london: Hodder & Stoughton, 1906. First Trade Edition. Leather bound. 4to. 125 ppof text and 50 full-page color illustrations mounted on dark brown paper, with titled tissue guards. Beautifully bound by Bayntun in blue leather with gilt design of Peter Pan and gilt ruling on front cover; gilt lettering and... More
Yosemite National Park & Boston: Virginia Adams, Best's Studio & Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First Edition. Original wrappers. 4to.Cream stiff glossy bi-fold (11" x 8 1/2", folded), photo-reproduction inside rear cover titled "China Cove;" 2 pp glossy single sheet describing the book, single sheet order form and return envelope laid in... More
New York: Pynson Printers, 1937. Limited to 1250 numbered copies, this being #342. Hardcover. SIGNED by the author on colophon. 12mo. (xvi) 17-83pp. Cloth in original printed dustjacket. Darkening to spine; dustjacket neatly separated along front hinge; else a near fine copy. A companion volume to the 1929 book issued... More
Carmel-By-The-Sea: Published by the author, 1948. First Edition. Original wrappers. Book design and artwork by W. Harvey Williamson; color photo-reproductions by Seideneck. Includes 4 plans and the supplement section on how to make your own Stabilized Adobe Blocks. A scarce work on the Post-Adobe style of construction; no copies have... More
Osaka, Japan: Published by the author, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. 36 pp. Text in English & Japanese. Striking color serigraph illustrations accompanied by Earle's poetry. Glossy paper covered boards in color printed dustjacket. Fine in fine dustjacket; still in original plastic sleeve. An unusual title on Earle's works;... More
New York: Farrar Strauss & Giroux, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. [250pp, unpaginated]. 162 full-page black & white photographic plates. Introductory essay by Harold Brodkey; Index. Original laminated photographic boards in original acetate dustjacket with Avedon's signature printed in red on front cover. Boldly SIGNED and dated '80 on ffep... More
Tokyo: Western Automobile Co., 1968. First Edition. Original wrappers. 15 1/4 x 11 1/2". Each calendar set in this collection presents a beautiful example of hand-made "Mingei" (or Japanese folk art) and contains 13 original designs (one page for each month as well as a rectangular label graving the think... More
Savannah, GA: Super Attractions, 1956. First Edition. Original wrappers. Souvenir Program Pictorial Album. 9 x 12". 24 pp, unnumbered. Black & white photo illustrations. Color illustrated wrappers in near fine condition (some rubbing & wear to covers). Souvenir Program Pictorial Album for the biggest rock 'n roll show of 1956... More
Bayreuth, Germany: Verlag der Festspielleitung, 1977-1978. Original wrappers. Two programs for the annual Bayreuth Festival SIGNED by Wolfgang Wagner (grandson of Richard Wagner), festival director; Sir Colin Davis, conductor; Patrice Chereau & Gotz Friedrich, opera and theater directors; numerous opera singers including Dame Gwyneth Jones, Francisco Araiza, Lisbeth Balslev, Eva... More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2007. First Edition. Hard Cover. SIGNED by William Matthews on half-title page. Large quarto. 201pp. 192 color plates. Essay by Annie Proulx. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Includes essay by Annie Proulx narrating Matthews' life and work with insight into both the ranching life... More
San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1994. First Edition. Hard Cover. Large quarto. 135pp. Foreword by William Kittredge; Introduction by Dyan Zaslowsky; Biographical Notes; List of Plates. Blue cloth with gilt lettering in illustratred dust jacket. Fine in fine dustjacket. Beautiful color reproductions of the cowboys and landscapes of the American... More
Worcester, MA: The Davis Press, 1929. First Edition. 4to. 40 color and black & white plates loose in folding paper illustrated portfolio with black cloth spine & edges and black ribbon ties; tri-fold text pamphlet. Laid in is an 8-page brochure on Hacienda de Lemos, his home he designed and... More
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department, 1952. First Edition. Paperback. Vol. XXVIII No. 9. Large magazine format. 40pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition (with a hint of wear). Includes a 2 page article titled "Jo Mora's Horsemen of the West" about... More
Phoenix, AZ: Arizona Highway Department. First Edition. Paperback. 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... More
Boston: Virginia Adams, Yosemite National Park and Houghton Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition. Original wrappers. SIGNED by Ansel Adams on label affixed to title page. Slim folio. 25 black & white photographic reproductions; with an essay on mountain photography. Photo-illustrated cardstock covers with plastic spiral binding; housed in original shipping... More
Stamford, CT: Architectural Book Pub Co, 1990. First Edition thus. Paperback. 4to. 125 pp. black & white photo-illustrations and house plans. Preface by Charles H. Cheney. Stiff orange wrappers in fine condition, as new. Depicts homes and public buildings throughout Santa Barbara designed after Mediterranean and Latin American architecture. More
Los Angeles: Winding Way Publishing, 2002. Collector's Special Limited First Edition. Oblong 8vo. Pastel Impressions 33pp; Oil Impressions 37pp. Color plates. Fine condition. S. Burkett Kaiser, Signature Member of the California Art Club, is a contemporary American impressionist painter. Sharon studied with the renowned Russian master Sergei Bongart and is... More
New York: Pantheon Books, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Square quartos; Volume 1, The Tao of Painting; xxii, 161pp including 10 plates (3 double-folding): Volume 2, The Chieh Tzu Yuan Hua Chuan (or Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting); xxv, 587pp reproducing over four hundred illustrations of brushwork, ranging from the... More
New York: The Beechhurst Press, 1951. First Edition. Paperback. Small quarto; First American Edition, 22pp (including 'Notes', 'Bibliography' and comments 'On the Plates') plus 24 color facsimiles. A Near Fine copy in string-tied grey paper in grey boards with paper label printed in red and black to upper board; boards... More
Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 358pp plus CD in pocket at rear. Fine, unread copy. Collection Epitome Musical. The articles published in this volume are based largely on the papers delivered at the international symposium on ‘Urbanity, Identity Construction, and Humanism: Music, Art, and Culture in the... More
New York: Parish-Watson & Co., Inc., 1922. 1st. Paperback. Quarto; vi, 22 pp plus 10 leaves of plates. Accompanied by notes of Berthold Laufer. A Very Good (some soiling and edgewear) copy in string-tied flexible olive cloth with gilt-lettered brown paper label (small chip, faint soiling) tipped to front cover... More
Turnhout: Brepols, 2013. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto; 290pp. A Fine, unread copy. "Nominated for the 2014 American Musicological Society's "Ruth A. Solie Award" Is editing music a fallacy? It may appear so when consulting the Oxford English Dictionary, which defines editing as "to prepare an edition (of a literary work... More
Monterey, CA: Locale Publishing Co., 1976. First Edition. Paperback. Large magazine format. 14pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps. Includes 2-page article titled "Jo Mora: Monterey's Versatile Artist" with photo-reproductions of some of Mora's sculptures and diorama located around the Monterey Peninsula. Artitle provides... More
Brooklyn: Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences, 1912. First Edition. Original boards. 8vo. xxiii, 72 pp. Illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to front cover & spine; color plate mounted on front cover; TEG. Ex-libris (blind stamp of Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Scineces; small ink number;... More
Santa Ynez, CA: Alamar Media, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. 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... More
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