johnson rare books & archives, ABAA (96 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 416 p. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 62395

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 453 p. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. Internally crisp and clean. The dust jacket is sun faded along the spine, with some occasional light edgewear; else very good.

Seller Inventory # 60851

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. 406 p. Numerous textual photographs, illustrations, and tables. Presentation copy, inscribed by Ross to distinguished Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original rust cloth binding, with dark brown titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Author.

Seller Inventory # 61869

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands between 1810 and 1813 was to subvert Spanish rule, but J.C.A. Stagg argues that his real intent was to find peaceful and legal resolutions to long-standing disputes over the boundaries of Louisiana at a time when the Spanish-American empire was in the process of dissolution." Octavo. Original black paper-covered boards, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 71211

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This book publishes for the first time one of the supreme accomplishments of nineteenth century urban photography, a series of large-plate views of Reconstruction New Orleans entitled La Nouvelle Orl�ans et ses environs, taken in 1867 by the German-born photographer Theodore Lilienthal (1829-1894). Comprising the first official photographic survey of any American city, the images feature every aspect of the city, from Garden District mansions, churches and synagogues to mills, refineries and breweries. The photographs were exhibited at the Paris World Exposition of 1867 before being presented to Napol�on III, emperor of France (1852-70). Quarto. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.

Seller Inventory # 73861

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. A revised and updated edition of the underground classic of the '70s. Octavo: 111 p. Original paper wrappers. Light foxing along the edges; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 75011

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Mollenhoff (1921-91) was awarded the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his inquiries into corrupt labor practices, including those that sent James R. Hoffa, the president of the Teamsters' union, to jail. Octavo: 415 p. with textual photographs. Original black cloth binding, with orange titles. The ink signatures of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks appear on the front endpaper. Some mild wear to the dust jacket; else very good or better.

Seller Inventory # 76455

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is Number 823 of 900 copies signed by Helen Thomas and Craig Crawford. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from The Easton Press. Helen Thomas (1920-2013), who covered the administrations of ten presidents in a career spanning nearly sixty years, teams up with veteran journalist Craig Crawford to provide a witty, history-rich examination of what it takes to be a good president and lead America. Octavo. Full red leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76568

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. "This book is a searching, urbane exploration of American youth's response to the Birchers [John Birch Society], to William Buckley's New Conservatives, and to all the remarkable variety of personalities, doctrines, causes, and movements spawned by America's renascent conservatism." Octavo: 327. Original rose cloth binding, with white titles. The ink signature of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks appears on the front endpaper. A near fine copy in a slightly shelfworn dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 76664

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. As a prominent religious figure, Thurman (1899-1981) played a leading role in many social justice movements and organizations of the 20th century. His theology of radical nonviolence influenced and shaped a generation of civil rights activists, and he was a key mentor to leaders within the movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. Small octavo: 113 p. Original mustard paper-covered boards over a charcoal cloth spine, with gilt stamping. The ink signature of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Parks appears on the front endpaper. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear.

Seller Inventory # 76662

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Glen Dawson's copy, with his signature to a prefatory blank leaf and pencil marginalia throughout. The first edition of this important reference was published by Dawson's Book Shop in 1972. Octavo: xxix, 83 p. Original gray cloth binding, with black stamping. Issued without a dust jacket. Some mild soiling; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 77165

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 441 p. Frontispiece, with 24 textual photographs. Octavo. Original burgundy cloth binding, with elaborate gilt decorations and a ribbon marker. A fine copy in the original sateen dust jacket, which is a trifle sun faded along the spine, and the publisher's slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 62098

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by David Maraniss to Jim Tranquada, former Director of Communications at Occidental College, which Barack Obama attended prior to transferring to Columbia University. The groundbreaking multigenerational biography, a richly textured account of President Obama and the forces that shaped him and sustain him. Octavo: xxiii, 641 p. with 35 photographs. Original blue paper-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 76249

