London: Norroena Society, 1906. 1st edition, 176 pp. pages foxed, binding shaken, generally very good. Mostly a translation of the Flateyjarbok, a Norse saga supposedly describing settlement in the new world. The Vatican documents describe priestly proselytizing among the natives. In addition to the translation there is a facsimile of.....
N/P: N/P, 1935. 2 volumes in original paperback editions, mimeographed on one side, tie binding. Edgewear, short tear to one wrap, else very good. Stated part of the SERA project.
NY: Grossett & Dunlap, Publishers, 1911 , 1920. 2 novels in one volume, small original bookshop sticker on ffep, else good - no dj.
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1978. Hardcover, TEG, very slight shelfwear, else very good.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979. pp. xii, 827, illus. Thick, oblong quarto. Near fine in slipcase. A massive history of urban planning on the frontier. Reps' argument is that rather than being produced by random growth, western towns were carefully planned and that they preceded agriculture as the driving.....
Atchison, KS: 1889. frontis, 255pp. Spine lightly faded, slightly cocked, previous owner's name on front ffep, possibly original owner, dated 1889 and original bookstore stamp on fpd, else a very good copy. Reynolds spent sixteen months in residence at the Kansas State Penitentiary for fraud and this is his account.....
Denver: Mrs. Martha Ripley, 1914. 471pp, illus. Original cloth. Some external wear, name on ffep, else very good. The extended title goes on, "A Story of Pioneer Life on the Western Slope of Colorado." A fictionalized account of western emigration.
Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1857. First edition.312pp, illus, 2 folding maps, [xii advts]. Original embossed cloth. Light edgewear, minor foxing, remarkably near fine with the gilt spine title and cover emblem still bright. This is the scarce first edition of an emigrant guide to Wisconsin, then only nine years a state.....
Denver: Hart Publications Inc.;, 1984. [vi], 210pp, illus. Near fine in a very good dj. A history of oil exploration and exploitation in the Rocky Mountains through the 1970's when the oil crisis pushed the price of crude to the unheard of heights of $34 a barrel. With company histories.....
NY: Sheldon & Company, 1877. Later edition, with the addition of an index. 515pp, illus, folding map. Original printed boards. Extremities worn, internally clean and very good. In 1866 Rusling, a brevet Brigadier-General, was commanded to conduct a rigorous inspection of Army posts in California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington and Arizona.....
Forth Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum, 1970. 1st ed. hardcover, vg in sl. edgeworn, else vg dj. The Title says it all.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902. 192pp, illus, folding map. Newly bound in cloth. Internally clean and near fine. USGS Bulletin No. 199. The area surveyed is in southern Idaho, west and south of Yellowstone National Park.
London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 1852. [vi], 296, [iv]pp, illus. First UK edition, some browning, boards worn, else good hardcover. Howes P502.
Nashville, TN: Cumberland Press, 1905. Hardcover, hinge starting, foxing on edges, edgeworn, else good.
San Francisco: Nueva California Press, 1934. Limited to 1,000 copies, printed by Lawton R. Kennedy at the Nueva California Press. Frontis, [iv], 124pp. Slight edgewear and fading to dj, offsetting from a newspaper clipping to front pastedown and end paper, else unopened and near fine. Palou was Serra's companion and.....
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1929. First edition softcover in original printed wrappers. Edges of wraps frayed, internally clean and largely unopened. Spine binding strengthened, unsightly but, boy, is it ever strong.
Austin: Encino Press, 1970. xii, 297pp, illus. One of a signed, numbered edition of 250 bound in 3/4 leather. Near fine in a slipcase. The Sims family moved to Texas in the 1880Õs and young Orland grew up helping on the ranch and tending his fathers store. As a state.....
Boston: A.D. Aldridge & Co., 1893. 1st edition hardcover, original printed boards, somewhat worn and spotted. Binding fragile but intact, internally clean and very good. A curious collection of essays and poetry by two Texas "literary ladies."
Chicago: 1917. 302pp, illus. Extremities rubbed, interior clean, a very good copy. The wobbly view of labor violence in the northwest.
Columbia, MO: Frank Glenn Publishing Company, 1950. Facsimile edition, vg hardcover in illustrated boards. Rittenhouse "SFT" 529, Howes S-805, Wagner 309, Graff 3917, Rader 2959.
Denver: Big Mountain Press, 1959. DJ somewhat soiled with minor loss at top and bottom of spine, else very good. Stories of the people who were "in on the beginning" of the mining camp.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. 1st edition hardcover, interior near fine, DJ sl rubbed else vg.
Terre Haute: The Inland Publishing Company, 1897. 76pp, folding map. Cloth covered boards with some external wear, binding tight, internally clean and very good. A straightforward history of New Mexico directed at school children.
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965. Two volumes. 325pp, map; 323pp, map. A couple of short tears to the dust jackets, else near fine. Ford: "In these two volumes, Terrell tells the full history of the importance of water in the West and the desire of the many individuals.....
Oakland: Thompson & West, 1881. 680pp, illus. Rebound in quarter leather, it appears that the rebinder attempted to stain the edges, the effect being uneven with slight bleeding, one page with an old tape repair, another with a couple of places of lost paper not effecting the text, overall a......