Philadelphia. 1856. 448pp. plus two folding maps. Original publishers cloth, stamped in blind and gilt, spine gilt. Minor edge wear and light soiling to cloth. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown, light to moderate foxing, frontispiece folding map detached but present, with one fold separation. Very good. The rare companion volume.....
Greensborough, N.C. 1842. 302pp. and leaf of errata. Contemporary half roan and cloth, spine gilt. Head and foot of spine lightly worn, corners bumped. Later bookplate and ownership inscription on front flyleaf, modern bookplate to rear pastedown. Lightly foxed. Very good. Important for its account of the Regulators in the.....
Columbus, Oh. 1842. 192pp. Original half cloth. Hinges cracked. Stained and foxed. Near good. Champlin was no more than twenty-one years old when he published this autobiography. He had already been licensed as a "public exhorter" in the Methodist Church, and his work is full of religious admonitions and warnings.....
New York. 1850. 456pp. plus plates, folding facsimile, and map. Portrait. Original cloth, rebacked with original backstrip laid down. Bookplate removed. Light dampstaining affecting several leaves at upper fore-edge corner. Else good. First edition of this popular and often reprinted narrative, which Howes calls both "interesting and valuable." Colton arrived.....
New York: Richardson and Company, 1867. viii,546,[1]pp. plus four maps (including frontispiece). Original maroon cloth, stamped in blind, expertly rebacked with original gilt spine laid down. Very good. A presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper from Gregg to the Rev. C.M. Parkman. Gregg was formerly rector of St.....
Salt Lake City. [ 1909]. iii,iii,350pp. plus plates and folding map. Frontis. Large octavo. Original gilt cloth. Some shelf wear, slight discoloration, ink signature across title, else about fine. "Contains first English translation of Escalante's account of his Utah discoveries" - Howes. The map shows his route through the West.....
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. x,215pp. plus folding map in facsimile. 12mo. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards. Lightly foxed, faint dampstaining at edges of text block. Very good. "This is one of the earliest books published about Texas after it became a republic...the quotations from participants are of.....
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. x,[2],215pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Original brown patterned cloth, neatly rebacked, original gilt spine laid down. Early inscription "From George H. Moore 1844" on front pastedown. Map with small closed tear at right edge (where bound in) and with a few light fox marks.....
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838. x,[2],215pp. plus folding map. 12mo. Modern three-quarter morocco and marbled boards. Minor foxing. Very good. "This is one of the earliest books published about Texas after it became a republic...the quotations from participants are of considerable historical value. The descriptive portions add much to.....
Chicago. 1881. xxiii,[blank],375pp. Portrait. Original gilt stamped cloth. A very good copy. Rare first edition of a clergyman's adventures in Iowa and Colorado, including his escape from the Indians. "Pioneer days in Iowa, overland trip from Council Bluffs to Denver" - Howes.
Cincinnati. [ 1902]. 313pp. Gilt cloth. Some edge wear, spine sunned, couple of minor marginal stains, else very good. A vivid description of life in Kansas, the Black Hills and Nebraska in the 1860s, including details of Indian depredations.
New York. 1855. 4,xvi,688,41pp. plus folding colored map frontispiece, twenty-two plates, and numerous in-text illustrations. Original blind-stamped brown cloth, spine richly gilt. Corners slightly edgeworn. A few plates darkened, else bright, clean, and very good. A standard Georgia history, here in the third edition. The second and third editions were.....
