May 2017 E-List
Vol 2, No 3: Eye Candy
We just can't resist pretty books: fine bindings, handmade paper, elaborate cover art, unique photos. The following short list contains some of the most attractive books that came into the store this winter. We realize it's a little heavy with Jim Crumley, but boy does he fit our mood lately.
If you're interested in making a purchase, you may click on the link at the end of each entry, which will take you to our website, call us at (406) 333-2330, email info@elkriverbooks.com, or just stop by the store and we can help you in person.
Postage additional, insurance available. Standard trade courtesies apply (dealers please enter the code TRADE during checkout).
Andrea & Marc
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Ellsworth, Robert Hatfield
Later Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 1800 to 1950
(3 vol set)
New York: Random House, 1987.
First Edition. Folio (36 cm), pp. 399, 369, and 281. Three volumes in illustrated brown cloth clamshell box. Blue, green and orange cloth boards, all edges gilt. Richly illustrated. Volume one features text, and includes artist biographies, bibliography and index. Volume two features paintings, and volume 3 calligraphy. The author was a renowned dealer in Asian art, and much of the illustrations featured in these volumes are from his private collection. Books and box all in fine condition, a very handsome set.
Hardcover, fine. $500. Order here
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Mails, Thomas E.
Sundancing at Rosebud and Pine Ridge
Sioux Falls, SD: Center for Western Studies, 1978.
Quarto (30.5 cm), pp. xii, 395. Signed and warmly inscribed by author with his trademark sketch of an indigenous man on free front endpaper. Brown cloth with gilt titling, pictorial jacket. Color, black and white photos and illustrations throughout; extra-illustrated with newspaper clipping, Center for Western Studies material, along with six-page spiral bound reproductions of Western art (the spiral left marks on rear endpapers). Jacket has moderate wear with numerous stains and small closed tears. Gift inscription on front pastedown, boards are bumped at corners, gilt from spine has left imprint on underside of jacket.
Hardcover, very good in good jacket. $140. Order here.
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Crumley, James
Bordersnakes
Tucson, Arizona: Dennis McMillan, 1996.
Limited edition (#245/326), signed by author on colophon page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 314. Bright red boards and matching slipcase, with psychedelic jacket illustrations and endpapers featuring a skull encircled by snakes. Jacket and interior illustrations by S. Clay Wilson. Immaculate condition.
Hardcover, fine in fine jacket. $65. Order here.
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Crumley, James
The Mexican Pig Bandit
Royal Oak, MI; Mission Viejo, CA: A.S.A.P., 1998.
Limited edition (#275/300), signed by Crumley, introduction writer Lise McClendon, and artist Phil Parks on colophon page. Octavo (23 cm), pp. 39. Mexican flag-colored boards with paper label. Photo of artist pasted in opposite title page. No jacket. A transitional C.W. Sughrue story, taking place just before The Last Good Kiss.
Hardcover, fine. $150. Order here.
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Crumley, James
Whores
Missoula, MT: Dennis McMillan, 1988.
Limited edition (#12/475). Signed by author on colophon page. 12mo (18.5 cm), pp. 181. Black cloth with gilt titling, pictorial jacket. Spine is bumped, jacket with light edgewear and one small closed tear.
Hardcover, near fine in very good jacket. $65. Order here.
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Crumley, James
Muddy Fork
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1984.
First Edition. Limited edition (#96/200), signed by author. 12mo (19 cm), pp. 25. Yellow paper boards, brown spine cloth, black slipcase. Deckle edge.
Hardcover, fine. $75. Order here.
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Kittredge, William and Robert Helm
Lost Cowboys (but not forgotten)
New York: Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1992.
First Edition. Folio (31 cm), [32 pp, four plates]. No. 29 of 70, signed by both authors on limitation page. Linen boards with morroco backstrap bound by Claudia Cohen. Text by Kittredge, four mezzotints by Robert Ecker based on Helm's paintings. Printed on handmade Twinrocker paper. Third in the Artists and Writers: American Journals Series.
Hardcover, fine. $500. Order here.
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Jackson, Jon A.
The Diehard
New York: Random House, 1977.
First Edition. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 215. Signed by author on title page. Gray paper boards with black spine paper and silver titling, pictorial jacket with artwork by Stan Zagorowski. Underside of jacket has taken on some blacking from the spine, remainder stamp on top edge of text block. Jackson's first novel in his long-running series starring Detective Sgt. Mulheisen.
Hardcover, fine in very good jacket. $75. Order here.
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Jackson, Jon A.
Ridin’ With Ray and The Old Game
Santa Barbara: Neville Books, 1995.
Limited edition (#13/326), signed by author on colophon page. Octavo (22 cm), pp. 40. Black slipcase with navy blue boards (no jacket), silver titling. Illustrations by Barnaby Conrad. An essay recalling the author's friendship with Raymond Carver, along with a short story featuring Detective Mulheisen.
Hardcover, fine. $75. Order here.
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Burke, James Lee
Two for Texas
Huntington Beach, CA: James Cahill Publishing, 1992.
First Edition. Joe Servello. Octavo (21 cm), pp. 139. Limited edition (#26/400) Signed by Burke and illustrator Joe Servello on colophon page. Brown cloth with Morocco quarter binding, gilt titling, in slipcase. Full page woodcut illustrations by Servello throughout. The story of a Louisiana prison escapee who flees to Texas and takes up with Gen. Sam Houston and James Bowie. Immaculate condition.
Hardcover, fine. $225. Order here.
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Catlin, George
Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians Written during Eight Years' Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America in 1832, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 39 (Two Volumes)
New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1844.
Third edition. Octavo (25 cm), pp. 264, 266. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling on spine.
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Includes more than 300 illustrations engraved from Catlin's original paintings, Mandan chart, and both maps. Pages have moderate foxing, and light stains on bottom edge. Boards have light edge wear, and sunning along spine and top edge. Head and tail of spines are bumped. Bookplate on front pastedowns from deacon/naturalist Samuel P. Fowler of Danvers, Mass. Volume 1 includes plates 113 and 114, which are absent from the first edition (Wagner 84, Howes 241).
Hardcover, good. $800. Order here.
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