The Bohemian World of Xavier Martinez

DEAN, HARRIET (1992-1964). An archive of letters sent (typescript copies); assorted typed and handwritten manuscripts/copies, many with notatio...

SPRUANCE, MARGARET VANCE DEAN. 1888-1985. An autographed letter signed, sent via the American Embassy in Manila [1952]; addressed to Harriet De...

Pal and Pellie, a Prolific Partnership: Letters, Writing, Ephemera, and California Bohemian History. DEAN, HARRIET, 1892-1964; and MARTINEZ, ELSIE WHI

[WORLD WAR II. 1943-1945.] A Wartime scrapbook of ephemera and photographs, belonging to Harriet Dean (1892-1964), Elsie Whitaker Martinez (1890-1984)

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D. 1882-1945. Two letters (one with stamped envelope), dated 1928. One is to William Gardner Hale, in support of the presid...

A group of 21 photographs depicting or related to Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, together with numerous typescripts/copies of not...

A ceramic bust of artist Micaela Martinez, daughter of artist Xavier Martinez and Elsie Whitaker Martinez. Together with a photographic portrai...

Artist: M. Forsse. Title/Description: Portrait of Micaela Martinez, with another (unidentified) portrait of a woman verso. Signature: Signed lower rig

[DU CASSE, MICAELA MARTINEZ.] A large archive of ephemera relating to Micaela Martinez and her family, including photographs (1910s-1950s); num...

[DUCASSE, MICAELA MARTINEZ. 1913-1989.] Artist Micaela Martinez's collection of dance and theatrical ephemera from her theater arts educati...

Micaela Martinez's copy of this Limited Edition volume on the work of Leon Bakst; the binding with considerable condition issues, but the colore...

A fairy tale book manuscript with original art, together with a signed etching. LATTIMORE, ELEANOR FRANCES, 1904-1986.  The Wisdom of the Wise ...

Artist: William Justema (1905-1987). Title/Description: Floral arrangement in a purple bowl. Signature: Signed lower left. Date Created: 1949. ...

Artist: Marian Grant Smith (b. 1897). Title/Description: Pan with a nymph. Signature: Signed in image at bottom. Date Created: c. 1920s-1930s. Medium/

Artist: Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989). Title/Description: Twin warriors and maiden. Signature: Signed M. Martinez lower right. Date Crea...

Artist: Micaela Martinez DuCasse (1913-1989). Title/Description: Woman with pink cap. Signature: Unsigned. Date Created: c. 1930s-1940s. Medium/Ground

Artist: Micaela Martinez (DuCasse) (1913-1989). Title/Description: Religious vision with a Friar in coastal landscape. Signature: Unsigned. Date Creat

Artist: Micaela Martinez (DuCasse) (1913-1989). Title/Description: "The Rest on the Flight into Egypt - Carmel Valley Landscape". Signatur...

DUCASSE, RALPH. 1916-2003. An archive of military language study sheets and other wartime activity ephemera, well over 200 pages of handwritten...

Two small works, with photographs of the artist, and related ephemera. Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Lake landscape; an...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Nude. Signature: Signed lower right. Date Created: 1957. Medium/Ground: Watercolors on paper. Si

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Female nude with chair; Male nude on purple (2 works). Signature: One signed lower right, the ot

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: A series of 3 works: "Tang Lady (Left)"; "Tang Lady - Frontal"; and "...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Self ". Signature: Unsigned. Date Created: 1956. Medium/Ground: Oil on canvas. Siz...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Sacred Bardges Containing Devine" (abstract in blue, black, green). Signature: Sign...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Mummi Form Image". Signature: Unsigned; identified with John Bolles Gallery, San Fr...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "House of Eternity" (abstract). Signature: Signed verso; and Women's Board of Oa...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Abstract in white on raw canvas. Signature: Signed on stretcher verso. Date Created: 1983. Mediu

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Triptych with abstract figures. Signature: Each panel signed verso. Date Created: c. 1950s. Medi

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Dark Landscape". Signature: Identified by Richmond Art Center Exhibition label. Dat...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Abstract on blue. Signature: Signed upper right. Date Created: 1948. Medium/Ground: Oil on canva

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Abstract with yellow blocks. Signature: Signed verso. Date Created: 1964. Medium/Ground: Oil on

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Aswan #1, from Old Catarac Hotel". Signature: Unsigned; identified by artist's ...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "The Nile at Khar Toom". Signature: Signed on paper label verso. Date Created: c. 19...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Abu Simbel". Signature; Unsigned; identified by Gump's Gallery San Francisco pa...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "View of Noo" (abstract with yellow, white, and orange). Signature: Artist's lab...

