THE ART OF R. BROWNELL McGREW
Phoenix: Arizona Highway Dept, 1969. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing of Arizona Highways issue July 1969. 40pp. Wonderfully illustrated, this issue devoted to Western artist McGrew. Fine.
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YETI RESEARCHER: The magazine for the Society for Cryptic Hominid Investigation: Vol 24, No. 8
Hanover PA: Society for Cryptic Hominid Investigation, 2005. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st edition thus of this journal. August, 2005. Blue wraps.95pp. Illus. Articles (abbrev.): Flores Man, Suburban Sasquatch, Bigfooting's Biggest Dilemma, Teddy Roosevelt and Windigo, Ecce Chemo, Hominid Family Tree, Chinese Hill Monsters, Tengpoche Fragment, Recording Forest Sounds. There.....
THE WEST OF BUFFALO BILL Frontier Art, Indian Crafts, Memorabilia from the Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Abrams, NY, 1974, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Oblong cloth with gilt-stamped decoration on front cover. 290pp. Wonderfully illustrated. "List of Illustrations". One of the finest books published on the collection of the Cody museum. Fine in dj.
SASQUATCH: CREATURE OF THE NORTH: and Other Mystery Stories
Indianapolis: Youth Publications & Saturday Evening Post, 1975. First Edition. Soft cover. 1st printing. Pictorial magazine wraps showing a Windigo on the front cover with a target on his chest and bullet hole inside and outside of target. The publication is 32pp and illustrated. The Sasquatch story is 3pp. long.....
GREAT WESTERN INDIAN FIGHTS
Potomac Corral of The Westerners, Garden City, 1960, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial cloth. 336pp. Illustrated with photos & chapter head vignettes. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. Endpaper maps. A series of twenty-five essays by Western historians on twenty-five fights with Indians from the plains to the Pacific Coast. Includes Battle of.....
ATHENIA TORPEDOED BY GERMAN SUB: FRENCH TROOPS SWING INTO ACTION, and other headlines
Alberta: Edmonton Bulletin, 1950. Reprint. Soft cover. A reprint, full newspaper size, of various Canadian newspapers reproducing certain headlines, Athenia Torpedoed (Edmonton Bulletin 9/4/39), Hess Bails Out Near Glasgow (Globe and Mail 5/13/41), Bismarck is Engaged (Saint John Telegraph-Journal 5/27/41), War Grips Pacific (Regina Leader-Post 12/8/41), Dieppe Fight (Ottawa Citizen.....
THE AMERICAN WEST IN THE TWENTIETH CENTUR: A Bibliography
Norman: Univ of Oklahoma Pr, 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 456pp. Index. 8,187 bibliographical entries collectively with several sections: Regional and State Histories, Social History, Political History, Economic History, Environmental History, Constitutional and Legal History (Violence and Extralegal Developments), History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, History of Sports, Recreation.....
THE PAGEANT OF AMERICA - Washington Edition (with 293 signatures)
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. First Thus. Hardcover. The unnumbered but limited Washington Edition. 15 volumes, each quarto and bound in half leather and marbled boards. Profusely, but appropriately, illustrated with vintage b/w photos, maps, & facsimiles. Each volume contains a lovely color frontispiece. Decorative endpapers. The pagination in.....
MEMORIES Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs & Harrison Mills (2 volumes)
Agassiz: Agassiz-Harrison Historical Soc, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printings. Gilt-stamped 4to green hardbound. 863pp. Illus. Endpaper maps. Vol. 1 is General and historical, with vintage photos. Vol. 2 is family histories. Of particular note is that the late John Green, one of the outstanding pioneers of Bigfoot - Sasquatch.....
CHRISTMAS COMES TO BLUEBERRY CORNERS and Other Christmas Stories for Children
Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1975. First edition thus. Hardcover. 1st edition thus with individual stories published 1937 - 1966 in a Christmas annual publication. Glossy pictorial hardbound. The title story is illustrated by the author. The three other stories have different authors and illustrators (in parentheses). "Snippen's Dilemma," (Hong / Swedenborg), "The.....
CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty March, 1874
London: William Clowes & Sons, 1874. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Folio boards. 266pp. Stiff marbled endpapers. An important collection of documents/messages relating to the proposal of the building of a trans-Canadian railway, the documents from and to the Earl of Dufferin, who was the third Governor-General of Canada. A......
UMATILLA RIVER WATER USERS' ASSOCIATION
Echo, OR: UMATILLA RIVER WATER USERS' ASSOCIATION, 1906. First Edition. Soft cover. Original printing. Stapled printed wraps. Very, very scarce booklet describing the Hermiston Water Rights Association. Tall light green wrappers. 59pp. Contains a few ads. For some context, beginning of page 44 reads, Hermiston is the central point of.....
