Photography Books. John Vachon to Christian Vogt.

181.1. Vachon, John. John Vachon's America:Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II, edited with introductory texts by Miles Orvell. [Vachon photographed for the Farm Security Administration (FSA)and the Office of War Information (OWI) under the direction of Roy Stryker from 1936 to 1943. By far the best publication to date on this important photographer.] University of California, 2003. 114 illustrations. 344 pages. 1st printing, as new with fine protected dust jacket. Issued at $49.95. $40.

181.2. Valentine, John. Views of Chester District, also titled, Photographic View Album of Chester & District. Photographed and Printed by Valentine and Sons, Limited, Dundee. No date, about 1900. Oblong hardcover, 24 views on heavy weight paper. Good with spots of wear to extremities and spine. No copies found for sale on Internet, although some similar titles offered. $50.

182. Van Cortlandt Manor. Butler, Joseph T. The Family Collections at Van Cortlandt Manor. Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1967. [Includes photos of artwork, furniture, ceramicsand glass, metals, textiles, along with historical essay and genealogical chart of the Van Cortlandt family.] Cloth, vg, worn at bottom, no dust jacket, ex-library with usual markings. $10.

182a. Vanderbilt, Paul. Between a Landscape and Its Other. [Fine black-and-white photographs by Vanderbillt, intelligently sequenced.] John Hopkins, 1993. 1st ed. Fine, new with dust jacket, in original unopened shrinkwrap. $250.

182aa. Vanderbilt, Paul. Paul Vanderbilt. Society for Photographic Education, Midwest Region, 1984. Jerry Dell and Sheri Fredrickson, editors. Introduction by Jerry Dell. Essay, "Discovering Implications," by Paul Vanderbilt. Part I is a 20-page softcover book of text and photos; Part II is an insert in back pocket showing display panels. Fine. $30. Two copies available.

182a.1. Van DerZee, James. VanDerZee: Photographer 1886-1983, by Deborah Willis-Braithwaite. Biographical essay by Rodger C. Birt. Abrams, in association with National Portrait Gallery, 1993. [Published in conjunction with exhibit about the noted black photographer of Harlem at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. Work consists mostly of portraits.] Large format, 192 pages. Stiff illustrated wraps, crimp on front cover, otherwise like new. $15.

182a.2. Van DerZee, James. James Van Der Zee: On and Off the Record. Sharpe Gallery, New York, 1987. Wraps, 8 pages, fine except small adhesive residue where a label removed. 7 illustrations. Foreword by Donna Mussenden-Van Der Zee. Introduction by Brooks Adams. $50.

182a.3. Van DerZee, James. Photo Newsletter. Volume One, Issue Two, June 1972. James Van Derzee Institute. Edited by Vance Allen. Stapled newsletter, 8 pages with news about current photography exhibitions in New York and San Francisco, including but not limited to work by Black photographers. Feature autobiographical article by Bob Fletcher with four illustrations. Other contents include photo of James Van Derzee at the Reflections Community Art Gallery in Brooklyn, where he was being honored; news about the first Black Photographers Annual and exhibit by one of the photographers in the annual, Beuford Smith; photos by Reginald McGhee and Bill Hilton; et al. Very good with minor wear, no marks. $15.

182a.4. Van DerZee, James. James Van DerZe, Photographer. James Van DerZee Institute, 1972. Designed by Vance Allen. Wraps, 24 pages (including blank pages), catalog of a traveling exhibiton, with 10 black-and-white photographs. Good with spots on cover, interior pages fine. $45.

182a.4.1. Van Lawick, Hugo. Savage Paradise. Morrow, 1977. [Dramatic color photographs of wildlife in Africa.] Oversize, hardcover with dust jacket, ex-library, very good with usual library evidence. $20.

182a.5. Vantage Point: Photographs from the Warren J. Coville Collection, February 5 through April 5, 1992. By David Rau, Warren J. Coville (interview), Roy Slade andThomas Halsted. Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, 1992. Exhibition catalog. Photographs by Josef Sudek; Dwight A. Davis; Henri Cartier-Bresson; Andre Kertesz; Walker Evans; Laura Gilpin; Alfred Cohn; Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr; Imogen Cunningham; Ralston Crawford; W. Eugene Smith; Anton Bruehl; Warren J. Coville (self-portrait); August Sander; Brassai; Gertrude Kasebier; Lewis W. Hine; Margaret Bourke-White; Matsy Wynn Richards; Clarence White & Alfred Stieglitz; Stella Simon; Paul Outerbridge, Jr.; Edward Steichen; Alfred Stieglitz; Harry Callahan; Karl Struss; Paul Strand; Ralph Steiner; Garry Winogrand; Edward Weston; Lazlo Moholly-Nagy; Katherine Dunham; and Charles Sheeler. Wraps with die-cut windows, 32 pages. Fine except front cover beginning to curl. Includes exhibition checklist. Illustrations include one photograph per artist or collaborators in the exhibit. $50.

182a.6. Vaux Family. Legacy in Ice. The Vaux Family and the Canadian Alps by Edward Cavell. Whyte Foundation, 1983. History of the Quaker Vaux family of Philadelphia, avid amateur photographers of the Canadian Rockies in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Profusely illustrated with photographs by Mary Vaux, George Vaux, and William Vaux. Wraps, approximately 96 pages, oblong 12 x 9 inches, not issued in hardcover. Very good, $10.

