1896. New York: n.d. [1896]. Broadside 12 x 18”, color lithograph, text in black. Upper left corner is chipped, some small tears and foxing to outer margins; good. § Original print, shows an artist painting a life size woman on a large canvas. LOC 2015647299. More
1987. Thomasson-Grant, 1987. Large 4to, oblong, 126 pp. Illustrated in full color throughout. Near fine with a touch of age toning. § Contemporary photographer Sam Abell traced the steps of self-taught cowboy artist Charles Marion Russell (1864-1926). This volumes presents their images of the West side by side. More
1913. Cream of Wheat Company: 1913. 10” x 13.5”color printed advertisement, with another color ad to the verso. Small damp stain to the lower edge; very good. § Print from a painting by Edward Brewer. Caption: “Oh, I done forgot dat Cream of Wheat.” Depicts a racist caricature of an..... More
1968. New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1968. 4to, 242 pp. Illustrated in black and white. Tan cloth boards, gilt lettering to backstrip, gilt illustration to upper cover. Very good, text block edges spotted. Illustrated unclipped dust-jacket, a little scuffed with some short tears and loss to spine..... More
1985. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1985. Folio, 114, (8) pp., with 10 original leaves bound in. Printed in black and red with numerous illustrations. Original cloth, fore-edge untrimmed, a few very light scuffs to the cloth, still a fine copy with the original prospectus. § Limited to 750..... More
1826. Boston: Christian Register Office, 1826. 12mo, 48pp. lacking covers. Chipping to front free endpaper with folds at top right corner. Tear along front hinge about 1-inch from bottom. Inscription to front free endpaper, and notes throughout. In a new cloth folding box. § Inscribed by Percy Loring to the..... More
1955. San Francisco: Lewis and Dorothy Allen Press for The Book Club of California, 1955. 8vo, 79 pp. Frontispiece map, running decorative border in red Cyrillic characters. Original gray-blue boards with white parchment back, title in red on back, Russian characters in red on covers. As issued. § Limited to..... More
1954. New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1954. 8vo, 266, [9]pp. Original light brown wrappers bound inside later brown buckram stamped in gilt to backstrip; illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of drawings and photographs; catalogue with sale prices and totals bound into the back. Price list loosely inserted. Annotated throughout in pen..... More
1518. San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4”, pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8”, text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. § From the original edition of this..... More
V.p., v.d. -Single leaf, 11 1/2 x 16 1/2, printed on both sides, oval portrait to recto, color facsimile to verso; very good. -Folio, 10 1/4 x 15”, with photographic frontisportrait inlaid, facsimile of a handwritten letter tipped in, printed in black and red, deckled fore- and lower edge; very..... More
1833. Plattsburgh [NY]: F.P. Allen, 1833. 4to (218 x 135 mm), 280 pp., three wood-engraved figures in text. Original tan paper-covered boards, linen backstrip, printed paper label, quarter brown morocco slipcase, a very good copy of a fragile book. § First edition, first issue, of what has been termed the..... More
San Fransico: Book Club of California, 1941. Folio, (12), 74 pp. With 4 color plates (including frontispiece). Grey boartds, vellum backstrip, top edge a bit gnawed, internally fine. § Limited to 350 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. The historical introduction by Edith Coulter describes Beechey's visit en route to..... More
2009. [San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 2009. 8.5”x10” portfolio, containing 1 introductory bifold, and 14 bifolds with facsimiles of illustrations in color as well as black & white, along with book descriptions. Top right corner of introductory bifold creased, else near fine. § First edition thus. An interesting..... More
2009. [San Francisco]: The Book Club of California, 2009. 8.5”x10” portfolio, containing 1 introductory bifold, and 14 bifolds with facsimiles of illustrations in color as well as black & white, along with book descriptions. Three small stains to upper edge of top cover of portflio, else near fine. § First..... More
1991. Santa Barbara, CA: Harold G. Davidson, 1991. 4to, 218 pp. Signed and dated 1991 by Davidson on title page. Illustrated in b/w and full color. Brown boards, gilt lettering to backstrip, illustrated dust jacket. Very good with very light edgewear and some spotting to the text block edges. §..... More
1974. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1974. Folio, 189 pp. 24 pages in full color, and numerous b/w illustrations throughout. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering; very good in a lightly edgeworn, price-clipped dust jacket. § The first biography and major compilation of the work of Edward Borein, the..... More
2000. Santa Fe, NM: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2000. 4to, 227 pp. Illustrated in full color and b/w throughout. Color illustrated paper wrappers. Near fine with some rubbing to the back wrapper. § A fully illustrated catalogue of the extensive collection of Dr. Otey Johnson with additions. Forward by the principal..... More
1971. San Francisco, CA: John Howell - Books, 1971. Folio, unpaginated. Illustrations in black white throughout. Brown cloth boards, gilt lettering to backstrip and upper cover. Covers faintly scuffed, text block edges spotted, internally a fine copy. § A comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of Borein's engravings with an index of..... More
1877. [San Francisco: Edward Bosqui, 1877]. San Francisco: John Windle, 1980. Folio, [64] pp. 10 color plates with text. A fine copy in sheets and portfolio as issued. § Limited to 40 copies for sale in sheets; this exact facsimile of the first California ampelography to show the grapes in..... More
1797. London: G. G. and J. Robinson, Faternoster-Row, 1797. Thick 8vo, xciv, (1, errata), 596 pp. Very early/original half sheep, marbled boards, quite rubbed and word, ex-library copy with spine markings, stamp on verso of t/p, and the large bookplate at front of S. Edmund's College (Cambridge). § A substantial..... More
1862. n.d. Photograph, 8 x 10”, b&w on glossy paper, colophon to verso printed in black and red; very good. § Printed from a negative made from the original image, with a quote from Scientific American, 1862. More
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. 8vo., 38, (31) pp. frontispiece and feather decorations in green and brown, designed by Mallette Dean. Original patterned paper boards and white cloth, backstrip with printed title. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, backstrip slightly faded, else very good. §..... More
1946. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1946. 8vo, 38, (31) pp. frontispiece and feather decorations in green and brown, designed by Mallette Dean. Original patterned paper boards and white cloth, backstrip with printed title. Ink ownership inscription on front free endpaper, backstrip slightly faded, else very good. §..... More
1846. New York: Herald Book and Job Office, 97 Nassau Street, 1846. Two sheets. 1) New York Herald: Folio, 492 x 628 mm. Printed on recto only, title and three columns of verse surrounded by a highly elaborate border composed of printer's ornaments. Very good with old folds, slightly toned..... More
1872. New York: D. Appleton and Co, (1872–74). 2 vols., 4to, 568; 576 pp. With 49 steel engraved plates, and hundreds of steel-engraved text illustrations by leading American artists of the period, the majority after Harry Fenn, and A.C. Warren, but also Thomas Moran, James Smillie, Granville Perkins, William Hart..... More
