[Rarebooks] Western Art related books

[Pia Oliver]

Someone else said "One can never have too many reference books" so 
here's your chance for Western Art. I will even help with translating 
the one on Carl Oscar Borg :)

Gallery of Western Paintings. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 
Inc., (1951). Profusely illustrated with color plates, many full 
page. Quarto, original brown cloth, spine lettered in black and 
silver, color plate affixed to front cover, pictorial dust jacket. 
Fine. First edition. $65.00

Gallery of Western Paintings. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 
Inc., (1951). Profusely illustrated with color plates, many full 
page. Quarto, original brown cloth, spine lettered in black and 
silver, color plate affixed to front cover, pictorial dust jacket. 
Fine. First edition. $60.00

Thirteen Bookseller's Catalogues about Texas. 1976-1994. Some 
illustrated. Octavos to quartos, wrappers. Some light rubbing to some 
of the spines, a few date stamped, else mostly fine.
Nine Jenkins Company Catalogues (#99, 105, 116, 127, 148, 172, 175, 
181, 201), two Frontier America Corporation catalogues (#24 and 27), 
one Ben E. Pingenot catalogue (#3), and one Dorothy Sloan catalogue 
(#11), from the collection of William H. Morrow. All of the 
catalogues relate to Texas and the west. Together they describe 
thousands of books, manuscripts, broadsides, maps, documents, and 
ephemera. $200.00

[BOREIN, Edward]. Collection of exhibition and auction catalogues 
relating to Edward Borein. California: Various publishers, 1965 - 
2000. Illustrated. Quarto, octavo, pictorial wrappers. Generally fine.
The collection consists of:
Drawings and Watercolors. Edward Borein. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 
1965. Exhibition catalogue

DAVIDSON, Harold G.:
Bulletin #34 , November 26, 1979, 3 pp
Bulletin #52, May, 1984, 2 pp
Bulletin #66, June, 1994, 3 pp

Zetilin & Ver Brugge, Winter 1984, Western Life: Etchings and 
Drawings by Edward Borein, 2pp

ARLINGTON GALLERY:
A Tribute to Edward Borein. Memorial Exhibition and Sale, 1995. 
Exhibition catalogue illustrated in colour.
Laid in are several lists and pamphlets issued by the Arlington Gallery.

Noticias. Summer 1998, vol. XLIV No. 2. published by Santa Barbara 
Museum of History. The entire issue is devoted to Borein.
Noticias. Autumn 1999, vol. XLV No. 3. published by Santa Barbara 
Museum of History. The entire issue is devoted to Borein.

Rancho Mi Solar. Western Property of The Katherine H. Haley Trust. 
Auction catalogue, October, 2000. Berverly Hills, California: 
Christie's.  Laid in is a brochure about Rancho Mi Solar, and also 
pages from Christie's Magazine about the sale and the Katherine Haley 
collection of Western Art.

Some of the lists are annotated, and the Davidson, Arlington Gallery 
and Zeitlin lists are complete with prices. $125.00

[BORG, Carl Oscar].WIDEN, Albin.  Carl Oscar Borg, Ett Konstnarsode. 
Stockholm: Nordisk Rotogravyr, (1953). Profusely illustrated. Quarto, 
cloth, pictorial dust jacket (small chips at corners and edges, 
somewhat browned). Fine. First edition. Inscribed by Lilli 
Lindstrand, Borg's second wife.
Text in Swedish. With an article by Widen in the June 1956 American 
Scandinavian laid in. $225.00

DIXON, Maynard. Images of the Native American. San Francisco: 
California Academy of Sciences, (1981). Illustrated with full page 
plates, most in colour. Quarto, white blindstamped cloth, in white 
cloth slipcase (very slight indent at spine). Fine. First edition.

A catalogue of Maynard Dixon drawings exhibited at the Museum of Fine 
Arts in San Francisco, June to September, 1985. $150.00

[DIXON, Maynard].BURNSIDE, Wesley M.  Maynard Dixon. Artist of the 
West. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University Press, ((1974). cloth, 
fabricoid spine, pictorial dust jacket (slightly rubbed, small tear 
mended with tape). Fine. First (trade) edition.
Includes a brief biography, catalog of oil paintings, illustrations 
in books and periodicals, exhibitions, mural decorations, Frederic 
Remington letters, notes, bibliography and an index. $100.00

[ELLSWORTH, Clarence Arthur].WEARIN, Otha Donner.  Clarence Arthur 
Ellsworth, Artist of the Old West 1885-1964. Shenandoah, Iowa: World 
Publishing, 1967. boards, pictorial dust jacket (spine ends slightly 
rubbed). Fine. Number 392 of 750 copies, signed.
Ellsworth was the artist for both the Rocky Mountain News and the 
Denver Post. His works are widely held as pictorial history of the 
Old West.  With an appendix and an index. $90.00

HASSRICK, Peter H. Frederic Remington. (New York): Harry N. Abrams in 
association with The Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, (1973). 
Profusely illustrated. Small folio, cream cloth spine over brown 
boards, stamped figuratively in gilt, lettered in gilt on spine, 
pictorial dust jacket (fine). Front cover very slightly faded towards 
top, front endpapers with slight mottling, else fine.
Beautiful book about Remington with sumptous illustrations, some of 
the plates fold out to give a full image. $75.00