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is Number 1,029 of 1,550 copies signed by Bob Dole. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from the publisher. The inspiring story of Dole's harrowing experience in World War II, and how he overcame life-threatening injuries long before rising to the top of the U.S. Senate. As a platoon leader in the famed 10th Mountain Division, 21-year-old Bob Dole was gravely wounded on a hill in the Italian Alps while trying to pull his radioman to safety during a fire-fight against a fortified German position. Octavo. Full blue leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76522

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is Number 926 of 1,550 copies signed by John Kerry. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from the publisher. Campaign autobiography of the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election. Kerry (b.1943) served as United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013, when he succeeded Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. Octavo. Full brown leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, five raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76521

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. This is Number 542 of 1,100 copies signed by Tom Brokaw. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity and printed note from the publisher. An epic portrait of the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as veteran journalist Tom Brokaw (b.1940) explores how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound today. Octavo. Full red leather binding, with elaborate gilt stamping, four raised bands, moire silk endpapers, and a ribbon marker. A fine copy.

Seller Inventory # 76582

The 1943 and 1944 yearbooks for Centralia Junior College in Centralia, Washington, a city located along Interstate 5 near the midpoint between Seattle and Portland. The school, which opened in 1925, developed slowly at first, constructing its first physical campus in 1950. As the concluding remarks in the 1943 Yearbook observe, these were produced amidst World War II: "The Yearbook staff has tried to present representative activities of the college year. We found, however, that many activities important in our student life this year hard to portray adequately in pictures. Weekly sales of war stamps and bonds, by-monthly manning of the Observation Post, Red Cross drives and various salvage drives for the war effort were difficult to photograph. The staff hopes, however, that the pictures included in the 1943 Yearbook will serve as reminders of student participation in the activities due to the war as well as those of the regular college year." Produced in-house, each yearbook is illustrated with tipped-in photographs, 90 in the 1943 issue and 72 in the 1944 issue, which is entitled The Trail Blazer after the school's mascot. The administration, classes, dramatic productions, athletics, and social affairs are som of the activities seen in the images. Both yearbooks belonged to Dorothy Mae Rigg (later Collias, 1924-2006), a lifelong Washington State resident. The signature and inscriptions of numerous classmates appear throughout. Unpaginated, with 32 p. and 28 p., respectively. Both are bound with ribbon in blue cardstock wrappers (9" x 11"), with printed black titles on the front panel of the 1944 Yearbook. Some general toning and minor soiling to the wrappers; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 77070

Paperback. Condition: Fine. N.p.: N.p., n.d. (circa 1925). The first edition in book form of piece which originally appeared in Collier's. An outstanding example of Prohibition humor, written because ".the need of the moment is a Guide to Prohibition Era Good Manners, a knowledge of which will enable anyone to answer such questions as the following: Is it proper to rise when a case of Scotch is entering a room? Which is the right fork to use in removing a cork? Should a tramp steamer loaded with poison at $7 quart enter a harbor without a chaperon? How should a debutante act during the padlocking of her favorite supper club?" 16 pp. Original printed blue paper wrappers (3 3/4" x 5"), with two advertising leaflets (one folding) affixed to the recto and verso of the rear panel. Light fading along the extremities; else fine. Scarce (OCLC locates only one copy).

Seller Inventory # 65164

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. First Edition. This is number 276 of 1950 copies signed by Bumgardner. A splendid selection, which is divided into eleven categories: expansion, contemporary events, patriotism, education, criminals, religion, elegies, advertisements, amusements, humor, and strange and wondrous events. This book was designed and the letterpress sections printed at the press of David Godine in Brookline, Massachusetts. The fine screen facsimiles of the broadsides were all photographed directly from the originals and printed offset by The Meriden Gravure Company, Meriden, Connecticut. The type is Monotype Janson, cast by A. Colish, Inc. The paper is watermarked Imprint Almanack text. Folio. Original brown cloth-covered boards over a blue cloth spine, with gilt titles. A near fine copy, housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Seller Inventory # 68299

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Limited to 150 copies printed at the Grabhorn Press. Laudatory biography of James Phillips, Jr. (1848-1931), the Scottish-born American businessman whose distinguished career included successful ventures in manufacturing, editing, politics, and copper mining. Frontispiece portrait, with numerous textual photographs and illustrations. This copy is inscribed by the author, Phillips' grandson, on the verso of the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original blue paper-covered boards over a tan cloth spine, with a printed paper spine label. The spine is lightly sun faded, with a very mild bump to the bottom corners; else very good or better.

