With both undergraduate and graduate degrees in photography with an emphasis in photographic book production, in 1976, it was an easy leap for me to open a book business concerned with all aspects of photography, from the artistic to the technical manuals of the nineteenth century. Having conducted business in Brooklyn Heights, Philadelphia and almost 30 years in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, I recently returned to the place of my youth, Akron, Ohio, where my extensive inventory may be seen by appointment. -- Andrew Cahan, ABAA, since 1985.
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E-LIST 66: Gilded Lilies
I am pleased to offer for sale a garland of Gilded Lilies, which includes: Han's Bellmer's LA POUPÉE, one of 105 copies with 10 gelatin silver photographs; Bonfilis' SOUVENIRS D'ORIENT, with 100 albumen prints; the first photographic identification pass made for the 1876 Centenial in Philadelphia; two vintage photographs by Walter Chappell; an archive of cabinet cards of Frederick S. Dellenbaugh and his associates; an inscribed copy of LES AMÈRICAINS., with a drawing by Robert Frank; a self-portrait by Rauol Hausmann; Victor Landweber's SWEETSTUFF: CANDY POLAROIDS, with 17 POLACOLOR diptychs; Man Ray's ÉLECTRICITÉ from 1931; a salt print of a Philadelphia Fire Fighter from c. 1858; a large group of titles by Frederick Sommer, including his portfolio of signed photogravures, THE BIRTH OF VENUS; a drypoint caricature of Josef Sudek inscribed by him; two artist's books of original gelatin silver photographs made by the mordançage process by Jean-Pierre Sudre; Fox Talbot's ENGLISH ETYMOLOGIES, which he inscribed; Carleton Watkin's YOSEMITE BOOK with 28 large albumen photographs; salesmen's sample books, and other oddities.
Recent Catalogs
E-LIST 65: STIEGLITZ AND HIS CIRCLE
E-LIST65 I am pleased to offer for sale a large selection of hand-pulled photogravures from publications under the direction of Alfred Stieglitz: AMERICAN PICTORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY, Series 1 & 2; CAMERA NOTES; CAMERA WORK. The prints are by: Charles I. Berg, Will Cadby, Eustace G. Calland, Rose Clark & Elizabeth Flint Wade, Emilie V. Clarkson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Baron Adolf De Meyer, Frank Eugene, Frederick H. Evans, Herbert Greer French, Gertrude Käsebier, W. B. Post, George H. Seeley, George Bernard Shaw, Eduard Steichen, Edmund Sterling, Alfred Stieglitz, and Clarence H. White.beth Flint Wade, Emilie V. Clarkson, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Baron Adolf De Meyer, Frank Eugene, Frederick H. Evans, Herbert Greer French, Gertrude Käsebier, W. B. Post, George H. Seeley, George Bernard Shaw, Eduard Steichen, Edmund Sterling, Alfred Stieglitz, and Clarence H. White.