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BEA NETTLES Nettles’ First Book BEA NETTLES Nettles’ first book. A surreal group that share a common element - some mysteri- An innovator in photomechanical ous event or organic form against a sky with clouds. $300.00 printmaking, Bea Nettles (b. 1946, Gainesville, Florida) uses photographic 586. Nettles, Bea. FLAMINGO IN THE imagery with a variety of processes, DARK. Rochester: Inky Press, 1979. First some of which she introduced to the ed. Square 4to., 66 photographically pro- lexicon. She obtained her B.F.A. from duced images in color, illustrated endpa- the University of Florida, Gainesville pers. Gilt-embossed cloth, issued without (1968), and her M.F.A. from the Uni- dw. Fine. Housed in cloth slipcase. versity of Illinois, Chicago (1970). Limited to 200 SIGNED copies, with Nettles has produced some of the most an additional portfolio of six prints laid in. Nettles used the Kwik Print method to pro- visually exciting work since the early duce the original multiple negative color 590. Nettles, Bea. KNIGHTS OF ASSISI: A 70’s. prints, which are reproduced here by offset JOURNEY THROUGH THE TAROT. (Urbana, screened lithography. $250.00 IL: Inky Press Productions, 1990). First ed. 582. Nettles, Bea. A IS FOR APPLEBITING Square 8vo., (22) pp., color photos. Plain ALLIGATORS: AN ALPHABET BOOK. N.p.: 587. Nettles, Bea. FLAMINGO IN THE stiff wrappers in illustrated dw. Fine. Self-published, 1974. First ed. 24mo., (29) DARK. Rochester: Inky Press, 1979. First $45.00 pp., b&w photo-illustrations. Stiff wrappers. ed. Square 4to., 66 photographically pro- Fine. Housed in faux alligator skin stitched duced images in color, illustrated endpa- 591. Nettles, Bea. MOUNTAIN DREAM slipcase. pers. Gilt-embossed cloth, issued without TAROT: A DECK OF 78 PHOTOGRAPHIC Photographs, photomontages and dw. Slight crease to top corner, else fine. CARDS. Rochester: Light Impressions, drawings. $200.00 Limited to 2000 copies. $85.00 1975. First ed. 5 x 4 inch cards (b&w photo- illustrations printed on colored stock), with 583. Nettles, Bea. BREAKING THE RULES: one folded page of text. Housed in a paper A PHOTO MEDIA COOKBOOK. Roches- over boards box, with photo-illustrated card ter, NY: Inky Press Productions, 1977. First mounted on top. Box shows slight wear; ed. 4to., 55 pp., b&w and color illustra- the cards are in fine condition. tions. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. “The Mountain Dream Tarot came to A manual of non-silver processes by me in a dream in the summer of 1970. The this noted photographer/printmaker. decision to assemble a photographic set of $65.00 cards was made in my sleep. I began the next morning at Penland School of Crafts in 584. Nettles, Bea. DREAM PAGES. N.p.: the mountains of North Carolina. I chose (Bea Nettles), 1975. First ed. Small 4to., models who suited the cards and after read- (17) pp., color illustrations. Illustrated stiff ing the card’s description we took a walk to wrappers. Fine. find the right place to make the picture... The title page is handwritten in pencil The Tarot deck fascinates me as a highly and SIGNED “Nettles.” Photographic complex collection of visual information.” collaged images from dreams. Printed us- $350.00 ing offset lithography with gold or green inks as a second color. $200.00 592. Nettles, Bea and Connie Nettles. THE 588. Nettles, Bea. SWAMP LADY. Roch- NYMPH OF THE HIGHLANDS. Printed at ester: Light Impressions, 1974. First ed. 29 the Visual Studies Workshop, c.1974. First illustrated cards and one printed card ed. 24mo., (20) pp., b&w photo-illustra- housed in a box with an illustrated card tions on paper and acetate, with color tis- mounted on front, additionally one printed sue paper inserts. Maroon felt over stiff bibliographic page is laid in. Near fine. wraps. A fine copy, housed in a green plas- Here she has created an artist-book tic stitched slipcase. card game called the “Swamp Lady” in A story written by Connie Nettles at which most of the cards are images derived age 13 and illustrated by Bea Nettles. from swamp land (gators, palms, water, SIGNED by Bea Nettles on the colophon. sand, etc.) $300.00 $250.00 589. Nettles, Bea. KNIGHTS OF ASSISI: A 593. Nettles, Bea and Grace Nettles. OF JOURNEY THROUGH THE TAROT. (Urbana, LOSS AND LOVE: POETRY. Rochester: Inky IL: Inky Press Productions, 1990). First ed. Press, 1975. First ed. Small 4to., (24) pp., Square 8vo., (22) pp., color photos. Plain color illustrations. Gilt-illustrated cloth. stiff wrappers in illustrated dw. A fine copy. Lightly rubbed, else near a fine copy. 585. Nettles, Bea. EVENTS IN THE SKY. INSCRIBED "For Dick (Zakia) from Bea." Limited to 100 numbered and SIGNED N.p.: (Bea Nettles), 1973. First ed. Small $85.00 copies. Poetry by Grace Nettles and imag- 4to., (13) pp., 11 b&w photos. Pictorial stiff ery by Bea. $250.00 wrappers. Fine. Title