Camera Notes and Proceedings of The Camera Club of New York
Alfred Stieglitz. Volume V. New York: Camera Club, 1901-1902.

Quarto, original green cloth gilt. WITH: (NICOL, John) Photograph Album. Square quarto, original full brown morocco gilt; 18 vintage mounted cartes-de-visite and one tintype. Housed together in custom chemise and box.

First edition of Stieglitz’ Camera Notes, the complete Volume V, an exceptional presentation/association copy inscribed to a leading Pictorialist photographer and editor, “To Dr. John Nicol, who has shown himself as the only square and fair photographic editor in the United States during the past five years. With appreciation & esteem. Alfred Stieglitz, Founder, Editor & Manager, May 5—1902” [date underlined], featuring 30 splendid tissue-guarded photogravure plates, many by Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Accompanied by a rare vintage Photograph Album containing 18 albumen cartes-de-viste and a rare tintype of portraits of Nicol and other major photographers.

The Decisive Moment
Cartier-Bresson, Henri. New York, Simon and Schuster in collaboration with Èditions Verve, 1952.

Illustrated with 126 full or double-page heliogravures of Cartier-Bresson’s photographs. (Folio) 14¼x10½, pictorial boards; pictorial dust jacket. Booklet laid in with the captions (as issued). First American Edition.

One of the most important post-War photography books. The jacket and boards are after a cut-out by Henri Matisse, specially designed for this book.

“To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of forms which give that event its proper expression.”
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Actually, I’m not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I’m not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren’t cooks.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Dark Shadow
George & Gilbert, The Sculptors, 1974

Limited to 2000 copies signed by the Authors. Photographic illustrations throughout, publisher’s decorative cloth gilt.

“The second book work by this British duo take the reader on a trip with these living sculptures. “This sculpture is a result of our past three years of earnest daily thoughts, shadows, deeds, cares and pleasures. We have turned them into ink and arranged them as words and pictures to form this living sculpture book.” ~G&G via printedmatter.org