The Colorado Kid; Memoirs of a Life Nurtured by Faith
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1978. 1st ed.hardcover, n. fine in vg dj. "A glowing collection of railroading out West - a way of life now vanished from the American scene.
Hicksville, NY: Exposition Press, 1978. 1st ed.hardcover, n. fine in vg dj. "A glowing collection of railroading out West - a way of life now vanished from the American scene.
Washington, DC: Indian Arts & Crafts Board, Department of Interior, nd. Very good hardcover, discreet ex-lib stamps, w/o dj as issued.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1947. xxi, 124pp. Dust jacket tanned, previous owner's name stamp on ffep, else very good. A thorough descriptive list of 225 printed constitutions, statutes, session acts and resolutions passed by properly authorized bodies of the Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Creek (or Muskogee) Nation).....
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. x, 62pp. Folio. First edition, 1/500, fine. Full collations and descriptions.
Jackson, MS: E. Barksdale, 1857. 350pp, folding map plus 4 single page, hand colored county maps, plates and illus. Original stamped boards, some foxing and a the map and some of the plates are quite browned. Minor loss along one edge of the map. Overall, tight and very good. Covers.....
Philadelphia: George Gebbie, 1972. Illus., including two splendid fold out engravings of early locomotives. Rebound, internally very good. Prev. owner's inscription. Stated "revised edition"; the first publication was in The Journal of the Franklin Institute. Thus, this is the first appearance in book form. A history of the locomotive engine.....
Ridgewood, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968. Hardcover, reprint, very good in cloth without dj.
Prescott, AZ: George Hartmann, 1907. [x], 125 pp, frontis. Illustrated cloth covered boards, light shelfwear, else very good. Hartmann came to the United States from Germany in 1867, then crossed the Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico and Arizona. This book records some of his adventures (although he advises us.....
Berkeley: University of CA Press, 1978. 1st ed hardcover, vg in vg dj.
Albuquerque: El Abogado Press, 1908. [viii], 380pp, illus. Hinges reinforced, else very good. This is a history by decade of the activities of the "Methodist-Episcopal" church in New Mexico beginning in 1850. This is Volume I only, carrying the story to 1885. It is a crude production, printed by Indian.....
Dragoon: The Amerind Foundation, Inc., 1945. 87pp, 36 plates, folding map. Original printed wrappers. Library stamps to front wrap and title page, else clean and very good. A report on the excavation of Painted Cave, so named for the profusion of colored figures, human and animal, and hand prints covering.....
Philadephia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1909. 270pp, 5 plates plus illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket with some soil and short tears, some chipping at the top of the spine, dampstain touching the bottom corner of the text block, overall very good. Nature writing for young people, dedicated to Ernest.....
London: Edward Stanford, 1883. 652pp, illus, maps (11 folding). Original decorative boards. Spine slightly faded, gilt on front board still bright, previous owner's bookplate and gift insc, overall very good. This is a survey of geography and culture based on a German work. The section on the United States (pp1-285).....
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872. Maps and illustrations, spine damaged, hinge starting, previous owner's name, internally clean.
Waco, TX: AMA Graphics, 1983. [iv], 148pp, illus. Owner's name on ffep, edgewear to the dust jacket, else near fine. The San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway Company was chartered on August 28, 1884, to connect San Antonio with Aransas Bay, a distance of 135 miles. The line built additional.....
Bakersfield, CA: Kern County Historical Society, 1953. viii, 112, illus, folding map. A couple of nicks from the slightly soiled dj, else near fine. A biography of Edward Kern (1823-1863), an artist-scientist who spent his short career on government explorations including Fremont's third and fourth expeditions.
Toronto: George N. Morang & Company, Ltd.;, 1901. One of 700, numbered (#137/700)and signed by the editor. xxxv, 347pp, illus, 2 folding maps. Some wear to the exterior including minor loss of paper to the title label on the spine. Internally very good. Alexander Henry (1739-1824) fought in the French.....
London: T. Gillet, 1807. First edition. xii, 602pp, 27 aquatint plates (6 folding), folding map. Rebound in handsome full leather. The extended title continues, ÒContaining a Description of the Picturesque Scenery on Some of the River and Lakes; with an Account of the Productions, Commerce, and Inhabitants of Those Provinces.....
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1937. 274pp, illus. No dj, else a clean, tight copy. A posthumous (Bandelier died in 1914) collaboration of two of the most prominent early anthropologists. In two parts, the first The Rio Grande Pueblos Today by Hewett, the second a Documentary History of the.....
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1945. Slightly soiled and worn price clipped dust jacket, else very good. 182pp, illus, 2 folding maps. Book clean and very good. A concise summary of what was known about the Pueblo way of life.
Ottawa: C.H. Parmelee, 1913. x, 632pp, 3 folding maps. Red cloth, externally worn with fading and spotting, one of the folding maps has an old tape repair that has stained through, otherwise good. consists of entries from Hodge's Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin.....
New York: Museum of the American Indian/Heye Foundation;, 1923. 37pp, plates. Original printed wrappers. Minor library stamps, else very good. A report on the excavation of two kivas near, but apparently not associated with, the ancient pueblo of Hawikuh.
NY: Hurd & Houghton, 1877. 1st edition. Original boards, extremities worn, smudge of some sort to spine, interior clean, generally very good. Inscribed and signed by the author.
NY: Hurd and Houghton, 1877. Frontis, 273pp, map. Original cloth, light wear to extremities, else a bright, near fine copy. Inscribed and signed by the author. In the late 1870's as the Southern Pacific neared the raw territory of Arizona, boosters published several accounts describing the area and its potential.....
Lubbock, TX: Texas Technological College, 1936. Small softcover, very good. Scientific Series, Bulletin No. 2.