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: Abstracted crucifixion. Signature: Signed lower right. Date Created: 1949. Medium/Ground: Oil on

Artist: Ralph DuCasse (1916-2003). Title/Description: "Mud Ra #1". Signature: Signed on stretcher verso. Date Created: 1982. Medium/Ground...

Artist: Carla Trefethen Saunders (20th/21st Century). Title/Description: Abstract with red and blue. Signed: Labeled verso, Carla Trefethen. Da...

Artist: Del F. Lederle (20th Century). Title/Description: Abstract in browns and primary colors. Signature: Signed verso. Date Created: 1977. Material

An assortment of three works on paper, including a pencil portrait sketch, signed/dated J. Casseres, 1969. The others unsigned pastels. The group rang

Artist: Unknown. Title/Description: Sailboats at a seaside village under pink sky. Signature: Unsigned. Date Created: 20th Century. Medium/Ground: Oil

Artist: VernlicaSmith (20th Century). Title/Description: Floral Still Life. Signature: Signed lower right. Date Created: 20th Century. Medium/Ground:

Artist: Thomas G. Purvis (1861-1933). Title/Description: Anchored sailing vessel, another sinking in the background. Signature: Signed lower left. Dat

Artist: Virginia Swinburne Hale (1887-1981). Title/Description: "Head of My Mother, Harriet S. Hale". Signature: Unsigned; identified with...

Artist: Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990). Title/Description: "Express Office - Columbia". Signature: Signed lower right, and...

A grouping of a drawing, photograph, and letter. Artist: Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990).  Title/Description: "Old Willow, Colum...

Artist: Evelyn Otheto Stoddard Weston (1895-1990). Title/Description: Building and figures in Columbia, California. Signature: Unsigned/not vis...

Artist: Charles Frederick Surendorf (1906-1979). Title/Description: "St. Anne's Church - Columbia, Edition 100". Signature: Signed low...

Artist: Unidentified. Title/Description: Modernist horse ("Drawing No. I"). Signature: Signed verso (unidentified). Date Created: 1946. Me...

Artist: Benjamen Chinn (1921-2009). Title/Description: A collection of 13 cards (to Micaela Martinez DuCasse) with small tipped-on landscape/na...

12 sterling teaspoons, late 19th to mid-20th century. A couple related to the Ralph DuCasse family; one with Harriet Dean's monogram. Locations ...

A grouping of late 19th/early 20th century mother-of-pearl handled flatware consisting of a set of 6 forks and 6 knives with chased grape leaf decorat

A miniature painted on porcelain, after Carlo Dolci (1616-1686), Mary Magdalen holding a jar of myrrh; c. 19th century. Plaque 3 1/2in x 2 1/2in (oval

Depicting a riverside village at the foot of mountains. Signed/inscribed upper left.  21 1/4in x 13in; 22in x 14 1/2in (frame). Condition: Surf...

Pair of Chinese Blue & White Vases Mounted as Lamps. Vase: 20" High

Pair of Chinese Blue & White Vases Mounted as Lamps. NOT DRILLED. Vase: 18" High

Pair of Chinese Famille Rose Vases Mounted as Lamps. Vase: 17.25" High

Pair of Chinese blue, white, and brown crackle glazed porcelain vases mounted as lamps. Vase: 21" High

DESNOS, ROBERT. Picasso Seize Peintures 1939-1943. Paris: Les Editions du Chene, 1943. Portfolio (14 3/4in x 11in) of loose leaves with tipped-in colo

Illustrations from: JOHNES, THOMAS [TRANSL.]. The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet; Containing an Account of the Cruel Civil War Between the Hou

CASTRO, CASIMIRO, et al. Mexico y sus Alrededores. Coleccion de Monumentos, trajes y Paisajes. Mexico: Establecimiento Lithografico de Decaen, 1855 an

MUNK, J. A. Southwest Sketches. 8vo. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1920. First Edition. Pictorial gray...

GIVENS, J. D., and A. M. ALLISON. San Francisco In Ruins: A Pictorial History... San Francisco: Leon E. Osteyee. Poor condition; front cover creased a

CROCKER, FLORENCE B. Who Made Oakland? Oakland: Clyde Dalton, 1925. 8vo. Red cloth. Photo illustrations, and tipped-in Bekins Van & Storage Co. ...

A grouping of Carmel books (one signed), three maps, and eleven tokens. BOSTICK, DAISY F., and DOROTHEA CASTELHUN. 1.) Carmel at Work and Play....

A miscellaneous grouping of four booklets/publications: 1.) Del Monte Summer Theater, The Forest Theater, World Premier of Robinson Jeffers' &qu...

A grouping of souvenir menus and cookbooks, with waiter badges, and other miscellaneous ephemera. 1.) ALFRED'S COCKTAILS RESTAURANT SOUVENI...

FISHER, HARRISON. The Little Gift Book. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. 8vo. Of 32 color plates, 31 are present ("Beauties" m...

