Thorn Books, ABAA/ILAB
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Exhibitor Phone: (520) 743-7773
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General Antiquarian, King Arthur, Fine Press
Featured items that Thorn Books plans to bring to RMBPF 2022.
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The Dark is Rising Series: Over Sea Under Stone, The Dark is Rising, Greenwitch, The Grey King, Silver on the Tree Susan Cooper New York, Harcourt, Brace & World; Atheneum, 1966-1977
Description
First editions, first printings First U.S. edition, first printing, of the first title; true first editions, first printings of the remaining titles.
Contemporary Arthurian fantasy and the struggle between The Light and The Dark. "The Grey King" was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1976, and "The Dark is Rising" a
Newbery Honor in 1974.
Condition
"Over Sea, Under Stone" is fine and bright; the dustwrapper is price-clipped and has the tiniest bit of wear at the edges, else it is fine as well. "The Dark is Rising" has a
tiny bit of spotting on the top edge, and a bookplate on the front pastedown, else is in fine condition; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped,but has a short closed marginal
tear and crease along the top of the rear panel; it is first state without the Newbery Honor sticker. "Greenwitch" has a small bit of wear on one corner else is fine in a fine,
unclipped dustwrapper. "The Grey King" is fine in green printed cloth; the dustwrapper is price-clipped else is in fine condition, and is first state without the Newbery Medal
sticker. "Silver on the Tree" has a light residue from an old price-sticker on the front free endpaper else is fine; the dustwrapper is not price clipped and is fine.
Genre and/or keywords: Arthurian; Children's; Young Adult; Science Fiction
Price $10000.00
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Colton's Map if the States and Territories West of the Mississippi Riverto the Pacific Ocean showing the Overland Routes, Projected Railroad Lines, &C.
J.H. Colton
New York, J. H. Colton, 1864
Description
Lithographed map, hand-colored. Image size 29½ by 41½ inches, folded into a folder of brown textured cloth embossed in blind and gilt.
Streeter notes that this map predates the setting apart of Montana Territory, and the route of the Pacific RR is south of the Great Salt Lake. "It was an
excellent map of the West as it was at the time of the Civil War."
Streeter, 3072
Condition
The map has been reinforced on the reverse at the corners with what appears to be old archival glassine tape which does show as faint shadows on
the obverse (see photo). It gives a very good appearance, with only light wear to the case at the edges and corners.
Genre and/or keywords: Western Americana; Cartography
Price $10000.00
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NOTICIA DE CALIFORNIA, Y DE SU CONQUESTA TEMPORAL, Y ESPIRITUAL ...
Venegas, Miguel (and Andres Marcos Burriel
Madrid, Viuda de Manuel Fernandez, 1757
Description
Three volumes. Small 4tos. (24),240; (8),564; (8),436. First issue with p. II, 479 misnumbered 476. Contemporary vellum, yap edges, manuscript titles on the spines.
Four folding copperplate maps: Vol. 1 contains the Mapa de la California, y su Costa Oriental Nuevamente Descubierta, based on Padre Kino's revolutionary map. Vol. 3 contains three maps: Seno de California; Carta de la Mar del Sur; and Mapa de la America Septentl. etc.
Venegas' manuscript was written between 1734 and 1739. It went unpublished because the Spanish Crown did not want details of New Spain disseminated. But eventually another Jesuit, Padre Burriel, edited the manuscript and saw it published.
The large map in volume 1 is based on Kino's 1702 map. It is indeed revolutionary as it was the first attempt to end the notion that California was an island. Padre Consag confirmed Kino's findings in a 1746 expedition to the mouth of the Colorado.
As Tooley notes (p. 111), Kino's map was not generally accepted; it was not until Consag confirmed Kino's discovery that caused Ferdinand VII in 1747 to issue a royal decree: California is not an island.
The London edition, issued in 1758, was an abridgment of this work.
Zamorano 80, No. 78. Cowan, p. 238; Howes V69; Palau 358387.
Condition
The first map has a professional, nearly invisible, repair of a closed separation across the upper third of the image, no loss. Map number 4 has a neat nearly invisible repair of a closed marginal tear, no loss. Scattered light foxing; small marginal paper flaw on II, 449/450, n ot affecting the text; stamps of the Museo of Teneriffe on the second leaf of II, the third leaf of III, and a paper repair on the second leaf of III suggesting there was once a stamp there. No text is affected, Remains of string ties. Inner hinges of I and II expertly repaired. An altogether superior copy of this set, called by Cowan the "foundation of a library of Californiana."
Genre and/or keywords: Western Americana; California; Cartography
Price $12500.00
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King Authurs Sword
Le Cain, Errol
London, Faber and Faber, 1968
Description
First edition. Thin folio. Unpaginated. Pictorial boards and endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color.
Signed on the half-title: "Best wishes from Errol LeCain."
Author's first book.
Condition
A fine copy. The dustwrapper has a short closed marginal tear on the upper panel, just above the "K" in "King", a trace of sunning to the spine. The lower front flap has been clipped. This is the place where the original price of 21s was printed; instead a new price of £1.20 has been inserted. Otherwise this is clearly the original first state dustwrapper, with the prices of the book on the rear flap unchanged.
Genre and/or keywords: Arthurian; Children's; Young Adult; Illustrated; Signed
Price $750.00
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LOS CULTIVOS ORIGINARIOS Y LA COCINA TRADICIONAL MEXICANA
De la Borbolla, Sol Rubín
Guadalajara, Taller Gráfica de Comala, 2019
Description
Limited edition. Folio. 12pp finely printed letterpress on handmade paper, and embellished with a tipped-in photograph and several linocuts in color engraved by Nacho Gómez. Accompanied by a portfolio of prints by Nacho: Chile, Maiz, Cacao, Frijol, Aguacate, Nopal, Calabaza, Maguey. Each print, finely printed on handmade paper, bears a 16th or 17th century quotation relating to the food, followed by linocut engravings in colors. And each print is signed by the artist. Both the booklet and the portfolio are enclosed in a hardbound cover of yellow paper engraved with a drawing by the artist and with a finely printed paste-on label.
One of 35 copies, signed and numbered by the artist. In Spanish.
Condition
Fine.
Genre and/or keywords: Fine Press; Mexico; Cookery
Price $600
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