Chicago, IL: A. W. BOWEN & CO., circa 1902. Leather-bound. Massive quarto, full brown stamped morocco with bright gilt lettering to spine.11 1/4 in. x 9 1/4 in. x 4 1/2 in. 1886 pp. Lovely floriated light-upon-dark green endpapers, with two little scratches. Previous owner's name and date (Nov. 16..... More
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
Bend, Oregon: Maverick Publications, 1992. HARDCOVER. First Edition. Chapters on The establishment of the Wallowa County Schools, Academies, Wallowa County School Superintendents, Teachers' Institutes, Wallowa County High School, Schools of Wallowa County, followed by an extensive bibliography, a key to illustrations, maps and an index. Tons of photos. Three corners..... 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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Olive green cloth over boards, with Harper and Brothers embossed initials/logo to lower front right corner. Thin brown stain to bottom of rear board. Very light rubbing to corners. Map endpapers (Cascades to front, Wallowas to rear). Shelfwear to..... 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
San Francisco, CA: John Henry Nash, [1839] 1937. Reprint. Hardcover. Tall Quarto , covered in elaborately marbled boards of brown, orange, red and silver, with fine-printed spine label. No jacket. First published in London in 1839, by Smith, Elder and Co., Master printer John Henry Nash undertook a project to..... More
Buffalo, New York: Geo. H. Derby and Co., 1851. Later printing. Leather-bound. Calf boards, rebacked in smooth calf, with contrasting spine labels, gilt-lettered, with five raised bands, and the date gilt stamped in the 6th (bottom) compartment. The choice of leather seems conscious with numerous scratches and imperfections (esp. rear..... 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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1907] 1914. George Bird Grinnell (Photographs). First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Original red pictorial cloth, octavo. Cover has decorative Indian design of a buffalo skin, and a bird design on spine. Corners nudged, light wear to head and tail of spine as usual, a couple of thin..... 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
