Search Results: Titles starting with E from Argonaut Book Shop

Oakland: Roi Partridge, 1921 Original etching on steel-faced copper. 6 7/8 x 61/8 inches (impression). Black ink on laid rag paper. Signed and dated within the plate at lower right (Roi Partridge 1921). A very fine example, expertly framed and glazed. A wonderful example of this artist's work. Unlike many of his etchings which are bold and rather abstract, Lone Pine is delicate and detailed, and is one of a total edition of 65 impressions. The plate was then canceled. The etching is signed in pencil at the center of the lower margin, "Roi Partridge." Roi George Partridge was born in Washington Territory in 1888. In 1909 the budding artist traveled to New York City for one year of art study at the National Academy of Design followed by studies in etching in Munich under Brockhoff. Partridge's next three years were spent in Paris where he worked as a printmaker. He returned to Seattle in 1914 and in 1915, forty-four of his etchings were shown at the Panama Pacific International… Read More

Canyon, Texas: Palo Duro Press, 1965 First edition. One of 500 copies designed and printed by Carl Hertzog at El Paso, Texas. Small quarto (9½x6 inches). 44pp. Frontis portrait, 4 photographic plates of rare titles. Red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and front cover. A very fine copy. This copy is a wonderful association copy with a presentation inscription SIGNED by the author to Ben E. Pingenot: "For Ben E. Pingenot in appreciation of a real enthusiast for Texana - from his friend, J. Evetts Haley, Sept. 19, 1965." Ben E. Pingenot (1926-1999) was a well-known collector of Texana and, from 1987, a Texas bookseller. This handsome work is a biography of Earl Vandale, a collector of fugitive and elusive Texana documents, whose passion in pursuit of books set him apart from various collectors. He sold his collection of Texana in January of 1948, acquired by the University of Texas Board of Regents, for $100,000. Ben made a note about this book: "One of the best works on Texana… Read More

London: A. Brown and Sons, 1915 First edition. Introduction by Frank Falkner; supplementary chapter by T. Sheppard. Small folio. xlvi, 240pp. 270 half-tone photographic plates in sepia, 10 color plates (illustrating over 700 examples). Original brick cloth, gilt-lettered spine, gilt lettering and pictorial device on front cover. Light wear to spine ends, corners and lower edge of boards, stains from dried flowers to rear endpapers, two leaves with slight crunching to border near fore-edge. A very good copy. A detailed, fully illustrated, account of this important collection. Each section of this fine work is prefaced by a short introduction; the text, which includes brief descriptions of each piece, is arranged so as to be directly opposite the corresponding illustrations. Important and sought-after..

Charleston: Garnier & Company, 1969 An unabridged republication limited to 500 copies. Illustrated with numerous black & white plates. There is a small smudge to the rear lower corner, corners lightly bumped, else a fine copy. A history of drawing in America. .

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1978 10 numbers. Illustrations from reproductions of stock certificates. A fine set in half leather slipcase. Printed at the Feathered Serpent Press. A keepsake from the Book Club of California..

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1966 9 numbers. 9 illustrations in color. A fine set in cloth slipcase. Printed by Grabhorn-Hoyem. A keepsake from the Book Club of California..

Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1970 First edition. Quarto. 288pp. Biblipography, index. Illustrated with black & white photographs throughout. A very fine copy in very lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. A catalog of the most significant pieces of silver hollowware made by Connecticut silversmiths between the years 1700 and 1840. Also illustrated representative flatware and artistically interesting less common pieces such as swords and Masonic jewels. With an annotated index of silversmiths known to have worked in Connecticut and an index of more than 400 of the marks used by these men. .

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1924 First edition. University of Oklahoma Bulletin, Series 281, University Studies 19. Edited by Stanley Vestal. Small octavo. 8½x5¾ inches. Pp. 91, [1, blank]. Original printed gray wrappers. 2 tiny chips to upper corners of front wrapper. A fine copy. Very rare. A key work on the Cheyenne. Seger probably knew the Indians with whom he worked during most of his life better than any literate white man who has left us a record. Seger, enlisted in the Union Army, participated in Sherman's March to the Sea, and was living in New Malden, Kansas in 1872 when a reservation was established for the Cheyenne and Arapaho people. Seger was hired to build houses and other buildings at the agency school. During this period, Seger developed an unusual rapport with the Cheyenne and Arapaho people, and was asked to serve as superintendent of the Arapaho Manual Labor and Boarding School. Involved with these people for years, Seger eventually (1893) built the… Read More

Chicago: The Lakeside Press; R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1942 Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. 12mo. 315pp. Index. Maroon cloth. Spine faded, else a fine copy. The Lakeside Classics series was started in 1903 by Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company and son of the founder. The basic format of the Lakeside Classics has remained the same for more than 100 years, testifying to the sound design of the first volume. Each 25 years the cover material is changed and type style adjusted to keep pace with current developments in fine book making. Many of the early volumes consisted of the speeches and writings of noted Americans. In 1911 the series took its present character: first-person narratives of American history, usually taken from books long out of print and not easily obtainable..

