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1960List3205New York City: Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers 1960. Photo album measuring 9 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches containing forty-seven photographs mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with some 8 x 10. Most photos loosely affixed with some having detached. Overall excellent. An album of photographs of African American models from the 1950s and 1960s many with stamps verso from Ophelia DeVore’s Grace del Marco Modeling Agency. DeVore’s was among the first agencies for African American models and was highly influential with talent including the first Black supermodel Helen Williams Shaft actor Richard Roundtree and pioneering actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson. Identified models in this album include Trudy Daniels Haynes and Lourdes “Lulu†Guerrero. Guerrero was a cover girl for Ebony and Jet magazines and had a role on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1958 making her one of the first Black women to have a role as a regular performer on national television. Trudy Haynes had a brief modeling career before becoming the first African American TV weather reporter working with WXYZ-TV in Detroit in 1963. There is also a photograph of radio DJ Pat Connell; though not a fashion model Connell was the first African American hired as a staff announcer by CBS. Of interest to historians of African American fashion and media. Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers unknown
1971List3111Tallahassee Florida 1971. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Manuscript caption verso reading “Joyce Warner Tallahassee / Miss Black America†with newspaper article affixed and stamped “SEP231971â€. Near Fine. A press photo of Joyce Warner who was crowned Miss Black America in 1971. The Miss Black America competition was founded in 1968 by entrepreneur J. Morris Anderson as a protest of Miss America’s whites-only policy; the first Miss Black America competition was held in Atlantic City New Jersey on the same day and location as that year’s Miss America.<br /> <br /> As described in the newspaper article affixed to the back of the photo Joyce Warner refused to attend subsequent Miss Black America competitions alleging that the organizers had misled her about the prizes she claimed to have never received a promised $600 scholarship $5000 cash and trips to Haiti and the Catskills and used her photograph for cosmetics advertising without her permission.<br /> <br /> The Miss Black America pageant is still active; Miss America hosted its first Black contestant Sheryl Browne in 1971. unknown
1950List1810Mostly Atlanta 1950. Leatherette album measuring 12 x 9 inches. With over 225 images most 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. Very well preserved and nearly complete with three empty slots about fine overall. Near Fine. A compelling visual record of the childhood of Mable Williams of Atlanta Georgia a high school student at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta the first public high school for African-American students in the state. Williams graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1953 per a newspaper article included here and would attend Spelman College. Composed mostly of snapshot photographs of her friends and family as a group the album provides a visual record of a vibrant network of family and friends in Atlanta during the time period. <br /> <br /> The album begins with a picture showing her as a girl alongside a picture of a house perhaps hers and traces her life through early adulthood through snapshots and family photographs. We find records of Williams performing at the Greater Atlanta Music Festival in 1950 as a representative of her high school. A newspaper article laid in shows Williams in a newspaper showing her graduation picture and stating that she will attend Spelman College in Atlanta in September of 1953. Pictures show her in New York City visiting a friend at N.Y.U. She would later marry Billy Reid a local jazz musician from Atlanta and would remain active in the Spelman community after graduating in 1957. <br /> <br /> Overall a very well preserved document of the African-American community in Atlanta during the 1940s and 1950s. unknown
1971List2710Washington D.C. 1971. Approximately 7 x 9 inches. Editorial mark to text recto World Wide Photos stamp verso. Fine. Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005 was a Democratic politician and the first Black woman elected to US Congress representing New York’s 12th congressional district from 1969 to 1983. In 1972 she became the first Black major-party presidential candidate and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. <br /> <br /> Offered here is a headshot of Chisholm taken for news publication dated December 8 1971. Its caption quotes her as saying “of other black politicians: ‘They don’t understand power.’†It identifies her as “the first black woman to run for president†although Chisholm would not announce her run until January 1972. unknown
186464004Detroit MI: Corydon C. Randall Photographer 220 Woodward Ave. c. 1864 1881-1882. One mounted albumen cabinet card photo sized 3.9 x 5.9 in. mounted on tan studio board sized 4.25 x 6.5 in. rounded corners printed caption below the image printed photographer’s imprint on verso minor age-toning minor spotting slight soiling to fore-edges old tiny pinhole evidenced at upper blank margin of mounted board not affecting the photograph very upper right w/ slight creasing & cracking of photo now neatly re-affixed still a VG exemplar of this very rare cabinet card image. A very scarce full-length albumen cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth 1797-1883 taken when she was 84-83 years old and used as a fund-raiser at her public events at the end of her life. This is one of Truth’s late portraits and she was quite unusual having acquired her copyright to her portrait during the Civil War giving her control over both the distribution of the CDV and Cabinet Card images and the revenues they generated. As one of the best-known African-American former slaves abolitionists and women’s rights advocates of the 19th-Century