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
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
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. 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 to..... 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. 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
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
Carmel, CA. Paperback. Near fine copy. 3 3/8" x 5 3/8;" mural image 1 3/4" x 5 18" with the words 'Carmel Dairy Murals by Jo Mora" centered under the image. The postcard was sent to Miss Blanche Partington in 1939 from her friend who describes a tasty breakfast ('yum-yum!'), likely..... More
San Francisco: Hotel Drake-Wiltshire, Nd. 1st. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2"postcard with delightful and colorful Jo Mora designed illustrations picturing a parade of animal waiters led by a pig wearing a chef's hat. Postcard is in fine condition and not used. More
San Francisco: Hotel Drake-Wiltshire, Nd. 1st. 3 3/4" x 5 1/2" postcard with delightful and colorful Jo Mora designed illustrations picturing "Two of the Famous Fable Murals by Jo Mora." The upper mural depicts dancing animal figures in various dress. The lower panel again depicts costumed animal figures socializing in..... More
Monterey, CA: Hotel Del Monte, 1936. 1st. Original wraps. 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. Seldom seen complete set of 12 menus. Uniformly near fine to fine..... More
Ketchum, Idaho: Stoecklein Publishing, 1994. Jo J. Mora. Second edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 246pp. Numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and vaquero spur stamp to front cover in Jo Mora designed dustjacket and endpapers. Fine in fine dustjacket. The evolution of the cowboy and the strong..... More
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1901. First Edition. Original cloth. 8vo. xi, 186pp. Illustrated throughout by Jo Mora with 24 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) in monotone and black & white in-text vignettes and head & tale-pieces. Original yellow-tan cloth with orange fox decoration to spine and front board; orange baby..... More
New York: Hastings House, 1964. First Edition, Limited to 185 numbered copies. Each volume SIGNED by the author, with a small drawing by her in the text volume. With two SIGNED pages of the author's early manuscript tipped in. 8vo. xv, [1], 335 pp. Some pages uncut. Map volume contains..... More
Austin, TX: Southwestern Art, 1978. 1st. Paperback. Winter 1977 - 1978. 4to. 80pp; 10pp advertisements. Stiff color illustrated wraps. A very good copy with light, general wear. 9 page article on Jo Mora titled 'Jo Mora Photographs 1904 - 1907.' During his time in the Southwest, Mora took two hundred..... More
New York: The Century Co., 1922. First Edition. 8vo. 309pp. Illustrated by F. Luis Mora, brother of Jo Mora. Original red cloth with black lettering. Slight spine fading; ink mark upper page edge else near fine. Considered to be Stribling's first serious novel; provides a serious social critique of not..... More
Monterey, CA: Monterey History & Art Association, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. Small 8vo. 32 pp. Black & white illustrations. Color printed staplebound wrappers in fine condition. Includes 2-page center fold illustration of the Jo Mora designed menu front cover for the Pop Ernest restaurant in downtown Monterey; and single page..... More
Chicago: Military Training Camps Association of the United States, 1924. 1st. Hardcover. Small quarto. 147 pp followed by 13 pages of advertisements. Numerous black & white illustrations, many full-page; advertisements at rear. Blue cloth with gilt stamping on front cover. A fine copy. The annual yearbook issued by the Camp..... More
Chicago: Military Training Camps Association of the United States, 1925. 1st. Hardcover. Small quarto.166pp followed by 18 pages of advertisements. Numerous black & white illustrations, many full-page; advertisements at rear. Blue cloth with gilt stamping on front cover. A fine copy. The annual yearbook issued by the Camp Del Monte..... More