proposed highways and existing roads. While only the original 1971 date is shown, this includes a one page update on "The Situation" by June Viavant, which dates it as late 1973 or early 1974. Full color photos throughout, printed on heavy glossy stock. Includes Abbey's notes and a bibliography. Large format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-871560518.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the covers, prev owner's name, gift inscription. light vertical crease on a couple of leaves).
Book ID: 86029More details Price: $19.50 -
SLICKROCK: The Canyon Country of Southeast Utah.
Edition: Large trade paperback.
New York: Sierra Club/Charles Scribner's Sons, (ca 1974, c 1971). The classic book on Utah's Canyon Country, which combines stunning full-color pictures by landscape photographer and conservationist Philip Hyde with text by Edward Abbey - a book which captures the beauty of this area and makes an argument for the preservation of its wilderness. Introduction by John G. Mitchell, Sierra Club Books editor, preface by Hyde, includes a map of proposed highways and existing roads. While only the original 1971 date is shown, this includes a one page update on "The Situation" by June Viavant, which dates it as late 1973 or early 1974. Full color photos throughout, printed on heavy glossy stock. Includes Abbey's notes and a bibliography. Large format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-871560518.
Condition: Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (some toning to the cover).
Book ID: 86028More details Price: $21.50 -
HANGING LOOSE 74.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 46160More details Price: $40.00 -
ANNALS OF THE DESERT.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Stratford Co., 1930. Hardcover first edition - A scarce privately printed publication in an unusual format - the text is printed only on one side of the leaves (all the leaves are unopened) and each is followed by a blank leaf. Opposing the text is a full page plate of photographs by Gandara of desert scenes in the Southwest or Mexico. An unusual and appealing book.
Condition: Overall very near fine condition - a few small spots to the watered silk covers.
Book ID: 2765More details Price: $125.00 -
SACRAMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An ambitious novel by Barker, neither horror nor fantasy, although containing elements of both - the story of Will Rabjohns, a noted wildlife photographer, who is left almost dead by an enounter with an Alaskan bear. ISBN: 0-06-017949x.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 32219More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CALIFORNIA FEELING: A Personal View
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969. Hardcover first edition - In the late 60's, Beagle and photographer Michael Bry spent a year traveling around California in a 1957 Volkswagon van, and this book, a very personal picture of a special time in California's history, was the result. In addition to Bry's black and white photographs, it includes color photos by Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde and others. Large format. List of photographs. 252 pp.
Condition: Near fine in blue boards with a black cloth spine and gilt lettering, no dust jacket (some sunning to edges of boards)
Book ID: 89629More details Price: $24.50 -
THE CALIFORNIA FEELING: A Personal View
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In the late 60's, Beagle and photographer Michael Bry spent a year traveling around California in a 1957 Volkswagon van, and this book, a very personal picture of a special time in California's history, was the result. In addition to Bry's black and white photographs, it includes color photos by Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde and others. SIGNED by Beagle on the title page. Large format. List of photographs. 252 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket - some sunning to the boards, bookplate, price-clipped, some short edge tears, creasing to dj flaps, but despite the flaws, this is a sturdy copy of an interesting book, which is rather uncommon signed.
Book ID: 89628More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CALIFORNIA FEELING: A Personal View
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1969. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Back in the late 60's, Beagle and photographer Michael Bry spent a year traveling around California in a 1957 Volkswagon van, and this book, a very personal picture of a special time in California's history, was the result. In addition to Bry's black and white photographs, it includes color photos by Ansel Adams, Philip Hyde and others. SIGNED by Beagle on the title page. Large format. List of photographs. 252 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket (some sunning to the boards, light edgewear to the dj) Uncommon signed.
Book ID: 84334More details Price: $40.00 -
HOROLOGY ON THE HALF SHELL
Edition: First printing.
Washington, D.C.: Highland House, (1978.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A rather quirky monograph covering years of the history of watches and timepieces, and the craft and art of the the watchmaker, from the early days of the mechanical escapement in 1550 to 1950, Beautifully illustrating with many full color and black and white photographs by im Waring. Large format, printed on heavy stock throughout. xi, 60 pp. ISBN: 0-918712-06-8.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43898More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BIG HEART.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine photographic dustjacket.
Book ID: 37311More details Price: $400.00 -
LOOKING OUT WITH VIZCAINO AND BODEGA.
Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.
San Francisco: The Farris Press, (1970). First edition - An uncommon book which combines the poems of Hugh Brady - many of which focus on the damage done by western civilization - with the photographs of John Knaggs. A quintessential product of the late 60s and early 70s. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-912020105.
