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ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS


Digest-size "How To" Books
6 1/2" wide x9" tall these were published throughout the 50s and 60s. Comprising hundreds of titles by numerous publishers the most common are the series by Fawcett and Whitestone followed by How-To Books, Maco & Trend. Many of these feature the work of noted glamour photographers and are often packed with pics of stars and celebs.

Other "How To" and Reference Books

10 Women

Product ID: a&pbk-10wom
by Peter Lindbergh (1996) Schirmer/Mosel Prod. (German). 9 x 12 Hardcover - no Dustjacket issued. 120 pages featuring Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen, Cindy Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington and more. Book like new - VF

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Age Of Innocence

Product ID: a&pbk-ageofinn
The Romantic Art of Jeffrey Jones (1994) Underwood Books.8 1/2 x 11 sofrcover with 52 pgs featuring 44 full color paintings by the award-winning master of fantasy art. Originally pub @ 14.95 - Like new.

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Among Women

Product ID: a&pbk-amwom
by Tom Bianchi (1996) Sy. Martin's Press. 9 x 9 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket.100 pgs featuring stunning B&W photos. Originally pub @ 40.00. Like new

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Art Of The Human Form (The)

Product ID: a&pbk-artothufm
Contemporary Photographic Interpretations (1995) Five Corners Pubs. Ltd.9 x 11 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket. 80 pages featuring "A Photopgraphic Collection by 5 contemporary photographers celebrating the Human Body" Most of book is work of Gerald Appel. Originally pub @ 29.95. Like New

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Asian Ladies

Product ID: a&pbk-aslad
by Uwe Ommer (2000) Taschen. Big 9 x 12 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket has 164 pgs and is nearly all full color photos. Excellent work by one of the acknowlegded greats. Like New.

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Berko: Photographs 1935 - 1951

Product ID: a&pbk-berko
photos by Ferenc Berko (1999) Graphis, Inc. 9 x 12 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket has 108 pgs and nearly 50 striking B&W photos. Like new

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Bernard of Hollywood Pin-Ups: Blondes

Product ID: a&pbk-boh-bl
(1995) by Susan Bernard. Pocket size (4 1/2 x 6) Hardcover w/ Dustjacket contains 25 vintage photos. Front Cover features Brigitte Bardot, Lili St. Cyr has 4 outstanding pgs, Jayne Mansfield and Dardy Orlando have 2 each, plus Marilyn Monroe, Sheree North, Joy Lansing, Maila Nurmi, Irish McCalla, Barbara Nichols and lots more!! Originally pub. @ 6.95. Like New.

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Bernard of Hollywood Pin-Ups: Brunettess

Product ID: a&pbk-boh-br
(1995) by Susan Bernard. Pocket size (4 1/2 x 6) Hardcover w/ Dustjacket contains 25 vintage photos. FC features Rosemarie Bowe. Mara Corday, Marla English and Ann Melton each have 3 pgs, plus Marilyn Monroe, Julie Newmar, Gwenn Caldwell, Janet Leigh, Mitzi Gaynor and many others. Originally pub. @ 6.95. Like New.

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Best of Helmut Newton (The)

Product ID: a&pbk-bohelnew
1996 - Thunder's Mouth Press. 8 1/2 x 11 softcover is 156 pgs w/ over 100 photos "spanning Newton's career, demonstrate his gift for creative poses and daringly arranged scenery". Features celebs inc Jodie Foster (on FC and inside), Elizabeth Taylor, Isabella Rosselini and more. Originally pub @ 34.95. Lightly read, Fine+

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Burning Cold

Product ID: a&pbk-burnicd
(1978) - Color Photographs by Gary Bernstein, text by Bernie Taupin. Large 9 1/2 x 13 Hardcover (DJ missing),64 pgs. "This is a love story.... The relationship between a beautiful woman, the expressions of a poet, and the creative eye of a photographer." Normal wear, VG+

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Dahmane

Product ID: a&pbk-dahm
(1994) Taschen. 9 x 12 softcover has 80 pgs featuring B&W photos by noted French photographer Dahmane Benanteur. "Nothing is sacred in the wicked world of Dahmane. It's a world of impish delights - strictly not for the purist". Like New

