Search Results: Authors starting with W from Dawson's Book Shop

x, 347 pages plus 20 leaves of chromo-lithograph illustrations and one leaf containing list of illustrations,
10 1/4 x 6 ¼ inches, cloth, chipped and torn at top and bottom of spine, rubber stamp of previous owner on front endpaper.Fifteen illustrations of birds and fauna by Mrs. C.W. Webber with five Native American scenes by Alfred Jacob Miller. The title page calls for 25 illustrations but the list of illustrations details 20 plates. This edition notable for being only one of two published works to contain chromo-lithograph illustrations after drawings by Miller.

Archibald Constable and Co./J.B. Lippincott Co., Westminster/Philadelphia, 1900. Good. second printing 8 x 5 3/4 inches, 452 pages, cloth, some water damage, wear to spine extremities, hinges slightly cracked, corners bumped, With numerous illustrations by A.D. McCormick, the Author and others, and from photographs. With fold-out map in rear.

Brigham Young University Press, N.p., (1975). Very good. 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 180 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Detailed history of 19th century photography in Utah.

California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1941. Fine, unopened. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 750 copies printed by Lawton R. Kennedy 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches, [ii], 94, [1, colophon] pages, decorative boards with linen spine and paper spine label, Includes four-color frontispiece and 3 large decorative initials in red. Special Publication Number 17 of the Society.

Doubleday & Company, Garden City, 1971. 10.25 in. x 7 in., 185 pages, Cloth, Dust Jacket, Pages stained at bottom edge, price clipped dust jacket, bookseller's stamp on lower right edge of front endpaper. Preface by Peter Bunnell and introduction by Clive Barnes. Laid in is folding brochure for an exhibit of Waldman's photographs at the Gruenebaum Gallery in New York in December, 1975.

Illustrated with 48 plates of illustrations from photographs. A history of Santa Monica from the late 19th century to the the mid-1940s with biographies of the city's "leading men".

Grossman Publishers, New York, 1973. Very good. First Edition 9 x 10 1/2 inches, 213 pages, cloth.

Little Bear, New York, 2003. Fine. First Edition, Limited edition 12 x 9 inches, Unpaginated pages, wrappers.

Photography West Graphics, Carmel, 1986. Near fine. First Edition, Limited edition: One of 5000 14 x 12 inches, black cloth with Weston's signature stamped in silver on upper cover, Dust Jacket (near fine), Unpaginated.

Aperture, Millerton, 1980. 13.5 in. x 11.5 in., 131 pages, Cloth, Cloth with cloth slipcase, slight foxing to rear endpaper and last leaf. No. 156 of 400 copies signed by Brett Weston lacking the photograph of "Reeds, Oregon".

slight wear and chipping to dust jacket primarily at edges.
Rare copy of the first edition, first printing warmly inscribed by Charis and Edward in separate entries to William Holger. Holger met Weston through the f/64 group in the 1930s. He was an amateur photographer and a construction supervisor in San Francisco. Holger helped Weston build his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.
Laid in, formerly taped to inside front cover, is a photo postcard showing Ansel Adams photographing Edward Weston for the image used on the rear cover of the dust jacket for California and the West. Also included with this copy is a 20 page illustrated article discussing Weston's Guggenheim trips between 1937 and 1939. This article, most likely culled from an edition of U.S. Camera Annual is also inscribed to Holger from Weston.

slight abrasions to cover and edges.
Inscribed by Weston on half-title page, "To Bill and Zelda from Edward with his love. 10-19-47." William Holger was a friend of Weston from the 1930s when they met through the f/64 photography group. Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He helped Weston construct his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.
This is Weston's second monograph produced and designed by Merle Armitage with written contributions by Armitage, Donald Bear and Robinson Jeffers.
One of 1500 copies numbered copies, initialed by Weston on a separate sheet and pasted on the colophon leaf. This is an unnumbered copy noted in ink as "personal".

Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, (1940). Good. First Edition 11 1/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 127 pages, cloth, wear to spine extremities and corners, covers slightly shelfworn, previous owner's signature in pen (1944), darkening to inner covers near spine, A U.S. Camera Book, with 96 photographs.

Dust jacket soiled, chipped and separated at spine and rear flap. Foxing to front endpaper otherwise contents very clean.
Inscribed to Bill and Zelda Holger on front endpaper. Weston met Holger in the 1930s through the f/64 group. Holger was a construction supervisor in San Francisco and an amateur photographer. Holger helped Weston build his house on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.
Laid into this copy is the August 1955 issue of the Carmel Pacific Spectator-Journal with a 3 page article on Weston's nude photography. Also included are several adds for Kodak promoting Weston's color work.

Includes 39 leaves of plates from photographs by Edward Weston and a frontispiece portrait of the photographer by Brett Westion. This copy includes the cardboard slipcase in very good condition with some wear and chipping at edges.
Edward Weston's first monograph and one of the most important American photography books of the 20th century. The design by Merle Armitage and printing by Lynton Kistler were based in Los Angeles. Weston's close friend Ramiel McGehee edited the literary contributions by Charles Sheeler, Lincoln Steffens, Arthur Millier, and Jean Charlot. The quality of full page reproductions of Weston's work was unprecendented for the time.
Limited to 550 copies of which this is number 353 signed by Weston on the colophon page. Addtionally inscribed to William and Zelda Holger from Edward and Charis dated 1945. Weston met William Holger in the 1930s through the f/64 photography group. Holger was a construction supervisor based in San Francisco. He helped Weston build his home in Wildcat… Read More

Phil Weygand, [Dundee], 1967. Near fine. Limited edition: One of "about 125" copies, printed by Phil Weygand 2 1/2 x 1 7/8 inches, 36 pages, yellow pictorial boards, Signed by the printer, Not included in pagination are the colophon, folding frontispiece and folding facsimile letter. Bookplate of Raymond A. Smith.

Government Printing Bureau, Ottawa, 1905. Good. First Edition 9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches, cloth, sunning to spine, wear to spine extremities, corners bumped, With an accompanying atlas of map plates. Owner's signature and stamp in ink.

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1999. Fine. First Edition, Limited edition: 1 of 100 copies in cloth slipcase, each copy numbered and signed by the author on a special colophon page, 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 268 pages, cloth, This landmark publication written by photograpic art and book collector, Mus White, details over 1400 books in the field of American and international juvenile literature illustrated with original photographs or related photo-mechanical processes. Establishing a critical link between photography and children's books, the bibliography also locates important and rare examples of fine art photography in the pictorialist, surrealist, and modernist genre.

Ash Ranch Press, San Diego, (1987). Fine. Limited edition: One of 126 copies 1 1/4 x 1 1/8 inches, 36 pages, decorative blue imitation leather, With an original woodcut by Don Hildreth.

creases to dust jacket on front and rear inner flaps.
Inscribed to Bill and Zelda Holger by Charis Wilson, Cole, Neil and Brett Weston on title page with Edward's facsimilie signature. A card pasted to the inside front cover indicates the book was acquired at a book signing in Carmel on December 11, 1977.
William Holger was an amateur photographer and construction supervisor from San Francisco who met Weston through the f/64 group in the 1930s. He helped build Weston's home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.