Watson Douglas S Editor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint. 116 pp., colored frontis, illustrations, deckled edges, errata, large fold-out poster. Limited to 400 copies. This being the No.1 Americana Reprints, of the 1853 original, by the Grabhorn Press in 1932. A near fine tight, unmarked copy with no book plates and very minor wear to its corners. This reprint gives the reader excellent information about this early California outlaw. Now in a clear protective Mylar cover. COLLECTOR QUALITY.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Folio volume bound in faux beige-colored leather in publisher-issued cloth-covered slipcase. Illustrated with drawings & maps. One of 350 copies (unnumbered) copies; this copy is a reprint of the 1931 edition printed by The Grabhorn Press in an edition of 300 copies. Condition: some wear to the slipcase with minor peeling of the corners of the cloth from the box and minor sun-fading. The binding and the book are in fine condition. Pages: [xix], 272.

[14], 100, [8] pp. Illustrated with colored drawings. Royal 8vo. Offset to eps, otherwise a Fine copy in a VG+ - Nr Fine dust wrapper. Tan burlap-weave cloth spine with dark brown decorative paper boards & printed brown paper spine label. Plain brown paper dust wrapper with title hand-inked to spine 1st edition thus, i.e., by Grabhorn (Cowan II, p. 161; Heller/Magee 184; HERD 661; Howes D-159; Kurutz 171b; Mintz 118).

Decorated hard cover folio. First edition. Illustrated - 50 lithographs. Important reference work.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Edition limited to 550 copies. Paper-covered boards with cloth spine. xiii, 64 pages. Fold-out map, two woodcut portraits. Bookplate. Has some small chips to front and rear boards. Contents clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. As new Folio in full leather in a Near Fine slipcase. Number 321 of 350 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Parker, Arvilla (illustrator). Limited Edition. One of 500 copies, quarto size, 107 pp., with note to Subscribers and original mailing label. Nicholas Dawson (1819-1903), the partly self-educated schoolteacher infected with wanderlust, spent much of his life travelling on foot across America. His wanderings brought him through Missouri, Louisiana, and Arkansas to Mexico, then back to New Orleans; he returned to the West infected with Gold Fever, and then eventually settled in Texas. The original publication of his memoirs is incredibly scarce; this edition was published by the Grabhorn Press, one of the most highly renowned private presses in America during the twentieth century, run by brothers Edwin and Robert Grabhorn. This copy with the original (plain) dust jacket, the note to Subscribers regarding "the important announcement about the next series to be printed and published by the Grabhorn Press", and the original mailing label with the purchaser's name and address typed onto the label printed with this books' title and the Rare Americana Series number. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter natural linen with brown paper boards, coloured vignette illustration on the front board, black lettering running vertically on the front and back boards, brown paper spine label with black lettering, title page and caption titles printed in red and black, nine coloured illustrations by Arvilla Parker; hand-set in Goudy Modern on Van Gelder rough-cut paper, binding quarto size (10" by 6 3/4"), pagination: [i-iv] 1-100 [101-107], one of 500 copies, unnumbered. One of the Fifty Books of the Year, 1933, First Series of Rare Americana, No. 7. In the original plain brown dust wrapper, loosely laid in is the note to Subscribers, a single sheet folded once to four pages with printing on the front (page 1) and page 3 only (8 3/4" by 6"), and the original mailing label of yellow paper printed with the title and a small vignette in black. ___CONDITION: Volume fine, the spine clean and unrubbed, the spine label clean and without wear, clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a few spots of foxing to the top of the text block, age-toning to the free endpapers, and offsetting to the front free endpaper (from the note and label having been laid in); even with its few very minor faults, still a fine copy overall. The dust jacket is very good, clean, with overall wear; the Subscribers note fine overall, clean and without wear, with light toning on the back (blank) page; the address label very good, with very light soil on the front and a few spots of the adhesive on the back. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press bibliography, no. 184. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. First and Limited Edition. One of 300 copies, folio size, 293 pp. From the description in the BCC bibliography: "The journal covers three years of travel from Greenville, Illinois, to St. Louis, to San Diego, then up the California cast to San Jose, the gold fields and San Francisco, and back to Greenville via the Isthmus. It is a vivid day-by-day account, supplemented by the author's drawings which are reproduced in the exact size of the originals." Thought to be expensive at the time of publication (priced at $30.00), the account goes on to say that "[t]oday it is among the most sought-after and expensive of the Club's publications" and was selected as one of the Fifty Books of the Year. The book was printed from the original manuscript account "in the possession of the Press", and per the Grabhorn bibliography "does not follow the usual period treatment of the gold rush days." Your cataloguer would like to note that the headers on each page bring a particular delight, such as "Mining no easy job" and "Panned $4.50 in two days" (found on pp. 256-7). A wonderful production, one of the best from the Grabhorn Press. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in tan cloth boards with natural niger shelfback, title and date blind-stamped onto the spine, the raised bands with decorations in blind, frontispeice one of two folding maps, title page in red and black with a small line-drawing, five ornate initial capitals in red at the beginning of each section, marginal notes and illustrations, seven small and sixteen full-page drawings (including the frontis), small blind-stamp on the rear turn-in ("G-P 91 W:W.") likely a binder's mark; monotype Centaur on Van Gelder paper, folio size (13 3/4" by 9 5/8"), pagination: [i-xiii] [1 blank] [2] [1] 2-272, limited edition of 300 copies (unnumbered). ___CONDITION: Better than very good (and could likely be deemed near fine), with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, the sole prior owner marking we see a tasteful Ex-Libris on the front pastedown, and collated complete with all folding maps and illustrations present and being near fine to fine; a light scrape to the front board, the spine with some dark spots (we believe bound thus), sunning, a few light marks and the joints just beginning to show wear, some offsetting from the Ex-Libris on the front free endpaper. ___CITATIONS: BCC 100 books, no. 41; Grabhorn Press Bibliography, no. 158; Wright-Howes P522. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; 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.