TAFT, Robert (1894?1955). Photography and the American Scene: A Social History, 1839?1889. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1938. Large 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Illustrated profusely from black & white photographs. Publisher?s green linen gilt lettered, original dust jacket (lightly worn along edges of jacket, few old tape repairs at corners, early inscription to ffep, front gutters toned). Provenance: bookplate of Argus Ogborn. [Together with:] Artists and Illustrators of the Old West: 1850?1900. New York: Charles Scribner?s Sons, 1953. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Publisher?s green buckram, original dust jacket. NEAR FINE.