London: (Ministry of Progaganda), no date (1916). Quarto, grey card covers with flaps. pp [62, [2] + frontispiece photogravure with tissue guard. Foreword followed by captioned photos. Name rubber stamp at top of front cover, later ink owner name at front, mild wear at spine ends, small soft bruise to upper outer corners of text; else a VG clean and unworn copy. Laid in is a printed complimentary card from Sir Gilbert Parker. "The photographs which are reproduced in this volume were taken in response to a request made by the American Ambassador in Berlin. They were originally designed to form part of the Wurtemberg War Exhibition, and were actually taken by the photographic section of the Royal Flying Corps." The photos were taken at six P.O.W. camps - Donington Hall, Alexandra Palace, Dorchester, Handforth, Lofthouse Park and Eastcote. The boys seemed to be having a jolly old time, the message to the Hun being you should make nice to British POWs, too.. You can be sure that's the way it was all of the time.

2002. Image size 7.25 X 11 inches on 11 x 14 sheet. Jack Micheline at Golden Gate Fields race track, 1981, Number 1 of 2 , signed and numbered in pencil on verso by the photographer Christopher Felver. Jack is studying the racing form, unlit cigarette in his mouth. Fine. Christopher Felver's work has been exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at many important museums and institutions. Best known for his black & white photos of famous writers, musicians and artists, especially of the beat era. Jack Micheline (1929-1998), born in the Bronx as Harold Martin Silver, was an American painter and poet from the San Francisco Bay area. His name is associated with street artists, underground writers, and "outlaw" poets. He was one of San Francisco's original beat poets and an innovative artist who was active in the San Francisco Renaissance in the 1950s and 60s. He was a street poet in Greenwich Village in the 50s, writing about hookers, addicts, blue collar workers, and the dispossessed. Jack Kerouac wrote the introduction to his first book, published in 1957. He went on to publish over 20 books, chapbooks, and mimeo books. He also did some painting, mostly gouache in a primitive style. A terrific image of one of the lesser known but authentic beats (a term he hated).

London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1861. Octavo, hardcover, original black bead grain cloth decorated with pink dots, paper spine label, light brown endpapers. pp viii, (xviii), 304 plus 24 pp publisher's catalogue. Extensive notes at rear. Ads on front and rear pastedowns. With eleven actual photographs (of prints) pasted in within tan panels. Spine label tanned and lightly rubbed, with small chips at head; two small splits to joints; spine very lightly sunned; plates have light foxing, with some puckering to the paper from the pasting-in of the photos; else a near fine copy, hinges not cracked. With the pencil ownership signature of Roger Senhouse, British publisher, translator, and Lytton Strachey's last lover.. A selection from Addison & Steele's THE TATLER (first pub. 1710-11), illustrated with actual photographs, though since they are of engravings, they seem to have been employed for novelty more than anything else.

New York: Knopf, 1962. Made from Canadian (University of Toronto) sheets. Black cloth. pp xiv, 210 pp + plates. Index. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a few nicks, minor wear to head of spine, VG+ otherwise. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to noted Canadian poet Ralph Gustafson "For my friend, Ralph Gustafson, on a memorable day of reunion at Bishop's University, which he helped to make so meaningful. With deep appreciation, Yousef Karsh, May 31, 1969". Karsh, a refugee from the Armenian genocide, arrived in Canada 31 Dec., 1923. He immediately moved to Sherbrook, Quebec, to live with maternal uncle, also a portrait photographer, who employed him and taught him the craft. Bishop's university is located in Lennoxville, a suburb of Sherbrooke. Karsh was awarded a Doctor of Civil Law by Bishop's. Gustafson graduated from there and began teaching there as early as 1920.

Cincinnati, OH: 1927. Sepia toned photo, 13.5 x 10.5 inches. 16 employees in long white coats and caps pose with suited man (presumably one of the Kahn brothers) on steps of a building with two fluted columns and 1927 above the door. Photo has the blind stamp of Runy Co. Chips to corners and to bottom margin only very slightly affecting the image; two small surface abrasions near top (the surface of the photo is delicate); good otherwise, Kahn's, a Cincinnati meat packer and distributor, was founded by Elias Kahn in that city in 1883. After his death in 1899, his four sons took over until the last of them died in 1948. Then the daughter Matilda Schloss made her son Milton the head. The company was sold to Consolidated Foods in 1966. The original location of Kahn's was on Central Avenue. Their hot dogs were the official weenie of the New York Mets in the 1980s into the 2000s and currently the hot dog of the Cincinnati Reds.

London: Provost & Co, 1871. Second edition (first was in 1869 ). Original dark blue bevel edge pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, rear cover in blind, all edges gilt, brown endpapers. pp (4), 182, (2, ads) + 10 mounted 19.2 x 13.5 cm photos and 5 smaller albumin photos mounted in text. Professionally rebacked, with original decorated spine laid down, some original cloth loss at ends but no stamping lost; sunning to inner margin of rear cover; inner hinges professionally repaired with matching brown paper; title leaf has nicks along bottom edge, shallow chip (about 0.5 cm deep) along outer edge, well away from any printing; light foxing to title page and other pages facing the large photos; otherwise a VG clean, bright and tight copy, no owner names, text unworn and unsullied. 19th century books with original mounted photos like these are getting harder and harder to find on the market. Would make a nice gift.