Monterey CA: Carpe Diem Fine Books, 2008. First edition, Limited to 100 copies. Quarto; 40 pages. This full-color features 167 items by and/or about the California artist/author/illustrator. A fine copy. Examples of the unique offerings found within are TRAIL DUST AND SADDLE LEATHER with an original signed sketch; THE CALIFORNIA..... More
London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, London & Shanghai. London: Bernard Quaritch; Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, London & Shanghai. 1898. First Edition. 4to. 1022 pp. Index to Proper Names and Other Terms for Which no Characters are Given. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Light wear and rubbing;..... More
Shanghai: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910. Second Edition, Entirely Revised. Oblong 8vo. viii, 362, [1 publisher's advertisement] pp. Illustrations. Title in Chinese at head of title. Blue cloth with cream title label on front cover (most likely from the original wrapper cover); floral endpapers. Minor wear; a near fine copy. Four..... More
New York: American Art Association, 1918. First Edition. Small 4to. Unpaginated. black & white illustrations; 3 color plates with tissue guards. Stiff cream wrappers with red, black & white lettering & illustration of front cover. Neat price notation in pencil next to each lot. Light, general wear;short splitting at front..... More
New York: Yamanaka & Company, [1940]. First Edition. 8vo. 31 pp. Black & white illustrations. Blindstamp "Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Science". Grey paper covered boards; original cream printed wrappers bound in. LIght wear to boards; a near fine copy. Catalog for exhibition held April 1 - 27 in the..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1945. First Edition. 4to. x, 233 pp. Index. 114 plates; 2 maps. Grey cloth with gilt lettering. Light wear; else a fine copy. Number Four in the Museum Studies Series published by the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology. Although this study is concerned entirely with..... More
New York: Brentano's, [1922]. Complete in Text Volume & 2 Portfolios in English; plus Portfolio I of Gernan Edition. Small 8vo. Text volume: 121 pp. Frontispiece and illustrations. Two English portfolios complete with 120 color plates of 13th and 19th century rugs from all of the carpet-producing territories of the..... More
Shanghai: North China Herald, 1902-1905. First Edition. Volumes I - IV. Small 4to. Various paginations. Illustrated throughout with colored images, frontispiece with tissue guards, folding plates, drawings, fold-out map of Pootoo, "China's Sacred Island." Previous owner name "Lucy Ayers Pitman" and dated Nov. 27, 1915. Mrs. Pitman was the wife..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1906. First Edition. INSCRIBED "To Henry Goddard Leach from Mary Austin, Casa Querida, March 18 - 1928". 8vo. 266 pp. Illustrated from paintings and drawings by E. Boyd Smith, including the frontispiece with tissue-guard. Olive pictorial green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Personal..... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Alamar Media, 2018. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 4to. xii, 320 pp. Bibliography; List of Image and Photo Credits. Color and black & white illustrations. A fine copy in fine dustjacket; new. The definitive monograph on Joe De Yong, Western artist, cowboy, first and only protege..... More
Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2000. Third Edition. Complete in 3 volumes. Small 4to. 1896 pp. Includes all the original text and illustrations of the 1958 edition published by the New York Graphic Society. Dark blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering to spines; housed in publisher's dark blue slipcase. A fine..... More
Koln: Taschen & Waldenstein Institute, 1996. First Edition. Complete in 4 volumes. Large 4to. Total of 1060 pp. Bibliography; List of Expositions from 1858 - 1995; Index of Collectors, Galleries and Museums; Index of Subjects. Volume I: Or the Triumph of Impressionism (text in English); Volumes II - IV: Catalogue..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1930. First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies, this copy unnumbered. Small folio. 60pp. Bibliography, Fold-out map; illustrated with photographs and reproductions of early lithographs. Notes, Bibliography. Publisher's prospectus, folded, laid in. Three-quarter black cloth; striking red marbled paper covered boards; housed in publisher's brown slipcase..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989. First Edition. 4to. 610 pp. Tipped-in photo-frontispiece of Jeffers. Includes Editorial Note. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The definitive work on California's greatest poet as well as a major poet of the twentieth century. "Now, for the first time, all of Jeffers' completed..... More
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1988. First Edition. 4to. 521 pp. Tipped-in photo-frontispiece of Jeffers. Includes Editorial Note and General Introduction. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. The definitive work on California's greatest poet as well as a major poet of the twentieth century. "Now, for the first time, all..... More
Kansas City: Fred Harvey, [1913]. First Edition (subsequent printings in different bindings through the 1920s]. 4to. [68] pp, unpaginated. 32 striking color plates each with a full-page of facing text. Engraved and printed by American Colortype Co., Chicago & New York. Stiff brown wrappers with red lettering & color image..... More
Sheridan, Wyoming: Star Publishing Company, 1942. First Edition. SIGNED by the author. 8vo. 198 pp. Full-page map. 2 plates (including frontispiece portrait). Green cloth with black lettering. Previous owner inscription; minor wear; a near fine copy. "A natural book with much interesting information. It contains the best account of trailing..... More
New York: Thomas T. Crowell, 1941. Early printing. Oblong 8vo. 122 pp. Black & white photographs of WWII vintage aircraft; map. Turquoise cloth with red lettering in color illustrated dustjacket. Near fine (slight fading along upper edges) in uncommon very good dustjacket (fading to spine; wear to extremities). The second..... More
New York: Acanthus Press, 2007. First Edition. Large 4to. 392 pp. Bibliography; Index. Over 400 duotone and color photographs and floor plans on most pages; 5 pull-out double-page spreads. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Here is the sequel to 'Houses of Los Angeles 1885 - 1919' bringing together for..... More
Ketchum, ID: Stoecklein Publishing, 1994. First Edition. 8vo. 37pp. Numerous illustrations and photo-reproductions. Brown wraps with photo of Jo Mora on the cover. Fine condition. Includes the Winter 1994 issue featuring Stephen Mitchell's article on Jo Mora. An informative biography of a truly fascinating artist with incredible diversity of talents..... More
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1952. First Edition. Vol. XXVIII No. 9. Large magazine format. 40pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition. Includes a 2 page article titled "Jo Mora's Horsemen of the West" about Mora's series of watercolors providing an..... More
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department. First Edition. Large magazine format. 48pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition. Includes an 8 page article titled "Men, Myths and Rituals" by Maggie Wilson about Jo Mora's time spent with the Hopis; 6 photo-reproductions of..... More
London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2010. First Edition. 4to. 224 pp. Bibliography. Color plates and illustrations throughout. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Catalog for exhibitions held in London's Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Kimball Museum in Fort Worth, TX. Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian..... More
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1986. First Edition. Square 4to. 279 pp. Includes Biographical Notes; Exhibitions; Bibliography; Checklist of Paintings. Illustrations throughought, most in color. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Frank Stella is an Italian American painter and printmaker, significant in the art movement called ”post-painterly abstraction”. His..... More
London: V & A Publishing, 2011; 2014. First Editions. Oblong 8vo. 160; 224 pp. Bibliography; Index in each volume. Color reproductions throughout each volume. Fine copies in fine dustjackets. John Constable RA (1776 – 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition and has been hailed as the..... More