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

Denver: The Liberal Church, INC., 1934. Typed letter from the Bishop of the Liberal Church Inc. Diocese of San Francisco conferring a Doctorate of Divinity title to Dr. THomas J. Hampton of Bush Street in San Francisco. It is typed on the outlandish letterhead of the church and bears an embossed seal of same. Excellent condition.The Liberal Church was an independent church founded in Denver, Colorado on 23 February 1923 by Frank Hamilton Rice. He was born in 1881 in Danville, Illinois and originally was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1915 he and his family moved to Denver from Oklahoma where he was employed by the Colorado Manufacturer and Consumer as its editor. He served the Grant Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church as a Sunday School teacher and lay minister. In 1922 he advocated that the church sponsor weekly dances for young people as a means of combatting the influence of the public dance halls. After a vigorous debate his idea was soundly defeated and he left the MEC. He was… Read More

Houston: Somerset House, (1986). First edition. Inscribed by G. Harvey on the title page. Quarto. 151, [1] pp. Extensively illustrated including many in color. Publisher's gray cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy.

Houston: Somerset House, (1986). First edition. Quarto. 151, [1] pp. Extensively illustrated including many in color. Publisher's gray cloth with silver spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy.

Cincinnati: E. Morgan and Co., 1838. First edition. Octavo. 178 pp. Publisher's floral pattern diaper cloth. Later spine lettering in white. Last leaf absent. Rebacked old on new. Contains chapter "Putting a Black-Leg On Shore" that mentions a young gambler thought to be the infamous Jonathan Green. Benjamin Drake co-founded and for seven years was the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle. Benjamin co-founded and for seven years was the editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle.

Los Angeles: Friends of the Los Angeles Maritime Museum, (1997). First edition. Quarto. 126 pp. with photographic angling illustrations of every page. Publisher's clue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering. As New.All you could hope to know about the subject.

(London): (Children's Hill Level Group), (2008). Collector's edition. Octavo. Complete with the full leather clamshell case, the ten drawings in their original envelope, and the full black leather book with a clasp, a mounted "jewel" and silver corner and central devices (housed in a velvet bag). Excellent.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1899. First edition (precedes the UK edition). Small octavo (203 x 137 mm.). ix, [2], 303, [1] pp. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, top edge gilt, remainder uncut. A lovely copy."Beginning in 1891, William James gave frequent lectures to teachers in which he explained the psychology he had developed in his "Principles of Psychology" and offered suggestions on applying the science of psychology to the art of education. Similarly, beginning in 1895, James delivered a series of lectures to college students -- generally at schools for women -- on education and its purposes. In 1899, James gathered both sets of lectures together and published them as "Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals." The book was read widely and became financially successful for James." (R. Friedman). This copy's margins are considerably larger than other copies we have seen.

Padova: Mastrogiacomo Editore, 1980. First edition. Oblong octavo. [94] pp. Text in English and Italian. About half the book is made up of photographic illustrations of tattoos, both ancient and modern. Photographically illustrated wrappers, Very good

Chicago: [The Author], [1920s]. Third edition, revised and enlarge. Ocyavo. 147, [1, inex] pp. Well illustrated. Publisher's green printed wrappers, cover with red lettering and black art nouveau designs. Top corner a bit bent else a very good copy.D. M. Campana was an Italian-born American who studied in Venice and later taught art in Chicago. He also founded a company that sells art supplies (still extant). His specialty was the painting of China porcelain. "There is scarcely a china painter who does not know the name of D.M. Campana for it has been one of the most prominent in the field for well over half a century. Mr. Campana founded the Campana Art Company at the turn of the century with china painting materials as its specialty. Has developed his own line of excellent china colors which he used in painting all his fine works and which are sold with his name exclusively... He won many medals and prizes for his most unusual approach in this medium. His method of painting was to apply the… Read More

New York: Lucis Publishing, (1950). First edition, first printing. Octavo. 197, [1] pp. Notes in pencil on endpapers and undderlining in pen by a lifelong disciple, Ruth Pennell. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine and cover letering. A verry good copy.

Various places: Various pubisher's, 1966-91. All first editions. One quarto, the remainder octavos. Many limited, some signed. All in very good condition in the publisher's original wrappers."Beginning in 1964 Glenn Todd worked as a printer for the San Francisco fine printers and publishers Andrew Hoyem, Grabhorn-Hoyem, and then Arion Press, where he became an editor and wrote introductions to some of its publications. He was the author of a monograph on the history of poems written in graphic arrangements for Shaped Poetry and introductory essays to The Temple of Flora, The Captivity Narrative of Hannah Duston, and Eureka by Edgar Allan Poe." (PBA) The Jack Rabbit Poem by James Alexander. White Rabbit Press, [1966], San Francisco. One of 750 copies bound in wrappers. The Route of the Phoebe Snow by Pamela Millward. Coyote, 1966, [San Francisco?]. Inscribed with signature of the author. Out of Sight Magazine of Literature edited by Gino Clays and Pamela Millward. Vol. 1, no. 2.Kamikaze… Read More

N.P.: N.P., [1965?]. First edition of this set of 10 woodblock images of American soldiers going into the fields in Vietnam. All are marked A[rtist] [Proof] thus none are numbered. All have a title under the image and DuBois' signature. All are dated 1981. It seems likely that there were done to illustrate a book. A title would have been nice. As they are all printed on BFK Rives paper, this might be an extra suite given to the author. In any case, although Ted Dubois has not left much to posterity we can clearly see that he was a very good artist with a real connection to the war, perhaps a veteran as well.

