Titles starting with F from Dawson's Book Shop

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

Havilah Press, Emeryville, 2002. Limited edition: 150. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, xx, 21 pages, boards with cloth spine, Facsimile reprint of a scarce 1871 pamphlet containing an account of Van Schaack's trip to Yosemite. With a foreword by James B. Snyder. ... more information

Printed for the Booksellers, London, [circa 1800]. Very good: Part 3 wrappers trimmed on bottom touching border, some trimming loss to page numbers atop 9, 10 and 16 of Part 3. 5 3/4 x 3 3/8 inches, 24, 24, 24 pages, modern green cloth, preserving original yellow pictorial wrappers, upper and lower, Three chapbooks bound together. Contains a total of 42 woodcut illustrations (in text and on wrappers), plus decorative woodcut lower wrappers on Parts 2 and 3. The woodcuts generally run from quarter-page t... more information

Humpy Press, Buffalo, (1975). First Edition, Limited edition: No. 18 of 125 copies with original chromgenic photograph editioned, signed, and dated by the photographer. Singed and dated by the photographer on title page with Humpy Press blind stamp on title page.. Fine. 6 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, [90] pages, wrappers. ... more information

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 1926. Very good. 9 1/4 x 6 inches, 387 pages, wrappers. ... more information

Henry Sotheran & Co., London, 1881. First Edition, Limited edition: No. 163 of 300 sets of India paper proofs. 18 1/4 x 15 inches, two-tone tan cloth portfolio with large pictorial cover label, spine and flaps renewed, sides original, Signed by Crane, on limitation page, 57 separate sheets, composed of limitation sheet plus 56 sheets numbered I to LVI. Crane did his drawings, layout and lettering in pencil, and Goupil & Co. of Paris did the photo-engraving and printing. The images measure 9 1/2 x... more information

Hale-Cushman & Flint, Boston, (1939 ). First Edition. Very good in slightly worn dust jacket. 11 x 8 1/4 inches, 203 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket. ... more information

Privately Printed, London, [1980]. Limited edition: No. 140 of 150 copies. Very good, acid stains on title page. 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 133 pages, cloth, The Ruin of Lt. Henry O. Flipper, U.S.A. - First Coloured Graduate of West Point. ... more information

Yugensha, Tokyo, [1987]. First Edition. Fine. 13 1/2 x 10 inches, unnumbered pages, cloth with cloth slipcase, paste down illustration from a Robert Frank photograph on front of slipcase, Printed in an edition of 500 copies with text in English and Japanese with 81 reproductions from photographs by Robert Frank. There are two variants for the paste down image on the slipcase. This copy features the image, "Champs Elysees, 1950" that is reproduced in volume one of "The Photobook" by Mar... more information

Haywire Press, New City, [1981]. Near fine, slight crease to lower corner of several leaves at the end of book. 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches, cloth, spiral bound, corners slightly bent, Signed by Friedlander in pencil on premlinary leaf, Contains 40 full page reproductions of Friedlander's photographs handsomely printed by the Stinehour Press and Meriden Gravure Company. ... more information

Viking Press, New York, (1970). Very good. 12 x 9 inches, 224 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (edgeworn). ... more information

A Studio Book, The Viking Press, New York, (1983). Very good. 12 x 9 inches, 224 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket, With a preface by Alfred Eisenstaedt. ... more information

Viking Press, New York, (1983). Very good. 12 x 9 inches, 224 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (wear to spine extremities), Preface by Alfred Eisenstaedt. ... more information

Mansion Publishing, Walnut Grove, (1969). First Edition. Very good. 9 x 6 inches, 232 pages, cloth, Dust Jacket (lightly edgeworn), An important person in the history of the development of Colorado, New Mexico and California, illustrated. ... 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 Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1989. Fine. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 16 pages, cloth. ... more information

The Book Club of California, San Francisco, 1989. Limited edition: One of 450 copies by the Feathered Serpent Press. Fine. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches, 81 pages, cloth. ... more information

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

California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1927. First Edition. Fine: spot of light sunning (approx. 1 square inch) to top of upper cover. 10 1/8 x 6 7/8 inches, 183 pages, blue cloth with lettering in gold, Dust Jacket (front panel torn, chip to spine), Special Publication No. 2 of the Society, translated from the original manuscript housed in the Los Angeles Public Library. Includes 3 plates not in pagination and 3 pages of illustrations in text. Cowan (II) page 165. Kurutz item 185. ... more information

Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1999. First Edition, Limited edition: 1 of 100 copies in cloth slipcase, each copy numbered and signed by the author on a special colophon page,. Fine. 8 1/2 x 11 inches, 268 pages, cloth, This landmark publication written by photograpic art and book collector, Mus White, details over 1400 books in the field of American and international juvenile literature illustrated with original photographs or related photo-mechanical processes. Establishing a critical link between... more information