FS: Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sun., Feb. 16th

[Acorn Books]

This is a list of 25 new arrivals from Acorn Books. Book(s) shipped on
receipt of payment by check or VISA, MC, Discover or AmerEx. Full
refund for any reason on prompt return of merchandise. Subject to
prior sale. Books shipped by USPS 4th Class Book Rate insured.
Postage: $4 1st book; $1.50 each additional. Foreign addresses: $3
extra. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Prices net to
all. Please email to hold, or telephone (415) 563-1736 any hour.

[Dreiser] THE SYMBOLIC DRAWINGS OF HUBERT DAVIS FOR "AN AMERICAN
TRAGEDY" BY THEODORE DREISER. Unpaged. Illustrated. Gold & silver
boards in black cloth backstrip in broken slipcase. Folio. No Place:
Liveright, (1930). Edition limited to 525 copies, signed by the
artist, with the foreword signed by Dreiser. Very good condition in
glassine wrapper. $250.00.

McLeod, Malcolm. TREASURES OF AFRICAN ART. 136 pgs. Full-page color
photos throughout. Color map. Cloth in dust jacket. Folio. NY:
Abbeville, (1980). Very good+ condition. Beautifully photographed
artifacts from the British Museum, with accompanying commentary on
each piece. $40.00.

Thompson & West. HISTORY OF NEVADA 1881. 680 pgs. Illustrated.
Terra-cotta cloth. Thick quarto. Berkeley: Howell-North, 1958. Light
foxing at top edge; otherwise, near fine condition. This facsimile
edition of the Western Americana classic includes biographical
sketches of the state's prominent men & pioneers. $125.00.

Ryder, David W. MEMORIES OF THE MENDOCINO COAST: Being a Brief Account
of the Discovery, Settlement & Development of the Mendocino Coast,
together with the Correlated History of the Union Lumber Company & how
the Coast & Company grew up together. 81 pgs. Photos, drawings, & map.
Light brown cloth. Octavo. San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1948.
Signed by the several company officers on front free endpaper. Good+
condition. $70.00.

Bush, Martin H. DUANE HANSON. 111 pgs with bibliography & index. Color
& black & white photographic reproductions throughout. Cloth in
chipped dust jacket. Quarto. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University,
(1976). 1st Edition. Near fine condition in good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $45.00.

Boericke, Art & Barry Shapiro. HANDMADE HOUSES: A Guide to the
Woodbutcher's Art. Unpaged. Color photos throughout. Cloth in lightly
chipped jacket. Square imperial octavo. (San Francisco): Scrimshaw,
1973. Very good condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. Color pictorial display of the best of the pads from the Era
of the Hippies. $38.50.

Gieure, Maurice. G. BRAQUE. 109 pgs with bibliography. Tipped-in color
& black & white plates throughout. Cloth in chipped dust jacket.
Quarto. Paris: Editions Pierre Tisne, 1956. 1st Edition. Edges lightly
sunned; otherwise, very good condition in good jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $150.00.

Weaver, William (Editor). VERDI: A DOCUMENTARY STUDY. 256 pgs with
index. 318 illustrations, 54 in color. Green cloth. Quarto. (NY):
Thames & Hudson, (1978). Reprint edition. Very good condition. $35.00.

Tralbaut, Marc Edo. VINCENT VAN GOGH. 350 pgs with index. Color &
black & white photos & reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket.
Quarto. NY: Viking, (1969). Near fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. Fine study of the life & works of one of the
world's outstanding artists. $100.00.

Ketchum, Richard. THE WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. 275 pgs + index.
Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Blue cloth in brown
cloth backstrip in pictorial slipcase. Folio. NY: American Heritage,
1974. Spine lightly sunned; otherwise, very good condition. $65.00.

Schweitzer, Albert. J. S. BACH. Translated by Ernest Newman. 2
volumes. 428 & 498 pgs. Illustrated. Green cloth. Octavo. NY:
Macmillan, (1950). Spine ends slightly bumped; otherwise, very good
condition. The Set: $32.50.