A grouping of seven books/commemorative booklets, with misc. newspaper and magazine clippings and ephemera collected by Elsie Whitaker Martinez,...

Some with Elsie and Micaela Martinez inscriptions, Poor-Good condition. 1.) JOHNSON, MARTIN. Through the South Seas with Jack London. Cedar Springs: W

STEINBECK, JOHN. 1.) Cup of Gold, A Life of Sir Henry Morgan. New York: Covici, Friede Publishers, 1936. 2.) In Dubious Battle. New York: The Modern L

A miscellaneous grouping of three books and souvenir postcards. Poor-Good condition; inscriptions. 1.) A GUIDE TO THE WORKS OF ART IN NEW YORK CITY. N

ADAMS, ANSEL. 1902-1984. Gallery catalog: The Redwood Empire: Exhibit of Photographs by Ansel Adams. San Francisco Museum of Art, Van Ness at McAllist

Artist: Edna Bullock (1915-1997). Title/Description: Desert Landscape with Nude in Vintage Car. Signature: Signed on matte lower right. Date Created:

Artist: Donald Wilson (20th Century). Title/Description: "Messenger" (man hiding from an angel). Signature: Signed lower right. Date Creat...

REHMUS, E. E. I'm Over Here. Sausalito: Contact Editions, 1962. First Edition. 8vo. Orange illustrated paper covers; illustrated throughout. Con...

ROOT, RALPH RODNEY. Landscape Garden Series. Vols. I-X. Davenport: The Garden Press, 1921. Stapled booklets; photo illustrations. In cardboard ...

The group includes one Western Flower Guide inscribed/signed by Xavier Martinez (with his monogram/stamp), to his daughter Micaela Martinez, Au...

1.) AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940. Full and double-page color illustrations look good, just light edge toning. With remn

1.) FEWKES, JESSE WALTER. Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 41. Washington,

IRVING, WASHINGTON. Mahomet and His Successors. Vol. 1-3. 16mo. Green cloth, gilt. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Editi...

SEYPPEL, C. M. (KARL MARIA). 1847-1913. He She It, Egyptian Chronicle B.C. 1302, a veracious and truthful version preserved and transcribed for...

ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL. Poems. Collections of British Authors, Vol. 1387. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1873. 16mo. Half calf and marbled paper. Owner

RUSKIN, JOHN. Of King's Treasuries. London: George Allen, 1902. Printed by Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. 8vo. Full vellum, gilt stamp, ties. Orna...

BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT. 1.) Aurora Leigh. New York: Thomas E. Crowell & Co., 1883. Light green gilt pictorial cloth, all edges gilt. 8vo. G...

DICKENS, CHARLES. The Adventures of Oliver Twist. Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., 1890. 8vo. Green cloth, pictorial cover and gilt to spine....

LAVATAR, JOHN CASPAR. Essays on Physiognomy. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., n.d. Eighteenth Edition. Line illustrations. With Harriet Dean's owner...

1.) HALSTEAD, MURAT. The Illustrious Life of William McKinley, Our Martyred President. 1901. Illustrated. 2.) LOSSING, BENSON J. A Centennial Edition

1.) JOHNSON, W. FLETCHER. Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-91. Edgwood Publishing Company, 1891. Pictorial stamped cloth. Th

Three volumes, with ownership inscriptions of Micaela Martinez, Piedmont on flyleaves, 1930s. Overall Good condition; some toning, soiling/light spott

JAMES, WILL. Lone Cowboy, My Life Story. New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition with "A". 8vo. Green pictor...

Four books, all inscribed from "Pal" (Harriet Dean) to "Kay" (Micaela/Kai). All are Good, with some soiling/toning. JAMES, WILL....

1.) RICHARDS-LANDAZURI. Children of Mexico, Their Land and Its Story. San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1935. 8vo. Orange pictorial cloth

Includes one volume inscribed by artist Xavier Martinez, to his wife and daughter, 1913, with his monogram stamp. The group Poor-Fair condition, with

Five A.A. Milne, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1943-1948: The House at Pooh Corner (2 copies); Now We Are Six; Winnie the Pooh (2 copies). Condition Fair to

1.) Adventures of Peterkin, by Gilly Bear. 2.) Billy Bunny and Timmie Chipmunk, by David Cory. 3.) The Cave Twins, by Lucy Fitch Perkins. 4.) T...

Two children's books inscribed by Harriet Dean ("Pal") to Micaela Martinez ("Kay"). 1.) BARRIE, J. M. Peter Pan in Kensingto...

Later printings of early editions illustrated by John R. Neill; Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Company. The group in overall good condition, all with...

The group in Fair-Good condition; with wear/scuffing, inscriptions/child marks, toning. 1.) BRUNDAGE, FRANCES. East O' the Sun and West O' t...