Watson Douglas S Introduction (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Limited to 308 Numbered copies, this being No. 178. Burgundy marbled boards with gilt stamping. Book.

Hardcover. [iv] 47p., color frontis, introduction, "deckled" or untrimmed edges, heavily toned and foxed endpapers, bound in marbled boards with a green cloth backstrip, paper title labels on the spine and front cover, shelfwear, bumped corners as well as a pink stain at bottom corners. Good only condition. Rare Americana Series #4.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Green paper-covered boards with dark green spine and cover labels gilt, 12mo., (ii), xx, 56, (6) pages, two color portraits, color folding plate and 3-page facsimile muster roll. 500 copies printed from Arrighi and Centaur type on Van Gelder handmade paper. An attractive, clean, near fine copy in archival mylar.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Limited Edition. Two volumes (complete), one of 500 sets (unnumbered), octavo size, 335 total pp. This two-volume set contains the letters of Dame Shirley, in which she recounts her experiences living in a mining camp in California in the mid-nineteenth century. The letters tell of life in the mining camp in rich detail and offer a unique perspective from an intellectual New England woman, and form a personal picture of the hardships and innovation during the California Gold Rush. The first edition of the letters is extremely scarce; this set is part of the Grabhorn First Series of Rare Americana, numbers 5 and 6. The set was one of the Fifty Books of the Year. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter blue cloth, light blue paper covered boards with navy blue lettering and decoration, light blue paper spine label with navy blue lettering and decorations, fore- and bottom edges uncut, title-page information set within a rectangle of light blue within double ruled border, scenes from the blue letter-sheet lithographs used as headpieces throughout; Centaur type, machine-made paper, binding octavo size (8 7/8" by 6 1/8"), pagination: Volume I [i-iv] v-xviii [xix] 1-142 [143-148 notes]; Volume II [i-iv] v-xviii [xix] 1-143 [144-149 notes]; one of 500 copies, unnumbered. ___CONDITION: Volumes are near fine, with clean boards (other than a few miniscule spots), straight corners without rubbing, strong square text blocks with solid hinges, and the interiors clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; offsetting to the paper covering the boards and to the endpapers, else fine. ___CITATION: Grabhorn Press Bibliography, numbers 178 and 179. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note the following: (i) additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs, please inquire for details; and (ii) any taxes, duty, or tariffs charged by your country will, of necessity, be your responsibility. ___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. 47pp. Small slim quarto [25.5 cm] 1/4 pale green cloth with marbled paper over boards, and a green paper title labels stamped in gilt on the spine and front cover. Color frontispiece illustration of Yerba Buena, from a lithograph by John J. Vioget. Top edge trimmed, other edges deckled. Very good. The free endsheets are heavily darkened. With the publisher's original bill to the subscriber in a Grabhorn Press envelope tucked in. Number 4, Rare American Series. From the Introduction- "Aside from the historical importance which Henry R. Wagner in his 'Plains and the Rockies' assigns to it, the story of the great cattle drive from California to Oregon in 1837 presents a picture of early western life, of hardships and obstacles overcome, told in forceful yet simple language, which gave it a lasting place in the literature of the American conquest of this continent.". …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 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. Parker, Arvilla (illustrator).…

First edition. Original red buckram with paper title label on front cover, oblong folio (19.75 x 12.5 inches), unpaginated. Contains introductory matter and 50 reproductions of old lithographs, each with facing page of descriptive text. Limited to 1000 copies Covers somewhat faded and a bit scuffed, internally fine. …