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

Kansas City: Lowell Press, 1978. First edition. One of 150 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by the artist. Oblong quarto. xv, [1], 128, [2] pp. Illustrated throughout, many in color. Publisher's binding is quite unusual; the top half is marbled boards and the bottom half is red calf, gilt spine and cover lettering, red endpapers, slipcase with gilt facsimile signature. A fine copy.R. Brownell McGrew moved to California with his family when he was a child and enrolled at the Otis Art Institute, studying with Ralph Holmes, Although he preferred portrait painting, he won recognition for landscapes and was so proficient technically that he spent his last year at Otis teaching. He worked as a commercial artist for M.G.M. and Columbia studios and then discovered a love for desert painting. Portrait painting, especially Navajo and Hopi Indians from Arizona and New Mexico, are what he is probably best known for.

New Zealand: Tourist Department, 1906. Original real picture postcard of a Maori chief probably named Te Ritimana wearing huia feathers and with moko (facial tattooing). Photographed by the New Zealand Tourist Department. This card was posted to London and bears a New Zealand one penny stamp. Corners a bit rounded but a very good copy.'Tattoo' is the English version of the Tahitian word tatu. Tattoo is the tradition of marking the skin with ink and needles, whereas moko is the practice of scarring and marking the skin to reflect the whakapapa (genealogy) of the Maori wearer.

(Long Beach): Johnston-Howe Publications, (1963). First edition. Quarto. 206 pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Publisher's black cloth with yellow cover and spine lettering. pictorial dust jacket (slight foxing to jacket). A very clean and handsome copy.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. xv, (3), 182 pp. plus numerous full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's deep blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, gilt petroglyph to front. Spine dulled else a very nice copy.Francis P. Farquar's copy with his distinctive signature.

Washington DC: Association of American Geographers, 1934. First separate edition. Octavo. 131-156 pp. plus two large folding charts. Publisher's olive wrappers with black cover lettering. Partially unopened. Inscribed by the author. An excellent copy.

San Francisco: Printed for the Friends of the Bancroft Library, The University of California , 1961. First edition. One of 200 cloth bound copies. Quarto. [6], 24, [2] pp. plus two full page photographic illustrations. Publisher's quarter cloth over decorative boards, printed paper spine label. Plain dust jacket with a bit of edger wear. An excellent copy.

New York: Truslove, Hanson & Comba, 1899. First edition under this title, American issue. Small octavo. xxviii, 174 pp. plus seventeen full page illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine and front, floral endpapers, top edge gilt. Spine sunned and with some wear to extremities. Previous owner's presentation on front endpaper (1902). Scattered foxing. An attractive and sturdy copy of this guide to the London and England found in the novels of Dickens.Bookplate of Noel Charles Peyrouton, associate editor of the Pilgrim Edition of Dickens' Letters.

Chicago: Rand McNally & American Hotel Register Co., 1938. First edition of this merging of two American atlases. Folio (10 1/2 x 16 inches). The Rand McNally section is pp. 1-52 at the beginning and pp. 52-105 at the end. All maps printed in blue and red. The Leahy section starts in the middle and runs from p. 1 to p. 112 and with two more pages. These maps are entirely printed in black and much of the section is take up with listing for hotels in various states. Publisher's green cloth with gilt cover lettering [Leahy's]. The text block was originally stapled into the covers but has since come loose from the staples but the text block is entirely secure. A very good copy of an unusual publication.As both companies were headquartered in Chicago it is easy to imagine a friendly lunch at which this was discussed.

Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., [ca. 1920]. First of this edition. With two maps on both sides of single sheet, "The Rand McNally New Commercial Atlas Map of California" in full color, & "California Automobile Road Map" with roads printed in red. 36 3/4 x 31 inches. Folding into folder measuring 4 x 6 1/2 inches. Booklet with 90, [10, ads] pp. of text, printed wrappers. Scarce commercial and road map of California. Light wear to wrappers; light wear on verso of map from being stuck to last page. A very good copy.

Austin: Madrona Press, (1973). First edition. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Octavo. xii, [1], 104, [2, colophon] pp. Publisher's brown boards with gilt spine lettering, map endpapers, slipcase. A fine copy.No. 62 of 200 copies signed by Kilgore, with two correspondingly numbered 17.5" x 14.25" prints (frontis illustration and "Texas Ranger c. 1970") signed by Cisneros. Fine in near fine case with fine prints.

