Search Results: Authors starting with S from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

[San Francisco]: N.p., [ca. 1900. Six vintage photographs of San Francisco in wonderfully hand decorated and lettered mats, circa 1900, Images include 'Market Street near the corner of Geary", featuring the San Francisco Chronicle building, now the Ritz Carlton (8 x 9-1/2 inches); "Seal Rock" (9-1/2 x 7-1/4 inches); "A view from the hills" (5-1/2 x 91/2 inches); The bay ferry "Oakland" (5-1/2 x 91/2 inches); and a fishing fleet at the pier (6-1/2 x 9 inches); "Ship Portrait" titled "California Shipping" (4 x 6 inches). The photograph of the Chronicle building, also known as the De Young Building, shows the building with it's clock tower. The building was erected in 1889 and was the tallest building in San Francisco at the time. In 1905 a fire destroyed the 4 story clock tower on the building. That dates this group of photos a being shot somewhere in the years between 1890 and 1905. All matted on mounts 14 x 1 inches. In the View from the Hills photograph we find at the bottom a manuscript stanza… Read More

Boston: Published for the author, 1840. Second edition of this title which went on to become a much larger book with a slightly different name. Octavo, 23, [1] pp. Stabbed and sewn in original plain blue wrappers. Some expected foxing, front wrapper with a small v chip to fore-edge, lower corner folded up a bit. Overall, a very good copy.An early American foray into botanical medicine. First page with a woodcut illustration of Pleurisy Root. This book is entirely composed of named plants and the benefits that can be derived therefrom.

Aron, NY: Aperture, (1980). First edition. One of 400 (#372) copies, specially bound from hand selected sheets and signed by the photographer's son, Gunther Sander. Quarto. 125, [2, blank], [1. publisher's statement] pp. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's two tone light brown cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering, beige endpapers. Original slipcase. Aside from a bit of spine sunning a very good copy.Copies number 201-400 are accompanied by a silver gelatin photograph entitled "Landscape near Heisterbach, 1935" printed from the original negative and signed by Gunther Sander. The photograph measures 8 x 10 inches. It is simply framed.

Taos: Taos Heritage Publishing, (1985). First edition. Oblong quarto. ix, [1], 140 pp. Numerous illustrations with may of them being full page color. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth with copper spine and cover lettering, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.Berninghaus first visited Taos in 1899. He settled there in 1925, became one of the six founders of the 'Taos Society of Artists' and eventually died there in 1952. He was a major American painter and won numerous awards. He is best known for his portrayals of Native Americans. Catalog of his known paintings at the rear.

Flagstaff: Northland Press, (1981). First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. Octavo. 69, [1] pp. With Santee illustrations. Publisher's quarter calf over mustard cloth, gilt spine lettering, slipcase. Some light sunning to spine else an excellent copy.

Boston: Colby and Rich, 1875. First edition. Octavo. 128 pp. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Some soiling and agint o wrappers but a very good and clean copy of this fragile book.Epes Sargent was a man of many abilities. Born to a good family in 1813 he traveled and learned widely and by the 30s he was friends with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun. During this time he also collaborated with Samuel Griswold Goodrich, writing the Peter Parley books. By 1839 he was the editor for the New York Mirror and The New World. H was in addition a successful playwright and a member of the Knickerbockers. In the late 40s he retuned to his hometown of Boston to be the editor of the Boston Evening Transcript. At around this time Sargent became captivated with the notion of communicating with the dead. He hosted many seances, and philosophical discussions. He published Planchette, or the Despair of Science (1869), The Proof Palpable of Immortality (1875), and The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism… Read More

San Francisco: Sierra Club, (1964). First edition. Small octavo. 176 pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's quarter grey cloth over pictorial boards, gilt spine and black cover lettering, pictorial dust jacket (with Sierra Club ads on the verso). Some minor darkening along jacket spine. A very good copy of this fine biography of one of the three great characters in Yosemite lore.

[San Francisco]: [The author], (1891). Second edition. Octavo. 248, [14, ads for San Francisco businesses] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, floral endpapers. One of the floral endpapers detached but entirely present else a very good copy indeed.

Chicago: Reilly & Britton, 1909. Second edition (published just 6 months after the first edition which makes it likely a second printing of the first edition). Octavo. 315, [1], [2, ads] pp. plus 4 full page illustrations. Publisher's pictorial blue cloth showing the Boys about their dirigible balloon and heading to the moon, lettered in white (and with the usual flaking). Old price on front flyleaf. Minor wear to extremities. A very good copy.

[Seattle]: The author, 1933. First edition (a facsimile was issued in the 70s). Small pamphlet (4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches). 16 pp. Publisher printed stiff orange wrappers. Excellent. Only three copies located by OCLC (all in WA).Sayre's family moved to the Northwest in 1890 when he was about 13. At the turn of the century, Sayre left Seattle to fight in the Spanish–American War in the Philippines. In 1903 he set the world record for circling the earth using public transportation exclusively, completing his trip in 54 days 9 hours and 42 minutes, Sayre's involvement with the theatre began around 1891 when he took a job at the Seattle Opera House folding programs. In 1899, Sayre began working as an advertising director for theater manager John Cort and soon opened Seattle's first theatrical advertising agency. In late 1907, he began his career as a theatrical critic with one of Seattle’s weekly papers, The Argus. He worked briefly for the Seattle Star in 1909, then returned to the Seattle Daily Times,… Read More

Paris: Berger-Levrault & Cie., 1907. First edition. Octavo. x, [2], 378 pp. plus 136 illustrations with the text. Blue cloth with gilt morocco lettering label. Original photographic front wrapper bound in. An excellent copy.

