Philadelphia: Charles Desilver, 1856. Pocket map, 14 3/4 x 17 3/4 inches, handcolored; folded to 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Original cloth folder, stamped in blind and gilt. Minor toning and soiling to map. Contemporary bookseller's label on front pastedown. Fine. A handsome and pristine copy of this scarce...
Chicago & New York. 1884. 241pp. plus plates. Frontispiece in facsimile. Original publisher's cloth, stamped in black. Extremities lightly worn. Modern bookplate on front pastedown. Inner hinges tender. Text lightly toned. One gathering loose. Good. First edition. Stories of life among the Indians, including an account of the Battle of...
[New York: American Tract Society, 1879]. [5]-310pp. Contemporary green patterned cloth, spine gilt. Endpapers renewed, several leaves with minor marginal repairs, some dust-soiling, minor marginal stains to some leaves. Fair. Lacking title leaf, preface leaf, and three terminal leaves. A rare translation of Newton's THE KING'S HIGHWAY into the Dakota...
Omaha. [ 1903]. [3]pp, plus sixty-one photographic plates. Oblong octavo. Original black cloth, gilt title stamped on front cover. Some minor wear. Old inscription on front free endpaper. Overall clean and very good. A detailed illustrated promotional work for the Black Hills region. Full of interesting views of mining operations...
Pierre. 1929. 189pp. Illus. Cloth. Light rubbing, else fine. In slightly soiled dust jacket. An anecdotal guidebook to the Badlands.
Chicago: The Canterbury Press, 1929. 114pp. Frontispiece portrait. Original pictorial boards. Very good. Bookplate. Covered wagons, first railroads, old trails, Sitting Bull, gold, bloody Bozeman trail, cattle, Custer massacre, etc.
[N.p. New Haven? 1875]. 38pp. Half title. Original printed green wrappers. Wrappers chipped at the edges, front wrapper with a long closed tear. Small closed tear in lower edge of half title. Quite clean internally. Very good. In 1874 Prof. O.C. Marsh of Yale, on a geological expedition in the...
[Philadelphia. ca. 1949]. Dry pigment, mastic varnish, and drying alcohol, on panel, 25 x 36 inches. Signed lower right: "Robert Riggs." In fine condition. In a burnished gilt wood frame. Fantastical painting by Robert Riggs, showing two Indian warriors performing the Sun Dance, the first with ropes attached to piercings...
Philadelphia: Indian Rights Association, 1893. 23pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor chipping to spine, old institutional marking in blue pencil on front wrapper. Internally clean. Near fine. In a half morocco box. A sympathetic report by Teddy Roosevelt of his visits to various Sioux, Cheyenne, Osage, and Santee tribes. Roosevelt comments...
Denver. [ 1902]. 223,[1]pp. including photographs. Color frontis. Oblong 12mo. Original cloth covered boards, gilt title on front board. Corners and edges worn. Internally clean and near fine. A wealth of turn-of-the-century images of South Dakota and the Black Hills country. Among the images are vistas, towns, caves, mines, railroads...
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Fort Randall, Nebraska Territory. 1859. Watercolor, pen, and ink on a sheet of very lightly-ruled paper, 12 1/4 x 14 1/4 inches. Captioned in ink in upper margin, dated in lower margin. Several small chips in the outer margin, not affecting the image. Central vertical fold. Several closed tears, expertly...
Custer City, S.D. (pamphlet) and Philadelphia (map). 1897. [2],40pp. and folding map, 29 x 31 inches. Pamphlet and map in original red pocket folder with printed cover. Water damage to folder, with minor bleeding to inner margin of pamphlet and one panel of map. Else very good. Cover title: ROCKS...
Custer City, S.D. (pamphlet), and Philadelphia (map). 1897. [2],40pp. and folding chromolithographed map (sheet size 31 x 28 1/2 inches) after Scott, published by E.P. Noll & Co. of Philadelphia. Original brown cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt: "Rocks, / Minerals, / and other / Resources / of the...
Custer City, S.D. 1897. [2],40pp. plus folding colored map. Original cloth, gilt. Minor wear along fore-edge and bottom edge. Binding cracked before the titlepage, a few tiny separations at the cross-folds of the map. Else a nice copy. Colored edition of Samuel Scott's large map of the Black Hills region...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1949. [2],13pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Small ink stamp in gutter of titlepage. Else fine. Prints the constitution and by-laws of this branch of the Sioux tribe, approved April 26, 1949. The several articles define the tribe's territory, membership requirements, its organization, by-laws, jurisdiction, powers, electoral...
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1957. [2],6pp. Original printed blue wrappers. Near fine. Prints the constitution and by-laws of this Sioux tribe, approved Oct. 16, 1946. The several articles define the membership requirements of the tribe, its organization, jurisdiction, powers, electoral methods, and more.
St. Paul: Lith. by Louis Buechner, 1863. Folding map, 17 1/2 x 23 inches. Folded into original 16mo. cloth boards, stamped in blind, gilt title on front board. An exceptional copy in fine condition. The rare second edition of one of the earliest detailed maps of Dakota Territory, here present...
[Washington. 1886]. 90pp. Modern buckram, spine gilt. Very good. Contains the debate in the U.S. House of Representatives over the admission of South Dakota into the Union, containing the arguments made for and against statehood. This report includes much in the way of statistics on South Dakota, its history, resources...
[Deadwood, S.D. 1904]. Broadside, 18 x 12 1/2 inches. Tanned and brittle. Moderate edge wear. Fair only, due to the friable paper. A broadside exposé which asserts that the election of E. MacDonald as mayor of Deadwood is a sham, and that the office is being controlled by one Nathan...
Deadwood, S.D. Deadwood Board of Trade, 1892. [50]pp., including photographic illustrations. Original stiff pictorial wrappers. Rear wrapper detached, front wrapper repaired with tape. Titlepage and several other leaves chipped, small closed tear through fore-edge of text block. Contemporary ink stamp on titlepage, contemporary ownership inscription on front wrapper. Initial and...
Pierre: Carter Publishing Co., 1893. 65pp. Modern half calf and marbled boards, gilt leather label. Light soiling to titlepage, embossed library stamp. Text lightly toned. Very good. An early South Dakota printing of the state constitution, and probably the first issued at the new state capitol. The constitution was first...
Watertown, S.D. 1901. Oblong octavo. Three-quarter leatherette and cloth, cover printed in gilt. Spine perished, replaced by cloth tape. Corners worn. Internally clean. Good. A photographic guide to two evidently flourishing South Dakota counties, depicting all manner of businesses and institutions, including hotels, banks, barber shops, clothing stores, doctors' offices...
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[Chicago]. 1911. Folding color map, 24 x 34 3/4 inches. In 12mo. original gilt stamped cloth boards. Map detached, with minor separations at crossfolds. Very good. A large, handsome four-color map of South Dakota, showing counties, U.S. land offices, Indian reservations, and national forests. Rare.
Bismarck: 1887-1899. Eight volumes. Bindings vary from sheep to sheep and boards. Hinges mostly cracked or worn, leather dried out. Consistent and clean internally. Overall sound. A sound set of South Dakota legislative records, including the last two sessions of the "legislative assembly" and the first six sessions of the...
Aberdeen, S.D. State Historical Society, 1902. 489pp. plus numerous illustrations and maps. Portrait frontis. Original blue cloth, gilt stamped spine. Stamp on front pastedown. Slightly rubbed. A good copy. With biographies of several South Dakota governors, a treatment of the Organic Act, and the official correspondence of the Leavenworth Expedition...
