Search Results: Americana - Cowboys and Indians from Peter Austern & Co. Books & Ephemera / Brooklyn Books

NY: Abrahms, 1985. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Inscribed by Author(s). Folio - over 12. The 120 full-page photographs in this book depict people at country fairs, rodeos, mining camps, drilling sites, and even a slaughterhouse - men and women of the American West who work at hard, everyday jobs. Richard Avedon introduces the volume with an essay on his working method and portrait philosophy, and Laura Wilson, who accompanied Avedon and his team, provides a journal of their travels, between 1979 and 1984. 11x17 inches, soft cover in nice condition..

San Antonio, TX: Southern Literary Institute, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 1st edition. Scarce- 1935 San Antonio, TX imprint. A rare book with a rare autograph and inscription of Carrie Rodgers. Mississippi is home to the blues, birthplace of Elvis Presley -first star of rock n' roll, and home to Jimmie Rodgers "The Father of Country Music." Rodgers had two other nicknames during his career, "The Singing Brakeman," which referred to his work on trains, and "America's Blue Yodeler," which described one of his distinctive contributions to country music. A partial dust jacket remains [front cover & flap]. The text block is uniformly edge-toned.The remains of damp stain and mildew are many decades old- mainly to the back cover, rear pastedown & last 3 pages. A scarce item of a precious icon of American music. .

Photographic Image. Good. Soft cover. 45- b&w photos. August,1951 album. (10) photos of Indians living on the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. (35) photos of the Sigmon family from Washington, DC. (11) color-tinted postcards, mainly from NC. Summer vacation & ethnological photos. Album has black paper pages with leather strip binding. With hand painted leather cover. Inside-cover has taped paper with the owner's address and "Bought at the Cherokee Indian Reservation, NC. Aug. 7,1951". Photos of Indians living on the Cherokee Reservation have details written on photos; details also written on photos of the Sigmon family- mom & dad, with friends, & their 2 kids. Album lacks rear-cover. Now placed in a custom-made box. 9" x 6.5". In very nice condition. Domestic s&h $20..

Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 2003. 1st ed, 2nd printing. Signed. Douglas (Ranger Doug) Green & band members of 'Riders in the Sky'. 140+ photos and an extensive index. A bit of history: As the US expanded west in 1800s, and cattle became big business, the figure of the young brash cattleman who rode with the herds quickly emerged as a cultural icon. Victorian Americans went crazy for cowboys, snapping up dime-store novels and sheet music, and turning out in droves for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. It was only a matter of time before someone brought together these three facets- entertainer, singer, and cowboy. And when Carl T. Sprague recorded the first hit cowboy record ("When the Work's All Done This Fall") in 1925, the singing cowboy as we know him was born. A singing cowboy himself, Douglas B. Green (known as Ranger Doug of Grammy award-winning group 'Riders In The Sky')… Read More

Scrapbook. Very Good. No Binding. 1930s-50s. Scrapbook collection of TEX RITTER -- 'America's favorite singing cowboy', movie icon and country music singer. Disbound sheets, housed in protective handmade box, 11" x 15.5". Tex Ritter's original autograph is tipped-in. Back-cover shows pretty lithograph of landscape; front-cover missing. Scrapbook sheets have been repaired, and stabilized. TEX RITTER (1905-1974) was known as 'THE MAN FROM TEXAS' - his powerful baritone voice was heard over radio, on Broadway, and in 150+cowboy western movie musicals. Tex Ritter movies were full of good music, songs, comedy, fights, hard-riding, scenery, suspenseful stories. Scrapbook- 80+pgs. of paraphernalia, newspaper stories, fan club material detail Tex Ritter's iconic musical cowboy movies of the 1930s-50s. The scrapbook has many publicity shots of Tex- in magazines, 8x10" original photos, chromolith illustration shows Tex, Bill Elliott & their horses, 8x10"… Read More

Scrapbook. Very Good. Hardcover. This is an Original, Vintage three ring binder of news clippings, articles and photo illustrations of "The Circus". There are about 50 double sided pages (3 or 4 pages are blank) filled with clippings either glued or taped into the book. Circa 1936. Some of the circuses mentioned are: Hagenbeck-Wallace, Cole Brothers, Al G. Barnes, Cole Bros- Clyde Beatty, Ringling Brother - Barnum + Bailey, Walter L Main Circus and Haag Bros. Featured in the articles and illustrations are: clowns, tigers, bears, horses, dog act, elephants (Jumbo + Modoc plus more), hippos, acrobats, trapeze, snake charmer, Gargantua + Toto gorillas, Cristiani Family, midgets, wild west show, fat lady Alice from Dallas, Tattoo lady, Tom Mix plus much more! .