page is handwritten; limited to 100 numbered and SIGNED copies. Bea 594. Nichols, Ruth Alexander. BILLY. NY: DOROTHY NORMAN MacMillan Company, 1934. First ed. 8vo., (52 pp.), chiefly b&w photographs. Cloth over boards, affixed title label ripped off. (born in Philadelphia in 1905). In 1925 There is general wear to the binding, with she moved to New York and began a darkening and foxing to pages and some career as editor, publisher, columnist, pencil marks. In all, a fair copy. author and photographer. She had a Ruth Alexander Nichols (1893-1970), close relationship with Alfred Stieglitz was known for her realistic depictions of for a number of years and assisted in children and nature. Widowed at a young the opening of his gallery. She served age, with small children, she turned to them as editor and publisher of TWICE A YEAR as subjects and developed a repertoire pub- lished in several books on the day-to-day from 1938 to 1948. After Stiegliz's activities of children. $45.00 death, she published the STIEGLITZ ME- MORIAL PORTFOLIO in 1947. She also 595. Niclas, Yolla. WHITE TAILS AND prepared the biographical work ALFRED GREEN CLOVER. NY: Vantage Press, 1974. STIEGLITZ: AN AMERICAN SEER. First ed. Small 4to., 81 pp., 40 full-page 599. Norman, Dorothy. INTIMATE VI- b&w photos. Faint foxing on the endpa- SIONS: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF DOROTHY pers, else a near fine copy in dw. 597. Norman, Dorothy. ENCOUNTERS: A NORMAN. Edited and essay by Miles Barth. German photographer Yolla Niclas MEMOIR. NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Preface by Edward Abrahams. San Fran- (1900-1977) was the lifelong friend of the 1987. First ed. 4to., x, 319 pp., 59 b&w cisco: Chronicle Books in association with author Alfred Döblin. Here she has created plates. A fine copy in dw. $45.00 ICP, (1993). First ed. 8vo., 179 pp., numer- a book for a juvenile audience in which the ous b&w photos. Illustrated paper over photographs and text narrate the adventures 598. [NORMAN / STIEGLITZ] Holborn, boards. Fine in window-cut printed dw. of a rabbit and her family, who are residents Mark, introduction. BEYOND A PORTRAIT: This is the first monograph of of a meadow within a park. SIGNED by the PHOTOGRAPHS. DOROTHY NORMAN, Norman's photography, which reveals the photographer/author. $45.00 ALFRED STIEGLITZ. An exhibition, Alfred sensitivity with which she approached her Stieglitz Center, Philadelphia Museum of Art. subjects, portraits of artists, writers, politi- NY: Aperture, 1984. First ed. 4to., xiv, plus cal figures, as well as landscape and archi- 38 b&w photos. A fine copy in pictorial tectural detail. $35.00 dw. $50.00 600. Noren, Catherine. THE CAMERA OF 1934); she was included in the original MY FAMILY. Introduction by Avram Kampf. Group f/64 exhibition at the M.H. deYoung NY: Jewish Museum, 1973. First ed. 8vo., Museum in San Francisco in 1932. $30.00 (12) pp., 7 b&w photographic portraits. Il- lustrated stiff wrappers. Small creases, else very good. The photographs in the exhibition, for which this is the catalogue, documented six generations of free-lance photographer (and writer), Catherine Noren’s family. Her grandfather and aunt were photographers; 596. Niepce, Janine. CE MONDE QUI some of the photos here were made by CHANGE. Paris: Clairefontaine, 1970. First them and by Noren, and some were taken ed. Small 4to., (72) pp., 45 b&w photo- in German studios and by friends. A gradu- graphs, 13 in color. A near fine copy in dw ate of Bennington College, she studied pho- with slight wear to dw and darkening at tography with Garry Winogrand, Diane page edge. Arbus and Lisette Model. In 1976 Alfred French photographer Janine Niepce A. Knopf published the book THE CAMERA (1921- ) has been making photographs since OF MY FAMILY (240 pp.) $25.00 the late 1940s. As a young woman, she was 602. [NOSKOWIAK] Johnson, William. involved with the French resistance of World 601. [NOSKOWIAK] Bender, Donna, Jan SONYA NOSKOWIAK. Tucson: CCP, The War II; her own personal spirit of rebellion Stevenson and Terence R. Pitts, compilers. University of Arizona, 1979. First ed. 4to., lends itself to this collection of photos which SONYA NOSKOWIAK ARCHIVE. (Tucson): 40 pp., 18 b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrap- portrays the youth movement of the late Center for Creative Photography, The Uni- pers. Near fine. 1960s in its many facets. The photographs versity of Arizona, Guide Series Number Born in Leipsig, Germany in 1900, she are international, taken on at least three con- Five, 1982. First ed. 4to., 38 pp., 382 small spent her childhood in Chile before moving tinents, yet they all consider the variant and format b&w photos. Printed stiff wrappers. to California in 1915. She became Edward similar lives of youth during a time of great A fine copy.
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