she traveled the country for decades giving lectures and attending conferences where she would sell her “Shadow†photographs as a primary means of support for her ongoing mission. According to extensive historical research by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Truth posed for Detroit photographer Corydon C. Randall’s camera on three occasions between June 1881 and April 1882. The finished albumen photos were prepared in both Carte de Visite 2.25 x 3.5 in. and Cabinet Card 4 x 6 in. formats and sold to Truth at .5¢ apiece. Randall’s studio records show purchases of 50 50 and 100 copies of each of the three separate poses which was “an astonishing order for a woman in her eighties†but considering they were some of the last photographs of Truth the editions size was quite small with the Cabinet cards scarcer than the CDV versions. Grigsby details this standing pose in her book: the photographs “stage her against a pedastal in front of painted seaside backdrop. The effect is unique among her portraits. She stands in what purports to be a natural scene her figure is smaller than the background suggesting a vastness of space we have not seen before. . . Even as we recognize its artiface we indulge in the illusion of space and air and natural light that it so economically suggests. . . In these late seaside portraits there is a soft winsome quality intensified when we realize that she is in her eighties and at the very end of a long arduous life of personal and political struggle.†Worldcat locates 1 copy of seated version CDV Boston Athenaeum; See: Grigsby Enduring Truths 2015 pp. 178-184. [Corydon C.] Randall, Photographer, 220 Woodward Ave., unknown
193361702Boston: W.A. Wilde Co. 1933. 8vo. 351 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous plates 1 large folding map. Blue ribbed cloth dark blue & gilt lettering w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine 1 very small closed tear NF/VG copy w/ 2 pp. ALS laid-in dated March 26 1934 tipped-in photo image signed by author on front pastedown from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition signed presentation copy by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy now known as the Mary Lee Davis House. The letter laid into this presentation copy outlines her unhappiness with being posted back to Washington D.C. by the U.S. Government as well as her struggles in writing the memoir. Scarce in dustjacket. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 159 footnote. W.A. Wilde Co., hardcover
193760206New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1937. 8vo. x 2 340 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Beige publisher’s cloth pictorial maps on endpapers purple lettering on spine w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of dogsled team across the Arctic landscape minor chipping & edgewear to upper & lower fore-edges head & foot of spine still NF/G copy. Third printing of this insightful memoir by Forrest b. 1892 written during her three years working as a teacher with her then husband Earle Forrest amongst the Inuit community of Wainwright Alaska. The work is still cited as an accurate depiction of life in Alaska during the opening decades of the 20th Century and her artifact collection of Inuit Scrimshaw and Traditional tools were donated to the Museum of Man in San Diego while her notebooks which focused on Inuit culture cooking and foodways were donated to Bowling Green. This dustjacket cover art differs from the first printing. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover
193663942Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1936. 8vo. 6 389 1 pp. Black publisher’s cloth dark red lettering minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Anton Otto Fischer minor creasing edgewear couple slight closed tears still VG/VG copy. First hardcover edition of this Alaskan novel first serialized as “The Captive Bride†in The American Magazine. Willoughby 1886-1959 noted Alaskan author of romantic fiction and nonfiction who was bestselling author through the 1920’s and 1930’s. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover
196257025Anchorage AK: Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press 1962. 4to. 1 xiii 76 pp. Photo frontisp. 50 plates & text illustrations including 42 of Laurence paintings. Illustrated softcovers cover art of Laurence painting blue lettering plastic comb-binding as issued minor shelfwear some very minor rubbing still VG copy inscribed on verso of front cover by Jeanne Laurence b. 1887-1980 artist and widow of Sydney Laurence author of “My Life with Sydney Laurence†as gift for Loma Underwood from Margaret Krogstad w/ ALS on illustrated stationery from Margaret to Loma dated 1962. First edition inscribed of this retrospective biography and catalogue of Sydney Laurence’s 1865-1940 foremost Alaskan painter whose artwork such as Going to the Potlatch and The Vanishing Race graced travel posters and brochures to Alaska for decades. Of additional interest is the inclusion of a wide range of 28 additional Alaskan authors and writers’ poetry and short writings including Sybil London Bates -- Jack London’s daughter Frances Anater Robert Atwood Shirley Barrett Carmen Compney Jr Edythe Corbin Anne Townsend and others. Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press, paperback
193058585Boston: W.A. Wilde Co. 1930. 8vo. xv 1 402 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Blue cloth gilt lettering map endpapers w/ d.j. chipping & tear head of spine upper corner front cover affecting a few letters minor scuffing couple closed tears still NF/Fair copy from the library of Wilma Burmester Bishop 1887-1969 widow of Roy T. Bishop 1881-1950 former owner of the Pendleton Woolen Mills. First edition of this anthology of stories personal accounts and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures Native America Eskimos traveling the Yukon River and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy now known as the Mary Lee Davis House. W.A. Wilde Co., hardcover
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In German and Turkish. [v], [1], 221 p. Türkische frauen in deutschen Medien.= Alman medyasinda Türk kadinlari. (Turkish women in the German media).
