Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
American painter, Civil War and geological survey photographer and an explorer (1843–1942) famous for his images of the American West. Signed book: The Pioneer Photographer. Later printing. NY: World Book Company, 1929. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8, 314 pages. Signed in fountain pen on the first free end page, “W. H. Jackson, 1931.” Tipped in to the last free end page is a scarce TLS dated 1932 from Jackson to H. J. Petersen of Butter Memorial Museum. In part: “The World Book Company, publisher of my ‘Pioneer Photographer’ has asked the return of photographs, recently withdrawn, that were used for the illustrations. One of these is the old extemporised station at Promitory Point of 1869. I will be obliged if you will return it, or a copy, if you have made one in the meantime…Have just got a copy of Chapman’s Pony Express. Have not read far enough into it yet for a proper estimate of its value as the last word on Pony Express Days, but it promises well.” Light edge toning to the pages, original owner’s stamp at the bottom of the signed page, scattered soiling to the boards, and sunning and foxing to the spine, otherwise fine condition. The letter also rates fine with scattered wrinkling, a small tear to right edge, and a rusty paperclip impression at the top edge (note also that it is affixed along its center to the final end page, but could possibly be removed). This volume, The Pioneer Photographer, is widely accepted as Jackson's most trusted autobiography of his early pioneering days and his first eight years (1870-1878) as the official photographer for the US Geological Survey.
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