Paris: Librairie Aeronautique, 1911. First edition. Quarto (9 x 12 3/4 inches). [88] pp. with aeronautical photographic illustrations on virtually every page. Publisher's bright red cloth with black borders, front cover bearing a ornate gilt frame with gilt lettering inside, light brown endpapers. Gilt signed on the lower front cover "Librairie A. Pigoreau". Only six copies located by OCLC. A wonderful copy.There are chapters on the architecture of the exhibition, aerial photography, aeroplane motors and the physiology of flight but the most important chapter is that of the planes exhibited in Paris in 1910; The were: Antoinette, Astra, Bleriot, Breguet, Coanda, Deperdussin, Esnault-Pelterie, Fabre, Henri Farman, Maurice Farman, Goupy, Hanriot, Koechlin, Liore, Nieuport, Paulhan, Pischoff, Santos-Dumont, Saulnier, Sloan, Sommer, Tellier, Vinet, Voisin, A full page is devoted to the description of each aircraft and each has a large photographic illustration. Some of these planes have the… Read More

Dayton [OH]: Dayton Areo Motors Company, [1914]. First edition. Oblong octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches). 14, [1] pp. With numerous illustrations of the motor and one full page illustration of a plane in flight. Publisher's stapled green wrappers with gilt and green lettering to the front cover. An excellent copy.None located on OCLC or at auction. This stylish brochure was issued to advertise Rausenberg's first v-12 aviation motor. Designed by L. E. Rausenberger and distributed by the Dayton Aero Motors Company, this engine was created to fill "the demand for aeronautical motors of higher power and more perfect balance than those now in use for heavier than air flight" (p. 3). It produced 150 HP and weighed a mere 590 pounds due to the use of aluminum. Rausenberger was already quite famous as an engine designer. In 1909 the Wright Company formed to produce airplanes. The Model B was their first production airplane and it was powered by a 75 horsepower Rausenberger engine. He designed a total of 6… Read More

Verdi, NV: International Artist Publishing, 2004. First edition. Inscribed by Raymond Kelley to fellow Western artist William F. Reese: "For Bill and Fran Reese, thanks for many years of friendship and respect. Love to both of you, Raymond Kelley". Quarto. 155, [1] pp. Numerous color plates of Kelley paintings. Publisher's blue boards with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy.

Phoenix: Read Mullan, 1964. First edition. One of 1000 numbered copies. Quarto. Numerous illustrations throughout. Publisher's decorative boards. An excellent copy.A catalog of this fine private collection. Mr. Mullan's interest spanned the gamut; from Bierstadt and J. H. Sharp all the way up to the modern work of Olaf Weighorst and Nicholai Fechin.

London: Chapman and Hall, 1907. First edition. Octavo. 222, [2, ads] pp. Publisher's sage green cloth with dark green spine and cover lettering (as well as a medallion portrait of Dickens on the lower front cover). Spine very lightly sunned but an exceptionally clean copy.

London: George Allen & Unwin, 1952. First edition, Octavo. Cloth in dust jacket. Very good,

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1858. First American edition. Octavo. 304, [4, blanks], 12 [publisher's catalog] pp. Publisher's sand-grain blind-stamped mauve cloth, gilt spine lettering, pale yellow endpapers. Some very slight chips to spine ends, book a little cocked. A very clean and attractive library.Trelawny himself was a player in this story. From the library of a 19th century woman physician in Cincinnati (light name on top of title page).

Washington D.C.: Records of the Past Exploration Society, 1901. First edition. Large octavo (7 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches). [x], 382, [4, index] pp. including numerous full page and inter-textual photographic illustrations. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine lettering and device, front cover with gilt frame iside of which are the title in gilt as well as the Society's device, all edges gilt. Light wear to extremities but a very good and clean copy."The Records of the Past Exploration Society had the credentials to make a noticeable impact on the American archaeological scene. In 1900 the Reverend Henry Mason Baum, the long-time editor of the American Church Review and an amateur archaeologist who excavated biblical sites in the Middle East, founded the organization. Its membership included institutional professionals degreed academics, respected church leaders like Baum, and other interested people of means, most with some field experience in archaeology. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., Records of… Read More

Lyon: J. Moiret, 1908. First edition. Tall octavo. Unpaginated and printed on rectos only on glossy paper. Publisher's blue cloth with beveled edges, gilt cover lettering, floral endpapers, A beautiful copy.A tour de force of 1445 different "armures" - geometric fabric designs with raised patterns. Text in French. Scarce. Only 3 copies located at OCLC. No previous auction records could be found.

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1971. First edition. One of 1200 numbered copies. Tall octavo. Publisher's light red cloth with gilt spine lettering. Publisher's mylar and slipcase. Fine.