Salinas, CA: California State Chamber of Commerce, 1934. 11 1/2 x 8 1/2" (folded); 8pp. Photo-illustrations throughout of western scenes; cowboys & cowgirls; broncos & bulls; past rodeos; Will Rogers and Jo Mora. Text provides background information; event listings; winners' names; and rodeo dates throughout the west. On the rear..... More
Los Angeles, CA: California Magazine, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Large magazine format. 144pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition. Includes 4-page article titled "Roots" - mostly photo-reproductions of close-up portions of Mora's 'California' carte. More
Los Angeles, CA: California Magazine, 1984. First Edition. Large magazine format. 144pp. Illustrated throughout with color and black & white reproductions. Color illustrated wraps in fine condition. Includes 8-page article titled "The Cowboy as Icon," mostly photo-reproductions of cowboys with dates ranging from 1887 to 1979 and a two-page reproduction..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey History and Art Association, September, 1995. First Edition. 8vo. 7pp[1]. Illustrated. A brief history on the creation of "La Novia," a bridal diorama by Jo Mora under commission by Samuel F. B. Morse in August, 1939. The diorama was installed in the Hotel Del Monte where it..... More
(San Diego, CA): CMSA, 2010. 1st. Paperback. 4to. 124 pp. Illustrations (most in color). Stiff color printed wraps in fine condition. Includes 17 pp article, with illustrations by Mora, written by Peter Hiller, curator of the Jo Mora Trust, titled "A Vaquero Rides the Mission Trail in 1903: From the..... More
San Francisco: Bohemian Club, May 9, 1918. First Edition. Original wrappers. Single sheet folded program for San Francisco's Bohemian Club Spring House-Cleaning Jinks. Distinctive Jo Mora illustration on front cover. Lyrics by George Sterling. A fine copy; the only copy of this Mora illustration that we've seen and no copy..... More
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1926. Jo J. Mora. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 236pp. With vignettes and sketches by Jo Mora. Green boards over black cloth spine; printed title label to spine; a Jo Mora design of a vaquero and his horse stamped on front cover; decorative endpapers. No dustjacket as..... More
El Portal CA: Yosemite Association, 2008. First Edition. Staplebound Wraps. Quarto; 31 pages. Illustrations. A fine copy, as new. Contains a 3-page essay by the Curator of the Jo Mora Trust on Mora's first visit to Yosemite in 1904 as well as his Yosemite carte. The front cover is a...... 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
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 267pp. 22 illustrations by Jo Mora. Red cloth with black lettering and Jo Mora design to front cover in like dustjacket. A fine copy in very good plus dustjacket (darkening to spine and edges; wear to extremities; short..... More
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Small octavo. 267pp. 22 illustrations by Jo Mora. Red cloth with black lettering and Jo Mora design to front cover in like dustjacket. Minor dampstaining to upper and lower page edges else fine in very good dustjacket (fading & spotting..... More
St. Paul, MN: St. Paul Dispatch, [April 7],1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the St. Paul Dispatch newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked as..... More
Salt Lake City, UT: The Inter-Mountain Republican, October 6, 1907. First Edition. Single page color cartoon from the Inter-Mountain Republican newspaper. Image size 21 1/2 x 15 1/2". Matted and framed size 24 x 18". A fine copy of this scarce Jo Mora cartoon. Joseph Jacinto Mora (1876-1947), who worked..... More
Monterey, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1937. Original wrappers. Sunday, August 22, 1937. 10" x 4 3/4" bi-fold; 10" x 9 1/2" opened. Cream heavy card stock with a distinctive black illustration by Mora on front cover; information and menu printed inside. Slight age toning, minor creasing at corners, a near..... More
Monterey, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1935. Paperback. Sunday, October 27, 1935. 10" x 4 3/4" bi-fold; 10" x 9 1/2" opened. Cream heavy card stock with a distinctive black illustration by Mora on front cover; information and menu printed inside. Fine condition. The artwork on the Hotel Del Monte menus..... More
Monterey, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1935. 1st. Softcover. Sunday, September 15, 1935. 10" x 4 3/4" bi-fold; 10" x 9 1/2" opened. Cream heavy card stock with a distinctive black illustration by Mora on front cover; information and menu printed inside. Fine condition. The artwork on the Hotel Del Monte..... More
Monterey, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1935. 1st. Paperback. Sunday, September 15, 1935. 10" x 4 3/4" bi-fold; 10" x 9 1/2" opened. Cream heavy card stock with a distinctive black illustration by Mora on front cover; information and menu printed inside. Fine condition. The artwork on the Hotel Del Monte..... More
Monterey, CA. The single sheet stationery measures 10 1/2" x 7 1/4." The envelope is 3 7/8" x 7 1/2." Both are a bright yellow with the trademark Jo Mora designs and text in a strong red. Jo Mora's incredible diversity of talent resulted in a range of works including..... More
San Francisco: Jo Mora, Jr., 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Original tan cloth with black lettering and green, red and black illustration of a pirate on the front cover. A unique copy in that it was used by it's owner to record her travels on the Santa Paula Graceline..... More
San Francisco, CA: Hotel Canterbury, 1935. First Edition. Single sheet (9 x 16") bi-fold. Color pictorial wrappers with English damsel on front cover and 'now and then' hotel porters to rear cover; 2pp text. The folder opens to delightful full page color replication of the Canterbury murals executed by Jo..... More
Ketchum, ID: Stoecklein Publishing, 1994. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 4to. 'Trail Dust and Saddle Leather', 246pp; 'Californios', 175pp in color printed dustjackets; 'Jo Mora: Renaissance Man of the West 'by Stephen Mitchell, 38pp in printed brown wrappers. Numerous full-page and in-text illustrations by Jo Mora. A fine set housed in..... More
San Francisco: Canterbury Hotel, 1998. First Edition. 16 1/2" x 22" (8 1/4" x 5 1/2" folded). Color brochure promoting the Canterbury Hotel and prominently featuring full color reproductions of Mora's murals titled 'Ye Canterbury Pilgrimage' originally created in 1935 by Jo Mora for the hotel. Fine condition. "The characters..... More
Paris: Andre Bonne, 1984. Second edition. Softcover. 8vo. 255pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page black & white photographs, drawings and map. Original pictorial wraps. Minor wear to extremities else a fine copy. The second of two unauthorized French publications (the first published in 1968) claimed to be the French translation of..... More
Paris: Andre Bonne, 1968. Softcover. 8vo. 253, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout with full-page black & white photographs, drawings and map. 4-page color prospectus laid in. Publisher's blue cloth with white lettering in fine condition. The first of two unauthorized French publications (the second published in 1984) claimed to be the..... More
Ketchum, ID: Stoecklein Publishing, 1995. 1st. Hardcover. Octavo. 60pp. 25 full page color and numerous in-text black & white illustrations. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and stamping in dustjacket; decorative endpapers. The 'buckaroo bunny' and his friends adventure out in the wide, wide world. 59 pages filled with Mora's unique..... More