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147a. Regan, Michael. Mansions of Los Angeles. Regan Publishing,
1965. [Grand houses in the West Adams district. Most photos by
Elmer Steiner.] Scarce 1st ed, fine w. chipped dj, copy of book
review laid in. SOLD
148. Reich, Hanns. Laughing Camera I. Text by Heinz Held.
Hill and Wang, 1967. Humorous photos, including 5 by Robert Doisneau.
Ex-library, illustrated boards, spine label, rear flyleaf trimmed.
$5.
148a. Riboud, Marc. Visions of China. (Superb images, 1957-1980).
Pantheon, 1980. 1st U.S. ed., minor wr. on price clipped dj.,
o/w fine. $75.
148b. Richards, Eugene. Below the Line: Living Poor in America.
Mount Vernon, NY: Consumer's Union, 1987. 1st printing, June
1987. Hardcover with mylar protected dust jacket. Fine/fine.
Nonauthorial gift inscription inside cover. $40.
148c. Richards, Eugene. Stepping Through the Ashes. [Aftermath
of 9/11 at the World Trade Center, poignant documentary.] 1st
printing. Aperture, 2002. 192 pages. Fine with near fine protected
dust jacket with price sticker on verso. $30.
149. Ries, Linda A., ed. History of Photography in Pennsylvania.
Special Issue of Pennsylvania History, 64:2 (Spring 1997). [Includes
articles on Marcus Aurelius Root, Francis L. Cooper (amateur)
, early Pittsburgh photographers, John F. Nice, Elias Goldensky,
Thomas Eakins, early oil industry, Mifflin and Engle, Black daguerreotypist
Glenalvin J. Goodridge, Julius Sachse, and the Raymond Holland
Collection. Winner of the 1997 MARAC Arline Custer Award for
publications.] Signed by one of the authors, Gary Saretzky. 356pp.
$20. See review.
149a. Riis, Jacob. How the Other Half Lives. Studies Among the Tenements of New York. With 100 Photographs from the Riis Collection. Dover, 1971. Reprint of the 1890 edition with additional photographs. The original edition had 38 redrawn photographs while this edition has 100 half-tones and is a fuller realization of Riis' intentions. Wraps, as issued, vg+, $10.
150. Riis, Jacob. The Making of an American. [Autobiography of one
of the pioneers of social documentary photography. Includes images from
Riis' earlier book, How the Other Half Lives.] Macmillan, March 1902
[first issued in 1901, reprinted many times later]. Nonauthorial 1902
gift inscription on flyleaf, blue cloth binding w. gilt lettering, worn
extremities, o/w vg. With 1966 Harper Torchback paperback edition with
biographical essay by Roy Lubove, this is a worn ex-library copy very
useful as a reading copy. Illustrations are higher quality in the 1902
edition. Both volumes, $50.
150a. Rinhart, Floyd and Marion. Summertime: Photographs of
Americans at Play, 1850-1950. [Includes New Jersey shore in images
by the Pach Brothers, Colwell Lane, and others, as well as Long
Island, Newport, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Catskills, New
Hampshire, Saratoga Springs, Green Mountains, Niagara Falls,
et al.] Clarkson Potter, 1978, 1st ed., wraps, remainder mark
on edge of text, small label of previous owner inside cover,
192pp., vg, $5.
150aa. Rogers, Kenny. Kenny Rogers. Your Friends and Mine.
[Oversize, more than 11x14 inches, celebrity studio portraits
by the singer and photographer, his second book of photographs.
Subjects include Michael Jackson, Linda Gray, Burt Bachrach and
Carole Bayer Sager, Kirk Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, President Gerald
Ford, John Huston, Jaclyn Smith, Dick Clark, Elton John, Julie
Harris, President Ronald Reagan, Dudley Moore, Morgan Fairchild,
Alexander Godunov, Catherine Oxenberg, Bruce Boxleitner, Bob
Hope, Sylvester Stallone, Ray Chalres, Yousuf Karsh, Dionne Warwick,
Larry Bird, Phil Collins, Burt Reynolds, and many others.] Little,
Brown, 1987. 1st ed. Very good with small annotations inside
rear cover with very good dust jacket. $25.
150aaa. Same, ex-library, no spine label on dust jacket, card
pocket on rear flyleaf, no markings on pages of book, fine/fine
except as noted. $12.50.
151. Rogovin, Milton. Brutvan, Cheryl A., Robert J. Doherty,
and Fred Licht. Milton Rogovin: The Forgotten Ones. [Retrospective
of Rogovin's photographs of the working class; includes interview
with the photographer.] University of Washington, 1985. Wraps,
crease in lower right corner, o/w vg+. $35.
151.1. Rosskam, Edwin. San Francisco: West Coast Metropolis.
The Face of America. Alliance, 1939. Introduction by William
Saroyan. [See also 151a below.] Cloth, vg+ , previous owner's
bookplate inside cover, with good dust jacket (hard to find with
any kind of dust jacket). $40.
151.2. Rosskam, Edwin. Washington: Nerve Center. The Face
of America. Alliance, 1939. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Co-edited by Ruby Black. [See also 151a below.] Cloth, vg+ ,
previous owner's bookplate inside cover, with good+ dust jacket
(hard to find with any kind of dust jacket). $40.
151.3. Rosskam, Edwin. Washington: Nerve Center. The Face
of America. Alliance, 1939. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Co-edited by Ruby Black. [See also 151a below.] Cloth, vg+, slight
fading to orange cloth binding, no dust jacket. $20.