LAND AND PEOPLE IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS TRANSITION AREA (Review Copy)
Lincoln: U of Nebraska, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Cloth. 362pp. Maps. Tables. Charts. Index. Laid in is publisher's review card with written pub date & list price. The other authors are Eleanor M. Birch, Philip A. Henderson, & A. H. Anderson. Deals mainly with Kansas to North Dakota.....
GROUP OF LETTERS TO NOTED SPOKANE RARE BOOKSELLER JEROME PELTIER: from various authors, librarians, state and federal employees, and publishers
Spokane: n.p., 1950. Soft cover. Original letters and envelopes. I met Peltier only once but mainly I remember his remarkable bookstore filled with treasures. Peltier over the course of his bookselling career wrote without ceasing, it seems, to authors, librarians, publishers, government authorities on various subjects asking for information, signatures.....
DISCOVERED LANDS INVENTED PASTS: Transforming Visions of the American West
New Haven: Yale Univ Pr, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 217pp. Nicely illustrated in color & b/w. Notes. Index. Seven well-known contributors to this book of essays on the art of the American West. Fine in dj.
NEGATIVE ANTI-FATUOUS MADPERSONS! n. a.f. m. number 7
Waterloo, ONT: NAFM. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing thus of issue of Negative Anti-Fatuous Madperson. 4to paper magazine wraps in black and white. (44pp.) Second half of this issue is printed upside down so you have to turn it upside down after the centerpiece two-page drawing of the angels.....
C. M. RUSSELL: A Legendary Man 1864-1926
Great Falls: C. M. Russell Museum, 1978. Soft cover. Printing unstated. Oblong pictorial wraps. (24pp). Illus. Forward by Steele. Text by various contributors, some of which are only quoted. Fine.
PROPOSED VIEW OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO de VALERO and other essays
Waco: Texana, 1965. First Thus. Soft cover. 1st printing of Vol. III No. 3. Decorated wraps. (197 - 296pp plus ads). Illus. Three additional essays including, of interest to Texas book collectors, one on a famous, or infamous, rare book dealer -- "John H. Jenkins, Bookseller" by Otho Plummer. Additionally.....
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM LIGHTING FIXTURE/INSTALLATION ARCHITECTURAL PLANS
NYC: Jules Fisher & Paul Marantz, Inc., et. al. 1988. Soft cover. In 1991, the Seattle Art Museum (SAM) built a new museum in downtown Seattle. The item here offered for sale is a bound set of the architectural plans/ drawings/ schema of the lighting for the new building. This.....
SOYBEANS IN FAMILY MEALS
Wash. D. C. U. S. Gov. Pr Office, 1974. First Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial wraps. 26pp. Illus. Index. Ink stamp of University Extenion, Oneida Co., Wisc, Rhinelander, on front cover. Nutritive value, Using soybeans, recipes, etc. Scarce.
CARL WIMAR: Chronicler of the Missouri River Frontier
Ft. Worth & NYC: Amon Carter Museum & Abrams, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. 4to cloth. 252pp. Beautifully illustrated. Appendix (Checklist of Artworks by Wimar), Bibliography. Index. Wimar lived 1828 - 62. He operated out of St. Louis. Fine in dj.
SIX MISSIONS OF TEXAS (Signed)
Waco: Texian Press, 1965. Hardcover. Gilt-stamped 4to cloth with gilt cross on front cover. 194pp. Color plate of a painting of each mission: The Alamo, Concepcion, Espada, La Bahia, San Jose, San Juan de Capistrano. Signatures 5 of the 6 main contributors on prelim leaf: Lon Tinkle, Joe B. Frantz.....
PROCEEDINGS AT THE FIRST AND SECOND REUNIONS ROSTER AND ROLL of Surviving Members; also, list of Actions and Skirmishes participated in by Officers of Detached Portions of 7th Regiment Vermont Volunteers (Veterans)
NY: American Bank Note Co, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st printing. Gilt-stamped cloth titles: 1862 - 1866 - 1882 - 1883 with gilt pictorial "medallion" stating "Freedom and Unity". 91pp. Frontispiece: Colonel Wm. C. Holbrook. First signature/gathering pulled away from binding a little, but still a tight copy. Top/bottom of.....
INDIAN RESERVATIONS OF IDAHO, OREGON, AND WASHINGTON The People Their Land Their Life
Dept. Of Interior, Wash. D.C., 1960, 1960. Soft cover. Oblong pictorial wraps, stapled. 97pp. Each section begins with a map, a drawing, & a list of reservations. Couple of short tears. Top of spine with narrow tear closed with tape. Good+. Scarce. Smith S760.
AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION MANUAL (Post WWII)
Depts of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, 1953. Hardcover. Three-Ring bound manual. Includes various pages representing different years of published supplements from circa 1949 - 1953. Unpaginated. Also, in a brown envelope is a group titled "UNITED STATES AIR FORCE Historical Aircraft Photo Package No. 2, Reissued 1971." This.....
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