Authors starting with A from Argonaut Book Shop

Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1965 First edition. A Reproduction in Facsimile. Introduction by Fred Blackburn Rogers. Folio. xiii, [1], 212 pp. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy. A facsimile of the first volume of San Francisco's first newspaper. A fascinating look at the beginning years of San Francisco and its rapid development. The California Star was the first to print news of the battles in the Conquest of California, of the formation of the city of San Francisco, and of the D... more information

Seattle: Superior Publishing Company, 1958 First edition. Quarto. 192pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original gray cloth. Bookplate. A fine copy with lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. A collection of rare photos and true stories about tracks, trains, and trainmen of the Pacific Northwest, including Northern California.. ... more information

San Francisco: by the Artist, 1921 Period print of one of the artist's charcoal drawings. 7x5¼ inches plus borders. Signed within the plate. Framed and glazed. A fine copy. Titled by the artist at lower left margin. Presentation inscription by the artist at lower right margin: "To Mr. Dean Witter from the artist, Christmas, 1921." Rowena Meeks Abdy (1887-1945) was an American painter who flourished in Northern California. The artist worked in oil, watercolor and charcoal and achieved pr... more information

San Francisco: John Howell, 1970 Second edition, first published in 1846. Limited to 5000 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Edited by John Galvin. Folio. xi [7] 77pp. Colored frontis, 21 colored plates, 3 maps (2 folding), text illustrations. Tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. Abert's Journal was first published as a Congressional Document in 1846, illustrated with engravings. In this second edition, his original watercolor sketches are reproduced in full color, recording the Indians and the ... more information

San Francisco: John Howell, 1966 Second edition, first published in 1848. Limited to 3000 copies and handsomely printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Edited by John Galvin. Folio. [12], 116pp. Colored frontis, 13 colored plates, 2 plans, 2 folding maps, text illustrations. Foxing to top edge of cloth covers, less so to bottom edge, else a nice copy. Abert's journal of 1846-47, in which he recorded the daily happenings of his journey from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe, his "examination of New Mexico,... more information

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1938 Reprint. Illustrated throughout with numerous black & white photos. Light rubbing to spine and minor wear to lower corners, else a fine copy. Wallpaper and it's relation to interior design.. ... more information

Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1992 Limited first edition, signed by the author. Published by the Franklin Library exclusively for subscribers of "The Signed First Edition Society." Bound in maroon leather, lettered and decoratively stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. A very fine, as new copy. An extremely handsome edition of this modern classic.. ... more information

Sydney: Lansdowne, (1983). First edition. Small quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. The story of the expansion of railroads in Australia. 32T. ... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971 First edition. 381pp. Frontis illustrations and numerous plates from early photographs, endpaper map. Chapter notes, bibliography, index. Two-tone cloth. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (3 short tears to spine ends of jacket). A somewhat revisionist biography of the Apache leader and his contemporaries among the Southern Apaches: Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, Nana, Eski-mizin, et al.. ... more information

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1960 First edition. Foreword by David Brower. Folio. xviii, 89 pp. 84 black and white photographs. A fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket chipped and worn and with some tape stains at edges from old repairs). Beautiful photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Edward Weston, et al.. ... more information

Berkeley: Archetype Press, 1938 First edition. No. 54 of 500 copies signed by Ansel Adams in the colophon. Large folio [16½ x 12 inches]. 202pp. 50 tipped-in fine-screen halftones from photographs by Ansel Adams. White cloth lettered in black on spine and front cover. Spine slightly darkened, front cover with ten inch scored line, else fine. The first major monograph of Adams' work, this striking volume includes fifty tipped-in reproductions from photographs by Ansel Adams, produced by the Lakesi... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979 First edition. Foreword by Wayne Gard. xv, 182pp. Index. Brick cloth lettered in black and gold. A very fine copy with dust jacket. As he did in his Burs Under the Saddle, 233 more books come under Adams' scrutiny. "...in compiling this work, I find that people are still writing on subjects they know little about and are blindly following early legends that have been told as history. Let us hope that someday... historians that know how to do research will ... more information

Cleveland: John T. Zubal, Inc., 1982 Reprint of the University of Oklahoma first edition of 1959. Pp. xix, 463. 9 reproductions of title pages. Original green cloth. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A comprehensive bibliography listing approximately 2,600 titles. Well-annotated. Considered the standard reference on the cattle industry.. ... more information

Cleveland: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 1969 First printing of the revised and enlarged edition (best edition). Thick octavo. 808pp. Brown cloth, gilt. A fine copy with spine-faded and lightly rubbed pictorial dust jacket. The authoritative reference source on writings about western outlaws. Contains 2491 entries, more than twice the number in the first edition. Each title is well-annotated by Adams. A must-have reference for books on the subject.. ... more information

Tokyo: Research Ltd., 1964 First edition. Signed by the Author (Adams). Tall octavo. A fine copy with slightly worn dust jacket. A study of Japanese economics. 69C. ... more information

New York: Heritage Press, 1945 Taken from "The Spectator", London: 1711-1712. With some perfatory notes by W.M. Thackeray, and illustrated by Gordon Ross. Maroon cloth, gold-gilt lettering on cover and spine. Very minor spot on cover, else a fine copy in printed slipcase. . Illus. by Ross, Gordon. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981 Second printing. Illustrated throughout with black & white photographs. A fine copy with dust jacket. The history of Fort Gibson.. ... more information

London: Published for the Proprietors, 1865 Early English edition. Translated, with a brief preface, by Lascelles Wraxall. 16mo. [8], 310pp. Two bookplates. Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine. A fine copy. An early printing of this tale, first published in English in 1861. Story about Mexico and California during the Gold Rush. This title was the middle volume in a trilogy by the "French Fennimore Cooper," that began with Tiger-Slayer and concluded with Indian Chief. The Gold... more information

Palm Springs: ETC Publications, 1978 First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 8 color plates of paintings by Hilton, some black & white photographs of Hilton and his family and friends. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. A fine copy in slightly worn pictoral dust jacket. A biography of John W. Hilton, "Dean of American Desert Painters," featuring his artwork.. ... more information

Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1968 First edition. Folio. Color and black & white illustrations throughout, some tipped in. Tan buckram cloth, decorated in black and gilt. A fine copy in lightly worn pictorial dust jacket. Spine of jacket slightly darkened with some chipping at head of jacket spine and a few small tears along edges. A study of Chinese art history.. ... more information