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Edna's Nudes

Product ID: a&pbk-ednanu
Photographs by Edna Bullock (1995) Capra Press. 8 1/2 x 11 softcover has 112 pgs featuring 73 B& W plates. Many unusual outdoor locations inc FC photo 'Three Nudes On Dunes". Originally pub @ 29.95. Like New

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Eric Kroll's Fetish Girls

Product ID: a&pbk-erickroll
1996 from Benedikt Taschen. Not exactly sure what this is but I'm guessing it's a promo item or give-away. Tiny 3" x 4" book is squarebound with a glued spine and has 64 pgs plus foldout covers. Contains a 2 pg introduction in 3 languages - English, French & German and the rest is photos by Eric Kroll. The usual assortment of leather, vinyl, bondage, etc. NEW!

Also a companion volume - New York Girls by Richard Kern. This one is dated Spring 1997 and specs are same as above.

Sold as a pair only.

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Falkland Road

Product ID: a&pbk-flakrd
Prostitutes of Bombay by photographer Mary Ellen Mark. Published 1981 by Alfred Knofp, Inc. Oversize 10" x 11" volume is 112 pgs on heavy paper w/ stiff covers. Book is kind of rough. Has a glued spine that has dried out and the book is separated from covers. Large crease on right edge of FC from top to bottom, smaller crease on corner of BC. Some discoloration on BC (most likely from sunlight).

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Human/Nature

Product ID: a&pbk-hum/nat
(1997) by Dale O'Dell. Pub. by Pohlman Press. 8 x 12 softcover has 92 pgs of B&W photos made by combining human figures and natural formations - interesting stuff. Originally pub @ 35.00. Like New.

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Imogen Cunningham - On The Body

Product ID: a&pbk-imcmotb
(1998) Bullfinch Press. Extra large 9 1/4 x 12 1/2 volume has 168 pgs w/ 131 duotone plates and 56 B&W illustrations by Imogen Cunningham w/ text by Richard Lourenz. Originally pub @ 50.00. Like New

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In Camera

Product ID: a&pbk-incam
by Christian Vogt (1996) Edition Stemmle (Swiss). Big 9 x 12 Hardcover w/ white Dustjacket. 104 pgs featuring Eighty-Two Images by Fifty-Two Women. Like New

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Jonvelle

Product ID: a&pbk-jonv
1997 Edtion from German pub. Konemann. 10 12 1/2 hardcover w/ Dustjacket. Over 100 pgs w/ 90 B&W photos. Center of book is giant 4 pg double foldout. Like New

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Laetitia Casta

Product ID: a&pbk-laetitiac
(1999) from Callaway Editions Inc. Huge 10 x 13 Hardcover has photo cover (no DJ issued). Has 128 pgs, mostly color photos, devoted to this International Covergirl and swimsuit model. Originally pub @ 30.00. Like New.

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Mel Ramos - Pop Art Images

Product ID: a&pbk-melram
(1997) Taschen. 7 x 9 softcover w/ fold-open covers and 96 pgs w/ well over 100 images. "The last decade has also revealed Ramos as a pioneer of kitsch art, a painter able to embrace fully the technicolor vulgarities and plastic textures of popular imagery and recreate them as works intended to be seen in the elite ambiance of galleries and museums". FC of "Lucky Strke" GirlLike New

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Michel Comte - Contrasts

Product ID: a&pbk-michcom
Portfolio - Bibliothek der Fotographie #10 (late 90s - German). Extra large 10 1/2 x 14 volume is similar to a magazine, with stapled spine and a few pgs of ads. Cindy Crawford FC + 112 pgs w/ loads of celebs and really big full pg & 2 pg photos. Nearly New.

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Mosaic

Product ID: a&pbk-mosaic
By Hiroshi Showji. Published 1985 by JICC Co. Ltd. Japanese book is 8 1/4" x 11 1/4", 108 pgs. All color photos, mostly full pg on very heavy stock paper w/ stiff board covers and dustjacket. Minimal Japanese text w/ English translations. A little wear along top edge of DJ but book appears NEW. Small price sticker in lower right corner of FC.  

