Search Results: Titles starting with F from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

Paris: Editions Emile-Paul Freres, 1948. One of 1000 numbered copies. Octavo. 166, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Printed on blue paper and with vignettes by Ferrand throughout. Designer binding of full blue morocco with raised squares in a checkerboard design, gilt fountain motif on front, smooth spine with gilt lettering, wide turn-ins, decorative endpapers. Sunning to spine else an attractive copy.

Santa Ana: Western Resort Publications, 1956. Accordion-style promotional pamphlet with one panel of text about growing dates in Southern California, 12 postcard-size illustrations of scenes involving date growing in the Imperial Valley of California. Meant to be mailed and with spaces for address. One card with a slice else very good.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1936. First edition. Quarto. 41, [1] pp. plus 403 photographic illustrations, most with elaborate descriptions. Publisher's pictorial boards. Some edge wear at bottom and to portion of spine. previous owner's inscription. A tight, clean and attractive copy of this title that was no doubt meant o be an a photographic version of her "Mother India."

Industrial Department of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, 1927. First edition. Quarto (9 x 12 inches). 26, [2] pp. including a plethora of photographic illustrations about commercial Los Angeles and two maps (one double page spread in the middle and a single page map On inner back cover. Publisher's illustrated and tinted self-wrappers. On the bottom is a continues parade of blue color workers and each cover bears a cartouche; the front being a world map and the rear being a (rather Bolshevik) image of a man at work. Excellent condition.Pleasure-seekers had been moving to Los Angeles in droves since the 1880s. This is an attempt by the Chamber of Commerce to entice more industry. It discusses L.A.s cheap and abundant water, power and fuel, the raw material in the immediate vicinity and the excellence of its harbors. It then goes on the describe the manufacturers currently doing ban-up business in LA: Food, leather products, textiles, clothing, metallic industries, furniture and woodworking,… Read More

(Yuma): (Morning Press Sun), (1915). First edition. Octavo. [24] pp. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Publisher's light orange wrappers with lettering in black and red and a view of the 'New Highway Bridge'. A very good copy with no faults.After the passage of the Reclamation Act by the US Congress in 1902, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation began constructing the dam under the Yuma Project in 1903. This project was the first development of the U.S. Reclamation Service along the Lower Colorado River and featured the Laguna Diversion Dam, a pumping station and a series of canals. By December 1908, the water bypass around the dam was complete and workers began to pour the rock-fill. Three large concrete walls supported by 6-inch sheet-wood pilings were built across the river for the dam's foundation. Rock-fill was placed in between and on the outsides of these walls for support. The California sluiceway consisted of three iron gates while the Arizona sluiceway had one. Mexican-Americans… Read More

Emeryville: Havilah Press, 2002. First limited edition. One of 150 copies; this copy signed by Snyder. Octavo, xx [Snyder's insightful foreword], 21, [1] (facsimile of the original 1871, complete with facsimile burgundy wrappers and a fold out view of the Valley), [4, notes and colophon) pp. Publisher's quarter creme cloth over blue boards, printed paper spine label. As new.Prospectus laid in.

