Search Results: Titles starting with C from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Bozeman: Treasure Products , (1972). First edition. One of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author. Quarto. 29, [2] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's full rawhide with a gilt bas-relief of Russell on cover, lettering in blind, pictorial endpapers, Errata laid in. An excellent copy.

Charlottesville: Thomasson-Grant, (1987). First edition. Oblong folio. Heavily illustrated with Abell photographs. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering, dust jacket. A very good copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Compay, 1911. First edition. Octavo. [12], 282 [283], [1] pp. With seventeen full page photographic illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine lettering, front cover with white lettering and a design in black and red of a man chopping wod in front of his cabin, top edge gilt. Discreet owner's stamp to front blank, else a lovely copy.

Montreal: William Notman, [ca. 1870]. Original cabinet card show a member of the Canadian Rifle Regiment in different poses. On William Notman mount with his gilt signage on the verso. Very good.The Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment came into being in 1840. The Colonel-in-Chief was Governor-General of Canada and its strength was 1,078. The unit remained active until 1871 when the bulk of British troops left Canada.William Notman was born in Scotland but moved to Montreal and established himself as a photographer as early as 1856. "The first Canadian photographer with an international reputation, Notman's status and business grew over the next three decades. He established branches throughout Canada and the United States, including seasonal branches at Yale and Harvard universities to cater to the student trade. Notman was also an active member of the Montreal artistic community, opening his studio for exhibitions by local painters; the studio also provided training for aspiring photographers and… Read More

New York: Henry Harrison, (1935). First edition. Octavo. 64 pp. Publisher's black cloth with silver spine and cover lettering. original dust jacket in a cobweb design. Small chip to lowerr spine but a gorgeous copy of the book in an intriguing dust jacket.Laid in is a contemporary press [?] photograph of the author with text below reading - "Florence Ripley Mastin, whose book of poems, "Cables of Cobweb", has just been published by Harry Harrison. The jacket carries praises of her work by Harriet Monroe, Eunice Tietjens, and Charlotte Dean (poetry editor of the New York Times).Between roughly 1900 and 1967, the year before she died at age 81, Florence Ripley Mastin published probably hundreds of poems in newspapers and magazines, including more than 90 in the New York Times alone. She authored several books of poetry, and her work appeared approximately a dozen times in Poetry between 1918 and 1935. Mastin’s timing was lucky and unlucky. She was brash and butch and she loved women—one woman… Read More

N.p.: N.p, [ca. 1980]. Original oil painting by this well known artist. It portrays a young Native American girl child eating a cactus apple in the desert. It is 18 x 24 inches and nicely farmed (26 x 32 inches). Signed by Joyce Clark on the lower right, titled and signed by her on the rear, signed twice more by her under her copyright stamp. Wonderful condition."Joyce Clark was raised in the famous Art Colony of Laguna Beach, California.Ê In 1970 she moved to the island of Maui where she lived and painted for 25 years; 10 of those years in the beautiful countryside of Hana, Maui known as "the last Hawaiian place." She now makes her home in Sunriver, Oregon. Following her formal education at Whittier College and University of California at Los Angeles, she spent many years as a commercial artist and a ceramic decorator before becoming deeply involved in oil painting and mosaic murals. Joyce has been commissioned to paint numerous oil paintings for private collections around the world as well as to… Read More

Los Angeles: Abbey San Encino Press, 1935. First edition. One of 1500 numbered copies. Small folio. Complete with nineteen large tipped-in color plates and 114 small tipped in color plates. Complete. Publisher's beige cloth with cover and spine lettering. A very good copy.

Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., 1907. First edition. Signed by the author. Thick octavo. xiv, 1011, [1, blank], xxx [index]. Publisher's striated blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. First two leaves a bit browned but remainder are very bright, title page pulling away but still firmly attached. A very good copy in the publisher's binding.From the library Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell of Virginia House, Richmond, Virginia, with their bookplate and signature; "A & V Weddell, Calcutta, 1923". Below this is the signature of the author, dated 1924, rhere is also a tipped in letter from Cotton to the Weddells dated 1924. It is written on Government House, Calcutta, stationery. From the library Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell of Virginia House, Richmond, Virginia. Alexander Weddell graduated from George Washington University with a law degree but he found his real calling in diplomacy. In 1907 he secured appointment as secretary to the newly appointed minister to Denmark, and in the… Read More

At the Pass: [El Paso], 1946. First edition. Illustrated by Tom Lea. One of 365 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Folio (10 x 13 inches). [38] pages unpaginated. With twelve illustrations by Tom Lea. Publisher's cream cloth with titles stamped in brown ink. An excellent copy.Inscribed by the printer to California bibliographer Francis P. Farquhar. Twelve full-page portraits by Tom Lea of Cabeza de Vaca, Espejo, Zebulon Pike, Big Foot Wallace, and eight others.

