Catlin George, Signed (16 results)

Cardstock Covers. Condition: G. No Jacket. None Stated. 54 pp, many two-tone illustrations, SIGNED by WM. WATSON, ASSISTANT CASHIER, covers are worn on edges, mostly side and bottom, a 1"x 1.5" chip out of rear corner, else they are tight, several pages are creased in rear, else the contents are clean and tight. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. See Photos. Centennial edition of Catlin's original publication with a 30 page introduction of how Catlin was able to view the ceremony. Signed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1924, First Edition, Very Good Plus/no dj, octavo, 117pp., maroon cloth hardcover, bright gold lettering on cover & backstrip, b&w photo ill's., binding tight, several inked notations by author giving additional information to the text or plates, Signed on front free endpaper: "With the Season's Greetings, George Catlin Woodruff, Christmas 1924, Litchfield, Conn.". Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. Catlin, George (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED by the author with no inscription. One small corner crease, lower right, keeps this from being a near-fine copy. Minimal evidence of reading/handling. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Dale Rawls, Hokkei, Dorothy Shakespear Pound, Jacques Callot, George Catlin, Enok Sweetland, et el [Illustrators] (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition, Translations, Reworkings, Interpretations & Responses with over 40 illustrations, 272pp. Signed by Paul Merchant directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket fine, as new condition. Signed by Author(s).

Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Catlin, George (illustrator). Signed, First Edition. This deluxe limited first edition has very little corner bumping or edge wear. Interior text is clean and tight in binding. All edges bright gilt with little wear. Numerous illustrations remain colorful and sharp. Due to the large size {11 by 11} and weight of this book, it will require additional shipping outside the United States. The author has signed verso title page, black ink. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by Author. Limited.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. Second impression May 1945. Warmly inscribed by Shirley Williams ( daughter of the authors) to the f.f.e.p. Extremeties lightly rubbed dust jacket slightly faded now in protective sleeve. A very good association copy of this anthology of acts of kindness compiled by the political scientist and philosopher Sir George Catlin, and pacifist writer Vera Brittain, parents of the labour MP Shirley Williams who has inscribed the copy. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: Very Good. 1934. First edition. Hardback. Presentation copy with typed letter (1pp) discussing the book and British politics from author, Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin (1896-1979) to St. John Greer Ervine (1883-1971), also with handwritten note undated from author to Ervine (1pp). Fine in original dust wrapper. Ex-libris with usual markings. DW, price clipped and with nicks and small tear to spine, label to top spine and price clipped. Light spotting on page edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a fine copy. First edition copy. . . .

Number 74 of 250 copies signed by the Author. Illustrated. 216 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Publisher's brown leather, t.e.g. slipcase. Fine in slightly worn slipcase Illustrated. 216 pp. 1 vols. 4to Number 74 of 250 copies signed by the Author. Signed.

CATLIN, George. O-Kee-PA: A Religious Ceremony; and other Customs of the Mandans . [Bound with:] [Folium Reservatum.] . . London: [J.E. Taylor and Co., printers] Trubner and Co, 1867. First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 52; iii, [1]pp. Thirteen colored lithographic plates by Simonau & Toovey, all after Catlin. Presentation copy inscribed by the publisher on the front endpaper. Publisher's purple cloth gilt, minor fading to spine, minor wear, small repair at head of spine, repair to front hinge. Minor foxing. Very good. Bennett, p.22; Field 262; Howes C-244,"b"; McCracken, Catlin, pp.101-8; Pilling, Proof-Sheets 693; Reese, Best of the West 170 (ref). First edition of one of the rarest works by the noted painter of American Indians, this is Catlin's last major publication, here with the separately printed Folium Reservatum and a presentation copy by the publisher. Catlin felt that his account of the Mandan tribe was of particular importance since he had visited them and observed the Buffalo Dance ceremony, or O-Kee-Pa, shortly before the tribe was decimated by a small pox epidemic in 1837 and the way of life he had witnessed was wiped out. Therefore, it was particularly galling to him to have the truth of his account called into question by Henry Schoolcraft. The present work is in effect a masterly rebuttal of Schoolcraft's criticism and even includes a letter of support from Prince Maximilian of Wied, who, along with his artist, Karl Bodmer, had spent "the whole of a winter with the Mandans" shortly before their near extinction. Catlin gives a full account of the ceremony, illustrating the rituals and self-tortures of the Buffalo dance in thirteen beautifully executed lithographs. One of Catlin's less provable notions was of a link between the Mandan and the Welsh, and in an effort to establish a case, Catlin includes some comparative vocabulary of the two peoples. The explicit details of the sexual elements of the ceremony were considered too shocking for the general public and were included in a separately issued three-page "Folium Reservatum," purportedly issued in an edition of approximately twenty-five copies, and rarely found bound into the work as here. This example inscribed by the publisher to Thomas Scott, likely Thomas Scott (1808-1878) of Norwood, publisher and noted free thinker. According to DA.

