New York. 1884. [4],227pp. Frontis. Later gilt buckram. Ex-lib. with rubberstamps. A good, sound copy. The author read Samuel N. Townsend's letters from the West and decided to head ranchward. From 1877 to 1884 he lived on ranches and travelled in western Kansas, eastern Colorado and northern Texas. Aldridge was... More

Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1931-1943. Twelve volumes including index volume. Uniform red cloth, t.e.g. Cloth on some volumes slightly rubbed. Near fine. A complete set of this famous collection of southwestern travel accounts, including those of Webb, Bandel, Gibson, Johnston, Garrard, Cooke, and McCoy, as well as... More

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... More

Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co., 1859. 24;14pp. Original printed front wrapper. Wrapper nearly detached, spine worn. Minute tanning, contemporary ownership signature on wrapper. Good. Two stirring sermons in support of John Brown's actions at Harper's Ferry. Quite scarce. More

Cedar Rapids, Ia. 1910. 542pp. including illustrations, plus maps. Portrait. Original red cloth, gilt, spine gilt. Slight edge wear. Front inner hinge cracked, but holding. Very good. "A thoroughly annotated book relating many of the exploits of the guerrillas, with some mention of the lives of the James and Younger... More

Topeka. 1907. 352pp. Illus. Pictorial cloth. Hinges a touch weak, bookplates on front and rear pastedowns. About very good. Much on border warfare between Missouri and Kansas, the Benders of Kansas, and especially the large scale slaughter of the American buffalo. More

New York: The Pilgrim Press, [ 1903]. 274pp. plus illustrations. 12mo. Portrait. Original cloth, gilt. Very slight wear at corners. Clipping attached to verso of a plate. Very good. Tipped in to this copy is a three-page a.l.s. from Cordley to H.W. Chester, dated Jan. 8, 1904, in which Cordley... More

Parsons, Ks. Bell Bookcraft Shop, [ca. 1937]. [4],117,[7]pp. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt, black cloth spine. Extremities rubbed, corners lightly worn. Ownership sticker on front fly leaf. Internally clean. Good. One of fifty copies, according to a sticker in the front of the volume. A rare history of Parsons... More

[Washington. 1860]. 9pp. Folio. Original printed self-wrappers, stitched as issued. Very light browning to edges, else fine. Concluded May 30, 1860, ratified Aug. 22, 1860. The treaty, made at Sarcoxieville on the Delaware reservation, provides for the passage of the Leavenworth, Pawnee & Western Railroad through the Delaware's Kansas reservation, among other provisions. More

[Np. 1857]. 8pp. printed on folded folio sheet. A couple creases, else very good, unopened and untrimmed. "Douglas was invited by the federal grand jury to address it upon the state of the nation. This speech was the first public expression of his views on the Dred Scott decision. In... More

Cherryvale, Ks. Clarion Book & Job Print, 1885. [4],145pp. 16mo. Modern marbled cloth. Very good. In a half morocco box. This copy bears the bookplate of William Elsey Connelly and two inscriptions concerning this book and its history. In one he writes: "Topeka, Aug. 20, 1913. J.B. Abbott did not... More

New York. 1898. xxiv,183pp. plus leaf of advertisements. Folding facsimile frontis. Original cloth. Some shelf wear. Very good. From an edition limited to 950 copies. Fowler was the first American to travel through much of the territory traversed. Edited by Elliott Coues. More

Caldwell. 1892. 406pp. plus frontispiece portrait and plates. Original cloth, boards blind stamped, spine gilt. Hinges cracked, cloth somewhat dust and damp soiled, corners and spine ends worn. Light tanning. Good plus. The second edition, after the first of 1890 which Adams describes as "exceedingly rare...the first edition is so... More