Palm Springs, CA: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. Incl. Artist's index. Nicely illustrated with single illustration on one page and artist bio on facing page. Contains well known artists, like Edgar Payne and Hanson Puthuff, and many other, lesser known, artists. Dust jacket has light.....
Santa Barbara and Salt lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1980. Quarto.127pp. Incl. index. Nicely illustrated in color and b&w. White cloth stamped in brown. Spine of dust jacket is a bit sunned and has one edge-tear.
San Diego: San Diego Historical Society, n.d. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 108pp. Incl. bibliography. Nicely illustrated, mostly b&w, but a few in color. Blue cloth stamped in gold. A Catalogue of the works of Artists Active in San Diego from the 1850’s to the 1950’s. Bound-up version of original softcover.....
Irvine, CA: The Irvine Museum, 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 238pp. incl. chronology, bibliography and index. Profusely and beautifully illustrated, mostly in color.
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001. Softcover. Sm. quarto. 210pp. incl index. Nicely illustrated in color and b&w. Light general wear. "This first substantial monograph on Elmer Bischoff offers a warm appraisal of a deacon of West Coast painters.."
Washinton DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. First edition. Softcover. 10" x 8". 120 pages. Pictorial wrappers. 62 full-color illustrations, 95 b&w photo illustrations, 5 b&w reproductions of Hyde's seals; chronology; catalogue raisonné of the 151 prints Including woodblocks and etchings. Exhibition list; bibliography; index of print titles.
Los Angeles: Privately Printed, 1930. Hardcover. Quarto. 137pp. Mostly full-page, half-tone illustrations of Wieczorek's portraits. Dust jacket has chips and small tears. Otherwise a nice copy. In broken slipcase.
Beverly Hills, CA: Hillcrest Press, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 81pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Post is considered one of California's premier watercolor artists.
Newport Beach, CA: The California Regionalist Art Information Center, 2010. Hardcover. Oblong quarto. 192pp. Nicely illustrated with full page color plates. "He (Sheets) was just 27 years old when art critics proclaimed him to be California's premier Regionalist artist and one of America's foremost watercolor painters."-from blurb.
San Clemente, CA: CSP Publishing, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 144pp. Profusely illustrated in color. "...the life and art of Ken Potter, one of the premier California Style watercolor artists...The first half of the book is an illustrated biography which chronologically documents the progress of his art career. The last.....
Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Historical Society, 2007. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 53pp. Nicely illustrated.
Los Angeles: Jonathan Art Foundation, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto.180pp. plus two folding plates. Featuring paintings by forty prominent California artists, each with a full page color plate illustration, descriptions of the paintings, and biographical information for each artist. Featured artists include Henry Chapman Ford, Hanson Puthuff, Maurice Braun, Franz.....
n.d. (circa 1920). Etching. Signed in pencil. Image: 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 "; Paper: 10 1/2 x 8 1/2". Hinged on verso. "Arthur Millier (1893 – March 30, 1975) was a British-born American painter, etcher, printmaker, and art critic. He was the art critic for the.....
Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 125pp. Incl. notes. Illustrated, mostly color. Original softcover edition is bound in blue leather-like cloth, titles stamped in gilt.
Bakersfield: The Dorian Society/ California State University, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. octavo. 69pp. Exhibition catalogue. Nicely illustrated with color plates. Includes artist bios and exhibition list. Featured artists include Rex Brandt, Phil Dike, Dong Kingman, Emil Kosa, Milford Zornes and many others. Bound at rear is Moure's essay, 29pp.....
Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Beach Museum of Art, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 64pp. Black and white illustrations. Bound in brown leather-like cloth with gilt stamped titles. Likely a bound-up softcover editions, but covers have not been bound-in. Art gallery sticker on last blank.
Dana Point, CA: Dana Headlands Publishing, 2015. Hardcover. Quarto. 103pp. Centennial Edition Commemorating the Artist's Birth in 1915. profusely illustrated with color plates.
San Francisco, CA: George Demont Otis Foundation, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Unpaginated. Nicely illustrated in color and b&w. Bound-up version of original softcover book with covers bound-in. Mild bump to top of spine.
Encinitas, CA: Artra Publishing, Inc, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 96pp. Exhibition catalogue. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. Catalogue of the exhibition of the National Watercolor Society Past President's Invitational, featuring the works of 53 past presidents. this is the original softcover edition nicely bound in brown leather-like cloth.....
Carmel, CA: The Carmel Art Association, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. 127pp. Incl. chronology, exhibition history and notes. Nicely illustrated with color plates and text illustrations. Scarce in hardcover.
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. 346pp. Incl. index. Illustrated in color and b&w. Substantial text. "...the fascinating story of eight principle protagonists- Jules Tavernier, William Keith, Charles Rollo Peters, Arthur Mathews, Evelyn McCormick, Francis McComas, Gottardo Piazzoni and photographer Arnold Genthe, as well as.....
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La Jolla, California. Laurence McGilvery. 1990. Reprint. Softcover. 11'' x 8 1/2''. 123pp. plus 16 illustrations of artists at rear. Glossy white printed wrappers.
Davis: Library Associates, University of California. 1981. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' x 8 3/4''. 180pp. First edition. Hardcover. Limited to 325 copies.
Pomegranate Communications Inc, 2017. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. 236pp. Profusely illustrated in color. "Fortune, unmarried and of independent spirit, often rode her bicycle carrying her painting supplies to paint in plein air..."
Pasadena: Pasadena Museum of California Art, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. Sq. quarto. 65pp. Illustrated with full-page color plates.