Condition: Very good in glossy photographic wrappers (lower corner creased, a bit of wear to the spine)
Book ID: 87188More details Price: $21.50 -
HOME IS EVERYTHING: The Latino Baseball Story.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
El Paso, Texas: Cinco Puntos Press, (2003). SIGNED first edition - The story of Latinos in American baseball. Bilingual edition with English text by Marcus Breton translated into Spanish by Daniel Santacruz. Preface by Orlando Cepeda. Features Miguel Tejada, 2002 American League MVP. Illustrated throughout with full color photographs by Jose Luis Villega. SIGNED by the photographer Villegas on the half-title page and dated May 2003. Oblong format. 144 pp. ISBN: 0-938317709.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74815More details Price: $30.00 -
THE GREAT HOUSES OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Over 200 photographs, many focusing on the exuberant details of the Victorian architecture - slightly oversized, printed on good quality paper . Index of buildings. 200, iii pp plus 2 pp of notes from author and photographer. Burgundy marbelized endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-483804.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 42701More details Price: $30.00 -
THE GREAT HOUSES OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Over 200 photographs, many focusing on the exuberant details of the Victorian architecture - slightly oversized, printed on good quality paper . Index of buildings. 200, iii pp plus 2 pp of notes from author and photographer. Burgundy marbelized endpapers. ISBN: 0-394-483804.
Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 52553More details Price: $25.00 -
GRANTA 25, Autumn 1988: THE Murderee.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Granta, 1988. First edition - A paperback magazine of new writing, This issue includes a long story by Martin Amis, "The Murderee," a long nonfiction piece on Gibraltar by Ian Jack, as well as work by Todd McEwen, Angela Carter and Don DeLillo, and a remembrance of Raymond Carver by Tess Gallagher,photo essays by John Berger and John Sturrock and more. 256 pp. We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line. ISBN: 0-14-0086080.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 67032More details Price: $12.50 -
NATURAL CONNECTIONS: Photographs by Paula Chamlee Accompanied by Selections from her Journals.
Edition: First printing.
Revere, Pennsylvania: Lodima Press, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The artist's first book, a collection of 42 striking black and white photographs most rooted in the American southwest and west, printed one to a page each with a blank facing page, and interspersed with selections from her journals. Introductory essay by Estelle Jussim. Large oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-960564667.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (stamp on front endpaper, a bit of sunning to the dj)
Book ID: 82997More details Price: $30.00 -
BARN IN THE U.S.A.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing (2006). SIGNED first edition - A photographic tribute to historic barns of the West, from the California ghost town of Bodie, to New Mexico, Oregon, Colorado, Michigan, Illinois and more, based on several years of traveling and research. In addition to the photographs, this book also contains the history behind the barns, such as the round Fountain Grove Barn of Santa Rosa, California, which had been the site of a commune, and a sucessful winery for a while. SIGNED on the half title page. Oblong format. 104 pp. ISBN: 1-555915604.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 80454More details Price: $35.00 -
BLACK AND WHITE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her famous mother, the renowned and controversial photographer Ruth Dunne, whose towering reputation rests on the unsettling nude portraits she took of her young daughter from the ages of three to fourteen." SIGNED and dated on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 9780375415487.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56897More details Price: $30.00 -
ANTIGUA BLACK: Portrait of an Island People.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very near fine in brown cloth with a photographic inset on the front cover, in a good dust jacket (rubbing, small chip at top of dj spine).
Book ID: 86096More details Price: $150.00 -
THE HAWAIIANS.
Edition: First trade edition.
Honolulu: Island Heritage Press, 1970. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful illustrated book - gorgeous full-color photographs by Robert B. Goodman - and very attractively produced. Large format, measuring 10 x 10 1/2 inches, bound in light tan linen with red lettering on the spine, red decoration on front cover. 296 pp.
Condition: Near fine condition, no dj.
Book ID: 32982More details Price: $14.50 -
THE HAWAIIANS.
Edition: First trade edition.
Honolulu: Island Heritage Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful illustrated book - gorgeous full-color photographs by Robert B. Goodman - and very attractively produced. Large format, measuring 10 x 10 1/2 inches, bound in light tan linen with red lettering on the spine, red decoration on front cover. 296 pp.
Condition: Fine in good only dustjacket (piece missing from lower corner of front cover of dj).
Book ID: 31726More details Price: $17.50 -
BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE. Photographs of the Getty Center by Joe Deal.
