Photography, four art booksa) Jacob A. Riis, How the other Half lives, with 100 Photographs from the Riis Collection, Dover Publication NY. Waterline. b) Gardners, Photographic Sketch book of the Civil war. Dover Publication NY. Waterstained edges. c) Weegee, Perpetrators and Victims, 85 photographs introduced by John Coplans, Schirmer-Mosel, 1978. d) Winfried Ranke, Joseph Albert- Court Photographer, of the Bavarian Kings, Schirmer / Mosel Munich. Estate of Marianne Lienau, Part I. (343)

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