Authors starting with R from Dawson's Book Shop

Covici - Friede, New York, 1929. Limited edition: no. 1344 (?) of 1300. Fine. 13 x 10 1/4 inches, 1273 pages, half burgundy moroco, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, Three volumes. With illustrations in color by Jean de Bosschère. ... more information

Black Pennell Press, Greenock, 1985. Limited edition: no. 18 of 200 copies. Near fine. 8 x 5 inches, 82 pages, boards with leather spine, Wood engraved illustrations throughout. ... more information

Henri Jonquieres, Paris/Leipzig, (1931). First Edition. Fine. 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches, 144 pages, cloth w/ gilt inlay, A beautiful copy of Recht's survey of 19th century photography in the German edition. ... more information

Morris Gest, Los Angeles, 1926. Fair. 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 40 pages, wrappers, With numerous illustrations of the production designs by Norman Bel Geddes, many in color. Some wear tp edges of wrappers. ... more information

John T. Reynolds, Los Angeles, 1995. Limited edition: No. 65 of 100 copies of the Centennial Silver Edition, printed by Regis Graden at the Nut Quad Press. Fine. 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches, [xvi], 15, [8] pages, Full leather with sterling silver medallion inset in upper cover, housed in slipcase with embossed Bohlin logo, Signed by Reynolds, Walter H. Danielson (whose speech comprises the main text), Lillian Bohlin Pinkerton (daughter of Edward Bohlin and author of the Afterword) and Mariana Blau (binder), Incl... more information

John T. Reynolds, Los Angeles, 1995. Limited edition: No. 24 of 50 copies of the Centennial Gold Edition, printed by Regis Graden at the Nut Quad Press. Fine. 3 3/4 x 2 3/4 inches, [xvi], 15, [8] pages, Full leather with 14-karat gold medallion inset in upper cover, housed in slipcase with embossed Bohlin logo, Signed by Gene Autry (actor and author of the Dedication), Reynolds, Walter H. Danielson (whose speech comprises the main text), Lillian Bohlin Pinkerton (daughter of Edward H. Bohlin and author of... more information

Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, (1971 ). Fine. 12 x 9 1/4 inches, 123 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket. ... more information

Printed by Fukuin Printing Co., Yokohama, 1923. 6 3/4 x 5 inches, 79 pages, original wrappers, chip to upper tip, front wrapper detached but present, Includes photographic frontispiece, originally published in 1917, (Rocq 11137, citing 1923 edition), (Cowan page 33). ... more information

Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, (1967). Very good. 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 135 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket. ... more information

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1962. Limited edition: One of 128 copies printed at the Stagecoach Press. Fine. 7 1/4 x 5 inches, 17 pages, cloth, Includes tipped-in printing specimen and tipped-in photographic frontispiece. ... more information

Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1927. Limited edition: 1000 copies. Very good. 10 1/4 x 7 inches, 290 pages, boards with vellum spine, Lower edges worn; spine a bit yellowed; small scratch to spine; tiny sticker on free endpaper; foxing to preliminaries. In slipcase (very good: minor wear to top edge). Inscribed by Edwin Grabhorn to Mrs. W.C. Baker and dated July 27, 1933. ... more information

Pequeño Press, [Bisbee], 1993. Limited edition: No. 6 of 55 copies, illustrations designed by Gerard Baldwin. Serigraphy, marbling and binding were done at Waterleaf Mill & Bindery. Fine. 3 x 2 11/16 inches, (12) pages, floral patterned cloth with paper cover label and metal clasp, Signed by the printer, Pat Baldwin, To form the illustrations, the book is composed of three accordion-folded strips of paper. A strip of marbled paper provides the background, a middle strip contains the serigrap... more information

Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1970. Fine. 10 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, cloth, Dust Jacket, Second edition, revised and enlarged. Includes 113 page companion volume: "Supplement to the Second Edition, Covering Works Published 1961 Through 1970," also edited by Rocq and published by Stanford University Press, 1976. ... more information

, Orland, 1891. First Edition. Good. 9 x 6 inches, 473 pages, leather, Includes 59 plates and a fold out map, front inner hinge cracked but still holding, rubbing to outer hinges with a 2 inch split. ... more information

The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1947. Limited edition: One of 250 copies by Taylor & Taylor. Very good. 9 x 6 inches, 96 pages, decorative boards with cloth spine, With prospectus laid in. Translated from the original Spanish, with an Introduction by Edwin S. Morby and Arturo Torres-Rioseco. From the 19th Century Chilean Classic, "Recuerdos del Pasado". ... more information

PPP Editions/Roth Horowitz, New York, 2001. First Edition. Fine. 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, 305 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, Trade edtion of the first book to seriously look at 20th century photography books as masterworks of content and design. Features essays by Vince Aletti, Richard Benson, May Castleberry, Jeffrey Frankel, Daido Moriyama, Shelley Rice, David Levi Strauss, and Nigel Wakefield. ... more information

R. Ackermann, London, 1821. First Edition. Fine: unobtrusive marginal discoloration to frontispiece, 3 small closed tears to title, expertly mended, bound without the 2 ad leaves as is usual. 9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches, [ii], ii, 292 pages, twentieth-century blue cloth boards with dark blue crushed levant morocco spine and tips, spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, Includes eighteen hand-colored plates by Rowlandson. Tooley 415. ... more information

University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, (1971). First Edition. Fine. 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 342 pages, boards, Dust Jacket. ... more information

Glen Dawson, Los Angeles, 1953. Limited edition: One of 210 copies printed by the Plantin Press. Fine. 7 1/4 x 5 inches, xx, 25 pages, boards with cloth spine and paper spine label, Early California Travels Series 13. ... more information

Imperial Press, Cleveland, 1902. First Edition. Very good: expert restoration to spine ends; top corner of text block and front cover slightly bumped. 9 x 6 1/4 inches, 251 pages, tan cloth lettered in black on front cover and spine, 11 pages of ads for photographic products at end, numerous full-page and smaller halftone reproductions of photographs in pagaination. An important account dealing with the nineteenth century American photographic trade. Included with the book are two portraits by Ryder, both... more information