Search Results: Titles starting with J from Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA

(Leicester): Twelve by Eight, 1961. First edition. Octavo. [44] pp. including 11 full page illustrations by Rigby. Publisher's quarter parchment over patterned-paper wrappers, gilt spine lettering. Signed by John Mason on the lower blank margin of the titles page. Very minot bump to top corner. A very attractive copy in the original mylar/glassine.

New York: James Connors' Sons, [1885]. First edition. Folio (9 3/4 x 13 1/2 inches). 62 leaves (including 3 in color). Publisher's black cloth with gilt cover lettering, gray endpapers. Front tips bumped to exposure. Recased retaining the original endpapers. A very nice copy of a rare item.Romaine p. 216 also list 62 leaves and with only one location. We could find no copy listed on OCLC. The entire catalog is concerned with ornaments and borders, many quite beautiful. James Connor's company was one of the 23 that joined forces to become the American Typefounders' Company. Scarce as hen's teeth (a nod to my mother).

San Francisco: Book Club of California, 2009. First edition of this first biography of J. M. Hutchings. One of 500 copies. Large quarto. xv, [1, illustration], 324, [2, blank], [1, colophon], [1] pp. Profusely illustrated throughout and all of the illustrations are in actual colors. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over green cloth, gilt spine lettering, printed paper cover label, color pictorial endpapers after a Yosemite lithograph by Andrew Melrose. An excellent copy.A much needed and exhaustive work, this publication went out of print soon after publication. It is about evenly divided between the biography and the bibliography. Hutchings was arguably Yosemite's most vocal and powerful champion. Hutchings, a failed prospector and budding publisher, came to Yosemite Valley in 1855 after reading Lafayette Bunnell's descriptions of its waterfalls. His illustrated publication, Hutchings' California Magazine, did more than anything else to bring the valley's beauty to the attention of the world. He… Read More

San Francisco: The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, (1937). First edition. Octavo. 34 pp. Publisher's printed salmon Wrappers. Excellent.A sort but tidy presentation of articles about Japan's increasing hostilities in China. Extracts from a Roosevelt speech denouncing the aggression, discusses Japan's 21 demands, and a printing of Japanese Premier Tanaka plans for the conquest of Asia. Much about boycotting Japan and the support of the labor party in this country.

Japan: N.p., [ca. 1910]. Oblong octavo (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches) with a total of 25 stiff leaves mounted to stubs. Each leaf has a window on each side, all bearing original photographs or early postcards. All windows have printed floral borders. There is total of 23 original albumen and silver gelatin photographs (many hand-colored) and 27 very early Japanese postcards (again some with hand coloring). Contemporary padded burgundy morocco with gilt cover lettering, floral endpapers. A few of the window frames with a tear, rear joint of album starting but still strong. An unusual gathering of material.The majority of the photographs are of women and most of them are hand colored. The two most interesting postcards of battle scenes from the Russo-Japan war with captions in English and Japanese. There is also a rather rare photograph of Yoshiwara, the famous prostitute section of Tokyo. The women in Yoshiwara are all behind bars (as usual). There are a couple of books about Yoshiwara but precious few… Read More

[Toyko]: N.p., [ca. 1930\. Octavo size &4 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches) Erotica book of 5 Diptych panels showing erotic scenes, Each diptych measures 9 1/2 by 4 2/4 inches. Accordion-fold with cover of brown paper, front with paper title label applied. Accomplished throughout in very lurid colors. Some toning but very good.

Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1904. First edition. Oblong quarto (10 x 7 inches). Unpaginated and bound in the Japanese style. This title commences with a color woodblock folding illustration and it followed by 41 full page color woodblock illustrations of wedding preparations and ceremonies in various parts of Japan and is followed 22 pp. of text in English describing the actions illustrated in the plates. Colophon is on the inner rear wrapper. Publisher's string tied color pictorial wrappers. Front with a repaired top corner, a crease and some rubbing and rounding to the lower corner.Six of the plates show the different ways to dress one's hair. The "Old" ceremony discussed in the text is for a Daimyo's (Prince's) wedding and the remainder sheds light on the "New" aspects of the ceremony. While not so very rare in the trade OCLC does not record a single copy. Baxley's Stamps surmises that Mrrs. Curizuka was responsible for printing the plates while Ogawa printed the text. All text is in English and place… Read More

Tokyo: N.p., 1914. First edition. Octavo, printed and bound in the Japanese manner. xi, [1], 262 pp. plus 35 full page photographic portraits of the author of each of the 35 articles dealing with Japanese American relations. Publisher's sewn blue printed wrappers. A very good copy.

Los Angeles: Warren F. Lewis, 1949. First edition. Octavo. xii, 168 pp. plus large folding color map at rear. Publisher's light brown cloth with dark brown lettering, pictorial endpapers, dust jacket. A very good copy.Various desert related stories by the author of 'Death Valley in '49'. all printed here for the first time.

