Rare Book Catalogue #21 Part 2
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
BACK OF BEYOND BOOKS RARE BOOK CATALOGUE NO. 21 WESTERN AMERICANA • PART TWO 1 RARE BOOK CATALOGUE NO. 21 Dear Friends and Colleagues, Part two • Fall 2019 Thank you for taking the time to view Back of Beyond Books’ Rare Book Catalogue 21. Unlike past issues, catalogue 21 is e-format only, much to my sadness. I love traditionally printed catalogues but costs continue to rise and given that this catalogue features only material of the American West, our audience may be smaller than for past more varied catalogues. Because it is digital, we’re splitting its release over three weeks so you can easily absorb the content. We’ve pared the catalogue to around 165 items. I also insisted that the catalogue be ‘published’ before Sophie Tomkiewicz left our fair town for the forests and hills of North Carolina. All of us at Back of Beyond Books will miss Sophie’s good cheer and attitude. I selfishly mourn that my best-ever 83 North Main Street • Moab, UT 84532 cataloguer is leaving. Good luck Sophie in your new adventure! (435) 259-5154 • (800) 700-2859 Items in this catalogue range from $20 promotionals to a backofbeyondbooks.com spectacular limited edition set of photographic prints by Adam [email protected] Clark Vroman (item 154).Highlights include two stunning photo albums of Zane Grey’s hunting and fishing trips (items 76 and 77), a massive 19th century political broadside for L. Bradford Prince who would later become New Mexico’s governor (item 121), a set of Dakota Territory albumen prints with fabulous content and detail (item 55), an original oil painting by one of the best-known 19th century Utah artists, George M. Ottinger (item 116), and an exceptional lithograph of San Francisco by African American artist, G. T. Brown (item 20). We’ve pared the catalogue to 176 items. Happy scouting! On the cover: Item 72. Charles Goodman. Andy Nettell Photo Album of Petroglyphs in Southeastern Utah and the Norwood & Bluff City Oil Company. 2 LIMITED EDITION AQUATINT, SIGNED 61. Drannan, William F. Thirty- 62. Farquhar, Francis P. History BY THE ARTIST One Years on the Plains and in the of the Sierra Nevada. Mountains or, the Last Voice from the Berkeley and Los Angeles, University 60. Doolittle, Harold. Canyon Twilight. Plains. An Authentic Record of a Life of California Press, 1966. First Edition, Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting 1954. Aquatint. Very Good. This aquatint is one of Third Printing. Large 8vo 9” - 10” tall. 60 that were especially hand printed for members of and Indian Fighting in the Far West. 262pp. Hardcover. Very Good in Very the Roxburghe & Zamorano clubs on the occasion of Chicago, Rhodes & McClure Publishing Good Dust Jacket. Illustrated, textured their joint meeting in Los Angeles, September 11-12, Company, 1900. Second Printing. 12mo 7” dust jacket; blue boards with white 1954. Aquatint including margins measures 13” x 13 - 7½” tall. 584pp. Hardcover. Good. Dark illustration printed on cover and gilt ½”; print is matted and has a 4” x 4 ¾” leaf tipped green cloth boards with silver lettering and text on spine. DJ has light wear to onto mat which provides information regarding decoration. Boards have light wear to all edges and is price clipped; boards have limitation and method of printing. Signed and titled edges and light chipping to spine; previous light wear to all edges and are slightly by the artist, Harold Doolittle in pencil. In very good owner’s inscription on front pastedown in bowed; endpapers and pastedowns condition with two 1 ¾” creases on mat which also pencil; all leaves have heavy toning and are have light toning and foxing. slightly affect the print; mat and limitation sheet fragile, poor paper quality is usual with this have light toning and soiling. A clear and thorough history of the book. Sierra Nevada from notable historian Printed from an etched copper plate, this aquatint Includes many illustrations and photographs. Francis P. Farquhar. 018319. depicts a gorgeous, shadowy canyon scene in the Howes D-482. 019092. Southwest. The image likely portrays the Grand $42 Canyon with the canyon rim dropping off into steep $45 canyon walls. 018853. SOLD 3 INSCRIBED BY FARQUHAR DUTTON’S TERTIARY HISTORY TO FORMER YELLOWSTONE 64. Dutton, Clarence E. Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas. SUPERINTENDENT Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office, 1882. 264pp. Hardcover. Good. Includes atlas 63. Farquhar, Francis P. Naming and monograph. Original brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on both volumes. Bien & Co., America’s Mountains - The Colorado lithographers of the atlas. Overall good condition. Boards of monograph have cracked gutters, Rockies. heavy wear to all edges and gilt lettering is faded; text block has light toning and soiling throughout; plates are clean. Boards of atlas have cracked gutters, heavy chipping and loss to New York, American Alpine Club, 1961. 