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Mystique Naturals

Product ID: a&pbk-mysnat
(Undated, late 90s) from Mystique Magazine. Neat little 5 x 7 softcover has 64 pgs of very nice full pg color pics. Alexus Winston has FC + 4 pgs, other models include Lisa Marie Scott & Carrie Stevens.w/ 4 pgs each plus Aria Giovanni & Chantal Vachon w/ 6 pgs eachBarely touched, VF

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Nagel - The Art of Patrick Nagel

Product ID: a&pbk-nagel
(1989) Perennial Library Editon. Big 9 x 12 softcover has fold-open covers and 160 pgs w/ 100 full color plates, 25 B&W drawings, 2 full color foldouts, and a full color catalogue raisonne of Nagle's poster graphics. Originaly pub @ 25.00. Like New

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NU

Product ID: a&pbk-nu
by Fred Aufray (200) Ipso Facto Pubs (German). 7 x 8 1/2 hardcover w/ photo FC (no DJ issued). "This romantic portraiture enterprise represents French sensuality at its most beguiling". By "taking pictures of ordinary women in the same luxurious style as fashion nudes". 84 pgs, B&W. Like New

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Nude Workshop

Product ID: a&pbk-nudework
by Lucien Clergue (1982) 1st Edition from Studio Books/Viking Press. Big 11 x 11 1/2 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket has 108 pgs, is all B&W. Fabulous photos by one of the acclaimed greats. Light wear on DJ, Fine+

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Nudes

Product ID: a&pbk-nudes
Photographs by Amy Sibiga (1995) The Crossing Press. 7 x7 softcover, 64 pgs all B&W. "She is particularly interested in... the study of highlights and shadows as they define the human body". Originally pub @ 12.95. Like New.

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Pirelli Calendar 1964 - 1998 (The)

Product ID: a&pbk-pircal
(1998) Rizzoli International Pubs. Gigantic book is 11 1/2 x 11 1/2, Hardcover w/ Dustjacket. It has over 420 pgs and 276 color photos. by 20 different photographers. Every image from all 35 years of this famous calendar.Fantastic! Originally pub @ 70.00. Gorgeous Like New copy.

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Pirelli Calendar 1964 - 2000 (The Best of)

Product ID: a&pbk-pircal-bo
2001 - Rizzoli International Pubs. 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket, 144 pgs. This book "explores the fascinating history of the calendar, decade by decade, discussing how the calendar reflects the changing times and featuring the beautiful and sensual photography that made it famous". FC photo of Laetitia Casta. Text by Laura Laurenzi. Originally pub @ 45.00. Like new

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Rear View

Product ID: a&pbk-rearview
(1981) - Delilah Books. Unusual 11 x 8 1/2 size is sideways. Softcover w/ 100 pgs featuring the derriere as photographed by Jeff Dunas, Stan Malinowski, Donald Milne, Siwer Ohlsson and 7 other noted photographers. Iconic FC photo of girl in a pair of cut-off jeans. Originally pub @ 8.95. Slight soft corner, bright & shiny VG++

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Rotenberg Collection (The)

Product ID: a&pbk-rotcol
Cheesecake (1999) Taschen. An absolutely massive digest size book. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 softcover is over 2" thick w/ 766 pgs and more than 1,000 photos inc some old magazine covers. Lots of familiar faces in here! Lightly read, nearly new.

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Ruth Bernhard - The Eternal Body

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A Collection of Fifty Nudes (1986) Chronicle Books. 12 x 11 1/2 softcover w/ 140 pgs. This is "an extraordinary collection ...each one an exquisite study of light and form by one of the most noted photographers of this century".Originally pub @ 35.00. Nearly New

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Sensual Images

Product ID: a&pbk-sensim
100 of the World's Top Photographers Interpret Sensual Beauty (1994) PIE Books (Japanese). 9 x 12 softcover w/ Dustjacket has over 200 pgs w/ 190 pgs of mostly color photos. Book nearly new, DJ has light rubbing.

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Serge Jacques

Product ID: a&pbk-serjac
(1998) Taschen. An absolutely massive digest size book. 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 softcover is over 2" thick w/ 766 pgs and more than 1,000 photos inc some old magazine covers. Lots of familiar faces in here! Lightly read, nearly new.