182b. Venice Biennale. Photography: Venice '79. Edited by Daniela Palazzoli, et al. Exhibition organized by International Center of Photography. English edition. Rizzoli, 1979. Hardcover, fine with vg+ dust jacket that has minor shelfwear. Includes Atget; Count Primoli; Edward Weston Gifts to his Sister; Tina Modotti; Robert Capa; Cartier-Bresson; Japan; Italy; Weegee; Robert Frank; Diane Arbus; Stieglitz; Stieglitz Collection; Sam Wagstaff Collection; Polaroid Collection; Latin America; W. Eugene Smith; Francesco Paolo Michetti,; Lewis W. Hine; Treasures of Dance Photography; Contemporary Italian Photography; Contemporary American Photographers; Contemporary European Photography; The Land; Images des Hommes. $25.

182bb. Venture. April 1965. Hardcover journal bound with illustrated boards. This issue features photos by Charles Steinhacker (National Parks), Tibor Hirsch (jazz in New Orleans), Dennis Stock (small boats), Marilyn Silverstone (Bhutan), George Rodger (England), as well as some by Manny Haller, Dan Young, Bob Robinson, Ken Heyman, Richard Rosenblum, and others. Very good with a small spot on spine and short tear at top of spine. $5.

182c. Vernacular Photography. Click! The Marvelous in American Vernacular Photography. Donald Lokuta and Robert Yoskowitz, curators. Exhibition catalog, softcover, as issued. New Jersey State Museum, 2000. With old price label on cove, otherwise like new. Issued at $12. $10. (2 copies available)

182d. Vernon-Jones, Andy. Here in Red Hook. Photographs by Andy Vernon-Jones. Introduction by Brian Zimbler. Apartment Seven Press, 2011. Photographs of mostly Black and Hispanic residents and scenes in Red Hook where Vernon-Jones was a teacher and counselor at South Brooklyn Community High School. French wraps, as issued, 64 full-page color plates. #318 of edition of 500. Signed on title page. With brown envelope printed with title. Book is like new; envelope very good with two short tears. $50.

182e. Vestal, David. a-b-c-d-e-f8. No date. Stapled wraps with blue covers. Consists of copies of pages 36-66 of Invitation to Photography (1968 edition) and appendix with darkroom procedures used at Mercer County Community College, West Windsor, New Jersey, in early 1970s. Provides basic information on taking pictures,black-and-white film development, printing, copying, lights and lighting. Good with first few leaves creased in lower left corner. $5.

183. Vietnam War. Mills, Nick. The Vietnam Experience: Combat Photographer. Boston: Boston Publishing, 1982. 2nd printing. Illustrated boards, not issued with dust jacket. Photographers mostly military personnel, include Ron Haeberle. Ex-library, vg with spine label. $5.

183a. The Viewer as Voyeur. April 30-July 8, 1987. Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, 1987.Essay by Andrea Inselmann, Grant Keste, James Peto, and Charles A. Wright, Jr. Exhibition catalogue of 28 works in various media by sixteen twentieth-century artists and photographers, including Walker Evans, Weegee, Edward Hopper, Eric Fischl, Joseph Cornell, Reginald Marsh and others. Wraps, 12 pages, 8 illustrations (1 color). Very good with a few small crimps. $10.

184. Vishniac, Roman. Roman Vishniac: Children of a Vanished World. [Photographs of the Polish Jews just before the Holocaust. Includes Yiddish songs with translations by Miriam Hartman Flacks and memoir by Vishniac's daughter Mara Vishniac Kohn.] University of California Press, 1989. ISBN 0-520-22187-7. Cloth, 1st printing. protected dust jacket. Issued at $29.95. $20. Another copy, same except ex-library with usual evidence otherwise fine. $10.

184a. Vishniac, Roman. Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record. Introductory Essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Schocken, 1976. 5th printing, Hardcover, fine with protected dust jacket that has a small chip on bottom edge of rear cover but no other significant defects. (Scarce in hardcover.) $100.

184b. Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World. With a foreword by Elie Wiesel. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1983. Stated 1st edition, hardcover in fine condition with near fine dust jacket. A remarkable book on the Jews of Europe just before the Holocaust. $100.

185. Voet, Andries. Andries Voet. Ink and Paper in the Printing Process. New York and London: Interscience Publishers, 1952. [Includes halftone, offset lithography, etc.] Gray cloth with red titling, vg+, no dust jacket. $25.

185a. Vogt, Christian. Photographic Notes. Everything Is Important, Nothing Is Important. Edition Stemmle, 1998. As new, in orginal shrinkwrap, hardcover with dust jacket. ISBN 3-908161-05-3. Issued at $49.95. $30.

185a.2. Vroman, Adam Clark. Photographer of the Southwest, Adam Clark Vroman, 1858-1916. Ward Ritchie, 1961, 4th printing, 1974. Edited by Ruth I. Mahood with introduction by Beaumont Newhall. ["Chosen as One of the Outstanding Photography Books of the Past 30 Years by Popular Photography."] Wraps, good with stain at bottom left of back cover and stains at bottom of a few pages, not affecting images. ISBN 0378-02502-3. Not to be confused with the Bonanza reprint. $5.

185a.1. Vroman, Adam Clark. The American West. 3:3, Summer 1966, including "Zuni" with 15 photographs by Adam Clark Vroman, pages 42-55, with an introduction by Ruth I. Mahood. Complete issue, 96 pages, near fine. $10.