151a. Rosskam. Gary D. Saretzky, "She Worked Her Head
Off: Edwin and Louise Rosskam & the Golden Age of Documentary
Photography Books," in The Photo Review, 23:3 (Summer 2000).
[First of three part article; this one covers the Rosskams' early
lives and their first two books, San Francisco: West Coast Metropolis
and Washington: Nerve Center.] Part two: " Documenting Diversity:
Edwin Rosskam & the Photo Book, 1940-1941, covering As Long
as the Grass Shall Grow, Home Town, and 12 Million Black Voices
in 23:4 (Fall 2000). Part three: "Bliss on the Old Miss:
The Rosskams and Towboat River," 24:1& 2 (Winter/Spring
2001). Signed by author. $10 each, order any or all.
151b. Rothstein, Arthur. Photojournalism. Pictures for Magazines
and Newspaper. Amphoto, 1956. 1st ed. [Arthur Rothstein worked
for Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration before moving
on to Look Magazine, where he was Technical Director at the time
of this book. Includes photos by Rothstein, Joe Rosenthal, Fred
Hanson, Joseph Costa, Max Desfor, Paul Nadar, Edweard Muybridge,
Frank Bauman, et al. This copy is signed by the late Trenton,
NJ, photographer, M.W. Barish.] vg+, no dj, $30.
151bb. Rothstein, Arthur. Photojournalism. Pictures for Magazines
and Newspaper. Amphoto, 1974. 3rd revised ed. [Arthur Rothstein
worked for Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration before
moving on to Look Magazine, where he became Technical Director.
Includes photos by Rothstein, Joe Rosenthal, Fred Hanson, Joseph
Costa, Max Desfor, Paul Nadar, Edweard Muybridge, Frank Bauman,
et al.] Ex-library, mylar covered dust jacket taped to book,
spine lael, rear flyleaf removed, worn tips. [Note: dust jacket
refers to 4th edition but this is erroneous and the dust jacket
is the one that came with the third edition.]$5.
151c. Royalty. Patrick Montague-Smith. The Country Life Book
of the Royal Silver Jubilee. London: Hamlyn, 1976. [Queen Elizabeth,
Prince Phillip, the Queen Mother, the Royal Children, The Royal
Family Tree, etc., profusely illus. in color and black-and-white.]
175pp. Fine w. vg+ dj. $10.
151d. Rubinstein, Eva. Eva Rubinstein. Preface by Sean Kernan.
Dobbs Ferry Morgan & Morgan, 1974 Square 8vo., 67 b&w
photographic plates. Pictorial stiff wrappers (not issued in
hardcover). Light wear to wrappers, a very good plus copy. [The
photographer's first monograph.] sold
151dd. Ruetz, Michael. Michael
Ruetz. Eye on America. Introduction by William Least Heat Moon.
New York Graphic Society/Little Brown, 1984. 1st edition. 85
color illustrations including 7 panoramic foldouts. Oversize
book, approximately 10.5 x 15.5 inches. Issued at $50 twenty-one
years ago, this is an impressive book with dramatic photographs.
The panoramic foldouts open to approximately 45 inches and there
are double page spreads that open to about 30 inches. Ruetz is
a highly successful photographer whose work speaks for itself.
This is his ninth book. Copy is ex-library in very good condition,
with card pocket removed from rear flyleaf, discard stamp on
title page. The dust jacket has a cutout at bottom of spine and
a few shallow indentations. SOLD
151e. Russell, Andrew J. Russell's Civil War Photographs. 116 Historic
Prints by Andrew J. Russell. With a preface by Joe Buberger and Matthew
Isenberg. NY: Dover, 1982. Wraps, 9x12 inches, near fine. $12.95.
151ee. Russell, Andrew J. Westward to Promontory. Building the Union Pacific across the plains and mountains. A Pictorial Documentary with text by Barry B. Combs. Illustrated with reproductions of A.J. Russell photographs made with 10 x 13 collodion wet plate negatives. Essential book on the history of railroads and Russell’s western landscape photography. Before he did these photos, A.J. Russell was active as a photographer during the Civil War. He is considered one of the major figures in Western United States landscape photography in the nineteenth century. Important book for both the history of railroads and the history of photography. Promontory Press, copyright 1969. 0883940116 ISBN. Fine with very good chipped and edge worn dust jacket. There are three small pieces of the dust jacket missing on the top and bottom edges, the largest on the back about one inch in diameter. $15.
151e.1. Russia. Contemporary Photographic Art from Moscow. Edited by
Alexander Tolnay. Prestel-Verlag, 1995. Stiff illustrated wraps with
custom made 4-mil polyester jacket. Includes plates by 18 different
photographers or groups of photographers, as well as essays by Tolnay,
Yekaterina Dyogot, Kathrin Becker, Barbara Barsch, Angel Lammert. Large
format, 128 pages. Photographers include Boris Mikhailov, Igor Moukhin,
Vadim Fishkin, Alexei Goga, Sergei Leontiev, Tatyana Liberman, Ilya
Piganov, Maria Serebriakova, Alexei Shulgin, Anatoli Shuravlev, AES
Group, Yuri Babich, Gor Chahal, Olga Chernysheva, Vladislav Efimov,
Fenso Group, IV Vysota Group. Fine condition, like new. $20.
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