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The Tattooists

By: Albert L. Morse

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Albert L. Morse: 1977

Seller ID: k200120i

Condition: Fine

1st ed., 4to, black cloth. 124 pp. While Morse was an attorney representing cartoonists in the SF Bay area he noticed similarities between their art and tattoo designs. He compiled over 100 hours of taped interviews with 50 tattooists and photographed another 50. This is a digest of his interviews with samplings of works. 2500 copies printed. Ed Hardy, Bert Grimm, Cliff Raven, Spider Webb, Sailor Jerry, and several dozen others. Fully illustrated in color and b/w. A fine copy in near fine d/w some light edgewear.
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The Tower of Pelee: New Studies of the Great Volcano of Martinique

By: Angelo Heilprin

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., : 1904

Seller ID: k200120j

1st ed., 4to. 3/4 red cloth. 24 b/w plates, 62pp. of text. Heilprin was an American geologist who arrived in Martinique soon after the eruption of Mount Pelee in 1902; he was the first scientist to ascend the crater of the volcano. This work is his report on his third visit the volcano in 1903 and includes photographs by him. Good: Internally, a clean, tight copy. Covers worn at extremities, panels soiled and toned, rubbing to spine; hinges lightly shaken.
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Yosemite and the Range of Light

By: Ansel Adams

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York Graphic Society: 1979

Seller ID: k200312s

Condition: Near fine

1st ed., 4to. Grey cloth with burgundy spine. 4to, oblong format. "First Printing" stated on copyright page. Introduction by Paul Brooks. More than one hundred photographs, of Yosemite Valley and the Sierra Nevada. SIGNED by Adams on a bookplate affixed to fep “as one of a special edition for Time/Life Books. Near fine in good d/w. The book itself is a near-fine copy; clean, tight with a narrow fade-line at top and bottom edges. Dustjacket is good only, with moderate surface wear and a ¾” closed tear at top front.
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The Handwriting Evidence in the lindbergh-Hauptman Case

By: Clark Sellers

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Clark Sellers: 1936

Seller ID: k200312n

Folio [11”x15”], six large photographic facsimiles plus forward. B/w facsimiles of the handwriting evidence in the Charles Lindbergh Child kidnapping Case and subsequent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann in January 1935. This folio was compiled Clark Sellers, one of the eight handwriting experts in the famous trial and later President of the Society of Questioned Documents Examiners. Sellers apparently made copies of his typed opinion and several of the photographic exhibits to send to potential clients. This copy has the name of Albert D. Barnes on the front cover, with inked notation of a...
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Constantinople. 1st U.S. edition. “A cinematographic view of late 19th century Istanbul”

By: DE AMICIS, Edmondo

Price: $150.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Co, Philadelphia: 1896

Seller ID: cr190721b

Condition: Fine

First American Edition; First English-language Edition. In 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 303,[1]; 309[1] pp, with 50 photogravures by W. H. Gilbo, captioned on tissue guards. With folding map at end of vol. II. Publishers red cloth with elaborate arabesque designs, ribbon markers, t.e.g; red sateen dust jackets.; first published in Milan, in 1877. De Amicis (1846-1908) was an Italian journalist and travel writer This work is considered by many to be his masterpiece and the best description of the city in the 19th century. It is still highly praised: Umberto Eco took a copy with him when he first visited...
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Horst / His Work and His World

By: Lawford, Valentine

Price: $265.00

Publisher: NY, Alfred A. Knopf: 1984

Seller ID: 040503

1st. edition, INSCRIBED by Horst and author Valentine Lawford to Connie Wald, the wife of Hollywood producer/writer Jerry Wald. A very good copy overall, but with spotting on the back cover and a half-page unrelated gift inscription on the front end-paper. Dust jacket is good only, with two 1/2-inch closed tears near the spine and several smaller nicks
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East African Annual 1931-32.

By: The East African Standard Ltd.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Nairobi, The East African Standard Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: k200824d

Condition: Good

1st ed. 4to (11 x 15.5 inches). 166 pp. Library binding, orange cloth. With original pictorial covers bound in. Hundreds of period photographs and advertisements illustrate East African agriculture, hunting, architecture, natural history, sports, etc. [Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, Zanzibar]. This was the second year of publication. Ex-libris Paramount Pictures Research Department with the film studio’s ink stamp and library pocket inside front cover. Condition: Good; Covers fair -- well worn and soiled. Interior very
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Olympia 1936. Die Oliympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Band I. [The1936] Olympic Games in Berlin Vol I]

By: [Olympics]

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Berlin, Cigareten-Bilderdienst, Hamburgo : 1936

Seller ID: k180331a

4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black lettering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy photographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A good+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners and top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and some rubbing to the gilt logo.
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Paris Sous La Commune / Par Un Temoin Fidele : La Photographie [Paris under the Commune by a faithful witness: photography.]

By: [Photography}

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Paris: Imprimerie Charaire at Sceaux.: 1890

Seller ID: k200312m

5 original issues of the serial format -- published in fifteen parts. ##### 1st ed. stapled wrappers, 10-1/2”x14-1/2”. Five original issues of this serial publication, depicting the events and destruction of the Paris Commune -- photographs of barricades, destroyed buildings, battle scenes. Each issue has eight or nine photographs. Accurate bibliographic information is scarce, but we believe there were fifteen issues published -- subsequently bound in book form. The bound volume was published in1890 and these serial parts were probably published shortly before. While the bound volume...
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