The first edition, first issue of Catlin's famous book (with errata slip tipped in at front of the first volume, and "Frederick" on p.104), an important association copy belonging to publisher John Murray III, whose ownership inscription on the titlepages reads: "From the author to John Murray. 1843 / From J. Murray to his friend, Augustus Samuel Twyford, 1872." Letters and Notes is one of the most important works on Native Americans published in the 19th century. Besides the description of his travels throughout the West, the book contains hundreds of line drawings of southern and western Indians, as well as two significant maps showing the locations of Indian tribes. Catlin made five journeys in the American interior over the course of the 1830s, during which he produced most of his famous portraits of Native Americans, and amassed a considerable collection of artifacts. In 1838 he assembled his original art and artifacts into his Indian Gallery, displaying it throughout the United States. When the United States government rejected Catlin's offer to sell the collection, he took his show to Europe, where he spent the next eight years exhibiting his collection and travelling with a delegation of Ojibwe and Ioway. The present work was published when Catlin came to London in 1840. He initially approached John Murray about handling the publication, but the publishing scion advised self-publishing, instead. According to Dippie, "Murray wanted Catlin to realize the utmost from his labors, and self-publication, promotion, and sales were the best means to that end." Although this necessitated raising funds in the short term, Murray's disinterested kindness proved valuable to Catlin in the long term, and the self-publication of Letters and Notes was a much-needed financial boon for Catlin, who later referred to Murray as a "good and generous old man!" (Dippie). WAGNER-CAMP 84:1. HOWES C241. STREETER SALE 1805. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 453, 454, 455. CLARK III:141. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 77. Brian W. Dippie, Catlin and His Contemporaries: The Politics of Patronage (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1990), pp.68-69. Tall octavo. 19th-century deluxe green morocco by Zaehnsdorf, lavishly gilt with foliage pattern tooling, spine gilt in six compartments, a.e.g., marbled endpapers. Boards and extremities lightly rubbed, discreet repairs to joints and spine ends. Intermittent marginal soiling to contents, heavier at the end of first volume, a few small chips and tears, clean split to map fold, discreet repairs to plates 115/116, 138/139, 157, and final leaf of vol. 2. Presentation inscription in the hand of John Murray III, dated 1843, and from Murray to Augustus Samuel Twyford, dated 1872, to titlepages of both volumes. Else a very good set.

First British edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Mr. Davidson, with compliments of the Author, Geo. Catlin, 1848." This work recounts Catlin's tour of Europe, for which he shipped eight tonnes of freight, including two grizzly bears, and was accompanied by several Native Americans. A lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin (1796-1872) left Pennsylvania in 1830 to paint Native Americans and record their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his "Indian Gallery," an enormous collection of artefacts as well as more than four hundred paintings, including portraits and scenes of tribal life. "The history and the customs of such a people," Catlin declared, "preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from becoming their historian" (quoted in Hassrick). Though criticised on publication for the indelicacy of certain passages, Notes remains "a readable and revealing book in the classic satirical vein of the visitor from a foreign culture" (Dippie, p. 467). The work was also issued in New York in the same year. Hassrick, 15 (note); Sabin 11533. George Catlin, Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians, 1841; Brian W. Dippie, Catlin and his Contemporaries, 1990. 2 vols, octavo. With 24 wood-engraved plates. "Note to the Reader" tipped in at rear and "Author's Note" tipped in at pp. 302-3 in vol. 2. Original green cloth, rebacked with original spines laid down, front covers stamped in gilt and blind, spines gilt-lettered direct, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedowns, pasted newspaper clipping to front pastedown and ink-stamped number to rear pastedown of vol. I. Extremities and covers rubbed, corners bumped, rear pastedown of vol. I lightly stained, contents toned, occasional minor marginal foxing, slightly heavier to blank verso of free endpapers of both volumes and to couple of initials and final leaves in vol. 1: a very good copy.

