Decorations Mallette Dean (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Mallette Dean, decorations (illustrator). In very good condition; sunning to edges of boards; slight tilt to spine; moderate toning to outside edges of book, moderate foxing top edge; light toning to clean interior; binding sound. Book designed and printed by Taylor & Taylor, San Francisco; illustrations lithographed by Charles R. Wood & Associates, San Francisco. 109 numbered pages. Red cloth boards with gold stamped lettering on spine. 10 1/4 x 7 5/8 in.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. x, 76p., decorated green cloth boards with gilt titles, illus., very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good condition. Scarring on front and back covers becomes very heavy on spine and along back cover spine edge. There is also some fading on back cover and on front cover along spine edge. 112 pages with 33 illustrations. 4to size.

Illustrated wrappers. Condition: Fine. First thus. Octavo. Pp xxiii, 69. A bright, fresh copy. From the foreword: "Archy Lee's story takes the civil rights activities of California Black men out of the shadows and provides some idea of their scope and vigor." A pioneering study in nineteenth-century black western experience, first published by the Book Club of California in 1969.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small quarto in brick red cloth covered boards. Duotone illustrations. Condition: contains donation label on 1st free endpaper indicating it was given to the Bancroft Library; sun-fading to the binding; else near fine. Pages: [xi], 112.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Separate Edition, First Printing. Xiv, 12 Pp. Softcover, With Printed Dust Jacket Attached At Spine, As Issued. Near Fine, No Marks, Covers A Little Dusty.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dean, Mallette (illustrator). Limited Edition. One of 300 copies, octavo size, [68] pp. "The publication of the most famous of all documents relating to the Donner Party," published at the centennial of the author's original accounting of the tragic and horrifying ordeal, with a complete facsimile of the 29-page manuscript, previously published only by the Academy of Pacific Coast History in 1910. This volume is an early publication by the Allen Press, still using the imprint "L-D Allen Press", with the relief-cut illustration on the half-title page, decorations and patterned boards by Mallette Dean. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter white cloth with illustrated quill motif paper boards printed in green and brown, title in green on the spine, fore- and bottom edges rough cut, title page printed in brown and black with green quill motif, headers printed in brown with ornamental type, quills printed in brown ornament the page numbers, reproduction of a photograph of Patrick Breen from Sutter's Fort Historical Museum, 29-page facsimile of the manuscript diary; handset Bulmer type, all-rag paper, octavo size (8.25" by 5.25"), pagination: [1-5] 6-38 [39-68], one of 300 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Volume fine overall, with clean boards, straight corners with miniscule rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a hint of dustiness to the head and tail of the spine and some offsetting to the pastedown endpapers, else fine. ___CITATIONS: Allen Press Bibliography, no. 5; BCC no. 64; Hawk no. 228. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply, please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.