CAMERA WORK XXVIII. Number 28. A Photographic Quarterly Edited and Published by Alfred Stieglitz.
New York, NY: Alfred Stieglitz, 1909. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto (4to). Very good condition. Item #018671
56 pages of text followed by [xiv] of advertisements. The overhanging (yapped) edges of the original printed gray wrappers/covers are mostly lacking, as is commonly found. The spine is mostly intact but suffers from thin lines of vertical cracking, a few tiny bumps, and minor creasing and soiling; protected in archival mylar. The inner front hinge is cracked but remains attached and functional. There is cracking to the textblock, remaining intact but delicate. Small damp stain to the bottom edge of the lower margin on page 19/20, similarly affecting several of the final pages of advertisement. Issued with 6 plates by David Octavius Hill [in collaboration with Robert Adamson], one plate by George Davidson, one plate by Paul B. Haviland, one plate by Marshall R. Kernochan, and one plate by Alvin Langdon Coburn; COMPLETE. The plates are clean and are free from creasing, foxing, spotting, toning and damage unless described below; minimal offsetting to the blank pages facing each plate. Except as described below, the original double spot-mounts of each image and the original double spot-mounts of each mounting page remain intact. Plate I). The Minnow Pool. II). The Bird-Cage. III). Portraits-A Group. IV). Portrait-The Gown and the Casket. V). Mrs. Rigby. VI). Newhaven Fisheries. I). [Davidson] Houses near Aix-les-Bains. I). [Haviland] Portrait-Miss G.G. - triple spot-mounts intact, with a small stain to the bottom of the mounting and facing blank pages. II). [Kernochan] Ponte Vecchio-Florence - mounting page is detached and has minor soiling/darkening to the fore edge. I). [Coburn] On the Embankment. Associate editors include Joseph T. Keiley, Dallet Fuguet, John Francis Strauss, and J.B. Kerfoot. First edition.
Price: $2,000.00