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Sirens

Product ID: a&pbk-sirens
by Marco Glaviano (1997) Callaway Editions Inc. 6 x 8 hardcover w/ photo covers (no DJ issued). Marco is renowned as the photographer of the Cindy Crawford and Paulina Porizkova swimsuit calendars. Here are "the most seductive and erotic images of" his "quarter-century-long career as a fashion photographer". Nearly 300 pgs and loaded w/ celebrities inc. Cindy Crawford, Paulina Porizkova, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour, Angie Everhart and many ohers. Origianlly pub @ 29.95. Like New

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Stereo Akte - Nus 1850-1930

Product ID: a&pbk-stereo
The Stereoscopic Nude by Serge Nazarieff. 1993 Edition from Taschen 9 x 12 softcover has 160 pgs and 214 vintage images. Like New

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The Female Form

Product ID: 1&pbk-thefemfm
A Private View by Tony Mitchell (1999) Carlton Books. 9 x 12 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket has 100 pgs and features 90 "masterpieces of erotic photogrpahy" by numerous photogrpahers. Originally pub @ 18.95. Very minor rubbing on DJ, o/w Like New.

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The Lady Is a Tramp

Product ID: a&pbk-theladyis
Portraits of Catherne Bailey by David Bailey (1995) Thames & Hudson. Large 10 x 13 Hardcover w/ photo cover (no DJ issued). Book has Red binding w/ gold lettering - very nice.Over 170 pgs w/ more than 100 very large, striking, B&W photos. Tiny ding on spine o/w Like new

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The Nude in Photography

by Arthur Goldsmith (1975, Playboy Press, 1st Edition). Large 9" x 11" hardcover with dustjacket has 256 pages and hundreds of photos - many in color - representing the work of more than 70 notable photographers.
Book VG with some light foxing on covers, DJ Good with multiple tears and creases.
I have another copy that was printed with only 254 pages. The photo that appears on pg 254 of the above copies is printed on the back of pg 251 and the photos that appear on pgs 252 & 253 have been
left out. This version also has white endpapers on the inside of the covers, the books above have pink endpapers on the inside of the covers. Book FINE, DJ VG+. All say First Edition, 1975.

 

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Venus - French Exotic Girls

Product ID: a&pbk-venus
(2000) Graphic-Sha Pub. Co. (Japanese) 7 x 10 softcover w/ Dustjacket. 136 pgs - nearly all photos, most full pg. w/ 16 pgs of color @ center of book. A companion volume to "L'Amour" listed above. Bet you recognize some of these pics from the X-Rated paperback books of the 60s & 70s. Like New

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Water Dance

Product ID: a&pbk-watdan
Photographs by Howard Schatz (1993) Graphis. Large 9 1/2 x 12 softcover w/ 176 pgs and over 110 color photos. "These extraordinary photographs, all made underwater, capture the magic of weightlessness and the beauty of dance". Very different. Nearly New

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White Women

Product ID: a&pbk-whiwom
by Helmut Newton. His first book, originally pub in 1976, this is 2000 reprint from Thunder's Mouth Press. Big 9 x 12 Hardcover w/ Dustjackt, 128 pgs. Cover price 49,95.Like New.

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Women As Portrayed in Orientalist Painting

Product ID: a&pbk-wompop
by Lynne Thornton (1994)ACR Edition (French Pub - but text in English). 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 softcover, 192 pgs. w/ nearly that many color illos. Very well done - nice book. Like New

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Yuri Dojc - Marble Women

Product ID: a&pbk-yurid
(1993) Firefly Books (Canada) 11 x 11 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket, 100 pgs featuring this artist's unique B&W photos. Originally pub @ 29.95. LIke New

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Ziedai Tarp Ziedy

Product ID: a&pbk-zietzie
"Blossoms Among Blossoms" by Rimantas Dichavicius (1989) Printed in Lithuania. Large 9 1/2 x 13 Hardcover w/ Dustjacket has 200 pgs, practically all photos, many very large. Combination of nature photos and nudes outdoors. All kinds of different settings - forest, desert, beach, etc. Light wear along edges of DJ, Book Like New

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