Madrid. 1819. 94pp. Antique style full calf, gilt. Octavo. Unobtrusive 19th century blind stamp on titlepage. Very good. This sermon was delivered at the memorial service of four missionaries martyred by Yuma Indians on the Colorado River in 1781. "The learned sermon is valuable for its extended notes on the.....
New York. 1884. 197pp. Original gilt cloth. Wear to extremities, else very good. With a long section on the West under "Seeking New Homes."
Washington. 1858. 16pp. Printed on a single folded sheet, untrimmed and unopened. Old folds. Very good. Broderick was a Democratic Senator from California and an anti- slavery advocate. In the bitter fight over the admission of Kansas under the pro-slavery Lecompton constitution, he allied himself with Stephen Douglas and other.....
Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1972. 5-404pp. plus seventeen illustrations. Portrait frontispiece. Original red cloth. Very good. In dust jacket. A biography of Lee that attempts to explain his role as leader in the Mountain Meadows Massacre. With a remarkable chart of Lee's polygamy.
[Austin, Tx. 1905]. [8],258pp. manuscript. Folio. Light soiling, confined primarily to exterior leaves. Some light age toning. With authorial corrections throughout. Very good. In a brown half morocco box. Original draft of the novel, written when Clint Brown was an undergraduate at the University of Texas. Brown's conceit is that.....
Simsbury, Ct. 1923. 180pp. plus seven halftone plates. Stiff pictorial wrappers. Front wrapper previously detached and reaffixed with tape, spine somewhat chipped, corners worn. Occasional foxing. Good plus. An account of a transcontinental trip accomplished with a single horse and buggy. The author set out to prove that he had.....
San Francisco. 1892. 251pp. Illus. Original front wrapper. Wrapper chipped, detached, and spotted. Else good. A vivid account of lawlessness in this refuge for bad hombres in the Santa Cruz valley. After the town was torn asunder by riots, the residents who remained mobile removed to Nogales, where, according to.....
New York. [ 1956]. 256pp., with many in-text illustrations. Half title. Large quarto. Original black cloth. Very light shelf wear, clean internally. Slightly later ownership inscription on half title. Very good in a somewhat worn dust jacket. Chronicles the pictures of L.A. Huffman, best photographer of the northern range, with.....
New York. 1865. 231pp. plus plates and 8pp. of ads. Frontis. Original cloth, rubbed. Good. One of a series of satirical books written by Browne under the pseudonym of Artemus Ward, illustrated by Mullen. Includes several chapters concerning the Mormons, as well as an account of a trip to California.....
New York. 1864. 436pp. Many woodcuts. Modern cloth, leather label. Internally nice. Very good. Tales of an American Crusoe, stranded on San Fernandez in the mid-1800s, with the author's adventures in California. The engravings of colorful characters and California scenes are especially notable.
New York: J. Disturnell, 1847. Folding map, 29 1/2 x 24 inches. In a 12mo. contemporary cloth folder, gilt-stamped front board. Boards with minor soiling. Ownership inscription at verso left margin and on rear pastedown. Several separations along folds, some discoloration where tipped into covers. Printed color bright and clean.....
[Wardner, Id.; Kellogg, Id.; Spokane, Wa. ca. 1899-1906]. Fifty-four photographs, 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches, one on each album page, mounted within a paper photo frame, most with manuscript captions. Lock of son Everett's baby hair tied in a pink ribbon laid in. Oblong small quarto. Pebbled red cloth.....
Washington. 1857. Two volumes. 775; 572pp. Original blindstamped cloth. Extremities moderately frayed, unobtrusive internal library marks, else very good. Extremely fine material on Indians of the West, from Canada to Mexico, with a wealth of information on Pacific Northwest Indian problems, and all manner of documents from the Commissioner of.....
New Haven. 1920. 215pp. 12mo. Cloth. Very good. Annotated in pencil by Herbert O. Brayer, with his ink ownership inscription.
Chicago. 1918. xxvi,362pp. plus illus. and folding map. Frontis. Original gilt cloth. Some edge wear, scattered foxing, else very good. Inscribed by author/historian Carl [Van Doren] to his brother Frank. Portrait of the state during the year of its admission to the Union, including sections on Indians and the fur.....
Colorado Springs: [Trow Print], 1893. 84,[1]pp. Copiously illustrated. Contemporary half green cloth and boards, gilt-lettered spine. Boards a bit soiled, hinges weak, minor wear to extremities. Internally very clean and solid. Overall very good. Second edition, after the first of the previous year. A lovely tour book for Colorado Springs.....
[Liverpool: Wm. Budge, 1879]. 16pp. Self-wrappers. Punch hole in blank gutter. Stained. Very good. Delivered by Budge at a London Conference at Goswell Hall, Dec. 9, 1879, and frequently reprinted and published abroad in several languages.
St. Louis. 1881. 252; [2],160pp. plus frontispiece and 12 chromolithographs. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Spine faded, head and tail with chipping. Contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Mild toning. Very good. The first edition of this account of the Younger and James gangs. The first section.....
St. Louis. 1883. 612pp. Color frontis. plus fifteen color plates and numerous in text illustrations. Original pictorial cloth. Spine repaired with glue, inner hinges cracked. Internally generally quite nice. Good. After the first of 1881. Profusely illustrated tales of Indian fighting and life in the west in general. Covers the.....
Paris: A. Eichler, [n.d., ca. 1906-1908]. 100 issues, 32pp. each, many with an additional leaf of ads at the end. Printed in two columns, in French. Quarto. Original color pictorial wrappers. Moderate scattered foxing and toning (as usual), with occasional brittleness or chipping at the edges, ten issues with one.....
[N.p., but Holland. ca. 1900]. Chromolithographic poster, three sheets joined together, 49 1/2 x 33 1/2 inches in total. A bit of slight wrinkling. Near fine. Linen-backed. A stunning poster advertising the Dutch publication of a Buffalo Bill serial magazine, showing the front cover of twelve issues packed with Western.....
[London: Partington, 1902]. [4],xiv,[3]-64,[xv]-xviii pp. Quarto. Original color pictorial wrappers. Wrappers edgeworn, chipped along spine. Text lightly tanned. In fair condition. Designated "10th Edition" on the titlepage. A program for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, likely produced to coincide with the show's 1903 tour of Europe. All the advertisements are.....
Paris: Partington Advertising, [1905]. [4],77,[3]pp. including numerous illustrations. Small quarto. Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers edgeworn, with a few small tears. Text tanned, crease in upper outer corner. Good. A very rare and ephemeral promotional pamphlet and program for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show when it toured France in 1905. The.....
[Paris. ca. 1900]. 77pp. including numerous illustrations, plus advertisements. Original pictorial wrappers. Some slight chipping and wear. Internally clean. Near fine. An unusual Paris edition of the program. Self-styled twelfth edition of this elaborate Wild West Show program, illustrated with woodcuts and halftones, including portraits of Gen. Custer and many.....
Philadelphia. 1850. 172pp. plus advertisements. Original printed wrappers. Spine perished, wrappers quite soiled, scuffed, and stained. Scattered foxing and staining (mostly in the second half of the text). Good, in original condition. "One of the chief sources of authority for the history of that period" - Cowan. Bancroft called the.....
