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

New York: Hastings House Publishers, 1961. First trade edition. Signed by Eggenhofer on the half title. Octavo. 184 pp. Eggenhofer illustrations throughout. Publisher's brown cloth with spine lettering in black, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). An excellent copy.From the library of noted Western artist William F. Reese with his estate stamp on the front pastedown.

Berlin: International War Museum, (1926). Edition unclear but copyrighted in 1926. The title page lists 4 printings with a total of 200,000 copies printed. Octavo. 247, [1,ad] pp. Printed in four languages, the books leans heavily on photographic images taken by Friedrich himself to elucidate the horrors of war-it contains 187 images. Publisher's black cloth spine with red spine lettering, front bears a laid down photographic plate bearing the title in red and four war images. Front tips bumped, general surface wear but a very good copy.Freidrich's main work. Ernst Friedrich was born in 1894 in Wroc aw and studied to become a printer but did not finish his printer apprenticeship and started working in a factory as a manual worker. In 1911 he joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany but quickly left the party when it officially supported the taking out of war loans. As a close friend of Karl Liebknecht he often worked with trade unions and was a well-known and important person in the anarchist… Read More

Austin: Press at the Humanities Research Center, 1986. First edition. One of 100 copies. Octavo. 25, [1, colophon] pp. Original photograph of Ward Ritchie tipped-in as frontispiece. Publisher's cream wrappers with Ward Ritchie stamped in blind on front. A pristine copy.Reminiscences of the well-beloved LA book designer/printer Ward Ritchie, taken from a lecture he presented at the Austin Wayzgoose Banquet in 1986. This is the first publication of the Humanities Research Center and was printed by Carol Kent.

N.p.: N.p., 1941-46. Original album, 7 1/2 x 9 inches, dark green cloth. Containing about 80 pp. of letters, telegrams, a few newspaper clippings, cards and photographs. The vast majority of these are Ms letters and photocopied V-Mail letters from Private Price, to his “Aunt Edith”. Edith Crosby has placed each item in this album using corner block mounts, thus not damaging any. They are in album by date order with place of origin written at top, such as “Ft. Bliss”; “Ft. Sill”; “England”; North Africa”; “Italy”; Rome”; & “Barri, Italy”. There is some very interesting content in the many letters. Robert's final posting was the U.S. Army 26th General Hospital and it was the main rear area hospital for all of North Africa and Italy during the war and handled thousands of Allied casualties. A few pages loose but still very tidy.

New York: Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1977. First edition of this lost chapter. One of 750 numbered copies. Octavo. 21 pages of annotated text and the remainder of the book is a facsimile of the corrected galley proofs of the supressed portion of Through the Looking Glass. Publisher's scarlet cloth with triple gilt fillet borders, gilt spine lettering, marbled endpapers. Very slightly cocked, else a fine copy.

London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First edition. Two small octavo volumes. Each volume with frontispiece engraving by John Leech (and with numerous textual additions by same). Both half-titles present. Publisher's ads at rear of second volume. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine titles in blind. A very clean set in an attractive binding.This is an interesting series of essays, chief among them being that of the Laudanum Patient. Wassailing is an ancient English tradition that is said to go back as far as Saxon and Viking times. The word ‘wassail’ comes from the Old English “Waes hael” meaning “Good Health”, to which the response would be “Drinc hael, and drinking was at the heart of wassailing. The tradition has always varied from manor to manor, from monastery to guild and street to street where wassailing latter became part of house to house carolling during Christmas tide.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., 1908. First edition. Octavo. 172, [4, publisher's ads] pp. plus 17 full page plates. Publisher's two-tone blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, patterned endpapers. Some foxing to first half else a very good copy of this work on apiculture.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1982). Second edition. One of 1500 numbered copies specially bound. Quarto. Illustrated throughout. Publisher's soft leather with laid down front cover illustration, gilt spine lettering, slipcase with gilt spine lettering. An excellent copy.Hassrick was director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center. Limitation notice affixed to front pastedown. Prospectus laid in.

London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909. First edition, second impression (there were 1500 copies printed of each impression). Octavo. Frontispiece photographic portrait of Steiner, [6], 237, [3, publisher's ads] pp. Publisher's gray cloth with a Rosy Cross in gilt and red on front, faded gilt spine lettering. This copy was once in the lending library of the Bowdon Branch of the Theosophical Society and as such has their label affixed to the front pastedown as well as (very faded) call letters on the spine. Tissue over frontispiece coming away and some general extremity wear. Overall a very good copy and one in which the library provenance is a helpful rather than a hurtful thing.Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian clairvoyant, philosopher, social reformer, architect, economist and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the… Read More

