Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Tschanz Rare Books

Brooklyn: Latham Litho & Ptg. Co, 1918. Poster. Two sheets [208 cm x 104 cm] / [82" x 41"] Tissue lined with a few closed tears at the former folds at the head. This is the larger version of this poster. Albert Herter (1871-1950) was an American painter, illustrator, muralist, and interior designer. He was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League with James Carroll Beckwith, then in Paris with Jean-Paul Laurens and Fernand Cormon, Later Herter moved to Chicago, teaching at the Art Institute.

[Timbuktu], 1998. Four yellow sheets [28 cm x 22 cm] / [11" x 8.5"] with three punched holes at left margin. Manuscript notes and drawings to rectos. A group of notes and doodles from the artist and director, Trent Harris, when he travelled through Timbuktu during January of 1998. "there is a club in Tmbuktu with Disco Ball + Walls of Blue It costs a buck to go inside you cannot dance - I know - I tried - you can sit down + buy a Coke Or-buy-a beer you best forget their dads will fill you with regret. For Muslimmen they all be mess with them they will see your ASS in Jail without a key heed my words, It Hapt to Me." Trent Harris has directed nine feature films and scores of documentaries and experimental pieces. To date he has been honored with retrospectives at: Raindance Film Festival (London), 92 Y Tribeca (New York), BUTT Film Festival (The Netherlands), Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City), Mar del Plata International Film Festival (Argentina).

Yellowstone Park, WY, 1950. Red flannel pennant [15 cm x 45 cm] printed in yellow, brown, and green. Yellow flannel stitched at the left end with yellow hanging tassels. Tourist souvenir featuring an illustration of a bear cub playing a bass drum.

St. Paul, MN: Allied Printing, 1949. 31pp. Square Octavo [23 cm x 20 cm] Red illustrated wrappers. Very good. Vertical fold as issued. Promotional piece from the Northern Pacific for service to Yellowstone with descriptions of the area, lodgings, scenic features, tours, etc. Illustrated throughout with black and white views and a double-page map at the center. Opens with an essay by Emerson Hough 'Yellowstone National Park - A Tribute.' "Only Burlington-Northern Pacific serves three of Yellowstone's famous gateways, Gardiner, Cody, and Red Lodge, and only Burlington - Northern Pacific offers a choice of three scenic routes to or from the Park. The most direct service to Yellowstone is via the Route of the North Coast Limited, through St. Paul-Minneapolis, Minnesota wooded farmlands, the Bad Lands of North Dakota and the ranch country of Montana." - p.5. The Northern Pacific Railway was not only the first railroad to build a branch line to the park boundary to the North Entrance at Gardiner, but it… Read More

Livingston, MT: Yellowstone Park Camps Company, 1926. [10]pp. Square octavo [22.5 cm x 20. cm] Color wrappers. Vertical fold at center as issued. Very good. Travel agent hand stamp over one of the geysers on the cover. Front cover title: Ideal Yellowstone Vacations. Rear cover title: Yellowstone Park Camps. This early 20th century work for the prospective tourist, that offers a description of the lodgings (with four pages of captioned images) and tours offered by the Yellowstone Park Camps Company. At the center is a double-page description of the 16 tours offered with a color illustration of a crowd around a geyser. Map of the area appears on p.[4] Inside rear cover has tips and general information for the park. "Pictures in this booklet show some of the typical camp and lodge buildings. The Yellowstone Park Camps Company has the largest lodge system in the world. Its buildings, both large and small, are of solid, permanent construction and most of them are new.

Chicago: Poole Brothers, 1947. 32pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Color illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Promotional tour guide produced by the Union Pacific with photographs and color illustrations throughout, with a fold-out map (pictured) at rear panel. Nice mid-century design and aesthetic. "Yellowstone is the largest, the oldest and, perhaps, the best known of America's many national parks. It is at once weird, incredible, and magnificent in its rugged, wild beauty. It is one of the greatest wildlife sanctuaries in the world." - p.[1].

Yellowstone Park, WY, 1960. Blue flannel pennant [28 cm x 71 cm] printed in color. Yellow flannel stitched at the left end with blue hanging tassels. Tourist souvenir featuring an illustration of a bear standing behind the 'Y' in Yellowstone. Each of the block letters spelling Yellowstone contains an illustration of a Park attraction: Great Falls, Golden Gate, Cleopatra Terrace, Grand Canyon, Triple Tunnels, Morning Glory Pool, Yellowstone Lake, Grotto Geyser, Hoodoos, Liberty Cap.

Bozeman, MT: Haynes Studios Inc, 1959. 30pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Illustrated with photographs and a map. "Between the years 1872, when three thousand square miles of brilliantly varied wilderness was set aside by Congress as the Yellowstone National Park, and 1917, when transportation throughout the area was motorized, five stagecoach holdups took place inside the park boundaries." - p.5.

[Chicago]: [Poole Brothers], 1927. 56pp. Octavo [23 cm] Illustrated wrappers. About very good. Gentle age toning to covers with some minor spotting. Guide produced by the Northern Pacific for the prospective tourist. Illustrated with Haynes photographs and maps. Work begins with the essay 'An Appreciation of Yellowstone National Park' by Emerson Hough. Double-page map at the center "And you may travel and live in perfect comfort! That is almost the most astonishing thing about Yellowstone. You may photograph a wild bear and eat a course dinner within the same hour. You perhaps may see the buffalo from your seat in a comfortable touring car. You may see the Canyon and geysers and the Grand Tetons and a dozen bold mountain lakes and streams and yet sleep in as good a bed as you left at home. Literally, the world has nothing like this. Other parks have one attraction - several; but none has all these. And no discomfort or danger or weariness will mar your day's delights." - pg.

[Omaha]: [Union Pacific Railroad], 1940. Single sheet [46 cm x 40 cm] printed in color on both sides that folds to pamphlet size [23 cm x 10 cm] Folds as issued. Very good. Promotional piece for the prospective tourist to Yosemite that offers brief descriptions of the park and the many activities available, as well as descriptions of guided tours with rates. Illustrated with color photographs and a map. "Yosemite Valley is known among experienced travelers as one of the great scenic wonders of the world. This deep glacial gorge is walled in by nearly perpendicular granite cliffs which rise three to four thousand feet above the pine forests and green meadows of the level valley floor. Five great waterfalls plunge from these lofty precipices, creating a display of falling water unsurpassed anywhere. Scenes of such amazing natural beauty attract visitors from every corner of the globe.

Yosemite, CA: Yosemite Park & Curry Co, 1945. Single sheet [16 cm x 20 cm] printed on both sides with vertical fold at center. Near fine. Small promotional piece for the Yosemite ski school that offers descriptions and rates, with head shots of some of the instructors. First protected as a park in 1864, Yosemite is known the world over for its Big Trees, waterfalls, rock faces, and wilderness areas. "The Yosemite Ski School presents its expert technical information in an understandable manner and its system is universally accepted as the simplest in principle, the easiest to grasp and the most practical for all snow conditions.