1956D14082America 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-covered boards backed in brown morocco; oblong 4to 340x265mm; approx. pp. 120 interleaved tissue and laid paper with untrimmed edges; composed of pen and ink drawings woodblock cuts and calligraphic text translating "The Songs of Songs" from Hebrew into English. A unique artist's book by an American woman impressively carried out. Some scuffing along spine else fine. <br/><br/>With colophon statement "This book was transcribed illustrated and bound by Beverly Wechsler September 1955-May 1956; bound in half leather and ornamental brocade cloth-covered boards gray endpapers edges uncut losses to leather backing corners bumped; two pressed botanical specimens tucked inside back board; 10 3/8 x 13 ¼ in. <br />The Cooper Union alumni records make mention of her graduating in 1956. One wonders whether this book created during the period of an average school term September to May was a senior thesis project. hardcover
192358474Newton IA: The Maytag Company 1923. 4to. 16 pp unpaginated. title in purple & black colour frontisp. purple decorated borders & decorated initials pen & ink illustrations & plates. Embossed gray softcovers yapp edges blind-stamped embossed company logo & purple decorative border steel engraved Maytag Guarantee Bond mounted on inner rear cover minor dustsoiling edgewear still VG copy w/ former ownership marking at lower fore-edge. First edition of this very scarce 1920’s promotional brochure extolling the advantages of the newly developed Maytag Gyrafoam Washer which had been designed and introduced by Howard Snyder the inventive genius at the head of Maytag’s Research & Development Department. The revolutionary new design cut down on wear and tear of clothing in mechanical washing machines by forcing water through a vaned agitator mounted on the bottom of the tub rather than drag clothes through the water with a lid dolly. Introduced in 1922 this washing machine proved to be a game changer in home appliances and a key labor saving device. Worldcat locates 1 copy Winterthur; See; Owens A Brief History of Maytag Gas Engine Magazine Feb. 1 1990. The Maytag Company, paperback
198910569San Francisco: National Organization for Women 1989. Light handling wear with a few wrinkles and smoothed out creases. Two small spots along left edge. Lower left corner darkened. Better than Very Good.<br /> <br /> Photo-illustrated flyer / handbill promoting a national march and rally in San Francisco on April 2 1989 and another in Washington D.C. the following week. Organizers and participants in the march sought to protect women’s rights to freedom of choice and privacy and to uphold protections provided by the Roe v. Wade decision. The flyer also calls for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment pay equity and an end to all discrimination including against gay and lesbian families. Organizers estimated that approximately 30000 people participated in the march and rally at that time believed to be the largest “pro-choice†gathering ever held in the Bay Area. A list of endorsers included the Coalition of Labor Union Women the California Abortion Rights Action League Planned Parenthood the National Organization for Women the American Civil Liberties Union and the California Teachers Association. The bottom of the flyer includes a small section intended to be cut off where people could opt to endorse the march give a monetary contribution and/or provide other forms of help.<br /> <br /> A great piece of Bay Area feminist ephemera! National Organization for Women unknown
189559263Boston MA: Annie Louise Richards 394 Beacon Street August 1895. Oblong folio. 15 x 12 in. 9 leaves on thick card stock w/ mounted silver print photographs sized 6.5 x 8 in all carefully annotated on verso in manuscript w/ negative numbers identification and Richards’ address. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco over pebbled red cloth gilt borders raised bands on spine chipping wear front hinge split endpapers removed still good exemplar w/ all photos in excellent condition. The album includes a series of images of a stately Queen Anne Victorian summer home in Magnolia Massachusetts featuring a wide well-shaded veranda & wraparound porch climbing vines and plantings growing up the porch pillars well-appointed surrounding gardens beautiful balcony with curved canvas shade as well as an extra cottage nearby. Following the Civil War Magnolia MA grew into a popular summer village for well-to-do Boston families attracting celebrities as well and families often situated their homes with views of Kettle Cove. Annie Richards b. 1853 was the daughter of Calvin Richards 1828-1892 noted Boston merchant and later director of the Metropolitan Street Railroad. He retired in 1887 to become a real estate developer and landlord of the “Richards†office building at No. 114 State St. Annie worked as a photographer and artist as well as served as companion to her mother Ann Babcock Richards 1832-1923. The 1900 & 1910 census records list Annie Richards working on her “own account†out of 394 Beacon St. and although she is listed in several street directories along with her mother we could find no death record for her. Annie Louise Richards, 394 Beacon Street, hardcover
