Carl Schaefer Dentzel (24 results)

Hard Back. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket As Published. First Edition. 129 Pages. Rose cloth with gold lettering to spine and front board with text on archival paper . Bibliography. Frontispiece of Cabeza de Vaca from the painting by Frederic Remington. A study of the channels of primitive trade established thousands of years ago and were utilized by native Americans for centuries. Contents in Five Parts: El Vendedor Primero, Course of Life, Ways of Trade, Springs of Commerce, and Crossroads Old Trade Trails. Four Maps: Main Prehistoric Trade Trails of the Northwest Pacific California, The Southwest, Northern Mountain Region, and Trails of the Great Plains. Plus Appendix identifying 250 utensils, articles, and commodities used in trade.…

Stapled binding. Fine condition, appears unread, as new. NOT a 'Good' or 'Acceptable' copy, since 'Good' is bookseller jargon for 'not so good' and nobody knows what 'Acceptable' means.

Softcover staple-bound, 32 pages, very good condition, light rubbing to covers; no internal marks.

Paperback. Condition: In quite good condition. Royal octavo, [25cm/10in], paperbound art catalogue with pictorial covers, unpaginated, -(pp. 32)-, Illustrated with colour and b-w halftone platess. Introductory text by Carl Schaefer Dentzel; exhibition by Betty Turnbull and Sue Darrow.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. VG+ DJ (price clipped). First Edition. San Antonio, Texas:: The Naylor Company, 1970. A bright, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. The colorful Dust Jacket is quite attractive. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Pages are fresh and crisp. Illustrated endpapers. The author has dedicated this book to Richard Milhous Nixon, "out of regard for my former student." From the Dust Jacket: "By a comparative study of Indian folklore across the breadth of North America and from Alaska down to the Gulf of Mexico, [the author] shows a marked similarity in the beliefs and legends of widely separated tribes." Bibliographical references. Index. Bound in the original yellow cloth, decorated with Indian petroglyphs/pictographs matching the ones on the Dust Jacket. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine condition./VG+ DJ (price clipped). 8vo. xxiii, 191pp. …

softcover. Condition: Collectible; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. Numerous illustrations in color and black and white. Foreword by Carl Schaefer Dentzel. Tight, clean and crisp. The book appears unread and looks New. No inscriptions. Not ex-library. In excellent condition. As New.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Green textured wrappers printed in red, 12mo., (21), (1) pages. Printed at the Cole-Holmquist Press for the 1960 Roxburghe-Zamorano Corrida. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dustjacket. 1st Edition. First edition with review materials, hardcover, has a faint hint of bowing to front board, very slight shelfwear to spine ends and corners, and a very slight touch of sunning to spine, otherwise a clean, solid VG+ copy.

Paperback. [44]p., stapled wraps, 7x10 inches, profusely illus. (including two fold-out illustrations), wraps lightly worn else very good exhibition catalog.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. n Second printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light wear. Some spotting to top edge. Clean, unmarked pages. xxvi, 290 p., 28 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good-Very Good. Green wraps, Unpaginated. Inscribed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. A collection of works from the Indians of California. Includes all 12 works. Overall conditions: The cover is in great condition with no visible flaws apart from some light handling wear. Binding is tight and and inside is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former owner's stamp, otherwise unmarked. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Light wear to the binding. The dust jacket has slight wear to the edges.; 319 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Reprinted from the 1948 Westerner's Brand Book. Limited to 100 copies. Three panel fold out map is finely engraved and printed on quality tissue. Map is in fine shape. Map originally published in 1855 and based on the 1848-49 survey.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 388 Pp. Ocher Cloth, Gilt. First Printing, 1973 (This Book Was Reprinted By Promontory Press Later). Fine In Fine, Completely Unfaded Dust Jacket Priced $20 But With Pre-Publication Price Of $17.50 Still Intact. Excellent Study; And Models For The Personalities Assumed By Many Of The Descendants Of The New Conquerors Of The Plains, The Europeans, In The Absence Of Their Former Immediate Cultural Guidance. Illus. By The Author (illustrator). …

HC. Condition: very good, inscribed by author. Exhibit at San Fernando Valley State College of art , with size and identification, (Foldouts).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies, printed as a joint venture by Saul Marks at the Plantin Press, Gordon Holmquist at the Cole-Holmquist Press, Ward Ritchie at the Ward Ritchie Press, and Grant Dahlstrom at The Castle Press. The contents include "Profile of Los Angeles" by W.W. Robinson, "William Andrews Clark Memorial Library" by Lawrence Clark Powell, "The Honnold Library" by David W. Davies, "Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery" by Robert O. Schad, "The Southwest Museum Library" by Carl Schaefer Dentzel, "Fine Printing in Southern California" by Ward Ritchie, and "The Zamorano Club: 1927-1961" by Tyrus G. Harmsen. Octavo: vii, [1, blank], 107, [1] pp. with photographic illustrations and textual figures. Original printed blue paper-covered boards over a black cloth spine with gilt-stamped titling. Some mild toning along the extremities, with a few very faint spots to the front board; otherwise very good.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 322 pages. Hardcover, bound in brown cloth covered boards and wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. Inscribed by the author to the previous owner ("Margaret"), on the half title page, with an additional gift inscription to the previous owner on the front free endpaper. Otherwise, no further internal markings, with a tight and solid binding and a clean, crisp and bright dustjacket (although price clipped), now encased in a Mylar sleeve. Text in English. 60 color and 255 black and white illustrations. Inscribed by the Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: vg. First edition. Folio. [4], 384, [4]pp. Original illustrated dust-jacket over cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Front free endpaper inscribed and signed by Thomas E. Mails. Foreword page handsigned by Carl Schaefer Dentzel. Illustrated with numerous pen-and-ink and charcoal drawings, and with striking paintings in vivid color, "Dog Soldiers, Bear Men and Buffalo Women" brings to life for the reader the intricate, inventive beauty of Indian costume and regalia as words alone could not do. The text and the illustrations combine into a handsome and fascinating whole, a soaring evocation of the central aspect of a way of life tragically gone. Moderate age-toning along paper margin. DJ, binding and interior in overall very good condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Two-toned cloth, gilt title. Oblong format. Inscribed to the half title page by Dentzel to Henry Miller Madden. . Hint of soil to cloth. ; Oblong quarto; Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. Original cloth-backed patterned boards. Limited to 400 copies. Spine label is worn, chipped with loss to lower edge and creased, partally lifted. Cover shows gentle bumping to the spine ends and points. Internal pages and plates are crisp, clean and securely bound.; quarto.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. The Book Club of California/Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, CA. 1957. 86 pgs. Illustrated with 34 Black and White Plates with 2 in color. One of a limited edition of 400 printed by the Grabhorn Press. With an introduction and selected notes written by the author, followed by the annotated and illustrated catalogue, replicating Audubon's notes. Bound in decorated paper boards with 1/4 black cloth spine, red title label on spine with gilt letters and decoration. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid Sketches made by the son of famed ornithologist John James Audubon while on the Gold Rush trail and in California, only 5 of which were previously published. "His sketches and watercolors of San Francisco, Sacramento City, Coloma, mining camps, and miners represent a significant pictorial record of the Gold Rush"; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.…