No date (circa mid-1930s). A souvenir post card booklet containing a folding set of 18 full-colour photographs of scenes and people in and around San Francisco's Chinatown district. Scenes include the annual dragon parade, the Chinese Telephone Exchange, charming Chinese girls, Chinatown at night, and so on. The booklet is unaddressed, w/a bit of edge and corner wear. Scenes are NF. View More...
Photograph of what appears, according to his tunic and collar badges, to be a young Canadian military man, as photographed by Lambert Weston Ltd. in Folkeston. Regrettably, the lad is not identified, nor is the image dated. The reverse bears a rubber-stamped imprint detailing three of the photographer''s addresses, as well as a hand-written (in pencil) notation: XVII / 2513-1, presumably an identifier of some meaning to the photographer or Lambert Weston, but of no use whatsoever to the likes of me. Measures 8" high x 6" wide. Curved (but easily flattened again), moderate wear to corners,... View More...
One of an edition limited to 1500 copies. Edited by Harold Hatheway. An intriguing collection of black-and-white photographs (or, as the publisher calls them, 150 line halftones) from a respected scientist and ecologist. Cream cloth w/gilt spine lettering, unpaginated. Lightly bumped corners/spine ends/edges, in like dust jacket w/light edgewear, impressions/scratches. Size: Quarto -- from 9.75" to 12" tall BOOK | 018382 TRAN | A ANAM | Balch, Reg TNAM | Celebrations of Nature PBLS | Goose Lane Editions SUB1 | REG BALCH, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, NATURE, HAROLD HATHEWAY, DESC | One of a... View More...
1 of an edition limited to 1500 copies. Edited by Harold Hatheway. An intriguing collection of black-and-white photographs (or, as the publisher calls them, 150 line halftones) from a respected scientist and ecologist. Cream cloth w/gilt spine lettering, unpaginated. Bumped corners/spine ends, in like dust jacket w/light edgewear, scratches to rear panel. Size: Quarto -- from 9.75" to 12" tall View More...
A Moncton, New Brunswick, photographer and filmmaker documents his mother's battle with cancer, displaying the vibrancy of her life before her diagnosis and her courage afterward, as well as the grief felt by those family members mourning her death. Sometimes an uncomfortable experience for the reader/viewer, but all the more powerful for that. Published to commemorate an exhibition held at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, New Brunswick, from April 26 through June 11, 2012. Foreword by Graff, with an essay by Kunard. 209 pages (including "The Participating Witness, A Conversatio... View More...
A collection of poetry, photographs and short stories by 32 university students. Unpaginated. Crease to bottom right corner of front cover, light scuffing, several pinholes to front cover and extending through first third of the book. Internally tight. View More...
Taken from 1904 to 1924, this is a collection of "thousands of photographs of Saint John businesses, factories, construction sites, civic events, public amusements, and even booths at the Saint John Exhibition." Light wear to corners, previous owner's name at top of half-title, neatly hand-written name correction to one photograph (page 82). Internally tight. View More...
A pictorial record of a stone-built town Welsh town "whose appearance and way of life have changed enormously in the last hundred years." Preface by Professor Glyn Daniel. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering, unpaginated, illustrated. Dust jacket w/light edgewear, some sunning. View More...
One of 1,000 copies featuring 21 images of the Tantramar marshes near Sackville, New Brunswick, with a further 18 bonus images contained on a CD enclosed in pocket at rear. Oblong sextodecimo, stiff card wraps, unpaginated, foreword by Dan Steeves. Publisher's sticker to top right corner of front cover, light general wear. View More...
Photographer Oelbaum "captures the beauty of a century-old botanical journal found in a tiny antiques shop in New England and interprets it through sumptuous duotone photography." Pale green cloth w/dark brown lettering to front cover/spine, tipped-on photograph to front cover, 96 pages (including index). Light sunning to edges, mild edgewear, thin impressions. A nice collectible copy. Uncommon signed. View More...
Pham Van Mui was an award-winning Vietnamese photographer who died in 1992. Text in English, Vietnamese and French. Grey boards w/silver lettering to front cover, 80 pages. University stamp to front end paper, split binding at pages 16-17 (nothing is loose), light general wear, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, uneven 1" tear to top left corner of front panel, light wear to corners, impressions. View More...
A collection of superior photographs detailing the stunning beauty of a variety of Polish forests and woodlands. This one weighs more than the average book, so depending on its ultimate destination, additional postage may be required. Spruce cloth, unpaginated. Bumped corners, moderate general wear, in rubbed/scuffed dust jacket w/moderate general wear. View More...
A collection of 45 full-colour photographs of various lighthouses in New Brunswick, Canada. All photographs are printed on cards a little smaller than a hockey or baseball card, and each is roughly half as sturdy as the average sports card. The reverse of each card has the name of the lighthouse on the front, as well as the date it was established, the county in which it is located, and, in some cases, a one-line detail about the structure (for example, "Visible by Boat -- Access to the breakwater is restricted," "Located near the Deer Island Ferry Wharf," and so on). Each card is inserted int... View More...
