Clarence J Laughlin (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). illustrated edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

12.25 x 9.5 inches. 104 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Signed on title-page by the two editors and the one contributing essayist Jon Kulka. "Self-taught photographer Clarence John Laughlin (1905-85) spent most of his career in and around New Orleans. Dubbed "Edgar Allan Poe with a camera," Laughlin and his haunting images capture -- like nothing before or since -- the weathered elegance and dreamy decadence of Louisianas buildings, streets, and cemeteries. After experimenting with photography in the early 1930s, Laughlin devoted himself to the medium in 1935 and had his first showing a year later. In 1948 his book on Louisiana's plantation architecture, Ghosts Along the Mississippi, vaulted him into the pantheon of great American photographers. He continued photographing actively until 1967, and lectured and wrote until his death in 1985. Over the course of his lengthy career, Laughlin produced more than 17,000 negatives and a large collection of writings on the art of photography. This stunning volume brings together 65 of Laughlin's characteristic images, both classic and unpublished -- an eerie gallery of French quarter facades and ironwork, funerary sculpture, Spanish moss, and other details that summon up Louisiana gothic. Accompanied by selections from Laughlin's various writings and letters, as well as essays by eight distinguished writersJon Kukla, John H. Lawrence, Andrei Codrescu, Ellen Gilchrist, Shirley Ann Grau, Jonathan Williams, Albert Belisle Davis, and John Wood --- Haunter of Ruins is the only book currently available on this incomparable American original. Haunter of Ruins was chosen as a winner in the General Trade Illustrated Book Category by Bookbuilders of Boston.". A near fine copy with some wear and scratches on the jacket and cover, and some light toning to sheet edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine Slipcase. Signed Limited. This is the limited edition, one of only 100 copies, numbered and signed by 8 contributers. Essays by Jon Kukla, John Lawrence, Andrei Codrescu, Ellen Gilchrist, Shirley Ann Grau, Jonathan Williams, John Wood, and Albert Belisle Davis. Wonderful black & white photos by this Edgar Allan Poe of the camera. B&W print of "Under Loops of Moss" printed from an original negative, laid in. Fine in Fine slipcase. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. Very Good in Acceptable unclipped dust jacket. DJ is worn and torn, tape on front cover. Gently used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.

Clarence J. Laughlin (illustrator). Sauk City: Arkham House;, 1962. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket, Cover artwork by: Clarence J. Laughlin A clean, straight and tight copy in a complete jacket with very modest scuff to upper fold of front panel. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Near Fine dust jacket,