Search Results: Titles starting with C from Johnson Rare Books & Archives

Chicago and London: St. James Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. With a Letter of Introduction by W.H. Auden. Color frontispiece portrait of C. Day-Lewis by Lawrence Gowing, with textual photographs and illustrations. First edition, #88 of 100 copies signed by C. Day-Lewis. Original blue buckram binding, with gilt stamping. The dust jacket is faded along the spine and extremities. Better than very good. Signed by Author.

New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. After barely surviving a terrible car accident, a young man who works out at Kinsey Millhone's gym hires her to protect him. He is promptly murdered and Kinsey resolves to find his killer. The exceedingly uncommon third installment in Grafton's alphabetical mystery series. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

New York: Turtle Bay Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. This pleasurable amalgam of travelogue and reminiscence explores Mamet's early years in Chicago and New York and his current life as a successful playwright. Signed by David Mamet on the title page. Octavo. A fine copy in a nearly fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

Phoenix, Arizona: (circa 1889). Cabinet card. Albumen photograph with "54. West End School Phoenix" captioned in the negative [18.5 cm x 11.5 cm] on an off-white card mount [21.5 cm x 13 cm], with a label for Irvine Co. Booksellers & Stationers, Phoenix A.T. and a pencil notation on the verso: "Goldwater 15". On July 4, 1887, the first Southern Pacific train arrived from Maricopa Wells, allowing more market access for Phoenix, its crops and other products. A growing population of 3,152 in 1890 required two new schools, East End School at 8th St. and Washington, and West End School at 6th Ave. and Madison, to be opened after Arizona's territorial government permanently moved its offices to Phoenix from Prescott. At the time, Phoenix was still a struggling agricultural community of dusty streets and open ditches, periodically on the verge of being destroyed by flood, fire, disease, or drought.

Arizona: (circa 1890) Cabinet card. Albumen [16.5 cm x 11 cm] photograph on the original Eastman Kodak mount [17.5 cm x 12.5 cm], with a pencil notation on the verso: "Apache Indian camp, Arizona Terr". Photographer unknown. Staged portrait of a group of Apache men, women, and children sitting in front of a small hut. The Western Apache tribes reside in east and central Arizona. Archaeological evidence suggests they arrived in the Southwest between 1000 and 1500 A.D., although little is known about their migrations.

Phoenix, Arizona: (circa 1893). Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [16.5 cm x 11 cm] on the Hartwell mount [17.5 cm x 12.5 cm], imprinted on the front "Views in Salt River Valley and Throughout Arizona." Pencil notation on the verso: "Phoenix Indian School" and "Goldwater". Francis "Frank" Hartwell (1852- 1908) was born in Canada and moved to the Arizona Territory in 1881, after serving as a photographic assistant in California. This image was likely taken in 1893 when Hartwell received a contract to produce a series of photographs on behalf of the Arizona World's Fair Commission for presentation at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Phoenix Indian School, known as the Phoenix Indian High School in its later years, was a Bureau of Indian Affairs-operated school in Encanto Village, in the heart of Phoenix. It served lower grades from 1891 to 1935, and then served as a high school thereafter. Once Native Americans were confined to reservations in the 1880s, the federal government embarked on a… Read More

Phoenix, Arizona: (circa 1894). Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [7.5 cm x 10 cm] on white cardstock mount with decorative cut edges [10.5 cm x 15 cm]. Printed in gilt on the mount: "Beattie, Phoenix, Arizona." Striking staged portrait of a group of men on bicycles in the Arizona desert who are accompanied by two men and two women on horseback. J. Walter Beattie established a photography studio in Phoenix in 1894 and local newspaper advertisements show him operating in the city through 1897.

Phoenix, Arizona: (circa 1893). Cabinet card. Albumen photograph [16.5 cm x 11 cm] on the Hartwell mount [17.5 cm x 12.5 cm], imprinted on the front "Views in Salt River Valley and Throughout Arizona." Pencil notation on the verso: "Court House" and "Goldwater". Francis "Frank" Hartwell (1852-1908) was born in Canada and moved to the Arizona Territory in 1881, after serving as a photographic assistant in California. This image was likely taken in 1893 when Hartwell received a contract to produce a series of photographs on behalf of the Arizona World's Fair Commission for presentation at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The town of Phoenix was settled in 1867 and by 1871 the townsite was selected to be the county seat. The city incorporated in 1881, but it was not until 1912 that Arizona was granted statehood.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Powell's penultimate novel, the story of a young woman from a small town in upstate New York who works as the personal assistant and factotum to a rich and not quite elderly woman. Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards over a gray cloth spine, with blue titles. The boards are slightly bowed, with a bit of wear to the tips. Some general shelfwear to the dust jacket; otherwise about very good.

San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. This eclectic collection of verse is split into four parts. The first consists of 33 of the fantastic poems for which Sterling was so famous, followed by three poems on the Panama-Pacific Exposition and four personal poems, and concluding with 43 poems on the then-ongoing First World War. An Oakland contemporary of Joaquin Miller and Jack London, George Sterling (1869-1926) later became one of the first residents of Carmel and a leading supporter of the poetry of fellow bohemian Robinson Jeffers. Sterling is said to be the inspiration for two Jack London characters: Russ Brissenden in Martin Eden (1909) and Mark Hall in The Valley of the Moon (1913). Inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Sterling to Mary Elizabeth Fenn on the front flyleaf, with Fenn's bookplate on the front pastedown. Small octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt stamping. In the scarce dust jacket, which is a touch browned with… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. This satire of London literary circles is widely considered a roman à clef with Maugham as Ashenden, Thomas Hardy as Driffield, and Hugh Walpole as Kear. In his introduction to the 1950 Modern Library edition of this novel, Maugham wrote, "I am willing enough to agree with common opinion that Of Human Bondage is my best work [...] But the book I like best is Cakes and Ale [...] because in its pages lives for me again the woman with the lovely smile who was the model for Rosie Driffield." Octavo: 270 p. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt and black stamping. Just the slightest hint of foxing; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some very mild toning along the spine.