195462403New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1954. 8vo. 223 1 pp. Frontisp. map illust. title page 23 text illustrations. Pictorial gray & blue boards very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Ritter slight edgewear slight rubbing head & foot of spine still NF/VG copy. First American edition in English of this bewitching memoir by the Austrian/Czech artist as she recounts her visceral experiences of following her husband Hermann who had traveled to the Norwegian Arctic on a scientific expedition and stayed to become a fur trapper during the endless months. This absorbing classic memoir still in print in German relates in vivid language the desolation of Svalbard -- Spitsbergen covered in snow and rock and the few shrubs animals and impact of the unearthly Moon looming over the landscape. Ritter 1897-2000 was a watercolour artist and her paintings of the Arctic are now housed in the Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen after being donated by her daughter Karen Ritter in 2018. See: John Hamilton Book Review: ‘A Woman in the Polar Night’ Callaway Climate Insights Aug. 14 2023. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., hardcover
189464088New York NY & Philadelphia PA: Contemporary Publishing Co. 1894. 8vo. 4 240 2 pp. Photo frontisp. colour plates photo plates text illustrations maps. Gray-green publisher’s cloth red lettering & ruling front cover gilt decoration & lettering on spine minor soiling dustsoiling shelfwear very minor bumping & wear to lower right corners still VG- copy. First edition of this memoir of her experiences by Josephine Diebitsch-Peary 1863-1955 accompanying her explorer husband Robert Peary’s early Arctic explorations across Greenland in 1891-1892 where he gained much of the experience used in his later treks to conquer the Pole. Diebitsch-Peary actively participated in the expedition nursing and guarding Robert Peary after he broke his leg when ashore in Greenland from the Kite hunted reindeer ptarmigan cooked for the expedition and aided in fighting off walruses who later attacked them in the expedition. She and her husband were both aided by noted African-American explorer Matthew Henson 1866-1955 longtime companion of Peary’s who on the expedition served as navigator craftsman and adaptor of Inuit Eskimo survival methods. Contemporary Publishing Co., hardcover
193763859London & Glasgow UK: Blackie & Son Ltd. 1937. 8vo. x 246 pp. Colour frontisp. 3 colour plates 16 photo plates 1 large folding map. Blue publisher’s cloth silver gray lettering front cover & spine double-page map edpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by author 5’ price label on spine couple minor closed tears slight creasing shelfwear price cropped from front flap still NF/VG copy. First edition of this remarkable travel and scientific memoir of the noted Scottish polar explorer and botanist collecting specimens for the Royal Horticultural Society & Kew Gardens through the Aleutian Islands with stops at Kiska and Attu Kodiak Island the Pribilof Islands observations of the seals and more. These scientific voyages also included stops in Japanese-controlled Korea and China as well as stop in Russia and Japan itself. Hutchison 1889-1982 was a noted artist naturalist studied horticulture and later explored Iceland Greenland along with expeditions to Alaska and Arctic Canada collecting specimens and seeds. She was awarded the 1934 Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for her Arctic ventures documented in “North to the Rime-ringed Sun.†Scarce in original dustjacket. Blackie & Son, Ltd., hardcover
16216Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. Manchester: A. Ireland & Co. Pall Mall. 1871. 24pp. 8vo. In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. Four copies on COPAC and two copies on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy currently on the market. [Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.] Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall. 1871. paperback
