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
Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1924. L. Maynard Dixon. 26th edition. Hardcover. Octavo, 5 in. x 7.5 in ., Brick red buckram cover with gilt lettering on front and spine. Cover has green/black drawing of canoe reflecting on the water. Very slight rubbing to bottom corners and bottom of..... 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
Baltimore, Maryland: Wirth Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. (10 in. x 6 1/2 in.) Staplebound pamphlet. Stain, sunning and sticker-scar to front panel. Frontis portrait of Mr. Wilson, from a miniature on ivory. Illustrated with photographs on glossy paper. Unpaginated. These letters cover Peter Wilson's enlistment as Second Lieutenant..... More
Eugene, OR: Rachel Weinstein Business Service, 1971. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo, 5.5 x 8.4 in., pp. 121, Signed and dated 1971 by author on title page. Cream linen paper binding, with historic photo and black titling on cover; black titling on spine. Some age-browning to covers' edges and spine; small..... More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION. Hardcover. Volume I ONLY (of 4), Octavo, 6.25" x 9.5", cxxxii + 352 p., Dark green buckram boards and gilt lettering on spine. Deckle-edged. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Meriwether Lewis and two fold-out fascimile letters of Lewis. Light rubbing to..... 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
Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1943. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo. Slate blue cloth-covered boards, with navy blue image to front board and navy blue lettering to spine. Very slight sunning to spine. Map endpapers. Author's signature in ink to verso of front free endpaper. 316 pp. Shelf- and edge-wear..... 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
New York: G. P. Putnams's Sons, 1921. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo. Navy blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Paste on photo of bucking rodeo pony with rider astride. A bit of shelfwear to boards, and moderate rubbing to extremities to front board, several corners..... 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
Chicago, Illinois: Warner, Beers & Company, 1885. Leather-bound. Quarto, maroon half-leather over pebbled cloth, ruled in gilt chain. Recently spruced up by our professional conservator. Rubbing from old label residue to front pastedown endpaper. Interior solid and intact, including foldout territorial map. Massive and comprehensive history of Montana Territory expanded..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. Frank Marryat. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Brown stampled cloth-over-board covers with lettering to spine, now faded. Rebacked with cloth from original spine laid down. Front hinge started, but binding tight. 27 full-page or in-text engravings by the author. "...Marryat was one of the first..... More
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1926. First Edition. hardcover. Octavo, vi. 349 p. Orange-brown boards with black titling and image of three cowboys on horses on front board. Boards show light staining from hand use. Some sunning to spine. Corners show bumping. Book has some skew but..... More
Palo Alto, California: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Blue, cloth-covered boards (10 in. x 8 in.) with gilt lettering to spine. 56 pp. including Bibliography. Limited to 1400 copies.Small indentation to bottom of front board. Small smudge to first page of Mr. Stewart's Foreword. Housed in plain, grey..... 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
