Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, New York & Oxford, England, UK, 1999
ISBN 10: 0195125185 ISBN 13: 9780195125184
Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cathy Saksa (Jacket Illustration and hand-coloring) (illustrator). 216 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very minor shelf wear on front and back cover, crisp pages and clean text. Dj shows minimal wear.
Published by Independently Published, 2022
ISBN 13: 9798849019284
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Language: English
Published by Counterpoint, 2012
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket design by Ann Weinstock, Hand coloring by Emily Stewart (illustrator). 1st Edition. Historical study examining the network of young reformers who gathered in Washington, D.C.'s Dupont Circle neighborhood on the eve of World War I, including Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Felix Frankfurter, Walter Lippmann, and members of the Dulles family. Srodes situates this circle within the rise of American Progressivism and traces how their early intellectual and political alliances shaped twentieth-century domestic and foreign policy. Well-researched narrative history with notes and chronology. Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Two-tone cloth boards clean with light handling wear; spine lettering bright. Binding sound. Interior clean and unmarked aside from a laid-in 2009 Blue Shadow Publishing calendar bookmark with a waterfall photo on the reverse. Dust jacket shows moderate edge wear and light surface rubbing; original $26.00 price intact on front flap; no tears. Edition/Printing Diagnostics: Copyright 2012; full number line ending in '1,' confirming first printing. Published by Counterpoint, Berkeley, California. Hardcover issue with unclipped dust jacket.
Published by The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco and The Zamorano Club of Los Angeles, San Francisco, CA, 1974
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Soft cover. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Limited edition. One of 350 copies. Text is in English and French. Original publisher's beige wrappers. Deckle edge. 8 3/4" x 13 1/2." Eight unnumbered pages, complete. One color illustration, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact except for a slight bit of wrinkling. A Fine copy. Colophon in the back: "Three-hundred and fifty copies have been printed by Adrian Wilson with the assistance of Clifford Burke at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco, for presentation by Joseph M. Bransten and Adrian Wilson to the members of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs at their joint meeting in Los Angeles in September 1974. The types are Cristal from Deberny & Peignot, Paris, and Van Dijck composed by Mackenzie & Harris, Inc. The papers are Tweedweave and Colophon text from the Butler Paper Company." This pamphlet contains a facsimile broadside that was originally published by Dembour & Gangel around 1850. The Introduction by Joseph M. Bransten and Adrian Wilson explains the provenance of the facsimile, "During 1973 an exhibition from the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris was held at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Joseph M. Bransten, a member of the Roxburghe Club, took particular delight in a colorful broadside titled Mine d'Or de la Californie which gave a distinctly French view of life and mining in this region in 1850. He conceived the idea that it might be reproduced, with a translation, for the 1974 joint meeting of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. He asked his fellow-Roxburgher Adrian Wilson if he would secure permission to reproduce it during the latter's research summer in Europe. . Joyce Lancaster Wilson translated it without any recognition of the strange faraway land it described. At home in Tuscany Alley she and Melissa Wilson added the coloring to the picture." The broadside describes some of California's geography, history, and its gold mines during the Gold Rush. The facsimile is followed by the English translation.
Language: English
Published by Putnam & Valentine / Harry Cassie Best, Yosemite Circa 1925, 1925
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
Photograph First Edition
No Binding. Condition: Fine. Original Photograph. Original Photograph, Image 9 1/4" X 7 1/4" With Fine Detail. Fine Condition. Inventory Number In Pencil 4193. Stamp In Black Ink"Yosemite Valley, Cal. / Putnam & Valentine, Photo., Los Angeles, Cal." And Purple Stamp "Sold By / H. C. Best, Yosemite". Hand Coloring By Best. Putnam & Valentine Was A Partnership Of John R. Putnam And Carlton O. Valentine, Commercial Photographers, Active In Los Angeles, Circa 1898-1912. Biographies Of Western Photographers By Carl Mautz (Carl Mautz Publishing, 1997) Lists "W.S. Valentine," But According To A Finding Aid From The Seaver Center For Western History Research, Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County, It Is Carlton O., Not W.S. John R. They Documented The Growth And Development Of Southern California Over A Fifty Year Period With John R. Putnam Primarily Handling The Photography And C. O. Valentine The Business End Of The Company. (Putnam's Son, Arion Putnam, Was Also One Of This Collection's Photographers.) Harry Cassie Best (1863-1936) Was A Painter Best Known For His Yosemite Scenes, And He Distributed And In Some Cases Hand Painted Images By Putnam & Valentine And Then Offered Them For Sale. His Daughter Virginia R. Best Married Ansel Adams In 1928.
Published by Weimar: Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1908
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Tall folio volume rebound in tan cloth and patterned paper-covered boards with label from original binding mounted on front cover. Contains 97 lavishly, hand-colored illustrations on 78 leaves. Text is in German. Condition: minor rubbing & light soiling to binding; title and limitation pages missing; else pages and plates are in near fine condition in very good binding. Pages: xii, 20 (text) and plates.
Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1830
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 24 plates, including lithographs with additional hand coloring, and of which 6 of the 7 maps are folding maps - of which 1 is a wonderful panorama. (illustrator). Second edition revised & enlarged. Octavo, x, 148pp., contemporary half calf, green marbled boards, extremities rubbed, foxing, contemporary obituary of Auldjo tipped to free endpaper. Auldjo was the British Consul at Geneva. He was the 1st Scotsman and only the 7th person to reach the peak of Mont Blanc, in 1827. That he was a notable artist is proven by his sketches here. The 1828 1st edition was a quarto. " . the author has selected the present size [octavo] as more convenient than that in which it was originally published. In adapting the lithographic embellishments, he has been enabled to improve them; and he has added two maps of extraordinary merit. Several additions have been made to the work -- Preface to the Second Edition." Presentation Copy, inscribed by Auldjo to William Forsyth Grant (probably Dr. Wm. F. Grant, of Jamaica, d.1834, which may explain the foxing. [ Neate 38b]. 24 plates, including lithographs with additional hand coloring, and of which 6 of the 7 maps are folding maps - of which 1 is a wonderful panorama.