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Buena Vista and Tributary Mining Camps. A Sketch of the Mines of Cottonwood and La Plata Districts, Chaffee County, Colorado by BUENA VISTA - A. VINETTE - 1882

by BUENA VISTA - A. VINETTE

Buena Vista and Tributary Mining Camps. A Sketch of the Mines of Cottonwood and La Plata Districts, Chaffee County, Colorado by BUENA VISTA - A. VINETTE - 1882

Buena Vista and Tributary Mining Camps. A Sketch of the Mines of Cottonwood and La Plata Districts, Chaffee County, Colorado

by BUENA VISTA - A. VINETTE

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Buena Vista, CO: Times Book and Job Rooms, 1882. Small 8vo (6 1/2 x 5 inches). [5], 6-37, [38-40] pp., including advertisements. Original printed wrappers; quarter morocco slipcase. Some soiling, a few discreet paper repairs. FIRST EDITION of this scarce pamphlet on Buena Vista, published three years after it was founded. "The south-western portion of Colorado ten years ago was a howling wilderness, through which the red man and wild animals roamed almost unrestrained... To-day Leadville boasts of 14,000 population" (p. [5]). This promotional brochure has sections on the social advantages of the area, the city government and resources, and details local businesses, most of whom advertise on the endleaves. For the section on Cottonwood, there is a description of the hot springs and mines, as well as the New York and Toronto Company and the El Dorado Company. Other sections cover Mount Princeton and La Plata District.

The text is signed in print at end by A. Vinette, who is described on p. 32 as the owner, with A. D. Butler, of the first extension of the Missouri Gulch called the Falcon. No copies are recorded at auction in at least the past fifty years. Not in Graff, Sabin. Howes B-937; Wynar 3470.
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  • Date Published 1882
Affaire Bola-Pacha, 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem
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1918. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. Sem's Account of a Notable Treason Trial [Trial]. Sem [Gorsat (Goursat), Georges (1863-1934)]. Bolo, Paul [d. 1918], Defendant. Affaire Bola-Pacha: 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. 68 lithographic images on 24 sheets and a sheet of captions in a printed wrapper housed in a printed folder. 12-1/2" x 10." From a signed edition of 300 on Arches paper, this number 283. Light soiling and edgewear to outer folder, a few minor tears along fold lines, short minor tear to spine of inner folder, light stain to caption sheet, plates fine. $1,750. * The Bolo Pasha affair involved a French traitor, Paul Bolo, who convinced the Egyptian Khedive (Viceroy), Abbas Hilmi, to sponsor an anti-war movement in France through the press using $2,500,000 raised from German sources. (Granted the title Pasha by the Khedive, Bolo renamed himself Bolo Pasha.) Convicted of treason, he was executed by a firing squad in April 1918. Sem's caricatures portray… Read More
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Nantes: Pré Nian Editions, 1988. loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. Pré Nian Editions. folio (15 1/8 x 11 inches). loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. (28) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 60 copies, on Johannot paper, each copy signed by the poet and the artist. A sequence of five haiku by the Scottish poet Kenneth White who lives in France and has written verses in English and in French. Each page has the English verse, followed by the French verse set in italic; the recto of each page is Bertrand Bracaval's silkscreen. Inspired by the ancient monuments of Greece, the Acropolis, Delphi, etc. The haiku catch the starkness of the Greek landscape, as do the stone-like triangles in Bracaval's square silkscreens. The French artist has also set the type. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are… Read More
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The Color Purple: a novel [signed]
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The Color Purple: a novel [signed]

by Walker, Alice

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 245p., signed by Walker on the title page, stated first edition with letters BCDE as called for by Zempel & Werkler, lightly shelfworn quarter-cloth boards in edgeworn unclipped dust jacket with original $11.95 price intact. True first of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for 1983, signed.
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The Seventeen Years of Travels of Peter de Cieza through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the...
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The Seventeen Years of Travels of Peter de Cieza through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the Large Provinces of Carthagena and Popayan in South America

by Cieza de León, Pedro (1520-1554)

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[viii]+244+[12] pages with engraved map, folding plan and four engraved illustrations in text and index. Quarto (9 ¾" x 7½") bound in period calf with modern rebacking, original gilt spine leather laid down and ruled gilt edges to cover. Translated by Joh Stevens. First English Edition.This is a highly regarded chronicle of the conquest and colonization of Peru by Spaniards in the latter part of the 16th century and is lauded for its (at the time) objectivity. Cieza de Leon's Chronica was to appear in 4 sections, this translation being the first part only, all that was available of the history until the latter part of the 19th century.Pedro Cieza de Leon was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily for his history and description of Peru, Cronicas del Peru. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Cieza de León was born to a family of Jewish… Read More
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THE CHESSMEN OF MARS

