ARS LIBRI ELECTRONIC LIST #54 PHOTOBOOKS: EVANS, FRANK, FRIEDLANDER

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Electronic List 54: Photobooks: Walker Evans – – from the Collection of Isabelle Storey

1 EVANS, WALKER. American Photographs. With an essay by . 195, (1)pp. 87 plates. Sm. sq. 4to. Cloth. D.j. (very slightly nicked at head of spine). Re-issue of the 1938 edition with a foreword by Monroe Wheeler. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walker Evans “To Hermann and Esther B./ with best regards/ Walker.” The recipients were the parents of Isabelle Storey. New York (The Museum of ), [1960]. $2,750.00

2 EVANS, WALKER. Many Are Called. Photographs. With an introduction by . (10), 178pp. 90 plates. Sm. sq. 4to. Cloth. Boston (Houghton Mifflin), 1966. $500.00 Roth p. 180f.; The Open Book p. 218f.; Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry: The Photobook: A History. Vol. I, p. 253; Karpel N552

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3 EVANS, WALKER. Message from the Interior. (6)pp., 12 sheet-fed photogravure plates. Tissue guards. Sm. sq. folio. Orig. cloth with title label. Among the finest and most influential photographic books of the 1960s. Presentation copy, inscribed by Walker Evans “To Jimmy and Tania [Stern]/ a message indeed (what a)/ Walker.” Subsequently inscribed “and with much love/ from Tania + Jimmy.” The Sterns were close friends of Evans and Isabelle Storey. New York (The Eakins Press), 1966. $4,000.00

4 EVANS, WALKER. Message from the Interior. (6)pp., 12 sheet-fed photogravure plates. Tissue guards. Sm. sq. folio. Orig. cloth with title label. Among the finest and most influential photographic books of the 1960s. A fine copy. New York (The Eakins Press), 1966. $850.00

5 EVANS, WALKER. Incognito. 25, (19)pp. 8 photographic plates. Folio. Cloth. Glassine d.j. One of 2500 copies. New York (Eakins Press Foundation), 1995. $100.00

6 FRANK, ROBERT. The Lines of My Hand. 119, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Loosely inserted, as issued: Japanese-language text translation, printed and illustrated in white on black stock (32pp.). Sm. folio. Black cloth, embossed in white with the photographer’s signature. Matching slipcase. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Graphic design by Sugiura Kohei, also responsible for Frank’s “Flower Is...” and Kikuji Kawada’s “The Map.” The mounted photographic illustration on the slipcase of this copy is Frank’s famous “New York City 1948.” A very fine copy. Tokyo (Yugensha), 1972. $3,000.00 The Open Book p. 286f.; Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry: The Photobook: A History, Vol. I, p. 261

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7 FRIEDLANDER, LEE. The American Monument. (16)pp., 78 plates with 213 illus. Oblong folio, in album format. Cloth, bolted as issued. Text in letterpress. Postscript by . One of the great American photographic books. Presentation copy, inscribed by Lee Friedlander “For Isabelle with pleasure/ and friendship/ Lee Friedlander.” Loosely inserted: Inscribed presentation card from the publisher. Isabelle Storey was the organizer of the exhibition of the American Monument photographs at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March-May 1977. New York (The Eakins Press Foundation), 1976. $4,500.00 Roth p. 236f.; Freitag 3826; Parr, Martin & Badger, Gerry: The Photobook: A History. Vol. II, p. 28

8 FRIEDLANDER, LEE. Photographs. (104)pp. 137 illus. Oblong 4to. Black cloth (slightly faded at upper edge and spine). New City, New York (Haywire Press), 1978. $300.00

9 FRIEDLANDER, LEE. Letters from the People. (82)pp. 243 illus. Folio. Cloth. D.j. Mint. New York (D.A.P.), [1993]. $100.00