Seller Inventory # 69923

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. The standard biography of George Mifflin Dallas (1792-1864), the American politican and diplomat who, as the 11th Vice President of the United States (1845-49), championed Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very light browning and wear.

Seller Inventory # 70815

Charming scrapbook of 37 leaves filled with colorful chromolithographic images and some decorative trade cards. It was assembled by Esther Anderson (1871-1958) between 1885 and 1890 while her family was living in Brooklyn, New York, where her father, the Rev. Anders Johan Anderson, was a leader in the Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church. Her location is reflected in the trade cards, such as Purssell, the Broadway baker; Max Stadler & Co., a clothier and hatter also located on Broadway; as well as Seidlitine Seidlitz Powders, which was manufactured by Dundas & Co. of New York City. Anderson included decorative frames for each of the carefully arranged images of children, animals, fruit, flowers, religious symbols, and more. Her first name is spelled out on the first leaf in block letters. A graduate of Brooklyn's Adelphi Academy and Northwestern University of Chicago, Anderson briefly taught high school before joining the Young Women's Christian Association, which she served for three decades at a variety of posts from Detroit to New Zealand. After retiring, she ran a summer camp for girls in Connecticut. Although her last name does not appear in the scrapbook, it was acquired directly from the estate of her family, which supplied the record of ownership. The scrapbook (8" x 9 �") is bound in full blue cloth, with decorative black, silver, and blind stamping, including a rendering of a parrot on the front panel. The contents are a bit toned. The pasted images, which have been glued down, are bright with a few showing some signs of light rubbing. The front hinge is cracked, but overall the scrapbook is quite sound.

Seller Inventory # 73913

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Inscribed by E. Maurice Bloch on the front flyleaf in the first volume. A critical study of the stylistic development of the Missouri-born painter, with 198 plates (many color). George Caleb Bingham (1811-79) was a largely self-taught artist whose depictions of frontier life and Mississippi river scenes rank among the best and most detailed of their time. The companion volume is the most complete record of Bingham's work, with bibliographic entries on 494 paintings, 126 drawings, and 15 prints. Small quarto, two volumes, with the original prospectus laid in. Original rust cloth bindings, with brown and gilt titles. A near fine set in price-clipped dust jackets with some mild rubbing.

Seller Inventory # 75114

Spiral bound. Condition: Very good. More than simply a plat book, this atlas contains a township directory with biographical information on thousands of residents, family portraits, vernacular photographs, local advertisements, etc. Located in northwest Wisconsin, Barron County supported a population of just under 40,000 at the time of publication. Quarto: unpaginated. Spiral bound in limp black leatherette wrappers with gilt titles. Some light edgewear; otherwise very good. Scarce, OCLC locates only five holdings: Allen County Public Library, Mid-Continent Public Library, Omaha Public Library, La Crosse Public Library, and University of Wisconsin, Stout.

Seller Inventory # 75785

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Seward (1840-1910), upon returning from his four-year ambassadorship to China, wrote this book to criticize the country's immigration policy, and he remained an outspoken critic of the United States' treatment of Chinese until his death. Octavo: xv, [1], 420, [2] p. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt stamping. Small bookseller's label to the rear pastedown, with a period bookplate to the front pastedown. Some general dust staining to the top, with minor spotting along the edges. A bit of wear to the corners and tips; else very good.

Seller Inventory # 76763

Sheet music for the song recorded by the Chicago-based pop group Spanky and Our Gang on Mercury Records. "If you'd take the train with me, uptown to the misery, of ghetto streets in morning light, it's always night, take a window seat, put down your Times, you can read between the lines, just meet the faces that you meet, behind the window's shade". Born and raised in New York City, Scharf (1941-2007) was a prolific studio musician in New York City in the 1960s. He was co-producer of Spanky and Our Gang, which made the song the title song of their second album. The song has been recorded by several musicians over the years from Odetta to Dione Warwick. The New York Urban Coalition adopted the song as their theme song, and New York City Mayor John Lindsay used it as campaign song when he successfully ran for re-election.

