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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 2010. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. 8vo. 9" x 6". Bound in black boards, with gold lettering to spine. Lower corner slight nudged. Dust jacket in great shape, but has residue from sticker to front. 484 pp. This is a comprehensive biography of Bob Paul, an...
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.
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Los Angeles, California: Artemisia Bindery, 1906. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. LImited, numbered, signed edition [959/1000]. Book lacking spine board, and front board quite loose, but still solidly bound . Photographic frontispiece by Amanda Matthews and Decorations by Ralph Fullerton Mocine. Colophon states "completed on the twenty-second day of November, one thousand...
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...
Fresno, CA: Doubleday and Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Light marking to head and tail, and sunning to dustjacket spine. Clean, tight, and bright!
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
NEW YORK: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. Very Early Issue, with frontis portrait of General George Custer. Bound in light brown cloth with lovely gilt and black design to front board, including sunrise, (Sun's rays ruled in gilt), and gilt bugle with black musical score. Rubbing to extremities, corners nudged, and...
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...
