Reno: Reno Printing Co, 1948. Paperback. Signed by author on front free end paper. 1 inch mostly closed tear to bottom of spine. Thumbing to top and bottom corners. First 4 pages slightly bent. Some minor creasing to front cover. 53 pp. More
San Francisco, CA: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1927. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. 4to. Green cloth, ruled in blind. Rubbing to extremities and corners nudged, but solidly bound. More
Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press, 1983. Hardcover. 12mo. Deep chocolate-brown cloth-covered boards. 443 pp. plus 7-pp list of the Lakeside Classics. Black and white illustrations. 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
Palo Alto, CA: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Beautifully bound in red cloth boards, with gilt decoration to cover, and gilt lettering to spine. Includes foldout maps of Indian war region in Arizona, and a map of the western states (Oregon, Washington, California, and part of Nevada, and Idaho)..... 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
Eugene, Oregon: Industrial Publishing Co, 1971. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Paperback. Very minor wear to extremities, including minor creasing to spine. 121 pp. including index. Illustrated with black and white photographs. RIDDLE PIONEERS REMEMBERED IN JOHN M. CORNUTT'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. More
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1893. Limited Edition. Hardcover. NOTE: Mixed Set. Three text volumes and one map volume. The final volume (IV), which comprises the index and contains in a rear flap the three called-for folding maps, is a foundling from a different set, long, diaspora'd so long, their..... 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
NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, 1915. Reprint. Hardcover. Elizabeth ("Libby") Custer's memoirs of her adventurous life with the late General George Armstrong Custer. Tan Cloth with brown lettering featuring design of kneeling soldiers with bayonets. Shelfwear and lightly bumped lower corners. Several light stains and a small ding to rear..... More
Georgetown, California: Talisman Press, 1964. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 75 copies with this being numbered 63 and signed by the editor on the colophon page. 258 pages, index. Two plates, text illustration. Endpaper maps, Quarter linen cloth over illustrated gray boards. Quarto. Cover titles in black with red toned..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press. 1932. First edition. Number 4 of the Grabhorn Rare American Series. 47 pages. Frontis reprint of lithograph of Yerba Buena in 1837. Green cloth spine over marbled boards with paper label to spine and front upper board. Endsheets..... More
Washington DC: Wendell and Van Benthuysen, 1848. First Edition. Hardcover. Handsomely reound into two full black leather bindings with spine titles in gilt -- book in one, wall map in the other. 416 pages. 40 plates (includes 26 plates of scenery, 14 plates of botany by Endicott). Three sketch maps..... 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
Eugene, Oregon: Western Printers, 1991. Paperback. Robert T. Fitch writes down the good and funny things that happened to him and his family when they lived in a homestead just west of Silver Lake, Oregon. Very minor fanning to pages. Mild wear to corners, bottom of title page dog-eared. Previous..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, [1878] 1960. Freed, Ernest. Limited Edition. Hardcover. LIMITED EDITION. 1 / 450. Some foxing to head and tail. Prospectus laid - in. Original plain paper dustjacket. Light soiling to jacket. Engravings by Ernest Freed. 10 5/8 x 7 1/4". 121 pp. Clean, bright, tight..... More
Georgetown, California USA: Talisman Press, 1967. Limited , Signed Edition). Hardcover. 4to (9.25" x 6.25" x 2.0"). Quarter-bound in black leather over marbled-pattern boards. One of 250 copies printed in a special edition on what appears to be 32# laid bond, in buff. This copy is UNNUMBERED, and I suspect..... More
Gregory, SD: Gregory Times-Advocate, 1977. Second Edition. Paperback. SIGNED. Staplebound. Very light edgewear and shelfwear. Lower corner slightly thumbed. A faint crease up halfway, and a few lines (3" or less) impressed to front cover, likely from a bookend. Light sunning and a dime-sized spot to spine. A tiny bit..... More
Albequerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1968. Hardcover. Two small closed tears to dust jacket, with some wear to extremities. Book itself has very minor rubbing to extremities. Illustrated with numerous black and white images throughout, depicting various elements of the New Mexican life in the 19th century, including illustrations of..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies printed by the L-D Allen Press. 97 pages. Green cloth over decorated boards with spine tiles. Corners sharp, boards bright. Tall octavo. Offsetting to half of front endpaper, otherwise clean. In original fragile paper jacket with..... More
Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1900. John L. Cassidy. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering. One leaf with illustration (no text) detached but present. Signed by author to front free endpaper and dated August 8, 1900. Bookplate from Alta California Bookstore: "From the Library of Ed Grabhorn at the..... More
San Francisco, CA: Harr Wagner Publishing Company, 1926. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Book in good condition with stains to cover, two small shelf-dents to top of book, corners nudged, pages slightly rippled, tidelines throughout (no mustiness or mold). Contains several songs about the Sierra Mountains, as well as illustrations throughout..... 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
