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
Cedar Rapids, Ia. 1941. 58pp. Portrait. Original paper boards, printed paper label to front board. Near fine, in original (chipped) glassine wrapper. Extracts from the Kansas journal of Miriam Davis Colt. Privately printed for the friends of the Torch Press. 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
New York. 1856. 400pp. Portrait frontispiece plus 8pp. advertisements. Modern cloth, leather label. Occasional fox mark. Else quite clean internally. Very good. "Brewerton was a correspondent of the NEW YORK HERALD. The book contains his letters to the newspaper. He was in Kansas Territory from December 1855 to January 1856... 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
London: Henry Bohn, 1866. Two volumes. 264; 266pp. 313 handcolored etchings on 180 plates, including three maps (one folding). Contemporary three-quarter red morocco and marbled boards; spines tooled with gilt devices of Indian heads, tomahawks, and peace pipes; gilt morocco labels; a.e.g. Very good. In a cloth slipcase. Deluxe issue... 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
[Denver: Herald Print, 1861]. Small broadside, 7 x 4 inches, mounted on heavy card. Printed form, completed in manuscript. Some soiling in upper and lower right corners. Vertical tape repair in center. Mounted on heavy card. Good. A claim certificate for a Colorado mine when Colorado was still part of... 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. 1901. 27,[1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Small chip and short tear to rear wrapper. Internally clean. Very good. An address delivered to the students of Kansas City High School on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1901 by William Elsey Connelley, a teacher in Wyandotte County, Kansas. Prior to his teaching career, Connelley... 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
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1859. 432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's... 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
Seattle. 1925. Small broadside, 10 1/2 x 7 inches. Previously folded. A few chips and small tears where previously adhered. Contemporary ink stamp. Good plus. Wanted poster offering a fifty dollar reward for a prisoner, M.W. Woods, who escaped from the custody of U.S. Marshals near Seattle in 1925. Woods... 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
Glendale, Ca. The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1953. 343pp. including illustrations. Frontispiece map. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Spine lightly faded. Bookplate on front pastedown. Near fine. "A most interesting book of reminiscences" - Adams SIX- GUNS. Covers Nelson's experiences ranching and herding cattle in the Southwest and West, and freighting..... 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
San Antonio. 1931. 297pp. plus plates. Frontispiece portrait. Original cloth backed boards, paper spine label (bit chipped). Very good. In badly chipped dust jacket with tape repairs. Slight offsetting from dust jacket to endpapers. Inscribed on the verso of the titlepage from Diehl to Dr. Mary Harper, who apparently treated... 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
Suffield, Ct. Sept. 27, 1856. Broadside, 17 x 10 1/2 inches, visible area. Matted and framed. Light dampstaining at top edge, light foxing. Very good. An attractive broadside advertisement that promotes a meeting of James Buchanan supporters, the "Keystone Club," in Suffield, Connecticut on Sept. 27, 1856. The poster promises... 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
Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1926. 349pp. including illustrations and folding map. Frontis. Red cloth, gilt, t.e.g. Corners bumped, a bit of wear to head and toe of spine. Very good, untrimmed and partially unopened. A history of the exploration and development of the trans- Mississippi West, including trade..... 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
New York. 1898. xxiv,183pp. plus leaf of advertisements and folding facsimile frontis. Original blue cloth, spine gilt. Hinges a bit loose, spine ends and corners bumped, some shelf wear. Later ownership inscription and remnants of bookplate on front free endpaper. About very good. From an edition limited to 950 copies... 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
![THE EMIGRANT INDIAN TRIBES OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY [wrapper title]. William Elsey Connelley.](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM49806.jpg?v=1488345333)
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![[ILLUSTRATED BROADSIDE ADVERTISING A MEETING OF JAMES BUCHANAN SUPPORTERS IN CONNECTICUT TO HEAR ANTI-FREMONT SPEECHES CONCERNING BLEEDING KANSAS]. Election of 1856.](/pictures/thumb/WRCAM53064.jpg?v=1499094649)