THE CHESSMEN OF MARS

by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. First edition. Lower spine end and lower corner tips worn, upper spine end rubbed, faint tape ghost at lower edge of front cover, top edge of pages just a bit dusty, a very good copy in good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with several closed tears, mostly along folds, small internal tape mends to same, some dust soiling, principally to spine panel, rear panel and along flap folds, small chips at left and right upper spine folds, light wear to lower spine end, and tiny chip at center of front spine fold. Overall, the dust jacket presents fairly well. An uncommon book in jacket. (15273). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-375 [376: blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. 12,500 copies printed. Fifth book of the Mars series. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years… Read More
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Affaire Bola-Pacha, 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem
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1918. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. Sem's Account of a Notable Treason Trial [Trial]. Sem [Gorsat (Goursat), Georges (1863-1934)]. Bolo, Paul [d. 1918], Defendant. Affaire Bola-Pacha: 68 Croquis d'Audience par Sem. [Paris: S.n., c. 1918]. 68 lithographic images on 24 sheets and a sheet of captions in a printed wrapper housed in a printed folder. 12-1/2" x 10." From a signed edition of 300 on Arches paper, this number 283. Light soiling and edgewear to outer folder, a few minor tears along fold lines, short minor tear to spine of inner folder, light stain to caption sheet, plates fine. $1,750. * The Bolo Pasha affair involved a French traitor, Paul Bolo, who convinced the Egyptian Khedive (Viceroy), Abbas Hilmi, to sponsor an anti-war movement in France through the press using $2,500,000 raised from German sources. (Granted the title Pasha by the Khedive, Bolo renamed himself Bolo Pasha.) Convicted of treason, he was executed by a firing squad in April 1918. Sem's caricatures portray… Read More
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METHODOS
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by White, Kenneth

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Nantes: Pré Nian Editions, 1988. loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. Pré Nian Editions. folio (15 1/8 x 11 inches). loose signatures gathered in a paper wrapper, grey linen clamshell box. (28) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 60 copies, on Johannot paper, each copy signed by the poet and the artist. A sequence of five haiku by the Scottish poet Kenneth White who lives in France and has written verses in English and in French. Each page has the English verse, followed by the French verse set in italic; the recto of each page is Bertrand Bracaval's silkscreen. Inspired by the ancient monuments of Greece, the Acropolis, Delphi, etc. The haiku catch the starkness of the Greek landscape, as do the stone-like triangles in Bracaval's square silkscreens. The French artist has also set the type. Bracaval has been awarded many prizes through nearly four decades beginning with the Prix Lafont in 1967 and most recently the Prix Robert Beltz in 2002. His works are… Read More
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The Color Purple: a novel [signed]
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by Walker, Alice

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. 245p., signed by Walker on the title page, stated first edition with letters BCDE as called for by Zempel & Werkler, lightly shelfworn quarter-cloth boards in edgeworn unclipped dust jacket with original $11.95 price intact. True first of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for 1983, signed.
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The Seventeen Years of Travels of Peter de Cieza through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the...
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The Seventeen Years of Travels of Peter de Cieza through the Mighty Kingdom of Peru, and the Large Provinces of Carthagena and Popayan in South America

by Cieza de León, Pedro (1520-1554)

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[viii]+244+[12] pages with engraved map, folding plan and four engraved illustrations in text and index. Quarto (9 ¾" x 7½") bound in period calf with modern rebacking, original gilt spine leather laid down and ruled gilt edges to cover. Translated by Joh Stevens. First English Edition.This is a highly regarded chronicle of the conquest and colonization of Peru by Spaniards in the latter part of the 16th century and is lauded for its (at the time) objectivity. Cieza de Leon's Chronica was to appear in 4 sections, this translation being the first part only, all that was available of the history until the latter part of the 19th century.Pedro Cieza de Leon was a Spanish conquistador and chronicler of Peru. He is known primarily for his history and description of Peru, Cronicas del Peru. He wrote this book in four parts, but only the first was published during his lifetime; the remaining sections were not published until the 19th and 20th centuries. Cieza de León was born to a family of Jewish… Read More
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THE CHESSMEN OF MARS

THE CHESSMEN OF MARS

by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

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Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1922. First edition. Lower spine end and lower corner tips worn, upper spine end rubbed, faint tape ghost at lower edge of front cover, top edge of pages just a bit dusty, a very good copy in good four-color pictorial dust jacket (reproducing painting by J. Allen St. John on front panel) with several closed tears, mostly along folds, small internal tape mends to same, some dust soiling, principally to spine panel, rear panel and along flap folds, small chips at left and right upper spine folds, light wear to lower spine end, and tiny chip at center of front spine fold. Overall, the dust jacket presents fairly well. An uncommon book in jacket. (15273). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-375 [376: blank], eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, eight inserted plates with illustrations by J. Allen St. John, original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. 12,500 copies printed. Fifth book of the Mars series. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years… Read More
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