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Description:
Signed by Edgar W. Smith on a tipped-in page for Owen P. Frisbie, a founding member of the Five Orange Pips, one of the earliest "scion societies" of the Baker Street Irregulars. Numbered and signed by Smith for the attendees of the 1944 Baker Street Irregulars dinner, a gathering of the oldest and largest organization of Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts in the United States. Copy 32 of an unspecified limitation. Red cloth with map endpapers. Binding sound, lacking the dust jacket.
Pagination: 312:
Condition: Very Good:
Genre: Sherlockiana:
Price: $325.00
Description:
Signed by Jaramillo on the half-title page, "My humble effort at writing this book is with the sole desire of preserving in writing our rapidly disappearing New Mexico Spanish folklore. Sincerely yours, Cleofas M. Jaramillo." Blue cloth with a cover drawing by Roberta Martin of a woman in a fiesta dress, framed in a gold ornamental design. The dust jacket has a matching drawing to the front cover. Owner name in pencil of Eugene Williams/Taos/1948 to the free endpaper. Offsetting to the endpapers. Frontispiece. Illustrated by the author. Adobe brown ornamental leaf to the title page, with the same color used in all illustrations. A memoir of the life of Spanish landowners in northern New Mexico before the turn of the 20th century. One of 500 copies.
Pagination: 115:
Condition: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.:
Genre: New Mexico History:
Price: $373.00
Description:
First Edition. Signed, "Laura M. Bickerstaff/Taos/May 13, 1955" on the front free endpaper. Also signed by two charter members of the Taos Society of Artists, Bert G. Phillips and Ernest L. Blumenschein, who signed as "Blumey/for two dear old timers." Red cloth lettered in black. A bump to the bottom corner. Yellow dust jacket printed in red and green. Shallow chipping to the top of the spine, and the top corners are nicked. Dust soiling, and darkening to the spine. Publisher's price of $3.00 on the front flap. Biographies of the six original members of the Taos Society of Artists. Introduction by Blumenschein, who discusses artists Walter Ufer and Victor Higgins. Black and white illustrations by each artist.
Pagination: 93:
Condition: Very Good in a Good dust jacket.:
Genre: Art/New Mexico History:
Price: $500.00
Description:
Edited in three volumes by Geoffrey Keynes. Number 899 of 1500 numbered copies on Vidalon handmade paper. Vellum spines stamped in gilt over marbled boards. Corners frayed, with dust soiling to the spines. All plates are present.
Condition: Very Good:
Genre: Limited Editions/Fine Bindings:
Price: $400.00
Description:
Reprint. Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Introduction by Dick Clark. A gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Signed or inscribed by the following musicians, performers, and personalities: Glen Glenn, Tommy Allsup, Narvel Felts, Freddy Cannon, Lou Christie, Jimmy Clanton, Jerry Allison, Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan, Sonny Curtis, Dee Dee Kenniebrew, Bobby Hendricks, Fabian, Tommy Facenda, George Tomsco, Stan Lark, Chuck Tharp, an unidentified signature on The Fireballs page, Lesley Gore, Maria Elena Holly (Buddy Holly's widow), Peggy Sue (inspiration for the Buddy Holly song), Brian Hyland, Little Eva, Chris Montez, Paul Peek, Johnny Preston, Tommy Roe, Johnny Tillotson, Jay Siegal (The Tokens), Donna (inspiration for the Ritchie Valens song), Bobby Vee, Johnny Meeks and Dickie Harrell. A touch of rubbing to the boards, and small stains to the page edges. The dust jacket has age toning to the flaps, and a small stain to the rear flap. Provenance: Erik R. "Red" Kilby, a country music entertainer who performed at Steel Guitar conventions around the country. Discographies, illustrated, index of song titles.
ISBN: 0061816426
Pagination: 722:
Condition: Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.:
Genre: Music/Signed Books/Early Rock n' Roll:
Price: $275.00