Pasadena, California (USA): Trail's End Publishing Company, 1948. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Near-perfect maroon boards (9.25" x 6.25" x 1.25") with the tiniest little ding to top rear corner, and a quite modest shelf bump to bottom of spine. Bright gilt lettering. Pictorial endpapers from a 1901 painting by Russell... More
Vancouver, WA: The Write Stuff, 1984. Second Edition. Hardcover. Tall hardback (4to) in red boards, with gilt lettering and illustration; 400 pages; B&W photos throughout. Clean, tight, unmarked; corners gently bumped. More
Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Printed by The Gorham Press. 359 pages, index. Frontis, 15 illustrations. Red cloth with embossed design to cover, spine titles gilt. Corners sharp, textblock square. Cover bright. Octavo. In pictorial dust jacket which shows wear at head and tail of spine. Jacket... 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
Oakland, California: Grahame H. Hardy, 1949. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Limited edition of 950 copies, boldly signed by both authors on limitation page. Decorations by E.S. Hammack, including fabulous endpapers, and lettering and maps by Frederic Shaw. Chart at rear lists date about individual locomotives, and cars of the Virginia... More
1973: Johnson Publishing Company, Boulder, Colorado. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Light brown cloth over boards, with black lettering to front board and spine. 171 pp. Just a hint of rubbing to extremities. SIGNED "With My Best Wishes / Ruth Beebe" on front free endpaper.Previous owner's address label. Pioneer and homesteading reminiscences of... 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
CHICAGO, ILL: Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons, 1959. Hardcover. Fur trade, navigation, buffalo hunting, Fort Atkinson, A Sioux Raid, Indian Hostilities. 461 pp. Navy blue cloth. More
![KINO'S HISTORICAL MEMOIR OF PIMERIA ALTA: A CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNT OF THE BEGINNINGS OF CALIFORNIA, SONORA, AND ARIZONA, BY FATHER EUSEBIO FRANCISCO KINO, S.J., PIONEER MISSIONARY EXPLORER, CARTOGRAPHER, AND RANCHMAN, 1683 - 1711 [TWO VOLUMES]. Herbert Eugene Bolton, Eusebio Kino, Father, translated.](/pictures/thumb/75055.jpg?v=1525215351)
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
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1946. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 300 copies, Second commission of The Book Club of California by The L.D Allen Press. 38 pages plus 29 page facsimile of the Diary. Introduction and notes by George R. Stewart. Small octavo. White cloth boards over patterned... More
Berkeley, Ca: University of California Press, 1949. Second Edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. 9.25" x 6.50" x 1.875". Midnight blue cloth covered boards, with gilt lettering. Photo frontis of the Field Party of 1864, and 25 other illustrations, both photos and drawings. 583 pp., including index. Preface by Russell H. Chittenden. More
NEW YORK: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. Second Printing. Hardcover. Bright, tight orange paper over boards, with burnished red spine, gilt-lettered. Remainder dot to bottom edge, and bump to rear corner. "Moving beyond the popular stereotype of Smith as a colorful fraud, the book explores the inner workings of his personality... More
New York: D. Appleton, 1893. Hardcover. Deep burgundy, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and gilt ornate design to spine and front. Mylar protected boards. 250 pp with historical notes on Vancouver, the Oregon Trail, Governor Stevens, Seattle the Chief, and Whitman's Ride for Oregon told in verse at end of... More
Portland, OR: Binford & Mort, 2001. Hardcover. STATED FIRST EDITION., 1180 pp. Glossy pictorial cover. No dustjacket as issued. Very light creasing to glossy cover, and a bit of finger smudging to lower corner edge, from flipping the pages. SIGNED by all three authors on title page. A massive undertaking... More
Portland, OR: Binford & Mort, 2001. Hardcover. 1180 pp. Glossy pictorial cover. No dustjacket as issued. AS NEW, still in publisher's plastic. A massive undertaking -- nothing short of a labor of love --, this book "had its genesis in the publication of the Oregon Cemetery Survey...which was the first... More
Cambridge, Mass. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. FIRST EDITION (NAP). Hardcover. Octavo. Brick-Red boards. Top edge orange, fore-edge and bottom edges deckled. A few spots to fore-edge, and some faint spotting to rear dj panel. and a small faint stain to front free endpaper A wee bit of edgewear to dustjacket... More
BOSTON, MASS: Charles H. Whiting, 1884. FIRST U.S. EDITION. Paperback. 32 pp. Pamphlet consisting of three separate articles: THE INDIAN QUESTION: AN ADDRESS; THE RELIGION OF THE DAKOTA INDIANS; THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE PHIL KEARNEY MASSACRE. 2 foldout maps at rear: Carrington's Outline of Indian Operations on The Plains... More
Yosemite Valley, California: Self Published, 1904. Chris. Jorgensen. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo (7" x 5"). Light brown cloth-covered boards, with dark brown design, and letting to front board, and title/author to spine. Photo frontis by Taber of author. Presentation copy ("Presented to ______by the Author, Jan. 27, 1905") to front... More
Fresno, CA: Doubleday and Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Light marking to head and tail, and sunning to dustjacket spine. Clean, tight, and bright! More
Gelcour Books, 2012. Paperback. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. Originally titled JOY OF THE BIRDS. 585 pp. of text, PLUS 60 pp. "Resources" section. Originally entitled (in first two editions) "Joy of The Birds" The author, a Harvard-trained Psychiatrist, has done the most exhaustive research of any latter... 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
Berkeley: University of California, Extension Division, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Unpaginated. Text consists of 251 pages of individual illustrations with accompaning text. White cloth over green boards. Oblong quarto. Titles in gilt on cover, and green on spine. Corners bumped, some fading to cover titles. Front hinge reinforced, text clean... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. One of 400 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles. xvii,124 pages. Frontis portrait of Craven, three color plates. Blue cloth wih gilt decoration on front, spine titles in gilt. Quarto. Corners lightly nudged, textblock square. Interior clean... More
NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, 1885. 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 wrap around entire spine... More
