Custer in Texas: An Interrupted Narrative.
NY: Sol Lewis and Liveright, 1975. 1st ed., signed, light shelfwear else very good in blue cloth. No dj as issued?
NY: Sol Lewis and Liveright, 1975. 1st ed., signed, light shelfwear else very good in blue cloth. No dj as issued?
Santa Fe: Writers' Editions, 1936. Writers' Editions1st edition, vg hardcover in sl browned dj.
Santa Fe, NM: (Rydal) Writers' Editions, 1933. 1st ed., 1/250 copies, signed, near fine in near fine cloth lacking dj.
Houston: Clark Book Co., 1963. First edition, vi, 317pp. No dj, spine faded, else very good hardcover. Just what it says, beginning in 6,000 BC with Noah smearing the Ark with bitumen, and with an extensive index.
Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1870. vii, 232, [11-advts], large folding map. Slight wear to extremities and fading to spine, front hinge reinforced, else very good. A promotional for land in the northwest thinly disguised as a first person travelogue. Coffin describes mostly the riches of Minnesota and Dakota but.....
Lincoln, NE: The Nebraska State Historical Society, 1899. ix, 423pp, illus. Original boards. External staining probably mildew, internally clean. Although he had little Indian blood, William Walker (1800-1874) was a member of the Wyandot tribe and devoted much of his life to the interests of his people. He was well.....
Washington, DC: Friends of the Land, 1941. Hardcover, smoke and water damage, else good.
San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1948. 1st edition. 1 of 400. (x), 97pp, 7 facsimile documents tipped in. Cloth, no dust jacket, spine title chipped and slightly discolored, some pages stained, else tight and very good. Previous owner's name on ffep. A history of the United States District Court for.....
NY: Kirk & Mercein, 1819. 228pp, lxiii, index, 3 folding maps (only one in some copies). Rebound in quarter leather, moderate foxing, else very good. In a series of letters, William Darby (1775-1854), who describes himself as a member of the New-York Historical Society, chronicles his journey up the Hudson.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1933. Illus., sl. fading to spine, blemish on rear board, else near fine. Issued without dj. Printed by Grabhorn Press, a reprint of 1901 of which only two or three copies are known. Dawson was of the 1841 Bidwell-Bartleson party that crossed to California. An important.....
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1937. xiv, 240pp, illus. Limited ed. of 1/500 copies, edited by Francis P. Farquhar. Shelfwear and light soiling, prev. owner's nameplate on fpd, else very good. Derby was a Topographical Engineer and a veteran of the Mexican War who was stationed in California during the later.....
Butte,MT: McKee Printing Company, 1929. Seventh printing. 269pp, illus. Boards, extremities rubbed, pages browned, previous owner's signature(of prominent western writer A. B. Guthrie, Jr.) to ffep, bookseller's stamp, withal very good. A classic study of outlawry in the Rockies by one who was there. One of many later printings, still.....
New York: Charles Scribner, 1863. 192pp, illus, folding map. Original boards, some rubbing and internal browning. The binding is tight and the folding map crisp. The subtitle reads in its entirety (deep breath), "Embracing a full description of Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario; Rivers St. Mary, St. Clair.....
Waco, TX: Bernice Dittmer, 1970. Signed by author on ffep, fine hardcover in fine dj.
El Paso: The Church of St. Clement, 1970. xv, 322pp, illus. "Centennial Edition", #24/25 copies, signed by the author, gilt edged, leather bound, silk pastedowns and ffeps, near fine.
New York: Argosy Antiquarian, Ltd., 1964. Limited to 1/750 copies, hardcover, n. fine w/o dj as issued.
Baltimore: I. & M. Ottenheimer, Publishers, 1911. frontis, 182pp, [8, advts]. Pictorial wraps. Pages browned and brittle, small chips from front wrap. One of many dime novels that were issued on the James gang. Right off let's establish that this pulp outlaw book is pretty much worthless as far as.....
NY: Edward's Monthly, 1860. [53]-604pp, illus. Full leather with decorative gilt embossing. Expertly recased with original boards and spine, new endpapers, aeg. There is a presentation from Edwards to the Governor of Missouri dated Dec. 24, 1860. A history centering on St. Louis, but with much on the fur trade.....
Albuquerque, NM: Calvin Horn Publisher, Inc., 1972. 1st ed., inscribed by author on title page, prev. owner's name sticker on flap of dj, else vg in vg dj.
np: Colorado Associated University Press, 1972. 1st ed., near fine in edgworn dj. A photographic essay on the surviving structures of Auraria, CO.
Denver: Golden Bell Press, 1966. [xvi], 446pp, illus. Slight soil to dj, else near fine. An account of cattle in Chaffee County, Custer County, El Paso County, Fremont County, Gunnison County, Jefferson Territory, Lake County, Park County, Pitkin County, & Saguache County from 1860 to 1966.
Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1980. 173pp, illus. Plain white dust wrapper soiled and worn, book near fine. Story of the civilian attempt to use bactrian (two humped as opposed to the single humped dromedaries used by the military) camels in western America. Clark and Brunet 88...
Philadelphia: H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss, 1857. 300pp, illus. Original embossed boards, second free end paper removed, some internal foxing, overall very good. Several biographies of frontiersmen known and unknown along with stories of battles, Indian captivities, and chapters on frontierswomen. No author is named, but several sources attribute.....
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1961. Slipcase slightly rubbed, volumes near fine. Prescott was the first American to win international acclaim as a historian with The Conquest of Mexico and other works. These are his notebooks, edited with an introduction, giving insight into the history writing process.
Chicago: W. Jos Grand, 1901. 2nd edition, enlarged and revised. 362pp, viii (advts), illus. Recased with original boards and new endpapers. Extremities rubbed and boards faded, internally clean and very good. An early, interesting account of the yards describing characters and practices. Herd 915, Reese 120-48...