San Francisco, de Bruguiere, Francis

San Francisco The H.S. Crocker Company, 1918. Hardcover First Ed, unstated. First Ed, unstated. Fair: spine chipped; entire page block, which was staple-bound inside hard boards, has worked itself free, so the binding act more as a file-style folder now; text block foxed; text free of marks. NOT a Remainder. NOT a Book-Club Edition. NOT an Ex-Library copy. 4to. Unpaginated [Approximately 58pp]. Grey boards with black titles at front face; pastedown photo at front face. Hardcover: Introduction and 26 photographic plates of vintage San Francisco by Bruguiere.

San Francisco: H.S. Crocker Co., 1918. First Edition . Paper Over Boards. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Author. Full-page b/w photo plates. Several chips along spine paper, rubbing at corners & edges. Binding is weak in rear, but intact, else clean & sound.

San Francisco: H.S. Crocker, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 11" x 8", [60]pp, with 26 halftone photographic plates. Original paper-covered boards with mounted cover illustration. Some chipping to paper over spine and fore edges, upper corners rubbed, library stamp on front free endpaper, card pocket on rear pastedown, illustration clipped from another source pasted to rear free endpaper. Binding sound, contents clean. Getty Museum: "Born the youngest of four sons into a wealthy San Francisco family, Francis Bruguière was interested in painting, poetry, and music, and became an accomplished pianist. Upon his return from Europe, where he studied painting, he met Alfred Stieglitz...and soon took up photography. While studying with Frank Eugene (Smith), Bruguière joined the Photo-Secession....Around 1912 Bruguière began to experiment with multiple exposures. In 1918 he published a book of Pictorialist views of his hometown, titled San Francisco. Soon thereafter, he returned to New York, where… Leer más

H. S. Crocker, 1918. Hardcover. Very good/No jacket. Edgeworn. Hard to find in this condition.

San Francisco: The H. S. Crocker Company, 1918 First edition. Quarto. [60]pp. 26 halftone photographic plates. Original printed gray boards with large mounted photographic plate on front cover. Light wear to spine ends, two small chips to spine, lower corners lightly rubbed, else a fine copy. A very acceptable copy usually found with the spine badly chipped and worn. Bruguiere's wonderful Soft-focus views of the ferries, the San Francisco skyline, the new City Hall, Kearney and Market Streets, Alcatraz, Portsmouth Square, Golden Gate Park, numerous views of Chinatown, etc. Bruguiere was born in San Francisco; he produced numerous photographs of the P.P.I.E. in 1915. [Rocq: 8443]..

San Francisco: Crocker, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good. Slightly chipped on ends of spine, two stains on spine, but much better condition than usually found.