Santa Barbara, CA: McNally and Loftin, 1966. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Small (7" x 4 1/4") , greyish-blue cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering to front board and spine. INtroduction by Governor Edmund G. Brown. Plus essays on California State politics, America's Food Basket; Agriculture, Water, Higher Education, Beauty, Crime and..... More
Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1919. First Edition. Leather_bound. Complete in two volumes. Volume I: 379 pages; Volume II: 329 pages including index. Frontis map to Volume I and large foldout map at end of Volume II. Half brown leather over brown boards with leather corners. Five raised bands to..... More
London, England: Published by the Author at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841. George Catlin. Second State. Leather-bound. Quartos. Recent brick-red half-morocco over marbled boards (10" x 6 3/4"). Title page reads "With four hundred illustrations carefully engraved from his original paintings", but because some are missing (Howes notes which, with..... More
Portland, OR: J.K. Gill, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. Tall octavos, gray cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Corners nudged or bumped, a few spots to covers, numbered paper label pasted down to spines. 729 total pages. With stamp of Northwest novelist and poet Elizabeth Lambert Wood to endpapers..... More
Gelcour Books, 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. "A definitive study of the written and spoken legacy of the Old West icon, William H. Bonney, aka Billy The Kid, and includes pertinent period documents. 470 pp. of text, PLUS another 100 pp. of Resources, Appendices including photos of Bonney's correspondence..... More
Gelcour Books, 2012. Second Edition. Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Second Edition. legacy of the Old West icon, William H. Bonney, aka Billy The Kid, and includes pertinent period documents. 633 pp. of text, PLUS another 70 pp. listing sources consulted, and including a full annotated bibliography..... More
NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Second Issue. Hardcover. Second Issue, with frontis portrait of General George Custer and ouline map of Montana and Dakota. (Howes, 980, p. 146). Brown cloth with lovely gilt and black design to front board, including Sunrise, (Sun's rays ruled in gilt which then, though faded..... More
Denver, Colorado: The Old West Publishing Company, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth, octavo. Spine decoration and titles in gilt. Faded water-glass ring stain on front cover, some flaking to spine decoration and otherwise bright titles. Textblock square, corners nudged, binding tight. xcv,365 pages including index. Frontis, Foldout map, map..... More
Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1893. FIRST EDITION. Leather_bound. A massive (1300 pp. 11.5" x 9.75" x 2.5" ) and exhaustive popular history of The State of Oregon covering Topography, Geology, Climate, Indians, Earliest Discoveries, Overland Explorations, Rival Claims, First American Settlement, Missions, Immigrations, Provisional Government, The Territorial Era, Statehood..... More
La Grande, OR: Union Historical Society, 1961. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Hardcover, octavo. lightly marbled peach cloth binding, Binding is square and solid, edges are clean. Previous owner's name inked neatly on front free endpaper. a charming 16" x 20" folded map laid in, entitled "An Historical Map of Union..... More
Boston, Mass: True & Greene, 1824. Leather-bound. Full calf (Originally issued in green card wraps), with contrasting red leather title label. Front cover detached. 1/2 " chip with leather missing, to head of spine. Age spotting to first 35 pages or so. 229,+ 10 (Appendix). pp. Appears untrimmed, with nice..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. xxvii, 771 pages. Color frontis, 31 plates. Blue cloth wih gilt design of gold pan, pick and shovel on cover, spine titles in gilt on black background with gilt border. Large thick octavo. Nice bright cover with very light..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Tan cloth-covered spine over brown boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Faded reddish topstain. Corners just a wee bit nudged. Rear hinge exposes just a inch or two of mull, but binding is solid and strong. "This memoir..... More
New York: Edward Eberstadt, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume I: xx,346, Volume II: 333 pages. 30 plates [including frontis to each volume], two foldout maps. Edited by Seymour Dunbar with notes to Owen's text by Paul C. Phillips. Red cloth, octavos. Corners bumped, spines rubbed. Volume 2 has small tear..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. 290 pages. Appendix, index. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed on the colophon page by Ed Grabhorn and dated April 1939. Frontis color maps, 27 maps including color. Text drawings. Vellum spine over brown boards. Quarto. Spine titles in gilt. Corners sharp, boards..... More
Denver, Colorado: Big Mountain Press, 1959. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. 8vo. Yellow cloth-covered boards with dark brown lettering to front board and spine. Dustjacket, torn, with large sections missing laid in at front of book. Book itself sharp and clean, with hardly any evidence of use. Detailed map endpapers. Two..... More
