Gentle Wilderness; The Sierra Nevada
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1964. 1st ed.oversize hardcover, vg in vg illustrated dj.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1964. 1st ed.oversize hardcover, vg in vg illustrated dj.
San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1967. 1st ed. oversize hardcover, vg in sl. rubbed dj, interior near fine, plates very clean.
NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1956. First edition (by Henry Holt and Company, not the Bramhall reprint). 256pp, illus, prospectus laid in. Dust jacket fair only with edge wear and some loss, book clean and very good. Reese: "L. A. Huffman was the premier photographer of the northern rangeÉ Brown.....
Tsaile, AZ: Navajo Community College Press, 1985. xx, 183pp. Light wear to dj, else near fine. Inscribed by the author. This book is about, well.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971. Near fine hardcover bound in cloth in matching slipcase. Sixty facsimiles dated 1680 to 1800 reproduced from originals in the American Antiquarian Society.
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1976. [x], 122pp, illus. First edition. Dust jacket shows some soil and rubbing, previous owners' bookplates on front pastedown and endpaper, else clean and very good. Early New Mexican architecture is one of the most distinctive vernacular styles in the United States, and Bunting.....
Washington: GPO, 1894. xlvii, 553pp. Some external rubbing and abrasion, rear hinge cracked, internally clean and very good. Of the three reports the one of particular interest is The Sia (i.e. Zia) by Matilda Coxe Stevenson, pages 1-157, including 35 full page plates (many in color) and 20 in text.....
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1966. Limited edition of 1/600 copies. Boards sl warped, spine slightly faded, else very good in cloth. 2 folding maps in back pocket. Linck was a Jesuit missionary who was scouting for sites in Baja shortly before the order was expelled. This is the first.....
Santa Fe: Palomino Press;, 1970. viii, 221pp, illus. No dj (as issued?) else near fine. A history of outlaw Tom Ketchum's career on the wrong side of the law and his gang, with extensive research. Published by the Palomino Press, an imprint of the Press of the Territorian, known for.....
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low & Searle, 1874. 6th edition. x, 386, 40pp, illus, folding map. Original decorated boards, bookplate on front pastedown, hinges strengthened, generally very good. Butler was a bored Englishman bemoaning the lack of any good colonial wars when news was received about an uprising on the.....
San Francisco: Executive Board of Local No. 104, (1910). 121pp, illus. Printed boards. Minor wear and staining, else very good. Local 104 was a sheet metal workers' union, and this was issued in commemoration of its twenty fifth year. The pictures consist mostly of mug shots of officers and a......
Washington: GPO, 1850. 31st Congress, 1st Session, Senate Exec. Doc. No. 34. Two parts. 53pp, 22pp, 4 maps (2 folding). Foxing, sometimes severe throughout the text, three smaller folding maps with some foxing, large folding map loose but bright with little foxing. Disbound from the Serial Set, here rebound in.....
Las Vegas, NM: Las Vegas Daily Optic, 1962. First edition, limited to 1500 copies. xiv, 352pp, illus, map ep. Previous owner's name on half title page, dust jacket rubbed and spine faded but complete. A scarce history of the dual community on the edge of the plains. Devoted chiefly to.....
Denver, CO: Old West Publishing Company, 1965. Limited edition, 1/1000, deckle edged, very good hardcover w/o dj as issued.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1878. Second edition (having the same date and collation as the first, ex-library stamps on half title and title pages, rebound in tan cloth with gilt titles and new endpapers, very good. Campion was an English gentleman and this is his account of a sporting trip.....
La Porte, TX: self published, 1952. Hardcover, inscribed by author on dedication page, fine without dj (as issued).
NY: Sol Lewis and Liveright, 1975. 1st ed., signed, light shelfwear else very good in blue cloth. No dj as issued?
Fort Collins, CO: The Old Army Press, 1974. [iv], 168pp. No dj (as issued?), spine faded, covers with light soiling, one pencil annotation, else very good hardcover. Military biographies of officers involved in the Sioux Campaign of 1876. Included with the officers are biographies of civilians involved in the campaign.....
Kansas City: Walker Publications, Inc., 1955. Frontis, 111pp. 1st ed., minor wear to original boards, else near fine. Issued without dj. Autobiography of the prominent Kansas stockman. Herd 428.
Mexico City: 1972. [vi], 37pp, plus 35 full page plates. 1 of 500. Facsimile edition, repaired tear to one page, else fine hardcover in original padded boards. Reproduction of one of the classics of Mexican printing. Text in Spanish with English description of the plates.
Iowa City: State Historical Society of Iowa, 1908. [xiv], 49pp, illus. Printed boards, some rubbing, else very good. 1 of 400, numbered. Chambers was a pioneer and politician in Kentucky and Iowa when those areas were still the far frontier. He was the second territorial Governor of Iowa and was.....
Pierre, SD: State of South Dakota, 1932. xivi, 458pp, illus. Spine slightly faded, minor wear to extremities, largely unopened, clean and very good. Chardon (c. 1795 - c. 1848) was one of the best known and highest paid fur traders on the upper Missouri River. His whereabouts on the frontier.....
Paris: Chez Prault, Imprimeur Du Roi, 1786. First complete and authorized edition. 2 volumes. 390pp, folding map; 362pp, errata page, folding map, 3 folding plates. Later half leather, pages evenly browned, else very good. Chastellux was second in command of French forces in America during the Revolution. A member of.....
Santa Fe: Writers' Editions, Inc., 1939. 39pp. First edition. Near fine, lacking dust jacket. Signed and dated by the author. This collection of verse is Fr. Chavez' first book. It was published by Writers' Editions, Inc., a cooperative group that promoted regional writing in the southwest, and printed by the.....
Albuquerque: The University of Albuquerque, 1973. xvii, 339pp. New printing, very good hardcover in worn and faded dust jacket. In two parts: the seventeenth (1598-1693) and the eighteenth (1693-1821) centuries.