189763938New York NY & London UK: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1897. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xxi 5 389 1; xvi 2 391 1 pp. Illustrated titles in sepia & green in both volumes photogravure frontisp. in both vols. w/ tissue guards numerous photogravure from drawings and photographs all w/ printed tissue guards decorative sepia tinted text borders throughout in both volumes. Maroon-coloured publisher’s illustrated cloth over beveled boards elaborate and intricate cover design w/ feather and arrowhead motifs both covers created by the famed book designer and artist Margaret Armstrong w/ her initials in lower right of each cover t.e.g. slight scuff on spine to vol. II hinges starting but still secure in vol. II still a VG bright clean set. The “Tacoma edition†printed of this exceptional version of the famed history and enhanced by text drawings by R.F. Zogbaum. This account of the adventures and exploits of John Jacob Astor’s fur trading enterprise includes Wilson Hunt’s overland expedition from St. Louis to the Astoria settlement at the mouth of the Columbia River along with much first-hand material as well as the notes of Astor himself. See: Tweney The Washington Eighty-Nine 34 Note. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
19636046Minneapolis MN: Augustana Lutheran Church Women 1963. First Edition First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 221. 8vo. measuring 14 x 24 cm. Illustrated textured teal card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Comprises of a rich selection of recipes as compiled by Augustana Lutheran Church Women all recipes accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Bread and rolls Cakes and frostings Casseroles and meat dishes Cookies and bars Desserts and pies Salads Vegetables etc. Remarkably well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the extremities contents equally without blemish; fine. See OCLC #1104147981 indicating only one institutional holding at time of cataloguing. <br/><br/> [Augustana Lutheran Church Women] unknown
191564092New York: Brentano’s 1915. 8vo. ix 1 11-216 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding route map. Pictorial gray publisher’s cloth cover art map and decorative border touting the Lincoln Highway minor sunning to spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing uniform interior toning as usual still VG- copy. First edition of this well-illustrated and excellent memoir documenting amenities and sights along the Lincoln Highway considered one of the first full length travel accounts on transcontinental motoring of their 1914 trip. The Lincoln Highway was newly inaugurated as one of the first transcontinental highways and the association ramrodded by Carl Fisher and then Henry Joy had launched the coast-to-coast rock highway for visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 later to be enjoyed by automobile travelers during the Roaring 20’s. Effie Price Gladding 1865-1947 details their arrival from a three-year round the World Tour via Asia and Hawaii into San Francisco Bay and subsequent drives along 600 miles of the El Camino Real and then continuing Eastward through Nevada Utah Wyoming Colorado Nebraska Iowa Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania and eventually to New York. She has included many tips to women travelers at the rear of this account and would later write the foreword to the Lincoln Highway association’s first road guide directed to women motorists. Brentano’s, hardcover
191153910n.p.: Kate Harris 1911. Oblong 4to. 12.75 x 10 in. 204 pp unpaginated. on gray paper stock w/ 416 original silver gelatin black & white photos tipped-in sized 2.75 x 3.5 up to 3.75 x 6 in. including as well over 100 panoramic photos sized mostly 2.8 x 7.5 in. all w/ extensive manuscript notes in neat printed hand following manuscript presentation preface preliminary and end leaves with chipping & fraying to fore-edges some creasing soiling minor tears affecting a few notes 9 photos removed at some point. Recent gray cloth gilt lettering to spine gray paper endpapers presented by Mrs. Harris to Joseph F. Pickett b. 1887 a professional New York driver and chauffeur who drove the group through Europe on Dec. 25 1911. This exceptional photo travelogue details the motoring adventures by Kate Harris her husband Arthur their friend Mrs. Wadsworth and chauffeur Joseph Pickett through Europe just three short years before the devastation of World War I. This album not only demonstrates the level of interest in the burgeoning automobile tourism fad of the Edwardian era but also offers an excellent snapshot of scenic areas throughout Europe. The Harris’s not only brought their luggage and chauffeur via ocean liner in July 1911 but also their 1910 Pierce-Arrow 48-SS Seven-Passenger Touring Sedan fitted with special luggage racks on the rear to haul the many trunks bags picnic & camping equipment as well as a special spare tire bracket on the side which held three spares at any one time often needed. Mrs. Harris appears to have been an enthusiastic amateur photographer and writes that when they drove through an Austro-Hungarian military road she had to lock up their Kodaks. Carefully documenting punctured tires pubs & hotels for lunches and stays and even the mileage covered the group begins their travels in England view the Roman Walls stop in Durham Cathedral Raby Castle onto York Cathedral stop over in Oakham and then down to Cambridge. They