4to. 176 pgs. Brown cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Illustrated with Curtis' black & white photographs of Native Americans and their vanishing way of life at the turn of the century.
[380] pp.; 8vo; orange cloth, no d.j.; illustrations by Norma van Sweringen. Inscribed by the author to Ferdinand A. Koch, "who never fails as a loyal Santa Fean." Also, "F. A. Koch, 1937" owner's name in pen on front pastedown.
150 pp. ; 8vo; cloth in dust jacket with age toning to extremities, chips to top of spine. ; map endpapers; photographs. In protective mylar wrap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 150 pages; Charles L. Camp's copy, with his name in pencil on top edge of front pastedown. Inscribed on the colophon: "From the Talisman Press with great admiration for his work to Mr. Charles Camp, Newton Baird." Baird, along with Robert Greenwood were the founders of The Talisman Press. Camp was an important bibliographer and historian of Western America View More...
Tombstone: 388 pp.; 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; front jacket cover light soil, but fairly bright, spine with some soil and spotting. Illustrations by Will James; photographs. Doc Holliday: 287 pp.; 8vo; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. In price-clipped jacket with fading to spine, a bit of rubbing to spine edges, a chip, and a half-inch hole; interior of jacket with brown tape mends at edges near spine. Epitaph: 8vo; red cloth, in price clipped jacket with fading and a spotting on spine. University of New Mexico Press 1958 invoice laid in. Good or better s, in protective myla... View More...
No. 162 of 675 copies. Beige buckram lettered and decorated in gilt, without plain paper jacket. Map front pastedown and endpaper; reproduction of an engraved panorama "View from the Rocky Mountains" on rear endpaper and pastedown. A few illustrations in the text. Prospectus laid in, also a Hand-List of Osborne Editions and their distributors. C. L. Camp, Nov. 1971, written in pencil top edge front pastedown. (Charles L. Camp, historian, etc. ) ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; (71) pages View More...
Privately Printed for Members of the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs. 9 pp; 4to; printed. sewn, red wrappers; tipped in color reproduction of Miller portrait by James Everett Stuart. Printed letterpress in an edition of 300 View More...
Lacks plain glassine jacket. ; 1000 copies printed by Alfred & Lawton Kennedy. Tan cloth lettered in black with front cover illustration; frontis; two folding maps; 5 illustrations. Inscribed by Charles Camp "To my very good friends - Paul and Wilma Ogden, from Charles Camp, San Jose, June 5, 1973; In memory of very many pleasant visits, travels and good conversation." Prospectus laid in. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 304 pages; The typed carbon copy appears to be from Camp, and is entitled: "Copy (A) to be inserted on page vi. ", regarding Doble's manuscript being obtained by Mr. Rosenstock from Wil... View More...
Bottom margins of pages show some slight waviness, not affecting images. ; Illustrated with 40 Laser Duotone reproductions, and 11 drawings. Inscribed "For Rebecca, with best wishes from open country, Jay Dusard, 10/10/94." Dust jacket in protective mylar wrap. ; 12.1 X 10.6 X 0.6 inches; 72 pages View More...
Jacket with 1.2" closed tear at rear lower leading edge; half-inch closed tear bottom front edge, and wear at corner tips, in protective mylar wrap. ; No. 513 of 800 copies. Orange cloth lettered in gilt; sketches by Ralph Rambo; photographs; plans, and other reproducitons; two folding maps in rear pocket. Inscribed: "To Joanne, my new friend, warmest regards, Cordially, Frances L. Fox. : With the maps in the rear pocket is an invoice on the author's letterhead to Joanne Camp, wife of western historian, Charles L. Camp. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 92 pages; Signed by Author View More...
Jacket with half-inch closed tears front & rear top edges, light wear at extremities, in protective mylar wrap. ; No. 249 of 800 copies. Orange cloth lettered in gilt; sketches by Ralph Rambo; photographs; plans, and other reproducitons; two folding maps in rear pocket. Inscribed: "To Paul and Wilma (Ogden) , Best wishes, Frances L. Fox, Nov. 20, 1975." ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 92 pages View More...
Rubbing to spine & joints; front joint starting lower half, but hinges tight; rubbing to edges; spot on the spine. Remnant of bookplate on second free endpaper; front end rear second free endpapers tanned, otherwise the prelims and text are clean. ; Ex- Pacific Union Club library with their bookplate on front pastedown, no other library treatments save small call numbers on verso of title page, one in pencil, one in pen. Former owners (doner? ) name, date in pencil on half-title. Bound in full Spanish calf, lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Many of the clubs boo... View More...
Fading around spine with fraying at ends; offset tanning and slight foxing to title page from tissue guard; offset shows outside of frontispiece. Owner's name on title page. Toning to second blank endpape; 4 light stains at forege, just affecting first eighty pages. Leading bottom corner page 259 crease with loss of tip, some creasing to the same spot pages 257 to 261. ; Brick red cloth lettered in gilt; engraved frontis; illustrations throughout, maps. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 292 pages; The illustrations really do lend themselves to the imagination of what it was like for traveller's to encounte... View More...
Moderate rubbing to spine; light wear at leading corners; light soil at extremities, mainly on rear top edge. ; Stapled, illustrated orange wrappers. Illustrated with reproductions from engravings, drawings. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages View More...
Short snag to top of spine. ; Ex- Pacific Union Club library with their bookplate tipped in over the bookplate of Eugene Lent on front pastedown, no other library treatments save small call numbers on verso of title page, one in pencil, one in pen. Presentation inscription of front endpaper "Presented to the Pacific-Union Club by Mr. Eugene Lent, June 1924." Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; photographic frontis of the Golden Gate; plates throughout containign nice half-tone photographs by E. Nora Meek. Oddly, except for all the work on this book, we find no other trace of her to date. ; 8vo ... View More...
Plain paper jacket with age toning around spine. ; Blue cloth lettered in gilt; portrait frontis; folding map of Fremont's Route in the Bridgeport Area; illustrated with photographs and other reproducitons including Preuss' map of the route. ; Frontier Military Series, No. 11; 8.9 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 168 pages; Inscribed by the author on front endpaper, "May 22nd, 1981, To my dear friend Paul Ogden. Thank you for the generosity, kindness, and consideration you gave me. I am so appreciative, Regards Ernes Allen Lewis, "Beady Eyes"; Signed by Author View More...
500 copies designed and printed by Lawton Kenndy. Inscribe by Kennedy on second endpaper, "To my friend Charlie Camp -, Lawton Kennedy." Beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 84 pages; Charles L. Camp, was a noted palaeontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. Camp was also an important bibliographer and historian of Western America, remembered for many works, especially his biography of American pioneer James Clyman, which Bernard De Voto called "one of the half-dozen classics in the field," and the third edition of Henry R. Wagner's, T... View More...