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INSCRIBED BY J.D. SALINGER
SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. Boston, 1952. First edition, early issue, of Salinger’s first book—“a 20th-century classic”—an exceedingly rare copy inscribed and dated by him within months of publication, “New York, N.Y. March 15, 1952 With best wishes, J.D. Salinger.” $65,000.
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ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF 20TH-CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHY
ULMANN, Doris and PETERKIN, Julia. Roll, Jordan, Roll. New York, 1933. Signed limited first edition, number 93 only 350 copies (327 of which were offered for sale) signed by both photographer Doris Ulmann and writer of the text Julia Peterkin. With 90 superb tissue-guarded full-page copperplate hand-pulled photogravure plates-this copy with the scarce extra photogravure plate signed in pencil by Ulmann laid in. $62,500.
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“ONE OF THE MOST SOUGHT OF ALL BOOKS RELATING TO MONTANA”: INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN THE YEAR OF PUBLICATION, ONE OF ONLY 15 COPIES
FRANCIS, Charles Spencer. Sport Among the Rockies. Troy, New York, 1889. Limited first edition, one of only 15 copies issued for private distribution, a collection of 25 letters authored by newspaper publisher Charles Francis, this presentation copy inscribed by him in the year of publication to “Mr. L. L. Warren, with the compliments of Charles S. Francis, Aug. 15, 1889,” featuring 48 vintage albumen prints (each five by eight inches and mounted on heavy card stock) displaying exceptional images of 19th-century Western America. This extremely scarce copy from the library of photographer and musician Graham Nash, with his signed bookplate. $55,000.
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“TO ARREST AND THEREBY ETERNALIZE THE CURRENT MOMENT”
COBURN, Alvin Langdon. London. London and New York, 1909. First edition of Coburn’s first, groundbreaking photobook, an elegant folio production of 20 hand-pulled gravure plates tipped onto rich gray paper, each prepared by Coburn himself, representing a revolutionary “transition from pictorialism to modernism… a shift in attitude that triggered the final push towards photographic modernism” (Parr & Badger). $35,000.
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“ONE OF THE MOST RENOWNED OF 19TH-CENTURY PHOTOBOOKS”
FRITH, Francis. Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described. London, 1858-59. Two volumes. First edition of Frith’s masterful two-volume work, containing 76 vintage mounted albumen prints from wet-collodion negatives of Egyptian and Palestinian antiquities, preserving their integrity from “the corroding tooth of Time, and the ceaseless drifting of the remorseless sand.” Prints fine, most signed and numbered by Frith in the negative, in handsome original morocco-gilt bindings. $32,000.
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EXCEPTIONALLY RARE PORTFOLIO COLLECTION OF LOTTE JACOBI’S MOST MEMORABLE PORTRAITS, ONE OF ONLY FIVE FOLIO COPIES, FEATURING TEN ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY JACOBI
JACOBI, Lotte. Portfolio I. Deering, New Hampshire, 1978. Limited artist’s proof portfolio, number four of only five copies, a rare self-published edition containing ten original silver gelatin hors commerce proofs, each signed and numbered in pencil by Jacobi on the lower corner of the image, featuring some of her finest portraiture from before 1940, including her trademark Self-Portrait, her famous image of Einstein in a leather jacket and portraits of leading Weimar figures such as Lotte Lenya, Peter Lorre and Kurt Weill. $28,000.
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THE CIVIL WAR “HEROIC PORTRAIT IN A BOLD NEW FORM”
(BRADY, Mathew). Photograph Album. Civil War. Philadelphia, circa 1865. Original Civil War Photograph Album, circa 1865, featuring 61 mounted albumen cartes de visite portraits, many by Mathew Brady, of President Lincoln, Mary Lincoln, General Robert E. Lee, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Union generals Ulysses S. Grant, Sheridan, McClellan and Burnside, along with many others. From the major photography collection of musician Graham Nash with his signed bookplate. $27,500.
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SIGNED BY GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE, VINTAGE ALBUMEN PRINT OF LEE FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY MATHEW BRADY AFTER APPOMATTOX
[BRADY, Mathew] LEE, Robert E. Photograph signed. Richmond, circa 1865. Rare vintage albumen print, circa 1865, of General Robert E. Lee, boldly signed by him in the lower portion of the image, from a photograph by Mathew Brady—“the “Father of American Photography”—a distinguished bust-length portrait of Lee in uniform taken on his porch in Richmond only days after Appomattox and the death of Lincoln from an assassin’s bullet. $27,500.
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“THE CLICK OF A SHUTTER OPENED THE DOOR TO ETERNITY”
CURTIS, Edward. Photograph signed. At the Old Well of Acoma. Seattle, Washington, circa 1904 / printed circa 1920. Vintage orotone print by Edward Curtis, titled “The Old Well of Acoma,” signed by him and distinctly marked with his copyright insignia (wetstamped at the lower corner of the image), this handsome 9 by 11-inch photograph printed at his Seattle “Curtis Studio” and ultimately published in Curtis’ multi-volume masterpiece, The North American Indian (1907-30). Very fine condition in beautiful original frame. $23,000.
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“THE INVENTION OF THE DAGUERREOTYPE… FOREVER ALTERED THE WAY WE SEE AND UNDERSTAND OUR WORLD”
(DAGUERRE, Louis and ARAGO, François). Comptes Rendu. Volumes VIII-IX. Paris, 1839. Two volumes. First editions of the first public announcement and the first detailed account of Daguerre’s revolutionary photographic invention as issued in the January & August 1839 reports by the French Academy of Sciences, both preceding Daguerre’s first published work on the daguerreotype, also including seminal early writings on photography by Niépce, Talbot, Arago, Biot and others. These two large paper volumes, extremely scarce complete and uncut, from the major photography collection of musician Graham Nash, with his signed tipped-in bookplates. $23,000.
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