Camp Stoneman, CA: Information and Education Branch, 2945. First edition. 4 1/2 x 5 2/4 inches. 32 pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stapled self wrapper with a depiction of a returning soldier in blue on the front. Very good. OCLC only locate three copies.Camp Stome was located near the town of Pittsbutgh, CA, in Conta Costa County, about 40 miles northeast of San Francisco. The idea for Camp Stoneman was born soon after Pearl Harbor in response for the urgent need for a large cantonment area at which port processing of troops in transit could be housed, fed and transported. The plans for such a camp were, of course, in the works of War Plans before the Japanese attack. The main requirement was that such areas have available three types of transportation--water, rail and highway. There were two rail lines in the Pittsburg area, Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. A mile from the camp was the San Joaquin River, offering a broad water channel into San Francisco Bay. There also were suitable paved highway… Read More

Wenatchee, WA: Wenatchee Daily World, (1947). First edition. Inscribed gy Ferguson and date by him. Octavo. 45, [1] pp. plus 16 pp. of photographic illustrations. Publisher's red cloth front cover with gilt border and lettering and a laid-down photographic portrait of Ferguson. Aside from a very small piece absent from the cover illustration, a very good and clean copy.A biography of Eastern Washington pioneer J. Edward Ferguson. He was a Pacific Messenger Boy in Tacoma, the first fire chief of Wenatchee, a member of the first musical band in Wenatcee, the police chief in Wenatchee, and a member of the USGS.

Buffalo, NY: George Werner, 1901. First edition, Oblong quarto. [12] pp. Printed on rectos only. Illustrated. Publisher's string-tied blue wrappers lettered in silver. Very good; no real issues.This pamphlet is composed of two illustrations of Werner's Speed Wagons (one in color) and the remaining pages tout the excellence of his vehicles. The first wagon shown is labeled No. 2: Regular Speed Wagon and the second is labeled No. 3; Speed Wagon on Wheels. Presumably George had already retired No. 1 (in all three copies located by OCLC there are six leaves present, as here). Werner's speed wagons could probably outrun any vehicle on a 1901 road. They had tubular steel running gear, wire wheels, and pneumatic tires. George Werner founded the family carriage business soon after the Civil War, and produced vehicles for wealthy Buffalonians until 1904.

New York: Henry N. Abrams, (1974). First edition. One of 500 speially bound and numbered copies, signed by all four authors (Harold McCracken, Richard I. Frost, Leo A. Platteter and Don Hedgpeth). Oblong quarto. 290 pp. Color illustrations throughout. Publisher's padded green morocco, gilt spine lettering, bronze medallion of Buffalo Bill inset into front cover, moire silk endpapers. Minor foxing and extremity wear. An attractive copy.

[San Francisco]: John Howell, 1966. First edition. One of 3000 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. Folio. 116 pp. plus two large folding maps at rear. Illustrated from Abert's diary (many in color). Publisher's cream cloth with gilt spine lettering, color device on front, mylar jacket. A beautiful copy.

New York: J. H. Colton, 1852. First edition. Unrecorded by Howes. Twelvemo. 89, [1]. 18 [publisher's ads] pp. plus the large folding map in colors bound in at rear. Publisher's morocco-grain brown cloth, front elaborately stamped in gilt, same pattern in blind on rear. A really wonderful copy.

Santa Ynez: Rancho Deluxe Editions, 2004. First edition. One of 25 copies, hand-bound by David Weinstein and for private distribution, signed by the publisher, John T. Reynolds, and with an original Borein etching tipped in. Quarto. Unpaginated but comprised of the entire catalog output of art dealer Harold G. Davidson. Sixty-six short (2-4 pages each) catalogs, reproduced in photocopy. Original wrappers bound in. Publisher's half green calf over marbled boards, spine with gilt lettering and gilt-ruled bands, slipcase. Title with a barely noticeable ripple, else a fine copy.Harold G. Davidson is generally known as the man who almost single-handedly rescued Edward Borein from oblivion. This is a complete collection of all his catalogs, generally about two pages and with no illustrations. They are minly taken up with offering Borein items. It is interesting to note the other artists that Davidson dealt in: Henry Chapman Ford, Joe DeYong, Edgar S. Paxson, Carl Oscar Borg, Maynard Dixon, and others.

New York: J.H. Colton, 1852. First edition. Twelvemo. 89, [1], 18 [publisher's ads] pp. Hand-colored fold-out map with engraved hand-colored ornate floral border, 20 x 26 inches, affixed at rear (as issued). Publisher's brown cloth with large and decorative gilt stamping and lettering on front, same image embossed in blind on rear. A virtually flawless copy; cloth with no rubbing or chipping, text extremely clean and map in beautiful shape.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners, (1969). First edition. Quarto. 214 pp. Numerous illustrations including many full page Indian portraits after E. A. Burbank. Publisher's beige cloth with gilt spine lettering. gilt Westerners' logo on front, pictorial dust jacket and endpapers by Don Perceval. A fine copy.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Corral, (1947). First edition. One of 600 copies. Quarto. Well illustrated, mainly from photographs. Publisher's cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. A very good copy.

Los Angeles: Los Angeles Corral, 1947. First edition of the first Brand Book from the Los Angeles Corral of the Westerners. One of 600 copies. Quarto. 176 pp. Well illustrated. Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth in original color pictorial dust jacket (Minor edge wear). Very good.