Leconte Carrie (12 results)

Condition: Good. Prospectus. 4to. One folded sheet with deckled edge. [This is a prospectus, not a book]. Designed and printed by Mallette Dean.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Quarter cloth over dec. paper-covered boards. Paper label on spine. Several illustrations throughout. Very little shelf-wear. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Cloth-backed decorative boards, paper label to spine. Limited to 450 copies. Title page improperly gives date as 1944. Frontis, 102pp, 11pp illustrations. Carrie LeConte's 1878 Yosemite journal, written when she was 14 on a camping expedition with her father. Fine condition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 102 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. One of 450. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1964. 11" x 7.75". xviii,98[4]pp. Tan cloth back & pine-needle decorated green paper boards, very good plus condition (lower corners rubbed); green dj good plus (few short tears, brief areas of light soil, 4-inch tear to rear cover, spine faded; archival tape repairs to tears). Frontispiece photo-portrait of Carrie as a young woman, 11 full-page lithographed journal pages actual size, and 8 (of more than 60 drawings) are photo-engravings and colored with blocks cut by the printer. One of 450, with Prospectus laid in.; 11 x 7.75 inches; 102 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 99 pages, plus additional illustrated pages; light olive green linen spine over decorative boards with pine needle clusters; paper spine label; printer date on title page "MCMXLIV" in error; edition designed and printed by Mallette Dean and limited to 450 copies; frontispiece portrait of author; multiple 2- and 3-color reproductions of journal illustrations throughout; 11 full-page lithographic reproductions of journal illustrations follow text; light green plain paper dust jacket; boards show little to no wear; sunning to jacket with chipping/few small closed tears; a near fine copy in a very good jacket; charming childhood recounting of a 19th-century trip to the famed California valley. LeConte, Carrie E. (illustrator).…

LeCONTE, Carrie E. Yo-Semite 1878 Aventures of N & C Journal and Drawings by.Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1964. 1st ed. Illus. 4to. A fine copy in orig. cloth-backed boards; d/j. Limited to 450 copies. Publisher's prospectus laid in.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, MCMXLIV (for 1964). First edition. Original quarter cloth, printed paper label, and pictorial paper boards, illustrated, 99 pp., in plain laid paper dust jacket. Carrie LeConte was the daughter of University of California scientist and conservationist Joseph LeConte and the sister of prominent Sierra Nevada explorer Joseph Nisbet LeConte. These are her girlish journals and drawings of a Yosemite trip in 1878, discovered in a batch of family papers left to the University of California when her brother died in 1950. One of 450 copies, printed by Mallette Dean. The book is fine, the jacket Very Good - spine sunned, one small chip.…

Original gray cloth and printed paper over boards, quarto, xviii, (99) pp + (11) pages of facsimiles from the original journal. Frontispiece and several colored illustrations in the text. Introduction to "C" by Susanna B. Dakin. A charming account of two teenage girls' camping trip (in high style) to Yosemite and Big Trees in the summer of 1878. Published for the first time from the family papers in the Bancroft Library. "C" was Carrie LeConte herself, "D" her friend Winonah Dibble. In later years Carrie LeConte was noted for her contributions to Brother Cornelius' biography of William Keith. Carrie met and fell in love with Keith when she was 18 and he a married man in his 40's, and she maintained a lifelong, though unrequited relationship with the noted painter. Her "confessions" to Brother Cornelius provided "some life and literary value to the painstaking, unwieldy biography." A fine copy, entirely clean and unworn First edition, limited to 450 copies designed and printed by Mallette Dean. …

First edition. Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. Previous owner label.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited edition. Quarto, Pp. 99. Illustrated with over 60 drawings, of which 10 are full-page. With 11 full-size facsimiles of journal pages. Quarter cloth over decorated paper-covered boards with printed spine label. Title page misdated "MCMXLIV." In the plain paper dust jacket. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Designed, printed and illustrated by Mallette Dean in an edition of 450 copies. Journal written during the LeConte family's five-week visit to Yosemite Valley in the summer of 1878.Although not noted as such, this copy is from the personal collection of noted artist, illustrator, and printer Mallette Dean. Mallettte Dean (illustrator).…

First edition, limited to 450 copies. Designed and printed by Mallette Dean. Book Club of California publication #117. Fine, in olive-colored linen over decorative boards illustrated with a pattern of pine-needle clusters; paper spine label; in undecorated olive dust jacket that shows a hint of sunning to spine. Introduction by Susanna B. Dakin. 14-year-old LeConte's chronicle of a camping expedition with friend Nona Dibble (N) and pere LeConte to Yosemite in 1878. Eight reproductions in color of the author's sketches throughout the text, and facsimiles of 11 pages of her journal. Sweet.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1964. Quarto (28.2cm); xviii,[99]pp. Color frontis; illus. throughout. Limited First Edition of 450 unnumbered copies. Publisher's plain paper dust jacket; decorated boards with cloth spine and printed spine label. Title page misdated MCMXLIV. Jacket faintly shelfworn with fading down spine and along edges and folds and a few spots of toning to rear panel along spine. Boards are sturdy and square. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.…