San Francisco: M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, 1972. Softcover. Octavo. 9 x 8". 46pp. text, plus 14 plates (color and b&w) at rear. Includes list of exhibited works and artist biographies. Errata for plate 6 laid-in Some rubbing, light crease at spine edge and abrasion to corner. Interior clean.
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989. Softcover. Sm. quarto. 10 x 9". Incl. Biographies and Itineraries of Artist-Travelers, Historical Table, Notes and index. Scholarly presentation with b&w illustrations. Light fading to spine.
San Francisco: Hackett-Freedman Gallery, Inc, 2006. Hardcover. Sq. Quarto. 10.25 x 9.25”. 48pp. color illustrations. Exhibition catalogue. INSCRIBED BY HESS, to fellow artist, John Nava.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Hardcover. Quarto. 11.5 x 8.75’. 352pp. Incl. Notes, bibliography and Index. Scholarly text illustrated with b&w illustrations plus 16 full page color plates.
Layton, Utah. GIBBS SMITH. 2013. First edition. Hardcover. 13 1/4'' x 10 1/4''. 256pp. General light wear to dustjacket.
Charlottesville, Virginia. Thomasson-Grant. 1989. First edition. Hardcover. 14 1/4'' x 10 1/2''. 222pp. with index. Illustrated in color. Signed and dated by Jean-Louis Palladin. General light wear to dustjacket.
London: J.Owen, 1794. Hardcover. 12 mo. 8.5 x 5.5". 152pp. Attractively bound up in marbled-paper covered boards with printed labels. Original half-title browned, page edges mildly toned. Water-staining to the bottom of the first few pages. Binding is in fine condition.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1963. Hardcover. 12mo. 7.75 x 5". "Beyond the Bright Blur, is taken from LETTERS TO MALCOLM CHIEFLY ON PRAYER, by C.S. Lewis which will be published in the year 1964. This limited edition is published as a new years greeting to friends of.....
Los Angeles: The Grafton Publishing Company, 1909. Hardcover. 12mo. 8 x 5.5". Unpaginated. Long poem illustrated with monochromatic illustrations by Langdon Smith. Brown paper covered boards with embossed titles. A few faint spots (foxing) within. Very charming little book.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1931. Hardcover. Octavo. 9.5 x 6.5". 504 pp. Incl. index. Illustrated from photographs. Folding map at rear. Green cloth, title stamped in black. Spine sunned. This copy has been decorated with small charming (children's) drawing of a woman's head on fly leaf. Nice solid book.....
Cambridge, MA: American Folk-Lore Society, 1923. Hardcover. Tall Octavo. 9.5 x 6.5". Part I: 375pp. plus ads; Part II: 267pp. Burgundy cloth with gilt titles. T.e.g. Untrimmed and uncut. Lightly faded spines are rubbed at ends with small frayed spot. Spine lettering dulled and hard to read. Spotting to fore-edge.....
Albedrio, 2003. Hardcover. Catalogue Raisonne. Text in Spanish and English. Sm. folio. 13 x 10". 360pp. 359 works described and illustrated in color. Image guide and reproductions illustrated with color thumb print size illustrations with Illustrated chronology (In Spanish) at end. Orange cloth covered boards with mounted illustration in matching.....
Albedrio, 1999. Hardcover. Catalogue Raisonne. Text in Spanish and English. Sm. folio. 13 x 10". 636 pp. 1106 works described and illustrated from b&w photographs. Illustrated chronology at end. Olive cloth covered boards with mounted illustration; binding feels a little loose, like heavy books sometimes do. In matching very good.....
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009. Hardcover. Quarto. 160pp. Incl. chronology, bibliography and index. Nicely illustrated with color plates. "One of the most notable muralists of his day, he studied with the French academic painters Léon Bonnat and Jean-Léon Gérôme. His murals decorated high-profile public and commercial.....
San Francisco: The North Point Gallery, 2005. Hardcover. Exhibition Catalogue. Tall quarto. 46pp. Incl. notes and index. Illustrated with color plates. Includes chronology. Gilt stamped green cloth. In dust jacket that rubbing to edges and corners.
Stuttgart: Oktagon Verlag, 1994. Hardcover. Exhibition Catalogue. Thick quarto. 501pp. Incl. Catalogue of Works in the Exhibition, Biographies and Chronology. 340 illustrations, including 185 in color. A little dust spotting to top fore-edge. Very heavy book, overseas shipping not recommended. "This magnificent volume is a major reassessment of the.....
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1998. Hardcover. Quarto. 224pp. Incl. Notes and index. 240 illustrations, including 100 plates in color.
New York: The National Arts Club / Hudson Hills Press, 2007. Hardcover. Quarto. 215pp. 70 artists featured with color illustration and biographical information for each. With Appendix , "Checklist of Work byArtist Life Members", illustrated with small b&w illustrations.
New York: Harper & Row / National Gallery of Art, 1983. Hardcover. Tall octavo. 269pp. Profusely illustrated with color and b&w plates. Light edge wear and small edge tears to lightly scuffed dust jacket.
New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1939. Hardcover. Octavo. 417pp. incl. index. 432 monochromatic illustrations. Maroon boards with gilt title. Spine lightly faded with mild rubbing to spine ends.
Pebble Beach, CA: The Robert Louis Stevenson School, 1973-1974. Softcover. Three volumes. Text in English. Parts 1-3. 173pp.; 142pp: 230pp. Each volume illustrated with fold-out charts, monochromatic plates, photographs and line drawings. Thick paper wrappers, spines a little faded, some mild soiling. Interiors clean and nice.
Glendale, CA: Trans-Anglo Books, 1989. Hardcover. Quarto. 138pp. Plus route diagrams at end. Endpaper maps. Profusely illustrated from b&w photographs.
New York: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1992. Hardcover. Folio. 14.5 x 10.5. 321pp. 100 objects described and fully illustrated with color photographs. Includes glossary. Gilt stamped black cloth with purple dust jacket. Dust jacket has a couple minor creases from slipcase. Nice slipcase, faded on one edge.
Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1978. Softcover. Thick quarto. Two Volumes. Part 1: 513pp. incl. bibliography. Part 2: 584pp. Appendii, general summary and bibliography. Profusely illustrated with monochromatic plates, each fully described. Light general wear.
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1988. Hardcover. Folio. 14 x 10.5". 256pp. 243 illustrations, most in color. Appendices. Notes. Index. Dust jacket has light wear and fading to spine and rear panel. "Included among the drawings reproduced in this book are the first original depictions of Australian aborigines by.....