Fifty Photographs by WESTON, Edward - 1947

slight abrasions to cover and edges.
Inscribed by Weston on half-title page, "To Bill and Zelda from Edward with his love. 10-19-47." William Holger was a friend of Weston from the 1930s when they met through the f/64 photography group. Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He helped Weston construct his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.
This is Weston's second monograph produced and designed by Merle Armitage with written contributions by Armitage, Donald Bear and Robinson Jeffers.
One of 1500 copies numbered copies, initialed by Weston on a separate sheet and pasted on the colophon leaf. This is an unnumbered copy noted in ink as "personal".

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Folio, unpaginated. Original cloth-backed boards lettered in grey, light wear to the spine ends and board edges, lower corner of the upper board bumped, in the original unclipped dust jacket, toned, spine panel faded, professionally restored. Very good. § No. 168 of 1500 copies, initialed by the author. With essays by Robinson Jeffers, Merle Armitage, and Donald Bear. Illustrated with folio reproductions of fifty of Weston's photographs.

New York: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce, 1947. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 1/1500. Large quarto (12 by 9.25 in.). 16pp. (text); 51 b/w photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in pale green and silver. Covers rubbed, with slight wear, at extremities; spine lettering rubbed and faded; 5 photographic leaves with cellotape repairs at corners, barely encroaching on images (2 with creases extending into corner of images). A good copy. "The photographs collected in this volume are fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they have not been reproduced (excepting certain annuals and magazine) in book form before." With a final image of the photographer at Point Lobos. Edition limited to 1500 numbered copies, initialed by Weston at the limitation, this being no. 1375. Provenance: "Inscribed for Lou Jacobs Cordially Edward Weston" in ink at the half-title.