Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Paperback.
Published by Rockefeller Center, Inc., New York
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover, very good with slight shelf wear and slight toning with remnants of plain glassine outer jacket. Illustrated after photographs, publsihed ciraca 1930s.
Published by New York: The Witkin Gallery, Inc., [1980]., 1980
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
8vo. unpaginated. 28 b/w. illus. wrs. Exhibition Catalogue.
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1940
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Berenice Abbott / Margaret Bourke-White / Brown Bro./ J. Walker Grimm / Fritz Henle / Wendell MacRae (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, 1940. Green velvet hardcover with silver printed rivet to the front board and brown cloth spine with silver letters, 45 page book. Dust jacket has silver rivets on it. Illustrated with black and white by some of the famous photographers of the time. This is a Ex-library copy with a book plate at the front end page and a stamp on the next end page, more ink stamps on the interior NOT on any images or text. Still a great history of the building and completion of the ROCKEFELLER CENTER. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Witkin Gallery, NY, 1980
Seller: Andrew Cahan: Bookseller, Ltd., ABAA, Akron, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
MacRae, Wendell (illustrator). First edition. 8vo., [16] pp., plus 28 b&w photos, [2] pp. chronology, addenda laid in. Blue cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and upper cover. Housed in gilt-titled cloth slipcase. Slight fading along the spine and open end of the slipcase, else a fine copy. Issued without a dust jacket. Laid in is an original silver photograph housed in two-point paper folder. The photograph, SUMMER IN NEW YORK, is fine and bright. Modernist photographer, Wendell MacRae was born in 1896 in Metropolis, Illinois. He held various jobs, some with the government, which took him to many locations some in South America. He began to work in the film industry about 1924; in 1930 he started his own photographic business. Two years later, he was included in an exhibit at Julien Levy Gallery. With "Seeing the World through My Eyes," an essay by Wendell MacRae as told to Scotia W. MacRae. Copy number 8 of a limited boxed artist's proof edition of 10, SIGNED. The original photograph is SIGNED on verso and entitled "Summer in New York" (ca. 1930).