Search Results: Titles starting with O from Dawson's Book Shop

Bedford Arts, San Francisco, (1990 ). 12 x 9 3/4 inches, 271 pages, cloth.

Argonaut Press, London, 1933. Very good. 10 x 7 1/2 inches, 190 pages, cloth with vellum spine, First thus. One of 475 printed; this is an unnumbered (out of series) copy. Corners bumped; vellum slightly discolored. All maps are present.

151 pages, signed by Avedon on half-title page.

Dawson's Book Shop, (Los Angeles), (1989). Fine. Limited edition: One of 500 copies by the Ward Ritchie Press 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 189 pages, decorative boards with cloth spine.

R. H. Russell, New York, 1901. Very good, lacking front endpaper . First Edition 14 1/4 x 10 inches, [58] pages, boards with paste down illustrations on front cover.

Ideograph, Menlo Park, 1975. 11.75 in. x 8.75 in., 108 pages, Cloth, Dust Jacket, Inscribed by the photographer in pen on inside front cover and dated "5/8/75". The inscription reads, "To my best friend and fine photographer.", A note in pencil on front endpaper indicates this copy was given to the photographer Paul Caponigro.

A. Mesnier, Paris, 1828. Very good: discoloration to endsheets, old faint Hungarian library stamp on title, same stamp repeated on page 229, intermittent soiling to deckle edges. 3 3/8 x 2 1/4 inches, viii, 229, (1) pages, contemporary blind-ruled black morocco, spine in six compartments, ribbon bookmark, uncut, moderate rubbing to binding, tips showing, Printed by Didot. The type is 2 1/2-point, cut by Henri Didot. Spielmann 201. Welsh 3568.

Hand Press, Los Angeles, (1981). Very good. Limited edition 12 x 9 inches, 100 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Signed.

576 pages plus 2 leaves of color printing advertising Parker Pens, small section cut out from leaf 201-202, closed tear to 307-308, 7 ¾ x 5 inches, wrappers, laid into printed cloth cover, some soiling and wear to covers, paper yellowed in certain sections but overall a very nice copy. Johnson Smith & Co. was a mail-order company established in 1914 by Alfred Johnson Smith in Chicago selling novelty and gag gift items such as x-ray goggles, whoopee cushions, fake vomit, and joy buzzers. The company would put ads in magazines devoted to children and young adults such as Boy's Life, Popular Mechanics and Science Digest. Their ads appeared on the back cover of many historically significant comic books, including Action Comics #1, June 1938. The company moved from Chicago to Racine, Wisonsin in 1926, to Detroit in the 1930s, and from the Detroit area to Brandenton, Florida in 1986. The company closed in 2019 after 105 years in business.The original offered for sale here was reprinted in 1970 by Chelsea… Read More

First edition. Unnumbered pages featuring 71 full page reproductions from Bianchi's photographs of male nudes, 11 ½ x 11 ½ inches, cloth with dust jacket, cloth slipcase. Limited edition of 150 copies numbered and signed by the photographer of which this is number 93. Laid in the book is a gelatin silver photograph numbered and signed by the photographer measuring 9 ½ x 6 ½ inches on paper measuring 11 x 10 ½ inches. The photograph is the image appearing on the dust jacket of the book.

The author coined the term "Outsider Art" that is now commonplace fifty years later. Text on the inside flap of the dust jacket describes the book as "a fascinating excursion into a world where hermits, madmen, drop-outs, innocents and spiritual fanatics create their own wildly imaginative art."

Nazreili Press, Tucson, [2002]. Near fine. First Edition 16 1/2 x 13 inches, unnumbered pages, boards, top front corner slightly bumped, Dust Jacket (slight crimp to d.j. at top front corner), Signed by the photographer in felt pen at bottom edge of title page, Printed in an edition of 2000 copies.