Dec 11, 2014 - Sale 2370

Sale 2370 - Lot 228

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
SIGNED BY NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHERS (LEE WITKIN.)
A small library of books from the Library of Lee Witkin, including Making a Photograph * La Banlieue de Paris * A Vision Shared.
Each title is inscribed to Lee Witkin from the photographers, and each an important title from the history of photo book publishing, with numerous illustrations. 4tos and a small folio, 2 with photo-pictorial dust jackets and the third with photo-pictorial boards. 2 first editions, each is signed.
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Additional Details

Ansel Adams. Making a Photograph, "How to Do It" Series, No. 8. Small 4to, photo-pictorial boards. First edition, inscribed on the endpaper: "To Lee Witkin, Ansel Adams, Carmel, April 11, 1970." Also with the small Witkins personal Estate label. New York: The Studio Publications, 1935.


Robert Doisneau. La Banlieue de Paris. 4to, black cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title by Doisneau to Witkin, in the year of publication, including "avec mon amitié, fidèle." Also with the small Witkin personal Estate label. Denoël, (1983).


Hank O'Neal. A Vision Shared, A Classic Portrait of America and Its People, 1935-1943. Small folio, white cloth; photo-pictorial dust jacket. First edition, inscribed to Lee Witkin on the night of the opening of the coordinated exhibition at his gallery by Russell Lee, Jack Delano, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Marie Vachon (widow of John Vachon), Bernarda Shahn (widow of Ben Shahn), Barbara Morgan, and Hank O'Neal. Also with the small Witkin personal Estate label. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1976).