Search Results: Authors starting with J from Tschanz Rare Books

Colorado Springs, CO: Denver & Rio Grande R.R., 1895. Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [10 cm x 13 cm] / [4" x 5"] on a dark gray mount [18 cm x 20 cm] / [7" x 8"] Blind stamp at the center of the lower margin. Denver & Rio Grande R.R. backstamp. Minor discoloring to the upper right corner of the mount. Title in the negative. Nice view of the original Saltair. Founded by Mormon leaders and the Salt Lake, Garfield and Western Railway, as an alternative to the "Gentile" resorts on the Great Salt Lake, Saltair has been the most successful of all of these resorts, and now in its third incarnation, after the previous were both destroyed by fires. Saltair also played a starring role in the horror film, 'Carnival of Souls.' The Denver & Rio Grande was founded by visionary General William Palmer in 1870 as the nation's first narrow-gauge railroad, Colorado's 'Baby Road' became a vital link in the national transportation system.

[Denver]: William H. Jackson & Company, 1882. Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [11 cm x 18 cm] / [4.5" x 7"] unmounted. Title in the negative. Nice contrasts. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western photographers. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from cliff dwellings to industrial urban centers.

Salt Lake City, UT: Earth First!, 1981. Bumper sticker [9 cm x 31 cm] / [3.5" x 12.25"] White stock printed in green ink. Unused. Fine. Earth First! was an environmental group founded by Dave Foreman, Ron Kezar, Mike Roselle, Howie Wolke, and Bart Koehler in 1980 as an alternative to more mainstream groups such as the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society. EF! describes itself as "pure, hard-line, radical," and advocates supplementing lobbying practices with more direct tactics such as "demonstrations" and "confrontations." In addition to supporting traditional conservation, EF! calls for the re-creation of wilderness through the construction of a national system of ecological preserves in which dams, roads, and other traces of human activity will be removed. "No Compromise in Defense of Mother Earth." Rare.

Detroit: Detroit Photographic Company, 1899. Photochrome [23 cm x 17.5 cm] / [9" x 7"] nicely matted and framed [41 cm x 35 cm] / [16" x 14"] Image is bright and sharp. Bright view of two women (one seated/one standing) in front of a pueblo (Shongopovi?) with a pile of corn in the foreground. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western photographers. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from cliff dwellings to industrial urban centers. Launched as a photographic publishing firm in the late 1890s, The Detroit Photographic Company, later the Detroit Publishing Company, obtained exclusive right for use of the Swiss "Photochrom" process. This process permitted the mass production of color postcards, prints, and albums for sale to the American market. In 1897, landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson, joined the firm, adding Jackson's thousands of negatives to the… Read More

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1872. 98. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange 'Views of the Rocky Mountains - Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories' mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Printed Anthony back stamp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Image has strong contrasts. In 1870 Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden invited Jackson to become the official photographer of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Jackson remained with the Survey until 1878, working closely with the artist Thomas Moran and others. The official report of the Survey for 1875 stated of Jackson's photographs: "They have done very much, in the first place, to secure truthfulness in the representation of mountain and other scenery." William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from… Read More

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1872. 93. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange 'Views of the Rocky Mountains - Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories' mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Printed Anthony back stamp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Image has strong contrasts. In 1870 Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden invited Jackson to become the official photographer of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Jackson remained with the Survey until 1878, working closely with the artist Thomas Moran and others. The official report of the Survey for 1875 stated of Jackson's photographs: "They have done very much, in the first place, to secure truthfulness in the representation of mountain and other scenery." William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from… Read More

Englewood, CO: Westcliffe Publishers, 1999. First Edition. 224pp. Folio [32 cm] Full leather with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Near fine. Colorado 1870-2000 is a pictorial history of frontier Colorado consisting of repeat photography by photographers William Henry Jackson and John Fielder and was success with Colorado residents and is most widely known as Colorado Then and Now. It won the Colorado Humanities Colorado Book Award for nonfiction of Colorado/West in 1999. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western photographers. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from cliff dwellings to industrial urban centers.

St. Louis, MO: C.V. Mosby Company, 1985. First Edition. 452pp. Quarto [29 cm] Grained dark blue buckram with gilt titles. Near fine with no marks or writing.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1900. Monterey Edition. 2 volume set. 310, 308pp. Octavos [21 cm] Lovely blue trade binding with the titles in gilt on front boards and backstrips with decorative floral stamping. In original cloth dust jackets. Near fine/Near fine. Bookplates on the front free endsheets. Lacks slipcase. With 25 tipped-in illustrations by Henry Sandham, each with titled tissue guards. Nice edition of this classic California novel that helped to spread the fame of the state, and no doubt helped to fuel migration to the area in the late 1800s and the first few decades of the 20th century. This work also helped to publicize the injustices and ill-treatment of the indigenous peoples of California, which in turn led to reforms in the administration of Native American affairs. Zamorano Eighty: 46.

[Denver, CO], 1891. Albumen cabinet card [11 cm x 18.5 cm] unmounted. Near fine. String contrasts. Nice image of Cascade Avenue in Colorado Springs with Cheyenne Mountain in the background by the famed pioneer western photographer, William Henry Jackson. William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from cliff dwellings to industrial urban centers.

