Authors starting with A from Dawson's Book Shop

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

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

New York Graphic Society, Boston, (1974). First Edition. Very good. 13 3/4 x 17 inches, 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. ... more information

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

The Archetype Press, Berkeley, 1938. First Edition, Limited edition: 500 numbered and signed copies by Adams. This copy is #299. Very good, foxing to front and rear pastedowns and endpapers, former owner's business card pasted to inside front cover, former owner's signature in pen on title page. 16 1/2 x 12 inches, 202 pages, cloth, some soiling and discoloration to cloth , some fading to spine as usually found, subtle repairs to spine at top and bottom edge, corners bumped, The first major mon... more information

M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, (1963). Very good: head of spine bumped. 12 x 9 inches, [16] pages, pictorial wrappers, Signed by Adams, in ink on title page, Includes the essay "The Eloquent Light," by Nancy Newhall. Exhibition catalogue. ... more information

Morgan & Morgan, Inc., Hastings-on-Hudson, (1971). Very good: lower right portion of volume slightly warped. 9 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches, 304 pages, gold-stamped cloth, Dust Jacket (good), Inscribed by Adams, in ink on front endpaper: "For the . . . With Appreciation! Ansel Adams 9-9-71 Carmel". ... more information

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950. First Edition. Very good. 14 1/2 x 12 inches, 97 pages, spiral bound boards, Dust Jacket (some chips and tears to jacket, inner front flap re-attached to jacket with Japanese rice paper that is slightly visible on front cover), Signed by Adams on premilinary blank. ... more information

Morgan and Lester, New York, (1968 ). third printing. Fine. 9 x 6 inches, 120 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (several light creases to back cover at lower edge, small chip at top edge), Signed by Adams on title page. ... more information

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940. Good. 10 x 7 inches, cloth, 6 volumes (including index). ... more information

Studio Publications, New York/London, [1941]. First Edition. Good, some light foxing. 7 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches, 64 pages, tan cloth expertly rebound with paper spine, cloth soiled and stained, extreme wear to corners, Owner's inscription. Scarce copy of Ansel and Virginia's collaborative work of juvenile literature featuring their two children on an idyllic voyage around their home in Yosemite Valley. ... more information

J.F. and C. Rivington, et al., London, 1788. fourteenth Edition. Good: moderate overall wear to binding; small piece torn from margin of C3 affecting approximately 10 letters, gathering P partially sprung. 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. ... more information

Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1941. First Edition. Very good. 8 x 5 1/2 inches, xvi, 471 pages, cloth, slight wear at edges, Dust Jacket (new facsimile dust jacket), Includes 16 leaves of plates featuring 31 full page reproductions from photographs by Walker Evans. One of the most important and experimental collaborations between a writer and photographer in the twentieth century. Agee and Evans approach to the plight of a group of Alabama sharecropping families continues to challenge conventions of... more information

Kelker, De Leuw & Co., Chicago, 1925. Very good: paper separation along front hinge. 11 x 8 1/2 inches, [xvi], 202 pages, gold-stamped green cloth, The first "Grand Design" for Los Angeles public transportation. The report recommends an extensive, costly ($320 million) series of improvements and new construction that could ultimately accomodate the transit needs of a population of 3,000,000 residents. Kelker, De Leuw & Co. propose a core of rapid transit lines consisting in part of upgra... more information

U.S. Government, Washington, 1944. Good. 10 1/4 x 8 inches, wrappers, some edgewear and soiling to wrappers. ... more information

South Pasadena Public Library, South Pasadena, (1987). First Edition. Fine. 11 x 8 1/2 inches, xvi, 311 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (very good), Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. ... more information

Fred Archer, Los Angeles, [c. 1950]. Fine. 9 x 5 3/4 inches, unnumbered pages, wrappers, Promotional catalogue. ... more information

Glenn Allen and Chas. H. Young, Stockton, [c. 1928]. Very good. 7 x 10 1/4 inches, 128 pages, wrappers, rear outer spine creased and lifting, light soiling to outer upper corners of leaves, lower corner slightly creased throughout. ... more information

E. Weyhe, New York, (1956). First Edition. Near fine, small stain at outside edge that is noticeable when book is closed. 12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches, [104] pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (closed tear on front cover, slight soiling to front and rear cover), Inscribed by Merle Armitage and Brett Weston on dedication page in pen and dated 1958, The first major monograph on Brett Weston written and designed by his long time friend Merle Armitage. Armitage met Brett Weston in the early 1920s when he became close frien... more information

Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, CA, 1987. 10 x 10 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth, Dust Jacket. ... more information