Seller Inventory # 76888

A black-and-white photograph of the Gray's Harbor Toothpick, a unique exhibit offered by the state of Washington for the 1904 World's Fair held in St. Louis. The "toothpick" began as a 270-foot-tall Drummond Spruce that was growing in a forest near Aberdeen and was estimated to be 440 years old. It was donated by Weyerheauser Timber company. After being moved from the forest, a 38-foot section of the log was hollowed out and mounted on two flat railroad cars. In the hollowed-out trunk an office was set up along with an animal den used to house two Washington bears. Another section of the log was fitted with living accommodations for the people hired to transport it on a tour of the United States with a final stop in St. Louis. The photographer of the 10" x 4" image is unknown. It has remnants of black paper on the verso as if it was removed from an album; otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 76949

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Second Edition. Limited to 6,000 casebound copies. The Tuskegee Institute records the lynching of 3,436 Black Americans between 1882 and 1950. Many times a photographer was present to capture these events. Without Sanctuary preserves these harrowing, death-marked depictions, saving them in recognition of the terrorism unleashed on the country's African American community. Quarto: 209 p. with nearly 100 photographic images. Original burgundy cloth binding, with black titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 76972

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Later printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to Eric Idle on the half-title: "Eric - see you on the barricades! Bobby Kennedy". Compelling investigation into the undue influence of industry lobbyists on environmental standards and the government 's alleged suppression of nearly a dozen scientific reports on global warming. Octavo. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot.

Seller Inventory # 77091

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by James H. Richardson to Los Angeles advertising executive Earl Culp on the front flyleaf. Octavo: 312 p. Original black cloth binding, with gilt and red titles. Some general edgewear to the boards, and also to the dust jacket, which has been neatly backed with brown paper on the verso; else very good. Considered one of the best memoirs by an American newspaperman, in the same league as H.L. Mencken's Newspaper Days (1941), Irving S. Cobb's Stickfuls (1923), Russell Baker's The Good Times (1989), and Julian Ralph's The Making of a Journalist (1903). Born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Richardson (1894-1963) was hired as a reporter on the Winnipeg Telegram in 1912 after being expelled from high school. His family moved to Los Angeles the following year and he landed a job on the Los Angeles Evening Herald after having the presence of mind to call in an eyewitness account of the deadly collapse of the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium to the city desk. He quickly became a star for the Herald, playing a major role in the downfall of two Los Angeles mayors and stumbling across a murder confession he claims led to the election of Warren Harding as president in 1920 (he tells all these stories here). Named city editor in 1924 - the youngest ever in the Hearst chain - Richardson lasted four years, until his increasing serious drinking got him fired. After a stint as a Hollywood studio press agent, and a near-death experience with alcohol (to which Richardson devotes a surprisingly effective chapter), he quit drinking and eventually was hired as city editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, Hearst's morning newspaper, in 1937. It was the 20 years he spent at the Examiner that cemented his legend as "the last of the terrible men" - a sobriquet from a 1950 magazine profile he happily adopted (Richardson was the inspiration for the protagonist of Harlan Ware's novel Come Fill the Cup (1952), which was made into a movie of the same name starring James Cagney). It was as city editor of the Examiner that Richardson feuded with gangster Bugsy Siegel, helped drive the recall of Mayor Frank Shaw, revealed that the U.S. had detonated a hydrogren bomb in 1952, and dominated coverage of the 1947 Black Dahlia case, perhaps the most infamous murder in Los Angeles history. "Balding, with a lazy eye and a mean temper, he was fiercely competitive with a cruel streak toward lazy and inattentive reporters," Rob Leicester Wagner summed up Richardson in Red Ink, White Lies: The Rise and Fall of Los Angeles Newspapers, 1920-1962 (2000). "He was truly simultaneously hated and admired by his staff, but he still engendered a loyalty not enjoyed by other city editors.".

Seller Inventory # 77241