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

New York: The Tea and Coffee Trade Jornal Company, 1935. Second edition. Tall octavo. xiv, 818 pp. Color frontispiece and numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, map endpapers. Minor wear to spine extremities. A very good copy of this much enlarged edition.

New York: Crowell Publishing Company, 1927. In the July 1927 issue of The Mentor (All-American Number). Magazine complete. Ullman's article with numerous photographic illustrations is on pp. 41-50. Also includes a fine article by Douglas Branch on the American Cowboy, an article by Lula Merrick on the painter James R. Hopkins entitled He Paints the Cumberland Mountain Folk, and an article by Charles Phelps Cushing on the Ozarks (al articles with numerous illustrations). Publisher's pictorial wrappers. Very good.

[Los Angeles]: n.p., (1988). First edition. Small octavo. [78] pp. with large illustrations after Undine on nearly every recto. Publisher's stiff black wrappers with black tape spine. Printed paper cover label bearing title on the front and on the rear we find another printer's label that just states "Friese." No record on OCLC or anywhere else. Not copyrighted. A very haunting story/poem with excellent illustrations. Conceivably the only copy extant."The Book of Guess... was inspired by a dream a year previously about a book that had an hypnotic effect on its reader. The images were all drawn while I was hitchhiking around the US and Canada in the years of ‘85 through ‘88." From correspondence with the illustrator.Friese Undine was born in Los Angles but now lives in New York. While primarily a painter, Friese also produces three-dimensional pieces and has written and performed works for theater. His work has been exhibited in the USA and internationally. Other interests of his are… Read More

[Cambridge]: N.p., [ca. 1910. Folio album with leaves measuring 10 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. The album contains 26 very sharp heliogravures of most of the buildings at Harvard. The gravure sheets measure 10 x 17 inches with the images generally being 8 x 6 inches. One gravure to each leaf all all with extensive manuscript captioning beneath. Contemporary blue cloth with front heavily gilt in a floral pattern and with two circular insets of songs birds. The first nine leaves have become detached from their stub to little consequence. A very nice collection, enhanced by the knowledgeable captions. It is very difficult to ascribe a time as there are no people or cars in any of the views but as Hemenway Gymnasium was torn down in 1938 that is the latest possible date (although from other factors we think it more likely to be around 1910). There nearly as many interior images as exterior and the last image is of the Student Boat House on the Charles River. Some of the buildings included are ; Law School,… Read More

West Lafayette, IN: [Senior Staff at Purdue], 1950s. First edition. 13 issues of this student periodical. Vol 9, Nos. 2 & 3; Vol. 10, No. 2; Vol. 11, Nos. 1-4; Vol 12. Nos. 1-3 and 3 special issues. All are 32 pp. each and with numerous ads and photographic illustrations. Publisher's color pictorial wrappers (often using a cartoon). Some expected edge wear but very good overall.One Vol. 12 issue is a parody of all thing beatnik.

Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1891. First edition of Updike's first book. Tall octavo. 154, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Complete with both fold-out charts. Publisher's half black morocco over marbled boards (expertly rebacked to style), gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers. Minor foxing to first three and last three leaves (mainly blanks). Armorial bookplate. An untrimmed and very handsome copy of this scarce title. According the RBH, the last copy to appear at auction was in 1940.The first book designed by Mr. Updike, printed under his supervision at the Riverside Press. “Before he began work on his own account, Updike had made one book, and only one, in which he had had entirely his own way. It is a simple volume, with little that is distinctive or decorative about it, except that there is nothing wrong; the proportions of page and margins, title, size of types and composition, tone of paper and quality of press work offer nothing for obvious criticism. The book is ‘An Inquiry into the Naming of… Read More

Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. First complete edition. One of 300 copies, signed by the author. Tall octavo. Publisher's quarter black cloth over patterned boards, gilt spine lettering, brown endpapers. Spine lightly sunned. A very good copy.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1855. Eighth edition. Octavo. 396 pp. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Even toning throughout and a very old paper sticker to base of spine. A very nice copy indeed.Thomas Cogswell Upham was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of a trader. He attended Dartmouth College (B.A. 1818) and the divinity school at Andover, where he began his academic career as an assistant in the department of Hebrew. In 1824 he became professor of mental and moral philosophy at Bowdoin College in Maine, a post that he held until 1867. His textbooks were frequently republished in the nineteenth century. "At Bowdoin he was one of the best known teachers in a rather distinguished faculty. Although he came to his professorship from a pastorate, he soon gave up preaching and public speaking, and made his strong religious influence felt in the classroom, in small groups of students, and with individuals. He was actively interested in… Read More

Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1973. First edition. Octavo. 316 pp. with numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very good and clean copy.

New Haven: New Haven Public Schools, 1964. First edition. Folio (18 1/4 x 18 inches). Comprised of 10 original photographs of urban New Haven by Reginald Jackson. Plate list tipped into rear. No text other than that on the front cover and its verso. Spiral-bound thick wrapper. Front wrapper with silver-fishing and with a tear on the upper front corner. No copies located by OCLC.Apparently, there were to be 10 of these publications, each with 10 photographs. We can find no record of any of them anywhere. In the introduction we read: "You are part of a pilot project unprecedented in urban curriculum materials development. We value your involvement and commitment to help make these study prints a potent force for helping today's students become more fully functioning individuals." An early fruit of the civil rights movement.

Slat Lake City: Press of the F. W. Gardiner Co., [1913]. First edition. Twelvemo. 142, [2] pp. Publisher's red wrappers bearing a representation of Lopez on the front. First leaf (stating proceeds will be given to the widows of the men killed by Lopez) starting to pull away from staples (though still very secure), small hole in upper margin of rear blank endpaper, spine somewhat sunned. Overall, a very good copy.On November 21, 1913, Raphael "Red" Lopez shot and killed a fellow miner named Juan Valdez in Bingham, Utah. A four-man posse was soon on his trail, and they caught up with him at about 4:30 p.m. on the same day. Unfortunately for the officers, they rode their horses right into an ambush in which three of them were killed and one limped back to report the slaughter. News of the shootout quickly spread. Lawmen from all over Utah assembled to participate in what would become the state's largest manhunt in history. Altogether, the new posse consisted of about 200 men, both civilians and… Read More

Salt Lake City: Bureau of Information, [1922]. Small octavo. 95, [1] pp. with illustrations throughout and ads on inner covers. Publisher's wrappers with a color illustration of Salt Lake City on front and Hotel Utah on the back. Very good condition.

Austin: University of Texas Press, (1985). First edition. Quarto. 64 pp. with color illustrations. Publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Some old tape residue on front endpaper (holding down a review slip possibly), very light edge wear to jacket. A very good copy.