Sale 2489 - Artists & Amateurs: Photographs & Photobooks, October 18, 2018

404 c   O. WINSTON LINK. “Night Trick” on the Norfolk and Western Railway. An early publication, illustrated with reproductions of Link’s cinematic photographs. Oblong 4to, photo-pictorial staple-bound wrappers, lightly worn. FIRST EDITION. (Roanoke, Virginia): (Norfolk and Western Railway), (1957) WITH—O. Winston Link. Train 21, The Cannonball, passes a drydocked tug, reproduced in Night Trick. Ferrotyped silver print, the image measuring 7 5 / 8 x9 1 / 2 inches (19.4x24.1 cm.), the sheet slightly larger, with Link’s early OWL hand stamp, his copyright hand stamp, and his inventory notation NW 417, in pencil, on verso. Circa 1955 [1,800/2,200] 404 405 c   JACQUES-HENRY LARTIGUE (1894-1986) J.H. Lartigue: A Collector’s Portfolio. With 9 (of 10) photographs. Gold-toned silver prints, the images measuring 7 1 / 2 x6 inches (19.1x15.2 cm.), and the reverse, the sheets slightly larger, the mounts 16x13 inches (40.6x33 cm.), with the edition notation 108/5000 U.S., in pencil, on print recto; each with the gilt-lettered title and portfolio blind stamp on the overmat. Folio-sized gilt-lettered blue velvet case with an elaborate Art Nouveau fleur-de-lys pattern; inside front cover inset with a color print from the original Autochrome; interior flaps detached, scattered foxing; with the original caption folio; gold ties. WITH LARTIGUE’S SIGNATURE AND THE EDITION NOTATION ON THE (DETACHED) FLAP. Time-Life, 1904-16; printed 1978 [400/600] 405