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WESTON, Charis & Edward. California and the West. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: 96 photographic illustrations, 127 pages. Slim square 4to, silver-stamped black cloth, d.w. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1940). First edition. The corners are bent, light edgewear & a short crease on the front cover, but internally fine, and autographed by Weston on the front flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Weston, Edward. California and the West. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A great association copy being INSCRIBED by Weston thusly "Inscribed for my boyhood friend Joe Vest--with memories of Altimura-". Signed "Eddie" and dated June, 1947. In Weston's distinctive hand. Some cover stains, general wear, but overall a solid copy. With the tattered remains of the jacket laid in. ; Oversized; Signed by Author
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Charis and Edward Weston. California and the West. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, New York, 1940.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED BY EDWARD WESTON on the front free endpaper. A sharp copy to boot of the 1940 stated 2nd printing. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact, VG+ dustjacket, with very light creasing along the panel edges and just a touch of light wear at the spine ends. (The dustjacket is a stated 3rd printing jacket). Quarto, 96 of Weston's crisp, lovely black-and-white reproductions thruout.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in shiny black cloth stamped in silver (trivial rubbing to spine-ends), in a Near Fine first issue jacket (grey with white lettering), price-clipped, with slight wear to spine-ends and two tiny closed tears. This copy SIGNED by Weston (no inscription) on the free front end-paper. 127pp., with sections of black and white photographs interspersed with running commentary by Charis Wilson. The fruits of a photographic expedition across the Western U.S., funded by a Guggenheim. Q08939
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.