A presentation set, inscribed on the front free endpaper of the first volume: "Mr. A.B. Wright, from his friend, the author, Geo. Catlin 1848." This is the second edition, published the same year as the first. This work appeared just as Catlin's Indian Gallery reopened in London, only to be bashed by British critics who complained of "a recklessness and a roughness in some of his anecdotes" and "indelicate innuendoes and double entendres" (Dippie). Later printed under the title, ADVENTURES OF THE OJIBBEWAY AND IOWAY INDIANS IN ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND BELGIUM. "Anecdotal though it is, NOTES is a readable and revealing book in the classic satirical vein of the visitor from a foreign culture commenting on the peculiarities of civilized society" - Dippie. SABIN 11533. FIELD 256. Dippie, CATLIN AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES, pp.126-27 and passim. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 77 (note). Two volumes. xvi,296; xii,336pp., plus twenty-four plates. Printed slip bound in following p.302 in second volume. Original pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind, expertly rebacked, retaining original gilt backstrips. Endpapers renewed, save for original front free endpaper in first volume, bearing Catlin's presentation inscription. Cloth lightly rubbed. Old ink stain on p.91 of first volume, else clean internally. Very good.

Together, 4pp. Each approximately (7 x 4 3/8 inches). Housed in a morocco backed slipcase. Three personal, handwritten letters by the artist George Catlin to his friend, Captain William Henry Shippard. During the 1830s, George Catlin, a self-taught artist, traveled the Great Plains of the American West, absorbing the ways of the Indigenous peoples of North America he found still flourishing there. Over the next decade, Catlin embarked on a journey to create a faithful visual study of the people, customs, and surroundings of the tribes he was welcomed by, which culminated in his numerous publications of prints and drawings of Indigenous peoples of North America. These letters offer a more intimate look into Catlin's daily thoughts and matters, at a time when he had returned from the West and was in England working on his portfolios and exhibition of his works. The letters are each written to Capt. William Henry Shippard, who Catlin describes in his Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe, as "my best of friends." Shippard worked on Catlin's behalf in the exhibition and attempted sale of the art, and further assisted in his research as a reader at the British Museum. The letters comprise: 1] Autograph letter signed to Captain William Henry Shippard, 4th January 1847. 1p. & envelope, sending him a picture: "I send you 'My Horse Charley &c" like the other, the crude & original sketch, made at one colouring; and which I am ashamed to send you in such a state . The above sketches I would have given to nobody else on Earth." 2] Autograph letter signed to Captain William Henry Shippard. "Tuesday" [no date]. 2pp. & envelope: ". I spent the whole of Sunday looking over Mr. Waldeck's drawings, and have had the headache ever since . I go tomorrow at 1 o'ck with Sir Thos. Phillipps to call on him and you must not fail to be at my rooms at the house." Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet (1792-1872) was an avid collector of books and manuscripts, amassing one of the biggest collections in the world in the 19th century. "He had a particular sympathy with Catlin's crusade not merely to depict but to preserve the way of life of the indigenous peoples of North America" (DNB). 3] Autograph letter signed to Captain William Henry Shippard. Postmarked 1848. 1p. with conjugate address leaf: having received a letter from his children, "they were all well, and cheerful but their alarm has been great . I don't know when I can get them and my collection here, as the railways are all broken up. I am in much distress of mind.".

CATLIN, GEORGE. O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony: and other Customs of the Mandans. London: Trubner and Co., 1867. Small 4to. vi, [2], 52 p. plus iii-p. "Folium Reservatum." 13 chromolithographed plates after Catlin by Simonau & Toovey. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt, all edges gilt. Binding lightly soiled and faded, extremities lightly worn (spine ends more so), occasional minor foxing. A very good copy of a fragile book difficult to find in fine condition. First edition, with the rare "Folium Reservatum" bound in at the rear. A presentation copy inscribed by the publisher, Nicholas Trubner ("N. Trubner"), to Thomas Scott. O-Kee-Pa was a religious ceremony practiced by the Mandan tribe that lived on the upper Missouri. It included frenzied dances and highly charged sexual pantomines, followed by barbaric torture and mortification of the flesh. Pioneer Indian bibliographer Thomas Field described the remarkable color plates as depicting the ceremony in "horrible fidelity." Catlin's text is an important survival, as the Mandans were wiped out by smallpox in 1837, shortly after Catlin's visit. The explicit details of the sexual elements of the ceremony, involving a large artificial plallus, were considered too shocking for the general public and were included in a separately issued three-page "Folium Reservatum," purportedly issued in an edition of approximately 25 copies. It is particularly desirable to have it bound together with the main text in an original publisher's binding. Nicholas Trubner was a distinguished bookseller and scholar with a great interest in publishing scholarly works. His publishing house, established in 1851, still exists. Howes C-244 ("b"); Field 262.

No Binding. Handwritten letter signed and written by George Catlin, with response from correspondent Philip Wendell of Albany. Catlin's portion is dated March 31st, 1834, coinciding with the one of the spans of his returning east to fund his expeditions to the Southwest. On a single sheet, folded, with one address panel written by Catlin and the other addressed to Catlin by Wendell. Some loss of paper with apparent restorations at folds. Overall a fragile piece and scarce survival from early in Catlin's career. Signed by Author(s).