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

London: William Carpenter, 1836. 7 3/4 x 5 inches, 16 pages, bound in whole brown calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe: gilt edges, gold title lettering on a dark red leather label along spine, gilt border on front and back boards, gilt tooling along cover edges and turn-ins. Minor soiling to cover; small patch of board exposed at spine bottom and top; light rubbing along joints. Black and white frontispiece and six b/w satirical caricatures throughout, bindery stamp and bookseller stamp on front and back blanks respectively. Decorative slipcase matching endpaper: corners and edges worn. Printed by Vizetelly, Branston and Co.An unusual comedic pamphlet designed "to submit to the public taste some characteristic samples of the Choice Spirits of the Age" and claiming to portray "a full-length Likeness of Society, in its habit as it lives". Consists of a Preface, a poetic Dedication, and six sections describing 'My Lord Mayor', 'My Lady Mayoress', 'The Sword-Bearer', 'The Chamberlain', 'The Alderman', and… Read More

California poetry.

Lawrence K. Fox, Pierre, South Dakota, 1932. Good, corners lightly bumped. First Edition 9 1/4 x 6 inches, 458 pages, cloth.

Typographia Blaviana, Amstelodami, 1684. Very good, water damage around front and back endpaper and blank edges, Very good, water damage around front and back endpaper and blank edges, Very good, water damage around front and back endpaper and blank edges. 7 in. x 12 in. x 4 in., Accedit Commentarius Ex Variorum Notis & Observationibus, Ex recenfione Ioh. Frederici Gronovii. Volume I of a 2 volume set, [24], 624 pages. Full calf with blind-ruled boarders to front and back covers, raised bands and blind-tooled fillets to spine, light rubbing along spine joints and chip to spine tail, gilt-tooled board edges, red speckled edges, titling to spine handwritten in ink. Includes engraved titlepage, some engraved initials and tail-pieces.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. First edition, rebound in modern calf and marbled boards, xiv, 295 pages. Includes 15 hand-colored aquatint plates on 11 sheets. Very good, expertly mended closed tear to title page, some foxing throughout. Abbey Travel 19; Tooley 344.

New York Graphic Society, Boston, (1974). Very good,. First Edition 13 in. x 34 in. x 17 in., 128 pages, Cloth, Dust Jacket (price clipped on front flap, small abrasion (not a tear) on rear cover), With cardboard slipcase, some soiling, paper split at some edges and corners

American Trust Company, San Francisco, 1954. Good. 56 pages, spiral bound, wrappers.

Yosemite Park and Curry Co., Los Angeles, (1938 ). Very good. third Edition 12 x 8 1/2 inches, unnumbered pages, wrappers.

Aperture, New York, 1995. First Edition 12 in. x 12.25 in., 79 pages, Boards with cloth spine, Dust Jacket, First edition.

J.F. and C. Rivington, et al., London, 1788. Good: moderate overall wear to binding; small piece torn from margin of C3 affecting approximately 10 letters, gathering P partially sprung. fourteenth Edition 6 3/4 x 4 inches, [xxxiv], 329, [7, index] pages, contemporary calf with red morocco spine label, Includes engraved frontispiece and 196 woodcut illustrations, each measuring 2 1/8 x 2 3/4 inches, in pagination. Neat ink owner inscription dated 1796 on front free endpaper.

N.p., [circa 1860-1870]. Very good: albumen photographs show varying degrees of fading. 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 inches, original blindstamped red leather with brass clasp, This album is made up of 8 leaves displaying 13 photographs. These are either albumen photographs (9 images) or tintypes (4 images). The albumen pictures are scenic views of various subjects and the tintypes are portraits.

N.p., [circa 1900]. Fine. 11/16 x 9/16 inches, brass, with red enamel upper cover and embossed lower cover, with clasp and loop so the book can be worn as a charm, Six miniature silver-gelatin photographs, mounted on the inside covers and on two interior brass "leaves." All photographs are captioned. Godalming is a town, currently of about 21,000, in the county of Surrey, England. The photographs show an overview of the town, High Street, Godalming Bridge, Charterhouse School, Eashing Bridge and Frith Hill.

24 leaves of full page illustrations by Harry Clarke. Rear hinge cracked near bottom edge, some discoloration to vellum, foxing to front and rear endpapers and several leaves at front of book, contents and plates very clean. Number 68 of 170 copies numbered and signed by Clarke.

The Playworkers Studio, Hollywood, 1924. Good. 6 in. x 4 in., 80 pages, Wrappers, detached, Inscribed by the autor in pen on half-title page and dated "July 1924"., Paper yellowed

Sixteen volumes all published in limited editions. This innovative series was the first to examine various unusual subjects about the Los Angeles area, presaging interest in LA cultural, social and environmental history. This set from the library of Daniel Munoz with certain volumes signed and inscribed as noted. All titles in very good to fine condition unless noted. Vol. 1 inscribed by the author on front endpaper, blind stamp of Daniel Munoz at lower edge of title page in Vol. 2, some soiling to covers of Vol. 5, some wear at edges of Vol. 7, Vol. 8 inscribed by the author to Munoz on front endpaper, Vol. 10 inscribed to Bob Scherrer by the author on front endpaper, Vol. 14 signed by the author on dedication page, inscribed for Munoz by Glen and Muir Dawson on colophon page.
The set includes the following titles:
1. Eddy S. Feldman. The Art of Street Lighting in Los Angeles, 1972
2. Edwin Carpenter. Early Cemeteries of the City of Los Angeles, 1973.
3. Ward Ritchie. The Dohenys of Los Angeles,… Read More

All volumes 9 x 6 inches. Cloth, with dust jackets, some dust jackets worn and chipped, volume 2 missing sections at spine. Polaroid Manual has library numbers on spine of dust jacket and rubber stamp of San Francisco Public Library at top edge of text and verso of title page. All six volumes signed or inscribed by Adams on preliminary blank or title page.Various editions and printings of Adams first comprehensive series of books related to the technical aspects of photography. Editions include, Camera and Lens, 1948. First edition. The Negative, 1971. Fifth printing. The Print, 1968. No edition or printing stated. Natural-Light Photography, 1965. Fifth printing. Artificial-Light Photography, 1971. Fifth printing. Polaroid Land Photography Manual, 1963. No edition stated.

Publication with similiar design and feel to Adams' Yosemite Valley and National Park book as well as the Weston Point Lobos publication but with a distinctly commercial approach.
Signed and inscribed by Adams on the introductory leaf and dated "7-17-83".
In original shipping container.

Adams' project documenting the life of Japanese American internees at Manzanar during World War II.
Lacking the dust jacket as issued but a rare copy in boards. This copy also has an inscription from Adams in pen to Bill and Zelda Holger dated November 1945. Vintage inscriptions from Adams are uncommon especially for this book.
William Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He was also an amateur photographer involved in the f/64 movement in the 1930s. Holger attended many of Adams' early Yosemite Workshops.

Small book plate on inside front cover.
The first major monograph of Adams' work, this book includes 50 tipped-in illustrations from photographs by Ansel Adams in the finest half-tone process of the time. Sierra Club member Walter Starr commissioned Adams to produce the book as a memorial to his son who was killed while solo climbing in the High Sierra. The elaborate publication was used as a sophisticated lobbying tool while Congress was voting on the establishment of the Kings Canyon National Park.
Limited to 500 copies of which this is No. 423 signed by Adams on the colophon leaf.

First revised edition. 304 pages, 10 x 7 inches, cloth with dust jacket, chips and tears to front and rear cover, signed by the photographer in pen on title page.