[New York]: Pacific Coast Borax Co., [ca. 1925]. First edition. Small twelvemo. The title page reads "Concerning Borax Bill and the Famous 20 Mule Borax Team from Death Valley California." 1[16] pp. including frontispiece of Borax bill. Charmingly illustrated through and with a half-tone of the mule team across two pages. Publisher's brown printed wrappers with highlights in red. Excellent condition. he wagons were among the largest ever pulled by draft animals, designed to carry 10 short tons (9 metric tons) of borax ore at a time. The rear wheels measured seven feet high, with tires made of one-inch-thick iron. The wagon beds measured 16 feet long and were 6 feet deep and were constructed of solid oak. They weighed 7,800 pounds empty; when loaded with ore, the total weight of the mule train was 73,200 pounds. Long after the transportation of the borax was mechanized, the company sent. out these 20 mule teams as a sort of advertisement. Promotional team appearances ended with an outing in the… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1838. First edition. Two volumes. Small octavo. 263, [1]; 241, [1] pp. Publisher's salmon muslin with printed papers spine labels. Some foxing to first and least leaves, labels with wear (but mainly legible), some soiling to cloth and A piece of the front and rear endpaper in first volume excised. Still, a very good copy in the publisher's binding.Written when he was 23, Edmund Flagg went on the become a successful writer, lawyer and diplomat. "Edmund Flagg was born November 24, 1815, in Wicasset, Maine. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1835 and then moved to Louisville, Kentucky. In Louisville, Flagg taught school and became a contributor to the Louisville Journal. He came to St. Louis in 1836 and studied law under Hamilton R. Gamble. After completing The Far West (1838), a journal of his wanderings through Illinois and Missouri, he worked briefly for a Louisville newspaper. Flagg practiced law in Vicksburg, Mississippi,with noted orator S.S. Prentiss and then… Read More

Bern: Verlag Hans Huber, 1951. First edition, Publisher's bluee cloth clamshell case with gilt cover lettering containing the following: The title above. Octavo. 157, [1] pp. plus tow trail tests with the colors laid down; 16 completed tests (with the colored squares attached to the printed pyramids: all done by a 9 year old Etty Teller, age 9); many blank test forms, hundreds of little colored squares; and a large number of blank test scoring sheets. The clamshell case has a small split along the side (not affecting integrity), there is some underlining in the first part of the accompanying book no doubt by the previous owner-Dr. Arthur Teller of Geneva (surely Etty Teller was his daughter and he likely practised on her). Overall, very good.The Color Pyramid Test is a projective personality measure. It was developed by the Swiss psychologist Max Pfister, who used the test to reveal deviant personality characteristics. he test consists of a black and white squared pyramid chart. The subject is… Read More

[Boston]: Harvard University, [ca. 1945]. One-off. Folio (11 x 14 inches) . One leaf of printed text, 11 leaves bearing am original (but for one) silver gelatin photograph of a Harvard Mathematics professor. Full crushed red morocco, covers with four gilt rules, front cover with gilt initial G.P., mulberry endpapers, all edges gilt. In the original felt-line and morocco-edge slipcase of gray cloth. A beautiful item.At first glance, one is tempted to think that the Universxity paid for this souvenit on the death of Putman but the lettering on the only text leaf and some dates of certain professors give doubt to that idea. The text leaf reads "To Our Friend and Benefactor through Many Years, George Putman, from the Mathematics Department at Harvard University as a Token of Respect and Appreciation." Putnam, who famously married Amelia Earhart, died in 1950.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1887. First edition. Octavo. 483, [1] pp. Publisher's ochre cloth with red spine lettering, pictorial front cover with red and black lettering, slate endpapers. Slight extremity wear, spine a bit dulled, previous owner's name, and front endpaper excised. Else a clean and attractive copy.A rare piece of fiction by renown American philosopher and historian Josiah Royce who is is perhaps best remembered for his Zamorano 80 title; California.

Chicago: Monument Committee, (1896). First edition. Quarto. [38] pp. All well illustrated. Publisjer's white cloth with lettering and a central device in green, all edges gilt. A superior copy.Complete with the tipped in announcement of Ringling Brothers participation in this event as well as a sheet of unused subscription blanks.

Ft. Collins: The Old Army Press, (1971). First edition. One of 50 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by the author and illustrator. Each copy with an original drawing by Reedstrom on the verso opposite the limitation page (this copy with a drawing a mounted bugle player). Octavo. 154, [30, appendix and bibliography] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's full red leather with gilt spine lettering and gilt drum on front, gilt turn-ins, heavy red endpapers, slipcase. A fine copy.A history of the place of music within the American military.

