The Pathfinder.
Orlando, FL: np, 1947. Frontis, 24pp. Signed, good with small chip out of dj. A short biography of John Charles Fremont, but really a paean to the explorer.
Orlando, FL: np, 1947. Frontis, 24pp. Signed, good with small chip out of dj. A short biography of John Charles Fremont, but really a paean to the explorer.
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark, 1966. 1st Arthur H. Clark ed., deckle-edged, as new in original publisher brown paper wrap.
Washington: 30th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Miscellaneous No. 26, 1848. 141pp, two folding maps, folding section. Disbound laid in custom cloth clamshell box. Wislizenus left Independence in May, 1846 traveling as a private citizen. He crossed the Santa Fe Trail and then headed south, ultimately spending six months in Chihuahua.....
NY: Baker and Scribner, 1849. 2nd issue, xvi, 453pp. Original stamped boards, foxing, sl cocked, still a very tight good copy. Wise set sail from Boston in 1846 and in the course of his travels visits South America, Mexico, California and the Sandwich Islands. He arrives in California too late.....
San Francisco: Nueva California Press, 1934. [iv], 124pp, illus, folding map. From an edition of 400 copies, numbered and signed, printed at the Nueva California Press by Lawton Kennedy and Company. Extremities with some soil and rubbing, bookplate on front pastedown, internally clean and very good. Hitherto unpublished letters that.....
Washington: U.S. War Department, 1856. 36, x, vii, 136, 7, 127, vii, 173pp, 3 folding sections, plates (lacking seven). Rebound in cloth. Title page torn with some loss of text, some foxing and browning, else good hardcover. Contains Whipples account of explorations on the 35th parallel, most significant because of.....
Boston: J.P. Peaslee, 1828. Later of many editions. 256pp, 3 plates, one folding. Later half leather and marbled boards. Internally foxed, else very good. Howes says of this, "A well-night worthless production of a seventeen year-old lad which enjoyed wide favor by an uncritical public." We are nothing if not.....
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. Seven volumes plus atlas. First trade edition, one of 750 printed. Original red cloth. Spines faded, two volumes with hinges starting, one volume (the atlas) with the hinges cracked, withal a very good set. Note that there are no bookplates and this is not.....
York, England: W. Alexander, 1815. "Second edition, improved." 312pp, 6 plates. 12mo. Plain (i.e. bland) new binding, foxing throughout, generally very good. Sutcliff was a British Quaker who made a number of trips to and through the United States. This account is quite readable and is based on his second.....
Philadelphia: The Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1914. 1st edition. 2 volumes. volume I; frontis, ix, 341pp, illus, folding map. volume II; 191pp, illus. Some wear to extremities, chipping to spine titles and spine fading, else tight and very good. 1 off 250, numbered with a presentation bookplate on.....
Portland, OR: Metropolitan Printing Co., 1946. 155pp, illus. 1st ed. No du (as issued?) some edgewear, else very good. Inscribed. Westergaard was born in Denmark, and emigrated to the United States where he worked around the west. Much on his life in the Mormon Church. Not in Flake...
Aurora, IL: William W. Walter, 1931. Frontis, 315pp. Printed boards, issued without dj. Has only the slightest of wear and browning, else a clean, near fine copy. This is the biography of Oliver Roberts de la Fontaine (b. 1857) compiled from his notes and journals. After a rugged childhood, Roberts.....
NY: Rudd & Carleton, MDCCCLVIII (185. 1st edition. 256pp, [x - advts]. Original stamped boards, somewhat worn, spine faded, binding sound, and internally relatively free of foxing. There is a minor genre of womenÕs accounts of frontier army life, the best known being those of Elizabeth Custer although this is.....
New York: Chauncey Devereux Stillman, 1956. First edition, limited, 1/505, scarce, deckle edged, near fine hardcover in torn glassine wrapper.
Flagstaff: Northland Press, 1985. First edition. xiv, 151pp, illus. Near fine in like dj. Inscribed by the author. Wright here describes the quadrennial ceremonies, annual performances, traditional dances, and curing rites associated with Zuni culture. Each participant kachina or society figure is described or illustrated from paintings by Zuni artist.....
Kansas City, MO: Lowell Press, 1972. 1st ed. HB, near fine in verygood dj.
NP: Cordillera Press, Inc., 1986. 1st edition hardcover, very good in slightly chipped dj.
Santa Fe, NM/Flagstaff, AZ: Fenn Galleries/Northland Press. 1981. xi, 144pp, illus. Near fine in like dj. Signed by the author. Illustrations greatly increased from the first edition, photographs by Gaspard, an added chapter by Waters, and forward by gallery owner Forest Fenn. Tanner A16c.
Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Press, 1964. First edition. [iv], 114pp, illus. Near fine in a very slightly soiled dj. Inscribed by the author. Bio of Gaspard (1882-1964) who joined the artists' colony in Taos shortly after its inception. He is known both for his European studies as well as for his.....
Santa Fe: The Wheelwright Museum, 1977. Very good softcover copy.
Menasha, WI: American Anthropology Association, 1935. 210pp, illus. Original printed wrappers. Some wear to wraps, previous owner's discrete name stamp on title page, else clean and very good. A detailed ethnological study of one of New Mexico's most traditional pueblos.
Herrin: Mrs. S. Glenn Young, N/D (1925). 253pp, illus. Original boards, some wear and spotting, some internal soiling. S. Glen was a lawman who worked in Oklahoma and Texas, but seems to have spent much time in the St. Louis and southern Illinois areas. He was heavily involved in the.....
Caldwell, ID: The Caxton Printers, Limited, 1937. Second printing. 436pp, illus, maps (3 folding in text, one large folding map in back pocket). Spine faded, front board somewhat rubbed effecting the decorative printing, internally very good. Idaho produced the first state guide under the direction of the Federal Writers' Project.....
Marietta, GA: Continental Book Company, 1948. 197pp, folding map and chart. No dj, slight fading and shelfwear to boards with a minor stain to the bottom of the front board, slightly cocked, else very good. An important source on the Cherokee Nation and on the little known southern phase of.....
NY: Henry T. Williams, Publisher, 1879. [3], 342, [6]pp, illus. Original stamped boards, quite a bit of fading to the spine and edges, else a good copy. Williams produced on of the most detailed travel guides of the route of the Central and Union Pacific Railroads from Omaha to San.....