Photography from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY, 1931; 8vo, 106 pages; teal boards; teal end papers. Professional manual on the chemistry of photographic materials, including development, fixation, washing, reduction, intensification, and toning, with full formulas for each, plus complete instructions on the preparation and use of all solutions. Two page Table of Chemical Solubilities at the back. Very Good Plus,… Read more about this item

Focal Press, New York, 1972; Fourth Edition, revised; 8vo, 423 pages; illustrated. Complete Hasselblad user’s manual, plus detailed data for the new 500/CM, Super Wide C, and 500EL/M, as well as the older models. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any… Read more about this item

Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1966; First Edition; quarto, 334 pages; black cloth boards; gilt titles and decorations. The life and work of Timothy O’Sullivan, who with his enormous 20 x 24 view camera and mule-drawn darkroom captured compelling images of the Civil War and the lands and peoples of the American West, many heretofore falsely attributed… Read more about this item

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1964; First Edition; 8vo, 406 pages plus viii page index at the back; brown and black cloth boards; gilt titles; turquoise end papers. Extraordinary life and career of pioneering photographer Frank Jay Haynes, who with his camera and portable darkroom chronicled the natural landscapes, towns, mines, farms, ranches, Indian camps, river boats,… Read more about this item

University Of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1965; First Edition; 8vo, 149 pages; black cloth, gilt spine titles and decorations; Illustrated. Compelling biography of Christian Barthelmess (1854-1906) who as a young man in 1876 emigrated from his native Bavaria, enlisted as an infantryman in the United States Army, and was promptly detailed to the Western territories where he dedicated himself… Read more about this item

Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1989; First Edition; quarto, 166 pages; beige cloth, gilt titles. Detailed monograph of John K. Hillers (1843-1902), official photographer for both the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology and the United States Geological Survey in the latter part of the 19th century. Hillers’ interest in photography was accidentally sparked while serving as boatman… Read more about this item

Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1961; First Edition; quarto, 127 pages; orange and white cloth with front board photo illustration. Pioneer study of Adam Clark Vroman, dedicated photographer and devoted historian of the American Southwest, whose prolific photographic work had been almost entirely forgotten before publication of this book in 1961. Edited by Ruth I. Mahood, Curator of… Read more about this item

Doubleday & Company, Garden City, NY, 1966; First Edition; 8vo, 192 pages; beige and black cloth; gilt titles; map end papers. Author Helen Markley Miller’s engaging history of adventurer William Henry Jackson, who as a restless photographer at age 23 left the Eastern United States for Missouri, where he hired on as teamster for a wagon train heading… Read more about this item

University Of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2008; First Edition; 8vo, 316 pages; illustrated. Biography of Willard Van Dyke (1906-1986), photographer, filmmaker, friend and contemporary of Adams, Weston, Ralph Steiner, Pare Lorentz, et. al., and co-founder of Group f/64. An exhaustive and fascinating history, begun by Van Dyke and completed after his death by photographer and professor emeritus James… Read more about this item

RAM, Tokyo, Japan, 1993; First Edition, limited to 2,300 copies; square octavo (9" x 9"), 47 pages; black velvet boards; gilt titles. A series of dreamlike photographs captured in travels throughout the United States and Japan by California artist/photographer Matt Mahurin. Forty images in all, both black & white and color. Edited by Maya Ishiwata and Theresa Luisotti.… Read more about this item

Ridge Press/ Summit Books, New York, 1977; Quarto, 208 pages; red cloth, orange titles. Large collection of bizarre b&w images from such photographers as Emmet Gowin, Les Krims, Peter Hujar, Paul Diamond, Duane Michals, Andre Kertesz, Bill Brandt, Edward Weston, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Arthur Tress, Brassai, Weegee, Jerry Uelsmann, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Kerstel, Max Waldman, Allen A. Dutton,… Read more about this item

Collins Publishers, San Francisco, 1989; First Edition; tall quarto, 166 pages. Magnificent color photographic study of mountain landscapes and mountaineering, by celebrated photographer/ adventurer Galen Rowell. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

Aperture, Inc., New York, 1977; no statement of edition; quarto, 116 pages; illustrated; brown cloth; gilt titles. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a single eighth-inch closed edge tear. A clean, crisp, and attractive copy.

L,A. Press Photographers’ Ass’n., Los Angeles, 1961; First Edition; 4to, 113 pages; Illustrated. The Los Angeles Press Photographers’ Association annual for 1961, featuring the best work of the city’s press photographers that year. Articles by Los Angeles Times Editor Nick Williams, L.A. Herald Express Picture Editor Ed Krauch, L.A. Examiner Sports Columnist Mel Durslag, and L.A. Mirror Aviation… Read more about this item

Caesare Capello, Milan, 1929; 12mo, 32 pages; color illustrated boards. Wonderful 32-panel accordion fold photographic study of Naples, each photo fully described on the verso in Italian, French, English, and German. Beautifully bound in elaborate embossed color lithograph boards depicting mount Vesuvius in eruption. Near Fine, clean, bright, crisp and sharp.

Jo Anne Graddy, Kansas City, 1951; oblong 8vo, 48 pages. Photographic chronicle of the devastating flood which struck Kansas City on Friday the 13th, July, 1951, leaving 30,000 people homeless. Forty-six full-page dramatic b&w photographs. Very Good Plus, in photo illustrated wraps. Small name inscribed at the upper right corner of the front wrap.

American Photographic Book Publishing Co., NY, 1973; First Edition; 8vo, 83 pages; illustrated. Verbatim facsimile of the humorous 1855 book of instruction in the art and science of photography, then in its infancy. Authored by "Cuthbert Bede," pseudonym of Edward Bradley, nineteenth century photographer, novelist, artist, and clergyman. Complete with all the original comic sketches. Fine, in a… Read more about this item

Camera Magazine, Baltimore, 1952; Stated First Edition; 4to, 129 pages: pictorial boards. Over 170 rich b&w photographs by A. Aubrey Bodine, personally selected from among his works as being most representative of the landscape and people of his home state of Maryland. Foreword by Neil H. Swanson. Informative text and two-page preface by the author. Signed on… Read more about this item

Simon and Schuster, NY, 1959; First Edition; quarto, 258 pages. Captivating photographic study of Africa, from the Mediterranean to the Equator and from the Equator to the Cape Of Good Hope, encompassing North Africa and the Sahara, French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo, Ruanda, Urundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanganyika, Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Union Of South Africa. Hundreds of… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books, NY, 1987; First American Edition; 4to, 247 pages; illustrated. Remarkable collection of 191 portrait photographs, at times erotic, of some of the world’s most accomplished and vaunted celebrities. Revealing fifteen-page Newton interview with Carol Squiers, curator of New York’s International Center Of Photography, at the front. Two-page Newton bibliography, plus a Newton photo exhibition chronology at… Read more about this item