Ft. Worth: Marvin D. Evans Co., [ca. 1940]. Fifteen half-tone photographic illustrations of rodeo scenes in postcard format. Titles are; #1 Casa Santa Gertrudis, Palatial Headquarters House of the famous King Ranch; #2 Paul Gould Bucked From Badger Mountain; #3 [2] Ernie Barnett High Handing Wild Bronc; #6 [2] Toots Mansfield Calf Roping and Clyde Burk Steer Roping; #7 Earl Wofford Bulldogging (Wrestling) Wild Texas Longhorn; #11 Nancy Bragg, Sensational Fancy Rider, in her Famous Back Bend Trick; #11 Vivian White, Champion Cowgirl, Sitting Pretty in Grand Entry ; #12 [2 of this number but with different postures] John Lindsey, Famous Rodeo Comedian and Hoytt Hefner, Daredevil Bullfighting Clown; #16 Sam Stewart, Texas Cowboy, Fighting a Brahma Bull; #20 Junior Martin Flying High on Carlsbad Bat; #22 Marvin Ramsey Lassoing Five Rodeo Horses; #23 Don and Virginia Wilcox, Trick Riders and Fancy Ropers. Very good."John Addison Stryker was born in Rockford, Illinois, on September 1, 1883. He graduated… Read More

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. Thick octavo. xxv,[1], 673, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait and 350 illustrations from photographs and drawings (eighty-five by Charles M. Russell, including four color plates). Each plate accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, pictorial label on front cover, decorative endpapers. Minor extremity wear and previous owner's discreet signature but a very good copy.Mrs. Strahorn travelled throughout the West with her husband while he was engaged in writing promotionals for the Union Pacific Railroad. Their travels were extensive, and the author’s enthusiasm and eye for detail make this one of the key narratives by a woman. The color plates and multitude of black and white vignettes and plates by Charles Russell render it a prime Russell item as well.The author was “glad to linger over the humorous, to separate from its crude surroundings the picturesque element,… Read More

New York: Telephone Pioneers of America, 1915. First edition. Octavo. 147, [1, ad for ribbons and medals of the convention] pp. Photographic illustrations. Publisher's string-tied buff printed wrappers. Yapp edges a bit crimped but a very good copy.This publication opens with a five-page paean to San Francisco. On p. 41 we find a chapter entitled - Early Telephone Experiences of the Pacific Coast.

(Flagstaff): Northland Press, (1975). First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Large quarto. xiv, 457, [1, printer's slug], [1, colophon], [16, black pages with headers for updates on living artists]. Publisher's quarter black roan over blue boards, silver spine lettering, silver design on front, light gray endpapers, slipcase. A fine copy.

V.p.: N.p, [ca. 1900]. Three parts bound together (as above; Filicales & Ophioglossales; At Nara) with 120 actual Japanese fern specimens mounted to 16 leaves. All pencil captioned in Hiragana or Katakana. Amateur string-tied wrappers. But for three specimens that have fallen away a very nice example of an amateur Japanese herbal.

San Francisco: Falcon Entertainment and Brentwood, 1976-82. A fine collection of mid-70s to early 80s gay film flyers and catalogs. There are seven original envelopes containing 32 flyers and catalogs plus one larger catalog from the video department of Chicago's gay Bijou Theatre (ca. 1982 with 109 pp. advertising "over 600 gay male video tapes"). The inserts (folded and very well illustrated from photographs, almost all in color) advertise either gay porn stars or their movies. Presumably one could order these films but we see no ordering forms (other than in the Bijou catalog). Today these barely lift an eyebrow but in 1977 they were considered almost illegal. Filled with highly detailed pornographic gay photographic images. Very good condition.Falcon Entertainment (also known as Falcon Studios), a United States company based in San Francisco, California, is one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography. Founded in 1971 by Chuck Holmes, the company is one of the most recognizable brand… Read More

Cambridge: Printeed by John Wilson and Son, 1980-1892. First edition of Parts I & II. Two octavo volumes. Map and illustrations. Publisher's printed wrappers with red cloth tape spines and typewritten spine labels. A bit of interesting marginalia. Some edge chipping and soiling to wrappers and a bit of biopredation to spines but overall a good and clean copy.