Power Station, Signed (12 results)

New, hardcover book in original shrink-wrap (opened for signing). Signed, 1st printing.

Card Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good, Light Creasing On The Front Cover, Spine Uncreased Pp 190 Illustrations. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: About Fine Dj. 1st Edition. A lovely copy of the first edition signed by Kenna on the title page. Inscribed By the Photographer. Book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features an essay by Jeremy Reed. A collection of 49 duotone plates of the coal fired power station in England. A clean and tight very near fine copy in black cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Signed by Kenna on the title page. A very nice copy. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the title page by Kenna. Hardcover. Fine black linen cloth, with title stamped in silver on front cover and spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Michael Kenna. Essay by Jeremy Reed. Includes biographies on Kenna and Reed. Designed by Hideyuki Taguchi and Chris Pichler. Project coordination by Maya Ishiwata. 64 pp., with 49 duotone plates, beautifully printed 1:1 from original sepia-toned gelatin silver prints. 13 x 12-1/8 inches. This first printing was limited to 3000 hardbound copies. New in publisher's shrink-wrap (slit open for signature). From the Introduction by Jeremy Reed: "Michael Kenna has, through his art, opened visual pathways that help redeem eco-damaged or industrially proscriptive landscapes. He is a poet armed with a camera who lyricizes light. He has added the power station at Ratcliffe-on-Soar to the continuously expanding geography of imagination." From the publisher: "Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station is located in Nottinghamshire, England. Michael Kenna first began photographing the power station in the early 1980s, and over the past several years he has visited the site many times, producing a body of work as ominous as it is beautiful. The Ratcliffe photographs take on the tonal quality of a partially lit ecosphere unique to the photographer and his subject. A brilliant manipulator of half-light, Kenna's grainy, spatial topography epitomizes the gray skies of Northern England that were the ubiquitous backdrop to his childhood. Kenna's Ratcliffe photographs create the impression of an atmospherically foggy day, registering the homeostasis of a mood that is a dominant characteristic of his work. Beautifully printed in duotone on matte art paper, Ratcliffe Power Station is published in a first edition of 3,000 copies." Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Michael Kenna (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. edition, 1st. Printing 2004, Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 64 page book. Illustrated with 49 toned black & white images all full page plates by Michael Kenna . This scarce copy is also signed by him on the main title page. Condition : NEW Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Signed by Kenna on title page. Dustjacket has minor edge wear, with slight chipping at corners, and faint stains to front panel near top corner and spine head. Minor shelf wear to boards, and slight age-toning to text block. Internals otherwise clean and bright.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. One of only 100 copies. Features an essay by Jeremy Reed. Includes 49 duotone plates. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with some very minute wear in a very near fine cloth slipcase. Signed by Kenna. A very fresh copy. Signed.

4to. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Essay by Jeremy Reed. Signed by Kenna. As new.

Niagara Falls, NY, privately printed for the Nagara Falls Power Company, 1927. 4to (28.0 x 21.6 cm). Full colour frontispiece; title page in three colours; 455 pp.; many portraits, five maps (one coloured, two large, folding), one folding table, numerous text figures. Original blue cloth with title on the spine. Gilt top edges. Pictorial endpapers (map of Niagara Falls and surroundings). = Niagara was the world's first major hydro-electric power station and the first large installation to adopt alternating current. This impressive and lavish work covers not only the history of the plant and its machinery, but the Falls themselves. The accounts of how this project was evolved and carried through in a project which went well beyond the bounds of the then existing technology is a fascinating saga of industry. Signed by the author on the second blank recto. Copy with two extra leaves, on with a text "The Birth of Power", the second with a full colour illustration of a mural at the Niagara Power Station. Slight wear to board edges. Library stamp in the top margin of the front free endpaper recto. Second volume without any markings. A very good set. Uncommon, especially when complete, and signed, and definitely rare outside North America.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 23 pages plus diagrams (complete). Prestigiously signed by: Lord Malvern (the Prime Minister, Godfrey Huggins, just newly ennobled), J W Swan (The Mayor of Salisbury), Morton Jaffray (Chairman of the Public Works Committee), J E Mitchell (Salisbury City Electrical Engineer), E C Lynch (Assistant City Electrical Engineer), H J Bullard (Salisbury Generation Engineer). A VERY RARE copy of this souvenir booklet to mark the opening of the crucially important Power Station No 2 in 1955. The Rhodesian green boards are sound steady. They have some light scuffing. The edges of the contents have light storage tanning. The contents are otherwise smart, tidy, clean, clear, proud. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

First Edition. Photograph album, 9" x 13"; tape-backed marbled boards containing 25 original mounted silver-gelatin prints, each 7-1/2" x 9-1/2", printed without borders, mounted on linen album leaves; ink captions provide dates and sometimes brief descriptions. Four of the images signed "Talbot" lower right; four more back-stamped with studio stamp of "Gardner W. Talbot, Omaha, Neb," remainder unsigned but all captioned in the same hand and presumably all by the same photographer. A well-preserved album: covers loose, with modern tape repairs, but apparently complete; the images generally Very Good or better, with minimal fading; occasional mild oxidation to image surfaces but no notable wear or soil. Six additional photographs laid-in (as found), now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. An attractive collection of professional, large-format industrial images, documenting the expansion of Omaha's Central Power Station between 1910 and 1912. The photographs are especially interesting for providing detailed and personal representations of workers and working conditions within the context of a project of truly massive scale. The images throughout are well-composed and clearly professionally-produced, though we have been able to discover no other photographic work by this photographer. Talbot is not mentioned in Mautz, Biographies of Western Photographers; the 1910 U.S. Census records him as a resident of Omaha, with his occupation listed as "stenographer" with a "railroad office." We would deduce that he was an employee of the Omaha & Council Bluffs Railway, charged with documenting the project from start to finish, probably for the company's internal records. Omaha's Central Power Station, situated at the eastern terminus of Leavenworth Street on the banks of the Missouri River, was originally constructed in 1904, in order to power the city's new electric rail system under the management of of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway. By 1910 the rail system, like Omaha itself, had grown exponentially, necessitating the significant increase in capacity which prompted the upgrades to the plant documented here. According to contemporary newspaper accounts, the project cost about $600,000 and provided an additional 15,000kw of power. The structure remains mostly intact to this day; it is on the National Register of Historic Places and was recently converted (2017) to a luxury apartment complex, "The Breakers.". Signed.