New York: Humboldt Publishing Company, 1890. First American edition. 55, [3, ads] pp. Publisher's printed buff wrappers. Lower front corner chipped. Overall, a very good copy."In 1871 Schäffle resigned his professorship to join the cabinet of Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart as minister of commerce for Austria. The government fell in that same year, however, and Schäffle took up residence in Stuttgart, where he devoted himself entirely to literary work. Schäffle's magnum opus, a treatise called Bau und Leben des sozialen Körpers (Construction and Life of the Social Body) was published in four volumes from 1875 to 1878. The work was a grandiose attempt to create a unified system combining the natural and social sciences. Schäffle attempted to show a unity between human social behavior and the biological processes observed by natural science, while retaining a spiritual aspect in the tradition of German idealist philosophy. In his Quintessence of Socialism (1875) and The Impossibility of Social… Read More

Camden: Liveoak Press , (1993). First edition of this reprint of the classic 11945 edition. One of 450 numbered copies. Quarto. Portrait, xviii, 117, 1[] pp. Illustrated throughout, many in color. Publisher's full brown calf, spine and front lettered and decorated in gilt, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, original glassine, cloth slipcase. A fine copy.

Philadelphia: L. H. Everets & Co., 1884. First edition. Three heavy quarto volumes. Extensively illustrated with maps and plates. Publisher's pebble-grain brown cloth with beveled edges, gilt spine and cover lettering, coated gray endpapers, all edges gilt. Some minor wear to spine extremities but overall a lovely copy of a book usually found in deplorable condition due to the fragility of the binding. Very handsome.The standard history with over 400 illustrations in its more than 2300 pages. "Westcott spends the majority of his career at the Sunday Dispatch, thirty-six years. This paper was the first Sunday weekly published in the city. It is here that he begins composing a series of articles on the “History of Philadelphia.” The first article that appears in 1854 opens with a contrastive view of “Philadelphia’s” landscape then, with its previous state whereupon Henry Hudson and other European explorers’ settled. “The green forest has disappeared, and in its place have arisen lofty… Read More

(Oslo): J.W. Cappelins Forlag, (19754). Two octavo volumes of this catalogue raisonne of Munch's graphic work. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's tan cloth with black and green lettering and front cover devises, original dust jackets mirroring the books. Near fine.

Austin: Stark Museum of Art, (1984). First edition. Quarto. 268 pp. Well illustrated and with a bibliography at rear. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy.William Herbert "Buck" Dunton was an American artist and a founding member of the Taos Society of Artists. He is noted for paintings of Native Americans, New Mexico, and the American Southwest. This is the definitive study of Dutton.

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1972). First edition, One of 300 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by the artist ('Buck Schiwetz"). Oblong quarto. 144 pp. with numerous full page plates after Schiwetz. Publisher's full red leather, gilt spine lettering, gilt cover decoration of a ranch house, ochre endpapers, slipcase. A very good copy.Laid in are two programs for 'The Year of the Buck. Tribute to a Texas Artist; Honoring E.M. 'Buck' Schiwetz'. One of them is the auction catalog and the other is a general information piece.

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887. First edition. Quarto. 75, [1] pp. plus 32 full page illustrations and a map in three parts. Among the illustrations are a group portrait of the crew and a portrait of Greely. Publisher's black cloth with gilt cover lettering. Small piece of cloth snagged at lower rear board else a very attractive copy; tight, clean and in the original cloth.

[Seattle]: [University of Washington?], 1931. First edition. Tall octavo. [36] pp. including numerous photographic illustrations, a full page map and others. Publisher's decorative wrappers. Central bifolium unmoored but an easy fix. Very bright and fresh.This is essentially an advertisement for a cruise to Alaska for young men aboard sailing boats (40 footers with auxiliary engines). It was lead by two young university teachers; Schmoe from the State Museum of Washington and and Harby from Columbia University. There are sections like the following; To the Boys, To the Parents; Excerpts from Diary of Last Year's Trip. All very well illustrated. Endorsements from parents and newspapers, etc. This was to be a "semi-scientific expedition" as the boys were expected to collect samples for the State Museum. Dr. Hubert Bauer, an ex-Commander in the German Navy, was their skipper. Application form at the end. Only 2 copies located by OCLC.

Muncih: George Muller, (1907). One of 750 numbered copies of this quality facsimile. Small octavo. [70, including an introduction by Paul Ernst]; [6], 569, [1] pp. Printed in German fractur. Publisher's full brown leather with red morocco gilt spine letter, covers and spine densely gilt, marbled endpapers. In original slipcase with printed paper spine label (some seam splitting). Small owner's signature at top blank margin of half and title pages. Very good.