London: Cassell and Company, 1919. First UK edition (from the American sheets with Doran as the copyright holder and with their monogram). Octavo with color frontispiece. Illustrated throughout by Shepard. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering, illustrated endpapers. Minor edge wear. A very good copy/

Detroit: Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company, [1924]. First edition. Square octavo. [16] pp., with illustrations on every page )some in color), each page with a fanciful printed blue border. Publisher's pictorial wrappers, covers with a fine painting of the car. Very good.The Jewett was an automobile built in Detroit, Michigan by the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company from March 1922 through December 1926. The Jewett was named after H.M. Jewett, president of Paige-Detroit. After the first 17 months of production approx. 40,000 vehicles were sold. The car was marketed as a Jewett 'Six' a companion to the Paige, the primary product of Paige-Detroit. The 1922-24 cars had a 50 h.p. Jewett motor, the 1925 cars had a 55 h.p. Jewett motor and the 1926 cars had a 40 h.p. Continental motor. The last of the vehicles were available with hydraulic brakes. The company was purchased by the Graham Brothers on January 3, 1927 and the Jewett became a Paige, for that year only. The car was then renamed the Graham-Paige for… Read More

(Scottsdale): Period Gallery West, (1979). First edition. One of 3500 copies. Large octavo catalog. 64 pp. with color illustrations on nearly every page. Publisher's brown faux-leather with gilt cover lettering. A very good copy.Rare in cloth. An auction catalog featuring some of the real greats in Western art; Joseph Henry Sharp, E, Irving Couse, Edgar S. Paxson, Edward Borein, Thomas Moran an others.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. One of 400 copies printed by the Grabhorns as the first volume of their First Series of Rare Americana. Octavo. vii, [1], 116, [4, bibliography] pp. plus color frontispiece and yellow fold-out Wanted poster at rear. Publisher's cloth over decorative boards, printed paper spine label, plain green dust jacket. Bookplate of renown California attorney John Francis Neylan to front pastedown else an excellent copy.Original prospectus laid in. Francis P. Farquhar contributed an 8-page foreword. Neylan negotiated Hearst's purchase of the Call newspaper and became its publisher. By 1925 the lawyer was Hearst's trusted advisor and became general counsel for all his enterprises. Although their professional relationship ended in 1937, the two remained good friends.

Seattle: Dogwood Press, 1936. First edition. One of 700 numbered copies. Octavo with four pages of manuscript facsimile and black and green frontispice portrait. Publisher's tan cloth with black spine lettering. Original slipcase. Fine.

San Antonio: University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, (1985). First edition. One of 50 numbered and specially bound copies, signed by Joe Beeler. Printed by David Holman at the Wind River Press. Oblong octavo. [50] pp. with the first eight pages being an essay by Hedgpeth and the remainder being illustrations of Beeler's artwork. Publisher's quarter brown cloth over brown boards, printed paper spine and cover labels, brown endpapers, matching slipcase. A fine copy.

Vail: Diamond Tail Press, (2004). First edition. Square folio. 296 pp. with many color illustrations after Beeler and numerous photographic illustrations. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, photographic endpapers, dust jacket. A fine copy of this biography.

Great Falls: [Northland Press], 1970. First edition. Large square octavo. [38] pp. Illustrated. Publisher's stiff pictorial wrappers bound in. Nicely bound in red morocco-grain cloth with gilt cover lettering. An excellent copy.

Nashville : Parthenon Press, (1959). First edition. Octavo. 141, [1] pp. plus four pages of photographic illustrations. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, dust jacket (only slight rubbing). Very good.Inscribed by the author. Winkley was instrumental in the Muir Memorial Historical Park (his house) in martinez, California.

New York: (Privately printed), 1937. First edition. Folio (10 1/2 x 14 inches). 62, 93, index), (1) pp. Four pages (including title page) bear text, the remainder are packed with numerous photographs of all the famous patrons of this infamous New York institution. Publisher's blue cloth with white cover lettering, zebra-pattern endpapers. Some wear to extremities and a small split to the cloth at midway on the front joint, title page with mild foxing. A clean and attractive copy overall.The chief attraction to this book lies primarily in the photographs; we find Errol Flynn, Gloria Vanderbilt, Johnny Walker, Prince Serge Obolensky, Jack Dempsey, Prince Guido Colonna, Ginger Rogers and Jose Prado all rubbing elbows and having a fine time. The prohibition brought together, here at the El Morocco for likely the first time in American history, the blue-bloods and the nouveaux riche. An unthinkable proposition merely 20 years prior. Actors, athletes, models and suchlike usually wouldn't have dared to… Read More

El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1993. First edition. Quarto. x, [1], 195, [1] pp. Color frontispiece photographic portrait, numerous color and black-ad-white plates throughout. Publisher's green cloth over beige cloth, gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. An excellent copy.