Moffett, Charles. THE NEW PAINTING: IMPRESSIONISM, 1874-1886. 509 pgs
with bibliography & index. Color & black & white illustrations
throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. Geneva, Switzerland: Richard
Burton SA, (1986). Near fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. "This volume celebrates the series of eight
Impressionist exhibitions held in Paris during the years 1874-1886."
$65.00.

Rewald, John. SEURAT. 248 pgs with index. Color & black & white
reproductions throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. NY: Abrams, (1990).
Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$45.00.

Marshall, Richard. ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. With essays by Richard Howard
& Ingrid Sischy. 216 pgs with bibliography. Color & black & white
photos throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket. Quarto. NY:
Whitney Museum of American Art, (1988). Edges & half-title page
lightly spotted; otherwise, good+ condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $50.00.

Myrick, David. SAN FRANCISCO'S TELEGRAPH HILL. 220 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color frontispiece; black & white photos &
street maps throughout. Cloth in dust jacket with 1 inch closed tear.
Quarto. Berkeley: Howell-North, (1972). 1st Edition. Near fine
condition in very good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Packed
with marvelous photos of early San Francisco. $125.00.

Michener, James. REPORT OF THE COUNTY CHAIRMAN. Cloth in lightly
rubbed & chipped dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Random House, (1961). 1st
Edition. Very good condition in good jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. Story of Michener's role in the 1960 presidential election.
$50.00.

Anand, Mulk Raj. KAMA KALA: Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of
Hindu Erotic Sculpture. 45 text pgs. Mounted color & black & white
plates within text + 58 black & white photographic plates, some
foldouts. Dark grey cloth. Folio. Geneva: Nagel, (1963). 1st Edition.
Good+ condition. $50.00.

McConathy, Dale with Diana Vreeland. HOLLYWOOD COSTUME: GLAMOUR!
GLITTER! ROMANCE! 317 pgs with index. 127 photos of actual costumes,
79 in color. Boards in decorative padded fabric with printed mylar
wrapper. Folio. NY: Abrams, no date (c.1976). 1st Edition. Very good
condition. $225.00.

Kastner, Joseph. A WORLD OF WATCHERS. 241 pgs with index. 7 color
plates & text illustrations by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Boards in dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf, 1986. 1st Edition [so stated]. Fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "An informal
history of the American passion for birds." $20.00.

Dreiser, Theodore. EPITAPH. A Poem. Decorations by Robert Fawcett.
Silver decorative black cloth in slipcase. Quarto. NY: Heron Press,
(1929). Edition limited to 1,100 copies signed by Fawcett & Dreiser.
Near fine condition in broken case. $175.00.

Curtis, Edward. PORTRAITS FROM NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE. 175 pgs of
sepia-tone photographic plates. Pictorial boards. Oblong folio. NY:
Promontory Press, (1972). Near fine condition. $125.00.

Von Eckhardt, Wolf. OSCAR WILDE'S LONDON: A SCRAPBOOK OF VICES &
VIRTUES, 1800-1900. 285 pgs with notes & index. Photos. Cloth in dust
jacket. Quarto. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1987. 1st Edition [so
stated]. Very good condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $27.50.

Herbert, Wally. ACROSS THE TOP OF THE WORLD: THE LAST GREAT JOURNEY
ON EARTH. 347 pgs with index. Photos & maps. Cloth in lightly chipped
dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Putnam's, (1971). Very good condition in good
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. The 1967-68 expedition across
the frozen Arctic Ocean from Point Barrow, Alaska to Spitsbergen by
way of the North Pole, the longest expedition ever attempted at the
time. $40.00.

Dillon, Richard H. THE HATCHET MEN: THE STORY OF THE TONG WARS IN SAN
FRANCISCO'S CHINATOWN. 375 pgs. Photos. Cloth in lightly chipped dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Coward-McCann, (1962). 1st Edition. Presentation
copy signed by the author. Very good+ condition in good+ jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $45.00.

Mingtao, Zhang. THE ROOF OF THE WORLD: EXPLORING THE MYSTERIES OF THE
QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU. 227 pgs with index. Color & black & white
photos throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Abrams, (1982).
Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$65.00.

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