stop over in Lofts Hall travel the 51 miles to the London Ritz Hotel and the next day drive the 72.3 miles to Folkestone where the auto was loaded on the 5 PM Boat. They begin their drive in Boulogne with views of the docks the hotel and street scenes included sheep herders moving their flocks out of the way in Hucqueliers young girls hauling bundles of straw and then onto Sedan to visit Franco-Prussian battlefields including the Chateau of Bellevue where Napoleon III surrendered to William I during the Franco-Prussian War. They motor onto Luxembourg Trier view the Porta Nigra Roman gate drive along the Moselle River to the Rhine with stops in Mainz Wurzberg Rothenberg often taking photos of peasants harvesting in the fields children playing under the fountain or in the village streets and even giving locals the remains of their lunch which were gratefully accepted. The drive through the Austro-Hungarian Empire includes stopovers in Prague Iglau Moravia Jihlava including a wonderful image of a young couple with wall of contemporary exhibition and advertising posters plastered behind them; followed by a hair-raising drive up the Styrian Seeberg Pass pilgrims traveling down to Mariazell Leoben Eisnerz Mauterndorf and photos of Tyrolean hunters in local dress. They experience a number of punctured tires as they ascend the Tyrolean and Italian Alps include splendid panoramic photos of the Pasterze Glacier withing the Glockner Group in Carinthia the perilous switchback highway down to Cortina Italy numerous views of the treacherous roads tunnels and scenery along the roads and Alpine villages of the Dolomites including two excellent photos of hemp workers bundling the plants in Storo Italy. The tour continues to Lake Como then the Gondo Gorge and finally along the Simplon Road into La Brique in the southern French Alps and then St. Claude France. The last part of the album concludes with the troupe leaving Bolougne Sept. 14 1911 loading the automobile onto the steamship waiting for Sarah Bernhardt at Folkestone; and then a winding drive through Cornwall including the Dartmoor National Park forest The Lizard St. Michael’s Mount Penzance Lands End St. Ives Tintagel a traffic jam in Stratton viewing Glastonbury and finally panoramic views to roads leading to Chester. The couple and their chauffeur departed from Liverpool on Sept. 23 1911 sailing on the RMS Mauretania later arriving in New York. Kate Harris, hardcover
192463831New York: Brentano’s 1924. 8vo. 262 pp. Photo frontisp. 34 photo plates. Pictorial green black & orange publisher’s binding auto camping scene by Decorative Designers on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight lean w/ d.j. photo cover art of Yosemite map of couple’s auto transcontinental auto trip on back cover minor dustsoiling edgewear tear affecting part of lettering w/ minor loss on front cover minor chipping head & foot of spine still VG/G- copy inscribed by the author on the title to Marcel & Quinta Kersell. First edition inscribed of this fascinating memoir of Mary and Fred Bedell’s trek across the perimeter of the United States in 1922 following World War I in their Hupmobile over some of the worst driving conditions imaginable including impassable roads holdup bandits in Texarkana tornadoes through Texas while featuring camping stops at Yosemite Crater Lake Mount Rainier Glacier National Park Yellowstone Banff and more. Political and racial upheaval make infrequent appearances as she often refers to the plight of African-Americans or Native Americans but she and her husband were particularly appalled at the prevalence of the Ku Klux Klan across the South and into Arizona “taking the law into its own hands and wearing masks to prevent detection. Could anything be more cowardly or more at variance with our constitution.†Bedell 1870-1936 was an active photographer while her husband Frederick Bedell 1861-1958 was a noted physicist at Cornell specialist in alternating currents audiologist specialist and later professor at Caltech. Exceedingly scarce in original jacket. See: Bliss Autos Across America 41. Brentano’s, unknown
190961847Boston: L.C. Page & Co. 1909. 8vo. x 2 280 pp. title in red & black. Double-page colour frontisp. map photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Pictorial dark green publisher’s cloth Arts & Crafts cover art illustration of road & cottages in white & black gilt lettering t.e.g. illustrated endpapers very slight shelfwear NF bright copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition of this informative Brass Era automobile travelogue through Shropshire North Wales South Wales Wye Valley and the heart of Wales. Stawell 1865-1949 was an Australian-born artist book illustrator and early motorist perhaps best remembered for her compilations including Fabre’s Book of Insects featuring illustrations by Detmold and Fairies I have Met with Edmund Dulac illustrations. L.C. Page & Co., hardcover
