Austen, Alice. Alice’s World: The Life and Photography of an American Original: Alice Austen, 1866-1952 by Ann Novotny.

Chatham, 1976. First edition, 226 pages. Preface by Oliver Jensen includes his account of meeting Alice Austen before she died in 1952. Fine in hard cover in black cloth with fair protected dust jacket with edge chips and tears.  Dust jacket is unclipped on front flap with original price until December 30, 1976. Austen has become well known for her exceptionally fine documentary photography in the late 1800s and early 1900s using glass plate negatives.  She came from a prosperous family in Staten Island but lost her large home (now a museum) and fortune as a result of the 1929 stock market crash and spent her last years in the poorhouse. She photographed both her upscale social class friends and the working class, including recent immigrants, in both Staten Island and Manhattan.  This book is profusely illustrated with her black and white photographs.