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

San Francisco: Bedford Arts, (1990). First edition, first printing. Square quarto. xxviii, 271, [1] pp. with 10p full page color illustrations of paintings of California. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1978. First edition. One of 400 copies printed at the Castle Press. Octavo with 30 full page photographic illustrations by Vroman. Publisher's quarter black cloth over patterned boards, gilt spine lettering. Very good.

San Francisco: San Francisco News Company, 1881. First edition. Inscribed by Truman on the front blank, Twelvemo. 212, [4], [12, ads] pp. Publisher's dark purple cloth with blind-stamped borders. Cover lettering within an elaborate gilt decorated panel, gilt spine lettering. A very clean and fresh copy with only the most minimal of extremity wear.This copy belonged to California Governor, George C. Perkins, with his stamp on the front endpaper. As well as being Governor of California, Perkins was a United States Senator from California from July 26, 1893, to March 3, 1915. Truman was a noted journalist who managed five California newspapers during his career. The ads are particularly satisfying; Taber Photography, Palace Hotel, the Silver King Mining Company in Arizona, S. & G. Gump, the Laguna and San Vincente Ranches in Los Angeles, etc.

New York: International Publisher's, (1934). First American edition. Octavo. 168 pp. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering (somewhat faded) and printed paper cover label. Stamp of "The Workers Book Shop" of New haven to the rear pastedown. A very good copy.

Paris: La Compaignie Typographique, 1933-1936 . One of 88 copies. Six large quarto volumes (11 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches). Publisher's tan cloth with central gilt emblems to covers, vertical red leather labels on spines ruled and lettered in gilt. With red silk page-markers. Title pages printed in black and red, scene numbers printed in red throughout text. Minor extremity wear, some light rubbing to a few of the spine labels else a near fine set.A beautiful edition of Moliere printed by A.A.M. Stols of Holland and printed on special paper made by J. Barcham Green and Son.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. First edition. Octavo. [i-iv] v-viii, [1-2] 3-56 pp. Publisher’s blue cloth, stamped in gold on the spine. Original dust jacket. Some very light chipping and rubbing to jacket extremities. A very good copy.

Cleveland: Great Lakes Exposition, 1936. First edition. Octavo. [48] pp. and being entirely comprised of photographic illustrations of the Exposition ("Photographs by Sutcliffe Studios, official photographers"). Publisher's color pictorial wrappers, Some general aging but a very good copy."Held in the summers of 1936 and 1937, the Great Lakes Exposition was sprawled over 135 acres of land near Cleveland's lakefront from W. 3rd St. to E. 20th St. Organized to celebrate the centennial year of the incorporation of the city of Cleveland, the Great Lakes Exposition sought to highlight "the material, social and cultural progress which has been achieved in the Great Lakes Region in the past 100 years" and to "indicate the paths of progress for the future."The Exposition featured hundreds of attractions, including rides, sideshows, botanical gardens, cafes, and more. In 1937, the Expo added an aquacade with water ballet shows featuring celebrities Johnny Weissmuller and Eleanor Holm. Some of the… Read More

[Sacramento]: Department of Pubic Works, 1934. First edition, Oblong folio (13 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches). 13 leaves, blue line maps and others printed on rectos only. Original brad-bound clue cloth with a window near the same to dispay the engineers name. Old small stain in upper corner, ese very good.This set of blueprints was only for 3 miles of the highway, from East Carpinteria along Rancho El Ricon along Casitas Creek to just past the West Casitas Pass. It includes detailed delineation of the planned highway, a public works project during the Great Depression, with elevations, etc., and designs for culverts, guard rails, supports, drains, etc. Formerly belonged to W. J. Calvin, with pencil note in the margin of the first leaf “ Please return W. J. Calvin, Resident Engineer. P.O. Box 'P' Carpinteria, Calif." Calvin worked in the area for more than thirty years. There are occasional pencil notes, diagrams, etc. on the plans, apparently by Calvin.The western terminus of Highway 150 is at US 101… Read More

Auburn, California: California Mining Journal, 1934. First edition. Quarto (12 x 9 inches). 20 pp. (including wrappers). Illustrated throughout and with a double page color map of region surrounding Auburn, including Nevada City, Grass Valley and Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, etc. Publisher's pictorial gold/yellow wrappers. Map with some offsetting in the center due to a laid in newspaper article. Small scrape to upper rear wrapper. Light general wear but a very good copy.Scarce little promotional piece published as an issue of the California Mining Journal. Of special importance is a listing of active mines in the Auburn district. Fifty-four mines are listed. Also included are numerous ads for claims and mining equipment. No copies listed in OCLC/WorldCat.

Chicago: Automobile Blue Book Publishing, 1919 & 1921. Vol. 8; Tall octavo. 776 pp. including numerous inserts, maps, photographic illustrations. Complete. Publisher's flexible blue cloth with gilt cover lettering. Expertly rebacked retaining the original spine. Ver good.Vol. 9; Tall octavo. 848 pp. including numerous inserts, maps, photographic illustrations. Complete but for the folding map at the rear (often missing as they were used). The map is reproduced in smaller segments on pp. 2-21. Publisher's flexible blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. Some creases and general rubbing but a good, complete copy.Between these two books the entire West Coast is covered. Between them they detail 1,783 driving routes across the arid west. These are exhaustive and comprehensive guides to early car touring in California and the West. With such instructions as 'turn left after the wooden bridge" we can infer that car travel in 1920 was a difficult proposition at best. There is an illustrated… Read More

[New York]: Barnes, 1933. First edition. Small octavo. 80 pp. Diagram of football field. Publisher's printed brown wrappers. Some erosion along spine. Very good.