San Francisco: Cross and Brandt, 1954 First edition. One of 500 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. 302pp. Frontis, plates, illustrations, facsimiles, folding map. Bibliography and index. Cloth-backed decorated boards, gilt. A very fine copy. The first study of the (mostly northern California) stopping places frequented by the pioneers. California's first hotel, the Portsmouth House, San Francisco's other hostelries, San Jose's earliest inns, Santa Clara's Frémont House, Sutter's Fort, etc. [Rocq 16796]..

Waltham, Mass.: American Jewish Historical Society, 1969 First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author. Octavo. Pp. xxi, [3], 322. Illustrated with 36 photographic portraits, views, facsimiles and reproductions. Chronology, sources, notes and index. Dark blue cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with printed dust jacket (slight chipping to bottom edge). The author is considered the outstanding historian of ante-bellum Jewish life in America, and spent many years of research for this book. This detailed work covers Jewish settlement in New Orleans under French, Spanish and American rule from 1757 to 1850 with detailed attention to the establishment of the first synagogue in the Gulf coast area, the lives of every Jew who came to New Orleans before 1815, Judah Touro's life, work and philanthropies (the first Jew to arrive in New Orleans), Benjamin Levy's print works, the rise of Judah P. Benjamin, the rapid assimilation of Jews into the Catholic creole community, the high incidence of… Read More

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1956 First edition. Limited to 400 copies printed by The Grabhorn Press. Folio. ix, 142pp. 16 plates of samples; frontis portrait. Green and black two-tone cloth, red morocco spine label. A very fine, as new copy. An important and scholarly study on printing in California from the Mexican period (1821) to statehood, September 9, 1850. Includes a bibliography of imprints, list of newspapers, list of presses, and bibliographic sources. The classic reference. [BCC: 94; Grabhorn: 582]..

Sacramento: Sacramento Book Collectors Club, 1973 First edition. One of 400 copies printed by Andrew Hoyem. Translated by Louis C. Butscher. Edited with an Introduction by John A. Hussey. Quarto. 79pp. Frontis portrait, 2 plates. Yellow patterned cloth, brown cloth backstrip, paper spine label. A very fine copy. A translation of a previously unpublished manuscript of Prince Paul's journal of his journey to California in 1850 to experience, at first hand, the excitement of the Gold Rush. "Prince Paul tells how he met the 'King of California,' John Sutter. His narrative includes descriptions of Sacramento City; a Fourth of July celebration; visits to Sutter's Hock Farm; the towns of Elisa, Marysville, and Yuba City; the gold fields; and 'Hock' Indians. The Prince also compiled a list of Hok and Kosumé languages" (Kurutz). [Kurutz: 486; Rocq: 6802]..

London: The Studio Limited, 1933 First edition. . Quarto. 10pp. plus 8 mounted color reproductions with captioned tissue guards. Peach pictorial boards printed in black. Spine ends and corners worn, bookplate on inner cover. A very good copy. Excellent historical introduction by noted maritime author, Felix Riesenberg, a listing of all the Currier & Ives steamship prints and a note on the prints by W. S. Hall..

Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1992 First edition. 244pp. notes, index. Black & white illustrations. Tan cloth lettered in red on spine. A very fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. .

San Francisco: Trees Company Press, 990 Third edition. Quarto. Softcover. 195pp . Appendices, bibliography, index. Illustrated through with photographs, maps, drawings. A guidebook and history of Native Americans in California..

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Doubleday, Inc., 1959 First edition. Quarto. 192pp. Frontispiece, profusely illustrated from photographs, map endpapers. Two-tone black and red cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket spine faded). One of the best pictorial histories on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, extensively illustrated from period photographs..

Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2007 First edition. Signed by the author. 128pp. Profusely illustrated. Stiff pictorial wrappers. New. A well-illustrated history. The terminus of the first overland immigrant pack train destined for California was John Marsh's adobe in Brentwood, East Contra Costa County. Since 1841 this part of the county has been a grain and fruit basket to the world, a recreational playground for resort living, and a home for health and family life. Its wheat was exported for brewing Guinness beer, and fresh apricots, peaches, and cherries still bring produce fanciers for summer harvest. Weekenders houseboat, wakeboard, and fish through the region's thousands of miles of delta waterways. The author presents a wonderful history of the county via hundreds of pictorial postcards. Includes the communities of Brentwood, Bethel Island, Byron, Discovery Bay, Knightsen, and Oakley and traces their importance in settling and developing the Golden State. This work is included within… Read More

Oakland: Junior League of Oakland, and Scrimshaw Press, 1971 First edition. Of three thousand copies of this book, this is one of five hundred bound in cloth. Small quarto. 124pp. plus notes, bibliography and colophon. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs. Brown cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. Wonderful photographs of pre-1917 houses, barns, wineries, schools, and more, with extracts from letters, interviews, etc..

Alexandria, Virginia: Time-Life Books, 1991 Quarto. 312pp. Profusely illustrated, primarily in color. Includes hundreds of quality photographs of the Confederacy's small arms (muskets, carbines, pistols, edged weapons); uniforms of officers and enlisted men, headgear, naval uniforms, etc.); equipment (saddlery, personal effects, etc.); musical instruments; flags; artillery, and much more. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, else a fine copy. .