Kemble T S (9 results)

Condition: New. Kemble, Mai S. (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Kemble, Mai S. (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 26, 1910, pp. 617-653, Illus, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, else VG.

Condition: New. Kemble, Mai S. (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: VG. 1st Edition. 1890-1891, 175pp, printed in double columns, illustrated with over 90 drawings, plus 4 maps including The Western Territories in the Forties Showing the Principal Routes of Exploration, The California Coast Under the Mexican Regime, Placer Regions of California in the Fifties with an inset of San Francisco Bay and Vicinity, and the Panama Route, and 24 portraits including John Bidwell, Father De Smet, General M. G. Vallejo, General John A. Sutter, Don Juan B. Castro, Don Manuel Castro, Pio Pico, who was Governor of California in 1845, General Andres Pico, Maria De Jesus Vallejo, or Sister Maria Teresa, Maria Antonia Lugo, who was the mother of General Vallejo, Dona Vallejo, born Francisca Benicia Carrillo, who was General Vallejo's widow, Kit Carson with facsimile autograph, Jacob P. Leese, Juan B. Alvarado who was Governor, 1836 - 1842, Manuel Micheltorena, who was Governor, 1842 - 1845, James W. Marshall, Azaria Smith and Henry W. Bigler, who were survivors of the party of discovery at Sutter's Mill, Samuel Brannan, who led a colony of Mormon's to San Francisco in July, 1846, Charles Preuss, topographer on the first two Fremont expeditions, Jim Bridger, Alexis Godey, Commander J. B. Montgomery, later Rear-Admiral, Thomas H. Benton, Jessie Benton Fremont, and George Bancroft, salvaged from a damaged copy of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 41. Specific pieces include The First Emigrant Train To California, by General Bidwell, Grizzly And Pioneer, by Shinn, The Making Of California, anonymous, Life In California Before The Gold Discovery, by Bidwell, Ranch And Mission Days In Alta, California, by Vallejo, Trading With The Americans, by Higuera, The Date Of The Discovery Of The Yosemite, by Pratt, Pioneer Spanish Families In California, by Shinn, The Missions Of Alta, California, by Doyle, A California Lion And A Pirate, by Castro, A Carnival Ball At Monterey In 1829, by Briones, A Letter From General Sutter, by Sutter, Fremont In The Conquest Of California, by Bidwell, The Discovery Of Gold In California, by Hittell, Marshall's Own Account Of The Gold Discovery, by Gillespie, Confirming The Gold Discovery, by Kemble, Resume Of Fremont's Expedition, by M. N. O., The Origin Of The Fremont Explorations, by Jessie Benton Fremont, Rough Times In Rough Places, by McGehee, Montgomery And Fremont, by Royce, Three Gold- Dust Stories, by Marshall, To California by Panama in 1849, by Pratt, The Conquest Of California, by John Charles Fremont, The Official Policy For The Acquisition Of California, anonymous, Hardships Of The Isthmus in 1849, by Ferris, and Spanish Jealousy Of Vancouver, by Doyle. Maps by Jacob Swells, W. Taber, George Wharton Edwards, O. Toasperm, A. Brennan, V. Perard, G. D. F. Brush, Frederick Remington, A. Lambourne, and from photographs by Lieut. Harris. Set includes a contents page, and is housed in two mylar report covers. This is a tremendous set of Californiana / Western Americana, and, surprisingly, never elsewhere published in its entirety.

Condition: As New. Kemble, Mai S. (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. E.W. Kemble, T.S. Sullivant, Henry Mayer, Harry B. Neilson, F.T. Richards, George R. Davis, W.P. Bodfish, Charles Howard Johnson, A.D. Blashfield, Dan Beard, "Chip", A.B. Shultze, E.G. Lutz, W.H. Walker, Max Bachmann (illustrator). 1st Edition. Oblong, with humorous and satirical animal cartoons by various illustrataors, including E.W. Kemble, T.S. Sullivant, Henry Mayer, Harry B. Neilson, F.T. Richards, George R. Davis, W.P. Bodfish, Charles Howard Johnson, A.D. Blashfield, Dan Beard, "Chip", A.B. Shultze, E.G. Lutz, W.H. Walker, Max Bachmann. Wear to illustrated cloth covers, with slight fraying to corners. Pages toned with age. One small tear in the lower margin of p.17/18 (see photo). 80pp. 10 x 7.25".

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. Kemble, E.W.; Fancher, Louis; Groesbeck, Dan Sayre; Levering, Albert; Bayha, Edwin F.; Taylor, Horace (illustrator). First Edition. This issue devoted to motoring. Features: Title page photo of the sport of winter motoring; One-page cartoon by E.W. Kemple represents the G.O.P. as a car tilting in the 'stand pat' direction; Improvement to be offered auto purchasers in 1911; Photo comparison of Fifth Ave. traffic between 1901 and today (many more cars in use and no horses to be seen now); How to Sell a Car; The Anatomy of the Motor; Joy-Riding of the Real Kind - new car models are brutally tested; Motoring in Winter; Boggs Sees Naples and its Environs; Two photos of new fire truck for the Bradford, England fire brigade; First Aid to Broken Cars - article with great vintage photos; Laocoon (snake fiction by Herman Scheffauer); Article on Superstitions; Witherup's Cyclopaedia of the Months; Romances of the Recruiting Offices (for the United States Army); Home Song for Montana (poem by Leonard Bacon); Blanche Bates (article with photo); The Well-Kept Car "At Home" - article with photo of home grease pit in use, small home machine shop, and large storage building with several cars parked in front; The Horse and the Motor Car - article by Henry Harrison; One-page Goodyear tire ad; Automobile Horns - article by Steven D. Thatton; Sensational one-page illustrated ad for the Phipps-Grinnell Electric Car, featuring the Model "C" 1911! (yes, electric cars were in production well over 100 years ago!); Bond Markets Renewal - article by Franklin Escher; Nice one-page ad for the Carhartt Thirty-Five automobile; Nice half-page photo ad for the Speedwell Motor Car Co. of Dayton, OH features the 4-passenger Torpedo; Quarter page ads for the Premier Motor Mfg. Company and the Atlas Motor car Company; Motoring on European Highways; Nice illustrated ad for the Hupp-Yeats Electric Car Co. of Detroit; Full-page ad for the White Company of Cleveland features illustration of a Western canada Flour Mills Co. truck. Middle leaf loose but present. Please note: front cover is numbered page 3. Presumably this issue originally included an illustrated outer wrap which is no longer present. Otherwise, it appears complete and unmarked with average wear. A worthy vintage copy, notable for its wonderful coverage of a formative time in the history of motoring - both gas and electric.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Sindall, Alfred; Tresilian, S.; Golden, Grace; Leigh, Conrad; Cuneo, T.C.; Prater, Ernest; Lathan; Wenban, R.; Stott, W.R.S.; Soper, Geo. (illustrator). First Edition. Pages 85-168, plus 32 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Many black and white photos and illustrations. Contents include: The Queen Side of Things - The Shot That Failed; Derelicts of Misfortune; Short Stories - The Novice, My Friend the Sea; Clearing the Road; Through Borneo by 'Bus; Tshaka's Treasure; When Davy Jones Invaded Eden; Work-Hunting in New Zealand - part 1; A Run on Raincoats; Phases of Life - When the Tanker Took Fire, The Tribal Law, Streets Paved with Gold; Man and His Needs; Stamps of the World. Bits of clear tape at each end of spine. Unmarked with average wear. Binding intact. A sound copy of this vintage issue.