[Rarebooks] Ward Ritchie - a baker's dozen + one

[Pia Oliver]

Again all eminently affordable, and some are such good reads!

Pia



KELLOGG, Charlotte. Prelude. (Pasadena): Ward Ritchie, 1960. Octavo, 
boards, cloth spine. Fine. One of 300 copies. This copy inscribed by 
the author's daughter. Jean Kellogg Dickie  wrote a preface to the 
long narrative poem of which the book consists. This writer was 
acquainted with Jean, a delightful, gentle lady who had illustrated 
poet Robinson Jeffers  The Loving Shepherdess and posed for her 
neighbor, the photographer Edward Weston. 2602	$35

MACLEISH, Archibald and POWELL, Lawrence Clark.  On The Beaches of 
the Moon. (Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie), 1978. Tall 12mo, marbled 
wrappers. Fine. A private printing of the poem by MacLeish, with an 
introduction by Powell. 7733	$35

POWELL, Lawrence Clark. Bookman's Progess. The Selected Writings of 
Lawrence Clark Powell. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1968. Octavo, 
green cloth lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket (spine very 
lightly sunned). Fine. First edition. 7740	$60

POWELL, Lawrence Clark. Bookman's Progress. The Selected Writings of 
Lawrence Clark Powell . (Los Angeles): Ward Ritchie, 1968. Octavo, 
green cloth lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First 
edition. 7882	$60

NADEAU, Remi. Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of California. Los 
Angeles: Ward Ritchie, (1965). Illustrated. Octavo, yellow cloth 
pictorially stamped in brown, with photographic image in center of 
front cover, pictorial endpapers, pictorial dust jacket (lightly 
rubbed and chipped). Name on front free endpaper, else fine. 7948 
	$20

POWELL, Lawrence Clark. Southwest Classics. The Creative Literature 
of the Arid Lands. Essays on the Books and Their Writers. Pasadena: 
Ward Ritchie Press, (1975). Thick octavo, printed wrappers. A little 
rubbed on wrappers, else fine. Second printing. 9219	$15

The First Los Angeles City and County Directory. (Los Angeles): Ward 
Ritchie Press, 1963. Octavo, tan boards, black cloth spine lettered 
in gilt, in publisher's box (small abrasion on spine). Spine faded, 
else fine. Limited edition. 10287	$45

STEWART, Don M. Frontier Port. A Chapter in San Diego's History. Los 
Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1966. Illustrated with photographs. 
Octavo, original blue cloth, pictorial label, spine lettered in gilt, 
pictorial endpapers, in publisher's box. Fine. 13372	$35

COWAN, Robert Ernest, BANCROFT, Anne and BALLOU, Addie L.  The 
Forgotten Characters of Old San Francisco. Including the Famous 
Bummer & Lazarus and Emperor Norton. N.p: The Ward Ritchie Press, 
(1964). Profusely illustrated with photographs and drawings. Octavo, 
original tan cloth stamped in orange, spine stamped in orange and 
lettered in black, pictorial dust jacket (lightly rubbed at top, one 
inch tear at top of front panel). Fine. First edition. Designed by 
Ward Ritchie. 13398	$50

POWELL, Lawrence Clark Powell. California Classics. The Creative 
Literature of the Golden State. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 
(1971). Illustrated. Octavo, original gray cloth stamped and lettered 
in brown, map endpapers, pictorial dust jacket. Bookplate, pencil 
notations on contents page, else fine. Designed by Ward Ritchie. 
Designed by Ward Ritchie, with an index. 13433	$40

The Grabhorn Press.  A Catalogue of Imprints in the Collection of 
Henry R. Wagner. Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1938. Frontispiece 
illustration of the Studio Press. Octavo, tan paper printed in red 
and black, brown cloth spine, tan label printed in red and black, 
dust jacket (worn). Label very slightly browned, free endpapers very 
lightly offset, a few pencil notes in margins, else fine. One of 250 
copies printed at the Ward Ritchie Press. 16532	$40

[VROMAN, Adam Clark].MAHOOD, Ruth I.  Photographer of the Southwest, 
Adam Clark Vroman, 1856-1916. N.p: Ward Ritchie Press, 1961. 
Profusely illustrated with black and white photographic 
reproductions. Quarto, orange boards with mounted black and white 
photograph, white spine lettered in black, gray endpapers, glassine 
wrappers lettered in black. Fine. First edition. The major work on 
Vroman. Includes biography, notes, and a descriptive essay by Vroman: 
Katzimo, the Enchanted Mesa. 40017	$35

DEAKIN, Edward. A Gallery of California Mission Paintings. Los 
Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1966. Profusely illustrated. Oblong 
quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Fine. Includes a brief 
biography of Deakin and background history of each mission painting. 
40187	$25

COWEN, Robert Ernest. Booksellers of Early San Francisco. Los 
Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1953. Illustrated. Octavo, cloth. Fine. 
One of 350 copies. Biographical sketches of San Francisco's 
nineteenth-century booksellers, including Hubert H. Bancroft, William 
Doxey, and Warren E. Price. Robert G. Cowan's biography of his father 
and the bibliography of Robert E. Cowan's publications are especially 
noteworthy. 45349	$70.00


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