THE BADGE. by WEBB, Jack - 1958

London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd.. Very Good+. 1865. Hardcover. Rebound in clean maroon buckram cloth that has a spine label with gilt title. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Illustrated with numerous engraved illustrations. 267pp and a 34pp. Catalog of Books. California's natural attractions. Western Americana ; Engraved Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages .

Pruett Publishing, 1990. Hardcover with dust jacket. Used- Fine condition. First edition. Book is clean and tight. Book shows light shelf wear. Very slight crease on the bottom left corner on the front cover of the dust jacket. No markings on the inside of the book. Photos are of the book we have here at Barbed Wire Books.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987. Signed on the title page by the author. First edition / First printing. Black paper spine, tan paper-covered boards. Very fine in very fine dust jacket.

New York: Random House, 1984. Signed on the title page by Thomas McGuane. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth spine, white paper-covered boards. Near fine in near fine dust jacket, with a crease to the rear jacket flap.

Near fine - one cover of the corner has a small crease. 'Reviewer's Copy'/UNCORRECTED PROOF in yellow wraps bound with black tape along the left side - 7 inches x 9 3/4 inches.

[Portland, OR: Passenger Traffic Department, Southern Pacific Lines, Irwin-Hodson Co., March 11, 1925]. 4to. Printed & bound in double-columns, center fold. [32 pp.] Numerous text illustrations, photo illustrations, double-page colour centerfold of Crater Lake National Park, maps. Colour-illustrated softcovers, beautiful Jazz Age cover art of hikers amongst the mountains & forest (slight shelfwear, very slight rubbing), VG copy. Early printing of this wonderfully illustrated promotional travel brochure for the Southern Pacific, including wonderful photo illustrations of hotels, motels, attractions, beaches, and more.

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed [9.25x6.25in]; xiii, [10], illustrations, 422 pp., frontispiece color illustration of sea otter by John Webber, 11 illustrations of plates from exploration books by Cook, Vancouver, Dixon, and others, nine tables of trade ships by years, extensive notes and bibliography, index; Black cloth cover with gilt lettering and designs on spine, tan end papers with maps of the world routes and Northwest coast [of North America], all edges trimmed; Black dust jacket with white and tan lettering on front and spine inside white borders with designs, brown-toned illustration of sea otter by Webber on front, review of book on back; Negligible shelf wear to book or dust jacket, short inscription by author on title page. This is a readable scholarly on the fur trade system from the Pacific Northwest to China and then to Europe and America in the late 1700's and 1800's. Gibson is a professor that has focused on geography and… Read More

Near fine - one cover of the corner has a small crease. 'Reviewer's Copy'/UNCORRECTED PROOF in yellow wraps bound with black tape along the left side - 7 inches x 9 3/4 inches.

Large quarto (14 X 10 1/2 inches) San Francisco: David Magee, 1967. One of 475 copies printed by Robert Grabhorn & Andrew Hoyem. 171 pages printed on heavy wove paper, quarter bound brick red leather with title in gilt on the spine, patterned paper over boards, hardcover - very good condition (minor scuffing at head and tale of spine from shelf wear, not affecting contents).

Illustrated with 60 plates - full size reproductions showing examples of California Gold Rush letter sheets - one facsimile is in a pocket at the rear of the book. Also included: a selective bibliography; an index of artists, engravers, lithographers, and publishers; and a subject and title index.

A checklist and census of artists and printers who produced "... thousands of vivid pictorial records on sheets of writing paper, (that) remain the major surviving visual account of California of that era....," both during and after the California Gold Rush.

"A . . . curious blend of local enthusiasm and topical recording ...… Read More

New York: Viking Press, 1958. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Very Good. Illustrated by Beatien Yazz. Signed by Beatien Yazz with the generic Inscription "I Thank You". Cloth over the spine to textured boards;  8.5 inches tall; 206 pages. Illustrated by Beatien Yazz with full color plates; No Flaws or Blemishes but minimal shelf handling; A lovely script ownership on the front pastedown. The Dust Jacket is with price and is in a new clear protective Mylar sleeve has age-toned with a modestly darkened spine and some offsetting color (red) on the bottom edge.. Beatien Yazz [AKA Little No Shirt - Jimmy Toddy] was born on the Navajo Reservation. Yazz showed promise as an artist very early. At an early age, Yazz met the Lippencotts, traders at the Wide Ruins Trading Post and they made available to him scraps of paper and other equipment so that he might practice in color. He exhibited his work around the world and is known for his paintings of animals and people… Read More