North American Books

Aperture Photography Magazine Collection of 6 Early Issues 1950s. Not real familiar with rating condition of magazines and books. Please ask any questions. Appear to be in nice condition as a set with some minor wear. APERTURE: Volume 5, Number 1 Published by Aperture, Rochester, New York, 1957 8vo., 42 pp, illustrations from photographs. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Fine. Includes an editorial and an essay, "Peeled Paint, Cameras and Happenstance" by Minor White; a continuation of "More Books for the Creative Photographer"; Part 3 of "The Education of Picture Minded Photographers"; Beaumont Newhall on "Teaching the History of Photography"; and a portfolio "Ellis Island" by Shirley Burden with his, and Lewis Hine's images. Covers illustrated by Walter Snyder and Ansel Adams. Aperture Vol. 4 No. 1. Rochester, NY: Aperture, 1956. First edition. Softcover. An early issue of this long running photography magazine. Features a selection from "Creative Photography - 1956 with text by Van Deren Coke. Includes images by Charles Sheeler, Arnold Newman, Reva Brooks...

LIVE AND WORK: MODERN HOMES AND OFFICES: THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE OF SHUBIN + DONALDSON. Hardcover – Illustrated, February 9, 2010 by Thom Mayne...

10 volumes. Henry Fielding, The Novels of Henry Fielding. Large Paper Edition. Bound in 3/4 red morocco. Linen boards. Raised bands. Top edges gilt. 520...

From the Visionaire website: 12 DESIRE is our collaboration with DIFFA, Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS. The art dealer Paul Morris helped us gather all the original artw...

From the Visionaire website: 31 BLUE fulfills two dreams: to make an issue of large-format, poster-size images and to sew the issue into a custom-made garment, in this case, a limit...

Limited edition, numbered 1202 of 3000 copies. From the Visionaire website: In 40 ROSES, David Sims shares a deeply personal body of work in which he returned to the primary school...

Limited edition, numbered 1187 of 4000 copies. From the Visionaire website: 41 WORLD, sponsored by Gap, began with a simple chain letter and a brief that asked everyone — anyone, i...

Broadway Musical Martin Gottfried 1980 hardcover book.Large heavy book. A colorful tribute to the great Broadway shows of our time. Profusely illustrated in color. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Title Broadway Musicals Author Gottfried, Martin Format/Binding Hardcover Binding Hardcover Publisher Harry N. Abrams Place Of Publication NY Date Published 1980 2nd printing. 395 illustrations, 112 in full color. Great oversized heavy coffee table art book. A true treasure of a book. This is a very large book, and not just width wise. It is very tall too. There are many pictures, a lot of them in color. They have some of the rarest flops featured toward the back of the book, and the classics are all here too. Some high points are the run-through of how they make (made) "Annie" run every night. There is also a synopsis of "Hello Dolly" which helpful since I have only seen the movie. There is a flaw though, and it is not insignificant. The author does not separate fact from opinion. Example: "Sweeney Todd...

Hollywood Collects An Exhibition from April 5 to May 15 1970 by Seldis Henry J. (editor). Hardcover Book. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los ...

Quaife, Milo Milton. The Flag of the United States. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1942. First edition. Octavo. Rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt embossed titles to the spine. Illustrated. Presented with a matching archival slipcase. Presented is a first edition printing of The Flag of the United States by Milo Milton Quaife. The book was published in New York by Grosset & Dunlap in 1942. It is presented here rebound in ¼ leather and cloth boards, with raised bands and gilt titles to the spine, and a matching archival slipcase. Quaife wrote The Flag of the United States in order to present “the true and authentic history of the United States.” Wading through the myths and stories surrounding the flag, he details the origins and evolution of the American flag, using careful research to determine fact from fiction. There are several chapters on the early flags of Spain, France, and Holland in America and Quaife traces the development of the American flag from its English predecessor. He articulates the twenty-nine word resolution of the Second Continental Congress that made the flag of the United States, then outlines the changes to the flag’s design made in 1795, 1818, and 1912. He has a chapter on Civil War flags, a chapter on flags of the Army, and several debunking the many myths surrounding the American flag. This book was very well received upon its publication. “Quaife is entitled to a good deal of praise for having written a straightforward, and very readable, history of our flag” (Ralph W. Steen, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1943). “To read this history of our flag is to read the history of these United States, not only in the years when we became an infant nation, but also in those later years variously devoted to territorial expansion, extending our commerce, and fighting other wars.” (Ardelia Olden Koch, Wisconsin Magazine of History, 1943). Milo Milton Quaife (1880–1959) was a historian and writer, born in Nashua, Iowa. He received his education at Grinnell College, the University of Missouri, and the University of Chicago. Quaife was a published historian of the Great Lakes region, the Mississippi River valley, the Gold Rush, and President Polk...

From the Visionaire website: 22 CHIC marks our second collaboration with a guest editor, this time Mario Testino. Together we assembled a scrapbook of chic based on Testino’s idea t...

From the Visionaire website: 31 BLUE fulfills two dreams: to make an issue of large-format, poster-size images and to sew the issue into a custom-made garment, in this case, a limit...

From the Visionaire website: In Visionaire 35 MAN, Mario Testino, in his second run as guest editor, conceptualized the ultimate men’s magazine complete with past icons and new hero...

Limited edition. From the Visionaire website: 51 HARMONY, sponsored by Lexus, celebrates the launch of their first hybrid car. HARMONY consists of six oversize (nearly 3' x 3'), do...

Limited edition, numbered 0981 of 4000 copies. From the Visionaire website: In 42 SCENT, Visionaire deconstructs the elements of scent, pairing twenty-one experimental perfumes — p...

From the Visionaire website: When we hit the landmark 25 VISIONARY, we seized the opportunity to make an anniversary issue of greatest hits: brand-new work by some of our all-time f...

Limited edition, numbered 1421 of 1500 copies. From the Visionaire website: 43 DREAMS uses no ink. Images are rendered via a high-tech laser-cutting process in which artworks (by S...

Limited edition, numbered 2137 of 4000 copies. From the Visionaire website: 41 WORLD, sponsored by Gap, began with a simple chain letter and a brief that asked everyone — anyone, i...

From the Visionaire website: With 39 PLAY, Visionaire began to experiment with the moving image. PLAY developed as an issue devoted to film, featuring the work of directors like Ped...

Gore, Al and Tipper. Joined at the Heart. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2002. First Edition. Signed by both authors. Octavo. In publisher’s original white cloth spine, titled in ...

A unique book first edition print set on a circular format retains its original case.

1 Volume. W.C. Whitney, The Whitney Stud. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards. The spines display raised bands, floral panel details, bordering, and label lettering, all gi...

A nice inscribed copy of June Kompass Nelson's book "Harry Bertoia , Sculptor"