Curtis asahel (6 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Square 12mo. ((21 cm.) upaged (8 leaves = 16 page). Illustrated with 31 color photographs by Asahel Curtis, H.L. toles, Curtis & Miller, and Romans Photographic Company. Color photo pictorial wrappers printed in red and black with an Arts & Crafts design, with a color photo of mount rainier on the front cover of the hand a photo of vehicles driving down the road in rainier national park. Just touches of wear to extremities, ever so lightly soiled, some rust on the staples, corners square and flat, interior photographs in fine condition, else near fine to fine with no internal markings. Date determined from the contents with photos showing dates 1910, 1912, and 1913. This is just a stunning collection of color photographs of Mount Tacoma, it now known as Mount Rainier.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. Oversized paperback. Original brown stiff wrappers. Images and pages unmarked. Wear and chips to covers, gouge in front cover, top rear corner detached. The Photogravures themselves still well protected by the tissue guards and generally in very good to fine condition. Photogravures include: The Wonder of Snoqualmie Falls, A Tangle of Skagit County Cedars Ready For the Mill, The Sweep of Lake Crescent in Clallam County, The Glacier-Born Nesqually River on Mount Rainier, The Belles of Thurston County and A Flower in the Crannied Wall, Two Patriarchs of Snohomish County, Mount Baker Park and Lake Washington, Seattle, Mount Angeles' Eternal Snows, From Dungeness, Blossoms on the Summer Water, A Creavsse on Mount Baker and The Morovitz Falls on Mount Baker Near Bellingham. tbrc/topshelf. …

PAPERBACK. First edition. no pagination, full page b/w illustrations quarto paper. slight soiling, spine tear, cover wear otherwise good.

Paperback. Zustand: VG-. Brown paper covers with two-tone illustration on front cover. Gilt lettering and clouds beginning to fade, but still gold in color and a little shiny. Two point saddle staple binding. Oblong. Bright red hand tied ribbon on spine no longer connected at the upper edge. Light wrinkling around the outside edges. 1/3" of the tip of the lower front corner is missing. Rare, 24 page pictorial journey through Mount Rainier National Park with gallery of sepia images. Uncommon.…

Unmounted Photograph. Zustand: Good. An original 1914 Asahel Curtis photograph, showing a man in a canoe working to free a fish from his net. Asahel Curtis was the brother and ex-business partner to famed photographer Edward S. Curtis. In the background can be seen a woman in another canoe and in the distance, the opposite riverbank. The photographer's reference number "29151" and "Curtis & Miller" are written in the negative. Date from University of Washington Special Collections, who also hold a copy of this photo. Photo measures 8 x 9.5 inches wide, is slightly faded w. chips from corners, lower right corner w. a crease and two small spots of emulsion loss near crease. A fine historical image, capturing the harvesting of food, possibly a Salmon, from the Tanana River in Alaska. Ask about other Asahel Curtis images that we currently have available.…

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Edition de luxe, single-volume, probable first edition issued around the time of a nine-volume wrappered issue (also "de luxe" according to the publisher) with the slightly different title Art Work of Seattle and Western Washington but with the same photos. 77 leaves of photogravures with tissue guards, plus leaves of text printed on rectos only with illustration on title page and photo on first page of text. Full leather with four raised spine bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. About Very Good with leather rubbed along edges, chipped at foot, exposed tips with small corner tear to bottom front corner, hinges a little taxed by heavy pages but holding, a few tissue-guards torn and creased. An oversize volume featuring many beautiful Pacific Northwest photographs by Asahel Curtis, brother of Edward Curtis. OCLC currently notes ten institutional copies of the two editions of this work, stating this particular edition de luxe has "108 photogravures-- 83 credited to Asahel Curtis, 4 credited to Walter Averett, 1 each credited to Brent Gifford, Grant Humes, and A.H. Barnes, and 10 uncredited. The photogravures are printed in various hues from sepia to grey, and many have tints of blue and grey." Scarce in this format.…