Denver: Sage Books, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. The appearance of this biography and the subsequent controversy regarding Clairmonte's sources led to a significant shift toward careful research and critical analysis. Textual photographs. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with red titles. The dust jacket is price-clipped, with some very mild rubbing; otherwise very good. Six-Guns 423.

Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 93 p. Early California Travels Series XXXII. Introduction & Notes by Glen Dawson. Illustrations by Clarence Ellsworth. Los Angeles: Glen Dawson, 1956. First edition, limited to 300 copies. This rare history of the Muscupiabe Rancho was originally written for the Bancroft Library in 1877. It is an interesting volume of contemporary literature of the Rancho Period. 12mo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy.

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 45 p. With Explanatory Text by Jane Bissell Grabhorn. Color frontispiece, with 16 halftones and facsimiles (some color), with two folding maps. First edition, limited to 550 copies. "The journal of Alexander Barrington of St. Mary's, Ohio, begins at sea on April 1, 1850, and concludes on December 11, 1850. Barrington took the barque Paoli to California. A major portion of the diary consists of short entries describing life in the mines near Nevada [City]. By the end of October, he had sold off his portion of a claim and headed for San Francisco. From there, he sailed home via the Isthmus of Panama. The remainder of the volume features well-written and detailed letters from the mines by a variety of Argonauts." Quarto. Original burgundy paper-covered boards over a burgundy cloth spine, with a printed paper spine label. Internally crisp and clean. The spine is a bit faded, with some general minor edgewear; else very good or… Read More

San Diego, California: Sunbelt Publications, 1999. First edition. Soft cover. Fine. 337 p. Foreword by Edgar Wayburn, M.D., Honorary President, Sierra Club. Textual photographs, illustrations, and maps, including the color folding map at the rear. Presentation copy, inscribed by Wheat to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the half-title. Original glossy paper wrappers. A fine copy. Inscribed by Author.

A collection of 1950s and '60s political buttons supporting causes and candidates ranging from the Vietnam anti-war movement to Ronald Reagan's campaign for the California governorship. This group consists of 56 unique metal pinback buttons, which are housed in a period cardboard box. Most of the buttons are coated paper with metal backing; some are union printed. Several of the political pins relate directly to Northern California. For example, a button for the Free Speech F.S.M. is associated with the 1964-65 student protest at the University of California, Berkeley, the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. The orange and black Viva Kennedy button in this collection is representative of clubs formed by Latinx supporters of John F. Kennedy during his 1968 presidential campaign. The Viva Kennedy clubs began in Texas as a forum for Mexican American veterans to rally support for equal rights, and eventually spread to swing states with large Latinx… Read More

Los Gatos, California: The Talisman Press, 1960. Hardcover. Near fine. Limited to 750 copies designed and printed by Robert Greenwood and Newton Baird. Signed by editor Dale L. Morgan on the half-title. "Dr. William M'Collum left Lockport, New York, as a member of a California company on January 28, 1849. In New York City, he boarded the steamer Crescent City on February 5 and headed for the Isthmus of Panama. After an adventurous crossing and stay in Panama City, M'Collum boarded the Niantic and arrived in San Francisco on July 5, 1849. From there, the physician traveled to Stockton and the Southern Mines. The good doctor soon discovered that mining for gold was too strenuous ... Thereafter, he went back to San Francisco and survived by practicing the healing arts. He journeyed to Sacramento and the Northern Mines and again tried mining. After a short stay in San Francisco, he headed home via the Isthmus of Panama. The doctor's adventure ended on February 15, 1850. In the final portion of the book,… Read More

Georgetown, California: The Talisman Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. This is number 96 of 100 copies in a special edition printed on Ticonderoga text, specially bound, boxed, and signed by the author. "The most comprehensive book ever published on the California gold discovery, containing a detailed mass of accounts and sources relating to that momentous event ... All known accounts by the participants in the gold discovery are here, including variant accounts by Marshall, Bigler, Brown, and Wimmer, plus the related testimony of Capt. Sutter." Tinted title page illustration, with 12 halftone reproductions, including a map of the gold discovery, and a folding panoramic photograph at the rear. Quarto. Original marbled paper-covered boards over a black leather spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy, housed in the publisher's two slipcases. Kurutz 485.

Abingdon, Maryland: Cemetery Dance Publications, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by William F. Nolan and William Schafer. This copy is additionally signed on the Table of Contents by contributors William F. Nolan, Richard Matheson, Harlan Ellison, John Tomerlin, Jerry Sohl, George Clayton Johnson, and Ray Bradbury. The first book to showcase "The Group" - a dozen talented writers who, beginning in the 1950s and 1960s, established the roots of today's science fiction and fantasy. Octavo. Original dark blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. One of the best titles in the Black's Beautiful Books series. Palmer's vibrant illustrations nicely compliment Austin's vivid descriptions of some of California's best natural scenery, including Monterey Bay, the Central Valley, and Yosemite. 32 tipped-in color plates by Sutton Palmer, with a folding map. Octavo. Beautifully bound in full green cloth, with lovely art nouveau pictorial decorations designed by Henry Hunt Clark on the spine and front board. Internally crisp and clean, with a period bookseller's label (Paul Elder) to the rear pastedown. The boards are bright and vibrant. In the exceedingly uncommon dust jacket, which is edgeworn and a bit chipped with a few small spots.