INSCRIBED BY BERENICE ABBOTT, NELL DORR, LOTTE JACOBI AND OTHERS,
ACCOMPANIED BY ONE OF ABBOTT’S SILVER GELATIN PRINTS
MITCHELL, Margareta K. Recollections. Ten Women of Photography. New York, 1979.
First edition of this tribute to ten leading women photographers: Berenice Abbott, Ruth Bernhard, Carlotta M. Corpron, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Nell Dorr, Toni Frissell, Laura Gilpin, Lotte Jacobi, Consuelo Kanaga and Barbara Morgan. An exceptional presentation copy warmly inscribed by six of the photographers and the author to Anna Winand, long associated with New York’s International Center of Photography, which housed the landmark exhibit accompanying this volume: “For Anna, Why can’t I have met you before this farewell. This Hail and Farewell-Nell Dorr”; “For Anna, with good wishes and love, Lotte’; “Carlotta M. Corpron”; “Thank you, Anna, Ruth Bernhard, Berenice Abbott”; “For Anna, All best wishes-Barbara Morgan”; “For Anna, With thanks for your presence at ICP! Love from Margaretta.” This copy also with a laid-in silver gelatin print (8 by 10 inches), with “Berenice Abbott” inscribed on the verso by Winand. $4200.
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AN INDISPENSIBLE GUIDE TO HEBREW LITERATURE
BUXTORF, Johannes. Lexicon Chardaicum, Talmudicum et Rabbinicum. Basel, 1639-40.
First edition of this essential guide to Hebrew literature, with finely engraved additional title page and frontispiece portrait of Buxtorf, front matter decorated with initials, head- and tailpieces. Text in Latin and Hebrew. $1400.
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“ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PHOTOGRAPHERS”
LYON, Danny. Pictures from the New World. Millerton, New York, 1981.
First trade edition, with 100 full-page photogravures (ten in process color) and numerous pages of contact sheets chronicling the award-winning career of Danny Lyon. $150.
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