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1872. 99. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange 'Views of the Rocky Mountains - Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories' mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Printed Anthony back stamp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Image has strong contrasts. In 1870 Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden invited Jackson to become the official photographer of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Jackson remained with the Survey until 1878, working closely with the artist Thomas Moran and others. The official report of the Survey for 1875 stated of Jackson's photographs: "They have done very much, in the first place, to secure truthfulness in the representation of mountain and other scenery." William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from… Read More

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1872. 94. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange 'Views of the Rocky Mountains - Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories' mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Printed Anthony back stamp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Image has strong contrasts. In 1870 Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden invited Jackson to become the official photographer of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Jackson remained with the Survey until 1878, working closely with the artist Thomas Moran and others. The official report of the Survey for 1875 stated of Jackson's photographs: "They have done very much, in the first place, to secure truthfulness in the representation of mountain and other scenery." William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from… Read More

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1872. 102. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange 'Views of the Rocky Mountains - Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories' mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Printed Anthony back stamp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Image has strong contrasts. In 1870 Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden invited Jackson to become the official photographer of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Jackson remained with the Survey until 1878, working closely with the artist Thomas Moran and others. The official report of the Survey for 1875 stated of Jackson's photographs: "They have done very much, in the first place, to secure truthfulness in the representation of mountain and other scenery." William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from… Read More

New York: E. & H.T. Anthony & Co, 1872. 96. Stereoview. Albumen photograph [9.5 cm x 15.5 cm] on an orange 'Views of the Rocky Mountains - Dep't of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey of the Territories' mount [10 cm x 18 cm] Printed Anthony back stamp. Minor rubbing to extremities. Image has strong contrasts. In 1870 Dr. Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden invited Jackson to become the official photographer of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories. Jackson remained with the Survey until 1878, working closely with the artist Thomas Moran and others. The official report of the Survey for 1875 stated of Jackson's photographs: "They have done very much, in the first place, to secure truthfulness in the representation of mountain and other scenery." William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) was one of the most prolific (and maybe the most famous) of Western artists. During his lengthy career, Jackson photographed and painted numerous views of the West between Nebraska and California, from… Read More

Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co, 1939. First Edition. 92pp. Small quarto [21 cm] Green cloth with the title stamped in black on the front board and backstrip. About very good. Minor wear to boards with gentle rubbing to corners. Name in ink on the verso of the half-title. Nine full-page color illustrations by Kay Russon. A five-page glossary of medical terms at the rear. Juvenile health book by the long-time Assistant Superintendent of Primary Children's Hospital, Virginia Jacobsen and Dr. Haines from the University of Utah Medical School. This is the second book, of the two book series on Jimmy Microbe. We locate four institutional holdings. Rare.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941. First Edition. 290pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Bookplate attached to rear flap of jacket (not attached to rear pastedown). "What you hold in your hands is the San Francisco book you have always hoped someone would have the genius to contrive. You have never seen its like. It isn't the time-worn tale you have read as history or fiction. It is the very life, the eating and drinking, the shooting, the loving, the laughter and tears, of the city you know must have been there in the Heroic Age but that no one, until now, has conjured up and coiled down so it would spring out the moment you opened the covers - like a miraculous Jack-in-the-box that turns out to be a big variety show, crowded with action and peopled with characters you will never forget." - from the jacket.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1911. 392pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Illustrated with 64 tipped-in plates. Very good. Illustrated history on the California Missions. George Wharton James (1858-1923) was an author, lecturer and photographer who made his home in Pasadena and was active in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was a member of the Arroyo community known for his studies on Native Americans, James was a prolific author who penned more than forty books including the classic guide: 'Grand Canyon of Arizona.'.

Pasadena: G. Wharton James, Photo, 1890. Large format. Albumen photograph [15.5 cm x 20.5 cm] / [6" x 8"] on a tan mount [16.5 cm x 22 cm] / [6.5" x 8.5"] title in the negative with a James hand stamp on the reverse (faded). Overall nice condition with good contrasts. Nice view of the Grand from Bissel's [Zuni] Point on the South Rim. George Wharton James (1858-1923) was an author, lecturer and photographer who made his home in Pasadena and was active in the late 19th century and early 20th century. He was a member of the Arroyo community known for his studies on Native Americans, James was a prolific author who penned more than forty books including the classic guide: 'Grand Canyon of Arizona.'.

San Antonio, TX: The Naylor Company, 1958. First Edition. 286pp. Octavo [22 cm] Blue cloth with the title in red on the front board and backstrip. Both book and jacket are better than very good. Jacket is price clipped. Nice map endsheets and pastedowns of Hopiland. Signed by the author and artist on a tipped-in leaf before the half-title. Numbered copy 39, from an unspecified limited edition. Illustrated and designed by Don Perceval. Novel that takes place on the Hopi Mesas. "The story of an Indian returning to his reservation, his people and the tribal way of life is stirringly told. Jim Telastewa, back from a tour of duty with the Navy was faced with a tremendous decision: Was he to be a Red Man in a White Man's world, or, after having tasted the delicious, heady wine of complete freedom in a modern world, was he to return to the kiva, the mud hogan, there to live out his life." - from the jacket.

Los Angeles: Clymer Motors, 1945. 'Deluxe Edition' [Second Edition]. 78pp. Duodecimo [20 cm] Burgundy boards with gilt stamped titles on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. Minor rubbing to corners. Signed by Jenkins at the foot of a typed personalized bookplate that is on the front pastedown. This is Jenkins love letter to the Bonneville Salt Flats. David Abbott Jenkins (1883-1956) was a professional race car driver, and one-time Salt Lake City mayor (1940-1944), who set many land speed records in his famed car the ‘Mormon Meteor,' some stood for decades. "To what do I attribute my physical endurance? This question has been put to me many times. I attribute my endurance to total abstinence from intoxicating beverages and tobacco. Yes, I have many times been approached with offers for the use of my name in testimonials for the sale of things injurious to the health. I wouldn't sell the boys and girls short for any sum of money. I am proud of the youth of my country. I want to… Read More