Buffalo: Baker, Jone & Co., 1880. First edition. Octavo. 343, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait. Publisher's brown cloth, covers with blind-stamped frames an corner devices, gilt spine lettering, gilt floral device on front, gray-green endpapers, marbled edges. Tips a bit bumped but overall a very good and clean copy in the handsome original binding. "Mary McNair Mathews' memoir, Ten Years in Nevada or Life on the Pacific Coast, established her as an early chronicler of life in Virginia City, Nevada. Mathews was born in western New York in 1834 and attended Oberlin College in Ohio. Widowed by the time she learned of her younger brother's death in Virginia City in 1869, Mathews sold her hoop skirt business, packed up her young son Charlie, and headed west to investigate the circumstances of her brother's death and the status of his estate. She remained on the Comstock for almost nine years, working various jobs to support herself and her son. Mathews owned and operated a lodging house, ran a school from… Read More

Washington [D.C.]: Carnegie Institution, 1915. First edition and one of the few copies bound in cloth. Small octavo.98, [2. list of officers] pp. Numerous photographic illustratations. Publisher's gray cloth with gilt cover lettering within a white frame. An excellent copy.\"In 1904, the Mount Wilson Observatory was founded by George Ellery Hale under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. In that year, Hale brought the Snow Solar Telescope from Yerkes Observatory in southern Wisconsin to the sunnier and steadier skies of Mount Wilson to continue his studies of the Sun. With a small cadre of Yerkes scientists and engineers accompanying him, Hale started what would become the world’s foremost astronomical research facility. Hale put such importance on studying the Sun, that it was called the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory for the first decade and a half. In 1919, soon after the largest telescope in the world, the 100-inch, went into service photographing the stars and nebulae,… Read More

Flagstaff: Northland Press, (1976). First edition. One of 150 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by 22 CA artists mentioned in this book. Quarto. x, 213, [1] pp. Nicely illustrated with numerous color plates. Publisher's quarter blue morocco over blue cloth, silver spine lettering, marbled endpapers, slipcase with morocco lettering label. A fine copy.

Los Angeles: Cayucos Books, 1973. First edition. One of 250 copies, signed by Everson, designed and printed by Clifford Burke at Cranium Press. Folio. [40] pp. Tile printed in black, gold and red. Publisher's quarter beige morocco over patterned paper boards, title in blind on spine. Prospectus laid in. An excellent copy.

[San Francisco]: [A. L. Bancroft & Company], [1880]. Promotional broadside for the second edition of McGlashan famous history. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. With a large and very accomplished woodcut of Donner Lake on the front. Unlike the broadside for the first edition, this iteration printed on both sides. Matted. Very good.While OCLC records four copies of the first editon of this broadside, no copies of this edition are located. According to Dorothy Sloan, a cache of the first edition broadside was found some years ago and they were plentiful on the market for a while. Not so this second edition. The price of the first edition was one dollar but the price for the second edition, the first illustrated edition, was three dollars. McGlashan is herein no longer located in Truckee but has removed himself to Santa Cruz. The recto is filled with descriptive text, including a call for agents to handle the book and the verso is filled with testimonials. For the second edition of the book published in 1880 by A.… Read More

New York: William Sloane Associats, (1950). First edition with the Dobie introduction. Typography by Carl Herzog. Illustrations by Tom Lea. Octavo. xl, 198 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's brick cloth with gilt cover and spine lettering. Pictorial dust jacket by Tom Lea. An excellent copy.

Baltimore: Wm. Minfie, 1861. Sixth edition. Octavo. 157, [1], 4 [reviews] pp. plus all 56 plates (with plate 54 being bound as the frontispiece as usual). Modern yet to style quarter speckled calf over marbled boards, burgundy morocco gilt spine label. Some scattered foxing but overall a handsome and clean copy.Minifie’s professional life predated the separation of the architectural and builders’ professions. In 1837, he announced himself as an architect and builder, advertising as such in the Baltimore Sun in 1841. Perhaps he was better known as an educator, teaching drawing and design in Baltimore Central High School by 1845. He was principal of the Maryland Institute (now MICA) for many years beginning in 1849, also serving as professor of design and drawing.In 1849, he published his Text Book of Geometrical Drawing, Perspective & Shadows, shortly thereafter adding Theory & Application of Color, together amply illustrated with upwards of 50 steel engravings, widely used in schools both in… Read More

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First edition. Octavo. Illustrated. Publisher's purple cloth. In a very good dust jacket (unclipped; $7.95). Mild sunning to board bottoms but a very clean and attractive copy in a like dust jacket.