RMABA Book & Paper FairFeatured Items -- RMBPF 2007
2007 Rocky Mountain Book & Paper Fair
Featured items that Robert Gavora plans to bring to RMBPF 2007.
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17309. Koch, Michael. THE SHAY LOCOMOTIVE; TITAN OF THE TIMBER. Denver, CO; World Press, 1971. First edition, first printing. Copy number 3955 signed by Koch on special limitation page. The definitive book on the Shay locomotive, the preponderant locomotive of choice of the logging industry, consisting of 486 pages of text, photographs, color art, and builder's construction list of every Shay built. A perceptive biography of the inventor, the exciting story of the colorful logging industry in its heyday, a corporate history of the Lima Locomotive Works and the Shay locomotives it built. Bound in maroon cloth with lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Certificate for separate duplicate color prints laid in. Fine in fine and bright dust jacket with just a hint of wear at spine panel ends and only one tiny tear. A very handsome copy. $ 700.00 | |
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20697. Hooton, Earnest Albert. THE INDIANS OF PECOS PUEBLO, A STUDY OF THEIR SKELETAL REMAINS. New Haven, CT/Andover, MA; Department of Archaeology, Phillips Academy/Yale University Press, 1925. First edition. Inscribed on the front endpaper, "To Thomas Cochran, Esq., with the compliments of the Department of Archaeology, Phillips Academy, A.V. Kidder." Dr. Kidder was director of the Andover Pecos Expedition. Cochran was a wealthy Andover alumni. Papers of the Southwestern Expedition, Number Four. Appendix on the dentition by Habib J. Rihan. Appendix on the pelves by Edward Reynolds. 391 pages with maps, illustrations, skull photographs, graphs, tables and index. Photographic plates VII-A through VII-O in rear pocket. Bound in original dark blue cloth with lettering on spine in gilt. Cochran's bookplate on the front paste-down endpaper. Light wear to cloth at spine ends, else a near fine copy, without dust jacket. $ 475.00 | |
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20997. Kubasta, Voitech (illustrator). CHRISTOPH COLUMBUS GENUENSIS: HOW COLUMBUS DISCOVERED AMERICA. London; Bancroft & Co. Ltd., 1961. Pop-up. Eight page story on how Columbus discovered America accompanied by a large intricately designed, full-color pop-up of Columbus's three ships, the Pinta, the Nina, and the Santa Maria. There are several strands of thin string representing the rigging. The ship's wheel on the front cover functions perfectly and when turned reveals Columbus's route across the Atlantic to and from the Americas. A stunning example of a Kubasta pop-up. A fine, bright, superior copy. $ 295.00 | |
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21170. RECORD OF RECENT CONSTUCTION, NOS. 31-40, BURNHAM WILLIAMS & CO. Philadelphia, PA; Baldwin Locomotive Works/Burnham Williams & Co., 1903. Issues 31 through 40 from 1902 to 1903 of Baldwin Locomotive Works' "Records of Recent Construction," with original wrapper covers, custom bound together in hardcover for William L. Austin with his name stamped in gilt on the front. Austin entered the firm Baldwin Locomitive Works in 1870 and in 1885 became a partner in the firm of Burnham, Parry, Williams & Co., and later Chairman of the Board of Baldwin. Issues 31] Record of Recent Construction 1901; 32] Seventy Years of Locomotive Building; 33] Responses to Toasts at a Dinner Given By Burnham, Williams & Co. In Commemoration of the Completion at the Baldwin Locomotive Works of the Twenty-Thousandth Locomotive and the 70th Year of Continuous Operation; 34] Record of Recent Construction 1902; 35] Rear Truck Locomotives; 36] Record of Recent Construction 1902; 37] Oil Burning Locomotives; 38] Motor and Trailer Trucks; 39] Record of Recent Construction 1902; 40] Proper Handling of Compound Locomotives. Bound in original red calf with raised bands and lettering and intricate border design stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top of text block in gilt. A hint of chipping to the leather at the spine ends. A handsome, near fine copy. $ 1,200.00 | |
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21714. du Maurier, Daphne. THE APPLE TREE; A SHORT NOVEL AND SOME STORIES. London; Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1952. First edition, first printing. Includes the first appearance of "The Birds" which was the basis of the classic Hitchcock film and starred Tippi Hedron. Signed by Hedron on the front endpaper. Several light spots of foxing, else fine in fine and bright dust jacket. $ 650.00 | |