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Ouseley, William Gore Remarks on the Statistics and Political Institutions of the United States
$250.00
London: J. Rodwell, 1832. First edition. 8vo. xv, 208p. Bound in quarter calf with marbled sides and text block edges, the spine with gilt title on a red ground, the panels densely gilt. Contents quite clean, binding very good with some minor rubbing to sides. Two bookplates.
Howes O-157; Sabin 57946.
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Author-inscribed family copy of lumbering memoir
Warren, George Henry THE PIONEER WOODSMAN AS HE IS RELATED TO LUMBERING IN THE NORTHWEST
$250.00Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Minneapolis: Gov’t Printing Office & Smithsonian, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #2105092 1st printing. 1/2 leather & cloth boards. 184pp. Illustrated with nice photogravures. Family copy with unusual custom bookplate on the front paste down of the author’s son & daughter-in-law, Frank and Alice Warren, which has three half-tone photos on it showing a cabin, a lighthouse, & a forest road. On the frontispiece (showing a stream & some trees) there is a space for an inscription, this one being the author’s presentation to Alice, his daughter-in-law, & dated Aug. 10, 1914. This book is a superb memoir of early timber cruising in northern Wisconsin & Minnesota beginning in the 1870s. A remarkable life as a woodsman who eventually became what I believe to have been a leader in the industry in that Great Lakes area. The leather joints have been repaired and are holding well, but note some deterioration at head & toe of spine. A good, tight copy. This book was printed on beautifully textured paper from Italy.
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Landmark cattle boom text, rare 1882 printing
Brisbin, Gen. James S. THE BEEF BONANZA or How To Get Rich on the Plains, being a description of cattle-growing, sheep-farming, horse-raising, and dairying in the West.
$489.98Gene W. Baade Books on the West
Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott, 1882. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #0903021 Bibliographers only cite the 1881 first edition (copyright 1880), & do not mention this 1882 printing, which collates & sizes identical to the 1881 printing. Attractive pictorial gilt & blind-stamped small 8vo cloth. 222pp. Illustrated with several wood engravings. Index. 6pp of additional publications. Bibliographer Reese writes, in part, “Brisbin’s book has long been considered the most important promotional work adding fuel to the cattle boom of the 1880s… (note of Brisbin’s plagiarism) …Whether the facts were his or not, Brisbin paints a spectacular picture in which his favorite phrase is ‘and the profits are enormous.'” Information out of Nebraska, Texas, Colorado, etc.. According to Reese, at the 1st National Convention of Cattlemen in 1884 in St. Louis, Brisbin was elected vice president of the Nat’l Cattle and Horse Growers’ Assoc.. Moderate wear to extremities. Bottom of spine with slight fraying. Light soiling. Minor rubbing. Very good, tight, original condition. Rare in either printing & exceptional in this condition. Herd 322, 6-Score 15, Rader 486, Howes B780.
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Don Glaister's First Artist's Book. 1 of 60 Copi
Glaister, Donald Brooklyn Bridge A Love Song
$7,500.00Michael Pyron, Bookseller ABAA/ILAB
Cleveland: Foolsgold Studio, 2002. Folio. 28 pp. Limited edition, this is #40 of 60 copies (10 being held hors commerce). Signed by Glaister at the colophon. Backed in gray Nigerian goatskin with sanded aluminum sides, as issued, in felt-lined aluminum box with aluminum label. Prospectus, with minor soiling, laid in. A fine copy of this visually stunning artist book. Glaister describes the production in the prospectus: 14 leaves of 10 mil aluminum, attached to paper hinges. The book opens with an 18-line poem by Glaister in Avant Garde and is silkscreen printed on sanded aluminum. This is followed by five page-spread paintings of the bridge, seen from different angles, times of day, and times of year. Alternating between the paintings are sets of abstract studies, nine in all, that explore the essence of bridgeness. They are likewise made of sanded aluminum with acrylic paint, wire, aluminum tape, laminated polyester film and sand. The studies are mounted onto the aluminum pages. A visually striking celebration of the Brooklyn Bridge. The artist describes this best in the prospectus: “The story of the Bridge is one of opposites. The story of huge mass and lacy delicacy, of ancient and modern, of vitality and disease and death, of honor and corruption, of social vision and common greed. It is the story of links. The linking of East to West, of the agrarian past to the industrial future, of stone to steel, and of course of Brooklyn to Manhattan. Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song visually and emotionally tells this story. The book is truly a love song. It sings of the elegance, power and invention of this great American icon.” This is the first artist book by Glaister who is one of the foremost design bookbinders practicing today. Glaister carved a path blending classical European bookbinding technique while exploring unexpected and untraditional materials and expression. His bindings appear in private collections throughout North American and Europe and in many of the most important institutions.
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Captures the Vanishing Charm of Old New Orleans
Arnold Genthe with a Foreword by Grace King Impressions of Old New Orleans: A Book of Pictures
$300.004to., 250 pp. unpaginated. 100 full page black and white photographic plates printed on rectos only, including many candid portraits of local African Americans, as well as architectural studies, street and garden views. Very Good with small stain on lower right and corner lacking the dust jacket. Item #913202413 This evocative early 20th-century volume showcases the atmospheric photography of Arnold Genthe, whose lens captured the vanishing charm of old New Orleans before modernization transformed its streets. With a warm and insightful foreword by Southern author Grace King, the book offers a rare visual record of the city’s French Quarter, Creole architecture, and street life at a pivotal moment in its history. Genthe’s soft-focus images and masterful compositions evoke the romance and mystery of a bygone era, while King’s prose situates them within the city’s cultural and historical fabric. Published in the 1920s, Impressions of Old New Orleans is among the most beautiful photographic tributes to the Crescent City. Collectors prize this title for its blend of documentary precision and artistic vision, as well as its association with two of the period’s most refined interpreters of place and character. A cornerstone work for enthusiasts of photography, New Orleans history, and Southern Americana. Genthe [January 8, 1869 August 9, 1942] was a German-born American photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities. Uncommon title.
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