San Francisco: J. C. Hoag. First edition. Long oblong octavo. xvv [ads], [1, ad], 278 pp. Plus a fold-out panorama in color entitled: Bird's-Eye View of California Showing Its Prominent topographical Features, Location of Principal Cities, Towns and Points of Note, and Line of the Southern Pacific Company, 1896. Illustrated with a great number of photographic illustrations. Numerous ads throughout. Publisher's pictorial wrappers printed in gold and magenta. Old stain to upper spine of front wrapper, 2 pages have illustrations cut out but the text remains. Some erosion to lower spine. Overall, a very good and clean copy of this scarce publication. OCLC only locates 1 copy with the same pagination.Printed by the E. O. Taylor Company (who also have the most beautiful ad in the book). There is some mention on OCLC of this being a semiannual periodical but we think this is false. The first edition was two years earlier. That issue and the one offered here are the only two recorded. While it passes… Read More

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992. First edition. Quarto. Twelve loose bifolios (as issued), each with an illustration. Original printed folder. Very good.

Los Angeles: M. Reider, 1912. Complete deck of 52 playing cards, each with a captioned photographic scene on the face and a poinsettia and mission bell on the back, card edges gilt. In the original two-part red box with gilt lettering. Box has some expected wear. Cards are beautiful.All fifty-two of the cards bear different photographic images of places of interest in California and include; Soldier's Home near Santa Monica, Cawston Ostrich Farm, Rubidoux Summer Riverside, Casino and Beach Santa Cruz, Stanford University, the Pinnacles near Soledad, Arlington Hotel Santa Barbara, etc. Joker and ad card present. Original revenue stamp present.

Edinburgh: Valentine & Anderson, [ca. 1910).. First edition. 32mo. (2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches). Signed by the author on the front blank (and yet the book made it back to this country). xii, 107, [1] pages, 21 unnumbered full page photographic illustrations of scenes around California. Publisher's tartar cloth with morocco spine label. Long, yes poignant inscription from former owner. Scarce in the trade and OCLC only records 4 copies. Poems entitled "Wawona"; "Sequoias"; "Avalon"; My [Central] Valley; "the Voice of the Water in the Muntains-Night in the Yosemite" speaks of the author's places of power. The 21 photographic illustrations all concern the poems. Other poems of interest are "Eucalyptus" and "Flight" (showing an airplane in 1910). C. E. Jenney was a resident of Fresno for 30 years (thus his fondess for the High Sierra and Central Valley) and was a naturalist who wrote a number of [forgotten] books.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. First edition. Octavo. xii, 418 pp. Numerous full page photographic illustrations and a map. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth portraying a Mission on the front. gilt spine and cover lettering. A very good copy.

Los Angeles: National Mortgage Company of California, (1923). First edition. Quarto. [48] pp. with artistic photographic illustrations on every page. Publisher's blue wrappers. front cover with a gilt frame surrounding the title in gilt. An excellent copy. Only 4 copies recorded by OCLC.Presentation inscription from "Geo. S. Walker". Walker was for twelve years the state Building & Loan Commissioner before becoming the president of the National Mortgage Company of California. A rather elaborate piece of boosterism. As it was issued by a mortgage company instead of a special interest, it covers every aspect of the new California life-style.

(San Francisco): (Union Lithograph Co.), [1912]. First edition. Quarto (9 x 12 inches). Title leaf and 56 full page photogravures of the lumber (rectos only) and the lumbering process. Publisher's two tone flexible cloth with front ocver gilt lettering and designs. An excellent copy.An informative advertisement as it documents via images the the entire process; from images of old growth pines in the field, through the felling, transportation and milling. Only five copies located by OCLC.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1886. First edition. Small octavo. xv, [1], 513, [1], [10, publisher's ads] pp. plus color folding map of California. Publisher's pebble-grain olive cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, gray endpapers. Contemporary bookplate of the Richmond Library Association and with their stamp on the upper margin of the first page of the book. A beautiful copy of this classic California title.

Los Angeles: Benton Publishing Co., 1927. First edition, Narrow octavo. 20 pp. with with color illustrations on nearly every page. Publisher's pictorial wrappers with a color image of a tour bus on the cover. In the original envelope which has "A Bit of California Color" printed on it. An excellent copy. No copies located by OCLC.The subtitle on the front cover is "See California First.' At first glance one would think this a pamphlet for the Golden State Royal Blue Line of buses, a relatively new phenomenon. But as one reads further it is obvious that this is a piece of boosterism for the State in general as it covers nearly everything (and in printed in exceedingly small type using blue ink). I think the real reason for it's publication, unknown to the internet or to OCLC, is to be found on the inner rear page. There we see a colorful cluster of purple grapes and the following ad; "The World's Only Deluxe All-Color Book in Multi-process Art Engravings: "California, the Wonderland and Garden of… Read More

Burbank: Area Printing, 1977. First edition. Octavo. [60] pp. With 27 full page cartoons of decisive moments in California history by Huntington with text on the opposing pages. Publisher's illustrated ochre wrappers. Inscribed by the artist. Fine.

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co,, 1935. First edition. One of 501 numbered copies. Quarto. [vi], 227, [1], [2, colophon] pp. Numerous illustrations throughout. Publisher's tan buckram with bevelled edges, black-stamped cover and title labels, top edge stained brown. Overall, an excellent copy. "More than a hundred reproductions of early California lithographic views and 'letter sheets' with extensive data on the art of lithography and those who practiced it on the Pacific Coast. Here is the true flavor of the Gold Rush, as expressed by the picturemakers" (Wheat). Wheat, Gold Rush, 158. Howes P259. Streeter 4378.