Edition: First edition.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Preface by the architect Richard Meier. A visual record of the site of the museum before it was built, and of the excavation and construction of the Getty Museum between 1984 and 1997. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. A striking book in a slightly oversized square format. 126 pp. ISBN: 0-892365498.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 63521More details Price: $25.00 -
HAYDEN'S FERRY REVIEW 19, Fall / Winter 1996 (Tenth Anniversary Issue.)
Edition: First printing.
Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 1996. SIGNED first edition - Tenth anniversary issue of this journal of fiction, poetry and art. SIGNED by TWO authors: by Alison Deming at her poem "Making Love to You When You're Far Away" and by Alberto Rios at his poem "French Postales." Also includes contributions by Rick Bass, Ron Carlson, Mark Klett, Valerie Miner, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye and many others. 140 pp plus notes on contributors. Bookmarks for previous issues laid in . We specialize in literary journals, and have many others - including many not yet catalogued and listed on line.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 50945More details Price: $30.00 -
STAN WENT FISHING: Stories and Images of Waking Up.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Charlotte, NC: Shy Artist Press / Dorrier Underwood, (2017). SIGNED first edition - A book written to inspire everyone to write their own stories, with prose-poems on topics as varied as 'Lucy Has the Cancer' to 'Washing the Grapes' by Nancy Dorrier, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs by Paul Fetters. SIGNED on the title page by Dorrier. A tall slim book, 109 pp. ISBN: 978-0999289907.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps (inscription on first page)
Book ID: 90075More details Price: $14.50 -
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE BAY:The Struggle To Save San Fancisco Bay.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (1969.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A discussion of the dangers threatening San Francisco Bay and also of its importance to the area, not just in terms of wildlife and water, but in terms of climate, the impact earthquakes can have on filled land, etc. An important work, still timely. Illustrated with man black and white photographs of the bay and the surrounding areas.151pp. with list of photographers
Condition: SIGNED on the front endpaper with the words 'good reading.' Just about fine in a very good dustjacket (some edgewear to dj, a couple of small holes.)
Book ID: 27356More details Price: $30.00 -
CAUGHT IN THE LIGHT.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Madison, WI: Henry Holt, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - While on assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls in love with a woman he meets by chance, Marian Esguard, but when she fails to show up at a rendezvous back in England, he finds himself involved in a mystery that may be 170 years old. 342 pp. ISBN: 0-80506155X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 76434More details Price: $14.50 -
INDI SURFS.
Edition: First printing.
Brooklyn, NY: POW! Kids Books, (2015). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Uncommon first book by this photographer, surfer, father and one of the original members of the alt-rock band Belly. "Indi is a beach-loving little girl who is forever challenged by the changing ocean. Showing patience and persistence, she spends her days in pursuit of the perfect wave." Gorman uses a distinctive mixture of illustration and photography which creates a book full of evocative images. SIGNED on the front pastedown and dated 10/15/15, in the year of publication. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1576877654.
Condition: Fine in illustrated boardrs.
Book ID: 90428More details Price: $50.00 -
THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY.
Edition: First printing.
Visalia - Corralitos: By the authors, 1979. dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful large format book, using anecdotes, slices of history, observations and yarns, to give voices to the black and white photographs which capture the essence of this vast agricultural region in the heart of California. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0935330003.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33115More details Price: $55.00 -
LOST LHASA: Heinrich Harrer's Tibet
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1992) dj. Hardcover first edition - Text and photographs by Heinrich Harrer; includes a message from the Dalai Lama and an introduction by Galen Rowell . "Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, is famous for his memoir 'Seven Years in Tibet', published in 1953. When he fled Tibet following the Chinese invasion in 1950, he took with him negatives of the pictures he had been taking. 'Lost Lhasa' presents 200 of these black-and-white images, capturing the world of Tibet before the invasion changed it forever." The text was written with forty years of hindsight after the publication of his memoir. Glossary, notes on the photographs, index. A beautiful book, large format. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-810935600.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 89830More details Price: $45.00 -
PRESIDIO GATEWAYS; Views of a National Landmark at San Francisco's Golden Gate.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Golden Gate National Park Association / Chronicle Books, San Francisco, (1984) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful introduction to this San Francisco former military outpost - a history which spanned 200 years - and now part of the Golden Gate National Park. Illustrated in both full color and black and white photographs by Robert Ketchum, Linda Butler and Mary Swisher. Includes a double page fold-out map. Text by Delphine Hirasuna. Afterward by Robert G. Kennedy, notes on contributors. Somewhat oversized square format. Index of the photographs. 131 pp. ISBN: 0-811808742.
Condition: Very near fine in a fine dustjacket (small stamp on title page of previous owner).
Book ID: 89636More details Price: $25.00