3” at foot of spine, all edges have heavy wear and soiling; first endpaper is detached from text Large 8vo 9” - 10” tall. Pamphlet. Very Good. block and has moderate chipping to fore edge; views in the atlas have light foxing and minor Textured grey wraps with black lettering and offsetting, but are still vibrant. illustration on front, staple bound; paginated 319-346. Signed and inscribed by Farquhar Farquhar calls this “One of the greatest, if not the very greatest of all Grand Canyon books. The to Edmund Rogers, former Superintendent atlas, containing the superb panoramic views by William H. Holmes and a drawing by Thomas of Yellowstone National Park (1936-56). Moran, is a rich portfolio of art as well as a collection of maps and an exposition of geology.” As stated on the front wrap, this pamphlet Farquhar 73. 018787. is “Reprinted from the American Alpine $5,000 Journal, 1961.” Light wear to bottom edge of wraps, otherwise clean. A nice association copy. Three copies in OCLC as of December 2018. 017542. $115 4 19TH CENTURY CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER NICE ADVERTISEMENTS AND INTERESTING CONTENT 65. Elliott, Fred and S. F. Houle. Bodie Morning News July 66. Fay, A. E. Tombstone Weekly Nugget, 26, 1879 with Supplement. Tombstone, Pima County, Arizona, Thursday May 13, 1880 Vol. 1 No. 33 Bodie, CA, Hoole & Elliott, 1879. Newspaper. Good. Issue of the Supplement. Bodie Morning News, Volume 1, Number 120. Bodie, Mono County, Cal., Saturday July 26, 1879. Typical 4-page newspaper, possibly Tombstone, AZ, A. E. Fay, 1880. 1pp. Newspaper. once bound with 3 Good. Tombstone Weekly Nugget Thursday puncture holes along May 13, 1880 Supplement only. Printed on recto spine and chipping only this supplement is printed on highly acidic along edges. The paper and is toning evenly but remains in good much harder to find condition with a couple very small holes, not supplement is also affecting content, and light edge wear. included. Paper contains a number of regional ads including the “New Tombstone Typical of mining & Tucson Stage Line” carrying United States Mails using the finest four- boom towns of the horse Concord Coaches. Also includes notices of various mining claims west, Bodie had and patents plus a report from Congressman Daggett regarding mining many short-lived law changes. Also of note is Ordinance No. 10 from the Common newspaper enterprises. The Bodie Morning News apparently lasted Council of the Village of Tombstone to “Regulate Public Bar Rooms and less than three years before it merged with the Bodie Daily Standard. Places of Resort.” Supplement measures 13 x 20 inches. 018848. Lead headline was the Dastardly Murder of police officer Humphrey $40 Symons of Gold Hill following a domestic abuse incident. In other news, the town of Bodie was struggling to provide safe drinking 67. Fenn, Forrest. Seventeen water and safe roads for its residents. Updates were provided Dollars a Square Inch: A on the Maryland Consolidated Mine and the Noonday Mine; the Personal Tribute to Eric Sloane. variety show Berlin Boy was well attended plus stagecoach arrivals and departures are noted. Many ads are included less any good Santa Fe, NM, One Horse Land & engravings as sometimes found in early western newspapers. Cattle Co. First Edition. Oblong Small Last but not least it is noted that the following beers are available 4to 9” - 11” tall. 111pp. Hardcover. at Wagner’s Saloon: Carson, Boca, St. Louis, Budweiser, and Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Black cloth Milwaukee. 16 1/2 x 22 inches. The supplement printed only on boards with silver title on front board verso primarily lists delinquent stock payments plus stockholder and spine. Pictorial dust jacket. reports for a number of mining companies including Blackhawk, Belvidere, Rustler, Addenda, Goodshaw and more. Supplement A fun journey through the friendship of Eric Sloane and Forrest Fenn measures 9 3/4 x 15 1/2 inches and is in very good condition. 018842. accompanied by illustrations by Eric Sloane. 019066. $150 $115 5 1890 VARIANT OF NEW MEXICO PROMOTIONAL 69. Fuller, Robert P. Wonderful Wyoming--The Undeveloped Empire. 68. Frost, Max (editor). New Mexico - Its Resources, Climate, Geography and Geological Condition - Official Publication of the Cheyenne, WY, Wyoming State Bureau of Immigration. Board of Immigration, 1910. 12mo 7” - 7½” tall. 127pp. Paperback. Santa Fe, N.M., New Mexican Printing Company, 1890. 8vo 8” - 9” tall. Good. Golden wrappers with black 92pp. Softcover. Very Good. Eye-catching wraps, dyed pink and yellow with imprint on front and back. Soiling decorative title and detailed illustrations; string bound. Includes one folding and chipping to wrapper. Edges map titled “Map of the Santa Fe Route and Connections” measuring 39 ¼” soiled but most of the interior is x 16”. Wraps have light wear to edges and light soiling, minor repair on rear clean.