An Announcement
~ and ~ Some Gift Suggestions Don't worry, the announcement is a positive one. I've reentered the land of additional social media, Instagram. We've re-activated our bookstore account: Craig Olson Books on Instagram I'd love it if you could follow us. I try to post something most days. Posts are often something that's just come in that I haven't yet offered through the website -- other times just something cool or quirky I've rediscovered. Now, on to some gift suggestions for the holidays. 
Rockwell Kent, Christmas Seal Stamps (1939) In addition to Rockwell Kent we have a number of items for the hard-to-buy-for on your list.
Again, I hate to make you anxious but Christmas is just 19 days away... And I wrap. As always, the next time you're in the area make it a point to visit Craig Olson Books at 99 Main Street in Belfast, Maine, where we have a large selection of books in all subjects, and a few hundred on architecture, art, and design.
~Craig ************ Hornsby, Stephen J. (Editor); Judd, Richard W. (Editor); Hermann, Michael J. (Cartographic Designer).
Historical Atlas of Maine.
Orono, ME: The University of Maine Press, 2015.
Hardcover. First Edition. 4th Printing. Unpag. Folio.
From the the University of Maine Press promotional materials: "After more than a decade of extensive research, the Historical Atlas of Maine presents in cartographic form the historical geography of Maine from the end of the last ice age to the year 2000. Organized in four chronological sections, the Atlas tells the principal stories of the many people who have lived in Maine over the past 13,000 years. The Atlas covers the history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, the American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial development, and the rise of tourism and environmental awareness. To tell these stories, the Atlas presents a rich array of newly created maps, historical maps, paintings, graphs, and text. The result is not only a unique interpretation of Maine, but also a splendid visual record of the state's history." (#26762)
Price: $85.00 |  | |  | Leen, Douglas; Brinkley, Douglas (Foreword).
Ranger of Lost Art: Rediscovering the WPA Poster Art of Our National Parks.
Seattle, WA/Salt Lake City, UT: Ranger Doug Enterprises/Paragon Press, 2023.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. xvii, 206 pp. Folio. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover. Brown ribbon binding and miniature silkscreen print of Grand Teton National Park inserted in tipped in folder at rear.
A stupendous volume that documents Douglas "Ranger Doug" Leen's decades-long quest to preserve and celebrate the unique contributions of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) to visual arts in our National Parks in the 1930s and 1940s. Leen has extended that tradition into the present with his company's production of additional National Park posters drawing inspiration from the original 14 posters that he has found and preserved. A fascinating story, this volume is signed by "Ranger Doug" on the title page. (#30440)
Price: $125.00 |  | | | McPhee, John.
A Sense of Where You Are: A Profile of Princeton's Bill Bradley.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. x, 144 pp. 8vo. Slight wear to dust jacket, tiny creases at head and foot of spine, price clipped, now in mylar cover. Unlike many dust jackets of this publication that have survived, this copy has not faded to orange along the spine. Black cloth binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Clean and crisp throughout.
John McPhee's first book, his profile of then-Princeton student and athlete Bill Bradley, later professional basketball player for the New York Knicks, United States Senator for New Jersey, and Presidential candidate. (#30462)
Price: $475.00 |  | | | Hawthorne, Nathaniel.
The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance.
Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.
Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. vi, [2], [9]-344 pp. 8vo. 12mo. Brown cloth publisher's binding with gold embossed titling to spine. Wear and scuffing to boards, fraying at head and foot of spine, 7/8" tear starting at head of spine on rear hinge, corners bumped with small losses consistent with use over time. Titling along spine has some fading, somewhat bright overall. Yellow endpapers with 4 pp. catalog inserted at front endpapers with light water staining along head of prelims. Light spotting within. Previous owner's name and date of acquisition in pencil on page preceding title page, "April 26th, 1851". Overall, quite tight to boards. [BAL 7604].
First Issue of this important work in American Letters. First issue (BAL Binding A) with battered last letters ("t" & "h") on sentence 1 & 2 on p. 149. Catalog dated March 1851, BAL's Catalog B, with last entry on p. 3: "...Poems of Many/" (#30628)
Price: $1,500.00 |  | | | Lyndon Baines Johnson [Photograph--Inscribed].
N.D. [c. 1968].
Color photograph on mat in wood frame. Photograph measures 7-1/2" x 9-1/4", frame measures 12-3/4" x 16". A few spots beneath the glass, photograph has never been unsealed from frame.
Photograph of Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) which he inscribed signed on the mat below to, "Mrs. Warren Shear/With best wishes/Lyndon B. Johnson". Copies of correspondence from the LBJ Library in Austin, TX, included that indicate that Daphne Shear was a Democratic National Committeewoman from Duncan, Oklahoma, and had worked on behalf of Johnson's campaigns in the past and requested signed photographs of the President in December of 1968. Johnson who was soon to turn over the office to Richard Nixon and would die just five years later at the age of 64. (#31198)
Price: $850.00 |  | | | |
