New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera by Weigle Marta - 1985

Chicago; (1946): The Westerners. First Edition. Octavo. 151pp., (3)pp, (4)pp. index. The first Westerners Publication with a list of its illustrious membership including Wright Howes, Everett Graff (who also has an important article on the rarest Western travel narratives), and the historians who wrote the classics on Western Americana (especially his tale of how Mrs. Wright Howes and he had played a joke on Wright Howes on the very rare 1843 Joseph Wlliams pamphlet. Printed and bound by John F. Cuneo Co. in gray cloth centrally stamped in gilt with their logo a steer with lettering gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very nice copy.

Clarendon, TX: Clarendon Press, 1970. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 174p. bibliography. index. Adams 150 #131 "This is a story of one of Texas' peace officers and his adventuresome life, revealing some history hitherto untold. The author tells of some new adventures of Bass Outlaw not seen before and a mention of Jim Courtright; John Selman and many of the noted Texas Rangers.

Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Printing Co, 1900. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Leatherette. Very Good. 145pp; frontispiece portrait of author, other full-page portraits and views from photographs. Bound in grained leatherette, gilt cover title; tail of spine chipped. 6.25" x 4.25" Written on the front endpaper: "Presentation copy from Eugene Ware," historian and author. [Howes, U.S.iana, G240. Decker 24:174--"...a chatty and informative work describing the vicinity of Ft. Scott during the days of the Jayhawkers and Border Ruffians."] This is an expanded version of the 1899 first edition. [Socolofsky & Dean, Kansas Bibliography, 3557.].

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, [10], illustrations, 422 pp., frontispiece color illustration of sea otter by John Webber, 11 illustrations of plates from exploration books by Cook, Vancouver, Dixon, and others, nine tables of trade ships by years, extensive notes and bibliography, index; Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and designs on spine, tan end papers with maps of the world routes and Northwest coast [of North America], all edges trimmed; Black dust jacket with white and tan lettering on front and spine inside white borders with designs, brown-toned illustration of sea otter by Webber on front, review of book on back; Negligible shelf wear to book or dust jacket, short inscription by author on title page. This is a readable scholarly on the fur trade system from the Pacific Northwest to China and then to Europe and America in the late 1700's and 1800's. Gibson is a professor that has focused on geography and… Read More

Large quarto (14 X 10 1/2 inches) San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. 171 pages printed on heavy wove paper, quarter bound brick red leather with title in gilt on the spine, patterned paper over boards, hardcover - very good condition (minor scuffing at head and tale of spine from shelf wear, not affecting contents).

Illustrated with 60 plates - full size reproductions showing examples of California Gold Rush letter sheets - one facsimile is in a pocket at the rear of the book. Also included: a selective bibliography; an index of artists, engravers, lithographers, and publishers; and a subject and title index.

A checklist and census of artists and printers who produced "... thousands of vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, (that) remain the major surviving visual account of California of that era....," both during and after the California Gold Rush.

"A . . . curious blend of local enthusiasm and topical recording ...… Read More

Chicago; (1946): The Westerners. First Edition. Octavo. 151pp., (3)pp, (4)pp. index. The first Westerners Publication with a list of its illustrious membership including Wright Howes, Everett Graff (who also has an important article on the rarest Western travel narratives), and the historians who wrote the classics on Western Americana (especially his tale of how Mrs. Wright Howes and he had played a joke on Wright Howes on the very rare 1843 Joseph Wlliams pamphlet. Printed and bound by John F. Cuneo Co. in gray cloth centrally stamped in gilt with their logo a steer with lettering gilt, spine lettering gilt. A very nice copy.

Clarendon, TX: Clarendon Press, 1970. Cloth Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 174p. bibliography. index. Adams 150 #131 "This is a story of one of Texas' peace officers and his adventuresome life, revealing some history hitherto untold. The author tells of some new adventures of Bass Outlaw not seen before and a mention of Jim Courtright; John Selman and many of the noted Texas Rangers.

Fort Scott, Kansas: Monitor Printing Co, 1900. Revised & Enlarged Edition. Leatherette. Very Good. 145pp; frontispiece portrait of author, other full-page portraits and views from photographs. Bound in grained leatherette, gilt cover title; tail of spine chipped. 6.25" x 4.25" Written on the front endpaper: "Presentation copy from Eugene Ware," historian and author. [Howes, U.S.iana, G240. Decker 24:174--"...a chatty and informative work describing the vicinity of Ft. Scott during the days of the Jayhawkers and Border Ruffians."] This is an expanded version of the 1899 first edition. [Socolofsky & Dean, Kansas Bibliography, 3557.].

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, [10], illustrations, 422 pp., frontispiece color illustration of sea otter by John Webber, 11 illustrations of plates from exploration books by Cook, Vancouver, Dixon, and others, nine tables of trade ships by years, extensive notes and bibliography, index; Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and designs on spine, tan end papers with maps of the world routes and Northwest coast [of North America], all edges trimmed; Black dust jacket with white and tan lettering on front and spine inside white borders with designs, brown-toned illustration of sea otter by Webber on front, review of book on back; Negligible shelf wear to book or dust jacket, short inscription by author on title page. This is a readable scholarly on the fur trade system from the Pacific Northwest to China and then to Europe and America in the late 1700's and 1800's. Gibson is a professor that has focused on geography and… Read More

Large quarto (14 X 10 1/2 inches) San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. 171 pages printed on heavy wove paper, quarter bound brick red leather with title in gilt on the spine, patterned paper over boards, hardcover - very good condition (minor scuffing at head and tale of spine from shelf wear, not affecting contents).

Illustrated with 60 plates - full size reproductions showing examples of California Gold Rush letter sheets - one facsimile is in a pocket at the rear of the book. Also included: a selective bibliography; an index of artists, engravers, lithographers, and publishers; and a subject and title index.

A checklist and census of artists and printers who produced "... thousands of vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, (that) remain the major surviving visual account of California of that era....," both during and after the California Gold Rush.

"A . . . curious blend of local enthusiasm and topical recording ...… Read More