New York: Vantage Press, 1955. First edition. Inscribed by the author ("With the best wishes of Robert H. Ruby"). Octavo. 115, [1] pp. plus 2 pp. of photographic illustrations of tribe members. Publisher's aqua cloth. In the original dust jacket (tear to upper panel but piece still present). A very good copy, inscribed, in a presentable jacket."In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation. Ruby and his wife were active in the social life of the non-white community, which allowed Ruby, also a self-trained ethnographer, to write in detail about the Oglala Lakota people and their culture, covering topics such as religion, art, traditions, and values. [These observations resulted in the title offered]His frank and personal depiction… Read More

San Francisco: Bay Books Limited, (1949). First edition. Limited issue; signed by all three authors and printed by the El Camino Press. Octavo. 187, [1] pp. Numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, photographic endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Jacket is in an old-fashion brodart that has opaque edges and it has been taped to pastedowns. Bookplate. A very fresh and clean copy in an attractive dust jacket.The history of eight narrow gauge railroads in the American West. They include the Nevada County Narrow Gauge in California, the Lake Tahoe Railway and Navigation Company, the South Pacific Coast Railroad, the Pacific Coast Railway and others.

Kansas City: Lowell Press, (1974). First edition. One of 150 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by the artist. 74 pp. with illustrations after Wieghorst on every page (many in color). Publisher's padded brown calf with large gilt facsimile signature of Wieghorst on front, yellow endpapers, matching slipcase. A very slight wave to lower edge of first few leaves but hardly noticeable. An excellent copy.Recognized as the "Dean of Western Painters", Wieghorst's work is often compared with that of Remington and Russell, and his paintings hang in the great public and private collections of western art.

Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art, 1981. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies. This copy inscribed by Wieghorst on the front endpaper: "To my good friend Jack, with best wishes for a happy trail ahead, Olaf Wieghorst." Oblong octavo. 80 pp. Numerous monochrome and color illustrations. Publisher's brown morocco with Wieghorst signature in blind on front, brown endpapers. An excellent copy.

New York: Harper and Brothers , 1899 & 1903 & 1915. First editions of all three titles. Octavos. Illustrated. Publisher's pictorial cloth of various hues. Each volume chemised and the whole housed in a partitioned half green morocco over green cloth slipcase with faux spine bearing gilt lettering. An exceptionally clean and attractive grouping in a very handsome presentation.With the very small and charming bookplate of Betsy S. Swartz. wife of retail mogul Harry H. Schwarts. "Margaret Deland's mother died in childbirth, her father died two days later, and she was raised by her aunt. As a writer of poems, short stories, and novels, she was known for dealing with then-controversial topics, as in her novel John Ward, Preacher, a best-seller about the philosophical clashes between a Calvinist minister and his Episcopalian wife. Many of her stories were set in the fictional town of Old Chester. She was married to Harvard football coach Lorin Fuller Deland, and for several years shared her home with… Read More

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. First American edition of this Wheelwright issue. Octavo with sixteen colored plates. Contemporary half red morocco over red cloth, spine compartments with gilt lettering and decoration, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. A very good copy with only slight rubbing.

Adyar [India]: The Theosophical Publishing House, (1954-1974}. Various printings but all published by the Theosophical Publishing House. Small octavos. Publishers cloth of different hues. Final volume with a dust jacket. Very clean and tidy and not unattractive.'Henry Steel Olcott (August 2, 1832 – February 17, 1907) was an agriculturist, American military officer, journalist, lawyer, and co-founder of the Theosophical Society. He held the title of President-Founder of the Society from 1875 till his death in 1907. He was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. During his presidency he helped to restore Buddhism in South Asia, and established schools for children of Buddhist and Hindu families, among many other notable achievements.It is believed Olcott will be remembered in the future not so much for his leadership of the Theosophical Society as for his public espousal of Buddhism in 1880 in Sri Lanka (then known as Ceylon). His action on… Read More

London: Printed for Thomas McLean, 1821. First edition. Large paper copy. Tall octavo (10 3/8 x 7 inches). viii, 136 pp. Complete with all twenty-four hand-colored aquatints (predominately in the nature of social commentary but many concerning hunting). Each plate bears a title, inscription, name of the publisher and the date, May, 1821. It was accepted knowledge for quite some time that these engravings were by Rowlandson but in fact they were not and were accomplished by someone in the 'school' of Rowlandson. Publisher's half burgundy roan over lighter burgundy cloth, flat spine with gilt lettering and gilt arabesques at top and bottom, marbled endpapers and edges. Light erosion to head of spine, extremities lightly worn. Bookplates of National Department Stores owner Harry H. Schwartz (the plate portrays his penthouse terrace at 944 5th Avenue; current residence of Barbara Walters) and financier and avid book collector Charles C. Auchincloss. Some offsetting from plates as is always the case. A… Read More

[Jerusalem]: [Jamal Brothers], 1910-1921. This very attractive item is comprised of the complete set of 110 photogravures of photographs by Schlomo Narinsky. Each gravure measures 5 3/8 x 3 1/2 inches and all are mounted into archival bifolios measuring 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Each gravure has its accompanying tissue guard. Table of contents printed of three buff sheets which are laid in at the front. The whole housed in a custom gray cloth clamshell case with a deep burgundy morocco gilt lettering label affixed to the front and spine. Very fresh and clean. A pleasure to behold.Just about everything in this cradle of religion is portrayed by these Narinsky photogravures. The photos include a portrait of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; Portrait of Sarah Aaronsohn; The Outlet of the Jordan River; Ain Fara Ravine: A Yeminite Beauty; A Bedouin and His Pride; The Wilderness of Judea; The Colony of Jann in Galilee; The Mosque El-Aksa; A View of Tiberius; etc. Each print is discreetly numbered in a very diminutive hand in… Read More