HORAN, James D. The Life and Art of Charles Schreyvogel. 
Painter-Historian of the Indian-Fighting Army of the American West. 
New York: Crown Publishers, (1969). Illustrated with numerous plates, 
many in colour. Oblong folio, red cloth spine lettered in gilt, tan 
cloth, pictorial dust jacket (About three inch vertical tear in lower 
front and rear edge, a few smaller tears). Fine. First (trade) 
edition. $100.00

[JAMES, Will]. Will James. A Catalogue. Billings, Montana: Thomas 
Minckler Gallery, 1993. Four items. Illustrated. Octavo, wrappers. 
Very slightly dust soiled, else fine.
Exhibition catalogue
With:
Will James, Cowboy Artist and Author. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara 
Hsitorical Society, 2001. Illustrated. Octavo, wrappers. Fine. 
Noticias, Quarterly Magazine of the Santa Barbara Historical Society, 
Volume XLVII, Number 3.
The Artist Whose Cowboys Were Based Mostly on Himself by Frederick 
Turner. New York: Smithsonian Magazine, February 1988. Illustrated. 
Octavo, wrappers. Fine. Magazine article, pp. 168-179.
Will James, The Spirit of the Cowboy. J. M. Neil, Editor. Casper, 
Wyoming: Nicolaysen Art Museum (1985). Illustrated. Quarto, wrappers. 
Fine. Exhibition catalogue. $100.00

MC CRACKEN, Harold. The American Cowboy. Garden City, New York: 
Doubleday, 1973. Illustrated profusely in colour and black and white, 
frontispiece reproduction of W. R. Leigh's "The Stampede". Quarto, 
burgundy cloth, spine lettered in gilt, royal blue endpapers, 
pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First trade edition. [Not in Allen. 
Dykes #232B].	$60.00

MCCRACKEN, Harold. A Catalogue of the Frederic Remington Memorial 
Collection. Ogdensburg: The Remington Art Memorial, 1954. Profusely 
illustrated. Small folio, red boards stamped in black with the 
"Bronco Buster" on front cover. Very slight insect damage on the very 
edge of bottom edge of front cover, and top of spine, else fine. 
$90.00

[MILLER, Alfred Jacob]. Alfred Jacob Miller:  Artist on the Oregon 
Trail. (Fort Worth, Texas): Amon Carter Museum, 1982. Illustrated. 
Quarto, original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust 
jacket. Fine. $65.00

NEUHAUS, Eugen. William Keith. The Man and the Artist. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1938. Profusely illustrated. Quarto, 
original green cloth stamped in light green and lettered in gilt, 
spine lettered in gilt, pictorial dust jacket (worn). Covers very 
minutely rubbed, else fine. First edition. Signed by the author.
With Oscar Lewis' signature on front free endpaper. $90.00

PALMQUIST, Peter E. Carleton E. Watkins.  Photographer of the 
American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. 
Profusely illustrated. Oblong quarto, brown cloth lettered in gilt on 
spine, pictorial dust jacket. Small white stain at top edge of front 
cover, else fine. First edition. $90.00

PERKINS, Charles Elliott. The Pinto Horse. Santa Barbara: Wallace 
Hebberd, 1927. Illustrated by Edward Borein. Small folio, original 
paper clad boards, pictorially stamped in red with image of a horse, 
lettered in red. Covers a little browned and spine a bit worn, 
endpapers a little browned. First edition. Signed by the author on 
the title page.
A charming story of a pinto foal wonderfully illustrated by Edward 
Borein with several full page drawings as well as smaller in-text 
sketches. $75.00

[REMINGTON, Frederick].HASSRICK, Peter H.  Frederic Remington. 
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture in the Amon Carter Museum and the 
Sid W. Richardson Foundation Collections. (New York): Harry N. Abrams 
in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, (1973). 
Beautifully illustrated. Oblong folio, brown boards stamped in gilt 
with a cowboy  on a rearing horse, green morocco spine lettered in 
gilt. Tiny bump on lower edge, else fine. $150.00

[RUSSELL, Charles M.].YOST, Karl, and RENNER, Frederic G., Compilers. 
A Bibliography of the Published Works of Charles M. Russell. Lincoln: 
University of Nebraska Press, (1971). Illustrated. Quarto, cloth, 
pictorial dust jacket (spine ends and edges slightly rubbed). Fine. 
First edition.
With an index to paintings, drawings and sculpture, and a general index. $70.00

[SCHMIDT, Harold von].CARROLL, John M.  Von Schmidt. The Complete 
Illustrator. (Fort Collins, Colorado): Old Army Press, (1973). 
Profusely illustrated. Oblong quarto, cloth, pictorial dust jacket 
(approximately 2 and 1/2 by 3 inch piece missing from the rear 
wrapper. No loss of text or image). Fine. First edition.
A bibliographic checklist which includes Harold von Schmidt's (his 
friends called him Von) illustrations for books, dust jackets, 
magazines, pamphlets, bulletins, newspapers, catalogues, and 
advertising . $70.00

VAN NOSTRAND, Jeanne. The First Hundred Years of Painting in 
California  1775-1875 With Biographical Information and References 
Relating to the Artists. San Francisco: John Howell-Books, 1980. 
Illustrated . Quarto, dust jacketoriginal blue cloth, gilt-lettered 
cover and spine, dust jacket. Spine ends and lower corners a little 
rubbed, top edges with some mildew staining, else fine. Printed by 
Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. $65.00

[VON SCHMIDT, Harold]. REED, Walt.  Harold Von Schmidt Draws and 
Paints the Old West. Flagstaff: Northland Press, (1972). cloth, 
pictorial dust jacket. Fine. First edition.
With a biography, list of illustrations, and a bibliography. $125.00


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