Watkins Carleton E and Peter E Palmquist (5 results)

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Second printing. Hardcover. 228 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran May 28 through September 7, 1999 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and then traveled to New York and Washington, DC for additional dates. Foreword by David A. Ross. Introduction by Maria Morris Hambourg. Text by Douglas R. Nickel and with notes on the plates, selected references and chronology by Peter E. Palmquist. Includes 105 tritone, 20 duotone and 4 gatefold illustrations. A clean and tight near fine copy with some slight tapping to the bottom right corners and in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of one of the better books on this important 19th century photographer.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 236 pages, very good condition except dj is only good with heavy fading/discoloration at spien and a couple scattered scuffs and small creases; internally fine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 234 pages. Features a foreword by Martha A. Sandweiss along with additional text by Peter E. Palmquist. A collection of 102 plates. A clean very near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the base of the front panel and some other very minute wear. Signed by Palmquist on the title page and uncommon as such.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 222 pages, very good condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. SIGNED. 234pp. Oblong quarto [24 cm x 31 cm] Rust colored cloth over boards with a gilt stamped title on the spine. Minor rubbing at the spine ends. In the dust jacket, with surface rubbing. Carleton E. Watkins documented the American west between 1854 and 1891, and his 1861 photographs of Yosemite made such an impact on legislators, that Congress moved to preserve the area as wilderness in 1864. This copy is inscribed by Peter E. Palmquist on the title page.