My Life with the Army in the West; The Memoirs of James E. Farmer 1858-1898.
Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1967. Frontis, 83pp. Limited edition, 1/750, signed by Jack Rittenhouse, near fine hardcover in slightly faded dust jacket.
Santa Fe: Stagecoach Press, 1967. Frontis, 83pp. Limited edition, 1/750, signed by Jack Rittenhouse, near fine hardcover in slightly faded dust jacket.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1908. xi, 255pp. Original boards, remains of a paper label on spine, extremities rubbed, some surface soil, else very good. This is the fifth and concluding volume of the Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology series. Not a periodical, the JAEA was the collected papers of.....
Globe, AZ: The Medallion, 1934. Printed softcover. Covers soiled and chipped, stamp on tp, ugly attempt to obilterate a name on front cover. Interior clean and very good. A discussion of the progression of southwestern prehistoric cultures based on the latest research.
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...
NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1873. 96pp, illus. Full leather with gilt cover and spine title, AEG. Extremities rubbed, ownerÕs inscription on the ffep, one of those ghastly personal blind stamps to the title page, else very good. Born in Ireland, died in France, and best known for her etchings.....
Washington: GPO, 1891. 51st Congress, 2d Session, House of Representatives Ex. Doc. No. 287. 59pp, tables, 8 folding maps. Offprint from a larger document, original printed wrappers. Wraps soiled with a library notation on the front wrap, pages browned, else very good. A detailed report on climatological conditions in New.....
Albuqueque: UNM Press, 1984. 1st ed, signed by Gorman, near fine hardcover in near fine dj.
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1943. xv, 392pp, 157 plates, 10 maps. Boards lightly rubbed, previous owner's bookplate, else very good. Fort Ancient is a name for a Native American culture that flourished from 1000-1650 C.E. among a people who predominantly inhabited land along the Ohio River in.....
New York: Friends of the Earth, Inc., 1971. Hardcover oversize, vg in vg dj.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1906. 108pp, folding map. Limp leather binding. Spine faded, law library stamp on ffep, else clean and very good. Map crisp and bright with a short repaired tear at the gutter. The reports of the territorial governors are a combination of departmental reports, statistical summaries and.....
Lancaster, PA: The American Folk-Lore Society, 1917. Very good.
Bristol: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 1989. 301pp, illus. Near fine in printed wrappers. Examines subarctic Algonquin and Athapaskan arts of the 19th and 20th centuries with modern traditional arts. Essays examine the region and its people, and styles illustrated with 27 color plates and 275 b/w photos...
St. Michaels, AZ: The St. Michaels Press;, 1947. 122pp, illus including 14 colored serigraphs (2 folding). Dust jacket slightly soiled with some edgewear and a smalll chip from the front panel. Good news: with the bookplate of ethnologist Bertha Dutton, thus a nice provenance. Bad news: Bertha wrote in her.....
Canyon: Palo Duro Press, 1972. xxiii, 312pp, illus. Near fine in a like dj. Hamlin was a lawyer and local character in the Texas panhandle who dictated his life to J. Evetts Haley and William Curry Holden who prepared it for publication. It is, according to the subtitle, "The story.....
Canyon, TX: Palo Duro Press, 1972. xxiii, 312pp, illus. Near fine hardcover in very good dust jacket. The story of Amarillo and the development of the great ranches of the Texas Panhandle.
Canyon, TX: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1947. 147pp. Original printed wrappers. Yapp edges of the wraps are slightly worn, else near fine. Floyd County was created in the 1876 orgy of county generation by the Texas legislature. Fifty-four counties were named covering the entire Panhandle, most lacking the population to be.....
Denver: Miles and Dryer, 1929. [x], 122pp, illus. Original embossed boards. Slight rubbing to extremities, else near fine. Presentation inscription from "the Publishers." Dozens of photos of western scenery and the poetry it inspired.
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Co.:, 1884. Third (best - no, really) edition. 414pp, illus (one folding plate), folding map, xiv pages of advts. Original printed boards. Minor shelf wear and internal browning, else very good. The folding map is bright. An early promotional for the territory with information.....
San Francisco: A. L. Bancroft & Company, 1884. Third (best) edition. 414pp, illus (one folding plate), folding map, xiv pages of advts. Original green cloth. Something nibbled on the endpages and edges of the first fifteen or so pages with some loss of paper, not approaching any text, contemporary presentation.....
Washington, DC: The Library Press, 1932. Very good hardcover in original cloth. 6 Guns 908.
New York: Hankins & Son, Publishers, 1868. First edition. 460pp, [xxiv] advts, illus, folding map. Original printed boards. Some soil and wear to extremities with minor loss of cloth on the spine. Binding sound, internally clean, AEG. A conglomeration of local history, fact and fancy, dreams and revelations, and word.....
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.