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First edition limited to 2500 copies (as stated upon copyright page). xxii, 118, [4] pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Color pictorial dust jacket rubbed with some foxing; slight bumping/scuffing at edges. Pale yellow cloth. Past owner's personal bookplate on front pastedown; interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Laid-in at rear endpaper is publisher's promotional order card with past owner's mailing label still affixed. The book features the personal journal accounts of John Hazlehurst Boneval Latrobe (1803 -1891), son of renowned neoclassical architect Benjamin Henry Boneval Latrobe (1764-1820), regarding his October-December 1834 travels from New York to New Orleans and Natchez by ship and his return to Baltimore by stagecoach. ISBN 0917860217.…

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 This stunning volume brings together 65 of Laughlin's characteristic images, both classic and unpublished -- an eerie gallery of French quarter facades and ironwork, funerary sculpture, Spanish moss, and other details that summon up Louisiana gothic.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. Condizione: Fine. 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. …