Ogden: Aug. 21, 1879. Engraved ads. 4 pages. News includes an Indian attack on a Washington ranch and a barbarous attack by Ogden boys on a robin's nest, "the kind of material of which robbers and assassins are made." Wonderful & early piece of Western Americana.
Columbus, OH: Ward Brothers, n.d. [@1890]. First Edition. Hardcover. Decorative green cloth, bound accordion style, 5" x 6". Illustrated with 46 views on 14 pages.
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. One of 250 copies, this unnumbered. Unopened and never bound, present here in loose signatures, one of apparently only 5 copies thus. Posthumously published musings by the Thoreau of the American West. The introduction to this personal selection of journal entries was.....
(Mansfield Centre): (M. Martino), [1999]. Reprint. Octavo. 432 pages. This is an expanded edition of the bibliography of Arizona books compiled in 1900 by J.A. Monk and revised in 1908. It is a complete record to date of the Munk Library of Arizoniana, the pioneer collection of literature dealing with.....
Chicago: American Photogravure Co., 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (9-3/4" x 12") in broken publisher's gilt-decorated leather-backed cloth; 16 pages of text and 65 full-page photogravure plates with tissue guards. From the unidentified author's preface: "To fully illustrate the many beautiful spots to be found in Los Angeles County .......
Chicago & Duluth: The Duluth Press Publishing Company, (1899). First Edition. Hardcover. Original maroon cloth with a buffalo head embossed in blind on the front cover; (xiv), 296 pages. Illustrated with plates after sketches and photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the subject on the half-title page: "With the Compliments/of the.....
(Toronto)/London: The Macmillan Company/Collier-Macmillan, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book, a depiction of the historical and modern struggles of Native Americans and an examination of the stereotypes and half-truths persistent through the decades. A classic of modern Native American Literature.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852. Seth Eastman. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-1/4") bound in the original full embossed burgundy morocco leather with a gilt decorative figure in the center of both covers. Neatly rebacked at a recent date with a new leather spine. Most notable for the.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1854]. Seth Eastman. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound in the publisher's gilt-decorated gray cloth, all edges gilt. Illustrated with 21 fine steel-engraved plates, mainly of the Sioux and the Pueblo, after Seth Eastman, the author's husband and one of the finest artists of.....
New York: Viking, (1985). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book of essays, a wonderful exploration of Western life and landscape. Acclaimed by Abbey, Dillard, Hoagland, and many others.
(Mansfield Centre): (M. Martino), [2000]. Reprint. Reprint of the 1948 edition. Cloth; xii, 104 pages. Farquhar has assembled the most complete private library on the mountain regions of the Far West. From this collection he has selected 25 titles of major importance, either in their value as source material or.....
Santa Fe: Rydal Press, (1948). Wilfred Stedman. First Edition. Hardcover. Second printing. With articles by Dobie, Vestal, and others. Illustrated by Wilfred Stedman.
New York: Greeley and M'Elrath, 1856. First Edition. Pamphlet. Pamphlet in self wraps; 32 pages. Illustrated with a portrait of Fremont taking more than the first half of the front page and two full-page engravings. A short life of Fremont from his early childhood to his presidential nomination in 1856.....
Boston: Little & Brown, 1845. Second Edition. Blue wraps. Blue wraps, complete with half-title page; [20] 492 pages. Graff 1652; Howes G-389; New Howes G-386 "b": "Leading contemporary authority, well documented"; Sabin 28362. The important edition with Greenhow's answer to Falconer's Strictures. The large (22-3/4" x 25-1/2" plus margins) folding.....
Boston: Desmond Publishing Company, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Thick octavo in publisher's decorated cloth; 555, [5] pages. A detailed guide for gold seekers in the Yukon describing how to get there and what to do once you are there. Profusely illustrated.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1861. First Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto (8-3/4" x 11-3/4") in original gilt-decorated cloth, rebacked with the original spine and a new spine label; 131, 154, 30, 32 pages. Illustrated with 12 (of 14) views, 8 color plates, 8 folding panoramas, 3 paleontology plates, 2 large folding.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #1175 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #887 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #333 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. Edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good historical introduction by John Bakeless. Illustrated.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1962. Carl Bodmer. Hardcover. Two quarto volumes (7-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in decorated parchment-toned buckram with a map design in sepia and leather spine labels hand-lettered and stamped in pure gold leaf. This is copy #457 of 1500 edited by Nicholas Biddle with a good.....
First Edition. Hardcover. Folio (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") consisting of 53 pages numbered to 54 (one page contains two numbers) on lined yellow paper with a few additions at the end on white paper pasted to the yellow pages with a calligraphic title page facing a photographic reproduction of Miller. Bound.....
(San Francisco): Book Club of California, 1969. Plates. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Cloth-backed decorated boards Accounts of two midshipmen's experiences in early California, including Simpkinson's previously unpublished account.and Belcher's surveying voyage on the Sulphur to Russian America (Alaska), Sandwich Islands (Hawaii), San Francisco California and to Central America, originally published.....
New York: Holt Rinehart Winston, (1967). First Edition. cloth. Small folio (9-1/4" x 12") with numerous color illustrations. The journals and paintings of this Catholic missionary are here printed for the first time. A beautifully illustrated book.
