WESTERN AMERICANA from Houle Rare Books & Autographs

First edition (stated private edition). Octavo. Photograph frontispiece of the author. Original purple cloth. No dust jacket. Very good. 180 pages. Signed on front free endpaper by Dinsmore. No other signatures or bookplates. Account of visits to Southern U.S., Mexico, Salt Lake City, Arizona, New Orleans, the Grand Canyon, etc. Traveling by train and automobile coast to coast.

First edition. Octavo. Original stiff wrappers. No dust jacket. Fine. 278 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Keepsake 54.

Fourth impression. Octavo. Illustrated with photographs by Joseph Smith Henley, Hector Burr, and the Author. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt. Endpaper map. No dust jacket. Very good. 276 pages plus 28 pages of b/w photographs. No other signatures or bookplates. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by the author on title page: "For Mrs. Singleton Smith, with best wishes. Constance Jordan… Read more about this item

4to. Edited by Roy Vernon Sanders. Three page foreword by Margaret Cosgrave Sowers. Seven facsimiles. Original red cloth, paper label. No dust jacket. Very good. 97 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 400 copies. Small bookseller label, Vroman's. GB 466.

First edition (so stated). Octavo. Ten illustrations. Original light green cloth. No dust jacket. Good (small punctures on lower spine). 259 pages. Signed and inscribed with initials on front free endpaper: "For George Christmas 1944 T. D." Tom Douglas (1896-1978), appeared in films from 1920 to 1933, when he changed careers and became a leading decorator and contemporary of Cukor's friend William… Read more about this item

First edition. 4to. Vol. XIII, No. 3 & 4. Spring and Summer 1966. Edited by James A. Barnes. Original stiff wrappers. No dust jacket. Very good. 131 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Errata page laid in loose. Foreword by Gerald A. Smith.

First edition. Thick octavo. Original gilt stamped blue cloth. Dust jacket (unclipped price on spine; few nicks and chips). Very good. 483 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Frontispiece portrait of author at Foresta in Yosemite National Park.

Salesman's "dummy" which comprises Pages I-XXI, 1-32, and 14 of the illustrations. Tan pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt, brown and orange (spine stamping on back cover). Fine. Uncommon thus. We have not seen another example. Provenance: G. W. James estate. A. H. Clarke Co. The only example we have encountered.

First edition. Octavo. Original pictorial green cloth. Dust jacket (price clipped; few chips and nicks; short closed tears). Very good. 390 pages + 2 page of ads. No signatures or bookplates. A thinly veiled biography of George Wharton James by Alice (Ward) Bailey (1857-1948). Rare in dust jacket. The only copy we have seen.

First edition (so stated). Octavo. Frontispiece portrait. Pictorial endpapers: State of Morelos. Dust jacket (price clipped; few nicks and chips). Very good. 332 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed at The Country Life Press, Garden City, New York.

First edition thus. 12mo (6 ¼" x 4"). 3 page introduction by Glen Dawson. Original gilt stamped blue cloth. No dust jacket. Fine. 35 pages. No signatures or bookplates. One of 100 copies. Printed by William M. Cheney.

First edition. 7" x 5 ¼". Original tan pictorial wrappers. B/W illustrations depicting various Indian Artifacts and Designs. No dust jacket. Very good (light soiling; a few faint spots). Unpaginated.

Yosemite Park and Curry Co., n.d., but ca. 1920 (?). 4to. 9" x 4" when folded. 32 panels when opened. 4 double panel color map at center; six smaller maps; b/w photos. Very good (staples rusty). Printed in San Francisco by H. S. Crocker Co. Inc.

(ca. 1920?). First and only edition (?). Tall narrow 4to. C. W. Bowen and F. K. Camp, Managers. Geo. Wharton James, Conductor General. Tours ranging from 100 to 1,000 miles, one to ten days each. 16 panels. 9" x 4" when folded. Very good. Not sure if these tours ever got off the ground. This is only example of the brochure… Read more about this item

Pictorial views on fold out panel with 12 b/w photographs showing various city displays. Original pictorial stiff cover designed by George D. Heisley. Folds for ease of mailing. Fine, unmailed condition. Verso of front panel with advertisement of Mutual Orange Distributors: Distributors of those prize winning pure gold and silver seal oranges, lemons and grapefruit.

First edition. Quarto. Illustrations by Nellie Jenson. Endpaper maps. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Original gilt stamped brown cloth by Hiller Bookbinding Co. Preface by Roxey L. Romney. Two page preface by Vilate Roundy. No dust jacket. Very good. 440 pages. Signed and inscribed by Bradshaw, St. George, Utah, January 22, 1951 to Elizabeth.

January, 1923. First edition. 13 x 10 inches. Vol. I, No. 1. James is listed as editor of the projected quarterly publication. He died in San Francisco on November 8, 1923. This was apparently the only issue. Center fold, fine condition. 16 pages. Provenance: Yale & Brown Booksellers, Pasadena, California, who sold items from James' estate.

May, 1919. 12" x 9". Illustrated with four halftone photographs by A. F. Bradley. Very good copy fold at center. 8 pages. James would often have offprints produced from his magazine articles. The last two pages of this one contain advertisements for his works. Provenance: James estate via Yale and Brown, Pasadena.

First edition, first issue (portrait and map were added to later printings. Octavo. Original brown pictorial cloth in gilt and black. Brown coated endpapers. No dust jacket. Very good (minor rubbing). 312 pages. Bookplate of Arthur Crane. Howes C980.

First edition. Octavo. Frontispiece and 15 b/w illustrations. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt, red, white and blue. Brown coated ends. No dust jacket. Very good. 341 pages + 2 pages of ads. No signatures or bookplates. Howes C980.